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US 2020/0048798 A1Published application
Circularly woven sports article
Assigneeadidas AG
InventorsTom O'Haire, Andrew Yip
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Abstract
Described is a circularly-woven tube for an article of footwear or an article of apparel comprising: a plurality of warp yarns, having a first elastic modulus; a plurality of weft yarns, having a second elastic modulus, and wherein the second elastic modulus is smaller than the first elastic modulus.
Claims20
A circularly-woven tube for an article of footwear or an article of apparel comprising:
- a plurality of warp yarns, having a first elastic modulus;
- a plurality of weft yarns, having a second elastic modulus, and
- wherein the second elastic modulus is smaller than the first elastic modulus.
A method of producing a shoe upper comprising:
- producing a circularly-woven tube by circularly weaving a plurality of warp yarns having a first elastic modulus and a plurality of weft yarns having a second elastic modulus into a tubular shape;
- sealing a first end of the circularly-woven tube;
- and
- pulling the circularly-woven tube over a shoe last.
1 more element
A shoe upper comprising at least a first layer, the first layer comprising a circularly-woven fabric.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.