Shoe and shoe upper with optimized shape-holding properties
Assigneeadidas AG
InventorsFlorian POEGL, Florian GODENBERG, Matthias LINZ
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Abstract
An upper for a shoe includes a first tubular textile layer and a second tubular textile layer. The first tubular textile layer is at least partially surrounded by the second tubular textile layer thus forming an internal textile layer and an external textile layer. The first tubular textile layer includes a first zone. The first zone includes a first yam and the first tubular textile layer includes a second yarn. The first yarn is more resilient than the second yarn, and the first zone includes a polygonal shape.
Claims20
An upper for a shoe, comprising a first tubular textile layer and a second tubular textile layer, wherein the first tubular textile layer is at least partially surrounded by the second tubular textile layer thus forming an internal textile layer and an external textile layer;
- wherein the first tubular textile layer comprises a first zone, the first zone comprises a first yarn;
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- wherein the first tubular textile layer comprises a second yarn, wherein the first yarn is more resilient than the second yarn;
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- wherein the first zone comprises a polygonal shape.
A method of manufacturing an upper for a shoe, the method comprising:
- manufacturing a first tubular textile layer comprising a first zone, wherein the first zone comprises a polygonal shape;
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- manufacturing a second tubular textile layer;
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- surrounding at least partially the first tubular textile layer with the second tubular textile layer;
- wherein the first zone comprises a first yarn and the first tubular textile layer comprises a second yarn, wherein the first yam is more resilient than the second yam.
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