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US 2023/0210215 A1Published application
Footwear midsole and method of manufacturing with embroidery machine
AssigneeNIKE, Inc.
InventorsFanny Yung Ho, Guillermo Raffaele
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Abstract
A method of manufacturing a midsole for an article of footwear includes cutting a pattern of openings at least partway through a midsole with a cutting tool driven by an embroidery machine. An article of footwear includes a midsole defining a pattern of openings extending at least partway through the midsole. An inner surface of the midsole is contoured and the midsole includes upwardly-extending sidewalls. At least some of the openings extend relatively nonparallel with one another through the sidewalls and splay away from one another along longitudinal axes of the openings.
Claims12
An article of footwear comprising:
- a midsole defining a pattern of openings extending at least partway through the midsole;
- wherein an inner surface of the midsole is contoured and the midsole includes upwardly-extending sidewalls;
- and wherein at least some of the openings extend relatively nonparallel with one another through the sidewalls and splay away from one another along longitudinal axes of the openings.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.