Direct injection footwear mould assembly and direct injection footwear bottom mould assembly
AssigneeECCO Sko A/S
InventorJens Sonne Mortensen
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Abstract
A direct injection footwear mold assembly includes two side basic molds and a bottom basic mold. The bottom basic mold includes a bottom mold attachment arrangement. The bottom basic mold has a transverse direction, a longitudinal direction, and a vertical direction. The attachment arrangement of the bottom basic mold is arranged to fixate a bottom mold insert in the vertical direction to the bottom basic mold.
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A direct injection footwear mold assembly comprising:
- two side basic molds, and
- a bottom basic mold including a bottom mold attachment arrangement, the bottom basic mold having a transverse direction (y), a longitudinal direction (x) and a vertical direction (z), and the bottom mold attachment arrangement of the bottom basic mold being arranged to fixate a bottom mold insert in the vertical direction z to the bottom basic mold.
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A direct injection footwear bottom mold assembly comprising:
- a bottom basic mold, and
- a bottom mold insert,
- wherein the bottom mold insert is releasably fixated to the bottom basic mold by means of an attachment arrangement.
A method of manufacturing footwear in a direct injection manufacturing station, the method including steps of:
- providing two basic side molds and a bottom basic mold,
- providing two side mold inserts and a bottom mold insert,
- fixating the two side mold inserts to the respective two basic side molds and thereby providing/forming two side mold assemblies,
- fixating the bottom mold insert to the bottom basic mold releasably by means of an attachment arrangement, the bottom mold insert and the bottom basic mold forming a bottom mold assembly,
- mounting the two side mold assemblies and the bottom mold assembly to the direct injection manufacturing station, and
- operating the direct injection manufacturing station.
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