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US 2025/0024911 A1Published application
Sole system for an article of footwear incorporating a knitted component with a one-piece knit outsole and a tensile element
AssigneeNIKE, Inc.
InventorsTory M. Cross, Daniel A. Podhajny
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Abstract
An article of footwear including a sole system, including an upper and the sole system. The sole system includes a knitted component incorporating a one-piece knit outsole. The knit outsole has a ground-facing side, a top side, an inlaid tensile element, and a ground-engaging cleat member protruding from the ground-facing side of the knit outsole. The tensile element may be adjacent a cleat member. The upper is connected at its bottom to the top side of the knit outsole.
Claims20
An article of footwear, comprising:
- an upper;
- and
- a sole system, comprising:
- a knitted component;
- a plurality of cleat members;
- and
- a tensile element inlaid in the knitted component and extending in a lateral direction through the sole system adjacent to one or more of the plurality of cleat members.
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An article of footwear, comprising:
- an upper extending longitudinally between a heel and a toe and laterally between a medial side and a lateral side;
- and
- a sole system, comprising:
- a knitted component;
- a plurality of cleat members;
- and
- a tensile element inlaid in the knitted component and extending longitudinally and/or laterally through the sole system adjacent to one or more of the plurality of cleat members.
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An article of footwear that includes a sole system comprising:
- a knit outsole comprising an inlaid tensile element that is inlaid in a wale-wise direction,
- wherein the sole system comprises a bottom side and a top side;
- and
- wherein the bottom side of the sole system comprises a cleat member located between at least a first portion and a second portion of the inlaid tensile element.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.