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US 2025/0176656 A1Published application
Circular knit shoe upper
Assigneeadidas AG
InventorsFlorian POEGL, Marco FISCHHOLD, Brian HOYING, Harald GEYER, Mathias Simon BEER, Thomas GRIES
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a shoe upper, in particular an upper knitted on a circular knitting machine, including an elongated hollow knit structure, including: a first zone including a first predetermined property; a second zone including a second predetermined property; wherein the elongated hollow knit structure includes less than ten distinct ply types of yarn including less than five distinct materials.
Claims18
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A shoe upper knitted on a circular knitting machine, comprising:
- an elongated hollow knit structure, comprising:
- a first zone comprising a first predetermined property;
- a second zone comprising a second predetermined property;
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- lining yarns extending across the knit structure and are secured to the knit structure at intervals.
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A method of manufacturing a shoe upper comprising:
- providing one or more threads to a circular knitting machine;
- knitting an elongated hollow knit structure using one or more yarns, wherein the elongated hollow knit structure comprises two or more zones having different predetermined properties, and wherein knitting the elongated hollow knit structure using the one or more yarns comprises knitting a base yarn and floating and tucking a lining yarn at tuck stitches of the base yarn to secure the lining yarn in the knit structure, which is a single jersey knit;
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- shaping the elongated hollow knit structure to a form such that the upper is formed.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.