Plastic heels of shoes and boots
OwnerKeizi Nakamurainventor
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Abstract
A plastic heel of shoes or boots decorated with irregular figure on its surface. The irregular figure is a copy of leather or leather-like material. The heel has high quality of appearance and excellence in strength, water resistance and heat resistance so as to extend the life thereof. The costs of producing the heel is reduced by using a metal mold thereof compared with the method for producing a heel by bonding leather or leather-like material to a surface of a heel body one by one.
Claims10
A method for producing a plastic heel for shoes or boots in which the heel has a surface with an irregular figure, said irregular figure being a copy of leather or leather-like material, the method comprising the steps of:
- covering a master model formed in a predetermined heel shape with leather or leather-like material, the leather or leather-like material having a surface with the irregular figure;
- depositing electroconductive material on the surface of the covered master model and thereafter subjecting the master model to electroforming treatment to form a mold having an inner surface with the reverse of the irregular figure of the leather or leather-like material;
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- molding the heel from plastic material to have a surface with the irregular figure of the leather or leather-like material copied from the mold.
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