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US 5,671,495 AGranted
Recyclable shoe midsole cloth and method of making same
OwnerH. J. Cheninventor
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Abstract
A recyclable shoe midsole cloth is made from a recycled waste fabric material or a recycled rejected fabric product. The recycled material or product is processed such that the threads making up the recycled material or product are rehabilitated to become raw cotton materials, which are then processed to become the recyclable shoe midsole cloth.
Claims10
A method of making a recyclable shoe midsole (10) from decomposable waste fabric products comprising the steps of:
- recovering decomposable waste fabric products,
- cutting the decomposable waste fabric products into smaller pieces of a predetermined length and area,
- stirring the smaller pieces of the decomposable waste fabric products to be loose,
- drawing threads after kneading and twisting a first portion of stirred smaller pieces of the decomposable waste fabric products;
- weaving the threads into a woven fabric layer,
- combing, rolling and pressing a second portion of the stirred smaller pieces of the decomposable waste fabric products to form a nonwoven layer of a predetermined thickness,
- joining the nonwoven layer to at least one said woven fabric layer with a water soluble, decomposable adhering agent, and
- producing a shoe midsole (10) from a joined said nonwoven layer and the at least one said woven fabric layer.
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