Method of making footwear
AssigneeBauer Nike Hockey Inc.
InventorFrançois Chenevert
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Abstract
A method of making footwear. The method is suited generally to making skate boots and, more specifically, to making ice skates and in-line roller skates. The method comprises the steps of: (a) positioning a skin assembly over a structural inner shell component; (b) adhesively affixing the skin assembly to the structural inner shell component by applying pressure on the entire surface of the skin assembly; (c) perforating lace eyelets through the structural inner shell and the skin assembly; and (d) mounting a toe box and a tongue to the front portion of the structural inner shell component.
Claims15
A method of making footwear comprising the steps of:
- (a) positioning a skin assembly over a structural molded inner shell component, said structural molded inner shell component having a sole portion, a lateral quarter, and a medial quarter, each quarter projecting upwardly from each side of said sole portion;
- (b) adhesively affixing said skin assembly to said structural molded inner shell component by applying pressure on the entire surface of said skin assembly;
- (c) perforating lace eyelets through said structural molded inner shell and said skin assembly;
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- (d) mounting a toe box and a tongue to the front portion of said structural molded inner shell component.
A method of making an ice skate comprising the steps of:
- (a) positioning a skin assembly over a structural molded inner shell component, said structural molded inner shell component having a sole portion, a lateral quarter, and a medial quarter, each quarter projecting upwardly from each side of said sole portion;
- (b) adhesively affixing said skin assembly to said structural molded inner shell component by applying pressure on the entire surface of said skin assembly;
- (c) perforating lace eyelets through said structural molded inner shell and said skin assembly;
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- (d) mounting a toe box and a tongue to the front portion of said structural molded inner shell component.
A method of making an in-line roller skate comprising the steps of:
- (a) positioning a skin assembly over a structural molded inner shell component, said structural molded inner shell component having a sole portion, a lateral quarter, and a medial quarter, each quarter projecting upwardly from each side of said sole portion;
- (b) adhesively affixing said skin assembly to said structural molded inner shell component by applying pressure on the entire surface of said skin assembly;
- (c) perforating lace eyelets through said structural molded inner shell and said skin assembly;
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- (d) mounting a toe box and a tongue to the front portion of said structural molded inner shell component.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.