Shoe bottom having interspersed materials
AssigneeSeychelles Imports, LLC
InventorsAnthony Cox, John C. S. Koo
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Abstract
A shoe (and fabrication techniques therefor) on which is provided a bottom portion that includes a sole portion and a heel portion and that has a bottom surface and an upper portion extending upwardly from the bottom portion. The bottom surface of the bottom portion of the shoe has areas of a fabric material (such as cotton, nylon, polyester, any other cloth or fabric), or any of a variety of other first materials, interspersed with areas of a durable material (such as ethylene vinyl acetate, polyvinyl chloride, thermoplastic rubber, any other plastic, and/or any other natural or synthetic leather or rubber), or any of a variety of other second materials.
Claims22
A shoe, comprising:
- (a) a bottom portion, comprised of a second material, that includes a sole portion and a heel portion and that has a bottom surface with an insert embedded within it;
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- (b) an upper portion extending upwardly from the bottom portion,
- wherein the embedded insert is made of a first material and includes a plurality of holes filled with the second material, but other than said holes is a continuous sheet of said first material, such that the bottom surface of the bottom portion of the shoe has substantial two-dimensional areas of the first material interspersed with areas of the second material,
- wherein the first material covers at least 50% of that portion of the bottom surface that contacts the ground in normal use.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.