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US 9,357,813 B2Granted
Custom article of footwear and method of making the same
OwnerRobert M. Lydeninventor
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Abstract
The present invention teaches customizable articles of footwear in which various footwear components can be selected from a wide range of options, and can be easily removed and replaced, as desired. Moreover, the present invention teaches footwear uppers made of knitted textile materials including different sections having different structures and mechanical properties.
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An article of footwear configured to be positioned about a wearer's foot, said wearer's foot comprising an instep, a plurality of phalanges, a plurality of toes including distal ends, and a heel, said article of footwear comprising:
- an upper coupled with a sole and comprising a junction between said upper and said sole,
- said upper comprising an opening for receiving a wearer's foot,
- said upper comprising a three dimensional knit textile material element comprising an anterior side, a posterior side, a superior side, an inferior side, a medial side, a lateral side, an exterior side, an interior side, a forefoot area, a midfoot area, a rearfoot area, and a plurality of different knit portions coupled together
- comprising a vamp portion comprising four way stretch mechanical properties,
- a collar portion comprising resilient elastic mechanical properties,
- a quarter portion further comprising a medial quarter portion and a lateral quarter portion comprising at least two way stretch mechanical properties and comprising greater resistance to elongation than said vamp portion,
- a dorsal portion comprising a pad on said superior side, and
- a tip portion comprising less elongation relative to said quarter portion and also said vamp portion extending on said anterior side and to at least a part of said medial side and said lateral side and around a majority of said forefoot area adjacent to said junction between said upper and said sole,
- each of said tip portion, said vamp portion, said collar portion, said quarter portion, and said dorsal portion of said upper comprising different knits, and at least said tip portion, said vamp portion, and said quarter portion comprising different mechanical properties
- wherein said three dimensional knit textile material element, above said sole, comprises substantially an entire exterior surface of said article of footwear.
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An article of footwear configured to be positioned about a wearer's foot, said wearer's foot comprising an instep, a plurality of phalanges, a plurality of toes including distal ends, and a heel, said article of footwear comprising:
- an upper coupled with a sole and comprising a junction between said upper and said sole,
- said upper comprising an opening for receiving a wearer's foot,
- said upper comprising a three dimensional knit textile material element comprising an anterior side, a posterior side, a superior side, an inferior side, a medial side, a lateral side, an exterior side, an interior side, a forefoot area, a midfoot area, a rearfoot area, and a plurality of different knit portions coupled together
- comprising a collar portion comprising resilient elastic mechanical properties adapted to extend at least partially around said opening for receiving said wearer's foot,
- a dorsal portion comprising a pad adapted to extend on said superior side of said upper above said instep of said wearer's foot,
- a vamp portion comprising four way stretch mechanical properties adapted to extend on said superior side of said upper over said plurality of phalanges of said wearer's foot,
- a quarter portion further comprising a medial quarter portion and a lateral quarter portion comprising at least two way stretch mechanical properties and comprising greater resistance to elongation than said vamp portion, said medial quarter portion extending on said medial side of said upper coupled to at least one of said collar portion and said dorsal portion, and said lateral quarter extending on said lateral side of said upper coupled to at least one of said collar portion and said dorsal portion,
- a tip portion comprising less elongation relative to said quarter portion and also said vamp portion adapted to extend on said anterior side and part of said medial side and said lateral side of said upper over said distal ends of said plurality of toes of said wearer's foot and around a majority of said forefoot area adjacent to said junction of said upper and said sole,
- each of said dorsal portion, said collar portion, said vamp portion, said quarter portion, and said tip portion of said upper comprising different knits, and at least said vamp portion, said quarter portion, and said tip portion comprising different mechanical properties
- wherein said three dimensional knit textile material element, above said sole, comprises substantially an entire exterior surface of said article of footwear.
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An article of footwear configured to be positioned about a wearer's foot, said wearer's foot comprising an instep, a plurality of phalanges, a plurality of toes including distal ends, and a heel, said article of footwear comprising:
- an upper coupled with a sole and comprising a junction between said upper and said sole,
- said upper comprising an opening for receiving a wearer's foot,
- said upper comprising a three dimensional knit textile material element comprising an anterior side, a posterior side, a superior side, an inferior side, a medial side, a lateral side, an exterior side, an interior side, a forefoot area, a midfoot area, a rearfoot area, and a plurality of different knit portions coupled together
- comprising a collar portion comprising resilient elastic mechanical properties adapted to extend at least partially around said opening for receiving said wearer's foot,
- a dorsal portion comprising a pad adapted to extend on said superior side of said upper above said instep of said wearer's foot,
- a vamp portion comprising four way stretch mechanical properties adapted to extend on said superior side of said upper over said plurality of phalanges of said wearer's foot,
- a quarter portion further comprising a medial quarter portion and a lateral quarter portion comprising at least two way stretch mechanical properties and comprising greater resistance to elongation than said vamp portion, said medial quarter portion extending on said medial side of said upper from said junction of said upper with said sole to at least one of said collar portion and said dorsal portion, and said lateral quarter extending on said lateral side of said upper from said junction of said upper with said sole to at least one of said collar portion and said dorsal portion,
- a tip portion comprising less elongation relative to said quarter portion and also said vamp portion adapted to extend on said anterior side and part of said medial side and said lateral side of said upper over said distal ends of said plurality of toes of said wearer's foot and around a majority of said forefoot area adjacent to said junction of said upper and said sole, and
- a heel portion adapted to extend on said posterior side of said upper and to a part of said medial side and said lateral side of said upper around a portion of said heel of said wearer,
- each of said dorsal portion, said collar portion, said vamp portion, said quarter portion, and said tip portion of said upper comprising different knits, and at least said vamp portion, said quarter portion, and said tip portion comprising different mechanical properties
- wherein said three dimensional knit textile material element, above said sole, comprises substantially an entire exterior surface of said article of footwear.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.