Method for manufacturing a waterproof and vapor-permeable shoe
AssigneeGEOX S.p.A.
InventorMario Polegato Moretti
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Abstract
A method for providing a waterproof and vapor-permeable shoe, including: constructing an upper shoe assembly, including at least one vapor-permeable lining, a vapor-permeable upper, and a waterproof and vapor-permeable upper membrane that is between them; fixing to a vapor-permeable assembly insole a first gasket made of waterproof material, which has at least one vapor-permeable or perforated portion; lasting, to obtain an upper assembly of the shoe; sealing the lasting margins to the first gasket by a second gasket, including adhesion of the second gasket; and assembling, including connection of a sole to the upper assembly at least by the adhesion of material that composes the sole to the second gasket.
Claims28
A method for providing a waterproof and vapor-permeable shoe, comprising:
- constructing an upper shoe assembly, which includes at least one vapor-permeable lining, a vapor-permeable upper, and waterproof and vapor-permeable upper membrane that is between them;
- fixing a vapor-permeable assembly insole to a first gasket made of waterproof material, which includes at least one vapor-permeable or perforated portion;
- lasting, comprising association of lasting margins of the upper shoe assembly with the first gasket, at least predominantly by AGO lasting, to obtain an upper assembly of the shoe;
- sealing the lasting margins of the upper to the first gasket by a second gasket, comprising adhesion of the second gasket to the first gasket so that the second gasket is in direct contact with each of the lasting margins of the upper and the first gasket;
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- assembling, comprising connection of a sole to the upper assembly at least by the adhesion, so as to provide a waterproof seal, of material that composes the sole to the second gasket,
- wherein the lasting comprises folding and gluing, so as to provide a waterproof seal, according to AGO lasting, below a perimetric edge of the first gasket, the lasting margins composed of a lower rim of the upper membrane and of a lower edge of the upper, so as to provide a waterproof seal of the upper membrane to the first gasket.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.