Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Footwear manufacturing with precutting
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Application No.: US15509101Application Date: 2016-05-25
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Publication No.: US10368612B2Publication Date: 2019-08-06
- Inventor: Bruce J. Kilgore
- Applicant: NIKE, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US OR Beaverton
- Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
- Current Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US OR Beaverton
- Agency: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.
- International Application: PCT/US2016/034146 WO 20160525
- International Announcement: WO2016/196134 WO 20161208
- Main IPC: A43B23/02
- IPC: A43B23/02 ; A43B9/00 ; A43B23/04 ; A43B23/07 ; B29D35/10

Abstract:
A method of manufacturing an article of footwear from a flat pattern is provided. The method includes cutting a first cut in a first material through the top surface (502) and the bottom surface of the first material. The method continues with coupling an overlay (500) on the first material top surface (502) such that the overlay (500) extends over the first cut and obscures the first material top surface (502). The method continues with forming the flat pattern having the first material with the first cut and the overlay (500) into a dimensional article of footwear configured to receive a foot. The first material bottom surface is more interior to the dimensional article of footwear than the top surface (502).
Public/Granted literature
- US20170265567A1 FOOTWEAR MANUFACTURING WITH PRECUTTING Public/Granted day:2017-09-21
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