| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 012017000 | SOLE MACHINES | 11 |
| 20140082863 | Sole With Adjustable Sizing - A system and method of manufacturing a customized sole with adjustable sizing is disclosed. The sole includes a fixed region and an adjustable region. The adjustable region is deformable when the sole is heated to a melting point associated with the adjustable region. The shape and size of the sole may be adjusted by deforming the adjustable region. | 03-27-2014 |
| 012033000 | Laying and/or leveling | 1 |
| 012038000 | Pads or formers | 1 |
| 20150107030 | Buffing Expanded Foam Items - Foam items may be buffed using particles such as particulate sodium bicarbonate in accordance with the present invention. Foam items may be, for example, expanded EVA foam items pre-formed into an intermediate size and shape. A skin layer may be formed during the expansion of the foam item to form an expanded foam item which may be entirely or partially removed by buffing the item using particles projected with selected buffing parameters. The buffing parameters may be varied based upon the thickness of at least a portion of the skin layer and/or the desired degree of moldability for the foam item after buffing. Particulate sodium bicarbonate or other types of particles used for buffing may be recycled and reused for further buffing of foam items. | 04-23-2015 |
| 012180100 | Assembling | 3 |
| 20110232008 | Method For Efficient And Localized Production Of Shoes - Methods and systems relating to efficient shoe manufacturing that reduce the specialized human labor required to manufacture a pair of shoes while avoiding the high costs and special maintenance requirements often associated with highly automated manufacturing equipment are provided. Systems and methods in accordance with the present invention may be used to produce multiple models of custom shoes at a single shoe manufacturing facility using overlapping workflows, thereby reducing the physical footprint of the manufacturing facility. Additionally, embodiments of the invention may provide methods and systems for efficiently producing shoes to meet the demands of a particular geographic location, thereby eliminating the need to import shoes produced in other locations. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20140259459 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADHESIVE APPLICATION OF A CUSTOMIZED SOLE-SHAPED PAD - Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for applying an adhesive film to the sole of shoes. Application of a portion of the adhesive film can be performed by receiving a shoe on top of the adhesive film, which in turn is above a plate and compressible pins. Upon receiving the shoe, the plate is raised or lowered, and the compressible pins mark the perimeter of the sole of the shoe. The adhesive film is cut in a sole-shaped pattern due to the height differentiation, resulting in a sole-shaped portion of the adhesive film being adhered to the sole of the shoe. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20150121632 | AUTOMATIC GUMMING SYSTEM - Disclosed is an automatic gumming system for automatically gumming an upper surface of a shoe sole or a bottom surface of a shoe body, comprises a conveying device, an data obtaining device, a treating agent applying device, a heating device, and a gumming device. The data obtaining device has an image retrieving member which is provided in a position corresponding to an image retrieving zone for the image retrieving member to scan a gumming surface of a gumming target to generate a gumming data. The treating agent applying device applies a treating agent on the gumming surface according to the gumming data. The heating device is provided in a position corresponding to a heating zone for heating the gumming surface. The gum applying device applies a gum on the gumming surface according to the gumming data, by which the quality and speed of gumming process can be enhanced. | 05-07-2015 |
| 012180500 | With diverse operations | 2 |
| 20140068878 | Automated Strobel Printing - A machine moves shoe strobels to a camera or scanner where images of the strobels are captured. Using the images, a computing device instructs a printer how to mark guidelines on the strobels that signify one or more strobel sewing lines for different shoes models and shoe sizes. Cross-sectional lines may also be printed on the strobels to aid in error-checking guideline marking. Unmarked strobels are stacked in a loading compartment, sometimes in pairs—e.g., right and left shoe strobels. The unmarked strobels are transferred to a conveyor that brings the strobels to the camera or scanner and the printer. After guidelines and/or cross-sectional lines are added to the strobels, the marked strobels are stacked in a compartments housing other marked strobels. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20160000187 | Automated Strobel Printing - A machine moves shoe strobels to a camera or scanner where images of the stobels are captured. Using the images, a computing device instructs a printer how to mark guidelines within a threshold distance of each other on the strobels that signify strobel sewing lines for different shoes models and shoe sizes. Cross-sectional lines may also be printed on the strobels to aid in error-checking guideline marking. Unmarked strobels are stacked in a loading compartment, sometimes in pairs—e.g., right and left shoe strobels. The unmarked strobels are transferred to a conveyor that brings the strobels to the camera or scanner and the printer. After guidelines and/or cross-sectional lines are added to the strobels, the marked strobels are stacked in a compartments housing other marked strobels. | 01-07-2016 |
| 012021000 | Blank molding | 2 |
| 20120096653 | Method of mould for manufacturing shoes - A shoe mold unit includes a base mold having a shoe molding part on the top thereof and a concavity. A left mold and a right mold are respectively located on two sides of the base mold, and each of the left and right molds has a recessed positioning portion with which a protection member is respectively engaged. Two respective ridges are located on two respective insides of the left mold and the right mold. The ridges protect the outside of the vamp and restrict the space for formation of the outsole such that no surplus material is formed on the outsole and the defective rate is reduced. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20140215729 | CLEATS, CLEATED SOLE STRUCTURES, MOLDS, AND MOLDING METHODS FOR IN-MOLDING ARTICLES - Cleat structures, e.g., for golf shoes, may include a flat and flexible interior surface and/or a generally disk-shaped perimeter area that includes features to promote in-molding of the cleat to a footwear sole component (e.g., to permanently engage the cleat with an outsole member). Such cleats may provide a flexible and comfortable base, including a low profile, e.g., to enable formation relatively thin and/or flexible footwear sole components. Footwear sole components and articles of footwear that include one or more in-molded cleat structures of this type also are described. Molds used for in-molding procedures and methods of using the molds to make articles with in-molded components (e.g., for making footwear sole structures including one or more in-molded cleats) also are described. | 08-07-2014 |
| 012040000 | Slitting | 2 |
| 20120066844 | DEVICE FOR 360 DEGREE WAVE-SHAPING OF OUTSOLE OF SHOE - The present invention relates to a device for 360 degree wave-shaping of an outsole of a shoe including: a base part; and a blade plate part mounted on the base part and having an upper blade plate corresponding to an upper portion of the outsole of the shoe and a lower blade plate corresponding to a lower portion of the outsole of the shoe, each of the upper blade plate and the lower blade plate having a plurality of blades adapted to perform the 360 degree wave-shaping for the outsole of the shoe. The blade plate part is wave-shaped, and each of the upper blade plate and the lower blade plate has a plurality of streamlined space portions formed extended from one sides thereof to the other sides thereof, thereby discharging water therethrough. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20130198977 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING FOOTWEAR HAVING SIPES - A method of manufacturing footwear including the steps of positioning a sole member on a first portion of a cutting assembly; heating a second portion of the cutting assembly, the second portion including a cutting die; pressing the heated cutting die into the sole member to form a plurality of sipes in the sole member; and removing the cutting die from the sole member. | 08-08-2013 |
