US 12,285,082 B2
Buffing system for footwear
Chun-Chieh Chen, Huatan Township (TW); Yi-Min Chen, Hemei Township (TW); Chia-Hung Lin, Changhua (TW); Hsien-Kuang Wu, Taichung (TW); and Hung-Yu Wu, Huatan Township (TW)
Assigned to NIKE, Inc., Beaverton, OR (US)
Filed by NIKE, Inc., Beaverton, OR (US)
Filed on Oct. 17, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/381,068.
Application 18/381,068 is a division of application No. 17/021,744, filed on Sep. 15, 2020, granted, now 11,825,916.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/900,983, filed on Sep. 16, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2024/0041166 A1, Feb. 8, 2024
Int. Cl. A43D 95/24 (2006.01); A43D 63/00 (2006.01); A46B 13/00 (2006.01); A46B 13/02 (2006.01); B24D 13/10 (2006.01)
CPC A43D 95/24 (2013.01) [A43D 63/00 (2013.01); A46B 13/001 (2013.01); A46B 13/02 (2013.01); B24D 13/10 (2013.01); A46B 2200/40 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of buffing an article of footwear component with a footwear buffing system, the method comprising:
buffing a sidewall of the article of footwear component with a sidewall buffing module having a first brush, wherein the article of footwear component extends into bristles of the first brush at least 5 mm;
conveying the article of footwear component to an up surface buffing module;
buffing an up surface of the article of footwear component at the up surface buffing module having a second brush, wherein the second brush is conveyed along the up surface of the article of footwear component and rotates in a first direction at a first location on the up surface and the second brush rotates in a second direction at a second location on the up surface;
conveying the article of footwear component to a down surface buffing module; and
buffing the article of footwear component at the down surface buffing module having a third brush and a compression member, wherein the compression member compresses the article of footwear component into the third brush while conveying the article of footwear component across the third brush.