US 12,075,891 B2
Last and shoe upper forming tool
Yuya Kozuka, Kobe (JP); Kimie Tanaka, Kobe (JP); Shinsaku Wakasugi, Kobe (JP); Shin Watanabe, Kobe (JP); Genki Hatano, Kobe (JP); and Kei Kanematsu, Kobe (JP)
Assigned to ASICS CORPORATION, Kobe (JP)
Filed by ASICS CORPORATION, Kobe (JP)
Filed on Oct. 21, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/048,678.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-173324 (JP), filed on Oct. 22, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0128436 A1, Apr. 27, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A43D 3/02 (2006.01); A43D 3/06 (2006.01)
CPC A43D 3/06 (2013.01) [A43D 3/022 (2013.01); A43D 3/027 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A last for forming a shoe upper, the last comprising:
a plurality of last forming parts, wherein
in a forming surface for forming the shoe upper, at least a portion of a specific region corresponding to an upper end portion of a to-be-formed portion of the shoe upper is defined by a plurality of plate-shaped parts included in the last forming parts,
by arranging the plate-shaped parts to be spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction of an upper end portion of the shoe upper, a portion of the specific region that is defined by the plate-shaped parts is defined by an end surface of each of the plate-shaped parts,
the end surface of one of the plate-shaped parts has a notched recessed portion as a mark used for alignment with the last during overlaying of the shoe upper, the recessed portion being disposed in the portion of the specific region that is defined by the plate-shaped parts, and
the recessed portion is separate from a slit extending to the end surface of the one of the plate-shaped parts for assembling the one of the plate-shaped parts to another one of the plate-shaped parts.