US 12,082,639 B2
Shoe upper
Astrid Karin Lang, Wilhermsdorf (DE); and Stefan Tamm, Herzogenaurach (DE)
Assigned to adidas AG, Herzogenaurach (DE)
Filed by adidas AG, Herzogenaurach (DE)
Filed on Sep. 13, 2018, as Appl. No. 16/130,995.
Application 16/130,995 is a continuation of application No. 13/861,896, filed on Apr. 12, 2013, abandoned.
Claims priority of application No. 102012206062.6 (DE), filed on Apr. 13, 2012; and application No. 13161357 (EP), filed on Mar. 27, 2013.
Prior Publication US 2019/0075889 A1, Mar. 14, 2019
Int. Cl. A43B 1/04 (2022.01); A43B 23/02 (2006.01); D04B 1/16 (2006.01); D04B 1/22 (2006.01)
CPC A43B 1/04 (2013.01) [A43B 23/0205 (2013.01); A43B 23/0235 (2013.01); D04B 1/16 (2013.01); D04B 1/22 (2013.01); A43B 23/025 (2013.01); A43B 23/026 (2013.01); A43B 23/0265 (2013.01); D10B 2501/043 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of manufacture of a shoe upper for a shoe, the method comprising:
forming a shoe upper from a knitted fabric, the shoe upper comprising a first portion and a toe portion which are jointly manufactured as the knitted fabric, wherein the knitted fabric comprises a first textile layer and a second textile layer, the second textile layer comprising synthetic monofilament yarn, wherein the first portion comprises a ventilation area with a plurality of apertures formed in the knitted fabric, and wherein at least one of the apertures are spanned with only the synthetic monofilament yarn such that the plurality of apertures allow air flow through the first portion;
applying a polymer material in a liquid state to the second textile layer in only the first portion to reinforce the ventilation area with respect to the toe portion of the shoe upper such that the polymer material is a liquid when it initially contacts the second textile layer, wherein the liquid polymer material does not connect to the synthetic monofilament yarn and penetrates through the second textile layer to fuse with a yarn of the first textile layer.