US 12,419,382 B2
Reinforced composite sheet material for enhanced performance of athletic shoes
Gordon L. Brown, Jr., Anderson, SC (US); and Jeffrey Earle Milliman, Greenville, SC (US)
Assigned to Gordon L. Brown, Jr., Anderson, SC (US)
Filed by Gordon L. Brown, Jr., Anderson, SC (US)
Filed on Apr. 14, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/134,832.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/475,732, filed on Dec. 7, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/473,426, filed on May 27, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0380540 A1, Nov. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. A43B 13/02 (2022.01); B32B 5/18 (2006.01); B32B 5/32 (2006.01); B32B 27/06 (2006.01); B32B 27/08 (2006.01); B32B 27/30 (2006.01); B32B 27/32 (2006.01); B32B 7/12 (2006.01)
CPC A43B 13/026 (2013.01) [B32B 5/18 (2013.01); B32B 5/32 (2013.01); B32B 27/065 (2013.01); B32B 27/08 (2013.01); B32B 27/306 (2013.01); B32B 27/32 (2013.01); B32B 7/12 (2013.01); B32B 2250/22 (2013.01); B32B 2250/24 (2013.01); B32B 2266/0207 (2013.01); B32B 2266/0221 (2013.01); B32B 2307/7376 (2023.05); B32B 2437/02 (2013.01)] 37 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A shoe comprising:
an upper;
a tread outer sole attached to said upper; and
multiple reinforced flexible composites in a laminate wherein a reinforced flexible composite of said multiple reinforced flexible composites at least a portion of said reinforced flexible composite comprises monofilament coplanar reinforcement rods and a flexible sheet comprising a hinge wherein said hinge is an area between adjacent reinforcement rods which is void of any reinforcement rod wherein at least one coplanar reinforcement rod of said coplanar reinforcement rods is transverse relative to a long axis of said reinforced flexible composite.