US 12,108,841 B2
Device for the manufacture of sporting goods
Christopher Edward Holmes, Herzogenaurach (DE); Jan Hill, Herzogenaurach (DE); Clemens Paul Dyckmans, Herzogenaurach (DE); Giridharan Kirupanantham, Herzogenaurach (DE); Gerd Rainer Manz, Herzogenaurach (DE); and Dietmar Klaus Drummer, Herzogenaurach (DE)
Assigned to adidas AG, Herzogenaurach (DE)
Filed by adidas AG, Herzogenaurach (DE)
Filed on Jul. 20, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/933,238.
Application 16/933,238 is a division of application No. 15/016,073, filed on Feb. 4, 2016, granted, now 10,750,814.
Claims priority of application No. 102015202014.2 (DE), filed on Feb. 5, 2015; and application No. 16151729 (EP), filed on Jan. 18, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2020/0345100 A1, Nov. 5, 2020
Int. Cl. A43B 9/12 (2006.01); A43B 5/00 (2022.01); A43B 9/20 (2006.01); B29C 65/00 (2006.01); B29C 65/14 (2006.01); B29C 65/16 (2006.01); B29L 31/50 (2006.01); B29C 65/20 (2006.01); B29C 65/48 (2006.01); B29C 65/82 (2006.01)
CPC A43B 9/12 (2013.01) [A43B 5/00 (2013.01); A43B 9/20 (2013.01); B29C 65/1412 (2013.01); B29C 65/1425 (2013.01); B29C 65/1432 (2013.01); B29C 65/1496 (2013.01); B29C 65/1632 (2013.01); B29C 66/1122 (2013.01); B29C 66/54 (2013.01); B29C 66/729 (2013.01); B29C 66/7294 (2013.01); B29C 66/7392 (2013.01); B29C 66/83221 (2013.01); B29C 66/83241 (2013.01); B29C 66/91935 (2013.01); B29C 66/92655 (2013.01); B29C 65/1467 (2013.01); B29C 65/1667 (2013.01); B29C 65/20 (2013.01); B29C 65/2023 (2013.01); B29C 65/48 (2013.01); B29C 65/8223 (2013.01); B29C 66/71 (2013.01); B29C 66/73116 (2013.01); B29L 2031/50 (2013.01); B32B 2437/02 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device for manufacturing a shoe, the device comprising:
a first component mounting and a second component mounting, the first component mounting for receiving a first component corresponding to a shoe midsole having an outer rim part and a first connection surface inward of the outer rim part, the second component mounting for receiving a second component corresponding to a shoe upper having a second connection surface, wherein the first and the second component mounting are moveable apart from one another to define a gap therebetween, wherein the first and the second component mounting are moveable toward one another to reduce or eliminate the gap;
a heat source positionable within the gap for providing heat energy without contact; and
a shield positionable within the gap and between the heat source and the outer rim part of the shoe midsole to prevent the outer rim part of the shoe midsole from being subjected to as much heat as an unshielded portion of the first connection surface of the shoe midsole so as to facilitate the second connection surface of the shoe upper being joined with the first connection surface of the shoe midsole without the outer rim part of the shoe midsole sticking to the second connection surface of the shoe upper.