Patent Application
20080098618
1. Field of Invention
The invention relates to a method to manufacture a shoe, more particularly to connect the vamp and the outsole of a shoe.
2. Description of Related Arts
Referring to the
Therefore, there is a need to provide a solution to improve the connecting strength between the vamp 110 and the outsole 130.
A object of the present invention is to provide method to help connect the vamp and the outsole, comprising:
a vamp, comprising a lateral vamp and a bottom vamp;
a connecting medium apparatus, comprising a first plane enclosing said lateral vamp, a second plane connected to said first plane and extending outward, a third plane connected to said second plane and extending downward, and a forth plane connected to said third plane and extending inward, wherein said second plane comprises a plurality of holes; and
One or part or all of these and other features and advantages of the present invention will become readily apparent to those skilled in this art from the following description wherein there is shown and described a preferred embodiment of this invention, simply by way of illustration of one of the modes best suited to carry out the invention. As it will be realized, the invention is capable of different embodiments, and its several details are capable of modifications in various, obvious aspects all without departing from the invention. Accordingly, the drawings and descriptions will be regarded as illustrative in nature and not as restrictive.
In an embodiment, referring to
The vamp 200 and the connecting medium apparatus 230 are placed in a mold (not shown). A material, such as rubber, is meld and poured into the mold to form the outsole 240. The material is filled the holes in the second plane and the gap between the bottom vamp 220 and the forth plane 234 to help connect the outsole 240 and the vamp 200.
Referring to
One skilled in the art will understand that the embodiment of the present invention as shown in the drawings and described above is exemplary only and not intended to be limiting.
The foregoing description of the preferred embodiment of the present invention has been presented for purposes of illustration and description. It is not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the invention to the precise form or to exemplary embodiments disclosed. Accordingly, the foregoing description should be regarded as illustrative rather than restrictive. Obviously, many modifications and variations will be apparent to practitioners skilled in this art. The embodiments are chosen and described in order to best explain the principles of the invention and its best mode practical application, thereby to enable persons skilled in the art to understand the invention for various embodiments and with various modifications as are suited to the particular use or implementation contemplated. It is intended that the scope of the invention be defined by the claims appended hereto and their equivalents in which all terms are meant in their broadest reasonable sense unless otherwise indicated. It should be appreciated that variations may be made in the embodiments described by persons skilled in the art without departing from the scope of the present invention as defined by the following claims. Moreover, no element and component in the present disclosure is intended to be dedicated to the public regardless of whether the element or component is explicitly recited in the following claims.
