Footwear article having cord structure

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11185121-B2
Application number	US-201816108036-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 21, 2018
Priority date	Nov 9, 2012
Publication date	Nov 30, 2021
Grant date	Nov 30, 2021

Abstract

A footwear article is provided herein. The footwear article may include a sole coupled to a cord structure. The cord structure may include interconnected bights in a vamp cord and a rand cord forming a loop line extending along at least a portion of the footwear article.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A footwear article, comprising:
a sole having cord structure attachment openings; and
a cord structure including a rand substructure formed by a first cord and a vamp substructure formed by a second cord, the first cord of the rand substructure forming sole attachment bights extending into the cord structure attachment openings coupling the sole to the rand substructure, the first cord of the rand substructure further forming vamp attachment bights interconnected with rand attachment bights formed by the vamp substructure, each vamp attachment bight directly looping through two rand attachment bights.

2. The footwear article of claim 1 , where the vamp substructure is positioned away from the sole.

3. The footwear article of claim 1 , where the rand substructure comprises one or more rand cords.

4. The footwear article of claim 1 , where the vamp substructure comprises one or more vamp cords.

5. The footwear article of claim 1 , where the cord structure further comprises a sole cord extending through the sole attachment bights.

6. The footwear article of claim 1 , where cords in the cord structure interlock to provide slippable engagement.

7. The footwear article of claim 1 , further comprising a heel counter coupled to the cord structure, wherein one or more cords in the cord structure extend through the heel counter.

8. The footwear article of claim 1 , where the cord structure includes a first section and a second section having different degrees of slippable engagement.

9. The footwear article of claim 5 , where the sole cord extends across the sole from a first side to a second side one or more times.

10. The footwear article of claim 1 , wherein the cord structure further includes a lace cord interconnected with lace attachment bights formed by the second cord of the vamp substructure.

Assignees

• Fuerst Group Inc

Inventors

• Aveni Michael A
• Tawney John
• Fuerst Rory

Classifications

• A43B1/04

  braided, knotted, knitted or crocheted · CPC title

• A43B3/16

  Overshoes · CPC title

• A43B3/122 Primary

  characterised by the attachment of the straps · CPC title

• A43C1/06

  tightened by draw-strings · CPC title

• A43B3/126

  characterised by the shape or layout of the straps · CPC title