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Induction Heating Apparatuses And Processes For Footwear Manufacturing

  • US 20140000043A1
  • Filed: 06/29/2012
  • Published: 01/02/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An apparatus for making an article of footwear, comprising:

  • a last shaped to resemble a human foot and being formed at least in part from a susceptor material that is thermally reactive to an electromagnetic field; and

    an induction coil disposed proximate to the last and configured to produce an electromagnetic field that causes the susceptor material in the last to increase in temperature by induction heating.

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