Custom Footwear And Custom Footwear Fabrication System and Methods
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1. A footwear fabrication system comprising:
- one or more customer input units providing for the selection of at least one footwear design feature by a customer;
a foot scanning unit providing a digital representation of at least one physical attribute of the customer'"'"'s feet;
a supply of footwear blanks;
a footwear forming machine; and
a processor receiving input from the customer input unit and the foot scanning unit, the processor being configured to control the footwear forming machine and cause the footwear forming machine to fabricate footwear incorporating the at least one footwear design feature selected by the customer and the processor being further configured to cause the footwear forming machine to customize the footwear to correspond to the scanned physical attribute of the customer'"'"'s feet.
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Abstract
Disclosed embodiments include systems for fabricating custom footwear, custom footwear, and blanks useful for creating custom footwear. System embodiments include a processor which controls the fabrication of custom footwear based in part upon contemporaneously received customer input concerning design choices and further based in part upon physical attributes of the customer'"'"'s feet determined contemporaneously with a foot scanning unit. In some embodiments the entire design and fabrication process is completed at a retail location within the view of the customer.
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1. A footwear fabrication system comprising:
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one or more customer input units providing for the selection of at least one footwear design feature by a customer; a foot scanning unit providing a digital representation of at least one physical attribute of the customer'"'"'s feet; a supply of footwear blanks; a footwear forming machine; and a processor receiving input from the customer input unit and the foot scanning unit, the processor being configured to control the footwear forming machine and cause the footwear forming machine to fabricate footwear incorporating the at least one footwear design feature selected by the customer and the processor being further configured to cause the footwear forming machine to customize the footwear to correspond to the scanned physical attribute of the customer'"'"'s feet. - View Dependent Claims (2, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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38. A method of fabricating footwear comprising:
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receiving a selection of at least one footwear design feature from a customer with a customer input unit; obtaining a digital representation of at least one scanned physical attribute of the customer'"'"'s feet with a foot scanning unit; providing a footwear blank; loading the footwear blank into a footwear forming machine; controlling the footwear forming machine with a processor receiving input from the customer input unit and the foot scanning unit, to cause the footwear forming machine to fabricate footwear incorporating the at least one footwear design feature selected by the customer; and controlling the footwear forming machine with the processor to cause the footwear forming machine to customize the footwear to correspond to the scanned physical attribute of the customer'"'"'s feet. - View Dependent Claims (39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 46)
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