Shoe
First Claim
1. A shoe including an upper in which the upper is fabricated at least substantially from a breathable fabric comprising a woven fabric face layer having bulky warp and weft threads interlaced to define cross-over points, and a woven fabric back layer having fine warp and weft threads interlaced to define cross-over points, said face layer at spaced cross-over points thereof being interwoven with said back layer to provide discrete tie-in points of said face layer to said back layer, said spaced cross-over points being separated both longitudinally and laterally by intermediate cross-over points at which no interweaving between the fabric layers occurs, the interweaving at said tie-in points being by means of a single weft thread from one layer and a single warp thread from the other layers, the spacing between adjacent discrete tie-in points being at least 2/16" and not greater than 9/16" and sufficiently close to provide that the layers always remain in contact with each other over the whole area of their adjacent surfaces and have substantially no relative movement in use, and whereby said layers retain their separate identities and said fabric, when viewed from said face layer side, generally not having an interwoven appearance.
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Abstract
The present invention provides a breathable fabric comprising a woven first layer and a woven second layer said first layer at spaced points both longitudinally and laterally of said fabric being interwoven with said second layer providing tie-in points of said first layer to said second layer, the spacing between the tie-in points being sufficiently close to provide that the layers are always in contact with each other over the whole area of the adjacent surfaces.
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- 1. A shoe including an upper in which the upper is fabricated at least substantially from a breathable fabric comprising a woven fabric face layer having bulky warp and weft threads interlaced to define cross-over points, and a woven fabric back layer having fine warp and weft threads interlaced to define cross-over points, said face layer at spaced cross-over points thereof being interwoven with said back layer to provide discrete tie-in points of said face layer to said back layer, said spaced cross-over points being separated both longitudinally and laterally by intermediate cross-over points at which no interweaving between the fabric layers occurs, the interweaving at said tie-in points being by means of a single weft thread from one layer and a single warp thread from the other layers, the spacing between adjacent discrete tie-in points being at least 2/16" and not greater than 9/16" and sufficiently close to provide that the layers always remain in contact with each other over the whole area of their adjacent surfaces and have substantially no relative movement in use, and whereby said layers retain their separate identities and said fabric, when viewed from said face layer side, generally not having an interwoven appearance.
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