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Knit article of footwear with customized midsole and customized cleat arrangement

  • US 9,820,530 B2
  • Filed: 01/16/2015
  • Issued: 11/21/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/16/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for producing a customized midsole and a customized cleat arrangement for an article of footwear comprising a knit outsole, the method comprising the steps of:

  • providing a cleat graphical interface system;

    providing a set of cleat graphics tools associated with the cleat graphical interface system;

    providing a group of pre-designed cleat arrangements, each pre-designed cleat arrangement in the group of pre-designed cleat arrangements including a knit outsole representation having pre-defined cleat locations and a pre-defined number of cleats;

    providing a midsole graphical interface system;

    providing a set of midsole graphics tools associated with the midsole graphical interface system;

    providing a group of pre-designed midsoles, each pre-designed midsole in the group of pre-designed midsoles including reinforcement members projecting from the bottom of the midsole;

    receiving from the cleat graphical interface system information related to a customized cleat arrangement, the customized cleat arrangement including at least knit outsole representation associated with a selected one pre-designed cleat arrangement from the group of pre-designed cleat arrangements that has been modified to change at least one of the pre-defined cleat locations and the pre-defined number of cleats;

    receiving from the midsole graphical interface system information related to a customized midsole, the customized midsole including at least one representation of the impression of the user'"'"'s foot or of the reinforcement members associated with a selected one pre-designed midsole arrangement from the group of pre-designed midsole arrangements that has been modified to change at least one of the pre-defined reinforcement locations and the representation of the impression of the user'"'"'s foot; and

    producing an article of footwear with the customized midsole and the customized cleat arrangement including the at least one knit outsole representation having at least one changed pre-defined cleat location and changed pre-defined number of cleats and including a customized midsole including at least one changed pre-defined location or changed pre-defined number of cleats and a modified midsole representation having at least one changed representation of the impression of the user'"'"'s foot or reinforcing member.

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