Patent ID: 11910883
Assignee: UNDER ARMOUR, INC.
Field: Other consumer goods (Other fields)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 1:
2. An article of footwear comprising:
an upper;
a cleat plate coupled to the upper, the cleat plate including a plurality of nodules formed integral with the cleat plate, each nodule extending outward from a bottom surface of the cleat plate; and
a plurality of metal cleats, each metal cleat associated with a corresponding nodule such that the metal cleat is encapsulated partially within the nodule and protrudes therefrom in a direction substantially perpendicular to the bottom surface of the cleat plate;
wherein:
each metal cleat within the plurality of metal cleats extends a same distance from the bottom surface of the cleat plate;
each metal cleat comprises a first planar portion and a second planar portion angled with respect to the first planar portion along a bend line such that the second planar portion is oriented generally orthogonally to the first planar portion, the second planar portion is embedded within the corresponding nodule while at least part of the first planar portion extends from the corresponding nodule and the bottom surface of the cleat plate;
each second planar portion includes a plurality of openings extending through the second planar portion; and
the first planar portion of each metal cleat comprises:
a first plate having a first planar surface, an elongated opening extending through the first plate and a notch defined at a free end of the first plate;
a second plate having a second planar surface angled from the first planar surface of the first plate and joining with the first plate along a first side of the first plate so as to define a first vertical junction entirely along the first side between the first plate and the second plate; and
a third plate having a third planar surface angled from the first planar surface of the first plate and joining with the first plate along a second side that opposes the first side of the first plate so as to define a second vertical junction entirely along the second side between the first plate and the third plate.