Patent ID: 7504448
Filing Date: 2009-03-17
Classification: A63B,C08J,C08L

Abstract:
1. The footwear structural component selected from the group consising of heel counters, toe puffs, and inner soles; wherein said footwear structural component comprises a composition, and said composition comprises (i) at least one E/X/Y copolymer where E represents copolymerized residues derived from ethylene, X represents copolymerized residues derived from a C (ii) from about 0.05 weight % to about 10 weight % of micropulp produced from organic fibers; said micropulp having a volume average length ranging from 0.01 micrometers to 100 micrometers and a average surface area ranging from 25 to 500 m (iii) from about 5 weight % to about 66 weight % of one or more organic acids or salts thereof; such that the combined weight % of component (ii) and component (iii) is from about 5 weight % to about 70 weight %; where the combined carboxylic acid functionalities in all ingredients in the blend are at least partially neutralized by one or more inorganic bases having alkali metal, transition metal, or alkaline earth cations.