Patent ID: 7832116
Filing Date: 2010-11-16
Classification: A43B,B29C,B29D

Abstract:
1. A footwear product produced by a method comprising the steps of: providing a mold with a cavity configured to receive flowable plastic material and shape the same into a unitary footwear component having an upper and a lower; supplying a plurality of foaming resins in respective colors; contemporaneously introducing the plurality of foaming resins into the mold cavity at pressure for incomplete mixing of the color in combination at depth through at least one of the upper and lower; permitting the plurality of foaming resins in the mold cavity to harden into a substantially non-flowable state; and removing the footwear component from the mold to form a unitary molded shoe consisting essentially of the plurality of resins in a substantially non-flowable state expanded at least 20% with respect to the volume presented by the mold, the footwear product presenting an outer surface with an inhomogenously variegated color pattern extending depthwise from the outer surface into the at least one of the upper and lower.