Patent ID: 7883658
Filing Date: 2011-02-08
Classification: A43B

Abstract:
1. A method of constructing a shoe comprising: providing a shoe midsole mold with a mold bottom surface shaped to mold a midsole bottom surface and with a mold top surface shaped to mold a midsole top surface; providing plate locator projections on the mold bottom surface with the projections extending outwardly from the mold bottom surface, wherein the plate locator projections are elongate, where a curvature of an outer surface of the elongate plate locator projections matches a curvature of a rigid plate; positioning the rigid plate on the plate locator projections with the projections supporting the rigid plate above the mold bottom surface; providing midsole material into the mold on the mold bottom surface and beneath and over the rigid plate; closing the mold top surface over the mold bottom surface with the midsole material and the rigid plate in the mold; and, molding the midsole material between the mold bottom surface and the mold top surface into a midsole having the rigid plate at a position in the midsole that is spaced from the top surface of the midsole and the bottom surface of the midsole.