Patent ID: 8641410

Claim:
A mold for footwear bottoms and other manufactures composed of two overlapping layers of expandible reticulable polyolefin materials, comprising: an upper lid defining a cavity for molding a first layer of expandible reticulable polyolefin materials; a lower lid defining a corresponding cavity for molding a second layer of expandible reticulable polyolefin material, adapted to be interfaced with said cavity of the upper lid; and a plate adapted to be exactly interposed between said two upper and lower lids in such a way to simultaneously close said cavities, wherein: said cavity of the upper lid is joined with a first perimeter channel, said cavity of the lower lid is joined with a second perimeter channel adapted to be exactly interfaced with said first perimeter channel of the upper lid, and said plate is provided on lower and upper sides thereof with specular ribs, said specular ribs being adapted to be exactly engaged into a corresponding channel of the upper lid and the lower lid.