Patent ID: 8281502

Claim:
A shoe upper comprising: a lower end of the upper, an outer material with a lower end of the outer material, a waterproof functional layer, which has a lower end region of the functional layer with a functional layer zone not covered by outer material, wherein the functional layer comprises a lower edge; a connecting, band, which extends in the direction of the periphery of the upper, and which has a connecting band upper longitudinal side, joined to the lower end of the outer material, and a connecting band lower longitudinal side, and which at least partially overlaps the functional layer zone and which consists of liquefiable sealing material or of material through which liquid sealing material can flow, wherein at points of curvature of the lower end of the upper the connecting band extends in an arc corresponding to the local radius of curvature, with the two longitudinal sides of the connecting band having different degrees of curvature, in such away that, for an arc sector lying in the respective curvature, with a predetermined unitary sector angle, the arc lengths of the two longitudinal connecting band sides belonging to this arc sector differ from each other the more, the greater the curvature of the respective arc sector is, wherein the connecting band comprises a lower longitudinal edge, further wherein the lower edge of the functional layer ends above the height of the lower longitudinal edge of the connecting band.