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Granted Patent B2
US 11,919,266 · App. 17/271,092 · Granted Mar 5, 2024

Shoe sole or insole having sheet-type coated cork coupled thereto, and method for manufacturing same

Inventor: Won Tae Ha (Kobe, JP)
B29D35/142B32B9/02B32B9/043B32B37/10B32B2317/02B32B2437/02
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Patent No.
US 11,919,266
App. No.
17/271,092
Granted
Mar 5, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed is a sole-type body member, which is a main body of a shoe sole or an insole, is laminated on the sheet-type coated cork, and is then pressed and heated so that a part of the sole-type body member is inserted into the main-body-coupling opening, thereby achieving coupling therebetween.

Claims (15)

1. A method of manufacturing a sole-type member coupled with a sheet-type coated cork, the method comprising:

preparing a crushed-cork-piece assembly, which is an assembly of crushed cork pieces each having a diameter of 5 to 10 mm;

forming a mixture of cork and latex for coating by mixing 30 to 50 parts by weight of a chloroprene rubber latex (having a solid concentration of 50% to 60%), 15 to 25 parts by weight of a natural rubber latex (having a solid concentration of 40% to 60%), 2 to 4 parts by weight of a stabilizer, 2 to 4 parts by weight of a wetting agent, 4 to 6 parts by weight of a thickener, and 1 to 3 parts by weight of a curing agent based on 100 parts by weight of the crushed-cork-piece assembly in a drum rotary mixer having no agitation blades;

forming a block-type coated cork in which a plurality of main-body-coupling openings, which are empty spaces, are formed between the crushed cork pieces by naturally drying the mixture of cork and latex for coating and then performing curing so that a space occupancy ratio of the plurality of the main-body-coupling openings is 10 to 60% based on an apparent volume of the block-type coated cork and so that an apparent specific gravity of the block-type coated cork is 0.12 to 0.35 g/cm 3 ;

slicing the block-type coated cork to obtain the sheet-type coated cork having a thickness of 0.2 to 4 mm;

laminating a sole-type body member, which is a main body of a shoe sole or an insole, on the sheet-type coated cork; and

pressing and heating the sole-type body member laminated on the sheet-type coated cork, so that a part of the sole-type body member is inserted into the main-body-coupling openings formed in the sheet-type coated cork to be coupled each other, thereby manufacturing the sole-type member in which the part of the sole-type body member is exposed through the main-body-coupling openings to an outside.

2. A shoe sole coupled with a sheet-type coated cork, comprising:

the sheet-type coated cork manufactured so as to have a sheet shape having a thickness of 0.2 to 4 mm by slicing a block-type coated cork in which crushed cork pieces having a diameter of 5 to 10 mm are coupled with each other and a plurality of main-body-coupling openings, which are empty spaces, are formed between the crushed cork pieces using a latex for coating obtained by performing curing; and

a main body of the shoe sole laminated on an upper portion of the sheet-type coated cork,

wherein a space occupancy ratio of the plurality of the main-body-coupling openings is 10 to 60% based on an apparent volume of the block-type coated cork, an apparent specific gravity of the block-type coated cork is 0.12 to 0.35 g/cm 3 , and a part of the main body of the shoe sole is inserted into the main-body-coupling openings in the sheet-type coated cork and is exposed through the main-body-coupling openings to an outside by pressing and heating to be coupled each other.

3. An insole coupled with a sheet-type coated cork, comprising:

the sheet-type coated cork manufactured so as to have a sheet shape having a thickness of 0.2 to 4 mm by slicing a block-type coated cork in which crushed cork pieces having a diameter of 5 to 10 mm are coupled with each other and a plurality of main-body-coupling openings, which are empty spaces, are formed between the crushed cork pieces using a latex for coating obtained by performing curing; and

a main body of the insole laminated on a lower portion of the sheet-type coated cork,

wherein a space occupancy ratio of the plurality of main-body-coupling openings is 10 to 60% based on an apparent volume of the block-type coated cork, an apparent specific gravity of the block-type coated cork is 0.12 to 0.35 g/cm 3 , and a part of the main body of the insole is inserted into the main-body-coupling openings in the sheet-type coated cork and is exposed through the main-body-coupling openings to an outside by pressing and heating to be coupled each other.

Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2018-0102266 · Aug 29, 2018 · national
Continuity (1)
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