Ro-search, Inc.

Ro-search, Incorporated (ro-search)

Anton Liebscher

Sven E Oberg

Horace Ray Auberry

Kenneth Smathers

Shoe sole

The disclosure relates to the manufacture of footwear with direct molded elastomeric soles wherein the last is built up in the center region to provide a sole which appears thick externally, yet is thin and relatively lightweight in its center region. The last includes grooves over the region of the stitches securing the upper to the welt to seal and waterproof the footwear in the region of the stitches by permitting the sole material, when molding takes place, to flow over the stitches.

Method and device for the manufacture of footwear

Improvements in the safety and comfort of footwear having the appearance of having very thick soles and improvements in the method of their manufacture.

Method of manufacture of footwear

Improvements in the safety and comfort of footwear having the appearance of having very thick soles.

Footwear

The invention discloses a method and device for the attaching of soles to uppers of footwear which assures the correct seating of the upper on the last prior to the attaching of the sole and allows further to shorten the time needed to bond the sole to the upper.

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Waynesville, NC, United States of America

Anton Liebscher