Adidas Ag

Florian Poegl

Matthias Linz

Stefan Tamm

Brian Hoying

Harald Geyer

Thomas Gries

Florian Godenberg

Florin Filipescu

Wolfgang Reinhold Rempp

Roland Jenter

Mathias Simon Beer

Marco Fischhold

An upper for a shoe includes a first tubular textile layer and a second tubular textile layer. The first tubular textile layer is at least partially surrounded by the second tubular textile layer thus forming an internal textile layer and an external textile layer. The first tubular textile layer includes a first zone. The first zone includes a first yarn and the first tubular textile layer includes a second yarn. The first yarn is more resilient than the second yarn, and the first zone includes a polygonal shape.

Shoe and shoe upper with optimized shape-holding properties

The present invention relates to a shoe upper, in particular an upper knitted on a circular knitting machine, including an elongated hollow knit structure, including: a first zone including a first predetermined property; a second zone including a second predetermined property; wherein the elongated hollow knit structure includes less than ten distinct ply types of yarn including less than five distinct materials.

Circular knit shoe upper

A customized, flat-knit multi-zonal element for a shoe upper and a method of producing such an element that allows for continuous knitting while controlling positioning of individual threads. One or more carriages may move continuously along the needle bed while threads are provided to the needles for a complete stroke. Knit elements may include multiple zones with differing properties. Threads may alter positions within knit structures from zone to zone. A knit element may include a first zone in a first plane that includes at least two merged threads to form a merged knit structure and a second zone in a second plane connected to the first zone seamlessly. Some knit structures may be positioned throughout the knit element such that they control a position of zones relative to each other.

Article comprising a knit element

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Herzogenaurach, Germany

Florian Poegl