Shoe sole’s elementary knowledge
First. Outsole:
1. Outsole material simply is to use natural rubber or synthetic rubber.
(1) Natural rubber: natural rubber, the advantage is that it is very soft, flexible and good, can be properly and in a variety of sports, but also the obvious disadvantage that is very wearable. Multi-purpose indoor sports shoes, natural rubber.
2. Is divided into synthetic rubber in the wear-resistant rubber, green rubber, air rubber, sticky rubber, hard rubber, with carbon rubber.
(1) wear rubber: rubber wear resistance and toughness are very good, so very durable, which is usually in tennis shoes, rubber outsole used.
(2) green rubber: recycled materials, also known as rubber, rubber outsole that contains up to 10% of the waste rubber, the main purpose is to protect the environment.
(3) Air Rubber: Rubber contains air, a certain degree of cushioning, but not very wearable, use is not very extensive.
(4) adhesive rubber: rubber adhesive is characterized by flexibility is good, and very non-slip, usually used in indoor sports shoes.
(5) hard rubber: of hard rubber is rubber outsole rubber in the most comprehensive, tough and very wear-resistant non-slip, uses naturally very wide. Multifunctional shoes and basketball shoes are mostly to do with such a rubber outsole.
(6) with carbon rubber: rubber materials in general have added a carbon element, the resilience of the rubber more wear shoes most of the use of such rubber, but also in the running shoe soles will be left after the BRS charge of part of the letter marked to said outsole with carbon rubber used.
3. Rubber outsole play: The large end is not common, this is the end of the raw materials of industrial glue, stirring through the mixer, and then the heating tank into the mold forming, which is characterized by soft and very slippery.
Second. Middlesole:
1. Now the shoes in the end I think I do not say many people will know that PHYLON in the end, the most common and EVA midsole. In fact, in the end the two categories that are part of the same properties (plastic type), but why have a name for the different? PHYLON originated in the United States, the oldest shoes in the end are called PHYLON, no EVA midsole and PHYLON in the end of the points, then continue with the development of footwear products to Taiwan and South Korea, some of the big brand shoes R & D facility for the source, the name of the end points in a more systematic, there is what we are talking EVA midsole. Below I will talk about popular PHYLON EVA midsole and the difference between the bottom. Now in the soles of shoes is the most in the end PHYLON, PHYLON biggest feature is the lightweight, flexible, and has good cushioning, PHYLON called secondary foam. EVA midsole is also very light, but the performance and flexibility in terms of cushioning far smaller than PHYLON in the end, the cost is much lower than PHYLON, EVA foam midsole is called once. The reason they attribute the same, but different names, different performance is the second reason is that PHYLON foam, and EVA is a foam.
(1) a foam: the material into the mold heated at high temperature after forming the shoes in the end, is called a foam in the end, that is, EVA shoes in the end.
(2) secondary foam: the material into the mold, heated to high temperatures by firing the two molding shoes in the end, it is called the secondary foam in the end, that is, we often say PHYLON in the end. PHYLON and softness is controlled by temperature, in the firing process in the end PHYLON higher the temperature, the density of PHYLON burning out of the greater, the more hard. The smaller the natural heat of the more PHYLON burned out light more soft, so the evaluation of shoes in the end not good or bad by weight or measure of the degree of soft and hard.
(3) burned in the end wrapper: wrapper burn in the end is PHYLON in the end, but the designer in order to pursue the overall sense of design and technology with a shoe, the best example is in the bottom of shoes and shoe body with the same kind of fabric, making the shoes, the combination of the whole body and sole, this shoe is a bright spot on the production process. This process is achieved by selecting the fabric wrap is formed of PHYLON in the end, in the mold in the high temperature burning, have become as LB1 we see the texture of the shoe midsole cloth.
2.PU middlesole: In addition to PHYLON midsole and EVA midsole, PU midsole is also very common, PU midsole greatest advantage is the flexibility and toughness is better.
3. The package middlesole: Now a lot of shoes with built-in bottom structures, also called the end of the package. Like the familiar T-MAC series, Nike Air Max series of wind sent the end of the structure belong to the package, the package in the end from the appearance of the outsole and upper of two parts, but the structure is still big at the end, in the end and shoes surface of three parts, but in the end the package in the upper inside.
Third. The sole end and the overall style:
1. Innersole: the end of the package can also be the end of acid form, and the end of the package is different is that the bottom structure is wrapped in a large hysterical at the end of shoe, for example FORCE1, even within the bottom structure, not like to see as the overall appearance of the rubber outsole, in fact, is the inside of the end of the rubber bag with shoes in the end, this is also called the end of MD in the end, an EVA foam is kind.
2. Integral sole:
(1) the most common type is the sole EVA foam molding soles, the cost of this sole end, and the difference between degree and non-slip soles touches the water the same as that put on roller skates . REEBOK is this EVA soles, 3D foam molding of the sole best “spokesperson.”
(2) PU soles Overall: ADI and NIKE to use when this is not a lot of soles, PU soles of the shoes are low-temperature molding. PU is characterized by the end of light, but not wet, getting to the water chemical reaction occurs after a layer of corrosion out.
(3) pure rubber sole: pure rubber soles used for outdoor hiking shoes or work shoes, electrical shoes. The soles of rubber composition of the whole letter, the advantage of wear-resistant anti-skid, too much weight disadvantage. CAT work shoes with the soles is generally, also known as insulated soles.