Laminar materials suitable for use in the manufacture of shoes, method of making same and shoe stiffener materials including said laminar materials

摘要

A laminar material suitable for use in the manufacture of shoes comprising an extruded core (10) having laminated thereto on both sides a fiber fabric layer (12), the thermoplastic sheet core (10) comprising a mixture of granulated scrap shoe stiffener material with virgin extrudable thermoplastics material the core including at least 40% by weight of virgin extrudable thermoplastics material. Hot melt adhesive coatings (14) are applied on both sides. The scrap material in the core (10) includes fibrous particles (16). A method of making such a material is also described.