Full slip-on lasted shoe construction

Claim 1

A method of manufacturing a shoe comprising: fabricating an upper of flexible, stitchable material, the upper having a toe portion including an open top bottom with a peripheral toe bottom margin; providing a fabric bottom sock portion for enclosing the toe bottom, the sock portion having a front perimeter; stitching the sock portion to the toe portion on an arcuate stitch line to form a shoe sock, the stitch line being spaced from and generally parallel to said toe bottom margin, the stitch line defining a peripheral toe lip member having an inner surface and an outer surface; releasably adhering a bottom heel liner to a heel of a last; inserting the last and the bottom heel liner into the shoe sock; positioning the bottom heel liner inside a heel portion of the shoe sock so as to define a peripheral heel lip member having an inner surface and an outer surface; folding the lip member inwardly over the sock portion and folding the heel lip member over the bottom heel liner; gluing the inner surface of the lip member to the sock portion and to the bottom heel liner; gluing a sole to the outer surface of the lip member, the sock portion and the bottom heel liner; clamping the sole to the shoe sock and bottom heel liner between the last and a plate exterior to the sole; and removing the last.

Claim 2

A method of manufacturing a shoe comprising: fabricating an upper of flexible, stitchable material, the upper having a toe portion including an open top bottom with a peripheral toe bottom margin; providing a fabric bottom sock portion for enclosing the toe bottom, the sock portion having a front perimeter; stitching the sock portion to the toe portion on an arcuate stitch line to form a shoe sock, the stitch line being spaced from and generally parallel to said toe bottom margin, the stitch line defining a peripheral toe lip member having an inner surface and an outer surface; releasably adhering a bottom heel liner to a heel of a last; inserting the last and the bottom heel liner into the shoe sock; positioning the bottom heel liner inside a heel portion of the shoe sock so as to define a peripheral heel lip member having an inner surface and an outer surface; folding the lip member inwardly over the sock portion and folding the heel lip member over the bottom heel liner; gluing the inner surface of the lip member to the sock portion and to the bottom heel liner; gluing a sole to the outer surface of the lip member, the sock portion and the bottom heel liner; clamping the sole to the shoe sock and bottom heel liner between the last and a plate exterior to the sole; and removing the last.