Shoe Outsole Tooling: A factory photo tour
This is what shoe outsole tooling looks like at the shoe factory.
Pins to align the mold
An outsole mold packed with uncured rubber
The Green coating is Teflon
This shape makes a rubber egg crate in the shoe sole
Outsole mold with locater pins
Outsole mold with tread detail
A size run of shoe outsole tooling stacked, waiting for orders
Outsole Tooling sidewall
El molde de la suela
empty mold
Outsole mold
The top surface of the mold is the parting line
The mold surface is made square to fit into the hot press molding machine
Assembled mold waits for pick up
A high heel rubber outsole mold is hand finished
How to make shoe sole molds
Footwear mold parts rough cut
The shoe mold is being cleaned up by hand
El molde de la suela se parece a un molde para gofres.
Adjusting the top net with a metal grinder, the outsole and midsoles must fit together tight.
After test pressing the rubber outsole mold will be adjusted
Shoe outsole mold factory
