Grading (shoe)

With grading is defined as the activity, be prepared with the starting of a pattern strips or patterns shoe more (shoe) sizes, i.e., a zoom in or out of the pattern.

From a technical point of view, grading means the division, stepping or increasing of the last, shoe parts or shoe part templates according to the shoe length and shoe width assortments according to degree or the setting figures calculated and proportionally determined with pantographs and recorded in tables. According to a basic construction, grading machines produce grading templates, which serve as the basis for the measurement templates for the manufacture of shoe parts. Each gradation requires the calculation of special setting numbers, because the length, width and circumference measurements to be determined are not proportional to the entire range of shoe lengths.

Web links

Testing and Research Institute Pirmasens e. V .: Grading rules. on pfi-germany.de, p. 7.

Individual evidence

↑ Pattern designer - job characteristics. In: AMS vocational lexicon - area middle / high schools. on berufslexikon.at, accessed on February 14, 2015.
↑ Erne Maier, Maren Killmann: The strips - production. In: Children's feet and children's shoes. Development of children's legs and feet and their requirements for foot-friendly shoes. (= Padiatrische Praxis. 66, Part 1, 2005) Neuer Merkur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-929-36085-3 , p. 115.

[1] Pattern designer - job characteristics. In: AMS vocational lexicon - area middle / high schools. on berufslexikon.at, accessed on February 14, 2015.

[2] Erne Maier, Maren Killmann: The strips - production. In: Children's feet and children's shoes. Development of children's legs and feet and their requirements for foot-friendly shoes. (= Padiatrische Praxis. 66, Part 1, 2005) Neuer Merkur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-929-36085-3 , p. 115.