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US 12,127,605 B2Granted
Sock having raised features, a mold assembly and a method of manufacture
OwnerJustin Hadeedinventor
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Abstract
A sock having raised features includes one or more three-dimensional paw pads affixed thereon. More in particular, a plurality of individual three-dimensional paw pads are affixed to a bottom portion of the sock to provide a visual effect of having animal paws, and to further provide a wearer a tactile sensation of having animal paws on the wearer's foot while walking. A mold assembly and a method for the manufacture of a plurality of three-dimensional paw pads to be affixed to a sock includes at least one mold.
Claims5
A sock having raised features to be worn by a person on his or her foot, the sock comprising:
- a sock body including a sock bottom surface having a sock toe portion and an oppositely disposed sock heel portion;
- and
- a plurality of pads affixed to the sock bottom surface at a front area of the sock bottom surface located proximate said sock toe portion, wherein the plurality of pads consists of a three-dimensional, metacarpal paw pad and four three-dimensional, spaced-apart digital paw pads arranged frontward of and spaced-apart from the metacarpal paw pad, the metacarpal paw pad and the four spaced-apart digital paw pads formed separately with respect to one another;
- wherein
- the sock bottom surface includes no further pads in addition to said plurality of pads, and said plurality of pads are arranged to cover a front ball of the foot of the person wearing said sock and provide a visual effect and a tactile sensation representative of an actual animal paw to said person.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.