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US 2008/0156044 A1Published application
Stretchable High Friction Sock
AssigneeToeSox, Inc.
InventorJoe Patterson
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Abstract
A woven sock body having a multitude of high friction dots defining friction buttons arrayed around the bottom thereof.
Claims20
High friction grip sock comprising:
- an elastic knit tube formed with an ankle and foot portion, the foot portion including a sole portion defining toe, ball and heel sections;
- the toe section being formed with five tubes for receipt of the wearer's toes;
- an array of high friction buttons spaced substantially uniformly about and adhered to at least the bottom of the toe ball and heel sections;
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- the foot portion being stretchable to cooperate in fitting over a wearer's foot and the buttons being so sized and arranged as to, when the sections are flexed with articulation of the foot for foot portions to make contact with an underlying floor surface, maintain a plurality of the buttons in contact with the surface to frictionally resist sliding of the foot on the surface.
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A high friction pilates grip sock comprising:
- an elastic woven tube formed with an ankle and heal portion, the foot portion including a sole defining ball and heal sections and the foot portion further including five toe tubes defining the respective bottom walls thereof cooperating to form the sole;
- an array at least 900 high friction buttons spaced substantially uniformly throughout and adhered to the bottom of the sole;
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- the foot portion being stretchable to cooperate the fitting over a wearer's foot and the high friction buttons being so comprised and arranged as to the disposed under the toe ball and heel sections so that when the wearer's weight is applied to any one of such sections, the plurality of the buttons will be in contact with an underlying support surface.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.