A biomechanical sock
AssigneeFootbalance System Oy
InventorErkki HAKKALA
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Abstract
A sock comprising a foot part made of a textile, wherein the foot part comprises at least one inset integrated with the textile at least partly in a sole of the foot part, said inset providing increased thickness to a thickness of surrounding parts of the textile, wherein at least one inset is located in one or more of the following areas: an area covering at least an innermost metatarsal bone of a wearer; an area covering at least an outermost metatarsal bone of the wearer; an area covering at least in an inner and medial area of a heel bone of the wearer; an area covering at least an outer and lateral part of a heel bone of the wearer.
Claims17
A sock comprising a foot part made of a textile, wherein the foot part comprises at least two wedge-shaped insets integrated with the textile at least partly in a sole of the foot part, said insets providing increased thickness to a thickness of surrounding parts of the textile, wherein at least a first wedge-shaped inset is located in one or more of the following areas:
- an area covering at least an innermost metatarsal bone of a wearer;
- an area covering at least an outermost metatarsal bone of the wearer;
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- at least a second wedge-shaped inset is located in one or more of the following areas
- an area covering at least in an inner and medial area of a heel bone of the wearer;
- an area covering at least an outer and lateral part of a heel bone of the wearer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.