Method of making a slipper sock
OwnerFlorence Meltoninventor
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Abstract
An improved slipper sock which conforms to the foot of the wearer is formed as follows: the bottom of the foot portion of a stetchable knitted sock, which is in a stretched condition on a foot form, has temporarily attached to the exposed side thereof a thin and flexible bottom sole by use of dots of adhesive located at the extremities of the heel and toe portions thereof, the knitted sock is then removed from the foot form, and the periphery of the bottom sole is then stitched to the stretched bottom of the foot portion of the knitted sock, this stitching concurrently creating a taper in the thickness of the periphery of the bottom sole.
Claims8
A method of forming a stretchable slipper sock which conforms to the shape of the wearer's foot, said method comprising the following steps:
- (a) placing on a suitably sized foot form a stretchable knitted sock having an upper portion and a foot portion with unitary bottom, such that at least the bottom of the foot portion is stretched to the desired size and shape,
- (b) adhering a suitably sized thin and flexible bottom sole to the bottom of the stretched foot portion of the sock by means of separate adhering means located at the extremities of the heel and toe portions of the bottom sole,
- (c) removing the sock with bottom sole attached thereto from the foot form, and
- (d) stitching together the periphery of the bottom sole to the bottom of the foot portion of the sock while the bottom of the foot portion of the sock is simultaneously stretched to conform to the size of the bottom sole.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.