Sock with pocket and related method

A method for fabricating a pocket in a sock or other item of hosiery, comprising the following steps:

• a. providing a sock having inner and outer walls comprising a knitted tubular fabric closed at one end and designed for enveloping the foot to the lower leg of the use,
• b. arranging said sock such that its inner wall is exterior and its exterior wall is interior;
• c. applying closure means to said fabric forming said inner wall;
• d. making an opening in the fabric of the wall to which said closure means is applied, said opening configured so as to allow communication through said closure means when said closure means is in the open position;
• e. arranging said sock such that its inner wall is interior and its exterior wall is exterior;
• f. folding said upper calf portion and part of said lower calf portion including said opening, forming a fold above said opening such that said opening is juxtaposed to and is located below said fold, and an unfolded lower calf portion forms an inner wall behind said opening, and the folded portion of said calf area forms an outer wall
• g. sewing said inner wall to said outer wall, forming a compartmented area.

A method for fabricating a pocket for pocket-size articles in an item of hosiery, such as, for example, a sock, comprising the following steps:

• (a) folding over the top portion of the hosiery item to form an upper double wall portion in the item of hosiery;
• (b) making a longitudinally extended, slit-like opening in the item of hosiery in the top portion of the hosiery, forming an opening through which pocket size articles can be inserted and removed;
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• (c) securing the two walls of the doubled wall portion of the folded over portion together about and extending away from the opening, forming an enclosed pocket-like chamber within the secured wall area, with the two walls of the secured double wall portion forming the walls of the chamber and the secured areas forming at least the major part of the periphery of the chamber and with the opening allowing access to the chamber for pocket-size articles.

A pocket in a sock or other item of hosiery comprising a knitted tubular fabric having inner and outer walls and closed at one end and designed for enveloping the foot and leg of the user, said pocket comprising:

• an opening in the fabric of the wall to which a closure means is applied, said opening configured so as to allow communication through said closure means when said closure means is in the open position;
• a fold in said fabric above said opening such that said inner wall is juxtaposed said opening;
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• means to sew said inner wall is a predetermined area to said outer wall, forming a compartmented area.