Footwear garment, method of manufacture and knitting machine
OwnerOreste Schiavelloinventor
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Abstract
A sock type garment adapted for wearing on a wearer foot including a sole (3), partial upper foot (5), a heel (8, 9) and a toe (11, 12) wherein said heel and toe are shaped to assist accommodation of the respective parts of the wearers foot characterised in that an opening (4) for insertion of the wearers foot is provided intermediate of said heel and toe in the region of the partial upper foot.
Claims19
A sock type garment adapted for wearing on a wearer's foot including a sole, a partial upper foot, a heel and a toe wherein said heel and toe are shaped to assist accommodation of corresponding parts of the wearer's foot respectively, characterized in that an opening for insertion of the wearer's foot is provided intermediate of said heel and toe and wherein said garment is formed in one seamless knitted continuum to form one piece, and wherein said heel includes a heel one section formed by a picking up stitching and a heel two section formed by alternate picking up and picking down stitch with heel one and heel two sections being seamlessly and continuously joined and separated by a picking line so formed and a toe two section formed by alternate pick up and pick down stitching and a toe one section formed by pick up stitching with toe two and one sections being seamlessly and continuously joined and separated by a picking line so formed and both heel and toe seamlessly and continuously joined to said sole region.
A sock type garment adapted for wearing on a wearer's foot including a sole, a partial upper foot, a heel and a toe wherein said heel and toe are shaped to assist accommodation of corresponding parts of the wearer's foot respectively characterized in that an opening for insertion of the wearer's foot is provided intermediate of said heel and toe, wherein said garment is formed in one seamless knitted continuum to form one piece, and wherein said opening has an elastic means fitted to said heel top and toe top region, and wherein said elastic means is knitted integrally with said garment, and wherein said elastic means is formed across the top regions of said toe and heel and tapers away along said partial upper foot.
A method of manufacturing a sock type garment adapted for wearing on a wearer's foot including a sole, a partial upper foot, a heel and a toe wherein said heel and toe are shaped to assist accommodation of corresponding parts of the wearer's foot respectively characterized in that an opening for insertion of the wearer's foot is provided intermediate of said heel and toe, wherein said garment is formed in one seamless knitted continuum to form one piece, and wherein said heel includes a heel one section formed by a picking up stitching and a heel two section formed by alternate picking up and picking down stitch with heel one and heel two sections being seamlessly and continuously joined and separated by a picking line so formed and a toe two section formed by alternate pick up and pick down stitching and a toe one section formed by pick up stitching with toe two and one sections being seamlessly and continuously joined and separated by a picking line so formed and both heel and toe seamlessly and continuously joined to said sole region, and including the use of a knitting machine to form the heel region of said garment beginning with the formation of the heel one section by pick up stitching then transferring to heel two section by alternate pick up and pick down stitching, the sole and upper partial foot one then formed continuous with said heel region followed by the formation of the toe two section by pick up and pick down stitching then transferring to toe one section by pick up stitching only.
A knitting machine including a rotatable cylinder having mounted a series of closely spaced needles located in annular slots, said machine being provided with needle knitting cams and at least one back picker for placing selected needles into memory, at least one front picker for returning needles from memory characterized in having cancellation means to selectively cancel the function of said back picker and said front picker within a cycle.
A knitting machine including a rotatable cylinder having mounted a series of closely spaced needles located in annular slots, said machine being provided with needle knitting cams and at least one back picker for placing selected needles into memory, at least one front picker for returning needles from memory characterized in having cancellation means to selectively cancel the function of said back picker or said front picker within a cycle.
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