Sock toe construction
AssigneeInterloop Limited
InventorYaser Riaz
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Abstract
A knitted sock includes a specially shaped toe with multiple gores and extra fabric length to cover portions of a wearer's toe digits, permitting the sock to assume a relaxed form with reduction of pressure on or along a wearer's toe digits. A sock toe portion may include left and right side boundaries, a first left side gore proximate to the left side boundary, a second left side gore distanced (e.g., inset) from and non-intersecting with the first left side gore, a first right side gore proximate to the right side boundary, and a second right side gore distanced (e.g., inset) from and non-intersecting with the first right side gore.
Claims23
A sock arranged to receive a foot and toes of a user, the sock comprising a knitted toe portion comprising:
- an upper toe region arranged to contact top surfaces of the user's toes;
- a left side boundary, a right side boundary, a first left side gore proximate to the left side boundary, a second left side gore distanced from and non-intersecting with the first left side gore, a first right side gore proximate to the right side boundary, and a second right side gore distanced from and non-intersecting with the first right side gore;
- wherein the upper toe region is laterally bounded along portions thereof by the first left side gore and the first right side gore,
- wherein a rear boundary of the upper toe region is defined by a lateral edge, seam, gore or gore extension extending from the first left side gore to the first right side gore,
- wherein the upper toe region is further bounded by a front edge, seam, gore, or gore extension extending from the first left side gore to the first right side gore, and
- wherein the knitted toe portion is laterally symmetrical.
A sock arranged to receive a foot and toes of a user, the sock comprising:
- a knitted toe portion including an upper toe region arranged to contact top surfaces of the user's toes;
- a first left side gore;
- a second left side gore inset from, and non-intersecting with, the first left side gore;
- a first right side gore;
- and
- a second right side gore inset from, and non-intersecting with, the first right side gore;
- wherein the upper toe region is laterally bounded along portions thereof between the first left side gore and the first right side gore,
- wherein the knitted toe portion is laterally symmetrical.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.