Abstract: The open end of a ladies stocking is in the shape of an inverted V, and an elasticized band is disposed adjacent to the peripheral edge of the open end.

Abstract: An insulating stocking is formed from two pieces of closed-cell neoprene. Each piece is joined to itself along a longitudinal seam; and the pieces are joined to each other along a lateral seam intersecting the longitudinal seams. Two separated 3-way intersections reduce the size and increase the seam strength at the junctures. The closed-cell neoprene has spaced pores formed therethrough and is covered on both surfaces with a moisture permeable fabric to be reversible.

Abstract: A sock which comprises an outer shell made up of an arrangement of non-stretchable fabric combined with a panel or panels of stretch fabric and an inner shell of insulating material. The fabrics are lined with a waterproof, breathable liner, such as Gortex or the like. The inner shell is connected with the outer shell only at the open upper end of each. A "stretch" or elastomeric cuff is connected to the open and serves to hold the sock up on the ankle and to prevent loss of heat or entry of water should the leg be immersed above the ankle.

Abstract: A sock with a pocket in which the fabric of the sock itself is used as the primary material used in the construction of the sock compartment. The present invention contemplates a variety of embodiments, including both horizontal and vertical opening members for the pocket(s), as well as teaching a variety of means of closure, including zippers (FIG. 4), "Velcro" (.TM.) (FIG. 5), buttons (FIG. 6), strings or ribbons (FIG. 7), and the like, or no closure (FIG. 8). The method of the present invention may be used with "off-the-shelf" socks and the like, and comprises essentially the folding over of the cuff of the sock, "sealing" the fold by sewing the folded portion to create a compartment, and providing resealable closure means to enter said compartment via the use of the "Velcro" (.TM.), buttons, zippers, snaps or the like, with a slit (which can be reinforced) being made through the material at the closure means to provide access into the compartment.

Abstract: A selected number of size indicating stripes is formed in a particular location in the socks, such as the cuff. The number of size indicating stripes is selected to indicate the size of the particular sock in which the size indicating stripes are knit so that the size of the particular sock is easily recognizable by the number of size indicating stripes knit therein. The size indicating stripes extend completely around the sock and are knit with circular courses of a particular color of yarn, which color contrasts with the color of the yarn knit in the adjacent areas of the sock.

Abstract: A method for constructing a slipper sock from a sock and a flexible sole is provided. After adhering the sole to the bottom of the sock, the sock is turned inside out and then a stitch is run along the perimeter of the sock sole in order to create a uniform and aesthetically appealing seam along the raw edge of the sole when the slipper sock is turned right side out.

Abstract: An improved sock wherein moisture distribution, wicking, evaporation and other phases of control, as well as stretch and cushioning, are all managed by the sock construction. The toe and heel portions are knit predominately, or entirely, of hydrophilic yarn while the instep portion extending therebetween is knit of hydrophobic yarn so that moisture absorbed from the wearer'foot by the hydrophilic yarn in the toe and heel portions is transferred by wicking action into the hydrophobic yarn in the instep portion to be evaporated therefrom.

Abstract: The invention relates to an ankle support system to protect against ankle injuries. The ankle support system comprises a leg brace mounted to the leg of the wearer and an anchoring strap for attaching the leg brace to a shoe. The anchoring strip comprises a series of eyelets receiving a shoe lace and firmly retaining the anchoring strip to the shoe.

Abstract: An improved athletic sock for preventing lacerations and/or punctures to the legs, particularly of ice hockey players and other athletes. The sock is constructed from woven material which includes aramid and metallic fibers woven into the entire sock or into an insert portion thereof, which covers the unprotected back of the athlete's leg, thus protecting the gastrocnemius muscle and achilles tendon of the wearer.

Abstract: A method for constructing a slipper sock from a sock and a flexible sole is provided. After adhering the sole to the bottom of the sock, the sock is turned inside out and then a stitch is run along the perimeter of the sock sole in order to create a uniform and aesthetically appealing seam along the raw edge of the sole when the slipper sock is turned right side out.

Abstract: A multi-component, waterproof, sock-type article is provided comprising a waterproof, non-elastic, non-stretch sole component having a heel portion and a toe portion, a waterproof, non-elastic, non-stretch calf component, the calf component being attached to and forming a seam with the sole component at the heel portion, a vamp component attached to and forming seams with the sole and calf components, the vamp component comprising a waterproof, breathable, elastic, stretchable material having stretchability of more than 70%, the calf component being tapered inwardly proceeding upwardly from the heel portion of the sole component, all seams in the article being sealed with a waterproof material.

Abstract: A cuff construction having readily accessible coverings for hands, feet and head is provided. The cuff is generally integrally attached to an article of clothing, and folds in on itself for storing the coverings. The cuff is formed at an opening in a garment, such as a glove, sleeve, neck or leg and included a panel along about one half of the circumference of the opening with the two adjacent edges of the panel secured to the cuff. The panel is switchable between a first open position allowing the head, hand or foot to pass through and a second closed position forming a covering around the appendage. The covering may take the form of a glove or mitten, a sock or shoe, or a ski mask or the like. A pocket for ready storage may also be provided.

Abstract: A sock (hosiery) with identification markings includes the sock, a written word description of the color of the sock, and a symbol or symbols. The word description and the symbol are permanently integrated into the sock. The user uses the markings to pair the socks after laundry, to identify the color of the socks in poor light conditions, and to keep original pairs of socks together.

Abstract: A protective, disposable construction for covering an amputee's other limb while taking a cast of that limb for a prosthesis so the amputee's shoes, socks, slacks and proximate clothing do not become splashed with plaster during the cast taking process for maintaining a free and clean condition of the proximate clothing consisting of a pair of generally mirrored panels of material with sides and ends with a protuberance on one side at one end thereof and a stitch member disposed along the one side at the end adjacent the protuberance, the stitch member closing the one side and the end integrally together.

Abstract: A plastic film sleeve is used to facilitate inserting a foot into a boot. The sleeve has an open top to receive the foot and an open bottom from which the toes protrude. After insertion of the foot into the sleeve, the foot is inserted into the boot. When the foot reaches the instep and upper edge of the heel section of the boot, further downward pressure causes the sleeve to tear along a perforated line extending along the rearward side of the sleeve. When the foot is fully into the boot, the sleeve is pulled apart at the tear line at the top and pulled from the boot and discarded.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an article of wearing apparel, which is suitable for controlling body perspiration and eliminating the problems associated therewith.

Abstract: An improved athletic sock particularly intended for soccer incorporates a full leg sock over which is secured another partial sock structure between which the shin guard is nested.

Abstract: A lightweight foot garment which is made from a tubular shaped material to cover a human foot. The tubular shaped material being stretchably tight and snug fitting around the foot. An adhesive is applied to the bottom portion of the tubular shaped material such that the adhesive is soft and sticky-like when first applied then hardening into a gripping or non-skid type of material, thus forming the bottom of the foot garment. Alternatively, a smooth pad or non-skid type of material such as ground rubber or plastic may be applied to the bottom portion of the tubular shaped material, with the adhesive applied to secure the smooth pad or non-skid type of material to the tubular shaped material.

Abstract: The knitted clothing article has a nonfeltable base mesh layer. On the outside surface of said base mesh layer a yarn layer is knitted in a said base mesh and consisting of feltable textile fibres and forming loop pile meshes. Due to the interaction of the inner base mesh layer with the outer plush layer, a climatic zone is built up that, especially in sports clothing, hosiery and health clothing, assures a good moisture removal and an agreeable body temperature.

Abstract: The top of the sock is formed of a welt and then three successive rolled stripe increments formed of stripe yarn of different colors and an elastic yarn which is laid in continuously throughout the length of the top. All three striped increments are connected at about a common location to the upper portion of the body by lock stitches.

Abstract: The present invention relates to athletic garments and, in particular, to tight, form-fitting athletic garment with panels to simultaneously warm preselected small, fragile muscles and tendons and provide ventilation for preselected large, hard-working and heat-generating muscles. In a preferred embodiment, the garment is a runner's tight with relatively open mesh panels covering the quadraceps and calf muscles and tightly knit panels covering the hamstring muscles, the front of the leg, the achilles tendons region and the groin area. The open mesh panels and the knit panels are preferably joined at their adjacent edges by relatively broad, four-needle flat seams which provide a proprioceptive effect.

Abstract: A knit sock, especially for jogging or other athletic activity, has a foot portion consisting of a first inner layer or ply disposed inside a second outer layer or ply. The first ply of the foot portion has an inner surface adapted to contact the skin formed principally of yarns having high frictional characteristics, high thermal conductivity, and low moisture regain (hydrophobic). Its opposed surface is formed principally of yarns having relatively low frictional characteristics. The second ply has an inner surface which has low frictional characteristics and its outer surface is formed of yarns having relatively high frictional characteristics and high moisture regain (hydrophilic). The latter surface may also be formed with terry loops to enhance its shock-absorbing construction as well as to increase its moisture absorbing capacity.

Abstract: Toe closing socks first involves stretching them flat on a carrier, then one of the resulting confronting layers of fabric is effectively held substantially immobile by a fabric-holding device and the other layer is displaced longitudinally relative thereto by a movable displacing means brought into engagement therewith. Maintaining the layers mutually displaced, for example by clamping them to one another, they are conveyed past a sewing machine and seamed. By seaming the layers together while they are mutually displaced, the seam will adopt an overfoot or underfoot position in the finished sock due to readjustment of the fabric and the return of the layers to their normal relaxed relative dispositions.

Abstract: A warm and inexpensive legging is manufactured from a single piece of material. The material is cut into a blank having a generally rectangular leg section and a generally trapezoidal foot section. The leg and foot sections are separated by V-shaped darts in the periphery of the blank, the points of which are joined by a transverse fold line of material. The blank is folded along the fold line until the respective margins of the darts abut, and the margins are sewn to each other. The foot section is folded along a longitudinal fold line, and the edges are sewn together, thereby forming a foot enclosure. The leg section extends up the leg of a wearer. The longitudinal edges of the leg section wrap around the wearer's leg and are loosely joined by adjustable releasable fasteners.

Abstract: The sock has at least a foot portion consisting of a first inner layer or ply disposed within and attached to a second outer layer or ply. The first or inner ply has (a) an inner (next-to-the-foot) surface comprising a plurality of moisture-absorbing fibers such as cotton fibers around which a yarn such as a nylon yarn is spirally wound and also has (b) an outer surface comprising yarns of nylon, for example, having relatively low friction characteristics compared with said inner surface. The second or outer ply, has (a) an inner surface comprising yarns of nylon, for example, which also have relatively low friction characteristics and (b) an outer surface plaited on the yarns of the inner surface comprising a plurality of moisture-absorbing fibers such as cotton around which a yarn such as nylon is spirally wound.

Abstract: Footwear adapted to be inserted within a sneaker or the like, preferably between the sneaker and a conventional sock. The footwear is made of a flexible, light, waterproof material which is breathable so that although moisture cannot enter the inside thereof, vapor can pass therethrough in order to afford a high degree of comfort to the wearer. The insert type footwear is constructed from a single-piece pattern which is seamed in a manner such that none of the seams run adjacent to the sole or heel region of the foot.

Abstract: A program-controlled knitting machine provides a method of knitting circular knit elasticized tubular goods, e.g., compressive stockings, in which the size of the goods and the amount of compression asserted when worn are controlled according to the specific size and needs of the individual using the goods.

Abstract: The high-splice area, heel, instep, sole ring-toe area, and toe of the present sock includes a heavy wool yarn knit in plated relationship with body yarn so that the wool yarn is exposed on the outside of these areas of the sock to provide a soft and fuzzy appearance thereto. The wool yarn also forms inwardly extending terry loops in these areas of the sock to provide a "cushion foot" and good moisture absorbency to the lower portion of the foot of the sock. Elastic yarn is incorporated in spaced-apart wales and floats inside of multiple wales to form mock ribs in the leg and instep while the elastic yarn is incorporated in alternate single wales of alternate single courses and in intervening single wales of intervening single courses of the high-splice area and sole, and ring-toe area to provide stretchability and firm support so that these areas are maintained in close engagement with the lower portion of the foot of the wearer.

Abstract: The present invention comprises an athletic undergarment having trunk and leg portions woven from a sheer, resiliently elastic material and foot portions knit from heavy compressible yarn. The leg portions are permanently secured to the interior of the foot portions by stitching in a manner which maximizes the area of contact between the yarn and the wearer's feet. The resilient elasticity of the sheer trunk and leg portions furnish muscle support and circulatory stimulation for the wearer's legs, while the knit foot portions prevent relative slippage and excessive perspiration build-up between the foot portions and the wearer's shoes.

Abstract: A sock having a pocket supported inside its leg portion. A first vertical slit opening in the sock provides access to the pocket within the sock and that opening is closed by a zipper. The pocket has a corresponding slit opening in one wall and the margins of the slit opening in the pocket are stitched along the margins of the two tracks of the zipper closure at the opposite sides of the slit opening in the sock. That is the only securement of the pocket to the sock, avoiding additional stitching or fastening of the pocket to the leg portion of the sock. The pocket is large enough and wide enough to hold needed objects.

Abstract: This sock is particularly adapted for wear with western type boots and includes an upper leg portion knit with stretchable yarn having wear-resistant characteristics and a lower leg portion knit with nonstretchable yarn having moisture wicking characteristics. Elastic yarn is incorporated in predetermined repeating courses throughout the entire leg and cooperates with the stretchable yarn in the upper leg portion to provide resiliency for firmly supporting the leg of the sock on the leg of the wearer and cooperates with the moisture wicking characteristics of the yarn in the lower leg portion to remove moisture from the leg of the wearer. The upper and lower leg portions are of substantially the same length and are joined together at substantially the medial portion of the enlarged calf area of the leg of the wearer so that the upper edge of the western boot engages the upper wear-resistant portion of the leg of the sock.

Abstract: Elastomeric yarn is incorporated in regularly repeated certain courses throughout the leg and foot portion of the sock. The certain courses in which the elastomeric yarn is incorporated in the foot portion are closer together than the certain courses in which the elastomeric yarn is incorporated in the leg portion so that the density of elastomeric yarn is greater in the foot portion than the density of the elastomeric yarn in the leg portion. The greater density of elastomeric yarn in the foot portion provides a snug fit, provides greater compressive support in the foot portion than in the leg portion, and aids in the stimulation of blood flow from the foot and up the leg of the wearer.

Abstract: A double sock construction comprising inner and outer tubular socks each terminating at one end in a closed toe portion of reduced thickness. The inner and outer socks are joined at their ends opposite their toe portions to form a fold line. The inner sock is shorter than the outer sock, which feature coupled with the reduced thickness of the toe portions, prevents bunching of the toe of the double sock.

Abstract: The present invention comprises an athletic undergarment having trunk and leg portions woven from a sheer, resiliently elastic material and foot portions knit from heavy compressible yarn. The leg portions are permanently secured to the interior of the foot portions in a manner which both maximizes the area of contact between the yarn and the wearer's feet and reduces the tendency of the foot portions to unravel following periods of prolonged usage. The resilient elasticity of the sheer trunk and leg portions furnish muscle support and circulatory stimulation for the wearer's legs, while the knit foot portions prevent relative slippage and excessive perspiration build-up between the foot portions, leg portions and the wearer's shoes.

Abstract: The triple layer fabric extends throughout at least a substantial portion of the foot portion and provides improved cushioning and moisture-absorbing characteristics thereto. The sock can be knit on a conventional hosiery knitting machine with very little modification being required. The inside and outside fabric layers of the foot are knit of hydrophobic yarn and the intermediate layer is knit at least in part of hydrophilic yarn so that moisture from the foot is wicked through the inner layer and into the intermediate layer where the moisture is absorbed and then wicked and evaporated through the outside layer. The triple layer in the foot of the sock maintains the foot of the wearer in a dry condition and provides cushioning for at least the ball and toes of the foot of the wearer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a side piece for spectacle frame, adapted to take a normal position with slight horizontal clearance and a firm holding position in which the curved rear tip is applied against the ear, wherein said side piece is formed by a sheath in which slides a piece which is urged by a spring in the direction of the lens-bearing face and which is normally immobilised by a blade abutting against a fixed socket. A push button enables the piece to be released when desired. The invention is more particularly applicable to the spectacle or sunglasses industry.

Abstract: This sock is provided with an outwardly rolled decorative upper edge (13) which is integrally knit with the sock to provide the appearance of a simulated overedge stitch and is formed on a conventional type of circular hosiery knitting machine without requiring extensive modification. The formation of the simulated shell overedge stitch on the knitting machine eliminates the separate step of sewing on an overedge shell stitch, as has been the prior practice. The decorative upper edge is formed of a substantially inelastic yarn (I), a stretchable yarn (S), and an elastic yarn (E). These three yarns are knit in plated relationship in stitch loops in spaced apart wales (W-1 and W-5) of a plurality of successive courses (C-5 through C-8) with the spaced wales being spaced apart by at least two intervening wales (W-2, W-3 and W-4). The inelastic yarn (I) and the elastic yarn (E) float across the intervening wales while the stretchable yarn (S) forms tucks extending across the intervening wales.

Abstract: A foot covering article adapted to be worn over the bare foot and directly underneath a sock for the purpose of preventing the formation of blisters when engaging in athletic activities and the like. The article is made of a single, porous, non-woven film-fibril sheet of plexifilamentary strands, wherein the sheet is consolidated by a large number of very small point bonds, and includes a plurality of minute perforations extending through the thickness of the sheet. The sheet is formed into a foot enveloping shape comprising a bottom portion which covers the sole of the wearer's foot, side portions extending upwardly from the bottom portion, a heel portion which covers the heel of the wearer's foot, and a front portion which covers at least the forward portion of the top of the wearer's foot.

Abstract: An amusement article used in playing a game includes a sock having a padded tubular enlargement extending beyond the toe thereof. Each player of the game wears at least one of the special socks and the object is to effect extraction of the oppenent's sock by stepping on the padded tubular enlargement.

Abstract: A knee protective sock is disclosed which is particularly designed and useful in skateboarding wherein the sock comprises distinct but integrally knitted foot and calf portion, below knee portion and knee portion. The below knee portion is of a tight strong weave so as to grip the leg, while the knee portion is of thicker, heavier knit than the other portions. All the portions are integrally knitted so as to provide in effect a single continuous one-piece sock. The sock combines the wear, comfort and protective characteristics necessary to a skateboarder readily subject to falling from the skateboard. Further the specific gripping portions of the sock prevent the sock from slipping during skateboard activity.

Abstract: Panty hose is provided with adjacent shaded areas with gradations in shading, in the calf portion, whereby when the panty hose is worn the appearance of the shape of the leg is modified. In one embodiment, legs with heavy calves and thighs are given a slimming appearance, and in another embodiment, skinny, shapeless legs are given a fuller appearance. The shaded areas may be printed directly on the hose by heat transfer paper printing.

Abstract: The present athletic socks are particularly suitable for jogging and running and are provided with shock absorber cushion pads in the heel (11), ball (15), and in the inner portion (16a) of the arch area (16) and being formed by a sufficiently greater amount of yarn being knit in these portions than the amount of yarn knit in the outer portion of the arch (16b). The shock absorber cushion pads protect and cushion the heel, ball and inner portion of the arch of the wearer's foot and reduce the shock normally imparted to the heel, ball and inner portion of the arch of the foot so that normal articulation of the bones in the feet takes place when the wearer is jogging and running. The shock absorber cushion pads are illustrated as being formed by providing a greater density of terry loops in the heel (11), ball (15), and inner portion (16a) of the arch than in the outer portion (16b) of the arch to enhance the cushioning provided in the corresponding portions of each sock.

Abstract: This tube sock is of a medium or dress weight so that the sock may be comfortably worn with dress shoes and includes very long and fine terry loops in the heel and sole area to provide the sock with cushion and comfort characteristics of the type normally provided in heavy weight athletic type socks. The sock is knit on a fine gauge machine of the type normally employed in knitting ladies' sheer hosiery and panty hose, usually provided with 400 needles. The sock is knit on every other or alternative needles so that it contains only 200 wales instead of the normal 400 wales usually contained in ladies' sheer hosiery articles. The terry loops formed in the heel and sole area are formed on dial instruments projected outwardly over an idle needle so that unusually long terry loops are formed of a fine cotton yarn which are three to five times as long as the stitch loops formed of the body yarn. spThis a division of application Ser. No. 939,261, filed Sept. 7, 1978 now U.S. Pat. No. 4,172,370.

Abstract: Athletic type socks worn by persons in sports or other active people are provided with an exterior coating of a mild lubricant. This provides slippage between the socks and the shoes and prevents friction between the socks and the feet. Such eliminates irritation and blisters to the feet during activity.

Abstract: A sock knitted from a yarn of non-feltable textile fibres, e.g. synthetic fibres. Into the sole, heel and toe regions of the sock is knitted a yarn of feltable textile fibres, preferably wool, forming loop pile meshes therein. After knitting, the sock is subjected to a fulling treatment, whereby the fibres of the yarn knitted into the sole, heel and toe regions of the sock are felted, thus forming soft fibrous layers internally as well as externally in these sock regions.The loop pile meshes and the subsequent fulling treatment thereof make the sole, heel and toe regions of the sock soft and pliable. Because the entire sock is knitted from non-feltable yarns, the sock obtains the desired elasticity and good fit. After fulling the loop pile meshes from a tight structure capable of absorbing and distributing perspiration moisture.

Abstract: The present athletic socks are particularly suitable for jogging and running and are provided with shock absorber cushion pads (C) in the inner portions (16a, 36a) of the arch areas (16, 36) and being formed by a sufficiently greater amount of yarn being knit in the inner arch portions (16a, 36a) than the amount of yarn knit in the outer portions of the arch (16b). The shock absorber cushion pads (C) protect and cushion the inner portions of the arches of the wearer's feet and reduce the shock normally imparted to the inner portions of the arches of the feet of the wearer so that normal articulation of the bones in the feet takes place when the wearer is jogging and running. The shock absorber cushion pads (C) are illustrated as being formed by providing a greater density of terry loops in the inner portions of the arch area (16a, 36a) of the socks than in the outer portions of the arch (16b) to enhance the cushioning provided in the inner portions of the arch (16a, 36a) of each sock.

Abstract: A method of knitting a stocking especially adapted for athletic use, and the stocking so produced. The stocking includes a top 3.times.1 mock-rib portion, with spandex being knit in every fourth wale, an ankle and instep portion, a heel portion and a toe portion. The ankle and instep portion has a 1.times.1 mock rib with spandex being knit in every other wale, and with terry loops having a first density formed on the interior of the ankle and instep portion. A heel portion is provided free of spandex and including terry loops of a second density greater than the first density, the second density being obtained by randomly introducing an auxiliary terry yarn through a different yarn finger than that through which the main terry yarn is introduced, in the heel portion. The toe portion is free of mock ribbing and has terry loops formed on the interior thereof having the first density.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing support garments for human extremities, and the garments so produced. A support garment form is cut from a sheet of warp-knit power fabric, the fabric having a lengthwise (machine) dimension of greatest stretch and power, and a filling dimension (the cross-machine direction) in which the stretch is incidental (i.e., about 250%/80% or at least 2/1) and the sheet being orientated during cutting so that the lengthwise dimension of the sheet extends circumferentially in the final garment produced. The edges of the garment formed are seamed to produce the final support garment, the seam extending along the dimension of elongation of the extremity on which the support garment fits.

Abstract: Footwear comprising socks or stockings are woven of a synthetic resin yarn in which activated charcoal is present in powder and small particle form in sufficient quantities to deoderize foot odors that may be present when the socks or stockings are worn.