Textiles: knitting – Fabrics or articles – Articles
Patent
1995-01-12
1996-10-01
Calvert, John J.
Textiles: knitting
Fabrics or articles
Articles
66178R, 2239, D04B 126, A41B 1102
Patent
active
055602266
ABSTRACT:
A foot protector in combination with hosiery, such as high fashion women's hosiery, is provided to be worn on a foot of a wearer. The foot protector is designed and constructed to provide cushioning comfort to a ball portion, i.e., bottom or planar areas thereof, of a wearer's foot to concentrate cushioning to where most needed. The foot protector preferably is a knit footlet having integrally knit thickened cushion areas provided only in ball portion areas thereof, whereby other areas of the footlet are not thickened to such an amount as to make a shoe feel undersized and tight on a wearer's foot. The knit thickened cushion areas have terry loops integrally knit only in a ball portion of the footlet and are so constructed as to underlie only a corresponding ball portion of a wearer's foot. A method of forming a foot protector arranged to be positioned over a wearer's foot is also provided which includes knitting at least one body yarn to form at least heel, arch, ball and toe portions and define a footlet and integrally knitting terry loops with the one body yarn only in the ball portion of the footlet. A method of wearing a foot protector over a wearer's foot and underneath other hosiery is further provided and includes positioning knit thickened cushion areas of terry loops integrally knit only in ball portion areas of a footlet so as to underlie and intimately contact only a ball portion of a wearer's foot.
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