Patent ID: 6457332
Filing Date: 2002-10-01
Classification: A41B,A43B,D04B

Abstract:
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.