Improvements in Stockings, Socks, or the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Feb., 1893
Complete Specification Left. 13th Nov., 1893-Accepted, 16th Dec., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stockings, Socks, or the like.
I ARTHUR SEPTIMUS MILWARD, of 80, Haxby Road, York, Gentleman, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in stockings, socks or the like and has
for its object to so form the toe-parts of such articles, as to allow free action of
the toes of the wearer and prevent them becoming contorted and deformed through
undue pressure on any part of same, and also to obviate the irritation of the skin
by the contact of the toes one with another, and so check the formation of corns
or other painful excrescences produced thereby.
According to my invention I form the front or toe-part of a stocking, sock or
the like, with cells or stalls for the reception of each individual toe.
These cells or stalls are formed, by knitting or otherwise producing, partitions
inside the foot of the stocking or the like, and not by forming each cell or stall
partly separated from each other as are the fingers of a glove.
By my arrangement of the cells or stalls as above described, the toes of the
wearer are prevented from coming in contact, one with another, while at the same
time the outer surface of the stocking or sock presents the usual appearance.
Dated this 11th day of February 1893.
HUGHES, SON & Co.,
38, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stockings, Socks, or the like.
I ARTHUR SEPTIMUS MILWARD of 80 Haxby Road, York Gentleman, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
My invention relates to improvements in stockings socks and the like, and has
for its object to so form the toe parts of such articles, as to allow free action of
the toes of the wearers and prevent them becoming contorted and deformed
through undue pressure upon any part of same, and also to obviate the irritation
of the skin caused by the contact of the toes one with another and so prevent the
formation of corns or other painful excrescences hitherto produced thereby.
And in order that the said invention may be the more readily understood, I have
shewn same upon the accompanying drawings wherein :-
Fig. 1 is an underside view of the foot of a sock or the like, whilst―
Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a sock, a portion of the toe part being cut away
for convenience in shewing the invention.
a is a sock formed in the usual manner as regards the upper and heel parts, the
toe part having formed by knitting or otherwise in the interior of same, four
partitions b, extending longitudinally from the front of the sock, for instance, to
a distance rearwardly, represented by the length of the human toe.
These said partitions 6 form in conjunction with the tread a' and the upper part
of the sock, stocking or the like, five cells or stalls, into which the toes of the
wearer are inserted.
I wish it to be distinctly understood, that the cells or stalls are produced by:
forming or placing partitions inside the toe part of the sock, stocking or the like,

page_text: and not by forming each cell or stall totally separated from each other their length,
as are the fingers of a glove.
As will be readily seen, by my arrangement of the cells or stalls, the toes of the
wearer are prevented from coming in contact, one with another, whilst at the same
time the outer surface of the stocking, or sock, or the like presents the usual
appearance.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
In a stocking, sock or the like, the cells or stalls formed by interiorally formed
or placed partitions, substantially as herein before described and shewn and for
the purpose set forth.
.
T
HUGHES, SON & Co.,
38, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.