Patent ID: 8230525

Claim:
A sock, particularly for use in sports activities, which comprises a foot part and a shaft, said foot part including a toe area, a heel area, and a step area located between the toe area and the heel area and cushioning in an area of a wearer's Achilles tendon for absorbing frictional and impact stresses without force being applied to the Achilles tendon, and which is formed from at least two elongated, vertically spaced apart cushions, in which a respective, substantially horizontally extending joint ( 25 ) is formed from the material of the heel area between the cushions ( 24 ), the cushions ( 24 ) being constructed and arranged in a bent shape and being bent in the direction of the heel area ( 12 ) and the outermost ends for the cushions ( 24 ) being bent down in the direction of the heel area ( 12 ), into an area which is located under the highest point of the adjacent cushions ( 24 ), the cushions ( 24 ) being of different widths, and the cushion ( 24 ) which is adjacent to the heel having the largest dimensions of all the cushions ( 24 ).