JP2003119601A - Socks - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide socks comfortably covering the heel with a knitted fabric, and prevented from sliding down while a wearer exercises so as not to cause such a trouble that the socks sliding down into shoes stay as it is. SOLUTION: The socks each has a heel-part knitted fabric comprising a width-reduced knitted fabric and a width-increased knitted fabric respectively knitted through the reciprocating rotation of a cylinder and integrated with each other at the end of each knitting course; wherein the knitting start course of the width-reduced knitted fabric and the knitting end course of the width- increased knitted fabric are formed through the cylinder's rotation of exceeding 180 deg., and a knitted fabric is additionally formed between the courses formed through the cylinder's rotation of 180 deg..

Description

Description: BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0001] The present invention relates to socks. 2. Description of the Related Art When performing exercise such as tennis or golf, a short sock 1 up to an ankle as shown in FIG. 2 is often used for the purpose of protecting or cushioning a foot. Many of these socks 1 were relatively thick, and they were slightly slipped off due to intense exercise, causing accumulation in the shoes worn by the fabric and causing discomfort. Various means have been conceived to prevent slippage in response to this, and one of them is as follows.
That is, a ball-shaped small spherical body 4 is attached to the upper part of the heel part 2 of the sock 1 and the rear lower part of the mouth knitting part 3, and when the small spherical body 4 is put on shoes, the heel wall (not shown) of the shoe is formed. The sock 1 is prevented from slipping into the inside of a shoe (not shown) even when the sock 1 moves on the upper edge. Normally, a heel pocket 5 is formed in the heel portion 2 of the sock 1 and the heel portion of the foot is wrapped by the bulge of the heel pocket 5. The heel pocket 5 is knitted as follows. The knitting of the sock 1 is started from the upper perforated portion, that is, the mouth knitting portion 3, by the rotation of the circular knit sock knitting machine cylinder. Half of the knitting needles for knitting the part are paused, and the remaining half of the needles are used to reciprocate the circular knitting machine cylinder to knit the latter half of the sock. At this time, when the needle at the knitting position is reduced one by one for each stroke of the cylinder, a knitted width-reduced knitted fabric 7 of a trapezoidal shape having a reduced knitting width is knitted and reduced to a predetermined knitting width. A trapezoidal knitted width increasing knitted fabric 8 having an increased knitting width is formed by increasing the number of needles at the reciprocating ends.
At this time, the loop at the end of the course constituting the knitted width-reduced knitted fabric 7 and the loop at the end of the course constituting the knitted width-increasing knitted fabric 8 are knitted and integrated to form the two trapezoidal knitted fabrics 7. , 8
The bag-shaped heel portion 2 in which the hypotenuses are bound is made. The portion where the hypotenuses of the two trapezoidal knitted fabrics formed at the time of the above knitting are integrated is called a gore line 9, and is usually a longitudinal centerline passing through the mouth knitting portion 3 of the sock 1 shown in a side view in FIG. 2. V-
V line and the horizontal center line H- passing from the toe portion 10 to the heel portion 2
A line extending 45 ° downward from the intersection C of the H line is formed. [0005] There is also used one in which the area of the heel knitted fabric is further increased by forming the gore line 9 in a Y-shape as described above. However, in the sock 1 of the gore line 9 extending rearward and downward (in the side view) from the point C due to the cylinder half-rotation described above, when a thick knitted fabric is used, the knitted fabric area of the heel portion 2 causes a feeling of shortage, Gore line is Y
In the case of socks generated in the shape of a letter, there is a point where the knitting efficiency is not satisfactory. [0006] In view of the above, the socks of the present invention improve the wrapping of the heel with the knitted fabric, prevent the socks from slipping off during exercise, and improve the socks. An object of the present invention is to obtain a sock that does not cause a situation in which the sock slips and falls. [0007] The knitting width is reduced in a heel knitted fabric composed of a knitted width reduced knitted fabric knitted by reciprocating rotation of a cylinder and integrated at a course end and a knitted width increased knitted fabric. The knitting of the knitting start course of the knitted fabric and the knitting end course of the knitted width increasing knitted fabric are knitted by the rotation of the cylinder exceeding 180 °, and are increased between the course knitted by the rotation of the cylinder by 180 °. Knitted fabric. FIG. 1A shows an embodiment in which the present invention is applied to a sneaker sock. FIG. 1B is a schematic view of the cylinder C of the circular knitting machine viewed from above. The illustration of the needle is omitted. The knitting of the socks 11 is started from the mouth knitting portion 12 with a circular knit sock machine. The mouth knitting portion 12 has a stretchable structure in which elastic yarn is knitted in a rubber knitting structure or the like, and the body knitting portion 13 has a flat knitting structure, and the cylinder C shown in FIG. The knitted fabric W is knitted annularly with a needle.
Next, the process proceeds to knitting of the heel portion 14 following the body knitting portion 13. The knitting of the heel portion 14 is performed by stopping a part of the needles and reciprocally rotating the cylinder C shown in FIG. 1B using the remaining needles. In the first course knitting of the heel part 14, from the point a in the range of 180 ° or more of the cylinder C, b,
The knitted fabric is knitted in a C-shape with needles through point c to point d. That is, knitting of the heel portion 14 is started with a wale number of about 3/4 of the wale number of the annular body knitting portion 13. At the time of the subsequent reversal, one needle is reduced between the points a and d. At the time of the subsequent forward rotation, the number of the needles is further reduced, and thereafter the knitting width of the course to be knitted is gradually reduced. The width is bc. By this knitting, a knitted fabric 15 with a reduced trapezoidal knitting width is produced as a whole in which the knitting width is gradually reduced. Next, a knitted width increasing knitted fabric 16 following the knitting width reduced knitted fabric 15 is formed. At the time of knitting of the first course of the knitting width increasing knitted fabric 16 after the knitting of the final course of the knitting width decreasing knitted fabric 15 is completed, one needle is added to the course between b and c, and the forward rotation and return of the cylinder C are started. The knitting width is increased by increasing the number of needles at the knitting positions one by one in the reverse of the knitting width knitted fabric 15 for each rotation, and the loop at the course end of the knitted width increasing knitted fabric 15 has a knitting width of The reduced knitted fabric 14 is engaged with the loop at the end of the course to form an integral knitted fabric Z, and has a bag shape. Subsequently, the side portions 7 are continuously knitted in a tubular shape with all the needles in the operating position. That is, when viewed from the rotation angle of the cylinder C, the maximum reciprocating rotation angle of the cylinder C in the conventional knitting machine is the rotation a
When the knitting by 180 ° reciprocating rotation is completed within the range of 180 ° from '′ to b ′, then the continuous 360 °
In contrast to the knitting of the foot portion 17 by rotation, in the method of the present invention, the rotation angles between aa 'and bb' are increased. Therefore, the number of needles for knitting the heel part naturally increases, and the number of courses and wells of the knitted fabric constituting the heel part also increases. As a result, the area of the heel part 14 also increases. The knitted fabric course of the heel portion 14 increased by the above knitting is in the range of x and y in FIG. 1A. Since the knitted fabric in this range is larger than the knitted fabric constituting the heel portion of the conventional socks, there is a margin for swelling of the heel portion, and the portion wraps the heel of the foot completely during use. Further, since the knitted fabric has room, even if a force for tensioning the knitted fabric is applied during use, the force is absorbed and the knitted fabric of the heel portion 14 does not shift toward the foot portion 17. In the illustrated example, the sneaker socks are described. However, the structure and operation of the heel are the same in long socks, men's short socks, over knee length, and the like. Since the sock of the present invention has the above-described structure, the maximum width of the course at the beginning and end of knitting of the heel pocket constituting the heel portion 14 is increased, and Since the number of courses can be increased, the area of the knitted fabric constituting the heel portion 14 is increased, and the knitted fabric wraps the heel with a margin, and the knitted fabric has room. Even when a force that tensions the knitted fabric is applied, the knitted fabric at the heel portion absorbs the force and does not degrade the wearing comfort such that the knitted fabric slips toward the foot portion 17 in the shoe.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1A is a side view of the sock of the present invention, and FIG. 1B is a plan view for explaining reciprocation of a knitting machine cylinder when knitting the sock of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a side view of a conventional sock. [Description of Signs] 11 Sneaker socks 12 Knitting portion 13 Body knitting portion 14 Heel portion 15 Knitting width decreasing knitted fabric 16 Knitting width increasing knitted fabric 17 Foot

Claims (1)

[Claim 1] In a heel knitted fabric comprising a knitted width reduced knitted fabric knitted by reciprocating rotation of a cylinder and integrated at a course end and a knitted width increased knitted fabric, a knitted width reduced knitted fabric is provided. The knitting of the knitting start course of the ground and the knitting end course of the knitting width increased knitted fabric are increased between the course knitted by the rotation of the cylinder exceeding 180 ° and knitted by the rotation of the cylinder by 180 °. Socks characterized by knitted fabric.