US1540020A - Sock or half hose - Google Patents

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June 2, 1925.

H. L. KINNE SOCK OR HALF HOSE Filed Oct. 6. 1924 Patented June 2, 1925.

UNITED STATES HARRY LOVELAND KINNE, oF OAK PARK, ILLINOIS.

SOCK O'R HALF HOSE.

Application led October 6, 1924. Serial No. 741,959.

To all 'whom t vmay concern.'

Beit known that I, HARRY LovnLAND KiNNn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oak Park, in the county of Cook and tate of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Socks or Half Hose, of which the following is a specication. v

This invention relates to socks or halfhose such as worn by infants and children.

The ordinary ysock of knitted cotton, lisle, silk, liber, wool, or combination of any or all of such materials will not remain up, despite the springiness or inherent resiliency of knitted material. Consequently, while the ordinary sock or half-hose is commonly provided with a top knitted for the purpose of elastically engaging the childs leg for the purpose of holding the sock up, nevertheless the sock slips down around the childs or infants shoe top and presents an unsightly appearance. Garters have been resorted to for the purpose of overcoming this tendency but unless they are uncomfortably tight, they do not properly hold the sock up on the leg. The object of my invention is to provide a sock or half-hose for infants and children which will have means whereby the leg part thereof will remain up when the sock is worn, present a neat and dressy appearance, have no tendency to settle or slip down over the shoe tops and will obviate the necessity for using garters.

The invention is carried out by providing the sock with a leg in the form of a cuff comprising a plurality of thicknesses, folds, or rolls, the cuff being so constructed that it will firmly, yet comfortably, grasp the leg of the child and will possess a certain stiffness preventing it from fallingor settling aroundthe shoe top, while being offk such height or length that it will serve as a leg part and yet will mot require agarter.

In carrying out the invention, I do not limit the cuff to any number of'thicknesses, rolls, folds, or plies but intend the claim, unless otherwise specified, to cover such a number of rolls, thicknesses, folds, plies, or the like as may be found necessary, according to the size of sock and material of which it is made. Nor is the sock limited to any material as it may be knit from cotton, lisle,

silk, fiber, Wool, or a combination of any or all of said materials.

In practice, the folds of the cuff may occur where there is provided transversely arranged knitted ribs, said ribs being circular and extending crosswise in relation to the vertical ribs of the cuff.

\The provision of the circularly arranged ribs not only defines even folds for the cuff but insures that degree of stiffness in lthe cuit' that prevents the cuff from falling down or sagging and yet the circular ribs being elastic, they do not interfere with the elastic gripping action of the culi".

One embodiment of the invention is set forth hereinafter and disclosed in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1, is a side elevation of the sock i when ready for use; Af

Fig. 2, is a similar view, showing the leg opened out to betterillustrate the circular ribs; and

Fig. 3, is a vertical section through the cuff of the sock, showing the folded thicknesses or plies'l The sock orhalf-hose has the* usual foot 2, it is of about the usual length. 'Ihe leg' may be provided with knitted, circularly arranged ribs 3 which, in the embodimentv shown in the drawings, subdivide the leg intothree sections. It will be understood, however, that the invention is not limited to the use of the ribs 3, Inor to any number of folds, rolls or thicknesses constituting the culi". I

.The leg 2 is preferably provided with vertical or lengthwise extending ribs 4 to afford' the requisite springncss or clinging tendency.

The cuff, asshown in Figs. 1, 3, is of suiicient length to constitute a stocking leg for infants and childrens half-hose'and yet it doesnot sag orA fall down andv atall times presents a neat and dressy appearance, while being comfortable and obviating the neces sity of using garters.

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I am aware that full length stockings haver.

roll the tops of stoekingsover garters but my invent-ion dispenses entirely with the use y of garters and is particularly intended -for terial, or combination of materials, as previously set forth.

I claim: f A sock comprising solely a foot, and an elastic self-retaining cul' located immediately above said loot, the ut being knitted and provided' with longitudinally extending stifening ribs throughout its length, and also provided with spaced, circular-ly, arranged knitted ribs at different heights defining folding regions for the plurality of' overlying sections which compose the cuff.

ture.

HARRY LOVELAND KINNE.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signa-

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