US1640255A - Stocking and sock - Google Patents

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A. M. S. SCHNIEBER STOCKING AND $00K Aug. 23, 1927. 1,640,255

Filed June 18, 1926 v Patented Aug. 23, 1927.

UNITED STATES PATEN OFFICE.

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It is a well-known trouble that and socks, and in particular sportmg hose and workmens stockings, frequently are worn out at the toe and heelwhile the leg 5. is not worn, and in such a case it'has -bee n necessary to refoot such stoclnngs,-wh1ch.1s

i almost as expensive as to buy,newstock1ngs.

. The object of. the present invention is to remedy this trouble by knitting the stocking in such a mannerthat anyone can, without difliculty, fit new foot sections to them, which foot sections could be made at the same tune as the stockings or socks. a

Such loose foot sections may also be manufactured on a wholesale scale and be sold with the respective stockings or separately. The essential feature of the invention consists therein that these loose foot sections are. made with several finishing edges at heel and toe, so that the joining of a new foot section to an old legmay be higher or lower at the calf than if there were only one finishing edge which, normally, should be covered by the edge of the shoe. By the foot section thus provided with several finishing edges the wear will fall below these and theleg of the stocking will be saved,so that the hereinafter described foot sections will allow of successively replacing a number of foot-sections.

The invention is exemplified in the draw- 4 .(shown by dotted lines) on each side of the stocking, commencing somewhat beyond the ankle and terminating a little before the toe. In this connection itmay be stated that a finishing edge maybe made in various manners, the particular formation constituting no particular part of the invention, it being'sufli'cient that the article may be severed along such edge without causing an unravelling of the material while at the same time two of such edgesmay bereadily secured together..

From the lower end ofthe edge m, n a

edge extends from the one side.

across t e' foot to the other side as indicated by the line a, and parallel to this there are a number of furthergedges 6, 0,11. At the upper end of the fimshing edge m, a there are a corresponding number of edges 6, f, g,

h'around the back of the heel.

The loose foot sections 4 are provided with corresponding edges at the toe a, b, c andd, and e, f, g and 'll." at the heel.

When the original foot section 2 of the stocking has been worn out, it maybe cut away along the edges Z-d, mh,

and a loose new section may be sewn in along the thus freed edges. It will be possible, according to requirements, to choose which of the edges a, b, c, d or e, f, g, it respectively, shall be used, sewmg the foot sectlon 111 according to the respective edges, so

that the size of the stocking and the'posrtion of its foot remain the same.

" Whereas it, until now, has been assumed that boththe stockings and the loose footsectlons are provided with several edges a, b, c,'d, e, f, g, h or o b, 0-, d, e, f, g, h, respectively, it is of course not necessarythat both stocking, and foot section are provided them, and it willbe sufficient if the stocking has a suitable number of such edges so as to prevent, each time a ing uniformly spaced and parallel to each other, substantially set forth.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

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