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  • This invention relates to hosiery, more particularly the heels of hosiery, being specifically shown as applied to shaped, later to be seamed hosiery.
  • the new type of stocking can be produced by making use of prior disclosed variations of full fashioned machine structures. It is suggested that the present disclosure be read in view of the patent relating to split needle beds, an example being U. S. patent to H. L. Weigert No. 780,394; patent drawn to automatic press control, as an example the U. S. patent to J. L. Le Gorre No. 1,782,007, and patent drawn to nibbed knockover bits, an example of which is shown in the U. S. patent toW. Heinitz No. 1,682,965.
  • the first noted patent discloses one means of holding idle and in a raised position the instep group of needles; the second, discloses one means for causing only selected groups or individual needles to be pressed, while the last noted patent is drawn to nibbed knockover bits capable of knocking over and holding down fabric loops as they are formed, independent of the normal fabric take-up.
  • Fig. 1 shows as much of a flat unseamed fashioned stocking blank as is thought necessary to clearly disclose the new heel feature in relation to the known structure.
  • Figs. 2 to 9 show the step by step process of forming the new heels, Fig. 10 showing the new stocking blank joined into a finished stocking.
  • the needles come up in the normal manner, a heel carrier thereafter going into action from the left-hand side (Fig. 2), while at the same 5 time the instep group of needles (:0) Fig. 2 are caused to remain high and inactive during this next course and during the subsequent knitting of the heel.
  • the left-hand 7o carrier will feed yarn which will be kinked between c and b (Fig. 2), no yarn kinking taking place in this course between other needles.
  • the needles then go down, the needles between c and b pressing in the normalmanner, while the 7 needles b-e remain high, with the needles between e--d going down, but being caused to not press by the press control mechanism previously noted.
  • the left-hand carrier now stands opposite the (b) needle and a new right-hand heel carrier is put into action so that in this stroke to the left both the right and left heel carriers lay their yarn over the d-e and 12-0 needles respectively.
  • the (b) or leading needle by preference when producing this next, and if desirable any leading needle of any course, being caused to tuck (not press) by the press control means in order to prevent the possible formation of holes and to strengthen the fabric.
  • the knitting continues back and forth with the two carriers for the c-b and ed needles, the be or adjoining needles by preference tucking upon reversal, with the yarns feeding at each, or some specific number of courses, to a needle outside the (e) or (b) needle position so that successive courses will become shorter, until only a few needles are knitting each heel fabric, as shown in solid lines in Fig. 3, more fabric therefore having been knitted along the selvage edges, while at the (b) and (e) points no additional course has been formed, the additional fabric being shown at (y) Figs. 1 and 3.
  • FIG. 1 the active needles holding the fabric shown in solid lines in Fig. 5 or as shown in Fig. 1, c to b and e' to d.
  • Fig. 1 The courses (I) Fig. 1 are then knitted, leaving idle an increasing number of needles :0 (Fig. 6), lessening at the same time the number of needles in the c"b", e"d” group by narrowing or lifting inward the selvage loops as in nor mal heel narrowing, as shown in Fig. 6, in which the lessened number of loops knitting is shown in solid lines c--b", e"-d", said shorter courses being shown similarly numbered in Fig. 1 the loops on the needles, therefore, being along courses d", e", e, :c', x", b, b", c", Fig. 1.
  • Fig. 1 will now be knitted, the yarn carriers feeding yarn to a lessened number of needles at prearranged courses, thereby increasing the number of :r needles idled (Fig. 7) and also idling needles'from the selvage edges inward, until only one or two or a very few needles are active as shown by the solid lines in Fig. '7, such few needles forming the corner 9' (Fig. 1), the needles then holding their loops along the courses d", g, e", e, 1:, :r", b, b, g", c" (Fig. l) Along the course d"--g', c"g" (Fig.
  • the stocking just described will after seaming have the appearance shown in Fig. 10;
  • the fabric knitted between Fig. 2 and Fig. 3 is the fabric shown at (d);
  • the fabric knitted between Fig. 4 and Fig. 5 is that shown at (e);
  • the fabric knitted between Fig. 5 and Fig. 6 is shown at (f), while the fabric knitted between Fig. 6 and Fig. 7 is that shown at (g),
  • the balance of the stocking except the toe juncture (7) is seamed as is at present customary, an ordinary high splice being shown in dotted lines at (is) Fig. 10.
  • heel herein shown has been described as being produced on a fiat machine, it is not restricted to being so produced, but may well be adapted for use in connection with other well known types of machines, it being remembered that the basic feature of the invention is to knit heel courses, so that their inner terminal edges can later be joined, by continued knitting, with the foot fabric course or courses and in this manner permit the knitting of a more nearly right angle junctured foot and leg fabric than is now possible with any type of stocking except the so-, called two machine knitted cotton full fashioned hosiery, accomplishing this new result at a very much lower cost and with the use of but one machine.
  • the disclosure at the same time clearly indicates how such a very desirable stocking can be formed without manually or otherwise using or transferring the terminal or marginal edges of the heel fabrics to form the setting up or initial course of the foot fabric.
  • a stocking blank comprising a leg portion, a foot portion, and heel flaps comprising each a number of heel flap courses of substantially equal width, the innermost loop of each of certain succeeding courses forming the terminating loop of an adjacent wale outwardly considered, and the outermost loop of each of certain succeeding courses forming the initial loop of an added wale outwardly considered.
  • a stocking blank comprising a leg portion, heel flaps comprising each a number of heel flap courses of substantially equal width, the innermost loop of each of certain succeeding courses forming the terminating loop of the next adjacent wale outwardly considered, and the outermost loop of each of certain succeeding courses forming the initial loop of an added wale outlzi wardly considered, and a foot portion comprising instep courses connected through knitting to said innermost wale terminating loops.
  • a stocking blank comprising a leg portion, heel flaps comprising each a number 01' heel flap courses of substanially equal width, the innermost loop of each of certain succeeding courses forming the terminating loop of the next alfiacent wale outwardly considered, and the outermost loop of each of certain succeeding courses forming the initial loop of an added wale outwardly considered, additional heel flap courses narrowed at their outer ends, certain of said narrowing courses having the innermost loop of each succeeding course forming the terminating loop of the next adjacent wale outwardly considered, and a foot portion comprising instep courses joined by knitting to said innermost wale terminating loops of said heel flap courses.
  • a stocking blank comprising a leg portion, heel flaps comprising each a number of heel flap courses of substantially equal width, the innermost loop of each of certain succeeding courses forming the terminating loop of the next adjacent wale outwardly considered, and the outermost loop of each of certain succeeding courses forming the initial loop of an added wale outwardly considered, additional heel flap courses narrowed at their outer ends, certain of said narrowing courses having the innermost loop of each succeeding course forming the terminating loop of the next adjacent wale outwardly considered, additional heel flap courses, the innermost loop of each of certain succeeding courses forming the terminating loop of the next adjacent wale outwardly considered, and the outermost loop of each of certain succeeding courses forming the terminating loop of the next adjacent wale inwardly considered, ravel courses joined by knitting to said outer wale terminatingloops of said latter group of heel flap courses, and a heel portion having instep courses joined by knitting to said innermost wale terminating loops of said heel flap courses.
  • a stocking blank comprising a leg portion, heel flaps, each of said heel flaps comprising a series of successively shortened and lengthened courses to form a triangular gore adjacent said leg portion, additional heel flap courses of substantially equal width, the innermost loop of each of certain succeeding courses forming the terminating loop of the next adjacent wale outwardly considered, and the outermost loop of each of certain succeeding courses forming the initial loop of an added wale outwardly considered, additional heel flap courses narrowed at their outer ends, certain of said narrowing courses having the innermost loop of each succeeding course forming the terminating loop of the next adjacent wale outwardly considered additional heel flap courses, the innermost loop of each of certain succeeding courses forming the terminating loop of the next adjacent wale outwardly considered, and the outermost loop of each of certain succeeding courses forming the terminating loop of the next adjacent wale inwardly considered, ravel courses joined by knitting to said outer wale terminating loops of said latter group of heel flap courses, and a heel portion

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June 19, 1934. Q MlLLER 1,963,240
HEEL FABRIC AND METHOD OF KNITTING THE SAME Filed NOV. 27. 1931 2 Sheets-Sheet l Hag,
June 19, 1934.
M. C. MILLER HEEL FABRIC AND METHOD OF KNITTING THE SAME Filed Nov. 27, 1931 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 IN VEN TOR.
Patented June 19 1934 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE SAME Max C. Miller, Cumberland, R. I. Application November 27, 1931, Serial No. 577,547
is Claims.
This invention relates to hosiery, more particularly the heels of hosiery, being specifically shown as applied to shaped, later to be seamed hosiery.
The illustrations appended hereto show the new stocking, which by preference-although not necessarily-is produced on so-called full fashioned hosiery machines. These machines ordinarily produce either legs or feet, the legs ordinarily being topped or transferred to the footing machines.
' The present procedure is costly, requires the use of very skilled operators, produces a weak fabric structure and is further objectionable in that the yarn used in the leg portion at the instep cannot be taken from the same yarn cone that later produces the instep portion of the foot, due to two machines being used in the process, each of them having their own yarn cones or spools. The invention herein disclosed will eliminate all these and other objectionable features.
The new type of stocking can be produced by making use of prior disclosed variations of full fashioned machine structures. It is suggested that the present disclosure be read in view of the patent relating to split needle beds, an example being U. S. patent to H. L. Weigert No. 780,394; patent drawn to automatic press control, as an example the U. S. patent to J. L. Le Gorre No. 1,782,007, and patent drawn to nibbed knockover bits, an example of which is shown in the U. S. patent toW. Heinitz No. 1,682,965. The first noted patent discloses one means of holding idle and in a raised position the instep group of needles; the second, discloses one means for causing only selected groups or individual needles to be pressed, while the last noted patent is drawn to nibbed knockover bits capable of knocking over and holding down fabric loops as they are formed, independent of the normal fabric take-up.
Appended to this specification are two sheets of drawings, showing ten figures. Fig. 1 shows as much of a flat unseamed fashioned stocking blank as is thought necessary to clearly disclose the new heel feature in relation to the known structure. Figs. 2 to 9 show the step by step process of forming the new heels, Fig. 10 showing the new stocking blank joined into a finished stocking.
The knitting of the stocking progresses to the instep line aa, Figs. 1 and 2, as in ordinary practice, with the exception that the yarn for knitting the instep portion (a:) Figs. 1 and 2 is made non-active, remaining attached to the fabric, with the yarn eye standing opposite the last instep needle (b) Fig. 2. The last course prior to commencing the knitting of the heels extends from (d) to (b) Fig. 2; any form of individual press control will during the heel knitting permit all of the needles to go down in the normal man-= ner, the needles between eb not having new yarn fed to them by the instep carrier and not 50 losing their loops as the needles go down, for the reason that these needles will not be pressed.
The needles come up in the normal manner, a heel carrier thereafter going into action from the left-hand side (Fig. 2), while at the same 5 time the instep group of needles (:0) Fig. 2 are caused to remain high and inactive during this next course and during the subsequent knitting of the heel.
In the first heel course, therefore, the left-hand 7o carrier will feed yarn which will be kinked between c and b (Fig. 2), no yarn kinking taking place in this course between other needles. The needles then go down, the needles between c and b pressing in the normalmanner, while the 7 needles b-e remain high, with the needles between e--d going down, but being caused to not press by the press control mechanism previously noted. j
The left-hand carrier now stands opposite the (b) needle and a new right-hand heel carrier is put into action so that in this stroke to the left both the right and left heel carriers lay their yarn over the d-e and 12-0 needles respectively. The (b) or leading needle by preference when producing this next, and if desirable any leading needle of any course, being caused to tuck (not press) by the press control means in order to prevent the possible formation of holes and to strengthen the fabric. 9
The knitting continues back and forth with the two carriers for the c-b and ed needles, the be or adjoining needles by preference tucking upon reversal, with the yarns feeding at each, or some specific number of courses, to a needle outside the (e) or (b) needle position so that successive courses will become shorter, until only a few needles are knitting each heel fabric, as shown in solid lines in Fig. 3, more fabric therefore having been knitted along the selvage edges, while at the (b) and (e) points no additional course has been formed, the additional fabric being shown at (y) Figs. 1 and 3.
Thereafter, a course of fabric is formed on these 0-4) and e-d needles, as shown in Fig. 4, and numbers of courses of 0-D, e-d length are knitted at successive intervals to new outwardly disposed needles, as shown in Fig. 5, the successively increased number of idle needles (x') moving up and down in conjunction with the needles c'-b', e'--d'; but not forming loops as no yarn is being fed to them and not casting of! their loops due to their not being pressed. Any'desirable number of courses are so knitted, the inactive needles then being the needles 2', :c', :r", b,
(Fig. 1), the active needles holding the fabric shown in solid lines in Fig. 5 or as shown in Fig. 1, c to b and e' to d.
The courses (I) Fig. 1 are then knitted, leaving idle an increasing number of needles :0 (Fig. 6), lessening at the same time the number of needles in the c"b", e"d" group by narrowing or lifting inward the selvage loops as in nor mal heel narrowing, as shown in Fig. 6, in which the lessened number of loops knitting is shown in solid lines c--b", e"-d", said shorter courses being shown similarly numbered in Fig. 1 the loops on the needles, therefore, being along courses d", e", e, :c', x", b, b", c", Fig. 1.
' The fabric (a) Fig. 1 will now be knitted, the yarn carriers feeding yarn to a lessened number of needles at prearranged courses, thereby increasing the number of :r needles idled (Fig. 7) and also idling needles'from the selvage edges inward, until only one or two or a very few needles are active as shown by the solid lines in Fig. '7, such few needles forming the corner 9' (Fig. 1), the needles then holding their loops along the courses d", g, e", e, 1:, :r", b, b, g", c" (Fig. l) Along the course d"--g', c"g" (Fig. 1) a loose course and thereafter a number of courses of even length are knitted to form the sections of fabric (h) Figs. 1 and 8. It is to be understood that the number of needles between the dimension (to) Fig. '7 and (w) Fig. 8, contain the needles between a, e, e, :r', x", b', b, a". After the (h) fabrics have been knitted to the last course 72. and h", the needles that form these portions cast off the fabric by not having yarn fed to them for one course, as shown in Fig. 9, and thereafter all the needles (w) Fig. 9 are made active and have yarn fed to them, the
(2:) idle needles included, due to the instep yarn which has been, during the knitting of these heel portions, standing idle beside its (1)) needle (Fig. 2), feeding yarn to the (x) needles, while the same yarn carriers that knitted the heel fabrics, or a new set of carriers, if a yarn change is desired, lay yarn from g", b", b to at", another carrier from :r, e, e" to 9' Fig. 1, in this manner knitting the course shown in heavy lines in Fig. 9 and thereafter continuing the knitting of the foot.
The stocking just described will after seaming have the appearance shown in Fig. 10; The fabric knitted between Fig. 2 and Fig. 3 is the fabric shown at (d); the fabric knitted between Fig. 4 and Fig. 5 is that shown at (e); the fabric knitted between Fig. 5 and Fig. 6 is shown at (f), while the fabric knitted between Fig. 6 and Fig. 7 is that shown at (g), the fabric (h) Fig. 1 not having been shown in Fig. 10, as it is only formed to enable another operator to loop the fabric along the loose course d", g, c", 9' (Fig. 1), said looping juncture being shown at (h") in Fig. 10. The balance of the stocking except the toe juncture (7) is seamed as is at present customary, an ordinary high splice being shown in dotted lines at (is) Fig. 10.
While the heel herein shown has been described as being produced on a fiat machine, it is not restricted to being so produced, but may well be adapted for use in connection with other well known types of machines, it being remembered that the basic feature of the invention is to knit heel courses, so that their inner terminal edges can later be joined, by continued knitting, with the foot fabric course or courses and in this manner permit the knitting of a more nearly right angle junctured foot and leg fabric than is now possible with any type of stocking except the so-, called two machine knitted cotton full fashioned hosiery, accomplishing this new result at a very much lower cost and with the use of but one machine. The disclosure at the same time clearly indicates how such a very desirable stocking can be formed without manually or otherwise using or transferring the terminal or marginal edges of the heel fabrics to form the setting up or initial course of the foot fabric.
I do not therefore limit my invention to its application to any particular type of stocking or machine, but what is claimed is:
l. The process of forming the heel portion of a stocking blank which comprises knitted heel flap courses while holding the terminal loops of the wales forming the instep portion of the fabric, discontinuing knitting and holding the terminal loops of successive wales adjacent said instep portion of the fabric during the formation of following heel flap courses, and adding loops successively to the outer ends of following heel flap courses to secure the required width of heel flap fabric.
2. The process of forming the heel portion of a stocking blank which comprises knitting heel flap courses while holding the terminal loops of the wales forming the instep portion of the fabric, discontinuing knitting and holding the terminal loops of successive wales adjacent said instep portion of the fabric during the formation of following heel flap courses, and adding loops successively to the outer ends of following heel flap courses to secure the required width of heel flap fabric, and thereafter knitting courses from the said held wale terminating loops of the instep and the adjacent inner edges of the heel flap fabrics to form the foot portion of the stocking blank.
3. The process of forming the heel portion of a stocking blank which comprises knitting heel flap courses by holding the terminal loops of the wales forming the instep portion of the fabric, discontinuing knitting and holding the terminal loops of successive wales adjacent said instep portion of the fabric during the formation of following heel flap courses, causing additional loops of yarn to be laid over the last held terminal wale loop at certain reverses of the yarn to form tuck stitches, adding loops successively to the outer ends of following heel flap courses to secure the required width of heel flap fabric, and thereafter knitting courses from the said held wale terminating loops of the instep and the adjacent inner edges of the heel flap fabrics to form the foot portion of the stocking blank.
4. The process of forming the heel portion of a stocking blank which comprises knitting heel flap courses while holding the terminal loops of the wales forming the instep portion of the fabric, discontinuing knitting and holding the terminal loops of successive wales adjacent said instep-portion of the fabric during the formation of following heel flap courses, and adding successively a substantially equal number of loops to the outer ends of the heel flap courses to maintain the width of the heel flap fabric.
5. The process of forming the heelportion of a stocking blank which comprises knitting heel flap courses while holding the terminal loops of the wales forming the instep portion of the fabric, knitting a series of successively shortened heel flap courses by discontinuing knitting and holding the terminal loops of successive wales adjacent said instep portion of the fabric, knitting a course the entire width of each of said heel flap fabrics terminating adjacent said instep fabric, and thereafter knitting a number of heel flap courses while discontinuing knitting and holding the terminal loops of successive wales adjacent said instep portion of the fabric during the knitting of said following courses and simultaneously adding loops successively to the outer ends of said courses to secure the'required width of heel flap fabric.
6. The process of forming the heel portion of a stocking blank which comprises knitting heel flap courses while holding the terminal loops of the wales forming the instep portion of the fabric, knitting a series of successively shortened heel flap courses by discontinuing knitting and holding the terminal loops of successive wales adjacent said instep portion of the fabric, knitting a course the entire width of each of said heel flap fabrics terminating adjacent said instep fabric, and thereafter knitting a number of heel flap courses while discontinuing knitting and holding the terminal loops of successive wales adjacent said instep portion of the fabric during the knitting of said following courses and simultaneously adding loops successively to the outer ends of said courses to secure the required width of heel flap fabric, and thereafter knitting courses from the said held wale terminating loops of the instep and the adjacent inner ends of the heel flap fabrics to form the foot portion of the stocking blank.
'7. The process of forming the heel portion of a stocking blank on a series of needles which comprises knitting heel flap courses while maintaining loops on inactive instep needles, adding needles successively to each end of the inactive instep series during the knitting of following heel flap courses, and adding needles successively to the outer ends of the active series to secure the required width of heel flap fabric while maintaining the terminal loops of each wale forming said heel flap fabric on the needle originating said wale.
8. The process of forming the heel portion of a stocking blank on a series of needles which comprises knitting heel flap courses while maintaining loops on inactive instep needles, adding needles successively to each end of the inactive instep series during the knitting of following heel flap courses, causing certain of said successively idled needles to form tuck stitches upon reversal of the feeding yarn, and adding needles successively to the outer ends of the active series to secure the required width of heel flap fabric while maintaining the terminal loops of each wale forming said heel flap fabric on the needle originating said wale.
9. The process of forming the heel portion of a stocking blank on a series of needles, which comprises knitting heel flap courses while maintaining loops on inactive instep needles, adding needles successively to each end of the inactive instep series during the knitting of following heel flap courses, adding successively a substantially equal number of needles to the outer end of the series knitting the heel flap fabric to form heel flap fabric of substantially uniform width while maintaining the terminal loop of each wale forming said heel flap fabric on the needle 'originat; ing said wale.
10. The process of forming the heel portion of a stocking blank on a series of needles which comprises holding the terminal loops of the wales forming the instep fabric on inactive instep needles, knitting a number of courses on each adjacent group of heel flap needles, adding needles successively to the inactive series to form a wedge, knitting on each group of heel flap needles a course the full width of said heel flap fabric, said courses terminating on the' needles adjacent said inactive instep series, adding needles successively to each end of the inactive instep series while retaining terminal loops of successive wales adjacent said instep series, adding needles successively to the outer ends of the active series to maintain the required width of heel fabric for a number of successive courses, knitting an additional number of heel flap courses while adding needles successively to the inactive instep series for successive courses and simultaneously narrowing at the outer selvage edges of said courses, and thereafter knitting courses on the entire series of needles holding terminal wale loops of the instep and inner edges of the heel flap fabric to form the foot portion of the fabric.
11. The process of forming the heel portion of a stocking blank on a series of needles which comprises holding the terminal loops of the wales forming the instep fabric on inactive instep needles, knitting a number of courses on each adjacent group of heel flap needles, adding needles successively to the inactive series to form a wedge, knitting on each group of heel flap needles a course the full width of said heel flap fabric, said courses terminating on the needles adjacent said inactive instep series, adding needles successively to each end of the inactive instep series while retaining terminal loops of successive wales adjacent said instep series, adding needles successively to the outer ends of the active series to maintain the required width of heel fabric for a number of successive courses, knitting an additional number of heel flap courses while adding needles successively to the inactive instep series for successive courses and simultaneously narrowing at the outer selvage edges of said courses, knitting an additional number of heel flap courses rendering needles successively inactive at each end of both active series, knitting a number of ravel courses on a relatively few needles at each end of the entire Series holding terminal wale loops, and thereafter knitting courseson the entire series of needles intervening said ravel course needles to form the foot portion of the fabric.
12. A stocking blank comprising a leg portion, a foot portion, and heel flaps comprising each a number of heel flap courses of substantially equal width, the innermost loop of each of certain succeeding courses forming the terminating loop of an adjacent wale outwardly considered, and the outermost loop of each of certain succeeding courses forming the initial loop of an added wale outwardly considered.
13. A stocking blank comprising a leg portion, heel flaps comprising each a number of heel flap courses of substantially equal width, the innermost loop of each of certain succeeding courses forming the terminating loop of the next adjacent wale outwardly considered, and the outermost loop of each of certain succeeding courses forming the initial loop of an added wale outlzi wardly considered, and a foot portion comprising instep courses connected through knitting to said innermost wale terminating loops.
14. A stocking blank comprising a leg portion, heel flaps comprising each a number 01' heel flap courses of substanially equal width, the innermost loop of each of certain succeeding courses forming the terminating loop of the next alfiacent wale outwardly considered, and the outermost loop of each of certain succeeding courses forming the initial loop of an added wale outwardly considered, additional heel flap courses narrowed at their outer ends, certain of said narrowing courses having the innermost loop of each succeeding course forming the terminating loop of the next adjacent wale outwardly considered, and a foot portion comprising instep courses joined by knitting to said innermost wale terminating loops of said heel flap courses.
15. A stocking blank comprising a leg portion, heel flaps comprising each a number of heel flap courses of substantially equal width, the innermost loop of each of certain succeeding courses forming the terminating loop of the next adjacent wale outwardly considered, and the outermost loop of each of certain succeeding courses forming the initial loop of an added wale outwardly considered, additional heel flap courses narrowed at their outer ends, certain of said narrowing courses having the innermost loop of each succeeding course forming the terminating loop of the next adjacent wale outwardly considered, additional heel flap courses, the innermost loop of each of certain succeeding courses forming the terminating loop of the next adjacent wale outwardly considered, and the outermost loop of each of certain succeeding courses forming the terminating loop of the next adjacent wale inwardly considered, ravel courses joined by knitting to said outer wale terminatingloops of said latter group of heel flap courses, and a heel portion having instep courses joined by knitting to said innermost wale terminating loops of said heel flap courses.
16. A stocking blank comprising a leg portion, heel flaps, each of said heel flaps comprising a series of successively shortened and lengthened courses to form a triangular gore adjacent said leg portion, additional heel flap courses of substantially equal width, the innermost loop of each of certain succeeding courses forming the terminating loop of the next adjacent wale outwardly considered, and the outermost loop of each of certain succeeding courses forming the initial loop of an added wale outwardly considered, additional heel flap courses narrowed at their outer ends, certain of said narrowing courses having the innermost loop of each succeeding course forming the terminating loop of the next adjacent wale outwardly considered additional heel flap courses, the innermost loop of each of certain succeeding courses forming the terminating loop of the next adjacent wale outwardly considered, and the outermost loop of each of certain succeeding courses forming the terminating loop of the next adjacent wale inwardly considered, ravel courses joined by knitting to said outer wale terminating loops of said latter group of heel flap courses, and a heel portion having instep courses joined by knitting to said innermost wale terminating loops of said heel flap courses.
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