Patent Application
20240090594
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The disclosure relates to socks and more particularly pertains to a new sock for wearing on a foot while exposing a heel and a front portion of the foot to facilitate cooling of the foot.
The prior art relates to socks with holes for ventilation. The prior art discloses devices which have holes extending into the sock near a toe-end of the sock or on the bottom adjacent to the sole of the foot when the sock is worn. However, the prior art does not disclose a device with a front hole such that a front portion of the foot protrudes therethrough and a heel opening for exposing a heel of the foot therethrough.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a leg tube with an upper opening to an enclosed interior leg space and a foot tube coupled to a lower end of the leg tube and defining an interior foot space in communication with the interior leg space. A distal end of the foot tube with respect to the leg tube defines a front opening to the interior foot space. A heel opening is defined at a juncture of the leg tube and the foot tube. The device is configured to be worn on a foot of a user such that a heel of the foot is exposed through the heel opening and a front portion of the foot extends out of the front opening.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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An upper band 52 is attached to the upper end 16 of the leg tube 12 and is constructed of a resiliently stretchable material. A front rim 54 is attached to and is coextensive with the distal end 30 of the foot tube 24. The front rim 54 has a thickness that is greater than a thickness of the perimeter wall 26 of the foot tube 24 such that the front rim 54 is configured to reinforce the distal end 30 of the foot tube 24. A back rim 56 is attached to and is coextensive with an edge 58 defined by the heel opening 34. The back rim 56 has a thickness that is greater than the thickness of the perimeter wall 26 of the foot tube 24 such that the back rim 56 is configured to reinforce the edge 58.
In use, the sock device 10 is worn on the foot 38 of the user 36. While being worn, the sock device 10 covers and keeps warm the ankle 50 and part of the calf 40 and the shin 42 of the user 36 while exposing the heel 48 and a front portion 60 of the foot 38 of the user 36 such that the heel 48 and the front portion 60 are not kept too warm. This also facilitates the wearing of the sock device 10 for aesthetic purposes without causing the heel 48 and the front portion 60 of the foot 38 to become uncomfortably warm, especially when worn in conjunction with shoes 64 that have a heat-insulating lining 66.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
