US 11,779,059 B2
Sock with toe anchor
Allison K. Giorgi, Portland, OR (US); Trina Z. Murrietta, Portland, OR (US); and Ronen Yehuda, Portland, OR (US)
Assigned to NIKE, Inc., Beaverton, OR (US)
Filed by NIKE, Inc., Beaverton, OR (US)
Filed on Jun. 29, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/853,330.
Application 17/853,330 is a continuation of application No. 16/704,352, filed on Dec. 5, 2019, granted, now 11,583,009.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/785,891, filed on Dec. 28, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0322755 A1, Oct. 13, 2022
Int. Cl. A41B 11/01 (2006.01); A41B 11/00 (2006.01); D04B 1/26 (2006.01)
CPC A41B 11/01 (2013.01) [A41B 11/002 (2013.01); A41B 11/004 (2013.01); D04B 1/26 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A knit sock having a dorsal portion and a plantar portion, the knit sock comprising:
a tubular body comprising a toe-end opening, a collar forming a perimeter edge around a foot opening of the tubular body, and a plurality of circumferentially extending knit courses; and
a plurality of toe-anchor knit courses integrally knit with the plurality of circumferentially extending knit courses, wherein a first longitudinal knitting direction of each course in the plurality of toe-anchor knit courses is oriented generally perpendicular to a second longitudinal knitting direction of each course in the plurality of circumferentially extending knit courses of the tubular body, wherein the plurality of toe-anchor knit courses divide the toe-end opening into a first toe-end opening and a second toe-end opening, wherein the plurality of toe-anchor knit courses connects the dorsal portion to the plantar portion by extending across the toe-end opening.