US 12,108,810 B2
Article of hosiery
Mario Polegato Moretti, Crocetta del Montello (IT); and Livio Poloni, Caerano di San Marco (IT)
Assigned to GEOX S.p.A., Montebelluna (IT)
Appl. No. 17/429,743
Filed by GEOX S.p.A., Montebelluna (IT)
PCT Filed Mar. 4, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/055617
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 10, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/182556, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 17, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 102019000003537 (IT), filed on Mar. 12, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0117318 A1, Apr. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. A41B 11/02 (2006.01)
CPC A41B 11/02 (2013.01) [A41B 2400/60 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An article of hosiery, comprising:
a plurality of channels with a ridge therebetween, wherein said channels have, at least in part, differentiated width;
one or more portions with high fabric density;
portions and/or a part with different fabric density; and
at least one manifold,
wherein in said one or more portions with high fabric density, the channels have a breadth comprised between 1 mm and 3 mm, and the ridges have a width comprised between 1 mm and 7 mm, and
wherein said at least one manifold has an extension from an upper edge of the article. the manifold:
for a first section, is equal to approximately half of a length of the extension, configured to be oriented predominantly in the direction of a Brannock axis,
for a second section, is equal to approximately 0.15-0.35 times the length of the extension, following an inclined orientation up to a lateral edge of a fourth portion of a first zone,
said first zone configured to correspond substantially to the surface of a sole of a foot, said fourth portion of said first zone configured to correspond substantially to the surface of the metatarsal heads of the foot of the user.