FOOT-COVERING GARMENT, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SUCH FOOT-COVERING GARMENT AND CIRCULAR MACHINE FOR KNITWEAR OR HOSIERY Russian patent published in 2019 - IPC D04B1/26 

FIELD: textile.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to a foot-covering garment made of knitted courses, comprising a heel portion, a toe portion, a middle portion located between the heel portion and the toe portion, and an opening between said heel portion, said middle portion and said toe portion for the insertion of a user's foot, wherein the toe portion and the heel portion are aligned along a longitudinal direction, and wherein at said opening the middle portion ends with a right side edge and a left side edge, the garment being seamlessly knitted as a whole, wherein at least one or both the right and left side edges comprise at least one elastic portion made up by a plurality of stretch stitches located at an end of knitted courses, which stretch stitches are composed of at least one main thread of the foot-covering garment knitted with at least one elastic thread, wherein the elastic thread extends with no interruption in said at least one elastic portion, in that it is not cut at each knitted course of said at least one elastic portion.

EFFECT: technical result consists in ensuring the manufacture of a foot-covering garment without performing additional operations outside the circular knitting machine.

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