EP1776879A2 - Atmungsaktive Socke - Google Patents

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EP1776879A2
EP1776879A2 EP06300713A EP06300713A EP1776879A2 EP 1776879 A2 EP1776879 A2 EP 1776879A2 EP 06300713 A EP06300713 A EP 06300713A EP 06300713 A EP06300713 A EP 06300713A EP 1776879 A2 EP1776879 A2 EP 1776879A2
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Giuseppe Schilliro
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    • DTEXTILES; PAPER
    • D04BRAIDING; LACE-MAKING; KNITTING; TRIMMINGS; NON-WOVEN FABRICS
    • D04BKNITTING
    • D04B1/00Weft knitting processes for the production of fabrics or articles not dependent on the use of particular machines; Fabrics or articles defined by such processes
    • D04B1/22Weft knitting processes for the production of fabrics or articles not dependent on the use of particular machines; Fabrics or articles defined by such processes specially adapted for knitting goods of particular configuration
    • D04B1/24Weft knitting processes for the production of fabrics or articles not dependent on the use of particular machines; Fabrics or articles defined by such processes specially adapted for knitting goods of particular configuration wearing apparel
    • D04B1/26Weft knitting processes for the production of fabrics or articles not dependent on the use of particular machines; Fabrics or articles defined by such processes specially adapted for knitting goods of particular configuration wearing apparel stockings
    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A41WEARING APPAREL
    • A41BSHIRTS; UNDERWEAR; BABY LINEN; HANDKERCHIEFS
    • A41B11/00Hosiery; Panti-hose
    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A41WEARING APPAREL
    • A41BSHIRTS; UNDERWEAR; BABY LINEN; HANDKERCHIEFS
    • A41B2400/00Functions or special features of shirts, underwear, baby linen or handkerchiefs not provided for in other groups of this subclass
    • A41B2400/20Air permeability; Ventilation
    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A41WEARING APPAREL
    • A41BSHIRTS; UNDERWEAR; BABY LINEN; HANDKERCHIEFS
    • A41B2400/00Functions or special features of shirts, underwear, baby linen or handkerchiefs not provided for in other groups of this subclass
    • A41B2400/60Moisture handling or wicking function

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  • the present invention relates to a breathable / ventilated knit sock having areas with increased permeability to promote the passage of air.
  • the document US 5,319,807 BRIER describes a sock for managing moisture by creating a foot environment.
  • the moisture is evacuated by a multilayer structure of a portion of the sock.
  • This multilayer structure has a wicking or capillary effect so as to evacuate the moisture from the sweat zones to evaporation zones.
  • the document US 6,341,505 DAHLGREN relates to a sock knitted with hydrophilic threads and hydrophobic threads, so as to transfer the moisture released at the foot by a wicking or capillary effect.
  • One of the peculiarities of this sock is to create a separation between the front and the back of the sock by knitted rings in hydrophobic threads; these rings surround the soles of the feet and the instep.
  • the principle of this known solution is to first absorb or dry the skin locally with the hydrophilic yarn and then to remove moisture from the hydrophilic knitting zone by hydrophobic yarn to a place where evaporation can be easily done .
  • the rings of the tubular zone have the function of extracting moisture from the part of the toes and then migrating it to an evaporation zone on the outside of the shoe.
  • the main purpose of adding the hydrophobic material is to increase the wicking effect and, on the outside, the shoe promotes evaporation.
  • this solution has the disadvantage of migrating moisture through the sock virtually from the tip of the sock to the other end thereof.
  • the efficiency of this mode of moisture evacuation is relatively difficult to optimize because this efficiency depends on the ratio between the hydrophobic fibers and the hydrophilic fibers.
  • the document EP 1 275 761 KUNERT-WERKE GmbH describes a particular sock sport and walking with ventilation channels 50, 80 on the underside and the top of the sock. These channels on the top are slightly angled transverse channels and the channels on the top are distributed on the side along the line of junction between the reinforced part 10 of the sock and its corresponding functional area 7 above.
  • This document is mainly concerned with the nature of the yarns used for knitting, a base yarn 6 which is mixed with a reinforcement thread 11 in the reinforcement zone 10 while in the functional zone 7, the air passages 50 are near the separation line 9 with the reinforced zone 10 in a strip-shaped zone 60, starting from the separation line 9 near the tip 4, and up along the sock to its collar 2. thus provided a number of parallel lines of air channels 50.
  • the channels of the reinforced zone 80 reach the level of this band 60 of the air channels 50.
  • transverse or quasi-transverse channels occupying substantially the entire surface of the sole of the sock create fragile lines. These lines directed transversely with respect to the direction in which the efforts are exerted when putting on or pulling the sock or shoeing or unhooking a shoe, must transmit these tensile forces which may be important.
  • the knitting of a sock obviously withstands these efforts, but the weakened transverse lines practically constitute lines of rupture primer. These transverse lines are also solicited by the movements of the foot inside the shoe that exert on the mesh of these air channels, significant efforts that deform and wear them.
  • transverse lines breaking the continuity of the sole of the sock promote the formation of transverse folds under the sole of the foot which create a significant comfort discomfort.
  • this sock intended to create an effect of air pumping on the sole but not the toes that remain confined in the tip of the sock.
  • the present invention aims to develop an airy or breathable sock knit, allowing particularly effective ventilation without reducing the comfort of the sock.
  • the sock according to the invention has permeable zones of ventilation at the locations most stressed by perspiration and which do not require special mechanical protection of the foot relative to the shoe.
  • the aeration zones do not weaken the sock either mechanically exhibits almost the same resistance as a conventional sock without ventilation zones according to the invention.
  • the sock does not reduce the comfort at the level of the support of the soles of the feet in the shoe or other highly stressed contact areas such as toes.
  • transverse zones of aeration at the base of the toes that is to say at the birth of the phalangettes, benefit from the clearance naturally existing at this location of the foot and the volume of moist air that can occur. accumulate at this location.
  • the two transverse zones of the top and the bottom of the sock can not thus create a chimney effect ensuring a particularly effective aeration in this generally confined place of the shoe.
  • the aeration window of the bottom of the soles of the feet creates a very permeable zone favoring the exchange of air between the inside of the sock and the outside at the level of the arch.
  • This suction effect also pumps the air of the soles of the feet and creates an effect of air circulation evacuating the hot air and possibly charged with moisture, outside the sock in the interval between the sock and the shoe avoiding that this air comes back inside the sock.
  • the realization of the ventilated and breathable sock according to the invention does not present any significant modifications of the manufacture since the aeration zones of the top and the bottom of the sock at the level of the base of the toes, the zona d'aération on the The instep and ventilation window at the level of the arch are feasible as knitted designs, and made in negative, that is to say by removing one or son that would be used to make these drawings normally.
  • the transverse zones are in the form of a narrow lens so as to form a precise ventilation sector at the base of the toes.
  • the reduced knitting density patterns consist of knitting stitches which have been removed from at least one yarn relative to the knitting yarn of the surrounding areas, these knitting stitches alternating with normal knitting stitches for very locally constitute points of - increased permeability.
  • the aeration zone of the instep is in the form of a diamond constituted by a pattern formed of a succession of points of reduced knitting density alternating with points of density equal to that of the environment.
  • the longitudinal strips are bordered laterally by transient zones formed by a succession of points of reduced knitting density alternating with knitting density points equal to that of the environment. These longitudinal strips constitute a mechanical transition with the window itself.
  • This window is advantageously rectangular in shape.
  • the invention relates to an airy and breathable sock made of knit.
  • This sock has areas of permeability to promote the passage of air or the local exchange of air.
  • This sock may be a city sock, but it is mainly a sports or walking sock with zones of reinforcement and comfort, of increased thickness to attenuate and / or distribute the local pressure between the shoe and the foot.
  • the sock has at its tip 1 and on the bottom 2, a reinforced surface consisting of a particular knit with an addition of son reinforcing these surfaces and improving comfort, such as a knit loop.
  • the bottom 2 and the top 3 of the sock comprise a zone
  • These transverse zones 4, 5 of lenticular or lunate shape occupy the width of the sock on the top and on the bottom.
  • Each of these transverse areas is constituted by a knitting pattern of reduced density. This pattern such as a pattern is formed by an alternation of knit stitches with and without additional yarns or the number of knitted yarns is decreased to create more permeable stitches than adjacent knit stitches.
  • a succession of preferential points of passage or preferential exchange of air is thus achieved without these points constituting a continuous zone for reducing the thickness of the knit, which would be weakened or perceptible to the touch.
  • the sock is knitted according to considerations of elasticity and comfort for the contact of the foot with the shoe.
  • aeration zone 6 formed by a spreading sector, having an ellipse or diamond shape whose major axis is directed transversely.
  • This more permeable zone 6 is also formed by a transverse pattern of reduced knitting density without constituting a continuous line (s) but only a succession of preferential crossing points.
  • This reduced knitting density is obtained for example by the removal of a knitting yarn corresponding to that of the pattern to be produced. The drawing is made in negative and corresponds to the absence of a knitting yarn.
  • this aeration zone 6 on the instep retains its thickness simply by being interrupted by knitting points of reduced density. These points are preferably aligned transversely to promote folding without constituting a continuously weakened transverse line while maintaining the thickness of the sock in this contact zone between the instep and the shoe.
  • the underside 3 of the sock has a ventilation window 7 of the soles of the feet.
  • This ventilation window 7, of limited surface is located at the level of the arch almost outside the usual surface of support of the sole of the foot. It is formed by a plurality of longitudinal strips 71 whose knitting density has been reduced so as to constitute a grid-like structure whose "bars" would be knitted bands 72 normally whereas the longitudinal intervals constitute the strips 71 with knitting density. scaled down.
  • the intervals 71 are directed longitudinally in the axis of the sock, from front to back, to form lines of passage between longitudinal strips 72 of knitted fabric having retained their thickness.
  • the ventilation window 7 is integrated in a looped knit portion intended to improve the flexibility of the sock to the crash.
  • the ventilation window 7 may be bordered on one or both sides by a transitional zone 73 of structure close to that of the zone 6 of the top and composed of a succession of points of reduced knitting density and density points. of normal knitting, like that of the environment.
  • this window In addition to the fact that at the level of the ventilation window 7, the sock is not in continuous contact with the arch, this window also performs a pumping function generated by the movement of the foot in the shoe and the deformation of the foot. foot in motion. The volume variations create an air exchange at the foot through the ventilation window.
  • Figures 2A and 2B show more precisely the shape of the different aeration zones and the ventilation window.
  • Figure 2A is a plan view of the top of the sock without showing the shank.
  • the transverse aeration zone 5 in the form of a thin lens or diamond.
  • This zone is delimited by a broken line to materialize it in the drawing. In fact, this zone is not materialized by an outline but is simply occupied by the permeable points of preferential passage of the air, represented by crosses. The distribution of these crosses is in transverse line but without continuity.
  • the permeable points are separated from their environment by knit stitches without preferential permeability, knitted as the environment of this zone.
  • the top view also shows the enlarged shape, also directed transversely of the ventilation zone 6 of the instep.
  • This area is also materialized in the drawing by a dotted line that does not exist in reality.
  • the preferred crossing points are represented by the cross-shaped cloud of the same structure as that of the transverse zone of ventilation 5. The distribution can be done in straight or curved transverse lines but without the preferential crossing points being joined. They are always separated by usual knitting stitches like the knitted stitches outside the aeration zone 6.
  • FIG. 2B shows the structure of the other transverse ventilation zone 4 at zone 5 and the ventilation window 7 formed of strips of permeability 71 separated by the strips. with the same structure as the remainder of the bottom knitting points 2 at least in the environment of the window 7.
  • the bands constituted by the intervals 71 are of reduced knitting density, obtained as already indicated below. above. These ranges are bordered here by transient zones 73 on both sides. These transitional zones consist of a discontinuous distribution of permeable points such as the knitted stitches with a reduced knitting density of the zones 4, 5, 6 mentioned above.
  • Figure 2B shows that the window 7 is located substantially symmetrically with respect to the longitudinal axis of the sock not shown. This makes it possible not to distinguish the socks for right foot and for left foot and to manufacture only one type of sock. The same applies to the arrangement of the ventilation zones 4, 5, 6 already described.
  • FIG. 2 The schematic cross-section along III of the ventilation window (FIG. 2) represented in FIG. 3 shows the support effect constituted by the thickness of the sock which is preserved over the entire width of the underside 2 simply by forming the intervals. longitudinal 71, permeable to air.
  • the outline of the sole of the foot is indicated by the reference P and the sole on which the sock rests is represented by the reference S.
  • the window 7 is bordered on both sides by transient zones 73 schematized by broken lines crossing the thickness of the knit fabric below 2.
  • the succession of thick strips 72 and strips of reduced thickness 71 form cavities constituting pumping cavities which, depending on the movement of the foot and the crushing and then the relaxation of the material of the sock, create an air flow. through the wall of the sock at the location of these areas of reduced thickness. This circulation of air ventilates the underside of the foot.
  • the air thus set in motion can also be sucked or pushed back by the overall movement of the foot inside the shoe during a walking exercise.
  • the invention relates mainly to knit socks for walking or sports exercises, generally having reinforcing thicknesses mechanical function of foot protection, the invention also applies to city socks.

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FR0553148A FR2891995B1 (fr) 2005-10-18 2005-10-18 Chaussette respirante

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EP1776879A3 (de) 2008-12-17
RU2327395C1 (ru) 2008-06-27
DE602006014340D1 (de) 2010-07-01
PL1776879T3 (pl) 2010-10-29
EP1776879B1 (de) 2010-05-19
FR2891995B1 (fr) 2007-12-14
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