The Kendall Company

Laylon E Bradberry

John E Pendergrass

Wing-Yan T Lau

A therapeutic stocking for applying compressive force to the wearer's leg having an integrally knit anti-slip feature on the foot portion. The anti-slip feature being knit of bare and covered elastomeric yarns. The anti-slip feature further having an instep portion and a sole portion having greater frictional characteristics than the instep portion. The sole portion being knit in a repeating pattern having courses of knit and float stitches of a covered elastomeric yarn and jersey courses of a bare elastomeric yarn. The bare elastomeric yarn being substantially on the exterior surface of the sole portion yielding a friction surface which is located to contact the floor beneath the wearer's foot and minimize slippage thereon.

Knit therapeutic stocking with anti-slip feature

A knit construction having a repeating six-course, two wale pattern in which the six courses include four courses comprising alternating knit and tuck stitches and two courses comprising alternating knit and float stitches, and each of the wales includes the knit stitches of two of the courses of alternating knit and tuck stitches and one of the courses of knit and float stitches, the tuck stitches of the other two of the courses of knit and tuck stitches, and the float stitches of the other of the courses of knit and float stitches.

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Seneca, SC, United States of America

Laylon E Bradberry