Shima Seiki Mfg., Ltd.

Yoshihisa Uchikawa

Masamitsu Ikenaka

There is provided an instep cover in which various designs can be provided on a side surface portion of the instep cover even when a shoelace holding section is provided, and a shoe upper including the instep cover. In a shoe upper () configuring a shoe, an instep cover () that covers a portion on an instep side of a wearer includes a slit (S) extending from a foot insertion opening for the wearer to insert a foot toward a toe, and a shoelace holding section () that holds a shoelace for adjusting a spacing of the slit (S). The shoelace holding section () includes a holding unit (U) configured by a hole () formed in a slit edge region () that shapes the slit (S), and an annular strap () being formed to an annular shape by connecting one end and the other end of a lace-like body to the slit edge region () and having a length that can be pulled out from the hole () when an intermediate portion of the lace-like body is brought to a position of the hole ().

Instep cover and shoe upper

An instep cover knitted there-dimensionally in advance, and a method for knitting the same are provided. An instep cover, out of a shoe upper configuring a shoe, which is a seamless knitted fabric knitted using a flat knitting machine including at least a pair of a front and a back needle bed, the instep covercovering a portion on an instep side of a wearer is provided. Assuming in the instep cover, a portion that covers a region from an Achilles tendon to a heel of the wearer is a heel cover section, and a portion excluding the heel cover sectionis a body section, a stitch in a vicinity of an end in a knitting width direction of the heel cover sectionand a stitch at an end in a wale direction of the body sectionare connected at a position of boundary lines L, Lof the heel cover sectionand the body sectionto form the instep coverthree-dimensionally; and at least one part of the instep coveris configured with a knitting structure knitted using the front and back needle beds.

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Wakayama, Japan

Yoshihisa Uchikawa