Method for manufacturing stockings, socks and the like

Details Method for manufacturing stockings, socks and the like Method for manufacturing stockings, socks and the like

1973-11-21

1976-02-03

Reynolds, Wm. Carter

Textiles: knitting

Independent-needle machines

Circular

66 14, 66187, D04B 910, D04B 956

Patent

active

039357180

ABSTRACT:
A method for manufacturing stockings, socks and the like and closing the toe thereof on a double cylinder knitting machine, comprising the steps of manufacturing a leg, heel and foot portion by selecting the needles to knit in both needle cylinders in a manner to make the reverse fabric side on the exterior as discharged from the machine, operating a 1:1 selection of the needles, lowering a first group of selected needles in the lower needle cylinder and inactivating these needles in the lower cylinder, knitting the toe with the needles which have been transferred to the upper needle cylinder thereby providing an additional pocket around which non knitted thread is wound and interknitting the final part of the additional pocket with the initial part thereof and with the foot portion of the stocking.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3327500 (1967-06-01), Currier
patent: 3575019 (1971-04-01), Janda
patent: 3626724 (1971-12-01), Wignall et al.
patent: 3626726 (1971-12-01), Findlay et al.
patent: 3626727 (1971-12-01), Wood et al.
patent: 3768277 (1973-10-01), Uhlir

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