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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7049621 | Apparatus and method for detecting the orientation of textile products such as stockings and socks The orientation of textile articles such as stockings and socks having closed or open toe are detected by a method and apparatus, in a plant for the automatic treatment of articles in which the articles are pneumatically moved. A machine (6) requires the arti... | 05/23/2006 |
| 6913173 | Method and apparatus for opening, positioning and loading socks on forms An apparatus for automatic loading socks on forms (1) comprises a suction unit (20) at the entry, a carousel (10) with several stations, a sock positioning unit (30), a sock tucking up unit (40) and a withdrawing and loading robot ... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6722163 | Method for forming a pouch in a tubular knitted article with a circular knitting machine The method comprises using a set of contiguous needles of the needle cylinder; actuating the needle cylinder with an alternating rotary motion about its own axis, through a rotation angle making the knitting needles to pass in front of n feeds or drops of the machin... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6609395 | Double-cylinder circular stocking knitting machine with structurally highly simplified cam box In a double-cylinder circular stocking knitting machine, an actuation element, composed of a slider and a sub-slider, is arranged, at least in the lower needle cylinder, below each needle, inside the same axial slot of the curved surface of the lower need... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6422044 | Needle actuation device for knitting machines for hosiery or other articles A needle actuation device comprises a cam box facing a needle holder and supporting at least one lowering cam whose profile is inclined with respect to the direction of the motion of the needle holder with respect to the cam box. The profile of the loweri... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6381991 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing tubular items, particularly hosiery items, closed at an axial end A method and an apparatus for manufacturing tubular items, particularly hosiery items, closed at an axial end. The method consists in forming the tubular item on a circular knitting machine by way of the needles of the needle cylinder, starting from the o... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6345520 | Device for transferring digital data between a rotating part and a fixed part of a machine, particularly for hosiery knitting machines and the like A device for transferring digital data between a rotating part and a fixed part of a machine, particularly for hosiery knitting machines and the like, comprising a data transmission unit and a data reception unit, the data reception unit being arranged so... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6339943 | Device and method for adjusting hosiery tension in circular textile machines A device for the electronic adjustment of hosiery tension in circular textile machines, whose particularity consists of the fact that it comprises an actuator which is adapted to move a carriage, which is in turn adapted to perform a translatory motion al... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6295845 | Thread dispensing device for dispensing thread at a feed of a circular knitting machine A device for dispensing at least one thread at a feed or drop of a circular machine for knitting hosiery or the like, particularly for single-cylinder circular machines. The device comprises at least one thread guide which is arranged at a feed or drop of... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6286342 | Circular knitting machine with device for producing tubular items closed at an axial end, and method for producing tubular items A circular knitting machine for hosiery, with a device for producing tubular items closed at an axial end, and relative method. The machine has a diverter accommodated inside the needle cylinder disengaged from the rotation of the needle cylinder about it... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6282925 | Method for manufacturing closed end tubular items, in particular hosiery, on a circular knitting machine The method consists in forming a tubular item on a circular machine by means of the needles of the needle cylinder, starting from the opposite axial end of the item with respect to the axial end to be closed and retaining on the needles of the needle cyli... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6257026 | Needle control device for stocking knitting machines A needle control device for stocking knitting machines, comprising a connecting element which can engage a needle or sub-needle or slider and can be arranged in the same slot of the needle holder that accommodates a needle, and an actuation element which ... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6220061 | Slider for double-cylinder circular knitting machines A slider for double-cylinder circular knitting machines which comprises an elongated laminar body which has a first longitudinal side which is meant to be rested on the bottom of an axial slot formed in the curved surface of the lower needle cylinder or i... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6164090 | Needle actuation device for knitting machines A needle actuation device for knitting machines, comprising a cam supporting surface which faces a needle supporting element and supports at least one casting-off cam which has a profile arranged at an angle to the direction in which the needle supporting... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6122939 | Process and apparatus for reducing the lead-in thread length in circular knitting machines A process and an apparatus for reducing the length of the lead-in thread in double-cylinder circular hosiery-making or knitting machines in which the thread, fed by a corresponding thread guide, is clamped at its end, before knitting begins, by a thread c... | 09/26/2000 |
| 5992182 | Method for ladderproofing the last row of a knitted item A method for ladderproofing the last row of a knitted item consisting in that, upon execution of the last row of the item, the interstitch portions, i.e., the portions of the thread or threads that join two contiguous loops of knitting, are produced with ... | 11/30/1999 |
| 4014186 | Method of forming a closed end on a knitted tubular fabric A method for forming a closed end on a tubular knitted fabric, such as a stocking, on a circular knitting machine, in which two annular tubular layers are formed as continuations of the tubular knitted fabric at separate stages by needles operating in the... | 03/29/1977 |
