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Class 66/58 - Preparing for transfer


Subclass of Class 66 - Textiles: knitting
Definition: Means designed to arrange or operate the needles and other
No. of patents: 22
Last issue date: 05/08/2007


NumberTitleIssue Date
7213420Sock
A knitted sock has an inner layer 2 comprising a toe end 4 and an outer layer 3 comprising a toe end 7. The inner and outer toe ends are aligned and joined wale stitch to wale stitch to form a composite toe end, which is closed to provide...
05/08/2007
7107797Method and apparatus for joining the edges of a tubular knitted article
The invention refers to a method and apparatus for joining the edges of a tubular knitted article, such as a stocking, upon the completion of the latter on a circular machine; the apparatus comprises a movable carrier able to be associated with a knitting head of a ...
09/19/2006
6397637Lifting device for knitted items constructed on a circular machine
A device for lifting a knitted item made on a circular knitting machine for knitwear and hosiery. The device includes a lifting pipe 15 coaxial inside the cylinder, rotating with this, moveable in height between a lowered position and a raised position, a...
06/04/2002
6381991Method 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
6321578Method and apparatus for transferring a loop from a selected needle to an adjacent needle for creating a decorative open-work pattern with no-run stitch and loop transfer knitting needle
A method for creating an opening in tubular knitted fabric articles on a machine including a needle cam mounted for reciprocal movement between first and second vertically-spaced positions. In the first position the needle cam lowers successive needles to...
11/27/2001
6282925Method 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
6223564Method for manufacturing tubular items, such as hosiery items or the like, which are closed at an axial end, using a single-cylinder circular machine
A method for producing tubular items, such as hosiery items and the like, which are closed at an axial end, using a single-cylinder circular knitting machine provided with a half-dial which faces, in an upward region, a first half of the needle cylinder a...
05/01/2001
6164093Knit necktie and method of producing the same
A knit necktie which is entirely formed from a tubular knit fabric knitted continuously and has a triangular apron tipping portion which is formed from a triangular bag-shaped knit fabric formed by raising needles in a semicircle of a circular knitting ma...
12/26/2000
6164091Method and apparatus for seaming edges of knitted articles
Operational method for seaming the edges of a tubular knitted article (C) comprising the preliminary steps of knitting the article in a knitting station (T), removing the stitches of the last knitted rank with stitches-removing means mounted on a first un...
12/26/2000
6155081Apparatus for driving stitches of textile articles
Apparatus for driving stitches of textile articles is provided with, at least one element (1) including of a body with a stem (10) associated to a support means and with its free end exhibiting a seat (12) for a leading portion or end of a member having a...
12/05/2000
6089045Method and apparatus for transferring a loop from a selected needle to an adjacent needle for creating a decorative open work pattern
A method for creating an opening in tubular knitted fabric articles, including the steps of providing a knitting machine having a plurality of needles mounted in axial needle slots in a needle cylinder, the needles having a hook formed in a top end of a n...
07/18/2000
5924309Ribbed sock toe closing method and apparatus on double-cylinder knitting machine
A sock or other tubular article with one closed end and with rib fabric--that is, with face and reverse stitches--is formed in a double-cylinder circular machine (1, 3), in which the toe is closed at the end of the process of forming the tubular fabric, b...
07/20/1999
5924310Device for closing one end of a tubular knitted article on the same circular machine that produced it
The device, which is combined with the needle (1A; 1B) cylinder and cooperates with a normal disc (5) that has hooks (7A, 7B), is located coaxially with the cylinder and can be raised axially; the hooks (7A) of one semicircle can be actuated to take stitc...
07/20/1999
5907960Closed toe method on a single-cylinder knitting machine
Method for manufacturing a tubular hosiery item with a closed end, with a single-cylinder circular knitting machine having a pivoting semicircular plate having radially sliding hooks, including alternately rotating the needle cylinder for moving the needl...
06/01/1999
5761931Single-cylinder circular knitting machine
A single-cylinder circular knitting machine, including a needle cylinder and a circular plate that is arranged above the needle cylinder and coaxially thereto. The circular plate is constituted by two portions, one of which can rotate with respect to the ...
06/09/1998
5727400Method for manufacturing socks having a closed toe with a single-cylinder knitting machine
In a first step of the method for manufacturing socks with a single-cylinder circular knitting machine a needle cylinder is oscillated about its own axis with an oscillation angle of about 180° to move half of the needle cylinder that faces a half-platen...
03/17/1998
5647229Device for closing the initial end of a knitted article such as a sock or other
A push rod (38) with a pick-up hook (38A) at the end is moved in an axial plane of symmetry to engage by means of the pick-up hook in an intermediate position the partial initial courses (M1) of a pocket (M2) and to bring them progressively to the side op...
07/15/1997
5617744Device for the automatic formation of a closed toe in a tubular knitted article
A plurality of hooks (23U) is capable of engaging the initial hem of a pocket (MP) formed by the needles (7X) of a sector covering approximately a semicircumference, and of transferring the said initial hem to the needles of the other opposite sector of n...
04/08/1997
5570591Method and apparatus for seaming two edges of a knitted tubular article upon completion thereof
A method for seaming two edges of a knitted tubular article to make the tubular article with a single-cylinder circular machine, starting from the elastic hem and finishing at the side of the toe which is left open. The method includes: (a) lifting a pred...
11/05/1996
5551260Method for joining two edges of a knitted tubular article upon completion thereof
An initial step of terminating the knitting of the sock on the side of the toe which is left open and performing the following operating steps: moving away the plate; lifting the knitting needles, with the sinkers being closed; further lifting the needles...
09/03/1996
4122690Method and means for transferring knit loops between cylinders of a double cylinder knitting machine
Method and means for transferring knit loops from single-hook needles on one cylinder to single-hook needles on the other cylinder of a double cylinder circular knitting machine. In the method and needles are displaced at an inclination outwardly of their...
10/31/1978
4045200Method of forming glass substrates with pre-attached sealing media
Glass substrates having electrical conductors deposited thereon used in gas panel fabrication with vitreous or crystalline solder glass attached thereto are disclosed as well as a method of applying and attaching said solder glass to such substrates....
08/30/1977
 
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