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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6296159 | Device for turning tubular textile products inside out A device has been realized for turning tubular textile products inside out, in which a tubular body (22), designed for the purpose, is moved between an idle position and a working position for executing this operation. Active means of suction on the tubul... | 10/02/2001 |
| 5769286 | Hosiery item spreading unit with pneumatic feed, usable with pneumatic hosiery item convenience systems equipped with a centralized suction A hosiery item spreading unit with pneumatic feed, usable with pneumatic hosiery item conveyance systems equipped with a centralized suction, comprising: a structure which forms an elongated spreading chamber arranged with its longitudinal axis substantia... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5727294 | Apparatus and method for continuoulsy knitting, shrinking and transferring the blanks to a remote location A continuous and uninterrupted process for knitting a plurality of cylindrical blanks, automatically transferring the knit blanks sequentially to a shrink apparatus, continuously shrinking the blanks for a predetermined period of time, and automatically t... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5699942 | Automatic sleeve invertor An apparatus for automatically inverting a garment piece for a sweat suit or the like. The apparatus includes an elongated tube for receiving the garment piece over the front end of the tube. A gripper arm is located adjacent to the rear end of the tube a... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5165355 | Method and apparatus for handling hosiery blanks A system for automatically producing pantyhose garments from elongated tubular fabric blanks, each having a toe end portion and a welt or band end portion. Randomly oriented blanks are sequentially removed from a supply reservoir, oriented in a predetermi... | 11/24/1992 |
| 5040475 | Material handling system A system for handling flexible articles such as tubular hosiery blanks each having a toe portion and a welt or band portion and for subsequently closing the toe portions includes an assembly for retrieving randomly oriented blanks from a supply reservoir,... | 08/20/1991 |
| 4881477 | Method and apparatus for the automatic transfer of pantyhose and similar articles from a toe sewing machine to a drawing machine A device for the automatic transfer of pantyhose and similar manufactured articles from a toe sewing machine, of a carrousel type with vertical axis, to a drawing machine of the type having a pair of vertical fixed shapes, includes a gripper for gripping ... | 11/21/1989 |
| 4874241 | Apparatus for the inspection of tubular textile products An apparatus for the insepction of tubular fabric articles like pantyhose has a form constituted of bars which can spread the article over an illuminated table. The table is provided with a row of bores which are trained upwardly against the garment to ra... | 10/17/1989 |
| 4748924 | Hosiery transport Hose transport apparatus for instance incorporated in a line closer consists of a plurality of carriers movable around an endless path and stationary rails extending alongside the path to support hose partly by the carriers and partly by the rails. The pa... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4739910 | Apparatus and method for inverting a child's training pant or the like Apparatus and method are provided for inverting a child's training pant or the like. The apparatus generally comprises a pair of mutually facing, diverging conveyor belt assemblies and a pair of suction systems respectively associated with the conveyor be... | 04/26/1988 |
| 4664044 | Machine for sewing gussets on knitted garments of the "pantyhose" type with automatic feed Apparatus for preventing wrinkles on the edge of fabric to be sewn to the gusset of a knitted garment of the "pantyhose" type which must be automatically transferred onto a machine for sewing gussets, which includes: (a) a head comprising a tubular suppor... | 05/12/1987 |
| 4649838 | Process and machine for sewing the toes of pantyhoses with feed from a machine for forming pantyhoses and with ejection suitable for a subsequent automated transfer of the product Apparatus for sewing the toes of pantyhose, including a transfer device to seize and transfer a garment from a first carrousel to a second carrousel, and in which a loading station of the first carrousel coincides with an ejector station of a pantyhose-fo... | 03/17/1987 |
| 4628844 | Apparatus for transporting fabric pieces Transfer of garments, having limp portions, from one machine (L) to another machine (T) the needs of which demand that the limp portions are separate for delivery to separate receiving members therefor, is accomplished while the garments are moving in the... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4620494 | Conveyor for use in carrying leg parts of half made pantyhose in an integrated pantyhose sewing machine This invention concerns a belt conveyor for delivering pantyhose whose panty part only has just been seamed by a panty part sewing machine to a toe part sewing machine in order for the leg part to be received smoothly. When the half made pantyhose are on ... | 11/04/1986 |
| 4620650 | Method and apparatus for automatically positioning tubular pantyhose legs A carriage is reciprocately movable along the length of a pair of eversion tubes which carry pantyhose legs in an everted condition. The carriage carries two pairs of grippers which are engageable over each pantyhose leg and on side fingers on each tube. ... | 11/04/1986 |
| 4597515 | Apparatus for turning tubular garment portions An apparatus for turning tubular garment portions such as shirt sleeves, comprising a suction box and a pair of elbow shaped turn tubes, the shorter portions of which are connected with the suction box in a rotatable manner such that these portions are ro... | 07/01/1986 |
| 4577571 | Apparatus for finishing waistband end portions Improvements to a waistband end folding and stitching apparatus of the type in which the open terminal free end portion of an unfinished waistband having opposed fabric plies is presented to a folding station where the end portion is (1) inverted into the... | 03/25/1986 |
| 4566615 | Apparatus for turning a circular knit hose inside out and sectioning same into unit hoses An apparatus for turning a circular knit hose inside out, sectioning the knit hose into unit hoses, and linking each toe portion thereof with stitches, characterized in that the apparatus comprising an air suction pipe for pulling a long knit hose by air ... | 01/28/1986 |
| 4564133 | Apparatus and method for rapid loading of pantyhose onto a stocking finishing medium Apparatus for rapid loading of pantyhoses onto a stocking finishing medium having a pneumatic reversing mechanism including two tubes for receiving the legs of the pantyhoses. The apparatus includes a carrousel structure including at least two intermitten... | 01/14/1986 |
| 4550868 | Method and apparatus for transferring hosiery between hosiery manufacturing machines Hosiery manufacturing equipment comprises a line closer (L) and a toe closer (T) which are linked by a hose transfer mechanism (M) consisting of two conveyors (30, 31) which overlap in a region between the closers (L, T). The conveyors have respective hos... | 11/05/1985 |
| 4541351 | Method and apparatus for automatic positioning of open ends of stockings for forming into pantyhose In pantyhose hip portion seaming operation, the open ends of a pair of stockings mounted respectively on upper and lower templates of a template unit are detected by means of phototubes to allow the both ends to be automatically positioned so that they ar... | 09/17/1985 |
| 4516703 | Apparatus for reversing hose Apparatus for reversing or turning hose inside out comprises a pair of contra-rotating rollers 3 and 4, resiliently urged towards each other to form a nip therebetween into which the hose is introduced from its closed or toe cap end by a pick-up and conve... | 05/14/1985 |
| 4460111 | Apparatus for turning hose An apparatus for turning a circular knit hose inside out and sectioning same into unit hoses, includes an air suction pipe extending in the direction of feeding the knit hose, a pair of contact rollers carried on a carrier capable of reciprocally moving a... | 07/17/1984 |
| 4440329 | Apparatus for unloading hosiery machinery A hosiery toe closer has a hollow tubular carrier, to which suction is applied for everting hosiery, and an unloading mechanism for dispensing hose in an everted state on a table or tray. The unloading mechanism is a carriage reciprocally-movable forwardl... | 04/03/1984 |
| 4392596 | Hosiery trimming apparatus There is disclosed an apparatus and process for finishing hosiery articles such as men's, women's and children's socks. Each sock is placed inside-out on an elongated hollow tubular member, with the toe seam covering a first open end of the tubular member... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4381068 | Continuous method and device for making a sleeve with a turned back edge The present invention relates to a continuous method and device for obtaining from a long length of tubular knitted element, a sleeve with a turned back edge. The method consists in guiding the knitting by way of a tubular guide, with one end of said elem... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4308980 | Positioning device for tubular hose A device for automatic positioning of the tip of a tubular stocking which is to be sewn together with the heel portion onto a pneumatic inverter tube which has an open mouth, the stocking being provided with an indexing mark thereon, the device includes a... | 01/05/1982 |
| 4281781 | Hose everting method and apparatus therefor An improved method of everting a knitted sleeve-like portion of wearing apparel or the like, such as a hose precursor before the toe end is stitched, which includes drawing such sleeve over the free end of a cylindrical mounting tube and over and past a t... | 08/04/1981 |
| 4196681 | Apparatus for loading tubular elements of textile material on mounting tubes in sewing machines Apparatus comprising a plurality of shaped bodies carried on a rotable structure. On the end of each body one edge can be manually placed of a tubular element of textile material forming the leg of a stocking. During the rotation of said structure, each b... | 04/08/1980 |
| 4180190 | Vacuum bag process and apparatus A vacuum chamber has a port communicating with the interior of the chamber, and a blower and ducting for selectively establishing a vacuum within the chamber. A partially completed bag of seamed panel construction is placed with the port extending into th... | 12/25/1979 |
| 4099789 | Device for the oriented collection of stockings, panty-hose and like articles In an arrangement for collecting and stacking hosiery articles in general, such as stockings, panty-hose and the like, coming from a circular hosiery knitting machine, an improvement consisting in that the suction plate of the temporary collection space h... | 07/11/1978 |
| 4047649 | Apparatus for handling hosiery In a hosiery handling apparatus wherein a string of hosiery is placed on a movable hollow tubular form, and everted through the open end of the form, a reciprocating arm grasps the first in-line hose and breaks it away from the string. The arm then pulls ... | 09/13/1977 |
| 3977580 | Apparatus for turning a tubular fabric inside out A machine is disclosed for turning inside out a tubular fabric (e.g. stockings), which comprises a fabric-container, a tube for turning the fabric inside out, said tube overhangingly extending from the container, an air-drawing and blowing unit for blowin... | 08/31/1976 |
| 3949913 | Hosiery handling system with U-shaped form A hosiery inspecting, everting, separating and stacking apparatus including a U-shaped, elongated, tubular form axially pivoted adjacent one end for oscillatory movement in a vertical plane between a loading, intermediate inspecting and everting position ... | 04/13/1976 |
| 3941285 | Apparatus for producing panty hose The slitting and seaming together of hosiery blanks for producing panty hose is carried out by a single operator and during the usual everting, inspecting and toe seaming operation. The hosiery blanks are slit as they are drawn onto a tubular hosiery form... | 03/02/1976 |
