| 摘要 |
An apparatus and method is provided for turning, separating, stacking and counting hosiery directly on a knitting machine. A hosiery positioning tube is suspended below the knitting cylinder of the machine with the hosiery string being knitted around the tube. The tube is suspended on a hanger extending through a hollow star rod of the machine. Intermittently driven feed rollers are positioned on opposite sides of the tube to step feed the hose string down the tube. Gripping fingers mounted on a swinging arm just below the bottom of the tube separate each hose in turn. An air orifice on the inner finger positioned in the mouth of tube intermittently blows the final hose on the string up into the tube to provide an everting operation. As the end of the turned hose approaches the mouth of the tube where a ring of Alginate yarn is knitted, the intermittent air pulses are interrupted and a continuous jet of air from an orifice adjacent the outer gripping finger blows the end of the hose inwardly and downwardly to position the end of the hose firmly in the grip of the fingers. The fingers close and the arm pulls the turned hose to separate it from the string and deliver it with the aid of another jet pulse of air across the edge of a stacking board. A stripper/pusher moves along the edge of the board to transfer the hose to a stack as still another air jet pulse blows the end of the hose free of the fingers. A counter may be provided to count the hose with switchable board means providing two collecting stations, each having a groove in which a string is positioned for tying one dozen pair in a bundle.
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