METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR JOINING THE EDGES OF A TUBULAR KNITTED ARTICLE

摘要

The invention refers to a method and apparatus for joining the edges of a tubular knitted article (6), such as a stocking, upon the completion of the latter on a circular machine (10); the apparatus comprises a movable carrier (300) able to be associated with a knitting head (100) of a circular machine, and the said carrier (300) supports means (25, 26) for the removal of stitches of the last knitted rank, in which the means (26) operate the removal of one semi-rank, that is, of half the stitches of said last knitted rank, and the means (25) operate the removal of the other semi-rank; the movable carrier (300) being provided with driving means (22, 23) and transfer means (28) able to move the stitches of one semi-rank onto the means (26) which remove the other semi-rank.