PANTYHOSE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME

摘要

A method for manufacturing seamless panty hose having two tubular legs knitted by continuously rotating the needle cylinder and a panty portion between the legs knitted by reciprocatingly operating the needle cylinder. During manufacturing of the central part of the panty portion a number of adjacent needles is inactivated at the end of each stroke of reciprocation and the last of the working needles are controlled to form a knit selvage edge at the sides of the inactivated group of needles extending longitudinally with respect to the knitted fabric, the opposite selvage edges being spaced by an extent corresponding to the extent of the arc of the needle cylinder occupied by the inactivated needles. The number of inactivated needles is such as to define between the two opposite selvage edges a rectangular waist opening having proportioned sides.