C.k.s. S.n.c.

Speizman Industries, Inc.

Fabio Selvi

Giovanni Chietti

Chietti Giovanni

Apparatus for automatically superimposing and folding collants or stockings and transferring the same to packaging. The apparatus comprises a moving chain carrying grippers having the collants leg tips hanging thereon. The chain travels through a narrow loop, at which moving parts are provided and press the two legs of each collant against each other, whereupon a moving member picks up the stockings midway the length thereof, transferring the same as folded up to a collection station.

Automatic apparatus for superimposing, folding and transferring pairs of

Apparatus for automatically laying out stockings or collants for visual control and possible treatments thereof. The apparatus comprises a rigid shaped form, having a stocking inlet applied thereto, and an elongated element movable between a position, at which it is within the form, and a position, at which is projects from the form, stretching out the stacking that can be therefore controlled. At its stretched out position, the stocking tip is automatically gripped by a pliers, while the movable element is withdrawn, thereby leaving the stocking hanging from the pliers.

Apparatus for automatically laying out a stocking, collant or the like

Stocking toe end closing apparatus of the type having a series of horizontal stocking turning tubes mounted on a rotatable base for indexing to a position for spreading stocking toe ends carried on the supports, and for further indexing to a seaming position where the stocking toe ends are closed. The turning tubes are connected to a suction source at index positions before and after the spreading and closing positions for everting stockings thereat. Spreading fingers are inserted into the open free ends of the supported stockings at the spreading position and expand through longitudinal slots in the tubes for lateral spreading of the stocking toe ends to a width suitable for seaming, and the fingers are then moved away from the support end in a diagonal direction with respect to the elongation of the tubes in synchronism with the index motion of the tube, so that the stocking toe end is carried by the fingers to a position where the fingers and the toe end extremity lie beyond an arcuate clamp which then engages the widespread toe end in position for rotation of the clamp and the toe end extremity past a sewing machine for closing. Tubular guards with matching longitudinal slots are provided for exposing alignment and shielding non-alignment with the slots in the tube ends to prevent interference with the everting of stockings by the tube end slots. Exhaust air produced from the same suction source that provides suction for everting stockings is passed through a nozzle adjacent the clamp onto the toe end extremity for directing it into the sewing machine. The clamp rotates in reverse direction after seaming to pay out the stocking which has wrapped partly around it during seaming, in synchronism with the index motion of the stocking support away from the seaming position. An endless belt is supported in deflected engagement with the stocking tube at the seaming index position, and during a portion of its index motion to and away from that position, as a means of restraining the stocking from sliding off the support as it is partially withdrawn for positioning the toe end at the sewing machine and by wrapping around the clamp during seaming.

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Fabio Selvi