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Osami Kanda

Kunihiro Kitamura

Oushou Takatori

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 their way to the toe part sewing machine with the panty part held by clipping members and the leg parts dangling from a guide pipe of the panty part sewing machine, the belt conveyor, disposed between both the paths of clipping members of the panty part sewing machine and suction members of the toe part sewing machine, correctly receives the leg parts one by one in association with a guide member disposed in contact with the belt conveyor at a little time interval. One of the leg parts, received by the belt conveyor first, is delivered, by their suction, to the suction members then coming nearby; the other is delivered in the same way a little later. The belt conveyor moves back and forth to carry the leg parts and return to the original position in such exact synchronization with the circular movement of the clipping members of the panty part sewing machine and the suction members of the toe part sewing machine that the delivering can be made without failure despite the fact that leg parts of pantyhose are so light and soft as fluttering by a slight air stream. Also, the separate sewing system, conventionally made for panty part and leg parts, can be joined together by the exact delivering of the belt conveyor, with the result that the rationalization in hosiery workshops, including the process control and labor-saving, can surely be achieved to the greatest extent.

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Shiki-gun, Nara, Japan

Osami Kanda