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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2017
Lonati S.p.a., Brescia, IT;
Ettore Lonati, Botticino, IT;
Fausto Lonati, Brescia, IT;
Francesco Lonati, San Felice del Benaco, IT;
Lonati S.P.A., Brescia, IT;
Abstract
A pickup device for picking up a knitted tubular manufacture from a circular knitting machine for hosiery or the like and for transferring it to a unit adapted to perform additional operations on the manufacture, comprising an annular pickup body that supports a plurality of pickup elements, which are arranged radially around the axis of the pickup body and can slide with respect to the pickup body along radial directions; the pickup body can be arranged coaxially around the needle cylinder of a circular knitting machine for hosiery or the like, with each one of the pickup elements laterally facing a needle of the machine; actuation means are provided which act on the pickup elements for their movement along the radial directions at least from a first position, in which the pickup elements are closer to the axis of the pickup body, to a second position.