Process and a machine for the automatic transfer of pantyhose from a

Abstract

Apparatus for automatically transferring pantyhose from a machine producing pantyhose with seams to a gusset-sewing machine, which includes a pronged catching device for a rapid and correct elastic catching or grabbing of the garment with its prongs which are first introduced into a central opening of the garment, which is left seamless at the central opening immediately after the garment leaves the pantyhose producing machine, provision being made to effect a preliminary transverse opening out the garment opening during the horizontal transfer of the garment toward the catching device and the simultaneous separate drawing of the legs of the garment into appropriate tubes so that at the end of the transfer of the garment, the edge of the garment opening is automatically arranged all around the prongs of the pronged catching device. An opening device is used to make the preliminary transverse opening, the opening device having claws which oscillate vertically to permit the preliminary transverse horizontal opening out of the edge of the garment opening; furthermore, the claws are horizontally rotatable to enable the claws to enter/exit into/from the opening and finally the claws are horizontally movable to make it possible to accompany the garment from the outlet of the machine which produces the pantyhose to the catching device.