Patent ID: 9617672
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: D04B,D05B

Claim:
1. A method for closing an axial end of a tubular manufacture and for unloading it inside out, comprising in sequence: a step of positioning the manufacture right way out at a sewing or linking station, arranged so that its axis is substantially vertical and so that it hangs, by means of a first axial end to be closed by sewing or linking, from an annular handling device, said manufacture being extended below said annular handling device; a step of turning the manufacture inside out, in which the manufacture, retained by said annular handling device, is passed through said annular handling device, said passage arranging the manufacture inside out above said annular handling device, said step of turning the manufacture inside out being provided by performing in sequence the following actions: aspirating beforehand the manufacture, which hangs with said first axial end from said annular handling device, in a lower reversing tube that faces, with its upper axial end, below said annular handling device; lifting said lower reversing tube, making it pass, starting from its upper axial end, through said annular handling device until said lower reversing tube is brought to a raised position, in which its lower axial end is at the same level or at a higher level than said first axial end of the manufacture engaged with said annular handling device, performing the at least partial reversion of the manufacture onto the outer lateral surface of said lower reversing tube; retaining said lower reversing tube in said raised position; a step of closing said first axial end of the manufacture by sewing or linking; a step of disengaging the manufacture from said annular handling device; a step of moving the manufacture away by means of suction through the upper axial end of a lower spacing tube that faces, with its upper axial end, below said annular handling device.