Patent ID: 7908890
Filing Date: 2011-03-22
Classification: D04B

Abstract:
1. A needle for transferring stitches therefrom to adjacent needles for hosiery knitting machines, comprising a shank, a head arranged at a longitudinal end, or upper end, of said shank, and a latch which is pivoted to said shank proximate to said head, about a pivoting axis which is substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of said shank and can rotate about said pivoting axis in order to open or close said head, further comprising at least one elastically flexible lamina which is associated with said shank and forms, on the two opposite sides of said shank, below said latch, two receptacles, one for each side of said shank, in each of which it is possible to insert the head of an adjacent needle in order to transfer the loop of knitting, carried by said shank and arranged at said receptacles, from the needle to said adjacent needle.