Patent ID: 6223564
Filing Date: 2001-05-01
Classification: D04B

Abstract:
A method for producing knitted tubular items, which are closed at an axial end, comprising the steps of:providing a single-cylinder circular machine provided with a half-dial which faces, in an upward region, a first half of a needle cylinder and has hooks which are movable in a radial direction with respect to an axis of the needle cylinder, such that each hook being arranged between two contiguous needles of said first half of the needle cylinder, and such that said half-dial being able to turn over about a diametrical axis of the needle cylinder so that said hooks face the needles of the second half of the needle cylinder;moving said hooks in a radial direction with respect to the axis of the needle cylinder and engaging portions of loops of knitting formed by the needles of said first half of the needle cylinder;turning over said half-dial and releasing said portions of loops of knitting to the needles of said second half of the needle cylinder after the half-dial has turned over;arranging the loops of knitting formed by said needles of the first half of the needle cylinder, and belonging to a row of knitting that follows the one engaged by said hooks, above the needles of the second half of the needle cylinder; andraising the needles of said second half of the needle cylinder to knit so as pass the needles of said second half of the needle cylinder through the loops of said subsequent row of knitting and so as to knit new loops in, with the loops of said subsequent row of knitting during subsequent knitting of the item.