Patent ID: 7640880
Filing Date: 2010-01-05
Classification: D04B

Abstract:
1. An automatic sewing device, particularly for hosiery knitting machines, comprising a supporting arm for an oscillating means, which includes at least one first oscillating assembly, constituted by a semicircular ring, and at least one second oscillating assembly, constituted by a second semicircular ring, a means for actuating said oscillating assemblies which is adapted to produce at least one open position, in which the oscillating assemblies substantially form a ring that has the same size as a needle cylinder from which it picks up a hosiery item at the end of the knitting process, and at least one closed position, in which the oscillating assemblies close the hosiery item in a semicircular arrangement, ready to be sewn, in a sewing station, said supporting arm being movable from at least one position for gripping said hosiery item from said needle cylinder to at least one position for applying said hosiery item to said sewing station by virtue of a hosiery supporting assembly.