Patent ID: 6722163
Filing Date: 2004-04-20
Classification: D04B,D10B

Abstract:
A method for forming a pouch with a central region and two end regions in a tubular knitted article, with a circular hosiery knitting machine having a needle cylinder rotatable about an axis thereof, a set of needles provided at said needle cylinder, and n feeds or drops, comprising the steps of: making operative for knitting a set of contiguous needles of the needle cylinder; actuating the needle cylinder with an alternating rotary motion about the axis thereof through a rotation angle such as to make the needles of said set that are made operative to knit passing in front of the n feeds or drops which are used to form the pouch; gradually decreasing a number of needles made operative to knit at least one of said n feeds, excluding every time needles located at lateral ends of the needle set in at least one step of the knitting process; and gradually increasing a number of needles made operative to knit at least one of said n feeds at lateral ends of the needle set in at least one other step of the knitting process, each one of the two end regions of the pouch being formed by way of at least two needles that are made operative to knit at one of said n feeds, a first one of said two end regions being formed with one of said n feeds, and a second other of said two regions being formed with a different one of said n feeds.