Patent ID: 8769996
Filing Date: 2014-07-08
Classification: D04B

Abstract:
1. A dial of a circular hosiery knitting machine of the type with a cylinder and dial with yarn cutting device, comprising a dial body which is substantially disk-shaped and can be arranged above and coaxially with respect to the needle cylinder with a vertical axis of a circular hosiery knitting machine, on the upper face of said dial body a plurality of radial slots being provided which are adapted to accommodate needles that can be actuated along the corresponding radial slot to form knitting or to cooperate with the needles of the needle cylinder to form knitting, further comprising a cutting device, which comprises a plurality of cutting sectors which are distributed around the axis of said dial body and have cutting edges which are oriented substantially radially with respect to the axis of said dial body, said cutting sectors being arranged at sectors of said dial body which are intended to be free from needles, said cutting device further comprising a cutter which is adapted to abut against said cutting edges of the cutting sectors to cut at least one yarn engaged by one of said cutting sectors in its rotary motion about the axis of said dial body with respect to said cutter.