Patent ID: 7530242

Claim:
A method for transferring portions of knitting produced by a group of needles to another group of needles of a bed in circular hosiery knitting machines with two beds, which comprise two mutually coaxial and facing beds, respectively a first bed provided with needles which can be actuated to produce knitting and a second bed provided with engagement elements, which can be actuated in order to retain or pick up loops of knitting formed by the needles of the first bed or to release loops of knitting, retained or picked up previously, to the needles of the first bed, the method comprising: a step, performed by means of the engagement elements arranged in a first sector of the second bed, for engaging a row of knitting formed by a first group of needles arranged in a first sector of the first bed; a step for the angular offset of the second bed with respect to the first bed around the axis of the first bed, in order to move said first sector of the second bed closer to a second sector of the first bed which is angularly spaced from said first sector of the first bed around the axis of the first bed and supports a second group of needles; a step for releasing the row of knitting previously engaged by said engagement elements from the engagement elements arranged in said first sector of the second bed to said second group of needles arranged in said second sector of the first bed; and reversing the orientation of the row of knitting affected by the transfer during said engagement step or during said release step.