Patent ID: 7937972

Claim:
Method for making, through a circular machine for making socks with alternate motion, an item of clothing like an ankle sock ( 10 ) in continuum stitched without seams to form a single piece made up of a front end ( 100 ) elongated in the shape of a pocket, which can be associated with the toe of the foot and comprising a first and a second front portion ( 11 , 12 ), a rear end ( 200 ), also pocket shaped, able to be associated with the heel of the foot and comprising a first and a second rear portion ( 21 , 22 ), and of a connecting part ( 300 ) between the front end ( 100 ) and rear end ( 200 ), comprising a sole portion ( 31 ), two side portions ( 32 ) and a top opening between the side portions ( 32 ) in which to insert the foot, comprising the following steps of alternate motion stitching: a) stitching the first front portion ( 11 ) through a decrease in number of stitches; b) stitching the second front portion ( 12 ) through an increase in number of stitches, the second front portion ( 12 ) being joined to the first front portion ( 11 ) continuously along a front gore line ( 13 ); c) stitching the connecting part ( 300 ) equipped with the top opening, the sole portion ( 31 ) and the two side portions ( 32 ), the connecting part ( 300 ) being continuously joined to the front end ( 100 ); d) stitching the first rear portion ( 21 ) through decrease in number of stitches, 20 the second rear portion ( 21 ) being continuously joined to the connecting part ( 300 ); e) stitching the second rear portion ( 22 ) through increase in number of stitches, the second rear portion ( 22 ) being continuously joined to the first rear portion ( 21 ) along a rear gore line ( 23 ); characterised in that all of the steps of alternate motion stitching are realized by many simultaneous independent yarn-feeders to obtain the item of clothing like the single ankle sock ( 10 ).