Patent ID: 8000830

Claim:
A method of manufacturing multi-color hosiery comprising the steps of: providing a pattern knitter which contains a main control computer to process color differentiation and set up yarn feeding commands according a knitting color layout of a hosiery; selecting total number of colored yarns and color types of pattern color yarns, mounting the colored yarns on yarn racks, and arranging all knitting sets of a feeder support of the pattern knitter to match the colored yarns up to forty six different color types, the feeder support comprising a plurality of main feeds respectively coupled to a plurality of main yarn sets, a plurality of yarn feeder sets each coupled to at least one pattern feed; wherein each of the main yarn sets and yarn feeder sets includes a plurality of yarn fingers engaging the colored yarns; and controlling yarn fingers through the main control computer according to sequence of the yarn feeding commands to perform knitting operation to finish a hosiery body.