Method for providing semi-finished tubular manufactured articles to be closed by stitching at an axial end thereof for the production of socks, and semi-finished tubular manufactured article obtained with the method

A method for providing semi-finished tubular manufactured articles to be closed by stitching at an axial end thereof for the production of socks, which comprises a step of providing the body of a tubular manufactured article and a step of providing an end portion of the tubular manufactured article which is intended to be removed during a subsequent stitching operation in order to close an axial end of the tubular manufactured article, said step of providing the end portion comprising:

• a step of providing an intermediate band connected to said body of the manufactured article and thinner than a thickness at least of rows of knitting of the body of the manufactured article which are connected to said intermediate band;
• a step of providing an end edge thicker than the thickness of said intermediate band;
• wherein a height of said intermediate band, proximate to regions that constitute lateral ends of two flaps of said end portion to be overlapped in order to stitch the axial end to be closed of the tubular manufactured article, is lower than a height of a remaining part of said intermediate band.

A semi-finished tubular manufactured article for the production of socks, which comprises a body of the manufactured article and an end portion of the tubular manufactured article which is connected to an axial end of said body of the manufactured article and is intended to be removed during a subsequent stitching operation in order to close an axial end of the tubular manufactured article, said end portion comprising:

• an intermediate band connected to said body of the manufactured article and thinner than a thickness at least of rows of knitting of body of the manufactured article which are connected to said intermediate band;
• an end edge thicker than a thickness of said intermediate band;
• wherein a height of said intermediate band, proximate to regions that constitute lateral ends of two flaps of said end portion to be overlapped in order to stitch the axial end to be closed of the tubular manufactured article, is lower than the height of the remaining part of said intermediate band.