Liquid separation of sock string
AssigneeKoninklijke Textielfabrieken
InventorJosephus Johannes Maria Jansen
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Abstract
Method and apparatus for knitting socks by means of a circular knitting machine in which the socks are knitted in a continuous string wherein a few courses are knitted with a soluble yarn between the toe portion of each sock and the welt portion of each subsequent sock, during which the string of socks is drawn rotatingly in downward direction out of the knitting cylinder, with the string of socks being passed from the circular knitting machine directly into a liquid flow wherein the soluble yarn with which the successive socks in the string are interconnected dissolves.
Claims5
In apparatus for knitting socks comprising a circular knitting machine having a knitting cylinder on which socks can be knitted and courses of a soluble yarn can be knitted between the toe portion of each sock knit and the welt portion of each subsequently knit sock to produce a continuous string of such socks, and means for drawing the string of socks rotatingly downwardly out of the knitting cylinder, the improvement which comprises a conduit defining a closed flow course, a liquid in said conduit, means for circulating said liquid in said conduit, said conduit having entrance means through which said string of socks can be passed to introduce same into said liquid for dissolving said soluble yarn and thereby separating the socks one from another, and means communicating with said conduit for removing socks from said liquid.
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