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US 4,784,070 AGranted
Pantihose manufacture
AssigneeDetexomat Machinery Limited
InventorsDietrich Thurner, Herman Schutzmeier
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AssigneeDetexomat Machinery Limited
InventorsDietrich Thurner, Herman Schutzmeier
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For the manufacture of pantihose, a gusset inserting machine is coupled to a hosiery machine such as a boarding or toe closing machine, for automatic transfer or gussetted pantihose to the latter machine, by a first transfer mechanism which strips pantihose from the gusset machine and loads a rotary conveyor and by a second transfer mechanism which strips the pantihose from the conveyor and loads it on a pair of supports of the receiving hosiery machine. After the gusset machine has seamed a gusset into the pantihose, a support head on which the pantihose is mounted for gusset insertion is rotated through a predetermined angle for orienting the pantihose according to the loading requirements of the receiving machine, and the two transfer mechanisms and conveyor maintain the orientation of the pantihose as established by rotation of the support head.
Pantihose manufacturing apparatus including a gusset inserting machine having a support body for mounting a pantihose garment for said machine to perform a gusset inserting operation on the garment, a second machine having support means over which legs of said garment are to be drawn prior to initiating a processing operation on said garment by the second machine and means to strip the garment from the support body and to transfer it onto said support means in a given orientation demanded by the second machine, said apparatus further having means adapted and operational to dispose the garment in a predetermined attitude related to said given orientation before said stripping means is activated to strip and transfer the garment, said stripping means being operative to preserve said attitude.
Pantihose manufacturing apparatus comprising a gusset inserting machine provided with a head for supporting the body of a pantihose garment for a gusset to be inserted into a crutch area of the body;
A machine for inserting gussets into the crutches of pantihose garments, comprising:
Pantihose manufacturing apparatus, comprising at least three serially-arranged hosiery processing machines operative to perform respective processing operations in sequence on pantihose articles supplied to the apparatus, automatic transfer mechanism operable between pairs of said machines for conveying said articles from one machine to the next machine in the series and for mounting said articles on same one of the machines demanding that said articles be mounted thereon in a given orientation, gusset inserting machine in the series preceding said one machine and having means to orient said articles in a predetermined attitude corresponding to the given orientation, said apparatus and transfer mechanism being operative to maintain said oriented articles in the predetermined attitude corresponding to the given orientation, until they have been mounted on said one machine.
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