Feeder for guiding stockings in looping machines

A feeder for stockings in a looping machine, comprising:

• a horizontal support bracket mounted on a vertical wall and having a frontal side facing away from the wall;
• inner and outer spaced apart coplanar elongated guide bars mounted underneath the support bracket, the inner bar being mounted fixedly;
• and
• adjusting means mounted on the frontal wall for varying a distance between the bars and including:
• a pair of spaced apart bores formed in the bracket and opening into the frontal side, the bores extending along respective parallel bore axes extending transversely to the bars toward the vertical wall and perpendicular thereto,
• respective pair of rods mounted slidably in respective bores and coaxial therewith, each rod having a respective outer end projecting from the respective bore,
• respective springs in the bores biasing the rods axially outwardly, the outer bar being operatively connected with the rods and displaceable therewith, and
• actuating means operatively connected with the outer ends of the rods for displacing the outer bar toward and away from the inner bar upon displacing the rods along the bore axes inwardly by overcoming the forces generated by the springs and outwardly upon yielding the forces.