Abstract: The machine comprises a needle with an open eye orientated perpendicular to a supporting surface for the sewn item and actuated with reciprocating motion to pass cyclically through the supporting surface and the sewn item, carrying a thread loop; a thread take-up wheel having a fixed part, with a magazine for taken-up thread, and a rotatable part; a lower looper engaging the thread loop below the supporting surface and loading the thread into the magazine; and comprises a thread handly unit allowing correct formation of the stitches.

Abstract: A sewing machine for forming running-stitch seams, comprises a needle provided with an open eye and orientated with the axis substantially perpendicular to a surface for supporting the sewn item and is actuated with a reciprocating motion to pass cyclically through the supporting surface. A thread take-up wheel, provided below the supporting surface, is composed of a fixed part, with a magazine for the taken-up thread, and a rotatable part, rotationally actuated about its own axis. The rotatable part supports a lower looper engaging a portion of the loop that protrudes from the eye along one side of the needle. A thread disengager is provided for disengaging the thread from the needle which engage the portion of the loop of thread protruding from the eye.

Abstract: A sewing machine for forming running-stitch seams, comprises a needle provided, proximate to its tip, with an open eye and orientated so that its axis is substantially perpendicular to a surface for supporting the item being sewn. The needle is actuated with a reciprocating motion along its own axis passing cyclically through the supporting surface. A thread take-up wheel is provided below the supporting surface and is composed of a fixed part, with a magazine for the taken-up thread, and a rotatable part, rotationally actuated about its own axis. The rotatable wheel part supports a lower looper engaging the thread loop below the supporting surface to load the thread in the magazine formed in the wheel fixed part. Pneumatic tensioning means for the thread portion lying below the supporting surface are further provided.

Abstract: The machine comprises a needle with an open eye orientated perpendicular to a supporting surface for the sewn item and actuated with reciprocating motion to pass cyclically through the supporting surface and the sewn item, carrying a thread loop; a thread take-up wheel having a fixed part, with a magazine for taken-up thread, and a rotatable part; a lower looper engaging the thread loop below the supporting surface and loading the thread into the magazine; and comprises a thread handly unit allowing correct formation of the stitches.

Abstract: A sewing machine for forming running-stitch seams, comprises a needle provided, proximate to its tip, with an open eye and orientated so that its axis is substantially perpendicular to a surface for supporting the item being sewn. The needle is actuated with a reciprocating motion along its own axis passing cyclically through the supporting surface. A thread take-up wheel is provided below the supporting surface and is composed of a fixed part, with a magazine for the taken-up thread, and a rotatable part, rotationally actuated about its own axis. The rotatable wheel part supports a lower looper engaging the thread loop below the supporting surface to load the thread in the magazine formed in the wheel fixed part. Pneumatic tensioning means for the thread portion lying below the supporting surface are further provided.

Abstract: A sewing machine for forming running-stitch seams, comprises a needle provided with an open eye and orientated with the axis substantially perpendicular to a surface for supporting the sewn item and is actuated with a reciprocating motion to pass cyclically through the supporting surface. A thread take-up wheel, provided below the supporting surface, is composed of a fixed part, with a magazine for the taken-up thread, and a rotatable part, rotationally actuated about its own axis. The rotatable part supports a lower looper engaging a portion of the loop that protrudes from the eye along one side of the needle. A thread disengager is provided for disengaging the thread from the needle which engage the portion of the loop of thread protruding from the eye.

Abstract: A device for feeding correctly orientated socks to a processing station, comprising: a laying unit, which can be fed with a sock and is adapted to lay out the sock in a substantially horizontal direction; a conveyor, which is arranged below the laying unit and forms a substantially horizontal resting surface for the sock that falls from the laying unit after being laid out. The conveyor can be actuated in order to produce the advancement of the sock in a direction which is parallel to the longitudinal extension of the sock, with its toe directed in the advancement direction. The device further comprising a positioner, which is provided with grippers for gripping the sock at its toe as it arrives from the conveyor and can be actuated so as to arrange the sock so that it hangs vertically at its toe.

Abstract: A device for cutting the trailing portions of thread at an end of a textile item, particularly for finishing hosiery items or the like, comprising an extraction device for extracting the trailing portions of thread from the body of the item and a cutting device acting on the extracted trailing portions of thread in order to cut them.

Abstract: An apparatus for automatically feeding tubular articles comprising elements for feeding an article, which are adapted to fit an axial end of the article which is provided with a border thicker than at least one adjacent portion of the article on grip means which can be actuated in order to engage within the axial end so as to support the article in a substantially vertical arrangement and in order to produce a spacing of two diametrically opposite regions of the axial end transversely to the axial extension of the article. The apparatus also comprises elements for supporting the article, which form a first slit-like passage arranged substantially horizontally and adapted to receive a portion of the article that is arranged below the border. Elements for tensioning in a downward direction the article inserted in the first slit-like passage are also provided.

Abstract: A conveyor for sewing machines for closing the tip of hoses or the like, having high-versatility use. The conveyor comprises a pair of substantially coplanar flat strips which are laterally adjacent to each other and have, on their mutually facing sides, a pair of protruding ridges which laterally delimit a passage for a portion of the hose, proximate to the tip, which is knitted with a reduced thickness with respect to the contiguous regions. Each ridge has, along the advancement direction of the hose along the passage, an initial portion and a final portion which are substantially parallel, are mutually spaced and are joined by an inclined intermediate portion. An element for advancing the hose along the passage are provided above the flat strips at the passage. Above each one of the ridges, starting from a region of their initial portion, there is a lamina which can move towards or away from the corresponding ridge and forms a resting surface for the upper border of the thinner portion of the hose.

Abstract: An automatic sock labeling machine including a conveyor element actuatable with a translatory motion along an advancement direction and extending from a station for loading the socks on the conveyor element to a station for unloading the labeled socks. The path of the conveyor element includes: a station for positioning, in each instance, a label so that it straddles the top of a pair of mutually superimposed socks; a station for fixing the label to the pair of socks; and, if necessary a station for printing markings at the foot of one sock of the pair of socks.

Abstract: Machine for turning stockings the right way out which has a first pair of rollers that have mutually parallel axes, are arranged laterally on opposite sides with respect to a median plane, and are rotatable about their respective axes with mutually opposite rotational directions. A gripper is provided for positioning a stocking to be turned the right way out between the first pair of rollers and a mechanism moves the rollers mutually closer or further apart to retain, between the rollers, the stocking carried by the gripper. Variable-speed motors turn the rollers about their respective axes and with mutually opposite rotational directions. A rod is inserted on command between the rollers and cooperates with the rollers to turn the stocking the right way out along the rod. A motor-driven slider moves the rod along its own axis, which is substantially perpendicular to the axes of the rollers, for the insertion of the rod between the rollers or the extraction of the rod therefrom.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing hosiery items, termed "top-to-top" method, and the related modified knitting and stitching machines. The method includes the following steps: knitting a first hosiery item starting from a top down to a toe; knitting at least one row of trim at the end of the toe; knitting a second hosiery item at the end of the row of trim starting from a second toe up to a second top; separating and stitching the first and second hosiery items initially joined by the trim row by means of a specifically modified stitching machine. The stitching machine includes two independent stitching units which are fed by a common conveyor which is provided with a cutter and with diverging traction means. Top-to-top knitting can be performed with appropriately modified mechanically-programmed machines or with electronically programmed machines.

Abstract: Device for turning hosiery items inside out including elements for gripping a hosiery item and moving it along an advancement direction so that the top of the hosiery item is orientated in the advancement direction, and opening elements that engage the hosiery item and act transversely to the advancement direction to open the top of the hosiery item. The device furthermore includes elements for turning the hosiery item inside out that comprise a first component that can be inserted in the hosiery item through the open top, until it reaches proximate to the toe, and has, starting from its end meant to be inserted in the hosiery item, a cavity for the insertion of a second rod-like component which can engage the toe of the hosiery item arranged at the end of the first component. The second component can be inserted in the first component in the direction opposite to the direction of insertion of the first component in the hosiery item, turning the hosiery item inside out along the second component.

Abstract: In an overedge stitch type consisting of two needle threads, one looper thread and a workpiece carrying these threads, loops of the needle threads are arranged at different spacings parallel to the edge of the workpiece within the latter. In addition, these loops of the needle threads may also exhibit different spacing from the workpiece edge.