Abstract: A circular warp knitting machine is designed for knitting hosiery pieces and comprises a stationary needle cylinder, knitting needles which are installed in grooves of two concentrically arranged annular guide bars, racking mechanisms for racking the guide bars together with the guide needles along the front of the knitting needles and rocking mechanisms for rocking the guide needles between the knitting needles. The needle cylinder accomodates a sleeve movable therealong which controls the movement of the sinkers. A holder movable along the needle cylinder is arranged inside the needle cylinder and carries the knitting needles mounted therein, and sliding frames of the rocking mechanisms of the guide needles and concentrically arranged rotatable casings carrying the annular guide bars are installed over the needle cylinder coaxially therewith. This arrangement ensures a simple and compact structure of the machine.

Abstract: The method for knitting stockings comprises laying two systems of warp threads on knitting needles by means of two sets of guide needles and knitting a continuous hose which consists of a plurality of serially arranged stockings. Each stocking is made by knitting, in a sequence, with one-bar tricot stitch from one system of warp threads, an overturned welt 6 of the stocking and with two-bar tricot stitch from the two systems of warp threads, a leg, a heel portion, a sole portion and pull courses. After knitting the pull courses of the stocking, a garterband portion is knit with the loop length which is at least equal to the loop length of a cylindrical portion of the leg.