Abstract: A method for reversing a tubular knitted article (S) is disclosed. According to the method, the tubular knitted article (S), engaged at a first end thereof by a pick-up device (5) and hanging with a second end thereof from the pick-up device, is introduced in a reversing tube (15). The reversing tube (15) is moved through the pick-up device (5) so as to project with the upper end (15B) thereof above the pick-up device; and the reversing tube (15) is moved reciprocatingly up and down between an upper position and a lower position, while co-acting with a top clamping device (31) and a bottom clamping device (35) until the tubular knitted article (S) is entirely everted on the outer surface of the reversing tube (15).

Abstract: A pocket inverter may include a wand and a head connected with the wand. The head may include a barbed portion comprising protrusions that extend outward from a surface of the barbed portion. The protrusions each may have a shape to ensnare fabric in a pocket when the head is inserted inside a pocket and rotated, but prevent the protrusions from piercing through fabric of the pocket.

Abstract: A pocket inverter may include a wand and a head connected with the wand. The head may include a barbed portion comprising protrusions that extend outward from a surface of the barbed portion. The protrusions each may have a shape to ensnare fabric in a pocket when the head is inserted inside a pocket and rotated, but prevent the protrusions from piercing through fabric of the pocket.

Abstract: An apparatus (1) and a related method for automatic transfer of socks (4) from a linking machine (2) to a sock-modeling piece for boarding operation (36) according to a predetermined orientation, the apparatus comprising reversing means (20) comprising feeding means (21) for picking up the sock (4) from a sewing station (22) of the linking machine and loading means (31) for automatically loading the sock (4) onto the sock-modeling piece, the reversing means (20) comprising a supporting element (23) and at least one pair of lower rollers (24) disposed around said supporting element (23).

Abstract: An apparatus (1) and a related method for automatic transfer of socks (4) from a linking machine (2) to a sock-modelling piece for boarding operation (36) according to a predetermined orientation, the apparatus comprising reversing means (20) comprising feeding means (21) for picking up the sock (4) from a sewing station (22) of the linking machine and loading means (31) for automatically loading the sock (4) onto the sock-modelling piece, the reversing means (20) comprising a supporting element (23) and at least one pair of lower rollers (24) disposed around said supporting element (23).

Abstract: A device for inverting gloves, especially industrial-heavy-duty-lined-rubber gloves, wherein a shallow hole exists in the center of the top of the base (1) wherein the pushrod fits and the tube (3), wherein the length thereof is shorter than the pushrod (2) and provides for an inside diameter that is sufficient to accommodate a pushrod (2) freely without hindrance. Inserting the glove appendage tip into the tube (3), thereafter introducing the tube (3) conversely into the glove appendage socket. Subsequently the pushrod (2) base (1) assembly is inserted into the tube (3) and pushed through the tube (3) accomplishing inversion efficiently and expediently.

Abstract: An apparatus for automatically inverting a garment piece for a sweat suit or the like. The apparatus includes an elongated tube for receiving the garment piece over the front end of the tube. A gripper arm is located adjacent to the rear end of the tube and axially aligned with the tube. The gripper arm includes an elongated arm attached to a frame at one end; gripping means attached to the other end of the elongated arm; and means for moving the arm and the gripping means from a first position away from the garment piece to a second position adjacent to the garment piece. A spreader engages the garment piece adjacent to the front end of the tube to position the garment piece for the gripper means. The gripper means and arm are operable to grasp and withdraw the garment piece through the front end of the tube to the rear end of the tube to automatically invert the garment piece.

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: The turn and cut machine includes a feed tray for advancing flat tubular feedstock textile material. Grippers open the leading end of the tubular material to define an opening. Clamp elements are advanced into the opening to clamp opposite side portions of the feedstock and space the side portions laterally outwardly of the margins of the tubular feedstock. Feed trays advance the feedstock through the leading edge opening, reverse-folding the material onto itself. The feed of the material is stopped while the trays continue to advance to peel the clamped portion from the clamp assemblies. The trays are withdrawn and a guillotine blade cuts the reverse-folded textile material.

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: To turn out men's stockings, that is to say socks, outside and at a distance from the relevant operating machine, such as a circular machine for sock manufacture or a toe-sewing machine, use is made of:a device from extracting the sock 3 from the machine 1 by sucking it into a pipe 2 which conveys it to a turning-out station 4 positioned at a distance from the machine 1 and, after turning out, for directing it to the discharge;a turning out station 4 comprising: a chamber 40 having a vertical axis, with an articulated grilled diaphragm 41 for intercepting and positioning the sock 3 vertically and with the cuff 30 at the top; pincers for grasping the cuff 30 from the outside and extending it into a circle; a cup 52 for clamping the cuff 30 thus extended; a turning out tube 5 which is coaxial with the chamber 40, passes into said cup 52 and into the port 43 of said diaphragm 41 and is subject to the double-action pneumatic cylinder 9, in line with the chamber 40, in which tube 5 the sock 3 comes to be accommoda

Abstract: Apparatus for use in turning inside out a stitched, hollow necktie assembly includes a guide comprising a hollow tube (2) of which part (4) of the wall is cut away over a shaped length extending from an intermediate part of the tube to a first end region thereof. A turning loop (7) is angled away from the first end region of the tube, the outer surface of the turning loop lying substantially within the projection of the outer surface of the tube along the axis thereof. The turning loop has a turning surface (27) facing generally away from the tube and an opposite surface (28) facing generally towards the tube. The perimeter of the minimum envelope at any part of the shaped length of the tube and at any part of the turning loop is less than the cross-sectional external perimeter of the tube. Drive mechanisms (13,14) are provided for driving a tie engagement mechanism (21) between an advanced position adjacent to the turning loop and a retracted position.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: A device which assists in the inversion of fabric sleeves such as cloth belts and straps. A rigid rod is encapsulated in a high friction cover which frictionally grips the inside of the fabric sleeve to prevent it from sliding while it is being inverted. The opposite ends of the rod are provided with smooth end caps which have tapered or rounded noses to facilitate insertion of the device into the fabric sleeve.

Abstract: Apparatus for turning hose such as socks and stockings inside out, consisting of a drive unit with a gripping device which grips the toe of the hose and moves it between a pair of rotatable rollers which clamp onto the hose. A descending blade is arranged to engage the toe of the hose and to advance it through the nip of the rollers turning the sock inside out as it is wrapped around the blade. The blade is introduced as it descends further between a further pair of rotating rollers arranged to remove the hose which has been turned inside out from the blade.

Abstract: A device for turning tubular fabric sleeves. The device comprises a narrow hollow inverting tube and a long rigid wire fabric puller. The fabric puller is equipped with a handle on one end and a plurality of helical turns on the other end. The last of the helical turns is arranged at a 90 degree angle relative to the centerline of the wire so as to form a ledge for the fabric sleeve to bear against.

Abstract: Apparatus for reversing or turning hose inside out comprises a pair of contra-rotating rollers 3 and 4, resiliently urged towards each other to form a nip therebetween into which the hose is introduced from its closed or toe cap end by a pick-up and conveyor assembly and a rod or rounded blade member 5 arranged to be displaced through the nip to engage the closed end of the hose and carry it away from the rollers while the latter draw the hose about the rod or blade element to turn the hose inside out.

Abstract: A stocking turning device comprises a pair of belts (9, 10) of a lower pair, which grip the toe of a previously-sewn stocking having an indent or pocket at its closed end, and fit it on to a flat bar or batten (6) disposed vertically. The belts (11, 12) of an upper pair stop immediately the free edge of the stocking top is no longer grasped by the lower pair of belts.

Abstract: Apparatus comprising a plurality of shaped bodies carried on a rotable structure. On the end of each body one edge can be manually placed of a tubular element of textile material forming the leg of a stocking. During the rotation of said structure, each body having said element hanging therefrom, is positioned in front of and adjacent to the free end of a mounting tube in a semiautomatic sewing machine. At this position an elongated rod is automatically operated, such a rod being provided with a hook member separating the edge of the tubular element from the shaped body, overturning and transferring it onto the end of the pounting tube and causing it to slide along the tube, where it is caught by the gripping members the sewing machine is fitted with, the machine then providing for sewing the other end of the tubular element forming the tip of a stocking.

Abstract: A device and method for manually everting a cloth or fabric tube where all manipulations may be visually monitored. The device comprises an elongated hollow body having a convergent passageway entrance at one end thereof and a fabric attachment member connected to a handle member adapted to be selectively introduced into or removed from the other end of said hollow body. The body portion of the tool is preferably cylindrical in configuration. The means connecting the handle member and the fabric attachment member is arranged within the interior of said hollow body when the handle member is introduced into said one end thereof. With the handle member so arranged, the fabric attachment means engages the open end of the cloth tube. The tube may then be everted by moving the handle outwardly from the hollow body, thereby pulling the end of the tube into the convergent passageway entrance. This causes the fabric tube to gather and move upwardly through the hollow body.