Abstract: The seams for joining together, along the crotch, the pieces of fabric making up the article and/or for closing the toes of the legs, are made with two needle threads (F1, F2) and one looper thread (F3) that forms a chain stitch, all of them forming long stitches, in such a way that, under the stretching of the garment as it is put on, the seams become essentially “flat”, that is to say very thin and certainly much thinner than they are wide.

Abstract: The equipment comprises in combination: a twin needle (15, 17) fed with two needle threads (F1, F2); an upper looper (30) fed with a looper thread (F3), and a lower spreader (31); a throat plate (36) with two slots (38, 40) for the needles (15, 17) and the stitch finger (42) on the line of the cut (T) of increased width (D); and a thread-pulling arm (25) for pulling off an increased amount of the thread (F3) for the looper at each angular stroke.

Abstract: To help disabled people to put on socks or stockings without being compelled to lean forward or to bend down, a utensil is disclosed which comprises an elongate rod carrying at one end a round half-shell on which the socks or stockings piece rolled up in the upturned position, the shell being rotatable about a pivot carried by said rod. Once the wearer has slipped his toe tip in the socks tip, he thrusts his foot on into the socks piece and this is gradually unrolled from the shell: by slightly pulling the rod up as the heel area is reached, the socks piece continues to be unrolled and fits the wearer's leg gradually. The reverse manipulation is adopted for pulling the socks out.

Abstract: For a textile machine fed by yarn bobbins, such as a hosiery knitting machine and like apparatus, a device is provided for detecting the condition in which the yarn is nearly finished in any bobbin and for stopping the machine automatically prior to having to suffer from damage to the article being knitted.A system of fixed and movable contacts associated to each section of the bobbin is provided, the movable contacts being responsive to the presence and the pressure of the yarn so that when the yarn pressure on the bobbin stud begins to be released, the movable contact closes an alarm and stopping circuit.