Abstract: Automatically sewing two stockings to form a pantyhose article by putting the stockings on two corresponding flat, paired, juxtaposed shapes, moving the shapes close to each other with the stockings fitted thereon and cutting a longitudinal portion of the stockings, spreading apart the shapes with the cut stockings thereon and sewing the eges of the latter, rejoining the shapes and unloading the sewn pantyhose.

Abstract: Apparatus for the automatic positioning of stockings in a pantyhose-sewing machine, with detection of the garter line 17, and including two binate stocking-holding shapes 13, each of which has two horizontal articulated arms 10 extended ends joined by a nylon bow 7, wherein the stems 71, 72 of the bow 7 are slidingly housed within the arms 10, 30 of the clamp 13, a driving and guiding device being provided inside the arm 10 of the clamp 13, with a bored rod 4 on top of which one stem 71 of the bow 7 is fixedly engaged; the foot of the other stem 72 being loosely received in a hole 11 of the other arm of the clamp 13; with a hose 1 fixedly fitted on a second hose 2 internally gauged for guiding the shoe 5 of the rod 4, on top of the hoses a bush 3 being fixed for guiding the end of the rod 4; with a thrust spiral spring 5 fitted on the rod 4 inside the hose 2 and suitably pressed between the bush 3 and the shoe 5 of the rod 4; and with a device for driving the retraction or withdrawal of the stretching bow 7 o