Lesson 15 The manufacture of hosiery on small-diameter circular machines
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15.1 Types of hosiery
Hose, which have a leg-length extending above the knee
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15.2 Classes of hosiery machines
Except for the few Griswold type hand-turned machines(Fig.4.4), all hosiery machines are of the revolving cylinder type. This arrangement offers the advantages of high revolution speeds, a simplified drive, and the possibility of selectively striping-in yarn from stationary packages placed at fixed feed positions around the cylinder. The three types of hosiery machines, in order of their increasing complexity and needle bed arrangement, are single cylinder, cylinder and dial and double cylinder.
Micromesh is similar although less effective because it contains less tuck stitches.