Hosiery Knitting Machinery
category
Hosiery knitting machinery produces shaped tubular legwear products including socks, stockings, tights, and compression hosiery using fine gauge circular knitting machines with specialised leg and foot shaping mechanisms, toe closing systems, and elastane integration capabilities that produce complete hosiery products requiring only toe seaming or welding to complete the finished article.
Role
Provides the specialised circular knitting technology for hosiery production that integrates garment shaping, yarn selection, and pattern capabilities in a single machine producing near-complete hosiery products at high production rates, with hosiery machinery representing a specialised technology segment with distinct needle, sinker, and shaping mechanisms optimised for the specific requirements of sock, stocking, and compression hosiery production.
Subtopics
- Single Cylinder Sock Knitting Machine Technology Single cylinder sock machines use a rotating needle cylinder of 3.5 to 4 inch diameter at gauges fro…
- Double Cylinder Hosiery Machine for Reversible Rib Double cylinder hosiery machines use upper and lower needle cylinders to transfer loops between cyli…
- Heel and Toe Shaping Mechanisms in Hosiery Heel and toe shaping on sock machines uses reciprocating motion where the cylinder oscillates back a…
- Automatic Toe Closing Systems Automatic toe closing machines use linking or looping heads to pick up individual loops from the ope…
- Compression Hosiery Knitting and Graduated Pressure Medical compression hosiery knitting uses elastane or rubber core yarn with programmed stitch densit…
- Fine Gauge Stocking and Pantyhose Machines Fine gauge stocking machines at 400 to 560 needles per cylinder produce sheer nylon pantyhose and st…
- Terry and Cushion Sole Sock Knitting Terry sole sock knitting uses long-nose sinkers that hold the ground yarn loop short while forming e…
- Yarn Selection and Fibre Content for Hosiery Hosiery yarn selection encompasses nylon 6 and nylon 6.6 filament for sheer stockings and athletic s…
- Hosiery Boarding and Finishing Equipment Hosiery boarding presses shape knitted hosiery to standard leg forms under steam pressure at 120 to …
- Automated Hosiery Sorting and Pairing Systems Automated hosiery sorting and pairing systems use machine vision and colour recognition to identify …