Busi Giovanni, an Italian hosiery knitting machine manufacturer, has unveiled a new textile sport shoe body, which is knitted on the company’s patented Twin Layer machine and equipped with Rimaglio automated toe-closing device.
The two fabrics that form the sock are knitted contemporarily and can be joined as required. They merge into one single fabric at the welt at the heel and at the toe of the sock, thus no sliding. The automated Rimaglio device, situated at the side of the knitting machine, downloads the sock from the machine, after completion of the knitting operation. It then transfers the sock to the linking device, where it is sewn loop by loop.
The sock is turned inside out, so that the linking remains on the inside of the sock, resulting in a perfect traditional-looking linking. After being sewn, the sock, already reversed to the right side, is removed from the machine and is ready for the next boarding operation.
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Also worth noting is that Twin Layer is a high production single cylinder sock machine with latch needles in the dial that enable it to produce technical sport socks with double fabric. The machine is provided with a patented device that uses the dial needle for the production of an internal layer and the cylinder needles for the production of the external layer.
