Sewing method, particularly for closing the toe of hosiery items or an axial end of tubular articles in general, and apparatus for performing the method

摘要

A sewing method and apparatus, for closing the axial end of a tubular article, such as a hosiery toe, consisting in moving the article (1) along a guiding path, formed by two adjacent laminas (12a, 12b) faced by a sewing head (14), in two opposite directions so as to make the article advance with respect to the sewing head during formation of a first stitched seam, retracting the article to return upstream of the sewing head (14) after formation of the first stitched seam, and make the article advance again during formation of the second stitched seam, to close the article by two sewing lines, using a single sewing head (14).