US Patent Issued to SGM Automazioni on Oct. 14 for "Circular machine for hosiery and knitwear and process for closing an end of a tubular manufactured article directly on a circular machine" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,114, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SGM Automazioni S.R.L. (Brescia, Italy).

"Circular machine for hosiery and knitwear and process for closing an end of a tubular manufactured article directly on a circular machine" was invented by Renato Micheli (Brescia, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circular machine for producing tubular manufactured articles and a respective process are provided. The circular machine comprises a turner arranged above and axially aligned with a cylinder of the machine and configured to extract the tubular manufactured article from said cylinder. At the same time, turn it inside out, and a transferrin...