VERFAHREN ZUM HERSTELLEN VON STRUMPFGEWIRKEN UND RUNDKETTENWIRKMASCHINE ZUR DURCHFUEHRUNG DES VERFAHRENS

Stockings are knitted by laying two systems of warp threads on knitting needles by means of two sets of guide needles and knitting a continuous hose 4 which consists of a plurality of serially arranged stockings 4a. Each stocking 4a is made by knitting, in a sequence, with one-bar tricot stitch from one system of warp threads, an overturned welt 6 of the stocking 4a, and with two-bar tricot stitch from the two systems of warp threads, a leg 7, a heel portion 11, a sole portion 12 and pull courses 13. After knitting the pull courses 13 of the stocking, a garterband portion 5 is knit with the loop length which is at least equal to the loop length of a cylindrical portion 8 of the leg 7. In addition, at least two courses are knit with one-bar tricot stitch from one system of warp threads between the sole portion 12 and the pull courses 13 and between the pull courses 13 and the garterband portion 5, respectively, to form boundary portions 14 and 15 of the stocking 4a thereby defining the length of the stocking and marking the point at which the hose 4 is cut into individual stockings 4a. The stockings are made on a circular warp knitting machine having, in addition to main stitch forming mechanisms, has stop motions of these mechanisms kinematically coupled to a control drum of the control device of the machine so that desired mechanisms might be disengaged and re-engaged in accordance with the method for knitting stockings to knit various portions of the stocking with either one-bar tricot stitch or two-bar tricot stitch.