Welt, Automatic

WELT, AUTOMATIC

This is done on the automatic hose machine by holding alternate stitches on points until the welt piece has been completed, the held stitches being thereafter transferred to their original needles to enable the hose to be continued. By this sytem no sewing or stitching is required, and the join is smooth and continuous -with the parent fabric. In the fully-fashioned article all the original stitches are held until the welt length has been knitted when the stitches are moved back once more to the original needles thus giving a two-ply piece of fabric which is. perfectly smooth and continuous with the ground fabric on the inside. On recently constructed full-fashioned hose machines, welting is now done automatically, by a set of points which automatically bear down on the needles to re-transfer the original stitches.