2 December 2009, Brescia - Leading Italian sock machine
builder Busi Giovanni, has been given approval by the Italian Federation of
Football for the use of its football sock with integrally knitted pocket for
housing shin guards. The news came to the company’s Managing Director Dr. Gianmario
Busi, in a letter from the President of the Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio
(F.I.G.C), the
governing body of Italian club and international football.
In the letter, the President of the F.I.G.C said the Committee
of Referees of F.I.G.C. had given its positive evaluation and that the company
had approval to work directly with professional clubs and players as well as
with the professional leagues. Busi Giovanni Company Director, Catina Busi
said: “This is a very important step as
this new sock can now be used in official matches.”
The shin-guard sock is the product of Busi’s Idea Twin Layer
cylinder and dial sock knitting machine which was unveiled at the recent FIMAST
show in Brescia. The Botticino (BS) based company showed its new patented ‘Idea Twin Layer’ cylinder
and dial machine which was producing a football sock with integrally knitted
pocket for housing shin guards at the show. The model on show was a 4 inch, 168
needles, 36 gauge machine fitted with the optional classic toe linking device.
“As it is based on the 404 Idea Terry machine, the 404 Twin
Layer has all the same knitting possibilities as the original machine. In
addition to this, using the dial needles and a special patented device which is
integrated in the dial itself, the machine can produce double layer socks. It
is possible to knit two fabrics at the same time on the Twin Layer, one inside
the other. The external sock is produced in the conventional way on the
cylinder needles while the internal sock is knitted by the dial needles,” said
Busi machine designer Ing. Alessandro Corti at FIMAST.
“This gives the opportunity to use completely independent
yarns with different fibre content for the inside and outside of the sock,
which according to Busi opens up new perspectives in the field of technical
sport socks. The double layer structure can be extended to the complete sock.
In this case the two fabrics are joined at the welt, at the heel and at the toe
which prevents the sliding of the inner layer in relation to the outer layer.”
Ing. Corti added.
Busi’s Export Manager, Federica Ambrosi told Knitting
Industry: “It is also possible to knit socks with the double layer in a
selected part of the sock, for example only in the sole and/or in the heel. An
interesting application is the possibility to create pouches inside the socks,
like for example the shin-pad holding pouch attached inside a football sock as
produced at the show.”
Another possibility
with the Idea Twin Layer is to create reinforced areas with the double layer
having any desired shape which can be placed in any part of the leg and/or
foot. On all of the available machine diameters it is possible to install the
Rimaglio option that will produce a sock having the toe closed automatically
with ‘loop by loop’ linking.
