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This device would be a single purpose fully automated sewing
machine. It would make one item: socks. Every day a fresh
pair if you want. Just feed in the bolt of cloth when it's empty
and push a button when you want socks.
Sock knitting machine
http://www.youtube....watch?v=2bBFuyrLSvE
Strip out all that CNC junk, maybe add a cast iron flywheel and a treadle. [mitxela, Nov 17 2013]
Hand cranked sock knitting machines
http://www.oldtymes...chines_english.html
Oh wait -- the Victorians beat us to it. [mitxela, Nov 17 2013]
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//bolt of cloth// for socks ? yarn or thread, no ? |
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and does the machine make the socks while you wait ? or does it make the socks when you stand on it, around your feet. |
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How would this differ from just having a stock of
manufactured socks massing the same as the bolt of
cloth? |
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Good idea, presumably alterable for thickness summer/winter socks. Maybe some technique like ruching? |
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If it isn't limited to pair increments, this solves the age old one-lost-
sock problem. Just pop out a new one to replace the lost sock. |
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Useful for those who wear a number of socks other than two simultaneously. |
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Some time ago I considered a post about single-socks being made for sale but I discovered it is already baked (though oddly available in packs of three). |
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You could feed worn socks into a machine that shreds them, cards the fragments and spins them into yarn which is automatically fed into the knitting machine. |
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[+], although I'd rather have one for underwear. A fresh
unworn pair of underpants is one of my most innocent
guilty pleasures. |
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So..wh..what do you do with them? |
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oh no, this will put Grandma out of business! |
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I'd like to see this device contain a large number of silkworms and to demonstrate the collection of silk, the spinning process and then the manufacture of a pair of silk socks. To my mind there's something more pleasing in having a machine that you provide with sunshine, air, and water (for the plants the silkworms feed on) and which produces socks from these, than having a machine which you have to supply with manufactured thread. |
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Excellent idea [hippo]. Can also dispense fresh mulberries. |
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// So..wh..what do you do with them? // |
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I wear them. What do you do with your underpants? |
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[Pocmloc] - Mulberry jam - that can be the
machine's other function |
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