The machine has full electronic control and the terry device enables fully automatic switching from plain stitch to half terry and to full terry.Italian sock knitting machine builder Busi Giovanni reports that it has developed a way of applying patterning in the heel area of socks using its BUSI J Terry single cylinder sock machine.Michele Castagna, Marketing & Export Manager at Busi said: “ We have recently developed the possibility, only with reference to our model J-TERRY, to obtain a pattern also covering the whole heel area of a sock and coherently extending until the gore-lines. Busi sells in flat reed wire Suppliers more than 50 countries around the world (90% export) through a network of partners that provide distribution and service.The company is a supplier to the most important producers of stockings, socks and tights, for the men's, women's and children's markets - classic, patterned, sports, technical-sports, as well as medical, with special solutions for graduated compression.busigiovanni.”“ Such pattern in the heel can be carried out up to four colours plus the ground and knitted either on a terry base, or on a flat-stitch base,” Mr Castagna added