Mechanism for selecting and controlling the needles of knitting machines, and needle for said mechanism.

摘要

The needles (13; 15) have no heels interacting with the stitch-forming cams; a laminar selector or jack (116) which is co-planar with each needle is accommodated in the same sliding channel as the needle and articulated to the needle by shaped portions (114, 117) for angular displacements with respect to the needle and in the same plane as the latter, said jack or selector possessing at least one heel (118) capable of projecting and retracting relative to the channel in order to be active and inactive, respectively, relative to the stitch-forming cams.