Abstract: A set of cams for actuating the lowering sinkers in circular knitting machines, for producing standard-terry knitting and sandwich-terry knitting. The cam set comprises cams and countercams which form a path for the heels of the lowering sinkers which have two lowering planes arranged at mutually different elevations for at least two yarns which are dispensed at a feed of the machine to form loops of terry knitting. The cam set also comprises, in the region of the path that corresponds to the descent of the needles of the needle cylinder to form loops of knitting with the two yarns dispensed at a feed of the machine, a cam which can move on command into two operating positions in order to produce at least one variation of the path formed by the cams and countercams.