Abstract: A knitting machine of the type using positive contact of a moving tape to correspondingly urge the yarn in feed movement from its source to the machine knitting station, but wherein the movement of a first, comparatively large master tape is effectively transmitted to plural second smaller loops of tape associated with each yarn strand to provide said feed movement thereto. Thus, for example, any spinning oil in the yarn is deposited only on the smaller tape loop and, if it causes rupture thereof, correspondingly limits the loss thereto. This is in contrast to existing feed systems in which belt rupture from the foregoing occurs in the large master tape, and in which other shortcomings associated with using only a single, large master tape also occur.