Abstract: A flat-bed knitting machine has yarn restraining devices (10) disposed adjacent opposite ends of the stroke of its cam box (4) for controlling the supply of yarn (Y) to the needles so that no loops are formed at the edges of the knitted fabric produced on the machine and no tension is applied to the yarn by the devices while the rows of stitches are being knit. Each device (10) comprises a spring arm (12) for engaging with a cooperating flat surface (17) on the top of the cam box (4) during movement thereof over a predetermined end portion of the stroke and for trapping the yarn (Y) between the arm (12) and the surface (17). The arm (12) is adapted to retain the yarn so trapped as the cam box (4) commences a reverse stroke and until the yarn is re-engaged by the cam box with the adjacent working needle, whereupon a pull is exerted on the yarn to release it as the cam box commences a fresh row of stitches.

Abstract: A flat bed knitting machine comprising a flat elongate bed on which is retained a plurality of parallel, latchable, needles equally spaced along the length of the bed and each movable relative to the bed in a direction lengthwise of the needles and transverse of the bed length, a carriage slidably mounted on the bed for movement transversely of the needles, and a needle-engaging cam plate releasably located in a recess in an upper surface of the carriage and retained in the recess, the carriage having a handle gripped by the user of the machine to transverse the carriage back and forth along the length of the bed.