Abstract: In a device associated with two longitudinal needle beds below which the fabric being formed exists, a series of fabric holding parts are arranged below the needle beds appropriately spaced out, and carried by vertically sliding guided supporting parts, while slide parts, fixed to the supporting parts slide vertically operated with an alternate motion, between a raised position, where the fabric is held, and a lowered position where the fabric is released. Between these holding parts there are gripper parts, spaced out uniformly in a longitudinal direction, which when activated hold the fabric when this fabric is released by the holding parts.

Abstract: In a selection device there is an electromagnet, secured to a plate integral with a carriage of an automatic knitting machine, and the mobile armature of the electromagnet carries a cylindrical element having a free headrounded and inserted in a concave seat made in a head of an operative assembly, while the other head of the operative assembly integral with a selection member is guided slidingly by the plate. This assembly is stabilized by elestic means designed also to contrast the movement of the assembly when it is subjected to the action of the armature. Enabling the electromagnet causes the selection member to locate at the selection position S.