Abstract: A needle for transferring stitches therefrom to adjacent needles for hosiery knitting machines comprises a shank, a head, arranged at a longitudinal end, or upper end, of the shank, and a latch which is pivoted to the shank proximate to the head, about a pivoting axis which is substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the shank and can rotate about the pivoting axis in order to open or close the head. The needle comprises at least one elastically flexible lamina, which is associated with the shank and forms, on the two opposite sides of the shank, below the latch, two receptacles, one for each side of the shank. The head of an adjacent needle can be inserted in each of the receptacles, in order to transfer the loop of knitting, from the needle being considered to the adjacent needle.

Abstract: For producing knitted products with several knitting planes on a two bed flat knitting machine, all needles of one needle bed are usable for producing of stitches for a knitting plane, and the production of additional knitting plane is performed so that the stitches of another plane are transferred to the transfer element and held there, until new stitches for the knitting plane must be formed.

Abstract: A flat knitting machine comprises four needle beds in the form of flat plates wherein a pair of front side and back side lower needle beds thereof are disposed in an inverted V-shape in side elevation with head portions thereof opposed to each other, and another pair of front side and back side upper needle beds thereof are disposed with head portions thereof positioned near the head portions of the respective lower needle beds and in an inclined relationship such that the head portions thereof may assume a little higher position.