Patent ID: 6895785

Claim:
A yarn carrier of a weft knitting apparatus which yarn carrier is selected by protruding a pin disposed to a carriage moving to one side or another side along a longitudinal direction of a needle bed of the weft knitting apparatus and capable of appearing, provided with two engagement points where a tip of the pin can be engaged spaced in the longitudinal direction in order to supply knitting yarn to the vicinity of a tip of a knitting needle performing a knitting operation, engaged with the tip of the pin in the engagement point on a front side in a running direction of the carriage, and hauled and moved by the carriage, the yarn carrier of the weft knitting apparatus comprising: a pair of selection guiding members which are disposed so as to front the individual engagement points from the outside of the two engagement points in the longitudinal direction, respectively, and which selectively guide the pin so as to pass by the engagement point on a rear side in the running direction of the carriage and so as not to pass by the engagement point on the front side in the running direction of the carriage; and a guide blocking mechanism, disposed between the two engagement points, which guides the pin guided by the selection guiding member so as to pass by the engagement point on the rear side in the running direction to the engagement point on the front side in the running direction and which, when the pin reaches the front-side engagement point, makes displacement so as to prevent the pin from moving on the rear side relatively to the engagement point.