Patent ID: 7861559

Claim:
A knitting machine, comprising a supporting element which can be arranged on the inner side of the bed of the machine to be fed and supports a set of yarn guides arranged mutually side-by-side; said bed being able to move with respect to said supporting element along an actuation path; each of said yarn guides having a passage for at least one yarn to be fed to the needles of the machine that are arranged in said bed and said supporting element, for each of said yarn guides, supporting an element for clamping and cutting the yarn dispensed by the corresponding yarn guide; first actuation means for actuating the yarn guides being provided for the passage of said yarn guides from an inactive position, in which they are arranged so that their yarn passage lies on the inner side of the bed, to an active position, in which they are arranged so that their yarn passage lies on the outer side of the bed, or vice versa; and second actuation means being provided for actuating the clamping and cutting elements for the passage of the clamping and cutting elements from a position for clamping the yarn to a position for waiting for the yarn to be clamped; wherein said first actuation means are arranged on said supporting element and comprise individual actuators which can be actuated to produce the passage of each of said yarn guides from said inactive position to said active position or vice versa, independently of the actuation of the other yarn guides and independently of the position of said bed with respect to said supporting element along the corresponding actuation path.