Patent ID: 7392670

Claim:
An end yarn treatment apparatus of a weft knitting machine, for cutting a knitting yarn and for treating end yarns generated by cutting when front and rear needle beds face each other in the weft knitting machine and a fabric is knitted by letting knitting needles move back and forth, comprising: a first gripper that can move in a direction along needle beds of a weft knitting machine and in a direction in which the first gripper moves closer to and away from a needle bed gap of the needle beds, and that can switch between a state in which a knitting yarn is not and a state in which a knitting yarn is gripped; a second gripper that can move independently of the first gripper in a direction along the needle beds of the weft knitting machine and in a direction in which the second gripper moves closer to and away from the needle beds, and that can switch between a state in which a knitting yarn is not gripped and a state in which a knitting yarn is gripped; a cutter that can move along the needle beds of the weft knitting machine, and that can switch between a state in which a knitting yarn is cut and a state in which a knitting yarn is not cut; and control means for controlling movement and switching of the states of the first gripper, and the second gripper and the cutter, and for performing a control such that in a state where a knitting yarn is gripped with the first gripper and the second gripper, the knitting yarn between gripped points is cut with the cutter.