Patent ID: 7174748

Claim:
A sinker unit of a weft knitting machine comprising a plurality of sinkers provided together with a knitting needle at a tip side of a needle bed disposed so as to face a knitted fabric knitting region, wherein in each of the sinkers a tip portion including a portion for pressing a knitted loop can be pivotally displaced with a vicinity of a tip side on one of surfaces of the needle bed set to be a support point and moved forward and backward with respect to the knitted fabric knitting region, and a tip portion of each of the sinkers is moved forward into the knitted fabric knitting region owing to energization of a spring, and wherein the tip portion of each of the sinkers has an abutment portion in a position placed apart from the knitted fabric knitting region, with respect to the portion for pressing the knitted loop, the sinker unit comprising: a stopper provided on another surface of the needle bed and abutting on an abutment portion in the tip portion of each of the sinkers moved forward into the knitted fabric knitting region; and a position adjusting mechanism for adjusting a position to move the stopper forward and backward with respect to the knitted fabric knitting region.