Patent ID: 7690223

Claim:
An assembly for a circular knitting machine, the assembly comprising: a member defining a thin groove, the groove defining a length direction, the groove having a bottom face and an upper end face, a distance L being defined as a depth of the groove from the bottom face to the upper end face in a depth direction perpendicular to the length direction; a tool inserted into the thin groove and slidable therein along the length direction of the groove, the tool having a stem and at least one butt; wherein some portions of the stem are spaced above the bottom face of the thin groove in the depth direction and are also spaced below the upper end face of the thin groove in the depth direction, forming floating sections that extend approximately parallel to the length direction of the thin groove in such a way that the floating sections are spaced above the bottom face of the thin groove by a floating length L 1 that is 10-40% of the distance L from the bottom face to the upper end face of the thin groove, and are spaced below the upper end face of the thin groove by a sinking length L 2 that is 10-40% of L.