Patent ID: 7201023

Claim:
A yarn carrier, in a weft knitting machine, for supplying a knitting yarn to knitting needles provided to be juxtaposed to each other in needle beds of the weft knitting machine, the yarn carrier travels back and forth along a yarn guide rail parallel with a longitudinal direction of the needle beds, and engaged with a pin projecting from a carriage, and is brought by the carriage when engaged with the pin, comprising: a plurality of engagement points for engaging with the pin provided spaced apart from each other along back-and-forth travel directions, some of the plurality of engagement points are provided for engagement in bringing the yarn carrier by the carriage in one of the back-and-forth travel directions, and other plurality of engagement points are provided for engagement in bringing the yarn carrier by the carriage in another back-and-forth travel directions, the pin can be selectively engaged with one of the plurality of engagement points, and the yarn carrier includes engagement releasing members provided in one and the other of the back-and-forth travel directions, respectively, which engagement releasing members each have a projection portion and a plurality of slope portions provided in accordance with the plurality of engagement points, which projection portion are capable of projecting to a front side in a travel direction in which the yarn carrier is brought by the carriage, the releasing member being displaceable so that the engagement with the pin at the plurality of engagement points can be released at the plurality of slope portions when the projection portion is pressed from the front side and recedes.