Patent ID: 7533545

Claim:
A knitting machine, said knitting machine comprising: knitting needles and at least one weft bar for laying at least one weft thread across at least one knitting needle, with an electrically driven thread feeder for the weft thread, and also with a take-down device for textile material and with an electronic control device for controlling the knitting machine pursuant to a pattern program for the textile material to be produced, wherein the control device has control means in order to set the delivery length of the weft thread to be supplied according to the travel of the weft bar, said travel being predetermined from the pattern program, wherein said knitting machine comprises electrically driven thread feeder means to pull-off the weft thread from a reel, wherein said control device has a manually actuable correcting apparatus for an individual superposition of an adjustable correcting factor onto the delivery data of at least one weft thread for at least one weft insertion, and wherein said correcting apparatus has a screen, and an indicator and control layer for the manual setting of the correcting factor.