Patent ID: 7269976

Claim:
A weft knitting machine capable of switching a state of bringing a moving member for knitting which moves while being brought by at least one of front and rear carriages, and while the carriages move along front and rear needle beds of the weft knitting machine, knitting needles are arranged side by side in each of the needle beds to perform a knitting operation, the moving member for knitting a fabric in cooperation with the knitting needles, comprising: a rail that is disposed along the needle beds; a stopping mechanism that is disposed at an end portion of the needle beds, and that can stop the moving member for knitting; a moving member holding mechanism that can move back and forth on the rail, the stopping mechanism being capable of attaching the moving member for knitting to the moving member holding mechanism and detaching the moving member for knitting from the moving member holding mechanism when the moving member holding mechanism moves to a position of the stopping mechanism; and a bringing state switching mechanism capable of switching between a state in which the moving member holding mechanism is brought by the carriage and a state in which the moving member holding mechanism is not brought.