Patent ID: 7770415

Claim:
A knitting device for producing a double-sided textile comprising two knitted outer laps joined to one another by at least one ground yarn, said device comprising: two groups of needles with hook and pivoting needle latch which are respectively supported by a needle bed, the needles being mounted independently mobile on the corresponding needle bed following a straight trajectory between at least one removal station, a knitting station in which the hook of the needle picks up a corresponding knitting yarn, and a bonding station in which the hook of the needle picks up the ground yarn, means for moving the needles of each of the groups between their different stations, feed means for performing feeding of the knitting yarns respectively forming one and the other of the outer laps, and of a ground yarn, to a zone of the pick-up device of these yarns by the hooks of the needles, the trajectory of a needle of a group being contained in a plane concurrent to a plane containing the trajectory of a needle of the other group in said yarn pick-up zone, wherein the positions of the hook of a needle of a group respectively between its knitting station and its bonding station are arranged on each side of the intersecting line between said two planes, and the travel of the needle between its removal station and its knitting station is smaller than the travel of the needle between its removal station and its bonding station.