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Claim 1

A KNITTING MACHINE COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION, A NEEDLE BED HAVING NEEDLE GROOVES FORMED THEREIN, A SET OF INDEPENDENT KNITTING NEEDLES ARRANGED TO WORK IN SAID GROOVES, TWO SEPARATE INDEPENDENTLY OPERABLE NEEDLE SELECTION MECHANISMS WHICH ARE DISPOSED AT DIFFERENT HEIGHTS, SAID TWO NEEDLE SELECTING MECHANISMS BEING ADAPTED TO EFFECT SELECTIONS OF NEEDLES FOR RESPECTIVELY DIFFERENT PURPOSES, TWO SEPARATE AND INDEPENDENT NEEDLEACTUATING JACKS TO EACH NEEDLE REQUIRING TO BE INFLUENCED BY THE SAID NEEDLE SELECTING MECHANISMS, SAID TWO JACKS BEING BOTH ARRANGED IN THE SAME NEEDLE GROOVE AS, AND THUS IN ALIGNMENT WITH, THE SAID NEEDLE AND, INTERPOSED BETWEEN SAID TWO JACK, A SPACER ELEMENT WHICH IS ALSO ACCOMMODATED IN THE SAME GROOVE AS THE NEEDLE BUT IS SO FORMED AS TO ENABLE IT TO BE ACTED UPON AND MOVED LONGITUDINALLY, TO TRANSMIT A CORRESPONDING MOVEMENT TO THE NEEDLE, BY EITHER OF THE TWO INDEPENDENT SELECTIVELY ACTUATED JACKS WITHOUT DISTURBING THE OTHER.