s of the machine carriage as identified in fig2 with broken lines both needle beds 12 and 13 of a v bed flat knitting machine can be seen from the schematic showing of fig3 the both machine carriage parts 14 1 and 14 2 which are correspondingly arranged on both needle beds for needle control are not shown in detail fig3 shows the central plane 15 which extends through the comb gap of the flat knitting machine as identified with a dash dot line a needle slider 16 with an associated needle 17 is shown in one needle bed 13 in an extended position together with an adjacent sinker 19 pivotally supported about a bar 18 the sinker 19 which is to be controlled with the device 10 has a projection 19 1 turnable pivotable into the comb gap and a control foot 19 2 for controlling the sinkers 19 elements of the sinker control device 10 provided on their control foot 19 2 are shown clearly in fig2 and 3 two cam webs 20 and 21 are arranged one behind the other in the displacement direction of the machine carriage they are provided at their ends correspondingly with inclines 20 1 or 21 1 for.