opened needle hooks immediately thereafter the feeding sinkers 5 are actuated inwardly by cam d17 inserting the pile thread p4 into the needle hooks at position xx of fig1 and as shown in fig2 when the needles of the second set start to retract on cam a7 simultaneously cam d18 and d19 will actuate the pile sinkers 41 and feeding sinkers 5 outward clearing the pile threads p3 and p4 from the looping ledges 41f at xxi of fig2 as shown in fig1 the last fed pile thread p4 remains unlooped from the looping ledges of the sinkers the pile sinkers 41 are subsequently actuated inwardly by cam d20 while the needles are being retracted into their knock over position by cam a7 as described at position xxii of fig1 simultaneously with the knitting action all needles which had engaged pile thread p4 will draw pile loops over the pile forming ledges 41e directly as shown in fig2 floats of the pile thread p4 will rest on the pile ledge 41e of the sinker nebs which are holding pile loops of pile thread p3 in place it is obvious from the description of the foregoing embodiment that the width of a knitting cycle is reduced and their number can be increased if the last.