position the sinkers of the knitting needles which transfer their loops to the knitting needles of the oppositely positioned needle bed are pressed by the presser bar 20 whereby the knitting needles are lifted at their feet 11 over the cams 9 and 10 to be guided through the cam track 16 towards the combing cams 17 18 the knitting needles driven for the loop formation form their loops in the aforementioned manner and are moved by the needle spring cam 10 to the combing cams 17 18 the knitting needles lifted at their feet 11 over the cams 9 10 contain no threads because during the thread feed the knitting needles are driven further and the threads come to lie only behind the needle tongues on the needle shafts which upon a further pulling off through the cam track channel 16 are pressed off together with the loops being transferred this possibility of the loop transfer and loop formation in one row can be modified also for the producing of specific press off patterns in constrast to the above described embodiment the knitting needles positioned opposite to the needles transferring the loops would not be driven in such a case finally a specific pattern effect can be achieved by the formation of loops of various sizes at the selected positions in the row of the needles in a single bed machine this is eventually obtained by the loop transfer process for selected knitting needles wherein oppositely lying idle knitting needles carrying no loops are driven the thread loop formed thereby is designated by d the thread course of the determined adjacent needles for the formation of larger loops becomes available in place of the selection of the sinkers and the assigned knitting needles for.