aesthetic appeal of the garment application_number US 25886899 A description a conventional v bed flat machine illustrated in fig1 and 2 is a latch needle machine in which front and rear opposed needlebeds 10 and 12 respectively are arranged in an inverted 34 v 34 in the form of a 90 degree angle to each other and at a 45 degree angle to the horizontal in addition to the front and rear opposed needlebeds 10 and 12 the machine 39 s major components include its cams not shown which act on either the butts 14 of front and rear latch needles 16 and 18 respectively or the butts of associated jacks which in turn actuate the latch needles and a yarn carrier 20 on a double lock machine the yarn carrier 20 includes two side by side locks which feed the yarn 22 to the needles 16 and 18 as the yarn carrier 20 passes the needles as it travels back and forth the needles are either idle or knitting when idle the yarn carrier passes without any needle action when a needle is knitting as the yarn carrier passes the needle is activated by its associated cam the needle receives the yarn and casts off the previous stitch fig3 to form a tubular double.