long as plain or flat links are passing under the front portion of the pawl lifter when a change in the sock is desired a kick link is placed in the chain a kick link is similar to a plain link except that one side of the link is enlarged so that when the kick link passes under the pawl liftor it raises the front portion of the pawl lifter which in turn lowers the rear portion of the pawl lifter allowing the drum pawl to kick the drum rack wheel forwardly according to a preferred embodiment of the invention the above described mechanism is modified by adding an insert arranged onto a rack wheel which puts the main drum into position so that after one course the auxiliary kicker actuating cam actuates the auxiliary kicker the auxiliary kicker prevents the dial bits from coming out all the way release of the dial push out cam then allows the dial bits to come partially in thus holding the stitches at the desired course upon release of the jack selector jack press and needle divider cam normal knitting operations resume normal knitting operations proceed until the desired storage compartment layer length is reached the length of the storage compartment layer must be less than the length of the locking cuff layer after knitting the storage compartment layer the stitches held by the dial bits need to be released this is accomplished by moving needle divider cam into position.