Patent 7874183 was granted and assigned to Groz-Beckert on January, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A knitting machine needle (1) that is designed as a meander needle in accordance with the invention comprises at least one meander curve (12) that is provided with a meander curve slit (18) having the shape of a vertical slit that is parallel to the tongue slit. It is delimited by two side walls (19, 20) that are preferably aligned parallel to each other and circumscribe an open intermediate space.