Knitting machine for producing knitted goods with combed-in fibres

A knitting machine having knitting needles for producing knitted goods having combed-in fibers, including at least one rotatable combing-in cylinder which is provided with a carding clothing, a feed position at which fibers are laid into the carding clothing of the combing-in cylinder, a combing-in position at which fibers are taken from the carding clothing of the combing-in cylinder by the knitting needles, and at least one rotatable regularization cylinder which also has a carding clothing, which cooperates with the combing-in cylinder for rendering uniform the density of the fibers carried thereon, wherein the two carding clothings have resilient card wires being in engagement along an engagement region and wherein the relative spacings, surface speeds and card wire positions of the combing-in cylinder and the regularization cylinder are so selected that the card wires of the regularization cylinder comb and displace the fibers which are carried by the card wires of the combing-in cylinder, in the opposite direction to the direction of rotation of the combing-in cylinder and thereby regularize said fibers, but do not substantially pick up said fibers.