Looper

An arrangement of the sewing needles with respect to the ring of looper points of a looper for connecting a plurality of knitted parts by two chain-stitched seams, said arrangement comprising a ring of a looper having a plurality of looper points for suspending the knitted parts from a row of stitches of the knitted parts, two sewing needles for producing the respective chain-stitched seams, the respective sewing needles being arranged above the looper points of the ring and being adapted to pass through the knitted parts in stitches which are located in a second or higher row of stitches from the row of stitches that are carried by the looper points of the ring, and one of the two sewing needles being displaced laterally with respect to the looper points of the ring, and wherein an overedging head is provided in combination with said arrangement for producing an overedge seam which surrounds an edge of the knitted parts, said overedging head being arranged such that the chain-stitched seams connecting the knitted parts are located further inwardly from the edge of the knitted parts than the overedge seam produced by the overedging head, and the speed of said overedging head being smoothly adjustable so that the number of stitches in the overedge seam can be adjusted independently of the number of stitches in the chain-stitched seams produced by sewing needles.