Knitting machine

Knitting machine having a needle bed in which knitting tools having projections are mounted for raising and lowering, with a cam unit which can be transported past the projections and which has at least one lowering cam acting on the projections of the knitting tools which is adjustable with regard to its lowering depth and is joined to a runner, and having a plurality of pathways associated each with a preselected lowering depth of the lowering cam, which interact according to the pattern with the runner during the movement of the cam unit past the projections of the knitting tools, for the setting of the lowering cam to a preselected lowering depth, characterized in that the runner (55) is movably connected with the lowering cam (48) and that a controller (106) which can be actuated before each passage of the cam unit (40) past the projections (39) of the knitting tools (15) is provided for the shifting of the runner (55) to the position required for interaction with a selected pathway (54).