Warp knitting machine, particularly galloon crocheting machine

A warp knitting machine having a series of movable hook needles, a series of thread guides movable relative to the needles, longitudinal weft guides secured to guide bars that move back and forth in a direction parallel to the series of hook needles, and other weft and thread guides, a common drive device for the bars to which longitudinal weft guides are secured including a drive shaft with eccentrics to which oscillating levers are joined by means of connecting rods, the levers being in turn joined by connecting links with the longitudinal weft guide bars, wherein the improvement comprises:

• a further eccentric (88) mounted on the drive shaft between the eccentrics for the connecting rods (66) connected to the oscillating levers (68) for the longitudinal weft guides (18,20), a rocker arm (96) disposed in a plane between the oscillating levers (68) for the longitudinal weft guides, the rocker arm being connected to at least one of the guide bars (32) for the other weft guides and thread guides (30) for driving the guides and a connecting rod (94) extending between the eccentric (88) and the rocker arm (96) for driving said at least one of the guide bars (32) from the common drive shaft (50).