Knitting machine

Knitting machine comprising stitch-forming knitting needles mounted in a rotatingly driven needle cylinder, displaceable selector elements for initiating specific knitting operations, springs biasing the selector elements into a first position, mechanical control means for transferring the selector elements into a second position against the action of said biasing springs electromagnetic selector means comprising at least one activatable magnetic pole for holding the selector elements in said second positions thereof, said displaceable selector elements (16) having a stop edge (36) cooperating in the second position with a counterstop edge (37) stationary relative to the movement of the selector element, and that when the stop edge (6) engages on the counterstop edge (37) the selector elements (16) are located at such a small distance from the electromagnetic selector means (32, 33) hereby forming an air gap (38), that the magnetic force of said electromagnetic selector means is still sufficient to hold the selector elements (16) in their second position and means for adjusting the distance between the selector elements (16) and the electromagnetic selector means (32, 33).