Compound needle

A compound needle (1), in particular for hoop-forming textile machines, having a needle body (2), whose shank has a hook (3) with a tip at one end, having two slit walls (6, 7) provided on the shank and parallel with each other, which between themselves delimit a slider slit (4) of a width (W1, W2) which corresponds to the distance between the slit walls (6, 7),

• a. wherein the slider slit (4) has an inlet (15) which lies opposite the hook (3), and extends away from the inlet (15), and
• b. wherein the width (W1) of the slider slit (4) is less, at least at a location near the inlet (15), than the width (W2) measured at the same height in respect to the needle back at at least one location remote from the inlet (15), having a slider (8) which has at least two slider springs (11, 12),
• a. whose free legs (26, 27), which point toward the hook (3), are bent away from each other in order to form, starting at a contact location (29), a funnel (28) open toward the hook (3),
• b. which, adjoining the contact location (29), are bent away from each other at a location (31, 32) opposite the funnel (28), and
• c. which are arranged in the slider slit (4) so they can be pushed toward the hook (3) and away from it.