A flat knitting
machine is provided with an integrated transfer pusher, which improves stiffness and stabilizes the transfer by combining a base element and a blade element with a bilaterally asymmetrical shape, and which can also be used equally well for a blade element made of
thin sheet metal with a bilaterally symmetrical shape. The transfer pusher 10 combines a base element 11, which is made of sheet
metal with a certain stiffness, and a blade element 12, which is mounted on one side of the base element 11, is made of a thinner sheet
metal material than the base element 11, and can be elastically deformed.The base member 11 comprises, sequentially in one direction from a front end to a rear end, a concave front end part 11a, which is recessed in one direction away from the blade member 12, a linearly extending stem part 11c, a drive part 11d, which receives the drive for the advance / retraction with respect to the needle
bed gap 2, and a rear selector part 11e. The blade member 12 comprises, sequentially, a front end part 12a, a convex part 12b, and a stem part 12c.