Brother KH893 is one of the knitting machines containing a built-in knit leader. It also has punch card reading capabilities for automatic needle selection and patterning. It is standard-gauge knitting machine.

I have only seen this machine in Japanese used markets.

Other knitting machines with punchcard readers and built-in knit leaders are Brother KH871, KH881, and KH891. Brother KH893 is identical to those machines; thus, read blog articles dedicated to those machines since I have not yet had first-hand experience with the KH893 model.
Brother KH893 has built-in Garter carriage rails; so, it is closer to KH890 (not built-in knit leader though) and KH891 models.














