Looper mechanism for a tufting machine

Details Looper mechanism for a tufting machine Looper mechanism for a tufting machine

1978-03-10

1979-07-17

Hunter, H. Hampton

Sewing

Special machines

Buttonhole

D05C 1522

Patent

active

041611470

ABSTRACT:
A looper mechanism for a tufting machine for producing loop pile fabric, comprising a looper bar carrying loopers which cooperate with respective needles of the machine and means for oscillating the looper bar to effect such cooperation, the looper bar having, in the side thereof facing the needles, a plurality of slots each of which accommodates, side by side, shank portions of a pair of loopers having hook portions facing the needles, the hook portion of one looper of the pair being coplanar with its shank portion and the hook portion of the other looper being offset from its shank portion by an amount equal to the spacing between the needles, and each pair of loopers being retained in its respective slot by a single clamping screw.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3595184 (1971-07-01), Watkins
patent: 3780678 (1973-12-01), Short
patent: 3878800 (1975-04-01), Collier et al.
patent: 3913505 (1975-10-01), Crumbliss et al.

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