Sewing – Special machines – Embroidering
Patent
1993-12-22
1995-10-31
Crowder, Clifford D.
Sewing
Special machines
Embroidering
112 8043, 112 8041, 112 8023, 11247523, 11247519, D05C 1514, D05C 1510
Patent
active
054619963
ABSTRACT:
A tufting machine and method of tufting on a backing fabric, where the machine for carrying out the method includes a needle push bar, loopers, a needle selector for selecting certain ones of the needles at every needle stroke cycle and for inserting the selected needles into the backing fabric, a feeder for intermittently and longitudinally feeding the backing fabric in a stop and feed manner, a shifter and a pattern controller. The backing fabric remains stationary in the longitudinal direction during a stopping period which is at least one needle stroke cycle in duration and may be fed during a succeeding feeding stroke period. The shifter aligns selected ones of the needles each with any one of an associated plurality of the loopers by effecting relative lateral shifting movement between the needle push bar and both the loopers and the backing fabric while the backing fabric remains stationary in the longitudinal direction during the stopping period. The pattern controller actuates the needle selector to select any one of the needles for insertion into the backing fabric and tufts with the pile yarn carried by the selected one of the needles by engagement with a corresponding one of the loopers that is disposed in alignment therewith. In this manner, the corresponding one of the loopers seizes only one loop of the pile yarn during any one needle stroke cycle for each stopping period of the intermittent feeder.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3547058 (1970-12-01), Wembley et al.
patent: 3934524 (1976-01-01), Smith
patent: 4244309 (1981-01-01), Spanel et al.
patent: 4549496 (1985-10-01), Kile
patent: 4831948 (1989-05-01), Itoh et al.
Trade Journal "Focus", Aug./Sep. 1993, pp. 4-5, 40-41 and 46-47 including cover and bottom pages.
Crowder Clifford D.
Lewis Paul C.
Ohno Co. Ltd.
LandOfFree
Tufting machine and method for producing tufted design in carpet does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.
If you have personal experience with Tufting machine and method for producing tufted design in carpet, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Tufting machine and method for producing tufted design in carpet will most certainly appreciate the feedback.
Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-1766301