Tufting machine with needle selector

• US 3,160,125 A
• Filed: 06/10/1959
• Issued: 12/08/1964
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/1955
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Aldine Bryant Clifford, Otts C. Payne, Robert F. Hackney
• Original Assignee: Aldine Bryant Clifford, Otts C. Payne, Robert F. Hackney
• Inventors: ALDINE BRYANT CLIFFORD, Hackney, Robert F., Payne, Otts C.
• Application Number:
  US03/819,416
• Time in Patent Office: 2,008 Days
• US Class Current: 112/80.24
• CPC Class Codes: D03D 39/06 Tuft yarn tube or spool frames
• CPC Class Codes: D05C 15/18 Thread feeding or tensioning arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: D05C 15/20 Arrangements or devices, e.g. needles, for inserting loops; Driving mechanisms therefor
• CPC Class Codes: D05C 15/26 with provision for producing patterns

Claims

1. A TUFTING MACHINE COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF YARNCARRYING NEEDLES ADAPTED TO PENETRATE A CLOTH MOVING IN A CERTAIN DIRECTION TO FORM YARN LOOPS, SAID NEEDLES BEING SPACED FROM ONE ANOTHER IN THE DIRECTION OF CLOTH MOVEMENT, MEANS FOR RECIPROCATING SAID NEEDLES TO PENETRATE THE CLOTH, GUIDEWAYS SLIDABLY SUPPORTING SAID NEEDLES FOR SAID RECIPROCATORY MOVEMENT, CONNECTING MEANS MOVABLE TO AND FRO IN THE DIRECTION OF CLOTH MOVEMENT FOR CONNECTING A NEEDLE TO SAID RECIPROCATING MEANS AND TO SELECT WHICH OF SAID NEEDLES SHALL BE RECIPROCATED THEREBY, SEPARATE YARN-FEEDING MEANS FOR EACH NEEDLE INDEPENDENT OF NEEDLE-RECIPROCATING TO FEED PREDETERMINED LENGTHS OF YARN FOR EACH RECIPROCATION OF THE NEEDLE, AND MEANS TO CAUSE OPERATION AND TO INTERRUPT OPERATION OF THE YARN-FEED TO EACH NEEDLE IN TIMED RELATION TO THE CHOICE AND REJECTION RESPECTIVELY OF EACH NEEDLE FOR RECIPROCATION.