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Method and apparatus for tufting even level cut pile and loop pile in the same row of stitching

  • US 4,185,569 A
  • Filed: 01/29/1979
  • Issued: 01/29/1980
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/29/1979
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a tufting machine, means for feeding a base fabric in one direction, a yarn-carrying needle for penetrating the base fabric and forming loops therein, means for feeding yarn to said needle, a hook disposed on the opposite side of the base fabric from said needle, said hook comprising a body portion including a blade and a loop seizing bill extending from said blade facing in a direction opposite to the direction of fabric feed, means for mounting said body portion for oscillatory movement toward and away from said needle so that said hook enters successive loops, the feeding of the fabric moving the loops toward the body portion, a knife cooperating with said blade for severing loops thereon, gate means oscillating with the hook for selectively engagably cooperating with said hook for closing the bill to prevent the loops from being seized by the hook and for seizing the loops, and for disengaging said hook and not entering the loops to open the bill and permit loops to be seized by the hook, whereby loops seized by the hook are severed by said knife and loops seized in the gate are shed, and control means for selectively moving said gate means into and out of engagable cooperation with said hook.

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