Modular hook assembly for staggered needle cut pile tufting machines
First Claim
1. A modular hook assembly for a staggered needle tufting machine having two transverse rows of spaced needles, the needles in one of the rows being staggered intermediate the needles in the other row, said assembly supporting a first series of hooks having a shank including a mounting portion at one end and a blade extending from the shank to define a throat therebetween and terminating at a bill for cooperation with the needles in one of said rows, and a second series of hooks having a shank including a mounting portion at one end and a blade extending from the shank to define a throat therebetween and terminating at a bill for cooperation with the needles in the other of said rows, said assembly comprising a first body member having means for receiving and securing the mounting portion of said first hooks in spaced side-by-side disposition, a second body member having means for receiving and securing the mounting portions of said second hooks in spaced side-by-side disposition, the spacing between the adjacent first hooks being substantially the same as the spacing between adjacent second hooks, said first and second body members having means defining complementary reference surfaces disposed relatively to the disposition of said first and second hooks for co-operative engagement of said body members and for location of the bills of said first hooks intermediate and spaced in the direction of said blades from the bills of the second hooks by the stagger of said needles, and means for securing said body members together as a unit in said co-operative engagement.
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Abstract
A staggered cut pile tufting machine has a modular hook assembly having long blade hooks and short blade hooks molded in separate body members. The body members have complementary reference surfaces adapted to cooperatively mate and be secured together. One of the body members includes slots between the hooks carried therein for receiving a portion of the hooks of the other body member when assembled.
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- 1. A modular hook assembly for a staggered needle tufting machine having two transverse rows of spaced needles, the needles in one of the rows being staggered intermediate the needles in the other row, said assembly supporting a first series of hooks having a shank including a mounting portion at one end and a blade extending from the shank to define a throat therebetween and terminating at a bill for cooperation with the needles in one of said rows, and a second series of hooks having a shank including a mounting portion at one end and a blade extending from the shank to define a throat therebetween and terminating at a bill for cooperation with the needles in the other of said rows, said assembly comprising a first body member having means for receiving and securing the mounting portion of said first hooks in spaced side-by-side disposition, a second body member having means for receiving and securing the mounting portions of said second hooks in spaced side-by-side disposition, the spacing between the adjacent first hooks being substantially the same as the spacing between adjacent second hooks, said first and second body members having means defining complementary reference surfaces disposed relatively to the disposition of said first and second hooks for co-operative engagement of said body members and for location of the bills of said first hooks intermediate and spaced in the direction of said blades from the bills of the second hooks by the stagger of said needles, and means for securing said body members together as a unit in said co-operative engagement.
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