Tufting machine with adjustable yarn guide tube bank
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1. In a tufting machine having means for supporting a base fabric for longitudinal movement in a feeding direction from front to rear through said machine, a plurality of transversely spaced reciprocal needles for introducing yarns through the base fabric to form loops, a yarn jerker bar reciprocably moving with the needles, yarn guide means comprising:
- (a) a yarn tube bank including a plurality of yarn guide tubes having upper and lower open ends,(b) mounting means supporting said yarn tube bank on the machine above the base fabric,(c) said yarn tube bank comprising a yarn jerker member spanning the lower ends of said yarn guide tubes,(d) each of said yarn guide tubes receiving a yarn from a yarn supply through its upper end and guiding said yarn through said corresponding yarn guide tube, and across said yarn jerker member and the yarn jerker bar to a corresponding needle, and(e) adjustment means for vertically adjusting the position of said yarn jerker member on said machine relative to said needles.
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A bank of yarn guide tubes mounted for vertical adjustment upon the rear portion of a multiple-needle tufting machine for guiding yarns from a yarn supply to the needles, on the fabric delivery side of the machine, and with a minimum of threaded yarn guide elements.
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1. In a tufting machine having means for supporting a base fabric for longitudinal movement in a feeding direction from front to rear through said machine, a plurality of transversely spaced reciprocal needles for introducing yarns through the base fabric to form loops, a yarn jerker bar reciprocably moving with the needles, yarn guide means comprising:
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(a) a yarn tube bank including a plurality of yarn guide tubes having upper and lower open ends, (b) mounting means supporting said yarn tube bank on the machine above the base fabric, (c) said yarn tube bank comprising a yarn jerker member spanning the lower ends of said yarn guide tubes, (d) each of said yarn guide tubes receiving a yarn from a yarn supply through its upper end and guiding said yarn through said corresponding yarn guide tube, and across said yarn jerker member and the yarn jerker bar to a corresponding needle, and (e) adjustment means for vertically adjusting the position of said yarn jerker member on said machine relative to said needles. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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