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Tufting machine yarn feed roller assembly

  • US 5,182,997 A
  • Filed: 11/04/1991
  • Issued: 02/02/1993
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/04/1991
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A yarn feed roller assembly for a tufting machine comprising a plurality of drive rollers rotatably mounted transversely on said tufting machine and driven thereby at different respective speeds, a multiplicity of transversely spaced control arms, a plurality of yarn feed rollers each corresponding to a drive roller rotatably journalled on each control arm, support means for pivotably mounting each control arm adjacent said drive rollers for engagement of said feed rollers with a respective drive roller selectively, and means for selectively pivoting said control arms to frictionally engage a selected feed roller of each control arm with a respective drive roller for rotatably driving said selected feed roller of each control arm by the respective drive roller, whereby a yarn guided between the feed rollers of each control arm and the drive rollers will be frictionally engaged by and fed by the selected feed roller and its respective drive roller at a corresponding speed.

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