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Tufting machine with self-aligning gauging modules

  • US 5,400,727 A
  • Filed: 09/21/1993
  • Issued: 03/28/1995
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/01/1992
  • Status: Expired
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1. A gauging module assembly for being selectively received over one of a plurality of equally spaced sidewise opening channel shaped recesses along a side surface of a gauge bar of a tufting machine comprising:

  • (a) a modular block having a front surface, a pair of side surfaces opposed to each other and a rear surface opposite to said front surface;

    (b) a plurality of equally spaced, parallel, tufting machine gauging elements protruding from said block, each of said tufting machine gauging elements having a proximal end and a distal end, the proximal end of each of said elements being embedded in a fixed, retained, condition in said block, said elements protruding in transverse parallel alignment with each other, from said block;

    (c) an elongated tab fixed on the rear surface of said block for being received sidewise in any one of said spaced recesses in said gauge bar on said tufting machine, when said modular block is positioned with its rear surface against said side surface of said gauge bar, said tab centering said modular block on said gauge bar when said tab is received in one of said spaced recesses; and

    (d) a detent for securing said modular block to said gauge bar, said modular block when attached to said gauge bar, being adapted to hold said spaced elements in a fixed position protruding toward a tufting zone of said tufting machine with said distal ends of said spaced elements being in said tufting zone, said detent also urging said modular block toward said gauging block and said tab into one of said recesses.

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