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7634326 |
System and method for forming tufted patterns
A tufting machine and a method of controlling the tufting machine to form a tufted article having varying pattern effects, such as forming cut and loop pile tufts of yarn in a graphics type...
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7597057 |
Replaceable looper/hook modules
A hook/looper module assembly for a tufting machine is provided that allows for broken and damaged hooks of a level cut loop tufting machine to be replaced. The hook/looper module assembly includes...
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7594975 |
Recyclable tufted carpet with improved stability and durability
A recyclable tufted carpet meeting EPA recyclable content standards and having improved dimensional stability that reduces skew, bow, and wrinkles during manufacture and installation is formed by...
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7490569 |
Covering for floors and/or walls
A fabric is provided having discrete surface portions of a primary backing and tufted yarns exposed on the technical face of the fabric. To form the fabric, the yarn feed controlled by servomotors...
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7431974 |
Tufted fabric with embedded stitches
The present invention provides for tufted needlefelts with partially or totally obscured loop bights that provide good tuft bind.
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7359761 |
System and method for pre-tensioning backing material
A tufting machine control system for controlling the tension applied to a backing material as it enters the tufting zone of the tufting machine, including a pair of driven backing feed rolls for...
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7333877 |
System and method of producing multi-colored carpets
A system and method for producing multi-colored carpets using a tufting machine. The present invention features a system and method for: providing a multi-colored pattern which is analyzed for...
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7308861 |
Manufacturing method of embroidery having a pile structure
A manufacturing method of embroidery having a pile structure which may be performed by a general embroidering machine is disclosed. The method is accomplished by providing a base fabric, a first...
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7089874 |
Servo motor driven scroll pattern attachments for tufting machine with computerized design system and methods
The present invention provides alternative scroll-type yarn feed attachments for tufting machines characterized by independent servo-motor control of sets of yarn feed rolls, and a software design...
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6971326 |
Method for running a tufting machine
The invention concerns a tufting machine having at least one needlebar, loopers, hooks to pick up yarn delivered through the needles of the needlebar, knives to cut yarn loops and driving means,...
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6951590 |
Stitched pile surface structure and process and system for producing the same
A stitched pile surface structure and a process and apparatus for producing and finishing the same is disclosed. The stitched pile surface structure includes a backing having a thickness T. A...
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6877447 |
Double end servo scroll and direct scroll driver pattern attachment for tufting machine
The present invention provides a double end yarn drive pattern attachment for tufting machines characterized by independent servo-motor control of yarn feed rolls capable of increased torque to...
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6834602 |
Method and apparatus for forming cut and loop pile tufts
A tufting machine that includes spaced rows of needles of inserting yarns into a backing material. The needles are engaged by opposed loopers and cut pile hooks that pass between one another so as...
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6807917 |
Yarn feed system for tufting machines
A yarn feed system, enabling the control of individual yarns to the needles of a tufting machine, and which system can be manufactured as a substantially standardized unit or attachment that can be...
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6782838 |
Bow and skew control system and method
A bow and skew reduction control system and method is disclosed. In a tufting machine, an elongate bow roll is positioned intermediate a supply of a backing material to be tufted and a cloth feed...
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6748886 |
Workpiece formed with pattern and method and apparatus for manufacturing the same
A patterned cloth is made by which a pattern is formed on a surface of a work cloth by passing a thread through the work cloth a number of times and forming a plurality of free loops on the reverse...
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6651572 |
Yarn feed roller assembly for a tufting machine
A yarn feed roller assembly for a tufting machine for producing multiple pile heights. The assembly comprises at least two rollers 5,6 driven at different speeds and a plurality of actuators 9, 14,...
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6550407 |
Double end servo scroll pattern attachment for tufting machine
The present invention provides a double end yarn drive pattern attachment for tufting machines characterized by independent servo-motor control of yarn feed rolls capable of increased torque to...
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6508185 |
Single end servo motor driven scroll pattern attachment for tufting machine and computerized design system for tufting carpet
The present invention provides a single end scroll-type yarn feed attachment for tufting machines characterized by an array of single end yarn drives operated by servo motor controllers, and...
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6446566 |
Yarn feed for assembly for a tufting machine
A tufting machine has a yarn feed roller assembly with a plurality of rotatable driver rollers driven at different speeds and a plurality of actuators in the form of a pivotable arm having in one...
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6293211 |
Method and apparatus for producing patterned tufted goods
Apparatus for producing pattern tufted goods, such as pattern tufted carpet, produces cut and loop pattern carpet using independent yarn colored pattern and cutting pattern process controllers,...
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6199495 |
Method and apparatus for sewing and cutting layered cloth
A method and apparatus for sewing and cutting layered cloth wherein a sewing guide formed of at least semi-rigid, compliant material is used to guide the stitching of parallel lines to create...
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5941185 |
Optical filament insertion apparatus
Apparatus and a method for producing articles in which ends of optical filaments are inserted in a fabric; trailing lengths of filament are drawn from the inserted ends, and are captive in a...
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5738027 |
Tufting process and tufting device suitable for implementation of this process
A tufting process is provided whereby one pile length is cut from a pile material which is to be joined to a backing material by means of a cutting edge after the formation of each loop. Provision...
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5738030 |
Pattern method for multicolor designs
The present invention provides a method for use in a machine for placing a plurality of colors of threads into a backing web to form a desired pattern having (a) a plurality of thread placement...
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5706744 |
Method and apparatus for producing tufts from different yarns in longitudinal lines
Front and rear needle bars are provided with front and rear needles for inserting yarns into a backing material. An excess of front loopers are provided for the front needles and an excess of rear...
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5634997 |
Elastic tufted fabric and process therefor
A tufted pile nonwoven fabric with an elastomeric backing has an elastic stretch of at least 10% and is particularly suited for floor coverings, upholstery, seat covers, etc. A stitchbonded fabric...
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5609119 |
Method of making embroidery
A method of making a three-dimensional embroidery comprises the steps of framing the double-layered fabric and framing the thermal-decomposed fabric with at least two frames, placing the...
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5605107 |
Method of manufacturing variable gauge fabrics
A single or multiple needle bar tufting machine provided with loop forming fingers above the substrate or base fabric is used to form variable gauge fabrics by laterally shifting the needles during...
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5605108 |
Method of forming a variable density motor vehicle carpet
The invention is directed to a method of tufting and molding a carpet module which is sized and shaped to fit the interior of a motor vehicle to form its floor carpeting. The method includes...
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5544605 |
Auxiliary yarn feed module for tufting machine with pattern control yarn feed mechanism
An auxiliary yarn feed mechanism for a tufting machine having a plurality of needles for tufting yarns through a moving base fabric. A tufting machine with a pattern control yarn feed mechanism is...
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5513586 |
Belt driven looper drive
A tufting machine has a main drive shaft, a looper shaft and parallel to the main shaft, a drive train therebetween in which a spindle supports, on its end, a sprocket which is driven by an endless...
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5503096 |
Process for forming a tufted pile fabric formed from spun and filament space-dyed yarn
The fabric of the present invention includes a pile portion comprising spun yarn tufted in alternating arrangement with bulk continuous filament yarn through a base layer. The spun yarn includes a...
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5499588 |
Method and apparatus for producing tufts in longitudinal lines
Front and rear needle bars are provided with front and rear needles for inserting yarns into a backing material. An excess of front loopers are provided for the front needles and an excess of rear...
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5461996 |
Tufting machine and method for producing tufted design in carpeting and product with tufted design
A tufting machine and method of tufting on a backing fabric, where the machine for carrying out the method includes a needle push bar, loopers, a needle selector for selecting certain ones of the...
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5423928 |
Process for creating transferrable pile yarn designs
A process for creating a pile yarn design and transferring it to a substratum, such as an article of clothing, involves the creation of the design on a temporary supporting medium, utilizing the...
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5383415 |
Textured surface effect fabric and methods of manufacture
Tufting apparatus includes servomotors driving front and back yarn feed rolls for feeding yarns to the needles of the front and back needle bars, respectively. Incremental servomotor control for...
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5241919 |
Applique including chenille, backing, polymer film, and stitching
An applique design is produced on a garment or other fabric article by providing chenille material having a fabric base and a plurality of cut or looped threads extending from an upper surface of a...
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5205233 |
Fabric shift sequencing for pattern producing hollow needle tufting apparatus
A method for producing tufted fabric in a hollow needle tufting machine having transversely spaced apart needles including apparatus for shifting a backing material into which the tufts are...
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5189966 |
Tufting apparatus and method for forming loop pile
A tufting machine has a plurality of needles, each needle having a pair of eyes and cooperating with a pair of loop pile loopers seizing loops of yarn from a respective eye. The needle has an...
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5109784 |
Floor mat with various tufting density zones
A floor mat and method of making same to be used in vehicles or as a passageway carpet that is characterized by having several areas of different tufting densities and thus of different resistances...
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5094178 |
Method and apparatus for tufting accent yarns in patterned pile fabric
A method and apparatus for forming high accent pile loops at spaced intervals in a tufted pile fabric. The apparatus for carrying out this method includes separate yarn feed rolls for being...
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5058518 |
Method and apparatus for producing enhanced graphic appearances in a tufted product and a product produced therefrom
A tufting machine with front and back laterally shiftable needle bars carry needles for producing loops in a backing material the accent yarns being fed to the needles by yarn feed controls and the...
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5042405 |
Yarn control method and apparatus
A yarn control system and apparatus for use in the manufacture of non-woven, non-knitted fabrics which have a pile supported by a backing cloth, such as carpets, the apparatus including a plurality...
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5005498 |
Computer controlled tufting machine and a process of controlling the parameters of operation of a tufting machine
A tufting machine is provided with separate motors which drive the main drive shaft, control the feed of the backing material and control the bedrail height. A computer is electrically connected to...
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4876973 |
Method of and apparatus for blind tufting composite laminated joints
A self-threading stitching device for joining uncured composite laminates which comprises a vertically mounted needle shaft adapted for reciprocal motion, a thread feeding means operating...
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4854250 |
Process for the drawing of optical fibers through textiles, and a device for the carrying out of the process
A method of drawing an optical fiber through a fabric, having opposite first and second sides, comprises the following consecutive steps: advancing the optical fiber by a fiber transport device in...
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4794874 |
Method of forming tufted pile fabric
An individually controlled needle tufting machine having loopers with beaks pointing in the same direction as the backing material being fed through the machine so as to form loop pile has means...
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4790252 |
Selective needle tufting machines
A tufting machine has a needle mounting construction including a multiplicity of needle support carriages, each carriage being slidably mounted in guides for controlled movement in a direction...
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4718366 |
Process for the manufacture of tufted rugs, carpets, etc. and products manufactured thereby
The present invention relates to a process for the manufacture of tufted rugs and carpets, or similar products, characterized by the fact that a first application of yarns is inserted by a bank of...
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