摘要:
A knife block for a tufting machine having provision for securely retaining a pair of aligned cutting knives therein and having spaced lateral slots therein permitting a clamping bracket to engage one of the edges of each knife at spaced points. Also, provision is made for easily aligning and securing the block to an oscillating knife bar of a tufting machine by a structure which includes a cylindrical shaft connected to the block and having a slot positioned in the end thereof at a predetermined angle, an opening in the bar for receiving the shaft, and a key secured to the bar and adapted to enter the slot in the cylindrical shaft to maintain a predetermined alignment.
摘要:
A tufting machine for selectively forming tufts of yarns, including different color or type yarns, for forming patterned tufted articles such as carpets. A series of needles are reciprocated into and out of a backing material being fed through the tufting machine and are engaged by a series of gauge parts so as to pick-up loops of yarns from the needles. The gauge parts will be selectively controlled by activators to extend or retract the gauge parts to positions or elevations sufficient to pick-up or not pick-up loops of yarns from the needles. The feeding of the yarns to the needles further will be controlled to back-rob yarns not picked-up by the gauge parts, while the backing feed will be controlled to enable formation of tufts at an increased rate over the pattern stitch rate for the pattern of the tufted article being formed.