TUFTING MACHINES AND METHODS OF TUFTING
    1.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240068144A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-29

    申请号:US18235917

    申请日:2023-08-21

    申请人: Card-Monroe Corp.

    摘要: A system, apparatus and methods for forming tufted articles can include a hollow needle tufting machine for forming patterned tufted articles including multiple colors of yarns. The hollow needle tufting machine can include a series of hollow needles arranged along a needle bar at a gauge spacing and will receive a series of different color and/or types of yarns from a yarn feed system. A funnel block having a series of funnels configured to receive a series of yarns will be provided adjacent the needle bar for directing selected yarns to a corresponding or associated hollow needle. The hollow needles will be reciprocated into and out of a backing to deliver a series of yarns; and can be engaged by corresponding knives to form tufts of yarns. The knives can be moved between no-cut and cutting positions to form loop and cut pile tufts of yarns in the backing.

    TUFTING MACHINE AND METHOD OF TUFTING
    2.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230313431A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-05

    申请号:US18206796

    申请日:2023-06-07

    申请人: Card-Monroe Corp.

    发明人: Wilton Hall

    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.

    TUFTING MACHINE AND METHOD OF TUFTING

    公开(公告)号:US20220403577A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-22

    申请号:US17843011

    申请日:2022-06-17

    申请人: Card-Monroe Corp.

    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 actuators 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 can be controlled in conjunction with the movement of the gauge parts, while the backing feed can also be controlled, to enable formation of tufts of yarns at an increased rate over the pattern stitch rate for the pattern of the tufted article being formed.

    System and method for formation of woven style tufted cut/loop fabrics

    公开(公告)号:US11214921B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-01-04

    申请号:US16841783

    申请日:2020-04-07

    申请人: Card-Monroe Corp.

    发明人: Wilton Hall

    摘要: A system and method for forming patterned tufted fabrics such as carpets, including the formation of patterns having cut pile and loop pile tufts therein. The system includes a pair of needle bars each carrying a series of needles to which a plurality of yarns are fed. Cut pile hooks are arranged along a cut pile side of a tufting zone, in a position to engage the needles of one of the needle bars, while loop pile loopers are arranged along the opposite loop pile side of the tufting zone, in a position to engage the needles of the other one of the needle bars. A backing material is fed through the tufting zone, and as loop pile tufts of yarns are formed in the backing material, the needles mounted along a needle bar extending along the cut pile side of the tufting zone can be shifted to an off-gauge position, with the yarn feed to these needles further being controlled, to substantially prevent engagement and pick-up of the yarns carried by such needles by the cut pile hooks.

    TUFTING MACHINE AND METHOD OF TUFTING

    公开(公告)号:US20210246589A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-08-12

    申请号:US17242372

    申请日:2021-04-28

    申请人: Card-Monroe Corp.

    发明人: Wilton Hall

    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.

    Tufted fabric with pile height differential

    公开(公告)号:US10995442B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-05-04

    申请号:US16197907

    申请日:2018-11-21

    申请人: Card-Monroe Corp.

    发明人: Wilton Hall

    IPC分类号: D05C15/32 D05C15/36

    摘要: A system and method for forming synthetic/artificial grass or turf products in which a series of tufts of artificial/synthetic grass filaments or yarns are formed in a backing material with various graphic pattern effects being formed therewith. The system generally will include a pair of needle bars each having at least one row of needles mounted along a tufting zone and reciprocated through the backing to a desired penetration depth, and will present a desired set or group of yarns to a series of gauge parts mounted at differing elevations. A first or upstream one of the needle bars will be shifted to an off-gauge position to move the needles thereof into positions so as to not be engaged by their associated gauge parts. The yarns fed to these needles further can be controlled to substantially pull back or otherwise prevent tufts of such yarns from being formed in the backing.

    Shift Mechanism For A Tufting Machine

    公开(公告)号:US20210002804A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-01-07

    申请号:US17024862

    申请日:2020-09-18

    申请人: Card-Monroe Corp.

    发明人: Ricky E. Mathews

    IPC分类号: D05C15/30 D05B69/12

    摘要: A shift mechanism for a tufting machine for controlling the transverse, lateral shifting movement of a series of needles of the tufting machine across a backing material for forming a series of cut and/or loop pile tufts of yarns in the backing in accordance with a pattern. The shift mechanism will include a motor controlled rack and pinion shift control assembly having one or more pinions, each driven by a motor, that engage and drive a rack coupled to at least one needle bar of the tufting machine, for controlling the transverse shifting movement of the needles.

    Shift mechanism for a tufting machine

    公开(公告)号:US10781546B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-09-22

    申请号:US16185082

    申请日:2018-11-09

    申请人: Card-Monroe Corp.

    发明人: Ricky E. Mathews

    IPC分类号: D05C15/30 D05B69/12

    摘要: A shift mechanism for a tufting machine for controlling the transverse, lateral shifting movement of a series of needles of the tufting machine across a backing material for forming a series of cut and/or loop pile tufts of yarns in the backing in accordance with a pattern. The shift mechanism will include a motor controlled rack and pinion shift control assembly having one or more pinions, each driven by a motor, that engage and drive a rack coupled to at least one needle bar of the tufting machine, for controlling the transverse shifting movement of the needles.

    TUFTING MACHINE AND METHOD OF TUFTING
    9.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190338453A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-11-07

    申请号:US16515098

    申请日:2019-07-18

    申请人: CARD-MONROE CORP.

    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 move 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 pull back the 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.

    Shift Mechanism for a Tufting Machine
    10.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190078246A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-03-14

    申请号:US16185082

    申请日:2018-11-09

    申请人: Card-Monroe Corp.

    发明人: Ricky E. Mathews

    IPC分类号: D05C15/30

    摘要: A shift mechanism for a tufting machine for controlling the transverse, lateral shifting movement of a series of needles of the tufting machine across a backing material for forming a series of cut and/or loop pile tufts of yarns in the backing in accordance with a pattern. The shift mechanism will include a motor controlled rack and pinion shift control assembly having one or more pinions, each driven by a motor, that engage and drive a rack coupled to at least one needle bar of the tufting machine, for controlling the transverse shifting movement of the needles.