Bill With Clip Or Gate Patents (Class 112/80.51)
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Patent number: 11661694Abstract: A shiftable backing feed or shiftable needle assembly is utilized with a tufting machine having reciprocating needles and gauge parts for seizing or cutting yarns wherein yarn placement patterns can be utilized to tuft at different gauge densities while maintaining the same pattern sizes and appearance, and gauge parts are adapted for high density stitching.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2020Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: Tuftco CorporationInventors: Jason Daniel Detty, Robert A. Padgett
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Patent number: 10167585Abstract: A novel method of tufting carpets is provided to allow the use of four or more colors of yarn at sufficient stitch density to provide for a solid appearance of any of the selected colors at any location on the carpet, and utilizing natural tacking of rear yarns to minimize loose yarn on the backing.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2017Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: Tuftco CorporationInventors: Steven L. Frost, Mike Bishop, Brian K. Lovelady, Paul E. Beatty, Michael R. Morgante, Jeff Smith
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Patent number: 9663885Abstract: A novel method of tufting carpets is provided to allow the use of four or more colors of yarn at sufficient stitch density to provide for a solid appearance of any of the selected colors at any location on the carpet, and utilizing natural tacking of rear yarns to minimize loose yarn on the backing.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2014Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: Tuftco CorporationInventors: Steven L. Frost, Mike Bishop, Brian K. Lovelady, Paul E. Beatty, Michael R. Morgante, Jeff Smith
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Patent number: 9593437Abstract: A level cut loop looper or hook and clip assembly for a tufting machine includes at least one module carrying a series of level cut loop loopers or hooks. Each level cut loop looper or hook generally can include a looper body along which a clip is slidably moved. Each clip will be moved between retracted and extended positions as the level cut loop loopers or hooks are reciprocated toward and away from engagement with their associated needles of the tufting machine. Actuators can be engaged to secure the clips in their extended positions as needed to selectively form cut and loop pile tufts in a backing material.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2015Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: Card-Monroe Corp.Inventor: Ricky E. Mathews
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Publication number: 20140331906Abstract: 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 at least one needle bar 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 pattern pixels or stitch areas. A series of level cut loop loopers or hooks will be aligned with and will engage the needles in order to form tufts of yarns in the backing material. Clips of the level cut loop loopers will be selectively controlled to control the retention of selected ones of the yarns presented at each pattern pixel. The remaining, non-selected yarns generally are not retained at the pattern pixels, and can be formed as lower pile tufts or removed from the backing material.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2014Publication date: November 13, 2014Inventors: Wilton Hall, Todd Woodall, Ricky E. Mathews
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Publication number: 20140272260Abstract: A cross-tufting machine and process for manufacturing carpet. The cross-tufting machine includes a sewing head and a tufting gun. The sewing head is movably mounted on support railing and a support platform is provided to support carpet that is to be provided with a tufted secondary pattern. The carpet moves in steps on top of the support platform in a machine direction and the sewing head traverses back and forth in a cross-wise direction wherein the tufting gun forms the tufted secondary pattern in the carpet.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Inventors: Robert S. WEINER, M. Steven BERGER, David B. PORTER
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Publication number: 20120174846Abstract: A yarn color placement system for a tufting machine including a series of different color yarns being fed to the needles of the tufting machine by yarn feed mechanisms. A backing material is fed through the tufting machine at an increased stitch rate as the needles are shifted according to the programmed pattern steps. A series of level cut loop loopers or hooks engage and pick loops of yarns from the needles, with the clips of the level cut loop loopers or hooks being selectively actuated to form cut pile tufts, while the remaining loops of yarns can be back-robbed so as to be hidden from view in the finished patterned tufted article.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2012Publication date: July 12, 2012Inventors: Wilton Hall, Kendall Johnston
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Patent number: 8215248Abstract: A gated looper apparatus has an array of individually mounted pressurizable air cylinders with piston rods acting in communication with looper gates. The air cylinders are designed to be responsive to pneumatic pressure to extend and retract the associated piston rods.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2009Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: Tuftco CorporationInventor: Michael L. Kilgore
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Patent number: 8082861Abstract: A tufting machine is provided with two transverse rows of needles, one row being associated with transverse row of loopers and the other second row of needles being associated with a transverse row of gated hooks. Novel and low pile height tufted fabrics can be created with this configuration.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2008Date of Patent: December 27, 2011Assignee: Tuftco CorporationInventors: Brian K. Lovelady, Michael L. Kilgore
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Patent number: 7739970Abstract: A tufting machine that includes spaced rows of needles of inserting yarns into a backing material. The needles are engaged by opposed loopers and level cut loop pile hooks that pass between one another so as to engage the opposite row of needles for forming cut pile and loop pile tufts of yarns in the backing material.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2008Date of Patent: June 22, 2010Assignee: Card-Monroe Corp.Inventor: Wilton Hall
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Publication number: 20090266280Abstract: A gated looper apparatus has an array of individually mounted pressurizable air cylinders with piston rods acting in communication with looper gates. The air cylinders are designed to be responsive to pneumatic pressure to extend and retract the associated piston rods.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2009Publication date: October 29, 2009Inventor: Michael L. Kilgore
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Publication number: 20090078180Abstract: A tufting machine that includes spaced rows of needles of inserting yarns into a backing material. The needles are engaged by opposed loopers and level cut loop pile hooks that pass between one another so as to engage the opposite row of needles for forming cut pile and loop pile tufts of yarns in the backing material.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2008Publication date: March 26, 2009Applicant: Card-Monroe Corp.Inventor: Wilton Hall
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Publication number: 20090056606Abstract: A tufting machine is provided with two transverse rows of needles, one row being associated with transverse row of loopers and the other second row of needles being associated with a transverse row of gated hooks. Novel and low pile height tufted fabrics can be created with this configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2008Publication date: March 5, 2009Inventors: Brian K. Lovelady, Michael L. Kilgore
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Patent number: 7438007Abstract: A level cut loop looper or hook and clip for a tufting machine includes a looper body having a channel in which a clip is received. The clip is moved between extended and retracted positions by an actuator as the level cut loop looper or hook is reciprocated into engagement with a needle of the tufting machine, so as to selectively form cut and loop pile tufts in a backing material.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2007Date of Patent: October 21, 2008Assignee: Card-Monroe Corp.Inventor: Wilton Hall
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Patent number: 7347151Abstract: A tufting machine and a method of controlling a tufting machine for forming cut and loop pile tufts of yarns in a backing material that includes a hook assembly having a series of hooks/loopers and a series of clips independently moveable between extended and retracted positions. The movement of the clips between their extended and retracted positions is selectively activated to cause transitions from cut pile tufts to loop pile tufts and loop pile tufts to cut pile tufts according to programmed pattern information.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2005Date of Patent: March 25, 2008Assignee: Card-Monroe, Corp.Inventors: Kendall Johnston, William M. Christman, Jr.
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Patent number: 7007617Abstract: A tufting machine includes a hook apparatus, which has gates and hooks. The hook apparatus has connectors that are coupled to the gates and actuators. The actuators can be actuated to move both the connectors and gates.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2004Date of Patent: March 7, 2006Assignee: Card-Monroe Corp.Inventor: Kendall Johnston