Abstract: A looper apparatus for a narrow gauge, multiple-needle tufting machine including transversely spaced loopers or hooks having spring clips or looper clips attached thereto and cooperating with knives to form cut pile and loop pile in the same row of stitching, in cooperation with a controlled yarn feed, in which the spring clips span or extend over the cutting zone of the hooks, so that each spring clip will not interfere with the adjacent knife of an adjacent hook.

Abstract: A multiple needle tufting machine in which the needles are arranged in at least two transverse rows and including first and second sets of cut pile hooks and knives cooperating to form cut pile. Both sets of cut pile hooks may be mounted in the same hook bar so that the throats of the hooks and the knives are substantially transversely aligned. The bills of the second set of hooks are longer than the bills of the first set of hooks, preferably in an amount equal to the longitudinal spacing between the transverse rows of needles, for cooperation with the needles in the respective transverse rows.

Abstract: A multiple needle skip-stitch tufting machine in which each needle bar is provided with a needle foot member supporting a pair of needles. Each foot member includes a pair of arms, each arm supporting a needle in such a manner that the arms of the foot member of one needle bar interdigitate with the arms of the foot member of an adjacent needle bar to provide a relatively narrow gauge machine in which the skip-stitching is formed in pairs of tufted rows, and a row in one pair may be stitched between an adjacent pair of rows.