Mounted on the bars 12, 13 are a plurality of yarn-tensioner assemblies 11 equal in number to the number of yarns 23. Each of the latter passes over a face of bar 10 between a pair of pins 25, 26 projecting therefrom, and is fed to the respective needle by a pair of spaced-apart...
Yarn tensioning apparatus for tufting machines capable of making pile fabrics with repeat patterns thereon of loops of varying lengths1. A tufting machine including loop forming means for making carpets and like pile fabrics with a repeat pattern thereon of loops of varying length and having means ...
In the least complicated of these machines, yarn is supplied from one package, each needle picking up the yarn once per revolution of the cylinder. Modern machines may have as many as 100 feeders, allowing each needle to pick up 100 threads per revolution. Both latch and spring needles are...