Spencer Wright Industries, Inc.

Ronald Parsons

Ian Slattery

A tufting machine hook with a spring clip secured at one end to the hook shank is resiliently engaged on a face of the bill by a flag on the clip adjacent the other end. An intermediate portion of the clip is bent so as to be disposed out of the plane of the face engaged and toward the opposite face. In one embodiment the face to which the clip is secured and the face engaged by the flag are on the same side and the free end of the clip is elongated. In the other embodiment the clip is secured to the shank at the opposite side to the face engaged by the flag and the clip is bent to cross the plane of the hook.

Tufting machine looper with clip

A tufting needle for use in a module having a generally flat elongate element including a yarn receiving eye adjacent one end and an enlargement at the other end with the needle having a small twist between the ends.

Tufting machine needles

A tufting machine needle module having a body member attachable to the needle bar of the tufting machine. The module has a plurality of longitudinally spaced needles formed integrally with the body member and depending therefrom in parallel relationship. The body member includes co-operable male and female formations on respective front and rear faces thereof spaced at equal distances longitudinally on the respective face with those of one face offset longitudinally relative to those of the other face by a distance equal to an odd number multiple of one-half the pitch of the needles carried by the body member. The modules are arranged in two rows one behind the other with the male and female formations of modules in respective rows cooperating with those of the other row so that the modules in a row are offset from the modules in the other row by one-half the pitch of the needles on each module.

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Blackburn, United Kingdom

Ronald Parsons