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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2024
Card-monroe Corp., Chattanooga, TN (US);
Brian Lovelady, Soddy Daisy, TN (US);
Ricky E. Mathews, Sale Creek, TN (US);
Card-Monroe, Corp., Chattanooga, TN (US);
Abstract
A system and method for forming patterned tufted articles, including controlling placement of yarns at each of a series of stitch locations of the pattern being tufted, and with the needles and corresponding gauge parts of the tufting machine being enabled to be shifted in multiple, varying shift increments, including in increments that are multiples of a gauge spacing of the needles, and in non-uniform shift increments not tied to the gauge of the needles, to form varying gauge tufted patterns, including finer gauge patterns, and which can be formed using a substantially same or consistent tufting machine gauge set-up.