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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 1977
Filed:
Jun. 25, 1976
Abram N Spanel, Princeton, NJ (US);
P Frank Eiland, Stamford, CT (US);
David R Jacobs, New Canaan, CT (US);
Other;
Abstract
A tufting machine having multi-color selection capability in which an improved selection means enables the selection of one of a plurality of yarns which upon selection is pneumatically transported to a tufting station where a bit-length of yarn is severed and tufted to a backing layer. The selection process comprises individual selection band-like members which, upon selection by solenoid means, engage with an oscillating shaft from which said band-like members extend tangentially. The band-like members are connected to elements which are used to engage yarn and which feed, meter and pull back such yarn when they are driven by the oscillatory shaft.