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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 1998
Filed:
Feb. 23, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Roy T Card, Chattanooga, TN (US);
Wilton Hall, Fort Oglethorpe, GA (US);
Assignee:
Card-Monroe Corp., Hixson, TN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D05C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
112 8041 ; 112 8052 ; 11247523 ;
Abstract
Front and rear needle bars are provided with front and rear needles for inserting yarns into a backing material. An excess of front loopers are provided for the front needles and an excess of rear loopers are provided for the rear needles. The front loopers respectively face the rear loopers and are respectively aligned with each other. The needle bars are shifted laterally so as to provide longitudinal rows of tufts formed by the front needles providing spacing between the tufts of a longitudinal row which space is filled in by the tufts of rear needles.