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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 06, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Messier-Bugatti, Velizy-Villacoublay, FR;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D01H 1/46 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
D01H 1/46 ;
Abstract
A machine for needling a textile structure built up from a wound strip of material to be needled that is delivered by strip supply means comprising a storage drum containing said wound strip of textile material, an unwinding assembly for continuously extracting said strip from said storage drum, and a helical chute or “twist” for taking up said extracted strip unwound from said drum and for bringing it up to a needling table where there are friction drive means. The storage drum and the helical chute have the same axis C as the needling table.