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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2007
Filed:
Aug. 18, 2003
Applicant:
Ian Beverly, Blackburn, GB;
Inventor:
Ian Beverly, Blackburn, GB;
Assignee:
Spencer Wright Industries, Inc., Dalton, GA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D05C 15/14 (2006.01); D05C 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A tufting machine for producing pile fabric having a pile height of approximately at least 50 mm has divider plates between adjacent needles to prevent yarn loops and especially the legs of cut loops from becoming trapped between an adjacent needle and its associated yarn feed. The divider plates may take the form of plates forming an extension of the fingers of the needle plate between each pair of which a needle reciprocates and may be mounted on a block on the bed plate beneath the needle plate, or may be plates upstanding from the hook bar.