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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 23, 2008
Applicant:
William M. Christman, Jr., Chattanooga, TN (US);
Inventor:
William M. Christman, Jr., Chattanooga, TN (US);
Assignee:
Card-Monroe Corp., Chattanooga (Hixson), TN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D05C 15/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method for controlling the yarn feed for a tufting machine to form tufted patterns having different pattern fields or areas. Predetermined yarn feed amounts can be input for one or more selected yarn feed zones of selected stitches of the pattern to enable different pile heights and/or different tufts of yarns to be formed in the different pattern zones. A yarn feed device for the tufting machine will be controlled to selectively feed varying amounts of yarns for each of the yarn feed zones of the selected stitches of the pattern.