GB231273A - Improvements in or relating to tasselling and fringing machines - Google Patents

Abstract

231,273. Black, C., and Cloak, H. Jan. 30, 1924. Tufting-machines.-A manually operated and controlled tasselling and fringing machine forms the loops 32 shown in Fig. 7 by means of an apparatus involving a battery of needles 10, a work holder 15, and a yarn holder 27. The needles are mounted on a, bar 4 having end rollers 6 which work in guideways 5. The bar 4 is connected by links 7 to a rod 9 mounted in the frame, and is also provided with handles 12 to move its rollers 6 along the slideway and to tilt it as shown in Fig. 4, to pass through the fabric 14 for engagement with the yarn 31. The yarn is placed in the holder 27 double, and either hooked over the needles, which are provided with pivoted latches l, or the needles moved to engage the previously positioned loops. The needle with a bight of yarn passes through the fabric and returns alone through the bight' and over the top of the fabric, the yarn carrier being meanwhile moved parallel to the fabric, moving the yarn into the position shown in Fig. 6. The needle is now retracted over the fabric to complete the tassel-forming operation. The workholder 15 comprises a pair of plates cut away at the parts where the needles penetrate the fabric, the plates being clamped by the engagement of cams 19 with rods 16 on one of the plates, the cams being mounted on a shaft 20 provided with handles 21. A spring 18 retracts the movable clamping-plate when released by the levers and cams.