Patent ID: 7597057
Filing Date: 2009-10-06
Classification: D05B,D05C

Abstract:
1. A module for use in a hook or looper assembly for a tufting machine, comprising: a module body formed with a series of slots extending therethrough from a front face to a rear face of said module body; a plurality of individual hooks or loopers, each including a base received in one of said slots formed in said module body, and a forwardly projecting end; a series of fasteners removeably engaging said module body, each of said fasteners extended through said module body so as to hold at least one hook or looper within said module body; wherein there are more hooks or loopers than fasteners, and each of said hooks or loopers is individually removeable from one of said slots of said module body upon disengagement of a fastener that is in engagement therewith, and wherein said slots of said module body are formed through said module body as open ended passages enclosed on four sides thereof by electrical discharge machining, without requiring cutting of a top surface of said module body.