Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 1st June, 1886.
Complete Left, 5th Feb., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 8th Mar., 1887.
We, GEORGE CROMPTON, loom builder and HORACE WYMAN loom builder, both of
Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America do hereby declare the nature of
our invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object to simplify that class of looms employed in the
manufacture of Carpets and Fabrics, wherein the tufts are formed one row at a time
across the fabric, as for instance Moquette carpets.
In looms heretofore employed for weaving moquette carpets, or tufted fabrics, the
yarns for the production of the tufts for each different row of tufts entering into the
pattern or design being woven, have been taken from separate beams upon which
the tuft yarns have been wound so as to present in proper sequence yarns of the
particular colors which it was desired that the tufts should have in the transverse row
of tufts to be made from the yarns on each beam.
These numerous beams each having the yarns wound thereon in different order as
to color, and corresponding in number with the different transverse rows of tufts in
the pattern, have been carried by chains which have been moved mechanically as in
British Patents No. 2434 for the year 1856, No. 235 for the year 1877, No. 4150 for
the year 1880 and No. 1634 for the year 1881 to bring the different beams in proper
succession and time to the cloth making point, and in such position the ends of the
tuft yarns have been placed between the backing or foundation warp threads and made
into tufts by different mechanical devices, and the said tuft yarns having been caught
and held in the fabric between a warp and weft thread have been made into tufts of
the desired length, and the tuft yarns having been cut off, the beam from which the
tuft yarns were so taken has been removed, and the next beam having the yarn
properly graded as to color, or arranged in a different sequence has been brought into
position for the next row of tufts across the fabric.
According to this invention the numerous tuft yarn beams heretofore used are
dispensed with, the time heretofore required to wind the yarns of different colors on
the different beams in the different orders as to colors is saved, and the cost of the
chain and mechanism to move it and to take the beams from the chain is saved. The

page_text: saving of chain and power to move it, is very considerable, the longer the pattern
the more the saving.
This invention consists, essentially, in the combination of a series of carriages placed
side by side across the loom and made movable in the direction of the travel of the
warp and fabric at or near the fell or cloth making point and between the reed of the
lay and the breast beam, the said carriages containing a series of tuft yarn, carriers,
guides or needles arranged therein one behind the other and provided each with a tuft
yarn taken from an independent spool which may be of any desired color; and a
Jacquard to control the position of the said tuft yarn carriers, guides or needles, in
such manner that any one of the said tuft yarn carriers, guides or needles of each
carriage according to the color of the tuft desired to be produced from a carrier guide
or needle of any carriage, may be brought into operative position with any other tuft
yarn carrier, guide or needle of any other carriage and thus form a set of carriers,
guides or needles which set, arranged in line across the loom will present tuft yarns
of the colors desired for the transverse row of tufts next to be made, such set being
thereafter presented to the devices which take the said tuft-yarns and incorporate
them in the fabric.
This invention also consists in the combination in a loom for weaving carpets, of
the following instrumentalitics, viz-a series of horizontally movable carriages
arranged side by side across the loom, each carriage containing a series of tuft yarn
carriers, guides or needles; a series of independent spools to supply a tuft yarn of the
desired color to each of the said tuft yarn carriers, guides or needles; means to auto-
matically move the said carriages and tuft yarn carriers, guides or needles to effect
the placing of any desired tuft yarn carrier, guide or needle of any carriage in position
to have its tuft yarn formed into a tuft.
Also in the combination, in a loom, of shed forming mechanism or its well known
equivalent, to form sheds in the warp threads; a series of carriages made moveable in
the direction of the length of the warp threads; a series of independently movable
tuft yarn carrying needles mounted in each of the said carriages; means to select and
lower any one needle in each series of needles; and evener mechanism to bring all the
lowered needles into line; and means to raise and lower the carriages and needles to
enable the lowered needles to present the tuft yarns in the warp shed.
Also, in a loom, the breast plate to support the fabric after the same has been
woven; a blade arranged immediately above it with its edge close to the cloth
making point; and means to support the said blade; combined with a movable blade;
and means to actuate it to cut the tufts to proper length.
Also, in a loom for weaving moquette carpets, a series of carriages arranged side
by side across the loom and made movable in the direction of the length of the warp
at or near the fell and having, each carriage, a series of iuft yarn carriers, guides or
needles arranged one behind the other and each supplied from an independent spool;
means to move the said carriages and tuft yarn carriers, guides or needles to enable any
yarn contained in any one of the said tuft yarn carriers, guides or needles of each
carriage to be placed in position to have its yarn made into a tuft; combined with
shed forming mechanism; a lay and reed; and cutting mechanism to sever the tuft
yarn between the tuft yarn carriers, guides or needles and the warp threads.
tuft
--In the present loom the tuft yarns of the different colors.to be employed, are wound
each yarn by itself on a separate spool, and the said spools are held in frames at the
rear of the loom, substantially as the spools are held when weaving Wilton and
Brussels carpets.
The tuft yarns are led singly from the spools through eyes in movable tuft-yarn
carriers, guides or needles arranged in series one behind the other in carriages, one
carriage for each longitudinal row of tufts; each tuft-yarn carrier, guide or needle or
the carriages containing the series of needles being under the control of a Jacquard
mechanism by which any tuft-yarn carrier, guide or needle may be placed in the tuft
forming line to be lowered at the proper time to enable a tuft yarn of the desired color
to be employed for any tuft of each longitudinal row of tufts.
Each of the said tuft-yarn carriers guides or needles will preferably be attached

page_text: directly to a Jacquard cord, so that any desired one of a series of carriers or needles
in any carriage, cach carrier or needle having a tuft yarn of a different color, may be
lowered below the remaining carriers or needles of its series to thus present above the
warp a tuft yarn of proper color for each tuft in the series of tufts to be made across
the fabric, and thereafter the set of dropped or selected carriers or needles extending
across the warp from selvage to selvage are suitably acted upon by evener mechanism
the purpose of which is to place all of the said dropped or selected carriers or needles
in the same line or row across the loom above the warp thus placing any desired
carrier or needle of each carriage, the said carrier or needle having yarn of the color
desired, for the next tuft to be made by a yarn from a needle or carrier of that
carriage, exactly at the point above the warp where a tuft of that color is to be inserted
in the row of tufts then to be made.
There are as many carriages containing each a series of tuft yarn carriers or needles
as there are to be tufts in each row of tufts across the fabric, and the number of
carriers or needles in each carriage will depend upon the number of colors to be shown
in each longitudinal row of tufts entering into the pattern.
One essential feature of this present invention consists in the employment of tuft
yarn carriers or needles, each of which is separately controlled by a Jacquard cord,
and each series of tuft-yarn carriers or needles is controlled by a carriage so that any
one tuft yarn carrier or needle of each series which shall have been selected by the
Jacquard for use, may, by suitable eveners, be placed in such position with relation to
the warp threads that the free ends of the tuft yarns carried by the said carriers or
needles may be so placed with relation to the warp as to enable the said tuft yarns at
a short distance from their free ends to be locked into the body of the fabric, after
which the tuft yarns will be cut off, leaving a staple like tuft, and although it is
preferred to pass the ends of the tuft yarn carriers or needles through between the
warp threads, it will be understood that the said independently controlled tuft yarn
carriers or needles in turn controlled in series by carriages, may have the free ends of
the separate tuft yarns carried by them and taken each from a different spool passed
into the shed of the warp by any well known or suitable mechanism commonly
employed to introduce the ends of the tuft-yarns into the shed of the warps.
As to the carriages it is only essential that each carriage should be able to control
and keep together several tuft carriers or needles as a series, and permit individual
carriers or needles of each series to be moved or brought into line as a set, by evener
bars or rods which, at the proper times, are moved toward each other above the warp
threads, the said eveners acting to place such of the tuft yarn carriers or needles
which shall have been permitted by the Jacquard to fall below the fellow carriers or
needles of the series in which they operate, all in one line, no matter what may be
their position in the series, bringing them all into line above the warp and in a row
across the said warp opposite where the next longitudinal row of tufts is to be inserted
or made.
We denominate the row of needles dropped below their fellows as a set, each set of
needles thus being composed of one needle from each series of needles, the number
of needles in the set corresponding with the number of tufts in a transverse row
of tufts.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Looms for the Manufacture of Tufted Fabrics.
We, MARY C. CROMPTON, of Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, administra-
trix of the Estate of the late George Crompton, same place, loom builder, and HORACE
WYMAN loom builder, same place do hereby declare the nature of our invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention has for its object to simplify that class of looms employed in the
manufacture of carpets and fabrics, wherein the tufts are formed one row at a time
across the fabric,.as for instance Moquette carpets.
In looms heretofore employed for weaving moquette carpets, or tufted fabrics, the
yarns for the production of the tufts for each different row of tufts entering into
the pattern or design being woven, have been taken from separate beams upon which the
tuft yarns have been wound so as to present in proper sequence yarns of the particular
colors which it was desired that the tufts should have in the transverse row of tufts to
be made from the yarns on each beam.
These numerous beams each having the yarns wound thereon in different order as
to color, and corresponding in number with the different transverse rows of tufts in
the pattern, have been carried by chains which have been moved mechanically as in
British Patents No. 2434 for the year 1856, No. 235 for the year 1877, No. 4150 year
1880, and No. 1634 for the year 1881, to bring the different beams in proper succession
and time to the cloth making point, and in such position the ends of the tuft yarns have
been placed between the backing or foundation warp threads and made into tufts by
different mechanical devices, and the said tuft yarns having been caught and held in
the fabric between a warp and weft thread have been made into tufts of the desired
length, and the tuft yarns having been cut off, the beam from which the tuft yarns
were so taken has been removed, and the next beam having the yarn properly graded
as to color, or arranged in a different sequence, has been brought into position for the
next row of tufts across the fabric.
According to this invention the numerous tuft yarn beams heretofore used are
dispensed with, the time heretofore required to wind the yarns of different colors on
the different beams in the different orders as to colors is saved, and the cost of the
chain and mechanism to move it and to take the beams from the chain is saved. The
saving of chain and power to move it, is very considerable, the longer the pattern the
more the saving.
This invention consists, essentially, in the combination, of a series of carriages
placed side by side across the loom and made movable in the direction of the travel
of the warp and fabric at or near the fell or cloth making point and between the reed
of the lay and the breast beam, the said carriages containing a series of tuft yarn
carriers, guides or needles arranged therein one behind the other and provided each
with a tuft yarn taken from an independent spool which may be of any desired
color and a jacquard to control the position of the said tuft yarn carriers, guides or

page_text: needles, in such manner that any one of the said tuft yarn carriers, guides or needles
of each carriage according to the color of the tuft desired to be produced from a
carrier guide or needle of any carriage, may be brought into operative position with.
any other tuft yarn carrier, guide or needle of any other carriage and thus form a set
of carriers, guides or needles which set, arranged in line across the loom will present
tuft yarns of the colors desired for the transverse row of tufts next to be made, such
set being thereafter presented to the devices which take the said tuft-yarns and
incorporate them in the fabric.
This invention also consists in the combination in a loom for weaving carpets, of the
following instrumentalities, viz: a series of horizontally movable carriages arranged
side by side across the loom, each carriage containing a series of tuft yarn carriers,
guides or needles; a series of independent spools to supply a tuft yarn of the desired
color to each of the said tuft yarn carriers guides or needles; means to automatically
move the said carriages and tuft yarn carriers, guides or needles to effect the placing
of any desired tuft yarn carrier, guide or needle of any carriage in position to have its
tuft yarn formed into a tuft.
Also in the combination, in a loom, of shed forming mechanism, or its well known
equivalent to form sheds in the warp. threads; a series of carriages made movable in
the direction of the length of the warp threads; a series of independently movable
tuft yarn carrying needles, mounted in each of the said carriages; means to select.
and lower any one needle in each series of needles; an evener mechanism to bring
all the lowered needles into line; and means to raise and lower the carriages and
needles to enable the lowered needles to present the tuft yarns in the warp shed.
Also, in a loom, the breast plate to support the fabric after the same has been
woven; a blade arranged immediately above it with its edge close to the cloth making
point and means to support the said blade; combined with a movable blade; and
means, to actuate it to cut the tufts to proper length.
Also, in a loom for weaving moquette carpets, a series of carriages arranged side by
side across the loom and made movable in the direction of the length of the warp at
or near the fell and having, each carriage, a series of tuft yarn carriers guides or
needles arranged one behind the other and each supplied from an independent spool ;
means to move the said carriages and tuft yarn carriers guides or needles to enable
any tuft yarn contained in any one of the said tuft yarn carriers guides or needles of
each carriage to be placed in position to have its yarn made into a tuft; combined
with shed forming mechanism a lay and reed; and cutting mechanism to sever the
tuft yarn between the tuft yarn carriers guides or needles and the warp threads.
In the present loom the tuft yarns of the different colors to be employed, are wound
each yarn by itself on a separate spool, and the said spools are held in frames at the
rear of the loom, substantially as the spools are held when weaving Wilton and
Brussels carpets.
The tuft yarns are led simply from the spools through eyes in movable tuft-yarn
carriers, guides or needles arranged in series one behind the other in carriages, one
carriage for each longitudinal row of tufts; each tuft yarn carrier, guide or needle,
or the carriages containing the series of needles being under the control of a jacquard
mechanism by which any tuft yarn carrier, guide or needle may be placed in the tuft
forming line to be lowered at the proper time to enable a tuft yarn of the desired color
to be employed for any tuft of each longitudinal row of tufts.
Each of the said tuft yarn carriers guides or needles will preferably be attached
directly to a jacquard cord, so that any desired one of a series of carriers or needles
in any carriage, each carrier or needle having a tuft yarn of a different color, may be
lowered below the remaining carriers or needles of its series to thus present above the
warp a tuft yarn of proper color for each tuft in the series of tufts to be made across
the fabric, and thereafter the set of dropped or selected carriers or needles extending
across the warp from selvage to selvage are suitably acted upon by evener mechanism
the purpose of which is to place all of the said dropped or selected carriers or needles
in the same line or row across the loom above the warp thus placing any desired

page_text: carrier or needle of each carriage, the said carrier or needle having yarn of the color
desired for the next tuft to be made by a yarn from a needle or carrier of that carriage,
exactly at the point above the warp where a tuft of that color is to be inserted in
the row of tufts then to be made.
•
There are as many carriages containing each a series of tuft yarn carriers or needles
as there are to be tufts in each row of tufts across the fabric, and the number of
carriers or needles in each carriage will depend upon the number of colors to be shown
in each longitudinal row of tufts entering into the pattern.
One essential feature of this present invention consists in the employment of tuft
yarn carriers or needles each of which is separately controlled by a jacquard cord,
and each series of tuft yarn carriers or needles is controlled by a carriage so that any
one tuft yarn carrier or needle of each series which shall have been selected by the
jacquard for use, may, by suitable eveners, be placed in such position with relation to
the warp threads that the free ends of the tuft yarns carried by the said carriers or
needles may be so placed with relation to the warp as to enable the said tuft yarns at
a short distance from their free ends to be locked into the body of the fabric, after
which the tuft yarns will be cut off, leaving a staple like tuft, and although it is
preferred to pass the ends of the tuft yarn carriers or needles through between the
warp threads, it will be understood that the said independently controlled tuft yarn
carriers or needles in turn controlled in series by carriages, may have the free ends of
the separate tuft yarns carried by them and taken each from a different spool passed
into the shed of the warp by any well known or suitable mechanism commonly
employed to introduce the ends of the tuft-yarns into the shed of the warps.
As to the carriages it is only essential that each carriage should be able to control
and keep together several tuft carriers or needles as a series, and permit individual
carriers or needles of each series to be moved or brought into line as a set, by evener
bars or rods which, at the proper times, are moved toward each other above the
threads, the said eveners acting to place such of the tufy yarn carriers or needles which
shall have been permitted by the jacquard to fall below the fellow carriers or needles
of the series in which they operate, all in one line, no matter what may be their
position in the series, bringing them all into line above the warp and in a row across
the said warp opposite where the next longitudinal row of tufts is to be inserted or
made.
We denominate the row of needles dropped below their fellows as a set, each set of
needles thus being composed of one needle from each series of needles, the number of
needles in the set corresponding with the number of tufts in a transverse row of tufts.
The improved tuft-yarn carriers or needles referred to, are embodied in a loom
having many parts substantially such as represented in British Patent No. 1634 dated
April 14, 1881, to which reference may be had, and herein to avoid confusion and the
making of complex drawings, many of the parts of the said patented loom which
will be employed in the improved loom to be herein described have been omitted, but
enough of the said parts have been shown to enable this invention to be understood
and the parts hereinafter mentioned and designated by the same letter are substan-
and tially the same may be actuated substantially as are the said like parts in the
said patented loom.
We desire it to be understood that the tuft yarn carriers or needles herein described
may be employed in other mechanical organizations for the production of moquette
carpets or tufted fabrics wherein the tuft yarns held by the carriers or needles and
presented to the warp threads are thereafter placed between or about the warp threads
or are locked or caught by the filling or weft threads.
Fig. 1 is an elevation of part of the right hand side of the loom and spool frame,
viewing the former from the line figure 2, part of the frame work being broken
away to show parts behind it, the jacquard, the upper parts of the rods and inter-
mediate devices to actuate the jacquard, and the upper part of the evener mechanism,
and carriages to hold the tuft carriers or needles being broken off. The parts so broken
off are shown in figures 13 and 37 and in said Figure 1, it will be noticed that the

page_text: spool frame is brought close up to the rear side of the loom without, however, altering
the angle at which the tuft yarns leave their spools. Other figures to be referred to
show the tuft yarns introduced into the carriers or needles.
Fig. 2 is a section below the line xx figure 1 of a sufficient portion of the loom
to be described, to enable our invention to be understood when taken in connection
with the loom described in British Patent No. 1634 for 1881.
Fig. 3 is a partial front elevation of the loom from a point a little below the breast
plate support nearly to the jacquard machine, all but five of the needle carriages being
omitted, parts of the loom being broken out centrally to shorten the same in the
direction of its width. Fig. 4 is a sectional detail mostly on the line ¹¹ figure 3
to represent part of the evener mechanism, and of the tuft cutting mechanism and
part of the means for operating the same, the breast, plate and its support being in
section, the shaft a¹ being, however out at one side of its centre to show the cam
thereon which operates the cutter.
Fig. 5 is a side elevation, of one of the carriages with its series of tuft-carriers or
needles, one of the latter being shown as dropped or selected for use, the said carriage
being viewed from the right of the line figure 3.
Fig. 6 is a section of figure 5 on the dotted line³ ³.
Fig. 7 a longitudinal section of figure 5 in the dotted line x.
Fig. 8 an edge view of a carriage of the kind shown in figure 1 it being suspended
from its supporting rod.
Fig. 9 a vertical section of the bottom bar of the carriage in the line of the opening
therein which guides a carrier or needle.
Fig. 10 shows two views of one of the tuft carriers or needles enlarged, the lower
end of the needle being broken out in one of the views to show the tuft yarn.
Fig. 11 a top view of one of the needles.
Fig. 12 a section thereof in line y y fig. 10.
Fig. 13 a right hand side elevation of the jacquard, the same being shown as set
upon the side of the upper part of the loom frame and supposed to be broken off
from fig. 1.
Fig. 14 a vertical sectional enlarged detail of the jacquard it being shown as having
two sets of cords the other cords like them being omitted.
Fig. 15 is a view of the parts shown in figure 13 looking from the left.
Fig. 16 a top view of part of the trap board.
Fig. 17 a top view of part of the top board.
Fig. 18 a partial section of Figure 17 with cords added.
Fig. 19 a partial section of figure 16 with cords added.
Fig. 20 a detail of the left hand end of the loom shown in figure 1.
Fig. 21 a section of only the part immediately at the left of the dotted line
fig. 20.
Fig. 22 a detail showing one of the guides and devices mounted thereon which
actuate a rod or shaft which forms part of the mechanism for supporting the carriages
for the tuft carriers or needles and for raising and lowering the latter together with
the evener mechanism.
Fig. 22 is a detail of the breast plate and one of the cutters, and
Fig. 22 is a section of figure 22 in the line
c³,
Fig. 23 is an enlarged detail of one of the eveners.
Fig. 24 is a detail illustrating a modified form of needle carriage and needles
together with eveners and some coöperating parts to be described.
Fig. 25 is a front view of the modification fig. 24 the breast plate being omitted.
Fig. 26 a side elevation on a larger scale of one of the tuft carriers or needles
removed from fig. 24 the needle being broken out at places to show its construction
and to save space on the drawing.
Fig. 27 is a view of fig. 26 looking at it froin the left.
Fig. 28 is a sectional detail showing a top view of a part of one of the carriages
used in fig. 25 its support, and one of the needles.
Figs. 29 to 36 inclusive, details to illustrate different positions of the needles,

page_text: eveners, comb or heater, breast plate and cutting mechanism employed in the manu-
facture of tufted fabrics in accordance with our invention and
Fig. 37 a partial right hand side elevation of the loom looking at it from the front,
the said figure being made chiefly to show the parts between the top of fig. 1 and the
under side of fig. 13.
The fabric to be produced on the loom herein described will be the same as that in
British Patent No. 1634 for 1881.
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The main portion of the frame work A of suitable shape has uprights A' A' see
fig. 1 and 37 to support the jacquard head A' and its devices, see figs. 3, 13 and 15;
The standard A supports the balanced lever A having an attached weight 120. The
shaft a but partially shown in fig. 2 will, in practice be provided with a belt pulley
and be driven in any suitable manner. This driving shaft a in suitable bearings
omitted from the drawings has a pinion at which engages a gear all on a shaft a².
The shaft a² has a pinion a¹ that engages a toothed gear a on the cam shaft a¹ and
rotates it. This cain shaft has attached to it a bevel gear a that engages a bevel
gear on a shaft a" but partially shown in fig. 2. This shaft a". in practice carries
suitable cams to operate the weft carrying needle fig. 1 which needle may be of any
usually or suitable shape. The mechanism, not shown for actuating the weft carrying
needle may be of any usual construction now in common use, as for instance as
fully described in British Patent No. 1634 for the year 1881. The mechanism for
moving the weft carrying needles is not of this present invention. The cam shaft a¹4
at its opposite end, has a bevel gear b, that engages a bevel gear on the short
shaft & provided with a series of cams bbbwhich in practice actuate in the proper
orders a series of upright harness levers fig. 20 shown in section in fig. 2, the said
levers being fully shown in the said British Patent No. 1634 for 1881. The levers *
will in practice effect the movement of the harness frame 612 613 614 fig. 1 containing
usual heddles 22, 23, 24 in the eyes of which are placed the warp threads 8, 9 and 21
which enter into the body of the fabric and which the weft thread act to hold the tufts
of the tuft yarn t in place, as will be desired.
The wraps 8, 9 and 21 are taken from suitable beams over usual vibrating rolls to
keep them at the proper tension. The lay carrying the usual reed r is pivoted at e
and has connecting rods 2 jointed to a bell crank lever h³ fast on a rocking shaft 20.
One of the arms of ho has connected to it a link attached to a lever ¹ pivoted
at h. The lever 21 has at its inner side a roller or other stud that enters the groove
in the cam h the latter effecting the movement of the lay d². The rock shaft
mounted in bearings at the loom side, has an arm which is joined to a lever
which by the cam 7 fig. 2 on shaft a¹ and suitable intermediate imechanism, is rocked
in its bearings.
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The rock-shaft near each side of the loom has attached to it, arms f³ to which are
attached hooks, see figs. 1 and 22 jointed to lifting bars or devices e³ which are
grooved at their rear sides to slide vertically on the guides et connected to the hubs
of slotted arms e pivoted at es and having the same centre of motion as the lay.
These arms es are attached by hooks eo, to arms e¹ of the hollow sleeve or shaft e¹³
surrounding the, shaft f. The arms have lips or projections 29 that embrace and
slide on guide plates 30 attached to the inner side of the loom frame. The hollow
sleeve or shaft e" has-an-arm e" that is acted upon by the-cam els on the shaft a".
The bobbins m¹ fig. 1 contain the weft threads to be supplied to the weft carrying
needle which is passed through the shed made in the warp to leave in the shed a
long loop or double line of filling or weft. The weft or filling thread at the opposite
selvage of the warp has its loop locked by the thread carried by a small shuttle n
which is reciprocated vertically in a shuttle race located at one side of the selvage
warp.
The driving shaft a and the devices thereafter referred to up to this point in this
description are common to British Patent No. 1634 for the year 1881 wherein they
are designated by like letters, and wherein the operation of the said parts is fully
described.
The tuft-yarns t, wound upon separate small spools B one for each tuft yarn and

page_text: Luft carrier or needle, are held loosely on frames B₁ of suitable size, sustained by
uprights B2 at the rear of the loom frame the number of spools held by the different
frames being, in practice, determined by both the number of tufts and the variety of
colors to be employed in the production of a transverse row of tufts, the spools in each
of the different frames B' containing single yarns differing in color.
The frames B will be placed at such distance at the rear of the loom frame as to
permit the tuft yarns to be led from the spools to the guide eyes 15 of the series of
tuft yarn carriers or needles c¹, c, e³, c, c, each carrier or needle having one such
receiving eye at a point above its delivering eyes 13, the receiving eyes of the different
carriers or needles being located at different distances from the points of the needles
so as to lessen the liability of friction between the tuft yarns entering the different
necilles of each series.
Herein we have shown a series of six carriers guides or needles in each carriage but
the number of carriers or guides in each series may be greater or less, and it will be
understood that there will be as many series of needles and carriers as there are to
be tufts across the fabric.
We have practically demonstrated that very complex and varied patterns containing
numerous colors may be produced by but six needles in each carriage.
The tuft yarn carriers or needles of cach series are at their upper ends connected
with any usual jacquard cords D, and at their lower ends are placed in and under the
control of carriages E. There is one carriage for each series of tuft yarn carriers or
needles, and the said needles are raised and lowered in guides in the said carriages by
the jacquard cords D. The needles controlled by each carriage are placed one behind
the other in the direction of the length of the fabric being woven, and the carriages
are free to be moved in the same direction.
As herein shown the upper portion of each needle see figs. 26 and 27, is composed
of wire and provided at the top end with an eye to receive the jacquard cord D, and the
lower part of the needle is of sheet metal bent partially upon itself as most clearly
shown in figs. 10 and 12 and brought together at its lower end to form a wedge point;
and provided with a delivery eye 13 but we desire to limit our invention to any exact
form of needles, for herein we have shown two different needles each the equivalent of
the other.
yarn
Referring to figures 5 and 10 where the needles employed in figures 1 and 3 are
shown on a larger scale, it will be seen that the body of the needle, above the sheet
metal part, is composed of two wires, and that each needle at a point above its
delivering eye 13, is provided with a projection or lug 12, which, when the jacquard
permits the needle to fall, meets a part of the carriage, and thereafter while the said
needle is being moved to insert its contained tuft yarn into position with relation to
the warp for the production of a tuft, the said needle is supported directly by the
carriage, while the remaining needles are supported by their attached jacquard cords,
the knots of which are above the slots in the trap board.
It will be noticed in figs. 5 and 10 that the projections 12 are all at the same
distance from the points of the needles, the said projections thus acting as gauges to
control the distance to which the lower ends of the needles may descend below its
carriage.
In figures 5 and 10 we have provided the needles c to c, above the projection 12,
with yarn receiving eyes 15, but in the case of the needle co we have made the
projection 12 and yarn receiving eye as one, and it will be noticed that all the said
eyes in each series of needles are at different distances from the points of the needles
so as to permit the tuft yarns entering the eyes 15 of the different needles of each
series to enter between the carriages one above and out of contact the one with the
other.
The needles shown in figures 5 and 10 are placed in grooves in a carriage E, made
of sector shape, see figures 5, 7 and 8 and loosely supported or pivoted upon a
rod 17, the said carriage having a rest 17 and a guide bar 16 the former to receive
against it the projections 12, and the latter to guide the needles, the rest 17 also as
herein shown guiding the needles near their upper ends. The carriages are free to be
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page_text: moved backward and forward by the evener mechanism to be described as the latter
acts against the needles which the jacquard permits to descend so that projections 12
of the needles rest on the carriages.
The modified form of needle shown in figs. 24 to 27, has but one wire for its body
and the yarn receiving eyes 15 are made as rings secured to the bodies of the needles, 5
and the projections 12 are placed lower down on the needles, or at the upper ends of
the sheet metal parts thereof.
The carriages E to receive these modified needles are somewhat altered as shown in
figures 24, 25 and 28, and are made as will now be described.
Instead of using a sector like carriage for each series of needles, we have shortened
or cut away the rod 17* to be hereinafter more fully described and have fastened to it
just within the path of movement of the vertical arms of the evener mechanism at
each side of the loom, a depending frame p and we have rigidly connected the loose
ends of those two frames by means of two notched bars or supports 109.
The bars 109 are provided with notches to receive the said carriages E, shown in
their modified shape as metal bars having pins c³ projecting from one side thereof, or
having suitable pockets or spaces to receive and guide the lower ends of the tuft
carriers or needles.
These bar-shaped carriages are free to slide parallel each with the length of the
warp thread in the notches in the bars 109 and are held down in the said notches by
cross bars or caps 107. When the needles shown in figures 24 or 25 drop, the
projections 12 rest on the tops of the bar like carriages. Fig. 25 shows a set of four
dropped or selected needles, the needles c¹, of each series of needles being it is
supposed, dropped for use.
In the modification fig. 24 and 25, the guide 17 for the upper ends of the needles is
connected with the rods 57 at opposite sides of the loom and is shown as a long board
provided with holes one for each needle of each series of needles from side to side of
the loom.
One needle having been selected from each scries of needles and dropped to form
the set of needles to be used in the formation of the next row of tufts to be made, the
said dropped needles are acted upon by the eveners moved toward each other from
opposite directions as will be described, and all the needles of the set are brought into
line across the warp.
The needles which are selected and dropped or lowered for use are thereafter
supported as herein shown directly by the carriages, and the eveners in their move-
ment to engage the said needles and place them in line, pass under those needles of
each series of needles which are held up by the jacquard cords.
As the needles to be used are brought into line, the carriages are also moved, and
the needles come into line from opposite directions, the carriages being moved for
different distances according to which needle of each series was lowered, and there-
after all the needles to be used in the production of the next row of tufts, are lowered
and moved together in unison by the movement of the devices which support the
carriages, the evener mechanism at such time acting to keep all the selected or
lowered needles in line to act as a unit, each inserting a tuft of the particular colored
yarn carried by it.
-The-rod-17, see-figs. 3, 4, 5-and-7, on which the sector like carriages E, before
described, are pivoted loosely, has its journals mounted in the upper ends of arms
18 jointed at 14 to the upper ends of rigid arms 19, located near each side of the
loom, each arm 19, being bolted at 20 to the upper ends of the lifting bars or
devices e, see figure 22, placed on the guides et connected with and located next the
inner sides of the arms e, the said guide arms having their fulcra on the rod es, the
said lifters being reciprocated on the said guides by the links 2, arms, connected
with the rock shaft, the latter having other arms ft and being actuated as herein-
before described.
The arms e and guides et are vibrated about their fulcra by the sleeve e¹³, arm e
and link e connected with the arms es, all as in the patent referred to No. 1634 for
the year 1881 the said arms being moved away from the breast.plate or cloth support

page_text: mounted on the cross arch 123 as the lifting arms and their connected eveners and
the carriages with their tuft yarn carriers or needles descend thus enabling such of
the tuft yarn carriers or needles as have been lowered to pass diagonally down
through and between the warp threads see fig. 31 and form in the tuft yarns suitable
loops as shown in figs. 32 and 33 for the entrance of the filling thread carrier 1, the
said tuft yarn carriers or needles as the arms e are moved in the opposite direction or
toward the breast plate, being elevated above the warp after which the tuft yarns
held, in the fabric are cut off as will be described.
The rod 17 held in bearings at the upper ends of the bars 18 fig. 4 also has
bearings in the outer ends of levers A pivoted at 24 on the standard A, elected on
the loom sides A the said levers being provided with suitable counterbalancing
weights 120, the main purpose of the said levers being to act as a guide for the
bars 18 in their up and down movements. The rod 17x has pivoted upon it the
arms 25 which latter in this instance carry the eveners 16* at their lower ends. The
acting faces of the eveners, see enlarged detail fig. 23, will preferably have recesses
to receive the thin edges of the needles when they are dropped as stated, to be used,
thus preventing lateral movement of the said needles with relation to the spaces between
the warp threads, there being a notch for each series of needles.
The arms 25 as herein shown are normally moved toward each other, or in closed
condition against the rocking plate 26 by suitable springs 27 see figs. 3 and 4
attached to the said arms and to brackets 121. The rocking plates 26 pivoted at 28
on the bars 18 have each a projecting arm 29, which has jointed to it a link 40
attached to the arm 31, of a rocker shaft 32 placed loosely in bearings 33, attached to
the levers A', there being two such levers, one at each side of the loom frame. The
rocker shaft 32 has at the left side of the loom a third arm 34, which has attached
to it a rod 35, see fig. 3, jointed at its lower end at 36, see fig. 20 and 21, to a lever 37
pivoted at 38, the said lever having a roller or other stud which is acted upon by a
cam 39 on the shaft 62, the said cam being so shaped as to operate the rocking
plate 26 to separate the arms 25 and their attached eveners 16x just before the tuft
yarn carriers or needles next to be used are to be selected and dropped by the jacquard
into and so as to be supported by the carriages as described, so that the said eveners,
when permitted to approach each other under the action of the springs 27 or other-
wise, are enabled to meet the lowered tuft-yarn carriers or needles of each series held
by cach carriage and acting against the said dropped tuft-yarn carriers or needles
bring them, it may be from opposite directions, all into the same line across the
warp threads, thus bringing that one of the said carriers or needles of each
series which contains the proper colored tuft yarn which the said dropped set of tuft
varn carriers or needles is to make in the next transverse row of tufts, into the same
Jine to be thereafter moved in unison as a set for the simultaneous introduction of the
tuft yarns, the formation of loops from them, and to keep them in the same line while
the said loops are being cut off.
The jacquard machine shown in figs. 13 to 19 is not of our invention, but is
commonly in use in Brussels and Wilton carpet looms, with the exception that the
top board 50, is made vertically movable, and instead of the particular jacquard
mechanism herein shown any other suitable or well known jacquard mechanism may
be used.
The frame work A' of the jacquard is elevated above the loom frame and is herein
shown as supported on a suitable frame work A' but partially shown in fig. 1 erected on
the loom frame A. The shaft a" has a cam 41 shown in full and dotted lines figure 1,
which acts against a roller stud on a lever 43, pivoted at 44, just within the right
hand side frame of the loom, the said lever being joined by the connecting rod 45
with the arm 46 of the rock shaft 47, thus vibrating the latter so that its arms 48 at
opposite sides of the rock shaft, through links 49 connected with the top board 50 by
means of the slides 51 are made to reciprocate the said top board.
The top board has connected with it and supports the jacquard cords D all the
said cords and their attached needles being raised in unison with the top board
whenever the distance between the top board and the trap board 58 is greater than

page_text: the distance between the top board and the knots 52 in the cords D, the said top
board as it is lowered in excess of the descent of the trap-board, lowering each one of
the needles of each series of needles which is connected with a jacquard cord D the
knot 52 of which is not caught above the trap board, the needles so lowered below the
others being selected for use in making the next row of tufts.
The needles connected with cords B, the knots of which are not caught by the
trap-board, descend until their projections 12 rest on the carriages.
Preparatory to inserting a row of tufts, the top board is lifted to lift the knots 52
of all the cords D, above the trap board 58 and to lift the projections 12 of the needles
above the carriages and bring all the needles up into their highest position, and this
done, the cylinder 53, provided with a chain of usual pattern cards 54, is moved
against the ends of jacquard needles 55 of usual construction so that the cords D
extended through the eyes of the said needles 55, which are moved by the pattern
card then operative, will be moved so as to place their knots 52 over the contracted
parts of the elongated holes in the trap board, and the top board will commence to
descend while the trap board remains at rest and the cords so moved into the narrow
parts of the holes of the trap board will rest upon and be suspended from the trap
board, and all the tuft yarn carriers or needles connected with the cords so suspended
from the trap board will be held with their lower end at the same level, but the knots
of such of the cords as are not trapped by the trap board in the first descent of the
top board will pass below the trap board and the tuft yarn carriers or needles
connected therewith and suspended from the top board by the cords D, will descend
in unison with the top board until the projections 12 of the said carriers or needles
rest upon the carriages.
After the eveners 16* have acted upon the carriers or needles so dropped, and
placed them in line, the top board and trap board descend in unison with the arm 18,
the slides 56, with which the trap-board 58 is connected, being in turn joined by
rods 57 with the rod 17* before referred to.
The cylinder 53 is moved horizontally by the slides 59 one at each side of the
jacquard head and the said slides are connected with arms 60, of a rock shaft 61
having an arm 62 connected by link 63 with a lever 64 pivoted at 65, see figure 1,
having a roller stud acted upon by a cam 66, fast on the shaft a sec figure 1.
The shaft of the cylinder 53 has near its left hand end, see fig. 15, a lantern
wheel 223 which at the proper time, during its outward movement, or in the direction
of the arrow 222, fig. 13, will be engaged by a hook or pawl 226 of usual construction
shown in detail fig. 13ª.
The breast plate has bolted to it at its ends a bed plate 70 fig. 4 upon which bed
plate is secured the stationary member or blade 72 of the shears employed to cut the
tuft yarns t, to form tufts, the said blade in practice, being made adjustable vertically
at each end by suitable headed bolts 102, and set screws 103, see figs. 4 and 22, to
enable the said blade to have its cutting edge placed at the proper level to correctly
cooperate with the movable blade 73 to be described.
The bolt 102 passed loosely through a hole in the blade 72, is screwed into a forwardly
extended lug of the bed-plate 70 but the thread of the screw 103 engages threads
tapped into the blade, and the end of the screw rests upon the said lug.
The bed plate 70 has bolted to it by bolts 75 the uprights 74, upon the upper ends
of which latter at 76 are pivoted the arms 77 of an irregular frame composed of said
arms and a bar 78 fig. 2. The movable blade 73 is bolted to the bar 78. The
arms 77 of the bar 78 are so shaped between the pivoted points 76 thereof, and the
bar 78, as to place the said arms in different planes so that in the vibration of the
said frame one end of the blade 73 comes against one end of the stationary blade,
and thereafter from such point onward, the edges of the two blades gradually come
together.
The upper ends of the arms 77 are connected by links 80, with arms S1 of a rock
shaft 82 held in suitable bearings 83, on the frame work the said rock shaft having a
third arm 84 provided with a roller stud 85 which is acted upon by a grooved cam 86
on the shaft a see figure 4.

page_text: The warp threads 8, 9 and 21 on their way to the breast plate 123 are passed
between warp guides 88, fig. 1 and 3, made by inserting a number of pins in a
bar 89 supported at its ends by the rigid arms 90 bolted to a cross girt 91 of the
loom frame, the lower ends of the said pins terminating near the top of the plate 92
of the lay swords d² see figure 1.
The reed is composed of a series of short stiff dents or fingers as shown best in
figures 1 and 3 and in the diagram figs. 29 to 36, which enter the spaces between the
warp threads to beat up the weft and then withdraw from between the warps, the said
dents in the loom herein described being operated to beat the weft into place three
times during each round of the cam-shaft, as in the patent referred to.
The bar having the projecting dents or teeth r¹, is bolted to a cross beam 92
properly bolted to the lay swords d².
The tuft yarns t coming to the needles will preferably be guided between guide
wires 104 secured to upright 105 bolted at 106 to the loom frame, the said wires 104
being extended across the loom at the rear of the carriages. These guide-wires are
shown only in figures 24 and 25.
In the invention herein described in which it has been stated that our improvements
are incorporated with parts but partially shown they being common to the patent
No. 1634 for 1881 referred to, we desire it to be understood that we have entirely
dispensed with all the needle carriages therein described, all the chains for moving
the said carriages, all the devices for moving the chains and all the pile, wire
mechanism, and the tuft depressing mechanism and instead of some of the cams
therein described we have added other cams which are herein fully shown, but we do
retain substantially the same mechanism for introducing and locking the weft thread,
for controlling the main and stuffing warps and for operating the lay and the shed
forming mechanism and herein where we have referred by letter to a part as being
the same as shown in the said patent and have not shown means to operate the said
part, it will be understood that the said part may be operated substantially as shown
in the said patent.
The operation of our improved tuft needles or carriers in inserting a tuft will now
be described referring to figures 29 to 36.
After the needles to be used for the production of any transverse row of tufts have
been lowered so that they are supported, one needle on each carriage, as described,
the eveners are brought towards each other and in such movement they act upon the
said dropped or selected needles and place them all in a row as a set of needles to
form the row of tufts.
The carriages and eveners derive their support from the rod 17* and after the
dropped needles are all in line as stated, the lifters e³, are lowered or permitted to
descend, thus lowering the rod 17* and with it the carriages needles and eveners, the
latter holding the set of dropped needles all in the same line, while the points of the
needles are thrust between the warp threads and while they are thereafter elevated
from below the warp threads, and while the tuft yarns are being cut off.
While the carriages and evener mechanism are being so lowered together to thrust
the dropped needles between the warp threads, the top board 50, also descends in
unison with the carriages through the connection or rod 57.
The top board is moved by the links 49, connected with the armis 48 and the
trapboard by the rod 57 connected with the rod 17* which is raised and lowered in
unison with the lifting devices e³ see fig. 22.
The movements of the top-board and trap-board are in unison for most of the time,
the difference in speed being while near their highest positions, such difference being
merely sufficient to enable the top board to lift the lowered needles up to the level of
the needles supported by the cords D which are suspended from the trap-board, and
also place the knots of all the cords above the trap-board to permit the said cords to
be moved freely by the needles of the jacquard.
To illustrate the operation of our invention, we shall refer to diagrams figs. 29 to 36.
In figure 29 one of the needles is shown as having been dropped below the fellow
needles of its series or the needles in the same carriage, and it will be supposed that

page_text: the needle so dropped contains a tuft yarn t, of the color desired for the tuft to he
put in by that series of needles, it being understood that the series of needles
correspond in number with the number of tufts in each transverse row of tufts, and
that one needle of each series of needles is lowered prior to introducing or making
each separate transverse row of tufts to be made.
The proper needles having been lowered from each series of needles to produce tufts
of the desired color, the eveners 16* are closed together and acting against the dropped
or selected needles brings them all in the same line above the warp the action of the
eveners on the needles moving the carriages in one or the other direction according to
which needle of each series of needles is so lowered.
Fig. 30 shows the eveners so closed upon the dropped needle, and in practice it will
be understood that such needles correspond in number with the number of tufts to be
made across the fabric.
To avoid confusion on the drawing we have omitted from figure 30 to figure 36 all
the needles of the series of needles except the particular ones dropped to produce the
tufts. All the dropped needles are operated. in unison, so the description of the
movement of one will suffice for all.
Referring to figure 29 the movable cutting blade 73 stands in the position occupied
by it when the last row of tuft yarns were cut off. Between cutting off of the said
yarns and the raising of all the needles, the selection of one from each series for the
next row of tufts, and the closing of the eveners on the dropped or selected needles
the blade 73 is thrown back to its open position as in figure 30.
After the eveners bring the set of tuft needles in the same line as in figure 30 the
top board, trap board, evener mechanism, and needle carriages are lowered in unison
to cause the passage of the set of dropped needles between the warp threads, a shed
having been formed by lifting the warp threads 9 and lowering the warp threads 8
and the stuffing warps 21 a double pick of filling having been previously placed
between the warp 8 and 21.
The needles are passed down into this shed from the position fig. 30 to that denoted
in fig. 31 and by the action of the links elo and arms es, the guide ea and bars 18. 19.
the evener mechanism as it is lowered is carried diagonally backward away from the
front edge of the breast plate 123 until the tuft yarn at the point where it issues from
the needle or tuft carrier is sufficiently below the warp 8 and 21 for the passage of the
weft carrying needle, into the shed above the tuft yarns laid in the said shed sub-
stantially as in fig. 32 and a doubled pick of weft is left in the shed referred to as
represented by the letter l¹.
The needles, eveners, etc. now commence to rise and move forward toward the
breast plate, see fig. 33 the needles drawing the tuft yarn up, as represented in
figure 34, but while passing from the position figure 33 to that shown in figure 34,
the shed is changed and the comb or reed r is caused to beat up the tuft yarn and
force it with the weft close up to the weft 1.
The shed is then again changed, warp 9 and the stuffing warp 21 being lifted and
warp 9 lowered, as in figure 35, and in such new shed we introduce two doubled picks
of filling and the comb or reed beats the same as shown in figure 35 and thereafter
the blade 73 is thrown forward, cutting off the tuft yarn as in figure 36 leaving a row
of tufts of uniform length. In practice the final beat up of the reed-completing the
formation of each row of tufts, causes the doubled weft ¹ to pass above the doubled
weft l, making a fabric such as represented in figure 40 of our patent referred to.
The tufts having been cut off the eveners are opened the needles are raised, the shed
is changed, and the needle having a yarn of the proper color is dropped from the series
of needles of each carriage bringing the parts again into position figure 29.
The woven fabric is supported on the breast plate the inner edge of which extends
substantially to the cloth making point the edge of the stationary blade 72 of the tuft
cutting mechanism is nearly in the same line, and the comb or reed beats up the tuft
to the inner edge of the said plate and blade, and thereafter the movable blade
advances and cuts the tuft yarn, leaving both legs of the tuft of uniform length.
We have herein used the terin jacquard meaning thereby to include a mechanism

page_text: under the control of a pattern surface, preferably a series of cards and capable of
raising and lowering, at will, any one of a series of cords such as used in jacquard
looms to form sheds, but herein the said cords which are controlled by the said
mechanism do not aid in forming the shed, but merely act to select or raise and lower
the needles of each series of needles which are to be used in the different rows of tufts,
and we desire to hold as within the scope of our invention, any usual or known
mechanism whereby the needles in series each supplied with a yarn taken from a
separate spool may be selected and placed in such position as to present in a row the
needles which contain the tuft yarns of the color which it is desired shall be used in
the tufts of the next row of tufts to be made.
Instead of holding the tuft yarn carriers or needles with their points down through
and between the warps as in fig. 32 while the weft or filling is inserted and thereafter
drawing the weft yarn carriers or needles up to complete the loops and tufts, it is
obvious that we may place the ends of the needles in such position that the free ends
of the tuft yarns depending from their lower ends will descend between and below the
warp threads forming and to form the back of the carpet or fabric and that the said
tuft yarns the weft or filling having been inserted through the shed and beaten up,
may be acted upon and turned up about the said weft or filling to the upper side of
the fabric by devices substantially such as described in British patents No. 235 for the
year 1877 or in British patent No. 4150 for the year 1880 the said devices in the
former patent being designated as a comb and marked M and in the latter patent as a
brush and marked F.
We are aware that in the Patent No. 4150 for 1880 the ends of the tuft yarns are
"trailed" as it is called, across the warps so as to place them in position to be caught
by hooks to be drawn down between the warp threads. We have desired, but not
herein shown means for moving longitudinally the frame p carrying the carriages E
so that the ends of the tuft yarns may, if desired, be trailed across the warp threads,
the trailed tuft-yarns being drawn down between the warp by hooks such as designated
by the letter e in the said patent No. 4150.
From the foregoing description it will be observed that the novel features added to
the particular loom or class of looms with which our invention is embodied, are
essentially, the devices which contain and control the presentation of the tuft yarns to
the warp threads at the cloth making point.
We have herein shown our particular yet well known form of shed forming
mechanism yet we do not intend to limit our invention to the use of the mechanism
shown, but instead may use any shed forming mechanism commonly employed in
looms for weaving moquette carpets, and as provided for in British patents No. 2434
for 1856, and 235 for 1877.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we claim is,
First. The combination substantially as described in a loom for weaving carpets of
a series of carriages placed side by side across the loom and made movable in the
direction of the travel of the warp and fabric at or near the fell or cloth making point,
the said carriages containing a series of tuft yarn carriers, guides or needles arranged
therein one behind the other and provided each with a tuft yarn taken from an
independent spool which may be of the desired color; and a jacquard to control the
position of the said tuft yarn carriers, guides or needles in such manner that any one
of the said tuft yarn carriers guides or needles of each carriage according to the color
of the tuft desired to be produced from a carrier guide or needle of any carriage may
be brought into operative position with any other tuft yarn carrier, guide or needle of
any other carriage to thus form a set of carriers guides or needles which set arranged
in line across the loom will present tuft yarns of the colors desired for the transverse
row of tufts next to be made such set being thereafter presented to the devices which
take the said tuft yarns and incorporate them in the fabric substantially as described.
Second. The combination substantially as described, in a loom for weaving carpets
of the following instrumentalities viz: a series of horizontally movable carriages

page_text: arranged side by side across the loom each carriage containing a series of tuft yarn
carriers, guides or needles; a series of independent spools to. supply a tuft yarn of the
desired color to each of the said tuft yarn carriers, guides or needles substantially as
described; means to automatically move the said carriages and tuft yarn carriers
guides or needles to effect the placing of any desired tuft yarn carrier, guide or needle
of any carriage in position to have its tuft yarn formed into a tuft, substantially as
described.
Third. The combination substantially as described in a loom for weaving carpets of
shed forming mechanism substantially as described, or its known equivalent, sheds in
the
warp threads a series of carriages made movable in the direction of the length of
the warp threads, a series of independently movable tuft yarn carrying needle mounted
in each of the said carriages; means to select and lower any one needle in each series
of needles an evener mechanism to bring all the lowered needles in to line; and
means to raise and lower the carriages and needles to enable the lowered needles to
present the tuft yarns in the warp shed, substantially as described.
Fourth. In a loom for waeving carpets, the breast plate to support the fabric after
the same has been woven; a blade arranged above it with its edge close to the cloth
making joint, and means substantially as described to support the said blade, combined
with a movable blade, and means substantially as described to actuate it to cut the
tufts to proper length as set forth.
Fifth. In a loom for weaving moquette carpets a series of carriages arranged side
by side across the loom and made movable in the direction of the length of the warp
at or near the fell, and having each carriage, a series of tuft yarn carriers guides or
needles arranged one behind the other, and each supplied from an independent spool :
means to move the said carriages and tuft yarn carriers guides or needles to enable
any tuft yarn contained in any one of the said tuft yarn carriers guides or needles of
each carriage to be placed in position to have its yarn made into a tuft combined with
shed forming mechanism; a lay and reed, and cutting mechanism to sever the tuft
yarn between the tuft yarn carriers guides or needles and the warp threads sub-
stantially as described.