EP1767683B1 - Boucleur pour machine à tufter - Google Patents

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EP1767683B1
EP1767683B1 EP05020695A EP05020695A EP1767683B1 EP 1767683 B1 EP1767683 B1 EP 1767683B1 EP 05020695 A EP05020695 A EP 05020695A EP 05020695 A EP05020695 A EP 05020695A EP 1767683 B1 EP1767683 B1 EP 1767683B1
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looper
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Sota Yoshino
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Nara Co Ltd
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D05—SEWING; EMBROIDERING; TUFTING
    • D05C—EMBROIDERING; TUFTING
    • D05C15/00—Making pile fabrics or articles having similar surface features by inserting loops into a base material
    • D05C15/04—Tufting
    • D05C15/08—Tufting machines
    • D05C15/16—Arrangements or devices for manipulating threads
    • D05C15/22—Loop-catching arrangements, e.g. loopers; Driving mechanisms therefor

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  • the present invention relates to a looper for use in a tufting machine for manufacturing carpets.
  • Fig. 6 shows a conventional looper 1 which includes a hook throat portion 2 having a bottom edge 3.
  • Loops B are formed on a backing cloth A by moving the looper 1 back and forth as shown by the arrow while feeding the backing cloth A in the direction of the arrow. Since the bottom edge 3 is a straight and smooth ground surface, when the backing cloth A and the looper 1 move, the tips of the loops B slide along the bottom edge 3 toward the opposite end to the tip of the hook throat portion 2 as shown.
  • the loops B When the loops B are cut by the knife C, the loops B tend to be pushed by the knife C toward the front corner of the hook throat portion 2 because the knife C has a shear angle D. Some of such loops may not be cut at all or partly cut.
  • a looper for use in a tufting machine comprising a hook throat portion having a bottom edge formed with a corrugation is known from DE 37 09 977A1 .
  • This known looper has a single corrugation located at the outward end of the bottom edge where the latter merges into the hook.
  • This single corrugation has the purpose of avoiding a sharp edge directly behind the hook.
  • An object of the present invention is to provide a looper which can form cut piles having uniform lengths, and which allows the knife to reliably, precisely and cleanly cut all the required loops by the cutting edge which has various corrugated shapes and/or a rough surface.
  • a looper for use in a tufting machine comprising a hook throat portion having a bottom edge formed with corrugations or a rough surface along the entire length thereof or partly along the length thereof.
  • the corrugations may have uniform pitches and heights, or may have uneven pitches and/or uneven heights.
  • the corrugations have pitches in the range of about 0.01 to 6 mm and heights in the range of about 0.01 to 2 mm.
  • the corrugations formed along the bottom edge of the hook throat portion will provide suitable resistance to loop piles hooked by the hook throat portion, thereby preventing the loop piles from being held in an unexpected position of the hook throat portion.
  • This makes it possible to form loop piles having uniform lengths.
  • the corrugations will prevent the loop piles from sliding away from the knife, so that the loop piles can be reliably and precisely cut at constant positions.
  • it is possible to smoothly cut yarns which have been difficult to cut, such as single yarns having a large denier, monofilaments, filaments, tape yarns and natural fibers like cotton.
  • the looper 10 comprises a base portion 11 supported on a looper block, which is described later, a neck portion 12 extending substantially vertically upwardly from the base portion 11, and a hook throat portion 13 extending substantially horizontally from the neck portion 12 and having a bottom edge 14 which is formed with corrugations along the entire length thereof or partly along the length thereof.
  • the corrugations are typically formed with equal pitches p and heights h. But the corrugations may be formed such that their pitches and/or heights decrease gradually toward the tip of the hook throat portion 13.
  • the corrugations have heights h in the range of about 0.01 to 2 mm, more preferably in the range of about 0.1 to 2 mm, and pitches p in the range of about 0.01 to 6 mm, more preferably in the range of about 0.1 to 6 mm.
  • the looper 10 is mounted on a looper block H of a tufting machine (in the case of a "mold" type, the looper is directly mounted on a looper bar LB).
  • Loop piles B are formed on a backing cloth A which is being fed in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 2 by moving the looper block H back and forth, and vertically moving the knife C and the needle N, in synchronization with each other.
  • the knife C is raised to cut the piles B to form cut piles.
  • the corrugations formed along the edge 14 provide suitable resistance to the respective piles B, thus preventing the piles B from sliding along the edge 14 away from the knife C even though the knife C has a shear angle D.
  • the piles B can be cut reliably and precisely and smoothly at constant positions, so that cut piles of uniform lengths are formed.
  • the crests and troughs forming the corrugations may extend substantially parallel to the width direction of the hook throat portion 13 of the looper (i.e. the direction perpendicular to the side surface of the looper to be brought into sliding contact with the knife C) as shown in Fig. 4A and 4A', or may extend obliquely toward or away from the tip of the hook throat portion 13 with respect to the width direction of the hook throat portion 13 as shown in Figs. 4B, 4B' and 4C, 4C'.
  • By adjusting the inclination angle of the crests and troughs forming the corrugations with respect to the width direction of the hook throat portion it is possible to adjust the movement of the pile yarns.
  • the crests and troughs forming the corrugations may extend substantially horizontally (i.e. perpendicular to the height direction of the hook throat portion 13 of the looper) as shown in Fig. 4D, or may extend obliquely upwardly or downwardly from the side surface of the hook throat portion 13 as shown in Figs. 4E and 4F.
  • the looper 10 according to the present invention is not limited to the looper shown in Fig. 1.
  • the looper 10 according to the present invention may include a vertically downwardly extending base portion 11 as shown in Fig. 5A, may include a spring 16 extending along a groove 18 formed in the base portion 11 as shown in Fig. 5B, or may include a clip 17 connected to the neck portion 12 to sandwich loop piles between the clip 17 and the hook throat portion 13 as shown in Fig. 5C.
  • the looper 10 according to the present invention may be of a molded modular type which comprises 5 to 20 loopers that are formed into a one-piece body by molding.
  • the bottom edge may be formed with a rough surface.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Chemical & Material Sciences (AREA)
  • Materials Engineering (AREA)
  • Textile Engineering (AREA)
  • Carpets (AREA)
  • Hooks, Suction Cups, And Attachment By Adhesive Means (AREA)
  • Advancing Webs (AREA)
  • Load-Engaging Elements For Cranes (AREA)
  • Forklifts And Lifting Vehicles (AREA)
  • Treatment Of Fiber Materials (AREA)

Claims (4)

  1. Boucleur (10) destiné à être utilisé dans une machine à touffeter comprenant une partie de gorge de crochet (13) ayant un bord inférieur (14) formé avec une ondulation, caractérisé en ce que ledit bord inférieur (14) est formé avec une pluralité d'ondulations sur toute la longueur de celui-ci ou sur une partie de la longueur de celui-ci.
  2. Boucleur (10) selon la revendication 1, dans lequel lesdites ondulations présentent des pas (p) et des hauteurs (h) uniformes.
  3. Boucleur (10) selon la revendication 1, dans lequel lesdites ondulations présentent des pas (p) irréguliers et / ou des hauteurs (h) irrégulières.
  4. Boucleur (10) selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 3, dans lequel lesdites ondulations présentent des pas (p) qui se situent dans une plage comprise entre 0,01 mm et 6 mm environ et une hauteur (h) qui se situe dans une plage comprise entre 0,01 mm et 2 mm environ.
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EP05020695A EP1767683B1 (fr) 2005-09-22 2005-09-22 Boucleur pour machine à tufter
AT05020695T ATE364746T1 (de) 2005-09-22 2005-09-22 Greifer für tuftingmaschine
DE602005001402T DE602005001402T2 (de) 2005-09-22 2005-09-22 Greifer für Tuftingmaschine

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