187results about "Tufting apparatus" patented technology

A method of making a plant-based deep pile fabric that closely resembles animal fur or wool, that includes extracting the plant fibers from the plant material and forming a yarn or sliver made from plant fibers and simultaneously attaching it to a scrim also made from plant fibers, where the fiber is attached and extends from the scrim to form a length of plant-fiber pile fabric having natural plant fibers on one side and the scrim on the opposite side. The method includes finishing the scrim side of the fabric with an adhesive agent to attach the fibers to the scrim and form a stable base. The method also includes finishing the plant fiber pile side of the fabric by applying fur-industry specific processing steps to alter the properties of the fibers resulting in an even closer resemblance of animal fur.

The invention relates to a pneumatic tufting sewing robot which comprises a six-degree-of-freedom robot, a tufting sewing end effector and a rotating table. The tail end of a mechanical arm of the six-degree-of-freedom robot is connected with the tufting sewing tail end executor and controls the tufting sewing tail end executor to sew a preform fabric arranged on the rotary worktable; the tufting sewing end effector comprises a displacement mechanism, a needling mechanism, a presser foot mechanism, a yarn feeding mechanism and an air shear mechanism. The yarn feeding mechanism comprises a bobbin, a yarn trapper and a broken yarn detection sensor, the bobbin is installed on a bobbin connecting plate, the yarn trapper is installed at the end, close to the bobbin, of a connecting support, a yarn feeding ejector rod is inserted into the middle of the connecting support, the broken yarn detection sensor is installed at the end, close to the tufting air cylinder, of the connecting support, and porcelain eyes are formed in the connecting support and the yarn feeding ejector rod; the rotating table device comprises a combined core mold, a core mold mounting seat, a rotating table and a working table; the invention further provides a suturing method using the robot. The tufting suturing depth is convenient to adjust, the orientation of the suturing needles is stably controlled, and the suturing efficiency is high.

Provided is a method for manufacturing an artificial turf, including: providing a base cloth; providing artificial turf yarns; tufting the artificial turf yarns on the base cloth, and applying an adhesive; and blowing air to the base cloth having the adhesive applied thereto to obtain the artificial turf. According to the manufactured artificial turf, when passing air through the air blowing device, water permeable holes are formed in the bonding layer applied on the base cloth. The water seepage rate of the artificial turf is increased by means of water seepage through the water permeable holes. Moreover, there is no need to pierce the adhesive applied surface of the base cloth during production, thereby avoiding damage to the structure of the artificial turf by piercing. This effectively prevents the artificial turf yarns from loosening and falling off and prolongs the service life of the artificial turf.

A system, apparatus and methods for forming tufted products can include a tufting machine for forming patterned tufted products, such as carpets, rugs, and artificial grass or turf product with logos of other designs including multiple colors of yarns integrated therein. The tufting machine can include a series of hollow needles arranged along a needle bar at a gauge spacing and can receive a series of different color and / or types of yarns from a yarn feed system. A yarn selection system can be controlled to selectively hold back or retract yarns from the needles. The needles will be reciprocated into and out of a backing to deliver a series of yams into the backing and can be engaged by corresponding knives to form tufts of yarns.

A system, apparatus and methods for forming tufted articles can include a hollow needle tufting machine for forming patterned tufted articles including multiple colors of yarns. The hollow needle tufting machine can include a series of hollow needles arranged along a needle bar at a gauge spacing and will receive a series of different color and / or types of yarns from a yarn feed system. A funnel block having a series of funnels configured to receive a series of yarns will be provided adjacent the needle bar for directing selected yarns to a corresponding or associated hollow needle. The hollow needles will be reciprocated into and out of a backing to deliver a series of yarns; and can be engaged by corresponding knives to form tufts of yarns. The knives can be moved between no-cut and cutting positions to form loop and cut pile tufts of yarns in the backing.

A tufted article (e.g., an artificial turf panel) having a backing and a plurality of tufts extending through the backing. The plurality of tufts are distributed among a plurality of patterned regions. Each patterned region has at least one tuft of the plurality of tufts. The tufts of each patterned region differ from the tufts of at least one other patterned region of the tufted article in at least one of color, pile height, yarn type, or yarn density. At least one patterned region creates a longitudinal discontinuity in the color pattern of the tufted article. The tufted article does not have a seam. Complementary side edges of the tufted articles can be secured together to form at least a portion of the surface covering without the need for cutting or the use of inlay components.

The invention discloses a double-layer carpet loom weft yarn automatic exchange device which comprises a lower feeding mechanism and a receiving component, the top end of the lower feeding mechanism is provided with an upper feeding transmission mechanism assembled through bolts, and the middle output end of the upper feeding transmission mechanism is provided with a pressure-bearing positioning assembly; a displacement adjusting sewing part is arranged on the outer side of the middle of the upper feeding conveying mechanism. According to the device, an inner screw rod drives an inner lifting block and a sliding frame to run to a proper height position after a grooving frame outputs and runs, and hydraulic telescopic arms at the two ends of the lower portion of a sliding arm output power to drive an output end to run; and the hydraulic telescopic arm outputs power to run, so that the sliding sleeve block runs to a proper position on the sliding frame, the machine box is located above an adaptive product sewing position, the equipment can effectively adapt to the size structure of a product, and then the refitting cost of a user can be effectively reduced.

A system for manufacturing synthetic turf is disclosed that includes an indexing system configured to affix an indexing device to a backing material, a tufting machine configured to receive the backing material and yarn and to fabricate the synthetic turf by tufting the yarn in the backing material and a controller configured to read the indexing device and to post process the synthetic turf as a function of the indexing device.

The invention relates to a gripper (1) for a tufting machine, comprising a base body (2) and an insert body (3). The gripper (1) has a holding section (4) and a guide section (5) extending longitudinally. The guide section (5) terminates longitudinally away from the holding section (4) in a hook (14) which has an inner surface (15) in which a joining gap (18) is arranged between the base body (2) and the insert body (3). According to the invention, the gripper (1) is characterized in that a stop (6) is arranged in the guide section (5) of the gripper (1) on the base body (2), against which the insert body (3) is abutted longitudinally relative to the holding section (4) in order to limit the size of the joining gap (18) on the inner surface of the hook (14).

The present invention relates to a printed fabric substrate, such as a flooring article, and a method for manufacturing a printed fabric substrate. Methods and steps are provided for printing color patterns that precisely register physical patterns such as varying yarn pile height, yarn glossiness, yarn color, and the like. The method provides many unique aesthetics on the fabric substrate that cannot be created in another way.

The utility model discloses a tufting gun, which belongs to the technical field of textile equipment, and comprises a shell, a driving motor, a transmission mechanism, a tufting machine head and a controller, the driving motor, the transmission mechanism, the tufting machine head and the controller are arranged in the shell, the shell comprises a shell main body part and a handle part, and the tufting gun is characterized in that the transmission mechanism is arranged in the shell main body part; the tufting machine head is mounted at the front end of the transmission mechanism and extends out of the front end of the shell main body part, the driving motor is arranged in the handle part, a control panel is arranged at the rear end of the shell main body part, and the control panel is connected with the controller. According to the tufting gun, the appearance design, the structural layout and the operation interface are optimized, and the applicability, the maintenance convenience and the production efficiency of equipment are improved through the modularized and integrated design.

A multi-piezoelectric yarn slip sensor comprising a plurality of independent piezoelectric sensors, each piezoelectric sensor consisting of a piezoelectric element (P) in stable association with a yarn guide eyelet (4) and an electronic printed circuit board (1) comprising a flexible portion (2), the piezoelectric element (P) being electrically connected to the electronic printed circuit board by the flexible portion (2), and the piezoelectric element (P) being electrically connected to the electronic printed circuit board by the flexible portion (2). Electric signals emitted by piezoelectric elements (P) of the independent piezoelectric sensors are transmitted on an electronic printed circuit board.

The utility model discloses a tufting machine with a wrinkle flattening mechanism, which comprises a tufting machine body, a flattening rack is arranged on the feeding side of the tufting machine body, a pair of supporting plates which are vertically parallel to each other are fixedly arranged on the flattening rack, a pair of flat plate and inclined plate which are respectively used for supporting a carpet is fixedly arranged between the two supporting plates, and the flat plate and the inclined plate are arranged on the flattening rack. One end of the flat plate is connected with the upper end of the inclined plate, the other end of the flat plate and the lower end of the inclined plate are close to and far away from the tufting machine body respectively, square sliding blocks are vertically and slidably arranged on the two supporting plates respectively, an upper pressing roller is rotatably arranged between the two square sliding blocks and located above the flat plate in parallel, and overturning arms are hinged to the two supporting plates respectively; a lower pressing roller is rotationally arranged between the two overturning arms and located above the inclined plate in parallel. The utility model has the following advantage and effect: the effect of keeping the surface of the tufting machine base cloth flat is achieved.

The present invention supplies hairs for hair transplantation one by one. In a hair supply device (10) for performing a supply action for pulling the hairs for hair transplantation (M) one by one from a hair bundle (B) of the hair transplantation (M), the device comprises: a supply unit (20) for holding the hair bundle of the hair transplantation and sorting the hair tips of the plurality of hair transplantation hairs in a direction different from the hair bundle; a detection unit (50) for detecting the three-dimensional positions of the hair tips of the sorted plurality of hair transplantation hairs; a head (60) for capturing the hair tips of the hair transplantation hairs; a conveying mechanism (70) for conveying the head to an arbitrary three-dimensional position; and a control device (100) for controlling the conveying mechanism so that the head captures the hair tip of one of the plurality of hair transplantation hairs detected by the detection unit at the three-dimensional position of the hair tip of the hair transplantation hair.

The tufting assembly comprises a reinforcing needle, the reinforcing needle comprises a needle head and a needle body, the needle head is provided with a lower needle hole, the needle body is provided with an upper needle hole, one side of the upper needle hole and one side of the lower needle hole are correspondingly provided with a first concave groove and a second concave groove, and the first concave groove and the second concave groove are communicated with each other. A straight hook in contact with the concave groove I is mounted on one side of the concave groove I; a bent hook in contact with the concave groove II is mounted on one side of the concave groove II; the high-simulation artificial turf production line is simple in structure, artificial turfs with different artificial grass heights can be produced, and high-simulation artificial turfs with different colors and different heights can be produced only by replacing artificial grass with different colors.

A carpet backing material, such as a one-piece carpet backing material or primary carpet backing material, and a carpet comprising the carpet backing material, where the carpet backing material comprises at least one heat bonded carded (TBC) nonwoven layer comprising a plurality of carded staple fibers, the carded staple fibers comprise a polymer component that is chemically the same as the second backing material, which improves the recoverability of the carpet.

An article can comprise a backing and a plurality of yarns tufted, knitted, or woven through the backing, each yarn defining at least one aesthetic characteristic. The at least one aesthetic characteristic can comprise luster, color, size, physical attribute associated with material type, or texture. At least one yarn of the plurality of yarns can comprise an engineered yarn structure having a first yarn section and a second yarn section. The engineered yarn structure can comprise a transition junction comprises commingled portions of the first and second yarn sections. The transition junction can have a length of less than 1 millimeter. The first section can have a first type of a first aesthetic characteristic of the at least one aesthetic characteristic, and the second section can have a second type of the first aesthetic characteristic that is different from the first type.

The utility model discloses a fabric surface wrinkle removing device for fabric processing, which comprises a wrinkle removing table, a portal frame is slidably sleeved on the outer side of the wrinkle removing table, an air cylinder is fixedly mounted at the top end of the portal frame, a lifting plate is fixedly mounted at the output end of the air cylinder, and an ironing seat is fixedly mounted at the bottom end of the lifting plate. Mounting frames are arranged at the positions, located on the two sides of the ironing base, of the bottom end of the lifting plate, pressing rollers are rotationally connected into the two mounting frames, limiting plates are arranged at the positions, located on the two sides of the ironing base, of the top end of the lifting plate, and two sliding rods are fixedly installed at the bottom end of each limiting plate. According to the fabric surface wrinkle removing device for fabric processing, pressing positioning and movable ironing wrinkle removing can be automatically conducted on fabric with wrinkles to be removed, manual operation is not needed, using is more convenient and faster, the wrinkle removing work efficiency is further improved, meanwhile, an ironing base and a pressing roller can synchronously move for wrinkle removing, and the fabric surface wrinkle removing device is more convenient to use. And the problem that the upper part of the fabric is shielded, so that the wrinkle removal of the fabric is not thorough is solved.

A tufting machine for selectively forming tufts of yarns, including different color or type yarns, for forming patterned tufted articles such as carpets. A series of needles are reciprocated into and out of a backing material being fed through the tufting machine and are engaged by a series of gauge parts so as to pick-up loops of yarns from the needles. The gauge parts will be selectively controlled by activators to extend or retract the gauge parts to positions or elevations sufficient to pick-up or not pick-up loops of yams from the needles. The feeding of the yarns to the needles further will be controlled to back-rob yarns not picked-up by the gauge parts, while the backing feed will be controlled to enable formation of tufts at an increased rate over the pattern stitch rate for the pattern of the tufted article being formed.

The utility model discloses a numerical control tufted carpet machine yarn cutting device convenient to install, and relates to the technical field of tufted carpet processing, the numerical control tufted carpet machine yarn cutting device comprises an installation head, the lower surface of the installation head is fixedly connected with a fixing plate, the center of the lower surface of the fixing plate is fixedly connected with a telescopic rod, and the output end of the telescopic rod is fixedly connected with a connecting plate; and meanwhile, the lower side of the connecting plate is fixedly connected with a cutting knife, the interior of the mounting head is fixedly connected with an anti-skid pad, and the side of the anti-skid pad is fixedly connected with a first elastic piece. According to the numerical control tufting carpet machine yarn shearing device convenient to install, after the installation head is preliminarily installed, a handle can be rotated to drive a screw to rotate, the screw gradually moves towards the inner side of the installation head, at the moment, the inner end of the screw abuts against a carpet machine body, and then the carpet machine body is cut off. The stability of installation and butt joint of the installation head is further improved, and meanwhile, the device is more convenient in the installation process.

The utility model relates to an anti-skidding carpet for a vehicle, which comprises a tufted carpet layer, a lamination bonding layer and an anti-skidding base cloth layer which are sequentially arranged from top to bottom, and the anti-skidding base cloth layer comprises a non-woven fabric layer and warp and weft barb groups embedded in the non-woven fabric layer. Each warp and weft barb group comprises a plurality of parallel wefts and a plurality of barb warps perpendicular to the wefts, and anti-skid barbs of the barb warps protrude out of the non-woven fabric layer. According to the anti-skid carpet for the vehicle, the anti-skid base cloth layer comprises the non-woven fabric layer and the warp and weft barb groups embedded in the non-woven fabric layer, the barb warps of the warp and weft barb groups and the non-woven fabric layer are woven into a whole, and meanwhile, the wefts crisscrossed with the barb warps are adopted for fixing; not only can the peel strength of the warp and weft barb groups and the non-woven fabric layer be improved, but also the woven barb warp can be effectively prevented from deforming.

A tufted carpet including a primary backing which includes a spunbond nonwoven which includes polyethylene terephthalate (PET) filaments and a lower melting polymer material which is a filament forming material. The spunbond nonwoven is thermobonded by the lower melting polymer material. The spunbond nonwoven is further consolidated with a binder. The tufted carpet further includes tufts of yarn from polyethylene terephthalate (PET) which are sewn through the primary backing such that the piles of yarn are on a first surface and backloops of yarn are on a second surface of the primary backing. The backloops of yarn are thermobonded to the primary backing.

A hybrid turf-carpet article comprising: a backing structure comprising a primary backing having a face surface and an opposing rear surface; and a plurality of yarns associated with the primary backing and extending outwardly from the face surface of the primary backing in a direction moving away from the primary backing, wherein the plurality of yarns comprises: a first yarn having a plurality of yarn filaments, wherein each yarn filament of the plurality of yarn filaments of the first yarn has a denier ranging from 61 to 3,600 denier per filament (dpf); and a second yam having a plurality of yarn filaments, wherein each yarn filament of the plurality of yarn filaments of the second yarn has a denier per filament (dpf) ranging from 2 to 60 dpf

Method and associated monitoring system for monitoring the tension of a pile yam (3) in a tufting machine (1) which is provided with several tufting needles (12) and assumes cyclically successive machine positions during various machine cycles, wherein this pile yarn (3) is incorporated in a fabric (7) in the machine cycles (M) by means of a tufting needle (12) which is positioned in various needle positions at a respective distance from the fabric (7) by positioning the tufting machine (1) in said machine positions during each machine cycle (M), comprising generating measurement signals (Dv) by means of a motion sensor (16, 17) which are an indication of the pile yarn consumption of this pile yam (3), determining machine position data (Dm) which are an indication of one or more machine positions per machine cycle (M) and evaluating the measurement signals (Dv) on the basis of the machine position data (Dm).

The utility model discloses a double-color tufting machine which comprises a flocking mechanism and a pile cutting mechanism, a needle bed is formed by combining a first needle bed and a second needle bed which are horizontally arranged and mutually embedded together, and tufting needles are installed on the first needle bed and the second needle bed. Tufting needles installed on the first needle bed and tufting needles installed on the second needle bed are located on the same horizontal line, the first needle bed is driven by a first driving mechanism to move up and down in the vertical direction, the second needle bed is driven by a second driving mechanism to move up and down in the vertical direction, and first guide plates are arranged at one end or two ends of the first needle bed. A second guide plate is arranged at one end or two ends of the second needle bed, and the first guide plate and the second guide plate are vertically arranged and are driven by a third driving mechanism to transversely move. According to the double-color tufting machine, knitting wool or grass yarns with two colors are implanted into the same position of the gray fabric or the single tufting machine under the condition that the number of needles implanted in the unit area of the gray fabric is not changed, the double-color effect is achieved, the production efficiency is improved, and the production cost is reduced.

A synchronous grass tufting machine is useful to coordinate the simultaneous driving of spaced apart needle bars vertically relative to a backing fabric being fed through a tufting machine. The needle bars preferably have push rods mechanically linked, if not joined, for simultaneous movement. Controllers may permit selective needle selection, looper operation, backing or needle bar shifting, yarn feeding, backing feeding, and / or other functions.

Method and associated adjustment system (24) for adjusting the sensor sensitivity of a motion sensor (16, 17) for detecting the motion of a pile yarn (3) in a tufting machine (1) provided with a plurality of tufting needles (12) wherein the pile yarn (3) is incorporated into a fabric (7), the method comprising: determining current process data, reference data of the sensor sensitivity of the motion sensor (16, 17) is provided, the reference data being composed of one or more data sets, where each data set comprises a reference sensor sensitivity value and corresponding process data, an association between the current process data and the process data of the provided reference data is determined, a sensor sensitivity value to be adjusted is determined based on the association and one or more reference sensor sensitivity values of the provided reference data, and the sensor sensitivity value to be adjusted in the motion sensor (16, 17) is adjusted.