TUFTED CARPETS RUGS MANUFACTURED

Brand	Owner	Address	Description
ACCUWEAVE	MOHAWK CARPET CORPORATION	160 South Industrial Blvd P.O. Box 12069 Calhoun GA 30703	tufted carpets and rugs manufactured by computer yarn placement;ACCURATE WEAVE;
	Where the owner name is not linked, that owner no longer owns the brand

Technical Examples

This invention concerns the production of so called "hand tufted rugs", carpets and wall hangings by use a "tufting machine" which employs a single hollow needle through which yarn is fed into a backing fabric, to form tufts of yarn. The machine comprises a yarn cutter, in the tufting head, which is selectively operable to cause the tufts to be cut or loop pile. A computer operated motion control system is operable under the control of a machine readable tufting design pattern comprising a series of vectors and associated control codes, to drive the tufting gun as follows: (a) to operate the mechanism and reciprocate the needle to insert tufts into backing fabric. (b) to operate the movement system and move the needle across a two-dimensional plane while inserting tufts, in accordance with the vectors. (c) to lift and lower the foot, in accordance with respective control codes. And, (d) to selectively operate the yarn cutter, in accordance with respective control codes.