RUGS NON TEXTILE WALL HANGINGS

Brand	Owner (click to sort)	Address	Description
JINGLE BELL LANE	SPECIALTY RETAILERS, INC.	10201 Main Street Houston TX 77025	Rugs and non-textile wall hangings;
MELROSE PLACE	Spelling Television Inc.	1515 Broadway New York NY 10036	Rugs and non-textile wall hangings;
	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.