Roy Thomas Card

US Patent:

6834601, Dec 28, 2004

Filed:

Aug 5, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/634208

Inventors:

Roy T. Card - Chattanooga TN

Assignee:

Card-Monroe Corp. - Chattanooga TN

International Classification:

D05C 1518

US Classification:

112 8023, 112 8073

Abstract:

A yarn feed system, enabling the control of individual yarns to the needles of a tufting machine, and which system can be manufactured as a substantially standardized unit or attachment that can be removably mounted to a tufting machine. The yarn feed unit includes a series of yarn feed devices for feeding each of the yarns to the needles of the tufting machine, and a series of yarn feed controllers that monitor and control the operation of the yarn feed devices to control the feeding of the yarns to the needles according to programmed pattern instructions.

US Patent:

6945183, Sep 20, 2005

Filed:

Oct 26, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/973681

Inventors:

Roy T. Card - Chattanooga TN, US

Assignee:

Card-Monroe Corp. - Chattanooga TN

International Classification:

D05C015/18
D05B019/12

US Classification:

112 8023, 112 8073, 11247523

Abstract:

A yarn feed system, enabling the control of individual yarns to the needles of a tufting machine, and which system can be manufactured as a substantially standardized unit or attachment that can be removably mounted to a tufting machine. The yarn feed unit includes a series of yarn feed devices for feeding each of the yarns to the needles of the tufting machine, and a series of yarn feed controllers that monitor and control the operation of the yarn feed devices to control the feeding of the yarns to the needles according to programmed pattern instructions.

US Patent:

7096806, Aug 29, 2006

Filed:

May 5, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/122865

Inventors:

Roy T. Card - Chattanooga TN, US

Assignee:

Card-Monroe Corp. - Chattanooga TN

International Classification:

D05C 15/18

US Classification:

112 8073

Abstract:

A yarn feed system, enabling the control of individual yarns to the needles of a tufting machine, and which system can be manufactured as a substantially standardized unit or attachment that can be removably mounted to a tufting machine. The yarn feed unit includes a series of yarn feed devices for feeding each of the yarns to the needles of the tufting machine, and a series of yarn feed controllers that monitor and control the operation of the yarn feed devices to control the feeding of the yarns to the needles according to programmed pattern instructions.

US Patent:

7905187, Mar 15, 2011

Filed:

Jul 10, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/456403

Inventors:

Roy T. Card - Chattanooga TN, US

Assignee:

Card-Monroe Corp. - Hixson TN

International Classification:

D05C 15/16

US Classification:

112 807, 112 8023, 700136

Abstract:

A yarn feed system, enabling the control of individual yarns to the needles of a tufting machine, and which system can be manufactured as a substantially standardized unit or attachment that can be removably mounted to a tufting machine. The yarn feed unit includes a series of yarn feed devices for feeding each of the yarns to the needles of the tufting machine, and a series of yarn feed controllers that monitor and control the operation of the yarn feed devices to control the feeding of the yarns to the needles according to programmed pattern instructions.

US Patent:

46884971, Aug 25, 1987

Filed:

Nov 12, 1986

Appl. No.:

6/929439

Inventors:

Roy T. Card - Chattanooga TN
Joseph L. Card - Chattanooga TN

International Classification:

D05C 1518

US Classification:

112 8073

Abstract:

A yarn feed mechanism in which a counterlever frame extends forwardly from the tufting machine has high speed and low speed drive shafts driven, in synchronization, with the needle bar. Transversely aligned pairs of yarn feed rolls are suspended from the frame below each shaft and are driven through chains and sprockets from their associated drive shafts when the individual clutches of the rolls are energized. The rolls of transversely aligned pairs of rolls are spaced from each other with no intervening shaft so that intermediate portions of yarns extending between a coil and the rollers can be installed partially around the selected rolls without breaking or removing the yarns from the needles.

US Patent:

49036246, Feb 27, 1990

Filed:

Jan 17, 1989

Appl. No.:

7/266504

Inventors:

Roy T. Card - Chattanooga TN
Joseph L. Card - Chattanooga TN

Assignee:

Card-Monroe Corporation - Chattanooga TN

International Classification:

D05C 1702

US Classification:

112410

Abstract:

Laterally shiftable front and back needle bars are slideably mounted on a main needle bar, the front needle bar carries a front row of needles and a back needle bar carries a back row of needles. Cut pile loopers cooperate with the needles of the back row and cut-loop loopers cooperate with the needles of the front row. Needles in the front row are larger and handle larger size yarns than needles in the back row and a yarn feed control dictates whether yarns in the front needles make low loops or high cut piles.

US Patent:

56221266, Apr 22, 1997

Filed:

Jan 23, 1995

Appl. No.:

8/376345

Inventors:

Roy T. Card - Chattanooga TN
Wilton Hall - Fort Oglethorpe GA

Assignee:

Card-Monroe Corporation - Chattanooga TN

International Classification:

D05C 1518

US Classification:

112 8073

Abstract:

A yarn feed mechanism for a tufting machine includes yarn feed rolls disposed along parallel axes transversely adjacent to the parallel paths of travel of yarns from yarn sources to the needles. A yarn control assembly surrounds each roll, each yarn control assembly having a pair of opposed, concentrically mounted, indexing plates at opposite ends of each roll. Each pair of indexing plates carries a plurality of individually removable cimcumferentially spaced, yarn control rods, the plates being manually rotatable about the axis of the roll, independently of the rotation of the roll. By collecting intermediate increments of selected yarns on one of the rods, then rotating the indexing plates, with the rod installed to selected positions, the rod is moved in an orbital path for applying the yarn increments to portions of the periphery of the roll, such that the roll feeds controlled successive amounts of applied yarns toward the needles.

US Patent:

46192123, Oct 28, 1986

Filed:

Apr 15, 1985

Appl. No.:

6/723266

Inventors:

Roy T. Card - Chattanooga TN
Joseph L. Card - Chattanooga TN

International Classification:

D05C 1530
D05C 1702

US Classification:

1122662

Abstract:

A laterally shiftable needle bar of a tufting machine, carrying a plurality of laterally spaced needles, is reciprocated in a vertical path for simultaneously inserting loops of yarn, carried by the needles, through a base fabric, the fabric being fed in a linear longitudinal path beneath the needles. Each needle has an individual looper below the base fabric, in registery and cooperating with the needle for engaging and temporarily holding the loop of yarn, inserted by the needle through the base fabric, as the needle is retracted. During a first portion of a cycle of the needle bar, prior to the insertion of the needles through the base fabric, a needle bar shifting assembly shifts the needle bar laterally, in one direction or the other. Then, after the needles have penetrated the base fabric, the needle bar shifting assembly shifts the needle bar laterally in an opposite direction, so as to cause the needles to move the penetrated portion of the base fabric laterally out of its normal linear path and align the needles with their loopers beneath the base fabric for engagement of the loops by the loopers, as the needles are withdrawn vertically from the base fabric. The resiliency of the base fabric returns the shifted portion of the base fabric to its original linear path across the machine and the yarn inserting cycle is then repeated.