ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,607, issued on April 7, was assigned to Card-Monroe Corp. (Chattanooga, Tenn.).
"Tufting machine and method of tufting" was invented by Wilton Hall (Ringgold, Ga.) and Ricky E. Mathews (Sale Creek, Tenn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "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...