US Patent Issued to Card-Monroe on Sept. 8 for "Tufting machine yarn feed system" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,469, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Card-Monroe Corp. (Chattanooga, Tenn.).

"Tufting machine yarn feed system" was invented by William M. Christman Jr. (Chattanooga, Tenn.) and Ricky E. Mathews (Sale Creek, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A yarn feed system configured to control feeding 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 each of which can include a motor package having two or more yarn feed motors coupled tog...