US Patent Issued to VANDEWIELE on July 14 for "Method for monitoring the tension of a pile yarn in a tufting machine and monitoring system" (Italian, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,209, issued on July 14, was assigned to VANDEWIELE NV (Kortrijk/Marke, Belgium).

"Method for monitoring the tension of a pile yarn in a tufting machine and monitoring system" was invented by Geert Debuf (Drongen, Belgium), Marco Arlone (Pray, Italy), Giacomo Dalle Nogare (Pettinengo, Italy) and Carlo Milanaccio (Sagliano Micca, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method and associated monitoring system for monitoring the tension of a pile yarn in a tufting machine which is provided with several tufting needles and assumes cyclically successive machine positions during various machine cycles, where this pile yar...