| 摘要 |
A highly mobile, compact creel (20) that utilizes frames (22) for holding yarn packages (30) (or bobbins) for feeding yam (33) to a tufting machine (58). Each frame (22) includes holders (60) affixed to the frame (22) for holding yam packages (30) facing front (24) and back (26), a header (32) attachable to the frame (22) for directing yam (33) from the yam packages (30) to the tufting machine (58), and and-static flexible tubing (50) for leading yarn (33) from the holders (60) to the header (32). The header (32) provides for aligning all the yam ends in the same plane to join them to ends already threaded into the tufting machine (58). An optional frame overlay upright (81) having a ring (78) affixed thereto and strands (84) threaded through the ring (78) prevents yarn (33A) from upper yam packages (30A) from falling onto tubes (60B) holding lower yam packages (30B) causing yam entanglement.
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