| 摘要 |
A highly mobile, compact creel (20) that utilizes frames (22) for holding ya rn packages (30) (or bobbins) for feeding yarn (33) to a tufting machine (58). Each frame (22) includes holders (60) affixed to the frame (22) for holding yarn packages (30) facing front (24) and back (26), a header (32) attachable to the frame (22) for directing yarn (33) from the yarn packages (30) to the tufting machine (58), and anti-static flexible tubing (50) for leading yarn (33) from the holders (60) to the header (32). The header (32) provides for aligning all the yarn ends in the same plane to join them to ends already threaded into the tufting machine (58). An optional frame overlay upright (8 1) having a ring (78) affixed thereto and strands (84) threaded through the rin g (78) prevents yarn (33A) from upper yarn packages (30A) from falling onto tubes (6OB) holding lower yarn packages (30B) causing yarn entanglement.</SD OAB>
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