| 摘要 |
A tufting machine and method for producing chain tuft fabric having adjacent rows of chains offset and a loop pile tuft between each chain includes two staggered rows of needles with each needle cooperating with a respective looper, and a loop deflector. The loopers point in the direction of fabric feed to seize and then shed successive loops presented by a respective needle. Each shed loop is deflected by a surface of the deflector facing oppositely to the direction of fabric feed toward the base fabric for entry of the loop by the needle as it descends to form the subsequent loop so that the first loop is concatenated about the succeeding loop. Another set of needles and loop pile loopers downstream from the first set produce the loop pile in the chain loops.
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