US Patent: 1,409,700
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| Machine for Working Rugs
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Patentee:
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| John E. Garrett (exact or similar names) - New Glasgow, NS Canada |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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| Applied: |
Apr. 29, 1920 |
| Granted: |
Mar. 14, 1922 |
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Description: |
| E. W. Anderson & son - patent attorneys
The invention has relation to machines for working rugs or mats known as hooked or drawn-in rugs, having a base of suitable fabric, such as burlap or Hessian. This base is of the desired size, being either plain or having a pattern to be worked in the rug, the edges being hemmed or bound and said fabric stretched tightly in a frame made for the purpose. The material for working the rug may be yarn, or cloth torn into strips of suitable width for the purpose, said material being worked through said fabric in the form of loops until the rag is finished, when none of the fabric remains visible. In the use of the old fashioned rug hook, the worker draws the loops up through the fabric or base, toward the person, the loops in the present case, however, being pushed through the fabric, away from the person of the worker, the work being done much more quickly and more evenly. The invention is designed as an improvement over the device of the U. S. Patent No. 889,922, dated June 9, 1908, of the present applicant, having for its object to provide means for adjusting the height of the loop or to make loops of different height, whereby the thickness of the rug may be varied; to provide means for varying the length of step by which the machine advances over the fabric or pattern, whereby the loops are made close together or farther !apart, and to provide means admitting of the use of needles of two or more sizes, whereby material or yarn of different sizes may be employed in working the rug. |
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