method for forming a packens for the production of multicolor gemusterter carpets

摘要

A method of producing blocks of pile yarns in making patterned pile fabrics, such as carpets, rugs and the like, whose patterns may be of many different colors or kinds of pile yarns and of simple or highly intricate configurations. According to the method, a fabric is woven from pile yarns of relatively different appearance; e.g., color, texture, etc., which serve as the wefts of the fabric and are selectively arranged in a predetermined patterned order and bound together by sparsely spaced binder warp yarns. Identifying weft yarns are positioned at substantially equally spaced locations in the fabric for determining successive fabric sections thereof, and the fabric is moved back and forth while being folded along the identifying weft yarns to form a compact stack of superposed fabric layers. The stack is positioned in an open-ended container with the ends of the pile yarns exposed so that they may be severed to form successive slices of patterned pile tufts therefrom which may be secured to a suitable substrate to form a pile fabric therefrom.