Patent · 14 pages
US Patent No. 3,042,081, granted July 3, 1962 to John T. MacIsaac Jr. and Charles B. Sumpter Jr. of Fieldcrest Mills, for a high speed carpet loom and a method of weaving pile fabrics. It adapts a Warner & Swasey-Sulzer fly shuttle loom, with shuttles picked from one side only, to weave cut-pile rugs and carpets using warpwise pile wires, pile yarn guides and a modified reed with free-ended splits. The document has six sheets of mechanical drawings, the specification with 18 claims, and a certificate of correction.