#266 Carpet Tufting Apparatus
1928
Carpet Tufting Apparatus
The first device to allow carpet production at comparatively high speeds and affordable prices, Ernest Moench’s Carpet Tufting Apparatus combined the process of repeated insertion of loops of thick fiber thread through backing material and cutting the exposed loops to produce cute piles.
His mechanization of the ancient method of tufting revolutionized the carpet manufacturing industry. Approximately 95% of all carpeting is tufted. Machines that were influenced by Moench’s Tufting Apparatus now produce over three quarter of all American carpet – with much of it produced in Dalton, Georgia - referred to as the “Carpet Capital of the World,”- as well as other neighboring counties
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Cradle of Aviation Museum
Garden City, Long Island, NY
Landmark Location
616 E. Walnut Avenue
Dalton, Ga. 30720
Visiting Info
By Appointment Only.
https://shawinc.com/
(800) 441-7429
Ceremony Notes
July 31, 2018. Plaque presented by ASME Past President Reginald I. Vachon