Hollow Needle

Create one-of-a-kind rugs and broadloom carpets

Produce one-of-a-kind luxury loop-pile carpet

Modra’s Hollow Needle Mtuft enables you to control multiple yarns through a single, hollow needle to create uniquely patterned rugs and broadloom carpets.

Its interface lets you enter simple patterns and needle-shift profiles quickly and easily or import more complex patterns in a range of formats.

Features:

Powerful software to control gauge, stitch rate and pile heights
Loop pile construction only
Two machine sizes – 4m or 5m product width
Yarn is fed through a single, hollow needle. It can be either single yarn feed or dual yarn feed
Touch screen interface with Microsoft windows OS
End out detection system for end outs as well and yarn wraps as well as individual sensors for yarn break detection
Rear take-up roller

Benefits:

Developed as a production machine, suitable for rugs and broadloom
Single needle machine, up to 4 ends of yarn at once. This gives you the opportunity to mix different yarns – wool and silk for example, to create a unique product.
Final product has more of a hand-made, custom feel to it
Copes very well with course yarn and large gauges and will be faster than the Mtuft
Unique patterns possible using multiple pile heights, shift effects, tip shearing,
Utilise yarn that might otherwise be waste – leftover from larger product runs
Suitable for course yarn and large gauges
Simple machine, software driven and requires very few mechanical adjustments
Once set up, it is capable of running unattended

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Rug and carpet samples made on the Hollow Needle:

Technical Specifications (TM HN 40):

Model(s): TMHN40, TMHN50, dual colour optional

Mtuft Hollow Needle TM HN 40
Machine Length	5350 mm	17' 7"
Machine Width	1690 mm	5' 7"
Machine Height	1850 mm	6' 1"
Machine to Wall Suggested (access to finished)	2000 mm	6’ 7”
Machine to Creel Suggested	1500 mm	4' 11"
Area Required—Length	8750 mm	28’ 8"
Area Required—Width	5190 mm	17' 0"
Primary Backing Core Diameter	Min 110 Max 140	Min 4.3” Max 5.5”
Finished Product max diameter	800 mm	2' 7"
Machine Mass	1600 kg	3527 lbs
Creel Dimensions (LxWxH)	1380 x 900 x 1750 mm	4'6" x 2'11"x 5'9"
Shipping	20‘ Container
Compressed Air Requirements (clean dry air)	200 lit/min @ 7 bar	7 cfm @ 100 psi
Power Requirements	220/240 v Single Phase 10A	220/240 v Single Phase 10A

All specifications are subject to change without notice.

Note: Power is connected to an isolation switch on the exterior of the control box. Power supplied must be NON RCD (residual current device).

Machine can be wheeled into position by 2 people and is set on levelling feet when in position.

Ethernet connection is near power connection point

Technical Specifications (TM HN 50):

Mtuft Hollow Needle TM HN 50
Machine Length	6350 mm	20' 10"
Machine Width	1690 mm	5' 7"
Machine Height	1850 mm	6' 1"
Machine to Wall Suggested (access to finished)	2000 mm	6’ 7”
Machine to Creel Suggested	1500 mm	4' 11"
Area Required—Length	9750 mm	31' 11"
Area Required—Width	5190 mm	17' 0"
Primary Backing Core Diameter	Min 110 Max 140	Min 4.3” Max 5.5”
Finished Product max diameter	800 mm	2' 7"
Machine Mass	2300 Kg	5070 lbs
Creel Dimensions (LxWxH)	1380 x 900 x 1750 mm	4'6" x 2'11"x 5'9"
Shipping	40‘ Container
Compressed Air Requirements (clean dry air)	200 lit/min @ 7 bar	7 cfm @ 100 psi
Power Requirements	220/240 v Single Phase 10A	220/240 v Single Phase 10A

All specifications are subject to change without notice.

Note: Power is connected to an isolation switch on the exterior of the control box. Power supplied must be NON RCD (residual current device).

Machine can be wheeled into position by 2 people and is set on levelling feet when in position.

Ethernet connection is near power connection point

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"The benefits are colossal. I can sit beside the machine and do color development work in minutes. There is no faster way to do color development work"

Product Development ManagerNew Zealand

"I got a request for a sample for an urgent contract Job at Midday. I had the yarn in stock, made the sample on the Mtuft and by 3:30 pm that afternoon the sample was with the courier."

Carpet ManufacturerNew Zealand

"The Mtuft makes any gauge possible. A single package of yarn can produce a sample using a small amount of primary backing, therefore reducing wastage"

Yarn ManufacturerIndia

"The turn-around time is so much quicker than the alternative of setting up a full production creel. We now have the time to sit back and actually design and innovate as opposed to reacting"

Product Development ManagerAustralia

“A production machine will be down for several hours to do even a simple sample, this could be $5000 of lost production value on a modern high-speed machine. So, a sample from the Mtuft could save $5000!”

Carpet ManufacturerNew Zealand

“The big value for the Mtuft for me is in evaluating colour combinations. The Mtuft is unbeatable for this.”

Carpet ManufacturerNew Zealand

“The thing I like most about the Mtuft is the flexibility.”

Product Development ManagerAustralia

“It’s an amazing tool for carpet sampling. All barriers to innovation, unique developments and out of the box ideas ends with the Mtuft.”

Carpet ManufacturerIndia

“The Mtuft makes money by allowing for a custom sample service that exceeds all customer expectations by offering fast sample turn around and accurate quality and visual representation of the actual product.”

Product Development ManagerAustralia

“The Product Development process is simplified and accelerated hence a greater volume of idea development is leading to better product style and design choices being made. Near enough is not good enough anymore.”

Product Development ManagerAustralia

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