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Girmes-Werke AG, "Plush tufting machine" (DE1785451C)

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Made by: Girmes-Werke AG, Oedt (near Krefeld); inventor based in Krefeld
Date: 1971 (year from search summary)
Place: Oedt / Krefeld
Number: DE1785451C
Themes: Machine tufting & Dalton, Global diffusion of tufting

View at the source Cited in chapter 5, note 43

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Girmes-Werke AG, “Plush tufting machine” (DE1785451C), 1971 (year from search summary). patents.google.com/patent/DE1785451C/de.

Research notes

This is a German tufting machine from Girmes, the Oedt/Krefeld plush maker. It is the nearest thing to a Krefeld tufting-machine patent found. No patent naming Zangs turned up. It partly qualifies the existing finding that "Germany tufted early but never built the machines" (ner-de-no-machines), because German pile-fabric firms did patent tufting machinery even if they did not build it commercially. Verified Oct 2026 by web search only. patents.google.com and Espacenet could not be opened from the sandbox, so I did not read the document itself. The number, English title, assignee and year come from one Google Patents snippet. A second search could not retrieve it. Research note (Oct 2026): found through search results; the patent document itself wasn't opened. The Patent drawings job fetches the document from Google Patents; if drawings appear on this record, the number is confirmed.