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Abstract

Corduroy cutting machine, including a shaft, a plurality of circular knives disposed adjacent each other on the shaft for cutting open floating wefts of a fabric web being movable along a given travel direction, a plurality of needles having points and having longitudinal slots formed therein for receiving portions of the knives defining a cutting edge opposite the knives, a device for inserting the needles into the floating wefts to be cut open in the direction opposite the given travel direction, a contact table disposed below the needle points, a device for stopping the cutting machine upon contact between the contact table and one of the needles, the needles and the contact table defining a working plane for a cutting operation into which the fabric web is guidable from below over the contact table to the cutting edge, a rear table disposed at a distance from the contact table upstream of the needle points in the given travel direction, a device for holding the rear table in the working plane during the cutting operation, a device for lowering the rear table, and the contact table from the working plane, a needle supporting table, and a device for moving the needle supporting table into a region directly below any of the needle points still disposed in the working plane when the rear table is lowered.

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