in the tufting machine and an elongated guide member reciprocably supported in linear bearings to restrict the motion of the looper hooks to a straight linear direction substantially parallel to the feeding direction of the base fabric and a drive mechanism pivotally connected to hook support member for reciprocably driving the support member in a linear path application_number US 9863087 A description referring now to the drawings in more detail fig1 discloses a multiple needle cut pile tufting machine 10 including a transverse needle bar holder 11 fixed to a vertically reciprocable push rod 12 and including a transverse slide groove 13 for transversely slidably receiving the needle bar 14 the needle bar 14 is illustrated as supporting a plurality of transversely staggered front needles 15 and rear needles 16 each of the front needles 15 is supplied with a yarn 17 while each of the rear needles 16 is supplied with a yarn 18 from yarn supply means not shown the push rod 12 is adapted to be vertically driven by needle drive means not shown in a conventional manner supported upon a needle plate 20 for longitudinal movement from front to rear in a feeding direction indicated by the arrow 21 through the tufting machine 10 is a base fabric 22 the.