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US 2019/0177896 A1Published application
Dye exhaustion and dryer apparatus
OwnerBekir Beyerinventor
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Abstract
An apparatus for dye application to textile manufactures, exhaustion of the applied dye, and drying of the textile manufacture. The apparatus, in some implementations, includes a dye applicator that applies dye evenly to a textile manufacture of varying length, one or more steam release conduits for heating the textile manufacture with applied dye to exhaust the dye, and a blower system to dry the textile manufacture after application of the applied dye.
Claims7
An apparatus, comprising:
- a platform defining a substantially flat top surface upon which a textile manufacture may be received;
- a first housing in movable disposition relative to the platform such that:
- the first housing, in a first position, defines a substantially enclosed cavity in which the flat top surface of the platform defines a bottom surface of the substantially enclosed cavity;
- and
- the first housing, in a second position, allows access to the top surface of the platform for placement and removal of the textile manufacture;
- a blower device that, when the first housing is in the first position, is fluidly coupled to the substantially enclosed cavity and blows air into the substantially enclosed cavity when energized;
- wherein:
- the platform further includes a supply plenum and a return plenum that, when the first housing is in the first position, are fluidly coupled to the substantially enclosed cavity through the flat top surface, and wherein the blower device is fluidly coupled to the first plenum so that air is communicated into the substantially enclosed cavity through the supply plenum and the flat top surface, and communicated from the substantially enclosed cavity through the return plenum and the flat top surface;
- and
- at least one of the supply plenum and return plenum includes a steam release conduit that, when coupled to steam supply, release steam into the plenum in which the steam release conduit is included, wherein the steam enters the substantially enclosed cavity by the fluid coupling to the substantially enclosed cavity;
- wherein:
- the platform defines a longitudinal axis, and the supply plenum is located on a first side of the longitudinal axis and the return plenum is located on a second side of the longitudinal axis that is opposite the first side;
- and
- the substantially flat top surface comprises a plurality of perforations that couple the first plenum and the second plenum to the substantially enclosed cavity.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- a platform defining a substantially flat top surface upon which a textile manufacture may be received;
- a first housing in movable disposition relative to the platform such that:
- the first housing, in a first position, defines a substantially enclosed cavity in which the flat top surface of the platform defines a bottom surface of the substantially enclosed cavity;
- and
- the first housing, in a second position, allows access to the top surface of the platform for placement and removal of the textile manufacture;
- a blower device that, when the first housing is in the first position, is fluidly coupled to the substantially enclosed cavity and blows air into the substantially enclosed cavity when energized;
- wherein:
- the platform further includes a supply plenum and a return plenum that, when the first housing is in the first position, are fluidly coupled to the substantially enclosed cavity, and wherein the blower device is fluidly coupled to the first plenum so that air is communicated into the substantially enclosed cavity through the supply plenum, and communicated from the substantially enclosed cavity through the return plenum;
- and
- at least one of the supply plenum and return plenum includes a steam release conduit that, when coupled to steam supply, release steam into the plenum in which the steam release conduit is included, wherein the steam enters the substantially enclosed cavity by the fluid coupling to the substantially enclosed cavity;
- wherein:
- the platform defines a longitudinal axis, and the supply plenum is located on a first side of the longitudinal axis and the return plenum is located on a second side of the longitudinal axis that is opposite the first side;
- the platform defines a first side and a second side on the respective sides of the first and second sides of the longitudinal axis and the first and second sides of the platform define a first width;
- the substantially flat top surface is of a second width that is less than the first width and positioned relative the longitudinal axis such that a first gap exists between the first side of the platform and a first side of the substantially flat top surface and a second gap exists between the second side of the platform and a second side of the substantially flat top surface;
- and
- an egress of the supply plenum is located at the first gap and an ingress of the return plenum is located at the second gap.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.