Method for the treatment of textile, fleece and similar webs
AssigneeEduard Kusters
InventorFerdinand Leifeld
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Abstract
An improved method for the treatment of a web material such as a textile, fleece or similar web which is continuously moving and is patterned by means of printing, dyeing or the like and the pattern fixed with remaining patterning and treating agents washed out thereafter, additional steps in which, after the fixing treatment and before the washing step, the web of material has applied to it a quantity of a rinsing liquid just sufficient to moisten the fibers of the web at their surface and the rinsing liquid immediately thereafter suctioned away are included in the process. Also disclosed is apparatus for carrying out the process.
Claims10
In a method for the treatment of a web of material such as a textile or fleece material which comprises the steps of:
- a. continuously moving the web;
- b. patterning the web;
- c. fixing the pattern;
- and
- d. washing out the remaining patterning treating agents the improvement comprising performing, after fixing and before washing, the steps of:
- e. directing onto the surface of the web from an external source a quantity of rinsing liquid which is just sufficient to moisten the surface of fibers of the web;
- and
- f. immediately thereafter suctioning the rinsing liquid away from the web.
Apparatus for the treatment of a web of material such as a textile or fleece comprising:
- a. means for continuously moving the web of material;
- b. means for patterning the moving web of material;
- c. means following said patterning means for fixing the pattern applied to the web;
- and
- d. means for washing said web following said means for fixing wherein the improvement comprises, disposed between said means for fixing and means for washing in the direction of travel;
- e. means for directing a rinsing liquid from an external source onto the surface of and across the width of the web of material in an amount which is just sufficient to moisten the surface of fibers of the web;
- and
- f. suction means immediately behind said means for applying rinsing liquid in the direction of travel for sucking away said rinsing liquid across the width of said web.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.