Washing apparatus

In washing apparatus for continuously running webs of a material which includes:

• (a) a housing;
• (b) at least two drums, arranged in said housing one substantially vertically above the other with a space therebetween, with a web of material running through said housing and being looped around said two drums;
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• (c) at least one slit nozzle disposed within said housing opposite the upper drum and on one side of said upper drum, said slit nozzle being aimed toward said upper drum and extending over the width of the web of material, by means of which a flat water jet is directed toward the web of material looped around said upper drum, said flat water jet impinging against said web of material looped around said upper drum with at least some of said water reflected away from said upper drum in a wave, said jet directed so that the reflected water flows at least partially downward, the improvement comprising:
• (d) means for conducting the web of material about said drums so that it covers the upper portion of the lower drum in one looping region, and
• (e) a baffle disposed at the height of said looping region on one side of the lower drum, which one side of the lower drum corresponds to the one side of the upper drum, at a position and an angle such that the reflected water wave will impact on said baffle and be reflected by said baffle toward the web of material in said looping region of the lower drum.