Foam random dyeing system
AssigneeUnited Merchants and Manufacturers, Inc.
InventorLarry G. Smith
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for randomly applying a foam composition containing a coloring agent dispersed therein onto a textile fabric is disclosed. The coloring agent is mixed into the foam in a non-homogeneous manner and randomly applied onto a fabric in a system having random application means for delivering the foam-coloring agent composition to a depositing means which is rotated and moved transverse to the direction of travel of the fabric being treated. The foam-coloring agent composition is caused to flow axially and in one embodiment over the edges of a baffle means in a random manner onto the textile fabric being treated so as to impart a random application of the coloring agent thereon.
Claims18
An apparatus for applying a foamed composition onto a substantially horizontal textile fabric to impart a generally random coloring effect to the fabric which comprises:
- means for supplying a foam composition including a coloring agent therein;
- conduit means through which said foam composition and coloring agent are routed, said conduit means having the exit portion thereof disposed in a generally downwardly directed vertical direction;
- directing means disposed above and spaced from the substantially horizontal fabric being treated, said directing means being provided in association with the exit portion of said conduit means for causing the flow of the foam-color containing composition to be directed at least partially in a substantially horizontal direction prior to being fed downwardly from said directing means onto the fabric being treated;
- means for moving said conduit and directing means transverse to the direction of travel of said fabric being treated;
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- means for moving said directing means relative with respect to at least a portion of said conduit means independently of the foam supply means so as to cause the foam-color containing composition to impart a generally random coloring effect to the fabric.
An apparatus for applying a foamed composition onto a textile fabric to impart a generally random coloring effect to the fabric which comprises:
- means for supplying a foam composition including a coloring agent therein;
- conduit means through which said foam composition and coloring agent are routed, said conduit means having an opening through which said foam composition and coloring agent exit for application onto said textile fabric;
- baffle means spaced from said conduit opening and interposed between said opening and the fabric being treated so as to distribute the foam and coloring agent exiting from said opening, said baffle means comprising a plate member of a predetermined configuration disposed with one surface thereof spaced from said conduit opening and the opposing surface thereof being positioned directly above the fabric being treated, said baffle means being of a size such that the foam composition and coloring agent exiting through said conduit opening flows over the edges of said baffle means downwardly onto the surface of the textile fabric being treated;
- means for moving said conduit and baffle means transverse to the direction of travel of said fabric being treated;
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- means for moving said baffle means relative with respect to at least a portion of said conduit means independently of the foam supply means so as to cause the foam-color containing composition flowing over the edges of the baffle means to impart a generally random coloring effect to the fabric.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.