Chainless mercerizing equipment using a dye padder

In chainless mercerizing equipment for the selective processing of flat textiles and hose ware using a mercerizing dye padder provided with rollers, the material being guided over mercerizing rollers through a bath of a treatment liquid and the excess treatment liquid being forced out of the material by a subsequent pair of rollers, and the material then being washed, the improvement comprising

• (a) selective feed path means preceding the dye padder from a common site, said paths including different expander means for flat textiles and hose ware respectively,
• (b) a clear space for moving in and out a batching or cuttling means for the flat textiles and means for guiding the material from the dye padder to the batching or cuttling means, and
• (c) an air passage means spanning the clear space and acting as a development path for the hose ware, followed by a treatment means provided with at least one circular expander and bounding the clear space, and a subsequent cuttling means, and means for guiding said hose ware from the dye padder to said cuttling means.