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US 4,360,937 AGranted
Method and apparatus for wet processing textile material
AssigneeGaston County Dyeing Machine Company
InventorHoward G. Putnam
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AssigneeGaston County Dyeing Machine Company
InventorHoward G. Putnam
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For use in textile processing, equipment such as jet dyeing machines, a fixed cloth tube for transporting cloth from the jet to the cloth storage compartment, such cloth tube having an exit end portion which is substantially greater in cross-sectional area than the portion extending from the jet, whereby the cloth leaving the cloth tube is permitted to assume a more open condition and whereby the velocity of the liquid flowing with the cloth is reduced as it leaves the cloth tube. A pair of cloth directing liquid jets are disposed oppositely in the exit end of the cloth tube, and a control system is provided for alternately admitting fluid to such cloth directing jets at predetermined time intervals to impose a sinuous path of movement on the cloth as it leaves the cloth tube and thereby provide an orderly and even distribution of the cloth within the cloth storage compartment.
In apparatus for wet processing textile material in endless rope form including a vessel for containing a treating bath of processing liquid and liquid jet means for moving said endless rope through said bath, the improvement comprising a specially formed fixed cloth tube for receiving said endless rope as it leaves said liquid jet means and for delivering said endless rope to said bath, said cloth tube having a first end portion that is cylindrical in shape and that is disposed adjacent the exit of said liquid jet means and extends therefrom with a first predetermined cross-sectional area, a second end portion from which said endless rope is delivered to said bath, said second end portion being rectangular in shape and having a second predetermined cross-sectional area that is substantially greater than said first predetermined cross-sectional area whereby the endless rope will tend to be opened as it leaves said second end portion and whereby the velocity of the liquid flowing from said second end portion will be less than the corresponding velocity in said first end portion.
In apparatus for wet processing textile material in endless rope form including a vessel for containing a treating bath of processing liquid, means for moving said endless rope through said bath, and a fixed cloth tube disposed in said vessel above the level of said bath for receiving said endless rope and for delivering said endless rope to said bath, the improvement comprising said cloth tube having an exit end portion formed with a rectangular shape, means for positively guiding the path of movement of said endless rope as it leaves the exit end of said fixing cloth tube, said guiding means including a pair of cloth guiding fluid jets located in opposite side walls of said exit end portion of said cloth tube for directing opposed streams of fluid into said cloth tube in angular relation to the direction of the movement of said rope therethrough, and control means for selectively energizing said pair of cloth guiding jets at predetermined time intervals to thereby impose a predetermined path of movement on said rope as it leaves said exit end of said cloth tube.
A method of wet processing textile material in endless rope form through a bath of processing liquid, said method comprising the steps of:
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