Apparatus for forming patterns in materials such as textile goods
AssigneeEduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
InventorGunter Schiffer
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Abstract
A dye-containing foam is applied to a textile to create patterns thereon. The foam is transferred to the textile in the form of parallel lanes or strips. The lanes of foam are formed on an endless belt which then merges with the textile at a nip to effect the transfer of the dye. The lanes of foam are bordered by parallel partitions which are adjustable to vary the exiting width of the foam. A vertically adjustable doctor blade in each lane governs the height of each lane of foam. An agent for promoting the disintegration of the foam is applied to the side of the textile opposite the side to which the foam is applied, to assure a more uniform application of dye in the direction of the depth of the textile.
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Apparatus for forming patterns on a substrate, comprising:
- a flat support movable longitudinally,
- a plurality of laterally spaced partitions extending generally longitudinally and forming a plurality of laterally adjacent, longitudinally extending lanes on said support,
- means for moving said support longitudinally past said partitions,
- means for introducing dye-containing foams into said lanes and onto said support to form longitudinal lanes of foam on said support,
- a plurality of height-regulating means for selectively regulating the heights of foam independently in each of said lanes,
- means for moving the substrate longitudinally into engagement with the lanes of foam such that the latter are transferred onto the substrate to form longitudinal patterns thereon, and
- means for actuating said height-regulating means independently on one another during movement of the support to longitudinally vary the foam lane height and thereby longitudinally vary the resulting pattern formed on the substrate.
Apparatus for forming patterns on a textile, comprising:
- a flat support movable longitudinally,
- a plurality of laterally spaced partitions extending generally longitudinally and forming a plurality of laterally adjacent, longitudinally extending lanes on said support,
- means for moving said support longitudinally past said partitions,
- means for introducing dye-containing foams into said lanes and onto said support to form longitudinal lanes of foam on said support,
- a plurality of height-regulating means for selectively regulating the heights of foam independently in each of said lanes,
- means for moving the textile longitudinally to engage with the lanes of foam to transfer the lanes of foam onto the textile to form longitudinal patterns thereon, and
- means for actuating said height-regulating means indpendently of one another during movement of the support, to longitudinally vary the foam lane height and thereby longitudinally vary the resulting pattern form on the textile.
Apparatus for applying patterns to a substrate, comprising:
- a flat belt movable longitudinally,
- a plurality of laterally spaced partitions extending in a longitudinal direction over said belt and forming a plurality of laterally adjacent lanes extending in said longitudinal direction,
- said portions being adjustable to vary the widths of the downstream ends of said lanes,
- means for introducing dye-containing foams into said lanes,
- means for regulating the heights of foam in said lanes,
- means for moving the substrate in said longitudinal direction and into engagement with the lanes of foam to transfer the foam to the substrate,
- a traversing roll arranged such that the substrate is sandwiched between said roll and said belt, the curved portion of said belt traveling around said roll dipping beneath the plane of that portion of the belt to which the lanes of foam are applied, and
- means for applying to the periphery of said roll an agent promoting disintegration of the foam to be transferred to a side of the substrate opposite the side thereof to which the foam is applied.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.