Textile wet processing machine and method

In a machine for wet processing of textile fabric in continuous cloth rope form, said machine having a vessel for containing processing liquid and means for circulating the cloth rope through said vessel, the improvement wherein said circulating means includes means for creating first and second continuous streams of the processing liquid, each spanning a generally distinct area annularly about the cloth rope, and for impinging the first and second liquid streams onto the cloth rope at respectively different locations annularly thereabout.

In a method of wet processing of textile fabric in continuous cloth rope form, said method comprising the steps of circulating the cloth rope in plug form through a bath of processing liquid by progressively withdrawing the cloth rope from an exit end of said liquid bath and returning the cloth rope to an entrance end of said liquid bath, the improvement comprising simultaneously circulating two independent and unattached textile fabrics, each in continuous cloth rope form, through said liquid bath in generally side-by-side relation to one another and directing said two cloth ropes of textile fabrics toward laterally opposite sides of said entrance end of said liquid bath when returning said two cloth ropes thereto.

In a method of wet processing of textile fabric in continuous cloth rope form, said method comprising the steps of circulating the cloth rope in plug form through a bath of processing liquid by progressively withdrawing the cloth rope from an exit end of said liquid bath and returning the cloth rope to an entrance end of said liquid bath, the improvement comprising the steps of creating first and second continuous streams of the processing liquid, each stream spanning a generally distinct area annularly about the cloth rope, and impinging said cloth rope with first and second continuous streams of said processing liquid at respectively different locations annularly about said cloth rope.

In a machine for wet processing of textile fabric in continuous cloth rope form, said machine having a vessel for containing processing liquid and means for circulating the cloth rope through said vessel, the improvement wherein said circulating means includes means for impinging first and second continuous streams of the processing liquid onto the cloth rope at respective locations annularly thereabout, said liquid impinging means including housing means defining a central passageway for travel of the cloth rope therethrough, a liquid delivery chamber about the central passageway, a venturi opening from the liquid delivery chamber into the central passageway, first and second inlets opening into said liquid delivery chamber at annular spacings relative to said central passageway for delivering said first and second streams of processing liquid thereinto, and means dividing said liquid delivery chamber into first and second sub-chambers each communicating with a respective one of said first and second inlets.

In a method of wet processing of textile fabric in continuous cloth rope form, said method comprising the steps of circulating the cloth rope in plug form through a bath of processing liquid by progressively withdrawing the cloth rope from an exit end of said liquid bath and returning the cloth rope to an entrance end of said liquid bath, the improvement comprising circulating two independent and unattached textile fabrics, each in continuous cloth rope form, through said liquid bath in generally side-by-side relation to one another, including directing said two cloth ropes through a means for impinging said cloth rope with first and second continuous streams of said processing liquid at respective locations annularly about said cloth ropes.

In a method of wet processing of textile fabric in continuous cloth rope form, said method comprising the steps of circulating the cloth rope in plug form through a bath of processing liquid by progressively withdrawing the cloth rope from an exit end of said liquid bath and returning the cloth rope to an entrance end of said liquid bath, the improvement comprising circulating said cloth rope through said liquid bath as a continuous length of cloth rope in a doubled form having two extents in generally side-by-side relation to one another and connected endwise to one another in crossing relation, including directing said cloth rope through a means for impinging said cloth rope with first and second continuous streams of said processing liquid at respective locations annularly about said cloth rope.