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US 5,642,548 AGranted
Apparatus and method for wet processing traveling textile material
AssigneeGaston County Dyeing Machine Company
InventorCharles Anthony Osbourn
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AssigneeGaston County Dyeing Machine Company
InventorCharles Anthony Osbourn
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In a textile wet processing machine and process wherein an indeterminate length of a textile fabric or other material is washed or otherwise subjected to a wet treatment operation by transportation sequentially through a plurality of processing chambers, the yardage distribution of the fabric among the chambers is controlled by sensing the entrance of the leading end of the fabric into each successive chamber, then measuring separately the actual yardage of fabric entering each chamber in sequence, comparing at least periodically the yardage of fabric instantaneously residing within each respective chamber and, in the event an imbalance in fabric distribution is detected, briefly stopping and then restarting lifter reel assemblies and jet nozzle assemblies by which the fabric is transported so as to correct the imbalance in fabric distribution.
Apparatus for wet processing an indeterminate length of traveling textile material, the apparatus comprising a plurality of material processing chambers, means for transporting the material sequentially through the chambers, means associated with each chamber for detecting the entrance of a leading end of the material into the respective chamber, means associated with each chamber for measuring the length of the material entering the respective chamber after the detecting means of the respective chamber detects the entrance of the leading end of the material, and data processing means associated with each detecting means and each measuring means for receiving data signals therefrom, for computing at least periodically the length of the material momentarily resident in each respective chamber and for comparing the respective computed lengths for the respective chambers with one another, and for adjustably controlling the transporting means to maintain predetermined relative lengths of the material within the respective chambers.
A method of wet processing an indeterminate length of traveling textile material, the method comprising the steps of transporting the material sequentially through a plurality of material processing chambers, detecting the entrance of a leading end of the material into each respective chamber, measuring the length of the material entering each respective chamber after the entrance of the leading end of the material thereinto is detected, computing at least periodically the length of the material momentarily resident in each respective chamber, comparing the respective computed lengths for the respective chambers with one another, and adjustably controlling the transporting of the material to maintain predetermined relative lengths of the material within the respective chambers.
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