Abstract: An apparatus for continuously drying and shrinking lengths of textile material (111) comprises a plurality of chambers (21 to 44), in which the textile material (111) is sucked through an inlet by means of drying air and carried along a treatment path to an outlet. The textile material is advanced to the inlet by means of a rotating winch. The chambers (21 to 44) are interconnected in series providing a treatment path for the textile material (111). The textile material is carried in sequence from the outlet of one chamber to the inlet of the succeeding chamber. The chambers (21 to 44) are arranged in succeeding, mutually separated groups (21 to 27, 28 to 35, 36 to 43, and 44), each group comprising an air feeding device (90) feeding heated drying air substantially to all its inlets (50), said air feeding device receiving air from all the succeeding groups.

Abstract: A method for continuous dyeing of tubular cotton knit fabrics with reactive dyes, in which method the fabric passes through a padding phase, optionally a swelling phase, a levelling phase, conducted in a steamer, a fixation phase conducted in the steamer, and a washing out, and in which the tubular fabric is ballooned at least once in the levelling phase, characterized in that before each ballooning in the levelling phase the length of fabric is passed through a bath of a neutral, inert salt and after each ballooning is squeezed to approximately the same moisture content as at the inlet to the salt bath, the squeezed off liquid being recirculated to the salt bath.

Abstract: An apparatus for liquid treatment and drying of bobbins having a cylindrical container and an insert with one or more distribution chambers from which horizontal distributor pipes extend in parallel.