Abstract: A high efficiency triple pass tunnel finisher includes an articulated spraying function for allowing steam to effectively penetrate a garment. The tunnel finisher can be used for the laundering of shirts, pants, and jackets. The tunnel finisher includes hot air chambers and a steam chamber that can include two rows of steam injectors located at a 45° angle in relation to the walls of the module. The steam chamber has a lower pressure than the hot air chambers, creating an air pressure differential. The hot air chambers are positively pressurized, preventing the relatively cooler air of the steam chamber from entering the chamber. The pressurization prevents heat loss, allowing the finisher to be more efficient, while increasing the temperature at which the garments exit the steam chamber. This leads to faster drying times, less garment wrinkling, and reduced dwell time for a garment with a high quality appearance.

Abstract: A triple pass tunnel finisher for finishing fabric. The finisher includes a side module, a front module, and a rear module. The side module includes an entrance for receiving a fabric piece to be conveyed through the apparatus, and a steam injection chamber downstream of the entrance for treating the fabric piece with steam. The front module communicates with the side module to receive the fabric piece conveyed therefrom, and includes first and second hot air chambers, and an exit downstream of the second hot air chamber. The rear module communicates with the front module to receive the fabric piece therefrom, and includes a heating apparatus for heating the fabric piece, and a U-shaped intermediate hot air chamber downstream from the first hot air chamber and upstream from the second hot air chamber for receiving the fabric piece from the first hot air chamber and for delivering the fabric piece to the second hot air chamber.

Abstract: A garment finisher, including a heated enclosure having a garment entrance, a garment exit and a carrier for transporting garments at a predetermined rate of travel through the enclosure from the entrance to the exit. A temperature sensor is provided for sensing the temperature of the garment at at least one location within the enclosure. A feedback circuit interconnects the temperature sensor and a parameter controller for varying an operating condition, such as the temperature within the enclosure, the rate of travel of the garment through the enclosure or the moisture in the garment, of the finisher in response to a feedback signal from the temperature sensor indicating a out-of-variance garment temperature in relation to a preset desired garment temperature in order to bring the temperature of the garment back within variance of the preset desired garment temperature.