Abstract: A ball detent fluid coupling for liquid and gas applications has a ball-retaining sleeve on the socket that is retractable by hand for joining and for separating the socket and plug and is characterized by a pressure-actuated check valve mounted on a valve guide within the flow path to preclude backflow into the supply side of the coupling. The valve also operates to shut off the flow when the mating parts of the coupling are disconnected or when flow through the coupling is shut off. A conventional valve can be mounted in the fluid flow passageway opposite the pressure-actuated check valve to urge the mating plug and socket to decouple when the sleeve releases the ball detents from engagement with the plug and to stop flow in the discharge line. The coupling will typically be used at pressures of from about 5 to 130 psig.

Abstract: A quick-action fluid coupling for connecting two fluid-conducting lines includes a plug for attachment to one of the lines and a socket for attachment to the other. The socket has a tubular body and includes a valve having a valve sleeve and a fixed valve stem coaxially disposed within the tubular body. The valve sleeve is moved axially upon connection of the plug and socket so as to open a fluid flow passage between the valve sleeve and the valve stem. The outer surface of the valve stem defines a plurality of circumferentially spaced depressions therein. A circumferential groove is defined in an inner surface of the tubular body and is spaced radially outward of and in axial alignment with the depressions in the valve stem. A plurality of separately formed, discrete retaining elements are respectively engaged partly in the depressions in the valve stem and partly in the groove in the tubular body.

Abstract: A jet-type textile wet processing machine is equipped with a pivotable inner wall assembly within the entrance end of the fabric chamber in the processing vessel for selective pivotal disposition to control definition of the plug form of the fabric advancing through the chamber and has an internally segmented jet nozzle structure for creating annularly differentiated impinging streams of processing liquid on the traveling fabric rope. Unique processing applications enabled by the machine include simultaneously treating within a single chamber two independent disconnected endless fabric ropes or a single fabric rope or a single fabric rope in doubled form.

Abstract: An adapter for using a yarn package carrier in both vertically and horizontally oriented treatment vats includes a platform for supporting the yarn package carrier, an assembly for engagement of the adapter by a carrier transfer device and a fluid passageway arrangement formed in the platform for directing treatment fluid from the vertically oriented vat into the yarn package carrier.

Abstract: Textile yarn package supporting carriers are disclosed for use in textile dyeing machines to enable the machine to be effectively operated at less than full capacity. Each carrier has a base with multiple upstanding package supporting posts equipped with interchangeable adapters to accommodate differing numbers of yarn packages up to the maximum capacity of the carrier. An upstanding wall on the base defines an enclosure for retaining treating liquid, and the wall has a selectively movable and removable panel for forming a liquid weir at a selectively variable level relative to the base to determine a maximum level of liquid which may be retained in the carrier enclosure.

Abstract: Textile yarn package supporting carriers are disclosed for use in both horizontal and vertical textile dyeing machines to enable the machine to be effectively operated at less than full capacity, Each carrier has a base with multiple upstanding package supporting posts each having a longitudinal package supporting portion adjacent the base and a longitudinal threaded spindle portion extending outwardly in alignment therewith, The package supporting portion is dimensioned to securely support a predetermined minimum number of packages on each post and adapters are provided for slidable mounting onto the spindle portions of each post to accommodate additional yarn packages up to the maximum capacity of the carrier. A threaded cap mounts to the spindle portion of each post for movement therealong into engagement with the outermost package on the post.

Abstract: A horizontal package dyeing machine in which yarn packages are supported in carriers that have a base with tubular posts projecting therefrom for stacking yarn packages thereon and a wall secured to and extending upwardly from the periphery of the base to form an enclosure for confining treating liquid. The base is formed with two liquid distribution chambers, one being an upper chamber communicating with the interior of the posts and the other being a lower chamber communicating with the interior of the enclosure. The distribution chambers have open ends that can communicate with liquid supplying and withdrawing ducts of the machine for circulation of treating liquid within the carrier enclosure. The carriers are dimensioned for positioning two carriers in a vessel with the open ends of the distribution chambers in communication for flow of treating liquid therebetween.