Conditioning Chutes Patents (Class 68/178)
  • Patent number: 9982378
    Abstract: A device for treatment of a strand-like textile fabric in the form of an endless fabric strand, includes: a lockable treatment container; a transport nozzle arrangement which can be subjected to a first transport medium flow; and a transport section adjoining the transport nozzle arrangement. The transport section terminates on a fabric strand inlet side in a storage section of the lockable treatment container, and the storage section accommodates a folded fabric strand pile. The transport nozzle arrangement includes a transport nozzle with a polygonal nozzle inlet opening and an outlet part having a polygonal cross-section, for the fabric strand. The outlet part is appropriately adapted in view of its dimensions. The nozzle gap is adjustable and is delimited all the way around on at least one side by a plurality of straight nozzle elements that each have a cross-sectional shape that is essentially part-cylindrical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: FONG'S EUROPE GMBH
    Inventor: Johannes Schmitz
  • Patent number: 9174181
    Abstract: Disposable bioreactor for culturing cells in a nutrient medium, consisting of a reagent container which is sealable with a lid and which is capable of being subjected to a shaking process in a shaking device, where the reagent container is equipped with at least one web adjacent to the internal wall of the container, the web being arranged running vertically from the bottom upward, preferably in the shape of a helix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Kocourek, Christopher Biddell, Oscar-Werner Reif, Florian Wurm
  • Patent number: 8756958
    Abstract: An impulse type shock wave flash dyeing machine is disclosed. A row of joint nozzles can send out high-speed air flows to prompt fibrous fabric to spread out and move in the dyeing machine through the effect of impulse. Dyes or processing agents may be converted into fine mist and is carried by the high-speed air flows to blast the fibrous fabric (3). Therefore, the dyes or processing agents can enter the fibrous fabric (3) quickly and can diffuse or spread out in the fibrous fabric (3) swiftly through strong elastic and inelastic collisions as well as the effect of shock wave. Such collisions and effect can impart enough energy to the dyes or processing agents and convert non-activated molecules into activated molecules. In addition, the effect of corona discharge may be used to generate high-energy particles and hence the goals of clean and swift processes may be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Inventor: Jiang Zhao-Cheng
  • Patent number: 8746018
    Abstract: An apparatus for the treatment of strand-shaped textile products in the form of a continuous material strand which is circulated at least during part of the treatment, includes an elongated, essentially tubular treatment container and a transport nozzle array that can be charged with a gaseous transport medium stream. In the treatment container is arranged, adjoining a material strand inlet, a storage section for receiving a piled-up material strand package is provided with a sliding floor that is inclined, at least in sections, in a manner descending from a pile-up unit toward a head part of the treatment container. Charge elements are provided at least in the region of the transport nozzle array to charge the material strand with a liquid treatment agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Then Maschinen GmbH
    Inventor: Wilhelm Christ
  • Patent number: 7886390
    Abstract: An apparatus for wet-processing strand-shaped textile good, includes a closed container, a transport nozzle array to which a gaseous transport medium can be supplied, and a device for applying a liquid treatment agent in atomized form to the moving strand of goods in the region of the transport nozzle arrangement. The device for the application of the treatment agent is designed to apply the treatment agent to the strand of goods in two sections (I, III), which are at a distance from each other in transport direction of the strand of goods, in a form enclosing the strand of goods at least partially in a ring-shaped manner. In so doing, the gaseous transport medium is applied to the strand of goods in an intermediate region (II) located between said two sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: THEN Maschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Wilhelm Christ, Tak Ming William Tsui
  • Patent number: 7578152
    Abstract: A Wet processing machine for rope-formed textile product comprises a closed vessel and a Venturi-Transport jet system, which can be impinged to a transport medium current, in order to drive an endless fabric rope circulating in the vessel in a pre-determined rotation context. The transport jet system has a nozzle annular gap through which the transport medium flows, which is restricted on the one side by a nozzle cone with a passage channel. Winding devices are provided upstream of the transport jet system in the fabric rope movement path. Further, devices are available, which serve the application of a processing liquor on the fabric rope in a segment of the fabric rope movement path, which lies between the area of the winding device and the nozzle annular gap of the transport jet system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Then Maschinen (B.V.I.) Limited
    Inventors: Carl Cordes, Thomas Widmer
  • Patent number: 7454931
    Abstract: This is a device or equipment for treating the textile fabric shaped like a rope and it has a container and a transport nozzle system for the textile fabric. The transport nozzle systems have at least two separate transport nozzles arranged one beside the other axially, for each one of the respective rope-materials, whereby the transport nozzles are placed in a common transport-medium (medium of transport) distribution equipment. The transport-medium (medium of transport) distribution equipment is connected to a transport-medium (medium of transport) circulating equipment, and it contains the inlet for the transport-medium (medium of transport) of the transport-nozzles along with a space/room for impingement of the transport-medium i.e., medium of transport.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: Then Maschinen (B.V.I.) Limited
    Inventors: Lee Che Keung, legal representative, Carl Cordes
  • Patent number: 7398574
    Abstract: In a method for treating ropelike textile goods in a closed container that contains at least two axially adjacent J-boxes for receiving textile goods during at least part of the treatment time, a driving motion in a feeding direction is imparted to the textile goods, by means of a gaseous flow of feeding medium made to act on the rope via feed nozzle means. The textile goods, before entering each J-box, pass through separate feed nozzle means assigned to that J-box. Upon exiting from these feed nozzle means, the textile goods are introduced selectively into the respective associated first J-box or a second J-box adjacent to this J-box, or in the case of at least one J-box are conducted along a predetermined path, which carries the textile goods away from this J-box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2008
    Assignee: Then Maschinen (B.V.I.) Limited
    Inventor: Wilhelm Christ
  • Patent number: 7316042
    Abstract: The machine comprises in combination: means (7) for supplying the fabric (T); means (9) for extracting the fabric; at least one first tank (1) and one second tank (3) which are positioned in series and between which a pneumatic transfer member (5) for transferring the fabric alternately from the first tank to the second tank and vice versa is arranged. The pneumatic transfer member is pivotable so as to assume at least two positions depending on the direction of feeding of the fabric through said pivoting transfer member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2008
    Assignee: Coramtex S.R.L.
    Inventors: Luigi Marcora, Alberto Ciabattini
  • Patent number: 7140207
    Abstract: Device for the continuous treatment of yarns with process fluids comprising a Venturi nozzle fed with process fluid as driving fluid to feed the yarn to the treatment, a distributor for distributing the yarn in the treatment reactor according to a layer of superimposed swirls, a tank reactor, internally equipped with a saddle-shaped guiding surface on which the threads arranged in a layer first descend for immersion and then rise emerging from the process fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2006
    Assignee: Savio Macchine Tessili S.p.A.
    Inventors: Roberto Badiali, Mario Minuti
  • Patent number: 6672114
    Abstract: The jet dye apparatus includes a reactant chamber for the processing or various materials and liquids, and a pump for recirculating the liquids to and from the reactant chamber. A jet venturi or nozzle receives the material from the reactant chamber and returns the material to the reactant chamber through a return tube. A portion of the liquids from the pump are supplied to the jet venturi. An inductor receives a portion of the liquids from the pump before they are returned to the reactant chamber. The inductor combines the liquids with granular or powder additives from an additive container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: Milliken & Company
    Inventors: Benjamin H. Glover, Robert David Nabow, Bruce R. Edwards, Stephen Kelly Stewart
  • Patent number: 6662601
    Abstract: A guide roller-free airflow type dyeing machine includes a machine base defining a cylindrical receiving chamber and a cloth passage for the circulation of a fed piece of cloth, a jet nozzle upwardly mounted in one end of the cloth passage and adapted for ejecting a liquid coloring matter to dye the fed piece of cloth and to move the fed piece of cloth through the cloth passage, an air blower adapted for providing forced air to the jet nozzle to force liquid coloring matter out of the jet nozzle to the fed piece of cloth, a heat exchanger adapted for controlling the temperature of liquid coloring matter, and pump adapted for forcing liquid coloring matter to circulate through the jet nozzle and the heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Inventor: Chi-Lung Chang
  • Publication number: 20030084689
    Abstract: A dyeing machine includes a machine base defining a cylindrical receiving chamber and a cloth passage for the circulation of a fed piece of cloth, and a jet nozzle upwardly mounted in one end of the cloth passage and adapted for ejecting a liquid coloring matter to dye the fed piece of cloth and to move the fed piece of cloth through the cloth passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2001
    Publication date: May 8, 2003
    Inventor: Chi-Lung Chang
  • Publication number: 20030079505
    Abstract: A guide roller-free airflow type dyeing machine includes a machine base defining a cylindrical receiving chamber and a cloth passage for the circulation of a fed piece of cloth, a jet nozzle upwardly mounted in one end of the cloth passage and adapted for ejecting a liquid coloring matter to dye the fed piece of cloth and to move the fed piece of cloth through the cloth passage, an air blower adapted for providing forced air to the jet nozzle to force liquid coloring matter out of the jet nozzle to the fed piece of cloth, a heat exchanger adapted for controlling the temperature of liquid coloring matter, and pump adapted for forcing liquid coloring matter to circulate through the jet nozzle and the heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2001
    Publication date: May 1, 2003
    Inventor: Chi-Lung Chang
  • Patent number: 6505486
    Abstract: A cloth dyeing machine includes a machine base defining a cylindrical dyeing bath, a cloth guide tube through which an inserted piece of cloth is circulated in the dyeing bath and dyed, a plurality of jet nozzles suspended in the dyeing bath in front of the cloth guide tube and controlled to eject jets of liquid coloring matter onto the piece of cloth when the piece of cloth is guided into the cloth guide tube, wherein the cloth guide tube has a curved front section curving downwards from the jet nozzles for guiding in the piece of cloth, enabling the piece of cloth to be vibrated and spread out by the force of the jets of liquid coloring matter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2003
    Inventor: Chi-Lung Chang
  • Patent number: 6497124
    Abstract: A dyeing machine comprises a roller mechanism, a nozzle mechanism having two nozzles, a fabric guide mechanism, wherein fabric is dyed twice. The degree of impingement on fabric is predetermined with respect to respective specific type of fabric, resulting in a more uniform dyeing as well as a shortening of process time and solution cycle. Moreover, the fabric guide tube may be upwardly, horizontally, or downwardly adjusted in order to obtain a better quality of respective specific fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2002
    Inventor: Chin Chuan Lin
  • Patent number: 6427495
    Abstract: A compact machine for the treatment of cord fabrics, in particular for dyeing, is made up of a container of any shape, in one top part of which is set at least one motor-driven reel for moving the cord fabric, a device for jet-dyeing by the spraying of dye on the fabric set on at least one side of the at least one reel, and a device for overflow-dyeing of the fabric, which is set on the other side of the at least one reel, there being set underneath said at least one reel and underneath said devices a reservoir, which is designed to contain the fabric and the treatment liquid bath and which can move basically crosswise with respect to the direction of displacement of the cord fabric in order to fold the cord fabric in the reservoir itself. The displacement of the reservoir inside the container is simply crosswise in a rectilinear or oscillating fashion, or else is a motion made up of both types of motion, and the speed of the reservoir is fixed, or else variable in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2002
    Inventor: Lorenzo Berlendis
  • Patent number: 6393871
    Abstract: A continuously and combiningly operable breadth expansion and vibration enhanced spray dyeing machine, which can provide dyeing and other processing operations on a fabric in a continuous way. The dye and treating agents are spraying onto the fabric. By a high speed air flow, the fabric can have a violent vibration to speed up the processing effect. Therefore, the fabric can be processed with small amount continuous dyeing and other processing operations in a short period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2002
    Inventor: Chao-Cheng Chiang
  • Patent number: 6381996
    Abstract: A dyeing machine fabric guide arrangement having a plurality of shafts respectively installed in the housing of a dyeing machine above a respective dye vat, a plurality of fabric guide rings respectively mounted on the shafts for guiding a respective fabric through a respective dye vat in the housing, and a plurality of hand wheels respectively fixedly fastened to the shafts outside the housing for enabling the operator to rotate the shafts and to change the angular position of the fabric guide rings respectively, so as to further adjust the tension of the respective fabrics passing through the fabric guide rings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2002
    Inventor: Chi-Lung Chang
  • Publication number: 20020002848
    Abstract: A dyeing machine comprises a roller mechanism, a nozzle mechanism having two nozzles, a fabric guide mechanism, wherein fabric is dyed twice. The degree of impingement on fabric is predetermined with respect to respective specific type of fabric, resulting in a more uniform dyeing as well as a shortening of process time and solution cycle. Moreover, the fabric guide tube may be upwardly, horizontally, or downwardly adjusted in order to obtain a better quality of respective specific fabric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2001
    Publication date: January 10, 2002
    Inventor: Chin Chuan Lin
  • Patent number: 6305592
    Abstract: A festooner transfers cloth between a dye machine and a transfer box utilizing a driven roller and a laterally mounted idler roller creating a vertical interstice to effect a vertical discharge of the cloth into a laying funnel. The driven roller is grooved to maintain tension on the cloth without creating adherence that would cause the cloth to wrap around the roller. A sensor further detects the presence or absence of driven roller, and reduces the speed of the driven roller when the idler roller is displaced from the driven roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2001
    Assignee: Russell Corporation
    Inventor: Michael G. Mann
  • Patent number: 5987934
    Abstract: A textile wet processing machine includes a processing chamber having an adjustable inner wall. The inner wall is continuously adjustable to accommodate textile fabrics in cloth rope form having great variations in weight, texture, thickness, flexibility and load. The inner wall may be positioned at any position relative to the outer wall of the processing chamber between a predetermined innermost position and a predetermined outermost position. In a preferred embodiment, adjustment is accomplished by a worm gear assembly, a transverse drive shaft coupled to the worm gear assembly and a linkage assembly. The worm gear assembly includes a worm gear positioned within a gear box housing that is rotated manually by a hand wheel, or is rotated automatically by an electric drive motor or pneumatic positioner programmed by an electronic processor to set the volumetric size of the processing chamber in accordance with a preselected textile fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1999
    Assignee: Scholl America, Inc.
    Inventor: Marc D. Scholl
  • Patent number: 5960650
    Abstract: A dyeing machine including a receiving chamber, a cloth passage disposed in combination with the receiving chamber through which a piece of cloth is inserted and dyed, a jet nozzle suspended above a front end of the cloth passage and controlled to spray a dyeing solution for coloring the inserted piece of cloth, and a cloth guide roller suspended above the jet nozzle and turned to guide the inserted piece of cloth from the front end of the cloth passage through the jet nozzle toward a rear end of the cloth passage, wherein a motor-driven cloth conveyer is mounted within the receiving chamber at a bottom side and controlled to deliver the inserted piece of cloth through the cloth passage; two cloth guide means are mounted inside the receiving chamber adjacent to two opposite ends of the motor-driven cloth conveyer for guiding the inserted piece of cloth from the front end of the cloth passage to the cloth conveyer and from the cloth conveyer to the rear end of the cloth passage, and detector means adapted to c
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1999
    Inventor: Chang Chi-Lung
  • Patent number: 5931026
    Abstract: A dyeing machine including a machine base defining a cylindrical receiving chamber and a cloth passage, a jet nozzle disposed in a horizontal position, an overflow nozzle disposed in a vertical position above the elevation of the jet nozzle, a first cloth guide roller disposed in front of the jet nozzle and adapted for guiding a piece of cloth from the cloth passage over the jet nozzle into the cylindrical receiving chamber for dyeing, a second cloth guide roller suspended above the overflow nozzle and adapted for guiding a piece of cloth from the cloth passage over the overflow nozzle into the cylindrical receiving chamber for dyeing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1999
    Inventor: Chi-Lung Chang
  • Patent number: 5894747
    Abstract: An improved low liquid gentle jet dyeing machine which has a pressure vessel with one or more inner chambers located interior to and spaced from the interior edges of the pressure vessel. An endless rope of fabric is contained within each inner chamber. The fabric is plaited to form a plug in the inner chamber. A rotatable perforated barrel reel lifts the fabric from this plug through the outlet of the inner chamber. The fabric then enters a jet dyeing chamber which contains a parallel flow non-clog venturi disposed so as to gently impregnate the fabric with dye liquid. The fabric exits the jet dyeing chamber through a cloth discharge tube which is disposed to convey the fabric to the entrance of the inner chamber in such a way that the angular change of direction of the fabric is minimized. The side walls and floor of the inner chamber are perforated, with the number of side wall perforations being greater toward the chamber entrance and lesser toward the chamber outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1999
    Assignee: International Dyeing Equipment, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul L. Abernathy, V. Gene Best, Vann M. Sistare
  • Patent number: 5873270
    Abstract: A textile wet processing machine includes a processing chamber having an adjustable inner wall. The inner wall is adjustable to accommodate textile fabrics in cloth rope form having great variations in weight, texture, thickness, flexibility and load. The inner wall may be positioned at any position between a predetermined innermost position and a predetermined outermost position relative to the outer wall of the processing chamber. In a preferred embodiment, adjustment is accomplished by a pinion that is linearly movable on a rack. A connecting rod extends outwardly from the pinion. One end of the connecting rod is rotatably secured to the transverse shaft of the pinion and the other end of the connecting rod is secured to the inner wall. In an alternative embodiment, adjustment is accomplished by a linkage assembly that is rotatable about a transverse shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1999
    Assignee: Scholl America, Inc.
    Inventor: Marc D. Scholl
  • Patent number: 5845355
    Abstract: A method and a device for fibrillating cellulose fibers contained in a fabric web (3) comprise the fabric web (3) being withdrawn from a fabric storage chamber (6), accelerated through a guide slot by means of liquid flowing at high speed and then flung against a rebound surface (13). The fabric web can be transported alternatingly in both directions through the guide slot (7) and flung onto the first rebound surface (13) and a second rebound surface (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1998
    Assignee: Solipat AG
    Inventor: Christian Strahm
  • Patent number: 5787734
    Abstract: A machine for the wet treatment of fabrics, having one module with two containers, each container having two vessels. Each module contains two pairs of alternately operating hydraulic drive means, comprising a fixed structure attached by a hinge to a cover movable between a closed position and an open position. There is, further, a fixed restraining member, situated above the cover and an air bag, comprised between the cover and the fixed member. The air bag may alternately be in an inflated position, in which it urges the cover to remain in the closed position, and a deflated position, in which it releases the cover towards the open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1998
    Assignee: Turbang Prototips, S.L.
    Inventor: Jaume Anglada Vinas
  • Patent number: 5775136
    Abstract: A spray dyeing apparatus includes a fabric storage tank and a fabric guide tube disposed above and connected to the fabric storage tank to define a continuous loop for fabric. A pump and a blower are provided to pressurize and convey dye and air into the fabric guide tube via spray nozzles disposed on upper side of the fabric guide tube and directing nozzles arranged on a bottom support plate of the fabric guide tube. The bottom support plate has a support surface having a sufficient width to allow the breadth of the fabric to be substantially fully expanded in moving through the fabric guide tube. The directing nozzles are provided on the support plate in a spaced manner to generate high speed air streams in the downstream direction which are confined above the support plate to have the fabric floating above the support plate and moving in the downstream direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1998
    Inventor: Chiang Chao-Cheng
  • Patent number: 5746072
    Abstract: An apparatus for treating an endless textile web by passing it in a direction along an endless path and contacting it with a treatment fluid has a conveying nozzle provided with a housing traversed by the path and having a lateral inlet, an upstream tube and downstream tube longitudinally traversed by the path. The upstream tube has an upstream portion of a cross section decreasing in the direction and a downstream portion of substantially constant cross section and having a downstream end. The downstream tube has an upstream portion of a cross section decreasing in the direction and having an upstream end in the housing upstream of the downstream end of the upstream tube, spaced laterally outward from the downstream portion of the upstream tube, and forming with the downstream portion of the upstream tube a gap open into the housing and a downstream portion of cross section increasing in the direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1998
    Assignee: H.Krantz Textiltechnik GmbH
    Inventor: Bernd Bohnke
  • Patent number: 5642548
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 1, 1997
    Assignee: Gaston County Dyeing Machine Company
    Inventor: Charles Anthony Osbourn
  • Patent number: 5623738
    Abstract: A machine is disclosed for the continuous washing of fabric (T), comprising eans (3) for introducing the fabric to be treated into said machine, means (5) for extracting the treated fabric from said machine and, between said means of introduction and said means of extraction, a treatment tank. It comprises at least two fabric treatment tanks (7, 9) arranged in series with respect to the overall direction of advance of the fabric (T) through the machine and, between said at least two tanks (7, 9), means of reversible transfer (11) that transfer said fabric from the first tank (7) to the second tank (9) and back again.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 29, 1997
    Assignees: Officina Meccanica Biancalani & C. di Fiorenzo Biancalani & C. S.n.c., Coramtex S.r.l.
    Inventors: Fiorenzo Biancalani, Luigi Marcora
  • Patent number: 5621937
    Abstract: An improved jet dyeing apparatus is provided which enables the user to dye either lightweight or relatively heavy weight fabrics in the same apparatus with improved efficiency and product quality. The apparatus includes a fabric plaiting mechanism mounted to the exit end of a transport tube and a downwardly directed outlet nozzle. The outlet nozzle further includes dye liquor bypass means for withdrawing a portion of the dye liquor outside the primary path of travel of the fabric as the fabric is deposited into the liquid treatment chamber of the apparatus and provision is also made for removing a portion of the liquid from the jet dyeing apparatus and for recycling a portion of the liquid to the suction side of the main recirculating pump. By virtue of this arrangement an improved high efficiency rinse cycle is enabled in accordance with the related method which is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 22, 1997
    Assignee: S. Sclavos, S.A.
    Inventor: Aristides Georgantas
  • Patent number: 5577282
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1996
    Assignee: Gaston County Dyeing Machine Company
    Inventors: James K. Turner, William C. Sturkey, Thomas W. Van Scyoc
  • Patent number: 5469720
    Abstract: The present invention provides a machine for dyeing fabrics wound up into cords using the overflow or jet system, comprising two or more overflow or jet units arranged in series in a single tank, in which the speed of the various reels of each overflow or jet device is synchronised with respect to a driving reel by affixing permanent magnets to the fabric and appropriate sensors on the machine so that possible slipping of the fabric can be corrected by a microprocessor drive control system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 28, 1995
    Assignee: Paggi S.r.l.
    Inventor: Roberto Paggi
  • Patent number: 5440771
    Abstract: An improved jet dyeing apparatus is provided which enables the user to dye either lightweight or relatively heavy weight fabrics in the same apparatus with improved efficiency and product quality. The apparatus includes a fabric plaiting mechanism mounted to the exit end of a transport tube and a downwardly directed outlet nozzle. The outlet nozzle further includes dye liquor bypass means for withdrawing a portion of the dye liquor outside the primary path of travel of the fabric as the fabric is deposited into the liquid treatment chamber of the apparatus and provision is also made for removing a portion of the contaminated liquor from the jet dyeing apparatus. By virtue of this arrangement an improved high efficiency rinse cycle is enabled in accordance with the related method which is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 15, 1995
    Assignee: S. Sclavos S.A.
    Inventor: Aristides Georgantas
  • Patent number: 5431031
    Abstract: The machine comprises: two or more modules, each having two containers and each container having two vertical vessels with respective open upper ends; a bottom portion places the vessels in communication with each other. Each module has two, alternately operating, hydraulic fabric drive means, situated above the open upper ends of the vessels; for each module a pumping means draws liquor from the containers, forces it through a filter and sends it to the hydraulic drive means. A fan blows air to a guide means for leading the fabric from one container to another and the guide means is provided at the top thereof with a cylindrical configuration having a horizontal generating line allowing the air through and forming an air cushion between the fabric and the guide means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1995
    Assignee: Jaume Anglada Vinas, S.A.
    Inventor: Jaume A. Vinas
  • Patent number: 5402659
    Abstract: An apparatus for driving a lifter reel in a machine for wet processing of fabric in endless rope form having a jet for directing a flow of liquid to the fabric rope to cause circulation thereof is disclosed and contains a rotatable lifter reel upstream of the jet and over which the fabric rope travels to the jet. The apparatus includes a baffle wheel affixed coaxially to one end of the lifter reel out of the path of the fabric traveling over the lifter reel. The wheel has radially extending baffles against which a liquid flow nozzle directs a flow of liquid in a direction to drive the lifter reel in the direction of rope travel to the jet. The liquid flow nozzle is adjustable radially with respect to the baffle wheel to vary the driven rate of rotation of the lifter reel. The nozzle is commonly connected with the jet to a source of liquid under pressure for use of liquid from the same source by the jet and the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1995
    Assignee: Gaston County Dyeing Machine Company
    Inventors: James K. Turner, J. Alan Morgan
  • Patent number: 5311627
    Abstract: The invention relates to the discontinuous wet treatment of a hank of fabric in at least one cycle of the fabric through a treatment compartment. In order to achieve a rapid and reliable wet treatment with a relatively simple construction, the treatment compartment is divided into two treatment chambers which lie parallel adjacent to one another, so that with each circulation of the fabric two sections of fabric running parallel to one another are treated simultaneously in two similar treatment chambers of the same treatment compartment which serve for the same type of treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1994
    Assignee: Bruckner Apparatebau GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Koch, Gerd Kolmer
  • Patent number: 5299339
    Abstract: An improved jet dyeing apparatus is provided which enables the user to dye either lightweight or relatively heavy weight fabrics (1) in the same apparatus with improved efficiency and product quality. The apparatus includes a unique fabric plaiting mechanism (7) which is mounted to the exit end of a transport tube (11) for relative rotation about the transport tube (11) whereby a downwardly directed outlet nozzle (15) defined by the plaiting mechanism (7) reciprocates along a generally linear path of travel transverse to the transport tube (11) and such that the fabric (1) passing through the transport tube (11) will be deposited in a liquid treatment chamber (10) in overlying relatively straight folds in order to maximize capacity in the dyeing apparatus and to improve the stability of the fabric being treated therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 5, 1994
    Assignee: S. Sclayos S.A.
    Inventor: Aristides Georgantas
  • Patent number: 5243840
    Abstract: A textile treatment apparatus for an endless textile hank is comprised of a vessel having a dwell or treatment zone at a lower portion thereof and an upper acceleration or feed zone above said dwell zone. A blower assembly mounted in the roof the vessel above the acceleration zone advances the hank by subjecting said to a purely gaseous stream so as to remove the hank from the exit of the dwell zone and introduce it into the entrance of such zone. Treatment nozzles located at the entry to the dwell zone saturate the hank and aid in guiding it unimpeded into the dwell zone. The location of the blower assembly or assemblies at the upper extremity of the vessel facilitate servicing and minimize fluid introduction into the gaseous feed stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1993
    Assignee: H. Krantz GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Karl Grafen, Hans Kreitz
  • Patent number: 5239719
    Abstract: A method and apparatus operable on a jet dyeing or finishing machine having a treatment chamber, a lifter reel, and a jet nozzle for movement of a fabric rope through the chamber for wet treatment thereof. Such an apparatus includes a direct current motor for driving the lifter reel, a mechanism for periodically deactivating the lifter reel drive, a sensing component for sensing the electromotive force (EMF) generated by the direct current lifter reel motor during periods of deactivation, and appropriate circuitry for comparing the sensed EMF value with a predetermined threshold value and signaling an operator in the event that the sensed EMF value is below the predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1993
    Assignee: Gaston County Dyeing Machine Co.
    Inventor: Melvin L. Ware
  • Patent number: 5170523
    Abstract: Apparatus for wet processing fabric with fluid, which includes a primary container for containing and processing fabric, mechanism for partially flooding the primary container, and a counterflow recycling mechanism. The primary container includes a kier for wet processing fabric, a chamber disposed within the kier, for receiving fabric and fluid therein, the chamber having a plurality of perforation, wherein the mechanism for partially flooding the primary container includes a receptacle, disposed within the kier beneath the chamber, being positioned to collect fluid which passes through the perforations of the chamber. The receptacle is sized to surround the chamber so that the amount of fluid in the chamber is sufficient to permit the flow of fabric through the chamber and the amount of fluid in the kier outside the receptacle is sufficient to meet net pressure suction heat requirements of the pumping system employed by the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1992
    Assignee: Scholl America, Inc.
    Inventor: Marc D. Scholl
  • Patent number: 5129242
    Abstract: A wet processing jet machine for treating textile piece goods in rope form at a low liquid ratio. A plug supporting tube is provided as a vertical extension of a U-shaped processing chamber. The sides of the chamber are perforated and the bottom is imperforate for enhanced movement of the plug through the chamber. The tube extension is perforated to allow flow of liquid therefrom for enhanced plaiting. The amount of liquid with the rope in the plug is minimized for low liquid requirements and the head of the plug causes the plug to progress through the chamber above the low level of the liquid in the bottom of the vessel, which liquid level is below the bottom of the chamber or at least at a level that does not cause substantial floatation of the plug. The rope entering the tube is plaited by passing through an inverted frusto-conical plaiting nozzle that is oscillated and reciprocated to provide effective plaiting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1992
    Assignee: Gaston County Dyeing Machine Co.
    Inventors: William C. Sturkey, Charles R. Hornbuckle, Christoph W. Aurich, James K. Turner, Paul L. Abernathy
  • Patent number: 5077851
    Abstract: The procedure consists essentially of causing the corded fabric (4) to circulate in a continuous manner through a bath (3) of treatment liquid, and is characterized by the fact that the fabric (4) is subjected simultaneously to injection and spraying of the treatment bath liquid (3), by means of mixing air with the liquid, which separates into microparticles, the intake of the bath being effected from different points and at low pressure. The device comprises a substantially circular chamber (1), means (5) for the pulling of the fabric, with the fabric (4) circulating through a passageway defined between an outer plate (6) located next to the wall of the chamber (2) and an inner plate (7), and is characterized by the fact that it comprises a plurality of points (9, 10, 11, 12) of injection and spraying of the bath liquid along the entire run of the fabric (4) in the chamber (1). The plates (6, 7) form a spout (8) which facilitates the movement of the fabric ( 4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1992
    Inventor: Juan M. Guma
  • Patent number: 5014526
    Abstract: A textile wet processing machine of the type wherein an endless fabric rope is circulated in plug form through a U-shaped chamber having perforated side walls is equipped with an inner wall having lateral flanges for mounting by special fasteners in differing dispositions between the chamber side walls utilizing the existing perforations therein to selectively vary the cross-sectional size of the chamber to accommodate particular processing requirements of differing fabrics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1991
    Assignee: Gaston County Dyeing Machine Co.
    Inventors: George G. Hacker, James K. Turner, Paul L. Abernathy, Bobby G. Payne, Roy C. Killian, David G. Laws
  • Patent number: 5014525
    Abstract: This machine has a tunnel traversed axially by fabric rope, itself disposed inside a chamber supplied with pressurized air from an enclosure which is, disposed inside the machine and contains a centrifugal fan. The tunnel communicates with the chamber (12) through at least one opening which is inclined with respect to the axis of the tunnel in the direction of movement of the rope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1991
    Assignee: Madinox S.A.
    Inventor: Armand Bene
  • Patent number: 4981025
    Abstract: In a dye-bath machine, the fabric to be dyed passes in an endless loop through an overflow conduit and through a kier containing a liquid dye which is recirculated by a first pump from the kier to the upper end of the overflow conduit. The passage of the fabric through the overflow conduit is accelerated by the incorporation in the conduit of a venturi section through which dye from the bottom of the kier is pumped by a second pump, and in such manner as to accelerate the passage of the fabric through the conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 1, 1991
    Assignee: Brazzoli, S.p.A.
    Inventor: Gaimpietro Brazzoli
  • Patent number: 4936119
    Abstract: The venturi device is removably mounted within and concentrically of a venturi housing of the apparatus. It has a plurality of elongate fluid passageways located between the inner and outer cylindrical surfaces thereof, and extending substantially parallel to a central axis of the device and housing. The passageways are spaced from each other about the circumference of the venturi device, have fluid inlets their adjacent closed ends, and have open ends adjacent an outlet section of the device possessing a frusto-conical surface that extends at a preselected angle relative to the central axis and that directs streams of fluid discharged from the open ends of the passageways angularly toward the central axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 26, 1990
    Assignee: Texfi Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Jack E. Thompson
  • Patent number: 4903509
    Abstract: In industry there is, for economic reasons, an urgent need to be able to carry out the drying of moist textile material immediately after a completed wet-treatment in the same apparatus in which the preceding treatment operation was carried out.According to the invention the problems arising in the case of textile materials treated in rope form on jet units are solved by evaporatively dewatering the textile material in rope form by means of the gaseous agent which in the case of fabric-advancing jet systems operated by flowing liquor, steam or hot air takes over the transport of the goods immediately after the wet-treatment and which acts on the textile material under a predetermined variable superatmospheric pressure, then cooling the circulating drive gas to condense out the absorbed moisture, and recirculating the air thus dried.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 27, 1990
    Assignee: Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wilhelm Christ, Hans-Ulrich von der Eltz