Abstract: Process and apparatus for the pattern dyeing of moving pile fabrics such as carpets, by the application of plural, continuously flowing dye streams, wherein the dyes are applied in multiple discrete small increments from the streams and control means are provided for accurately positioning the points of application of the dye increments in the pile fabrics to obtain sharp, detailed intricate patterns.

Abstract: A process for printing porous textile materials, such as pile fabrics, and the resultant products, wherein the poorly defined boundaries between adjacent dissimilarly colored surface areas of the material are subsequently overprinted with a color which is retained adjacent the surface of the textile material to overlie and hide the poorly defined boundary, thus providing a more sharply defined pattern in the textile material.

Abstract: Continuous process for the optical brightening and printing of organic fiber material, wherein the material is dry cleaned and at least one optical brightener applied from an organic liquor, the said material being then intermediately dried, printed, and subsequently finished by a heat treatment.

Abstract: In a process for dyeing a plush fabric having a long pile the dye is applied to the back of the fabric. The process is suitable for the production of imitation fur, in particular imitations of lynx and chinchilla furs.

Abstract: A continuous process for the production of blends of fibers having two or more different colors which comprises passing a plurality of fiber slivers or strands of desired length together in mutually parallel relationship through at least one pair of printing rolls, and imprinting the fiber slivers or strands in one operating stage with different colorants in varying thicknesses and amounts, based on a unit length or unit area of said fiber slivers or strands.

Abstract: The dyeing and finishing of textured textile webs made of synthetic fibers is carried out by immersing the web in a hot dye solution, moving the web and solution in the same direction and at the same speed whereby a constant amount of dye liquid is applied to each unit length of web, the web floating in the liquid in tension-free state, the weight ratio of liquid to web being in the range 10:1 to 50:1, and then subjecting the web to a finishing treatment.

Abstract: The method for the random dyeing of yarn in which yarn slivers are laid in a tensionless zig-zag formation onto a travelling stenter pin chain conveyor, applying longitudinal rows of stitching or tape to anchor the yarn slivers in position and to take the tension of feeding the yarn slivers through rollers which apply dye liquor of differing colours or shades in longitudinal stripes and fixing, washing and drying and heat setting the slivers and finally rewinding the individual yarn slivers onto separate yarn packages to produce yarn randomly dyed throughout its length.

Abstract: The opposite surfaces of a cloth are dyed with different dyes having different color tones, respectively. At least one of the opposite surfaces of the cloth is dyed by printing in a fine spot pattern and assumes a mixed multicolor fine spot dyed pattern in cooperation with the dyed color at the other surface which is penetrated or seen through the cloth.

Abstract: A carpet material is printed with a decorative pattern. The ink formulation used for printing will for some portions of the pattern contain a solvent for the fiber of the carpet. The carpet is passed through a series of printing stages all prior to the time the carpet is steamed. After all printing is done, the carpet is steamed once. This causes the fibers which have been printed with a solvent to shrink and/or dissolve to produce an embossed effect. The other printed areas will have the dye in the ink set in the carpet. The carpet is then washed and dried. There is produced a carpet having an embossed pattern effect with a natural fibrous appearance in the embossed areas.

Abstract: A method and means for multi-color dyeing textile yarn wherein yarn is present in perforate cylindrical cans for dyeing, with the yarn being in a maze of tortuously extending coils progressing axially within the can as occurs when yarn is collected in an upright can from a crimping or bulking operation. The cans are first positioned on movable J-shaped cradles with their cylindrical axes horizontal and are then immersed sequentially in a plurality of dye baths in which the cans are only partially immersed. Between immersions in sequential dye baths the cans are reoriented by rotating them about their cylindrical horizontal axes to cause dyeing of at least partially different portions of the maze of yarn in the cans in the different dye baths so that the resulting yarn strand, which extends randomly in the maze throughout differently dyed portions, will be unpredictably randomly dyed in different colors and lengths of color.