Abstract: The invention relates to a method for compressive shrinking a textile web of material (9) with the aid of a rubber blanket shrinking system, wherein the rubber blanket (3) is cooled after the main cylinder is discharged.

Abstract: A stentering machine having a horizontal drying zone and a vertical pretreatment zone for a web of material spread out between stentering chains is described. The stentering chains are brought from the vertical position into a horizontal position in a deflection zone. In order to achieve the result, in the case of a stentering chain with deflection about axes that stand vertical to the surface of the web of material, that the chain can be guided through the deflection zone with tilting of the linking pins, without damage to the pin bearings, the deflection pins are configured to be crowned elements. The deflection bolt bearings are shaped to correspond to the crowning of the pins.

Abstract: A stentering machine having a horizontal drying zone and a vertical pretreatment zone for a strip of material held spread out between tension chains configured as slide chains is described. The tension chains are brought from the vertical into the horizontal position in a deflection zone. In order to achieve the result that the slide pads that carry the tension chain, in each instance, make area contact with the related support guideways both in the horizontal, level region and in the curved region of the guide rails, the slide surfaces of the supporting slide pads that are affixed to the chain are divided into three consecutive zones, in the transport direction, namely a level edge zone, a curved center zone, and a second level edge zone.

Abstract: A stentering machine having a drying zone and a pretreatment zone for coating a web of material on both sides and drying it is described. One aim consists of deflecting a web of material coated in the vertical position and stretched out in width, in order to introduce it into a conventional flat tenter frame, without damaging the coating. According to the invention, the web of material is needled into a pair of stentering chains having a predetermined chain pitch, and deflected from the vertical into the horizontal position on such a large arc that the difference between the sum of the chain pitches that form the arc chords and the arc length itself becomes small enough to be ignored.

Abstract: A roller chain for moving a web of textile material in a tenter frame. The roller chain has inner members flexibly joined to outer members in an alternating manner with a sleeve and a bolt. A running roller having an inner ring; an outer ring and sealing rings forming a ball bearing assembly is mounted on the sleeve. The sealing rings substantially seal ball bearings enclosed in the running roller. The sealing ring has a spacing element consisting of individual metallic inserts distributed approximately equally around a circumference of the sealing ring. The spacing element transmits axial force applied to an inner tab of an inner member to an inner ring of the running roller. The sealing ring has a lubrication groove formed thereon in fluid communication with a lubrication hole on a sleeve and a lubrication channel in an interior of the bolt for lubricating the ball bearing.

Abstract: A method for monitoring the removal of a selvedge cut off from the edge of a textile fabric web, at the exit from a stretcher frame has means for removing, particularly vacuuming away, the cut-off selvedge and means for monitoring the removal. In order to prevent the possibility that the selvedge is drawn back into the machine counter to the vacuum direction, the selvedge is passed over an easily moved wheel, in such a manner that the wheel is necessarily entrained by the transported selvedge. The direction of rotation of the wheel is detected.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparative and reactive dyeing of cellulose material. In order to shorten the process time of conventional preparing agents and continuous operation, to make superfluous neutralizing agents for removing excess peroxy compounds as well as to reduce the mechanical equipment required vis-à-vis prior art and to reduce the use of chemical agents, the cellulose material soaked with the treatment liquor is continuously dried with pulsated air at approximately the same disintegration rate as the peroxy compounds thus used. Alkali remaining in the material from pretreatment which remained in the material is used for dyefixing said material.

Abstract: A relaxation dryer for the stress-free drying and simultaneous relaxing shrinking of a web of textile material. The material web is guided along a sinusoidal course in the relaxation channel between two air-permeable transport belts by alternately blowing the web from the top and from the bottom. In order to exert on the web an additional tumble effect, the sinusoidal curve of the web is disturbed at preset intervals by air-impermeable strips provided in one and/or the other transport belt.

Abstract: Described is a drying and/or fixing device for blowing at a textile material web, which is transported in its longitudinal direction in the broad-stretched condition through at least one treatment field and blown at there from blowboxes with a treatment gas. In order to assure that the treatment gas flowing off from the material web--viewed over the width of the material web--is discharged everywhere with the same suction pull, provision is made with the help of flow guide means associated with the back sides of the blowboxes that the treatment gas flowing back upon treatment of the material web can only flow off tangentially on the longitudinal edges of the treatment field corresponding with the edges of the material web.

Abstract: The invention relates to a stenter for a textile material web with two chain conveyors mounted to be pivotable in a scissor-like manner in the feeding section of the machine. The chains extend in the chain conveyors and have gripping means for grasping the material web edges. The free wings or webs of the pivotable chain conveyors are mounted to be movable on a horizontal support by carrier wheels. At least one carrier wheel is in the form of a driven friction wheel, and a drive motor is directly associated with the carrier wheel.

Abstract: A device is provided by the invention, with which it is possible to execute a method for the dye fixation in reactive dyeing of cellulose goods or cellulose fibers of all types in a dye liquor containing auxiliaries for binding the reactive dye to the cellulose fibers, wherein in an air dryer the cellulose goods which are padded with the dye liquor can be subjected to a retentive treatment of predetermined length with a predetermined steam content of the air in the drying chamber. In the device the residual moisture of the cellulose goods is maintained at a value as far as the outlet of the chamber in which the reaction of the dyestuff with cellulose fibers takes place. A defined steam content of the chamber air can simultaneously be continuously--even with light goods--regulated independently of the weight of the goods, i.e. also independently of the amount of water brought into the dryer with the goods.

Abstract: An apparatus for blowing air at a spread-out length of textile fabric being transported onward can be reduced in its dimensions and at the same time made more favorable from an energy standpoint during operation if the blow-out nozzles are embodied as injector nozzles. The injector nozzles can be flexibly adapted, in terms of their distribution in three dimensions, to the width of the length of fabric.

Abstract: An apparatus for applying treating liquor to a traveling textile web having a vat containing treating liquor and a plurality of web guiding rolls submerged in the treating liquor and arranged in a substantially vertical sequence with adjacent rolls being in contact to form nips therebetween. The upper rolls are supported in the vat for resting under their own weight on the lower roll to apply pressure at the nips on the textile web. A drive motor drives at least one of the rolls with the other rolls being driven by surface contact with the drive roll for positive feed of the traveling web at a uniform surface speed through the treating liquor. Guide rolls guide the textile web to the vat at substantially the same surface speed as that of the plurality of rolls. A pair of driven squeeze rolls above the treating liquor form a nip through which the textile web is guided as it travels from the treating liquor, with squeeze rolls being driven at substantially the same surface speed as the guide rolls.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for supporting a traveling web of knit fabric. The apparatus includes an uneven number of intermediate support rollers for supporting the knit fabric web as it travels between a padding device and a take up roll. The knit web fabric passes through a pair of squeeze rollers following pad dyeing thereof at the padding device and travels in trained relation in serpentine manner about the intermediate support rollers between the pair of squeeze rollers and the take up roll. In addition to supporting the knit fabric web to prevent undesired stretching or elongation of the still damp web as it travels from the padding device, the apparatus insures that the knit fabric web is disposed on the take up roll in such a manner that the edges, to the extent they are susceptible to curling, tend to curl in a radially inward direction with respect to the take up roll, whereby succeeding lengths of the knit fabric web taken up on the take up roll compress and straighten the curling edges.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for monitoring the application of dye to a traveling web of textile material. The apparatus includes a color characteristic detecting assembly which is movable between an initial detecting position in which it detects a color characteristic of the textile material web shortly after the web has emerged from a dye liquor bath and a post-drying detecting position in which it detects a color characteristic of the textile material web after the web has been handled in a drying device. The post-drying detection of the textile material web enables the apparatus to detect an out-of-limits color characteristic situation which may not appear or be detectable until after the web has been subjected to the drying process. The color characteristic detecting assembly is connected to a control unit which controls the nip pressure of a pair of nip rollers which remove excess moisture from the textile material web.

Abstract: A bushing liner is provided for a bushing of an endless chain of a textile machine traveling web transport assembly of the type which supports a web in tension during transport of the web through a textile handling process such as, for example, a web drying process. The endless chain includes a plurality of links, each respective adjacent pair of the links being interconnected to one another by a pin and each pin being rotatably supported by a bushing mounted to one of the links. The bushing liner of the present invention is disposed intermediate a bushing and its associated pin and includes first and second circumferential ends normally angularly spaced from one another by a slot. The slot extends from one axial end to the other of the bushing liner and permits angular movement of the first and second circumferential ends toward and away from one another to thereby permit the bushing liner to accommodate internal and external forces exerted thereon.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for handling the exhaust products produced during a treatment process in which treatment fluid is applied to a length of material. Several types of machines used in the textile industry and in the paper industry are operable to apply treatment fluid to a length of material in a treatment process during which exhaust products are created and some of the exhaust products comprise pollutants while other exhaust products are substantially pollutant-free. The present invention provides an exhaust products handling apparatus including an exhaust manifold connected to all the treatment zones of a treatment fluid applying machine, a discharge assembly connected to the exhaust manifold for drawing exhaust products away from the treatment zones, and a selective communicating device for selectively communicating the discharge assembly through the exhaust manifold, with a respective one of at least two different groups of treatment zones.

Abstract: A textile drying machine includes upper and lower distribution housings for applying streams of drying fluid to a traveling web of textile material from above and below the traveling web. The pair of distribution housings are each mounted to the floor on the same lateral side of the traveling web at a lateral spacing from one another and each provides a distribution opening which extends over the entire extent of the traveling web being treated. Each distribution housing includes an intake conduit for the intake of exhaust drying fluid which has been subjected to a heat exchange operation in which the heat content of the drying fluid is restored.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for converting heat energy of hot exhaust gases from a treatment chamber of a textile machine into electrical energy is provided. Hot gases exhausted from a treatment chamber of a textile machine of the type which uses heated gases such as, for example, heated air, are conducted to the compressor, combustion chamber and gas turbine assembly of an electric generator for driving of the electric generator. The exhaust gases can thereafter be conducted to a heat exchanger for releasing heat to be returned to the textile machine for use in its operation.

Abstract: A traveling web transport assembly for transporting a web of textile material includes an endless chain having a plurality of web engaging members which engage one edge portion of the textile material web. The endless chain is formed with a plurality of cylindrical hub members each receiving a pin member therethrough. Each pin member is connected to an adjacent pin member by a pin link component and each hub member is connected to an adjacent hub member by a hub link component, the pin link components and the hub link components being arranged in alternating manner. A guide roller assembly mounted on each hub member includes an outer roller element rotatably supported on a ball bearing assembly. A lubrication conduit component includes a throughbore formed in a selected one of the hub and pin link components associated with each respective hub member and opening into the ball bearing assembly for introducing lubricant to the ball bearing assembly.