Abstract: A press for squeezing out batch material, especially laundry, with an elastic pressure member which can be charged with a pressure medium, in a housing, and a conveyor belt for conveying the batch material from a loading station to a pressing station below the said pressure member, and to a discharge station after the squeezing is disclosed.

Abstract: Process and apparatus for the continuous, tensionless treatment of textile material lengths and similar web-shaped flat materials wherein the material is conveyed in gathered form to at least one treatment zone of a material treating unit. A fluid stream impinges intermittently from below upon the length of material approximately at right angles to the conveying direction thereby straightening and compressing the material by an alternating lifting and falling of the material. An air permeable conveyor belt may be employed to convey the length of material through the treating units or a number of spaced individual rollers may be provided in the treating unit with the material forming a loop between adjacent rollers which loop is acted upon by the stream of fluid. A sensor arrangement is provided for determining and controlling the length of the loop so as to maintain such length within predetermined limits.