Abstract: Mercerisation plant for tubular fabrics comprising a tank for impregnating a tubular fabric with caustic soda, a station for stretching the impregnated fabric and for washing and rinsing the impregnated stretched fabric. The fabric is stretched in a station comprising at least one support structure of tower shape, members for feeding the fabric through the tower structure, at least one pair of expanding vertical rod elements for the fabric arranged inside thereof and support members engaging the expanding rod elements and adapted to enable these elements to approach or withdraw from each other to adjust the tension or stretching of the fabric in the direction of its width.

Abstract: A full-width scouring station particularly for delicate printed fabrics is described which comprises, within an outer housing, a tank containing a scouring liquid, at least one rotating drum, and a plurality of spray nozzles located above said drum and adapted to direct scouring liquid jets on a fabric resting on the drum, pumping means for supplying the scouring liquid to the spray nozzles and a drive means for rotating the drum.

Abstract: Motorized expander comprising on a single driven shaft at least two cylinders rigid with the shaft at its ends, a central cylinder idly mounted between the cylinders and separated from them by free spaces, and at least one clutch member for transmitting rotary motion to the central cylinder situated in one of the free spaces. The central cylinder is provided on its surface with a pair of opposite handed spirals, and each of the two cylinders comprises a spiral opposite handed to that of the adjacent spiral of the central cylinder. The spirals are arranged together to define a stretching device for one or more fabrics of normal width when the central cylinder rotates rigidly with the shaft, or a stretching device for a fabric of double or multiple width when the central cylinder is provided with motion relative to the shaft.