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.

Abstract: An adapter for using a yarn package carrier in both vertically and horizontally oriented treatment vats includes a platform for supporting the yarn package carrier, an assembly for engagement of the adapter by a carrier transfer device and a fluid passageway arrangement formed in the platform for directing treatment fluid from the vertically oriented vat into the yarn package carrier.

Abstract: A horizontal package dyeing machine in which yarn packages are supported in carriers that have a base with tubular posts projecting therefrom for stacking yarn packages thereon and a wall secured to and extending upwardly from the periphery of the base to form an enclosure for confining treating liquid. The base is formed with two liquid distribution chambers, one being an upper chamber communicating with the interior of the posts and the other being a lower chamber communicating with the interior of the enclosure. The distribution chambers have open ends that can communicate with liquid supplying and withdrawing ducts of the machine for circulation of treating liquid within the carrier enclosure. The carriers are dimensioned for positioning two carriers in a vessel with the open ends of the distribution chambers in communication for flow of treating liquid therebetween.

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.

Abstract: Apparatus particularly adapted for applying foamed treating liquor to a flat width of a traveling non-woven textile substrate includes a longitudinal tubular foam distribution nozzle one side of which has a plurality of closely-spaced staggered apertures for engaging and applying pressurized foam widthwise across the substrate and a driven drum opposed to the nozzle engaging widthwise the opposite side of the substrate for imparting traveling movement to the substrate. The drum and nozzle cooperate to compress the substrate therebetween in covering relation over the apertures to prevent lateral escape of the foam therefrom and to confine the emission of foam therethrough, thereby to uniformly control foam application across the substrate width as it travels by the nozzle. Limited contact of the apparatus with the substrate prevents frictional pulling and structural damage thereto. The drum is perforated for escape of the air component of the foam and to enhance foam penetration of the substrate.

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.

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.

Abstract: A liquor applying nozzle has a hollow tubular frame surrounding the path of a textile rope circulating in a textile dyeing machine to provide an opening having an elongated, generally straight, transversely extending bottom, a transversely extending top surface spaced from the bottom, and a pair of spaced, upstanding, generally straight side surfaces. Dye liquor is distributed through the hollow interior of the frame to lower and upper orifices extending across the bottom and top surface of the frame. The nozzle further includes an enclosure portion extending downstream from the tubular frame and upper and lower plate-like members that extend in spaced relation to the enclosure portion and are adjustable with respect thereto to adjustably define the size of the orifices.

Abstract: Apparatus for wet treatment of cloth in endless rope form through a treating chamber in the presence of a treating liquid, with the cloth rope being circulated through a cloth return tube that communicates with the ends of the treating chamber. A front venturi introduces treating liquid into the cloth return tube to apply impetus to the cloth rope to draw it from the treating chamber and circulate it back through the cloth return tube into the other end of the treating chamber.

Abstract: Apparatus for wet processing traveling continuous-length textile material includes a narrow U-shaped container for processing liquid through which the material passes in a U-shaped path and an agitating assembly positioned in the container between the reaches of the material path for reciprocating movement parallel to the material. The agitating assembly includes a plurality of unequally spaced displacement members which extend across the width of the material and a substantial extent of the container transversely between the material reaches to define relatively narrow localized spacings between the displacement members and the container walls. Each reciprocal movement of the agitating assembly displaces a relatively large volume of the contained liquid forcing it to pass through the localized spacings at a relatively higher velocity than the actual movement of the agitating assembly, enhancing the liquid application to the material.

Abstract: Means for applying foamed treating liquor to a flat width traveling textile substrate using a cylindrical supporting member extending axially transversely across the width of the substrate and supporting a projecting applicator nozzle. A circumferentially extending distribution chamber is formed on the cylindrical supporting member by a cover plate mounted in spaced relation on the cylindrical supporting member by resilient side strips to which the cover plate is tightened circumferentially in sealing disposition. The distribution chamber diverges from an inlet port adjacent the nozzle circumferentially around a major extent of the cylindrical supporting member to the full width of the nozzle. End closures are slidably manipulated in the ends of the nozzle to limit the transverse extent of the nozzle opening in following relation to variations in the transverse positions of the edges of the traveling substrate in response to a sensing device.

Abstract: A variety of Kentucky bluegrass having a high level of disease resistance, good turf performance, and a very high level of seed yield potential.