Abstract: A device for finishing woven denim textiles is described which, proceeding from unfinished goods, is supposed to be brought to predetermined reference values for finished width, skew and woof thread density. The device is supposed to be designed for continuous operation for regulating all three reference values. According to the invention, a stretching device, such as a rack or a loop dryer, and a shrinkage system for continuous throughput of the woven denim textile, are arranged one after the other. Directly behind the stretching device, particularly, at the same time, behind the shrinkage system, a single measuring device, preferably as an optical detector having a digital camera, is provided. The measuring device is designed, at the same time, for detecting the actual values of finished width, skew and woof thread density, and is supposed to be connected, in control circuits, with devices for achieving the reference values.

Abstract: A method for dyeing a web of knitted fabric containing cellulose fibers is described. In order to achieve the result of being able to continuously dye the knitted goods containing cellulose fibers in the spread-out state, using a pad, as well as dry it in-line, in a subsequent dyeing hotflue, and fix the color, the knitted fabric is first caught along the longitudinal edges in continuously transporting stentering chains, and then transverse strips of glue are applied to the longitudinal edges, reinforcing the longitudinal edge regions, adjacent to the stentering chains. The glue is dried and subsequently the web that has been released from the stentering chains is passed continuously through the dyeing pad and the dyeing hotflue, spread out, fundamentally like a woven web of fabric.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for preparing textiles involving the drying and skewing of a textile web. To obviate the need for a separate skewing device, at least one group of control rolls of a hotflue that is used for drying, is mounted obliquely in relation to the central transport direction of the material web.

Abstract: A device for finishing woven denim textiles is described which, proceeding from unfinished goods, is supposed to be brought to predetermined reference values for finished width, skew and woof thread density. The device is supposed to be designed for continuous operation for regulating all three reference values. According to the invention, a stretching device, such as a rack or a loop dryer, and a shrinkage system for continuous throughput of the woven denim textile, are arranged one after the other. Directly behind the stretching device, particularly, at the same time, behind the shrinkage system, a single measuring device, preferably as an optical detector having a digital camera, is provided. The measuring device is designed, at the same time, for detecting the actual values of finished width, skew and woof thread density, and is supposed to be connected, in control circuits, with devices for achieving the reference values.

Abstract: A method for denim finishing, with desizing, bleaching, and/or dyeing of the goods is described. In order to move the desizing and/or bleaching into a treatment line through which the web of fabric passes continuously, ahead of the production of the clothing, the goods are treated in the moist, hot ambient air of a hot flue.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for plain dyeing a textile web of fabric by means of a padding mangle. The squeezing force distribution between the rollers of the padding mangles is controlled according to the dye distribution in the web of fabric which is still provided with the initial humidity on the output of the padding mangle, whereby the dye distribution is measured on certain points by means of a dye measuring appliance. Measuring the dye of the humid web of fabric is simplified and the measured result is improved when a dye receiver is used as the dye measuring device, whereby the receiver separately detects the radiation of a white light source according to pure dyes, the radiation being reflected on the web of fabric in a diffuse manner.

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: The invention relates to a method for plain dyeing a textile web of fabric by means of a padding mangle. The squeezing force distribution between the rollers of the padding mangles is controlled according to the dye distribution in the web of fabric which is still provided with the initial humidity on the output of the padding mangle, whereby said dye distribution is measured on certain points by means of a dye measuring appliance. Measuring the dye of the humid web of fabric is simplified and the measured result is improved when a dye receiver is used as the dye measuring device, whereby said receiver separately detects the radiation of a white light source according to pure dyes, said radiation being reflected on the web of fabric in a diffuse manner.

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: 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 method and apparatus is provided for controlling the distribution of color on a web of textile material in a textile dyeing process. The apparatus includes a color sensor for sensing a selected color characteristic of the textile web, such as, for example, the distribution of color, at a sensing location downstream of a nip device of a textile padding machine. The nip device removes excess dye liquor from the textile web to dispose the textile web at an initial moisture content as it exits the textile padding machine. The amount of the dye liquor removal through the nip operation is controlled in response to the color characteristic sensed by the color sensor so that the textile web is disposed at an initial moisture content upon exiting the textile padding machine which facilitates a desired color distribution when the textile web is subsequently dried.

Abstract: A method of cleaning residual dye material from rollers of a textile fabric drying oven during passage of a travelling cloth lead therethrough. The method involves applying a cleaning material to the travelling cloth lead in advance of the oven and rotating the rollers to be cleaned at a surface speed different from the surface speed of the cloth lead to cause a cleaning action of the cloth lead against the rollers. The change in roller speed can be accomplished progressively, either by acceleration or deceleration and can be accomplished on the rollers individually or in sets.

Abstract: Applying non-treating liquid to a traveling textile fabric substrate during temporary change-over discontinuance of treating liquor application in a textile treating and drying range with the non-treating liquid being applied in an amount sufficient to approximate the amount of treating liquor applied during normal operation of the range so as to allow the dryer to continue operating at substantially normal operating temperatures without damage to the fabric substrate. A non-treating liquid applicator is shifted between an inoperative position out of the path of the textile fabric substrate into an operative position in engagement with the substrate. The applicator includes a roller for arcuate engagement with the substrate and to which liquid is applied by spray and is uniformly distributed by a squeeze roll acting on a cover on the roller of material capable of retaining and transferring liquid onto the substrate.

Abstract: Applying evaporable finishing substances such as high-refinement media, dyes and optical brighteners, by evaporating the finishing substance and transferring to the textile material in the vapor phase via a line system. Smudging or smearing and re-evaporation of the vapor-deposited material in a continuously operating finishing system is avoided according to the invention by heating the textile material prior to the vapor deposition to a treatment temperature above the evaporation temperature and by using a finishing substance with a dew point in the finishing substance/transport mixture below the treatment temperature of the textile material.

Abstract: Method of continuously treating planar textile structures by applying thereto a treatment medium in the form of foam, which includes subsequently applying underpressure to the planar textile structures at a magnitude at which the foam is completely destroyed without any appreciable flow through the material of the planar textile structures.

Abstract: Method of continuously applying a foamed treatment medium to a planar textile structure which includes applying the foam directly to a planar follower guidable synchronously into areal contact with the planar textile structure, and transfering the foam from the planar follower into the planar textile structure by applying vacuum, and apparatus for carrying out the method.

Abstract: Continuous method for uniform foam treatment of planar textile structures wherein a foamed treatment medium for finishing and/or dyeing is applied to the planar structure which is then subjected to underpressure, which includes sucking the foam onto the planar structure to which the foam is to be applied, and introducing the foam together with the planar structure into an underpressure chamber wherein the pressure is low compared to the internal pressure of the bubbles of the foam.

Abstract: Method of producing an entrainer for squeezing or dyeing textile fabric webs with the aid of a foulard which includes inserting a spread-out endless textile web into an annular mold both the web and the annular mold having a periphery and a width corresponding to the periphery and width of the entrainer to be formed and thereafter filling the annular mold with a material that hardens to form a sponge; and endless entrainer produced by the foregoing method.

Abstract: Apparatus for continuously mechanically removing moisture from web-shaped porous material, includes a drum having a cylinder casing formed with holes therein, the drum being subjectible to negative pressure from within the cylinder casing, a cover layer of absorbent material formed with penetrating capillaries and uniformly disposed over the cylinder casing, means for guiding the web-shaped material about a part of the peripheral surface of the cylinder casing and the cover layer disposed thereon, whereby the moisture to be removed from the material is sucked through the holes and carried off with the aid of the negative pressure, an air-impermeable endless entrainer spaced from the cover layer and engageable with the web-shaped material guided about the part of the peripheral surface of the cylinder casing, for pressing the web-shaped material, in cooperation with the negative pressure from within the cylinder casing, against the cylinder casing covered by the cover layer of absorbent material.