Abstract: An apparatus for embossing and compacting a textile web has a calender with a body having a surface. An array of embossing formations project from the body surface and each have an outer face directed away from the body surface and formed as a narrow strip pressable into the web.

Abstract: A drum for forming relief patterns on a surface of a textile web has a tubular jacket rotatable about an axis and having a substantially cylindrical outer surface centered on the axis and formed with an array of raised portions separated by lands and with a multiplicity of radially throughgoing holes. The holes are elongated and extend at angles between 20° and 170° to midplanes extending perpendicular to the axis, the web engaging the drum. Liquid jets are directed radially inward at the web where it engages the drum for impressing the raised portions into a face of the web. Liquid is aspirated inward through the holes from the web where it engages the drum.

Abstract: A nozzle beam formed with an annular groove is fitted with a seal ring by an apparatus having an elongated support bar, a pair of holders fixed on the bar spaced apart sufficiently that the seal ring can be stretched between them, and a release element for pushing the seal ring off one of the holders.

Abstract: A suction apparatus for a water beam that directs a liquid jet at a passing a fabric web workpiece has a suction chamber extending transversely adjacent the jet and having a perforated lower wall sloping downward away from an upper region close to the water beam and a lower region remote therefrom. Air is withdrawn from inside the chamber to aspirate spray from adjacent the jet through the perforated lower wall.

Abstract: The aim of the invention is to subject a non-woven, which consists, at least in part, of metal fibers, to a stitch-bonding or surface finishing by means of hydrodynamic needling. The respective material web can be produced exclusively from metal fibers but can also be produced from a blend consisting of metal fibers and textile fibers. The hydrodynamic water pressure during needling depends on the desired pore volume after stitch-bonding.

Abstract: A device for the hydrodynamic treatment of a fabric, or also a knitted fabric, of a certain width, with a jet bar and a jet strip arranged in it with a multitude of orifices arranged closely adjacent to each other for the formation of a water curtain during the passage of hard water jets that are directed at the threads and their crossing points of the fabric, or such, is already known. According to the invention it is now provided that for the shifting, spreading, evening out, and, if necessary, also for the splitting of the fibers of the threads, the jet bar is aligned at an even distance across its length, but laterally to the longitudinal direction of the product web, and across its entire effective width, and that additionally all jet orifices of the jet strip are directed not perpendicularly, but at an angle lateral to, and therefore the water jets also being lateral to, the product web.

Abstract: Water needling is used to constantly subject the entire surface of a width of a goods line to water jets. However, it is also advantageous for units of commodity goods that are to be consolidated and optionally, if a cover nonwoven supporting these goods only needs to be consolidated around them or if a cover nonwoven is to be bonded around the goods. All possible patterns, such as line or strip consolidation, are advantageous. This is made possible by the invention, which provides for measures which specifically control, e.g. partially impede and/or interrupt the flow of the water jets from a water beam. This can occur by means of cover panels which advance with the line, supported by a screen or by means of a screen alone. Individually movable, computer-controlled nozzles are also advantageous for partial consolidation.