Abstract: An apparatus for low-temperature plasma treatment of a sheet material, comprising a plurality of reaction zones through which the sheet material is transported in an enclosed reaction chamber whose inner pressure can be reduced, in which the reaction zones are provided respectively with an electrode communicating to a high frequency generating device and a plurality of jet nozzles for supplying a gas thereto for generating low-temperature plasma gas, and the reaction chamber and the reaction zones are earthed. Another apparatus for the same purpose is to provide a liquid medium passage passing through the guide rolls for transporting a sheet material to be treated and through the electrodes under reduced pressure for heating or cooling the sheet material under treatment to a prescribed temperature.

Abstract: For the treatment of waste water in the liquid treatment of a textile material, air bubbles are generated in water containing floating impurities stored tentatively in a waste water tank so as to adhere the impurities on the surface of the air bubbles, adhering the impurities together with air bubbles on the surface of a filter comprising a mesh belt or a mesh drum by pulling up the filter successively, and removing the impurities from the filter thus pulled up due to the effect of vacuum suction, and an apparatus therefor. The impurities remaining still on the surface of the filter may further be removed therefrom by washing the filter with the aid of water and air jets.

Abstract: A cylinder drying machine including a plurality of reflecting members arranged in opposition to at least the cloth-contacting surface of each of thermal cylinders, the reflecting members being disposed separately over the cloth-contacting surface of a thermal cylinder so that the distance between the front end portion of each of the reflecting members and the thermal cylinder is shorter than that between the rear end portion thereof and the thermal cylinder with the outer surface of the front end portion of one of two adjacent reflecting members opposed via a clearance to the inner surface of the rear end portion of the other.

Abstract: An apparatus for continuous wet heat treatment of a cloth, comprising a water tank for applying high temperature hot water to a cloth soaked with a treating solution so as to swell the cloth, and a tenter for transporting the thus swelled cloth while giving tension in the width direction of the cloth, and providing three groups of jet nozzles for jetting, respectively, a high temperature and high humidity hot fluid, hot blast and cold blast in succession along the direction of transporting the cloth by means of the tenter.

Abstract: A method for continuous liquid treatment of a cloth comprising transporting a cloth soaked with a treating solution continuously under width expansion by the use of a tenter while subjecting the cloth successively to wet heat treatment by jetting high temperature hot water thereto and drying the resultant cloth by jetting hot blast thereto. Under certain circumstances, it is preferably to swell the cloth by applying high temperature hot water thereto after the cloth is soaked with the treating solution for expanding width of the cloth and/or to dry the cloth tentatively before the wet heat treatment thereof for preventing the peeling off of the treating agent applied to the cloth.

Abstract: A wet heat treating apparatus of a long cloth for performing dyeing and washing in combination comprising a wet heat treating chamber provided with a cloth inlet and a cloth outlet at the bottom thereof, a ceiling with an acute-angled shape, liquid supply means for supplying a high pressure hot liquid to the cloth in the interior of the chamber, a pair of right and left guide roll groups arranged in up and down directions, a group of intermediate guide rolls positioned nearly at the middle of the right and left guide rolls, a transfer mechanism for moving the intermediate guide rolls to the direction of the right and left guide roll groups, and a doorway for an operator to go into and out of the chamber when cleaning the guide rolls. The cleaning of the guide rolls in the wet heat treating chamber can easily and surely be done, and therefore the dyeing and washing of a cloth can be done in combination with the use of a single apparatus satisfactorily.

Abstract: An electrode plate for generating low temperature plasma comprising a plurality of long electrode plate members with the same form, a plurality of cooling water passages, which serve simultaneously as support members, for connecting each pair of the adjacent electrode plate members respectively along their longitudinal direction with a cooling water passage therebetween so as to arrange the adjacent electrode plate members alternately up and down in parallel with no formation of a projection, and cooling water communicating pipes provided outside the electrode plate members.By arranging a pair of the present inventive electrode plates up and down in parallel and supplying high frequency electric current thereto, low temperature plasma can be generated uniformly and effectively all over the electrode plates.

Abstract: An apparatus for the automatic concentration control of an aqueous caustic soda solution in a cloth treating tank through which a cloth to be treated is continuously transported, comprising the provision of a means for adding a neutralization agent to a sample of the caustic soda solution which was squeezed out of a cloth that had been soaked with an aqueous caustic soda solution while in a cloth treating tank; a sensor for detecting the neutralization point of said caustic soda sample solution, to which the neutralization agent is added on the basis of electrical conductivity; a means for detecting the caustic soda concentration of said caustic soda sample solution prior to the addition of the neutralization agent on the basis of the amount of the neutralization agent added until said caustic soda sample solution becomes neutralized as detected by means of said sensor; and a means for supplying a supplementary caustic soda solution to the caustic soda solution in said cloth treating tank so that its concentr

Abstract: A singeing apparatus comprises a guide drum for guiding a cloth to be singed and a singeing gas burner which blows flame against the cloth guided by the guide drum and is located opposite the guide drum. A structure is provided so that warm water can be made to flow in the guide drum and the temperature at a surface of the guide drum is maintained at the dew-point temperature of ambient air.

Abstract: An apparatus for applying a treating solution to a cloth during the continuous treatment thereof, comprising: a cloth guide drum for transporting and guiding a cloth to be treated; a movable treating solution tank provided in close proximity to the circumference of the lower half of the cloth guide drum thus forming a cloth passage of a narrow width therebetween; a cylinder for raising and lowering of the movable treating solution tank; a treating solution supply pipe for supplying a treating solution continuously to the cloth passage; and wash-water jet nozzles for propelling wash water to the inner surface of the movable treating solution tank, the surface of the cloth guide drum, etc.; and its modifications. The operation of exchanging the treating solutions during the continuous treatment of a cloth can be done in a rapid and effective manner with a minimum loss of the treating solution.

Abstract: An apparatus for the continuous wet-heat treatment of a cloth. The apparatus includes a steamer body provided with a plurality of guide rollers for continuous transportation of the cloth to be treated therethrough with formation of up and down snake-like undulations, a plurality of water-receiving tanks for immersing the cloth repeatedly in high temperature water stored therein, and a plurality of cloth-widening rollers floating on the water's surface of the water-receiving tanks and in contact with the cloth for the purpose of increasing its width direction and thereby preventing the formation of curled selvages and creases.

Abstract: An apparatus for continuous liquid treatment of a cloth comprising a treating solution soaking tank (A) provided at a position adjacent to a cloth inlet of a steamer body (B), through which a cloth 2 to be treated is continuously transported for wet-heat treatment, said treating solution soaking tank (A) including:a fixed tank 5 fitted with a cloth guide roll 7;a movable tank 4 having a wall surface adjacent to the wall surface of the fixed tank 5 for forming a cloth passage 6 of a cloth to be treated therebetween;a cylinder 13 for turning the movable tank 4;treating solution supply pipes 8 for supplying a treating solution successively to the cloth passage 6; andwashing showers 12 for jetting washing water to the cloth passage 6. The exchange of a treating solution in the treating solution soaking tank can be done speedily and effectively with no need of interrupting the transportation of the cloth prior to the wet-heat treatment of the cloth in the steamer body.

Abstract: A method for setting and pretreating a cloth by a continuous process which comprises supplying a long cloth soaked with a treating solution continuously into a steamer body by piling up several sheets one on top of the other, separating these sheets, and then steaming each cloth while applying a high temperature treating solution thereto and widening the sheets for setting the cloth. Then the cloth is steamed by piling up the sheets once again during application of the high temperature treating solution still further thereto for pretreatment of the cloth. Then with the use of washing water, the cloth is washed and then finally taken out of the steamer body. A long cloth can effectively and economically be set and pretreated while sparing heat energy and water resource.

Abstract: An apparatus for low-temperature plasma treatment of a textile product such as a cloth comprising transporting a textile product to be treated through a reaction chamber, in which low-temperature plasma is produced in situ by applying high frequency electric wave to electrodes provided in the chamber uniformly without stay, for subjecting the textile product to low-temperature plasma treatment uniformly.

Abstract: An automatic pressure control apparatus for an end-face seal plate in a seal mechanism of a high pressure steamer for wet-heat treatment of a textile product comprising; a seal mechanism having a pair of seal rubber rolls located above a hole in the high pressure steamer body, through which the cloth is passed for the purpose of sealing said hole, a seal block for supporting the seal rubber rolls which are freely rotatable, an end-face seal plate supported by the seal block, in pressure contact with the seal rubber rolls and the end face of the seal block so as to be freely slidable in the axial direction of the seal rubber rolls, an end-face seal plate support fitting for support of the end-face seal plate, a pressure control screw supported by means of a support fitting fixed to the seal block so as to be freely slidable in the axial direction of the seal rubber rolls, and a press-down plate movable in the axial direction of the seal rubber rolls by means of the pressure control screw, a pressure detector p

Abstract: A high temperature hot liquid jet nozzle comprising a cylindrical liquid supply tube having a slit along its generating line and a steam jet pipe provided coaxially within the liquid supply tube forming a narrow gap therebetween to serve as a liquid passage and having a steam jet opening positioned in the slit. By supplying high temperature and pressure steam into the steam jet pipe, a treating liquid in the liquid supply tube is heated nearly to the temperature of the steam and thus heated treating liquid in the liquid supply tube is blown through the slit of the liquid supply tube together with steam jetted through the steam jet opening of the steam jet pipe to a cloth to be treated.

Abstract: A method for continuous wet-heat treatment of a cloth comprising transporting a cloth continuously through a wet-heat treatment chamber under the ordinary pressure heating the cloth with the use of a heating fluid passing through a plurality of heating pipes provided closely along the cloth passage while applying to the cloth a high temperature treating liquid oozed or squeezed out of a plurality of liquid apply pipes in contact with the cloth; and an apparatus therefor.

Abstract: A high pressure steamer for continuous wet-heat treatment of a cloth has an inlet and an outlet for taking a cloth continuously in and out of the steamer body. The cloth inlet has an inlet side seal mechanism provided with a liquid seal tank and the cloth outlet has an outlet side seal mechanism provided with a slow cooling tank. A plurality of liquid application tanks and prewashing tanks are provided in the steamer for boiling the cloth passing through the steamer intermittently and repeatedly. A filter is provided for cleansing waste water exhausted from the slow cooling tank. A heat exchanger is provided for heating cleansed water by the use of high temperature waste liquor from the prewashing tank, and conduits supply the heated water to the liquid application tanks and prewashing tanks.

Abstract: A method for continuous bleaching of a cloth in a high pressure steamer with use of hydrogen peroxide, comprising soaking a cloth to be bleached with a neutral or slightly alkaline hydrogen peroxide solution outside the high pressure steamer body, squeezing the cloth, introducing the resultant cloth continuously in the steamer body maintained with wet-heat at a temperature above 100.degree. C., and wet-heat treating the cloth therein while maintaining the total water content of the cloth to not less than 170% by applying hot water repeatedly to the cloth by using liquid apply means provided in the steamer body. A cotton cloth can uniformly and eminently be bleached in a short time continuously.

Abstract: A method for the continuous treatment of a cloth using a low-temperature plasma, wherein a cloth is dried by heating the cloth in a reduced pressure chamber, and the cloth is then transported through a low-temperature plasma atmosphere in a low-temperature plasma treating chamber without exposing the cloth to the atmosphere under ordinary pressure. An apparatus for carrying out the process is also disclosed. The cloth can further be subjected to the low-temperature plasma polymerization treatment in another reduced pressure chamber.