Abstract: A method for desizing, scouring and bleaching a textile product, in which a natural cellulose-type textile product is soaked with a neutral aqueous hydrogen peroxide solution, steamed in a saturated water vapor atmosphere at 120.degree. C. to 160.degree. C., soaked immediately with a hot caustic soda solution without cooling and washing under the same saturated water vapor, and steamed again in a saturated water vapor atmosphere at 120.degree. C. to 160.degree. C.

Abstract: A method for continuous wet-heat treatment of a cloth, comprising applying a treating liquid such as a treating solution and/or water superheated to a temperature higher than 100.degree. C., which is oozing out of a plurality of liquid applying rollers, to a cloth running continuously through a non-tightly sealed wet-heat treating chamber for soaking the cloth with the treating liquid up to the core part thereof with the use of a limited amount of the liquid, the said liquid applying rollers being provided with numerous irregular, curved and bent communicating pores all over its periphery; and an apparatus therefor.

Abstract: An apparatus for wet-heat treating a cloth continuously, comprising a high temperature liquid generating chamber maintained at a constant high temperature and pressure by supplying high temperature and pressure steam therein and provided with a treating solution heating pipe and a water heating pipe, and a wet-heat chamber provided with a plurality of guide rollers for transporting a cloth to be treated zigzag forming snaky undulations through the chamber and a plurality of nozzle pairs respectively arranged adjacent to both sides of the cloth and communicating to the treating solution heating pipe and/or the water heating pipe.

Abstract: An apparatus for wet-heat treating a cloth in a high pressure steamer provided with an inlet side seal mechanism having a liquid seal tank and an outlet side seal mechanism having a slow cooling tank, comprising a plurality of liquid apply tanks provided along a cloth passage for transporting a cloth continuously in the steamer body, in such a manner that either a treating solution or hot water is applied to the cloth selectively and repeatedly from the liquid seal tank or the slow cooling tank with the aid of liquid apply pipes having a valve respectively. Treatment of a long cloth such as pretreatment including desizing, bleaching and scouring as well as dyeing can be done speedily, effectively and eminently.

Abstract: An apparatus for treating a textile product with the use of low-temperature plasma includes a reactor, and an arrangement for transporting a textile product to be treated, located within the reactor and arranged to move the textile product between taking-up shafts. The textile product is passed through a passage in the reactor formed between a pair of electrode plates. A mechanism maintains a vacuum in the interior of the reactor, and gas is supplied into the reactor between the electrode plates. The electrode plates are connected to produce a low-temperature plasma therebetween. The textile product such as a cloth, string or yarn can be treated effectively using only small amounts of heat energy and water resource.

Abstract: An apparatus for wet heat treating a cloth continuously in a high pressure steamer provided with a plurality of guide rolls alternately disposed in upper and lower positions for transporting a cloth to be treated in a zigzag path through the steamer body, comprising providing a liquid seal tank in an inlet side seal mechanism of the steamer body for applying a treating solution to the cloth initially and a plurality of treating solution applying tanks having different heights positioned below the liquid seal tank and immersing respectively one of the lower guide rolls therein for applying the treating solution to the cloth after the initial application, and repeatedly while the cloth is wet heat treated. The bottoms of the liquid seal tank and the treating solution applying tanks are connected to the lower tanks by means of liquid pipes, and a slow cooling tank is provided in an outlet side seal mechanism of the steamer body for cooling the cloth slowly with water.

Abstract: A method for reforming a cellulose fiber cloth comprising applying an aqueous solution of a monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbon dissolved in a water soluble organic solvent to a cellulose fiber cloth and soaking the resultant cloth in a non-dried state with a concentrated sulfuric acid solution.

Abstract: A method 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, and an apparatus therefor.

Abstract: An apparatus for treating a textile product continuously with the use of low-temperature plasma comprising; a reactor provided with a seal mechanism for maintaining vacuum therein while allowing a textile product to pass therethrough continuously into and out of the reactor, a plurality of guide rolls provided in the reactor for forming a passage for transporting the textile product in zigzag forming snaky undulations therethrough, and a plurality of pairs of electrode plates spacedly provided in the reactor with the textile product passage located therebetween, a plurality of gas nozzles for supplying a gas for producing low-temperature plasma to the gaps between the electrode plates, a vacuum mechanism for producing vacuum in the interior of the reactor, and means for supplying a high frequency electric wave to the electrode plates to produce low-temperature plasma therebetween.

Abstract: An apparatus for continuous dehydration of a cloth comprising two pairs of rubber rolls with the rolls of each pair pressed against one another, a cylindrical seal plate which is positioned between the two pairs of the rubber rolls in pressure contact with each of the rubber rolls and provided with a pair of axially extending slits opening in the direction toward each of the contact surfaces of the pairs of the rubber rolls, and an end plane seal plate blocking the both end openings of the seal plate and contact with the end plane of each of the rubber rolls so as to form a closed chamber intercepting the interior of the cylindrical seal plate from the exterior thereof.

Abstract: An apparatus for treating a cloth continuously with the use of low-temperature plasma comprising a reactor provided with seal mechanisms, a plurality of cloth guide rolls provided up and down in the reactor for transporting a cloth zigzag forming snaky undulations, a plurality of partition walls provided up and down alternately in the reactor for forming zigzag cloth passages to transport the cloth therebetween, a gas supply opening provided in the vicinity of the cloth outlet for jetting a gas to the zigzag cloth passages, a pair of electrode plates provided in adjacent to the gas supply opening for producing low-temperature plasma with the combined use of high frequency electric wave applied thereto and the gas jetted from the gas supply opening, and a vacuum duct provided in the vicinity of the cloth inlet of the reactor. It is preferable further to provide a plurality of electrode pairs in the reactor by putting the zigzag cloth passages therebetween.

Abstract: A method of and device for sealing a high pressure steamer for the continuous wet heat treatment of a cloth utilizes a steamer body provided with a seal mechanism consisting of a pair of seal rubber rolls located at the cloth inlet and the cloth outlet thereof, and includes filling a gas having a density heavier than air in a cloth passage into and out of the steamer body and providing a gas body between each of the cloth inlet and the cloth outlet and the cloth passages into the steamer body with the seal rubber rolls under the same pressure as in the steamer body. A gas having a density heavier than air to be filled in the gas bodies may be replaced with air. The leakage of high temperature and high pressure steam in the steamer body through the inlet side and outlet side seal mechanisms can completely be prevented, and consequently, the seal mechanisms can be operated at the ordinary temperature without damaging the seal rubber rolls constituting the seal mechanisms.

Abstract: An apparatus for treating a cloth with the use of low-temperature plasma comprising a pair of closed cloth taking-up cases provided respectively with a slit-type cloth taking-in and out opening and a cloth taking-up shaft, a cloth passage tube connecting to the two cloth taking-up cases for transporting the cloth therethrough, one or more pairs of electrode plates provided at the outer circumference of the cloth passage tube, a gas supply pipe connected to the cloth passage tube, and a gas evacuating pipe provided in the vicinity of the cloth taking-in and out opening.

Abstract: Methods for wet heat treating a textile product continuously in a high pressure steamer provided with a seal mechanism respectively at the cloth inlet and the cloth outlet of the steamer body, comprising (1) soaking a textile product to be treated with a treating solution in a liquid seal tank provided in the inlet side seal mechanism of the steamer body and wet heat treating the resultant textile product continuously in the steamer body while soaking the textile product further occasionally with the treating solution overflowing from the liquid seal tank into one or more liquid apply tanks for repeating steaming and boiling alternately, (2) wet heat treating a textile product previously soaked with a treating solution continuously in the steamer body and then prewashing the thus wet heat treated textile product continuously in the steamer body with the use of high temperature washing water overflowing from a slow cooling tank provided in the outlet side seal mechanism of the steamer body, and (3) the combina

Abstract: An apparatus for continuous untwisting and crimping of a cloth, including in a treating chamber, a pair of endless net conveyers spaced vertically apart and forming a gap therebetween to serve as a cloth passage. A plurality of jet pipes, each having a series of nozzles, are arranged to jet a high pressure fluid into the cloth passage. The jet pipes are provided in a zigzag up and down arrangement on the outside of the gap with the net conveyers between them. As a long knitted or woven cloth is passed continuously through the cloth passage while it receives the force of a fluid jetted zigzag from both sides, the cloth adopts a snaky or undulating state, and is stretched, beat and crumpled strongly so that the cloth is untwisted and crimped effectively.

Abstract: An apparatus for forming foam including a rotatable screw shaft having concave grooves or convex stripes extending spirally along its outer circumference and located in a cylinder closely spaced from one another for passing a treating solution containing a foaming agent, such as soap, together with pressurized air through the gap between the screw shaft and the cylinder. It is preferable to provide a plurality of square grooves along the inner circumference of the cylinder extending spirally or in the axial direction of the cylinder. Foam of the treating solution can be continuously produced in an effective manner, and the apparatus is particularly suitable for continuously applying a treating solution to a cloth.

Abstract: A method of continuously wet heat treating a cloth at an elevated pressure in the steamer body of a high pressure steamer maintained at a high temperature and pressure steam with the steam body having a said mechanism, including heating a treating solution in a treating solution application tank provided outside of the steamer body with the use of steam exhausted out of the seal mechanism of the steamer body, soaking a cloth to be treated with the thus heated treating solution up to the core part thereof, drying the cloth soaked with the treating solution by evaporating water therefrom, and then wet heat treating the resultant cloth in the high pressure steamer. The method is particularly suitable for such treatment as pretreatment and dyeing treatment of a long knitted or woven cylindrical cloth.

Abstract: A device for measuring and controlling the pH of the atmosphere in a high pressure steamer, comprising a condenser for taking out and condensing a part of steam from the interior of the high pressure steamer body successively, a pH-meter immersed in the solution condensed in the condenser, an indicator and a transducer which are to work in accordance with the signal from the said pH-meter, and a means for controlling the amount of a pH controlling solution to be supplied into the interior of the steamer body in accordance with the output of the said transducer.

Abstract: A method of and apparatus for continuous delustering high temperature treatment of a textile product comprising including subjecting a textile product such as yarns, a strip and a cloth to be treated to steaming while transporting the textile product continuously through a steamer body maintained with a high temperature wet heat under an elevated pressure by means of a plurality of guide rolls provided in the steamer body, and the steaming of the textile product is done in the presence of a water film between each of the guide rolls and the textile product guided therewith. Continuous processings of a textile product, such as pretreatment, dyeing and weight reduction, can be done effectively by preventing the occurrence of lustering and flattening of the textile product.

Abstract: For wet-heat treating a knitted fabric in a high pressure steamer, a knitted fabric is subjected alternately and repeatedly to a soaking process with a treating solution to permeate the treating solution in the fabric under pressure and to a steaming process of the fabric while transporting the fabric continuously through the steamer body under no tension. The knitted fabric is soaked with the treating solution uniformly and sufficiently up to the interior thereof, so that the treatment of a knitted cloth can be done uniformly to produce a product with excellent quality.