Abstract: A machine for cleaning a fabric workpiece, e.g., a so-called spotting machine, operates with a suction nozzle having a screen on which the workpiece is supported. The machine is portable, its casing containing a combination air blower and vacuum pump for generating the suction, and a water tank and pump assembly that provides water under controlled pressure and volume to an applicator tool whereby such water is applied to the workpiece. The size of the screen is restricted to enhance the suction effect, and the pressure of water to the tool is restricted to prevent the splashing of water and dislodged stain particles by controlling the impact velocity. These factors also ensure rapid withdrawal of the water by the suction nozzle and inhibit spreading of the water in the workpiece beyond the area to which it is applied. This process is aided by the shape of the tool which has a flat face for engaging the workpiece and forming a shield around the orifice from which the water flows.

Abstract: A fabric printing machine, comprising a printing head, a steamer disposed beyond the printing head, a washer disposed beyond the steamer, a pair of stenter chains operative to engage the edges of the fabric advancing from the printing head and to drive it positively through the steamer, through the washer and past a suction slot disposed beyond a wash tank in the washer, means for adjusting the lateral spacing of the stenter chains to suit the width of the fabric, means for injecting steam into the steamer, and means in the wash tank for circulating water through the fabric.

Abstract: An apparatus for dyeing, fixing and eluting a dyeable substrate is provided. The apparatus comprises a take-up roller for receiving the dyeable substrate; roller means, including a driven roller, for receiving the substrate from said take-up roller and for orienting the substrate in a generally horizontal plane; and a dyeing assembly including a plurality of dye containers, a like plurality of discs being mounted on a first rotatable shaft so that, for each disc, one edge thereof dips into the container so as to take dye therefrom, the opposite edge of each of said discs engaging the substrate.

Abstract: Textile material to be dyed is circulated through a dyeing machine containing a hot liquid dye bath in such manner that the material repeatedly is immersed in and removed from the dye liquor. Following removal of the material from the dye liquor it is subjected to treatment by air to remove surplus liquid from the material prior to the return of the material to the dye liquor. Following its final removal from the dye liquor the material is cooled by being sprinkled with water at a temperature lower than that of the dye liquor.

Abstract: A broad washing machine comprising a housing containing several groups of guide rollers, each group consisting of two columns of parallel horizontal rollers between which a textile web is upwardly conveyed along a zig zag path consisting of short mainly horizontal loops, a receptacle being positioned under each roller for catching the cleaning liquid dripping from the web and for directing said liquid upon the upper flight of an adjacent loop.

Abstract: Apparatus for dyeing a length of fabric includes a chamber having a pair of cylinders, between which the fabric is held as it is dyed by dye emitted from an apertured pipe positioned between the cylinders. Adjacent to these cylinders are washers and a steam box. The length of fabric is formed into a loop on the cylinders and on a drive roll, and it is passed through the dyeing station where it is dyed. Heating elements and washing means are also provided in the chamber.

Abstract: An apparatus and process are described herein for positioning the pile threads found on textile webs manufactured from synthetic fibers which become pliable upon exposure to heat. Means are provided for first routing the textile web through heating means which generally would be a hot water bath. The pile threads are softened by the heat of the hot water bath and become sufficiently pliable as to enable them to assume any position. Because of their buoyancy in water the pile threads tend to orientate themselves perpendicular to the web backing. In order to maintain the pile threads perpendicular until given a chance to cool, the web is removed from the heating apparatus in substantially a horizontal plane. Suction means are provided to cool the textile web as it leaves the heating portion of the apparatus thereby speeding up the set time of the piles. The suction means can also be used to remove a substantial portion of the hot water saturating the textile web.

Abstract: The invention provides a roll over which a sheet of dyed and dried yarns passes from a drying chamber. During operation of the apparatus, the roll is maintained in a position diverting the yarns out of a straight path, creating a surplus in the path. When the machine stops, the roll is moved slowly under controlled conditions to a position nearer a straight path, during which the surplus is given up to compensate for the shrinkage of the yarn residing in the drying chamber whereby yarn in the dyeing stage remains motionless. The invention is particularly (but not solely) useful in the manufacture of tufted carpeting from yarns dyed individually in segments along their length with different colors for production of predetermined complex designs in the carpet.

Abstract: A continuous washing machine has an impregnation bath and a rinsing chamber. The rinsing chamber includes three successive sieve drums over which the tubular fabric is made to pass. The fabric passes over the second downstream sieve drum in a reverse direction so as to overturn the fabric and expose the other surface thereof and to retain the fabric over the sieve drum. A sump area is maintained in the bottom of the chamber, and the liquors from the sump are recirculated by means of spray pipes spraying rinse liquor onto the fabric. The spent rinse liquor coming from the fabric over the first sieve drum is drained out of the chamber.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a closed cycle apparatus for the rapid, continuous and waterless dyeing of a textile or plastic material with a dyestuff dissolved or suspended or dispersed in a high boiling solvent (such as glycol or glycol ether or other members of the alcohol family) for carrying out the dyeing step, after which the dyed textile or plastic material subsequent to cooling is washed with a low boiling liquid (such as methanol or ethanol) and then dried. The apparatus is constructed so as to operate under non-aqueous or substantially non-aqueous conditions with the complete or substantially complete recovery and recycling of the used dyestuff, the used high boiling solvent and the used low boiling wash liquid.

Abstract: An apparatus for treating a web of material of indefinite length consists of a generally rectangular chamber having a single opening at the top and a screen arranged within the chamber to asymmetrically sag in a shape of approximately elliptical cross-section and means for introducing a web treatment medium into the chamber. This apparatus is advantageously combined with a flow-through reversible drum treatment chamber having within a casing a periodically reversed rotating drum through which a web of material is received in the relaxed state travelling continuously through the interior of the drum and means for controllably conditioning air and introducing the air into the drum.

Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for washing and subsequent drying of bolts of fabrics which comprises means for continuously delivering the fabric into a fixed basket provided with substantially semicylindrical and coaxial outer and inner walls. The outer wall is partially perforated. An agitator is positioned in juxtaposition with the perforations and has a plurality of mobile paddles thereon. A chamber containing the outer wall of the basket and the agitator serves the purpose of containing therein a liquid solvent. A rotatable drum is mounted coaxially with respect of the inner and outer walls of the basket and has a diameter smaller than the diameter of the inner wall. Hot air is forced through the perforations of the drum through a close-loop circuit. A series of guide rolls guide the fabric from the basket tangentially on a portion of the perforated drum.

Abstract: A clothes-washing machine comparable to those of the automatic type, which incorporates a device for the formation and circulation of an induced airflow in order to effectuate the drying of clothes which are present in the drum of the machine. The device comprises a single resistor for carrying out the functions of heating the washing water and heating the air for drying, so as to result in a simplification in the structure and composition of the machine. Similarly, a motor which actuates a turbine for producing the induced flow of drying air is the same motor which, at the appropriate operating stage drives the water-circulating pump, also in this manner, to simplify the structure of the machine.

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.

Abstract: An apparatus and method utilizing an oscillating drum through which is passed a continuous web of textile fabric moved axially through the drum by synchronized drive means; the drum including confronting grid structures having angularly arranged portions which serve to prevent tangling the web as the web is moved forward and the drum oscillates. Hot air is introduced adjacent the entrance end and exit end of the drum and into the drum itself to maintain the web in suspension; and, optionally, live steam may be directed against the web before entering the drum.

Abstract: A method and means are provided having particular significance for dyeing textile strand material by circulating such material in a confined space, preferably, under the aspirating influence of jetted inert gas, and applying a treating liquor formulated for effective application at a short liquor ratio, preferably, by metering the same into the gas as it is supplied to produce the aspirating influence. Excellent distribution of the treating liquor throughout the material is obtained in this manner, while spent liquor effluent is materially reduced.

Abstract: An improved method for the treatment of a web material such as a textile, fleece or similar web which is continuously moving and is patterned by means of printing, dyeing or the like and the pattern fixed with remaining patterning and treating agents washed out thereafter, additional steps in which, after the fixing treatment and before the washing step, the web of material has applied to it a quantity of a rinsing liquid just sufficient to moisten the fibers of the web at their surface and the rinsing liquid immediately thereafter suctioned away are included in the process. Also disclosed is apparatus for carrying out the process.

Abstract: A laundry machine for washing clothes having both a wash and extraction operation. There is included a rotatable drum for tumbling the clothes and means for introducing liquid into the drum. Means are also provided for producing a vacuum or negative pressure to which is connected two active baffles located on opposite sides of the interior of the drum to withdraw the liquid and air from the drum and two inactive baffles therebetween. This arrangement improves the washability of such a laundry machine.

Abstract: A continuous padding type dyeing machine particularly suitable for handling elastic fabrics, the machine including a padding bath with at least a pair of main and auxiliary padding rollers and a dryer having a pair of spaced endless conveyors means provided on opposite sides of a path of travel of the fabrics for transferring them through the dryer without causing excessive tensioning thereto. The endless conveyors are movable in and along a number of adjustable guide members and provided with a number of pin members for holding longitudinal side edge portions of the fabrics. A pair of detectors are provided at a lower end of a vertical section of the path of travel of the fabric through the dryer in association with opposite longitudinal side edges of the fabric for adapting the guide members to the particular width of the fabric under treatment.

Abstract: In apparatus for continuously treating a thread, for example a textile thread, including squeezing and/or drying a humid thread wherein the humid thread is passed into a zone traversed by a current of air at a pressure lower than that prevailing about the thread during the operation that provoked its humidification, the zone comprises a chamber having an inlet and an outlet between which there is a helical conduit.

Abstract: A laundry machine and method for washing clothes having both a wash and extraction operation. There is included in the machine a rotatable drum for tumbling the clothes and liquid introduction means are provided for introducing liquid into the drum at the average rate of 0.5 to 3 gallons per minute during the wash operation. Means are also provided for producing a vacuum or negative pressure to withdraw the liquid from the drum during the wash operation at a rate sufficient to prevent a bath type washing action, then at the end of the wash operation stop the introduction of liquid into the drum and continue the negative pressure to withdraw the liquid during the extraction operation.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for coloring yarn continuously in sheets thereof, the apparatus including a spatial sequence apparatus for testing the yarn by pre-stressing; a yarn tension relaxing means; a printing apparatus for coloring the yarn in an accurately predetermined longitudinal pattern; control means for correcting wet yarn length increase as the yarn progresses through the printer; wet hot box for fixation of the dye stuff onto the yarn fiber; yarn washing means; combined apparatus for yarn drying and/or stress relieving by raising the yarn temperature; yarn relative lateral displacement means; yarn longitudinal displacement means; and finally a tufting machine or a take up means such as a beam.

Abstract: The dyeing apparatus effects a programmed dyeing pattern on the travelling strip. This apparatus includes a housing provided with a through channel for passage of the travelling strip through a treatment station in the housing. Treatment medium such as a dye is delivered to the treatment station via a channel perpendicular to the strip. In addition, compressed air is delivered to the treatment station via a funnel-shaped channel downstream of the station to remove excess dye from the yarn and to obtain a clean well-defined dyed area on the strip. A similar funnel-shaped channel upstream of the treatment station serves to seal the elongated channel against the treatment medium. Also, an exhaust channel is provided to remove excess treatment medium and air.

Abstract: Apparatus for thermosol dyeing polyesters where the thermosoling is accomplished by a two-zone infrared oven having multiple infrared quartz rods and employing at least two radiometers to control the temperature followed by an immediate quenching step, all while the polyester is still under tension.

Abstract: Apparatus for applying a treatment medium to a continuously movable textile web and subsequently drying the web comprises a treatment housing wholly supported by and thermally insulated from a dryer housing so as to minimize greatly the space required for the successive treating and drying operations. The treating housing preferably contains means which are operable to enable the web selectively to be treated or not treated.

Abstract: A jet machine for wet processing textile fabric in continuous loop form is provided that is capable of applying dyestuff effectively from either a migrating or non-migrating system and that may be employed as well for bulking or shrinking prior to wet processing.

Abstract: The apparatus for dyeing textiles, including the dyeing of synthetic or partially synthetic textiles with disperse dyes, wherein a dye mixture is applied to the textile and subsequently maintained in a gelled but unfrozen condition during drying to prevent migration of the dye.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to an apparatus for the continuous treatment of fibrous and thread-like materials in the form of slivers, roving or fibrous ribbon wherein uniform treatment, for example, uniform dye application and uniform setting of the dyestuff is effectively achieved.

Abstract: A machine for washing and laundering garments on hangers comprises a substantially vertical conveyor for lifting a garment on a hanger, transferring the hanger to a stationary conveyor along which it travels at two speeds through spraying chambers and dripping chambers, a transfer pulley to transfer the hanger from the stationary conveyor to an endless conveyor, further spraying chambers, and dripping chambers through which the hanger passes to a drying chamber to dry the garment on the hanger or set a coating thereon.

Abstract: A yarn extraction and washing apparatus in which a particular arrangement of the yarn passage through the apparatus and fluid conduits connected to the yarn passage for washing and stripping liquid from the yarn and its method of use permits the stripped yarn to travel at a very low tension level.

Abstract: Cleaning drapes, furs or other objects by the aid of powdered and/or granular cleaning agents involves a two part operation. During the first part of the cycle, the material to be cleaned and the cleaning agent are tumbled together in an oscillating drum. During the second part of the cycle, the cleaning agent is drawn off by vacuum. Tumble vanes in the drum are apertured whereby the vanes themselves serve as effluent conduits. Interior baffles in the tumble vanes keep the powdered and/or granular cleaning agent in the drum while the effluent conduits remain open. An efficient removal of the used cleaning agent is accomplished since the material cleaned cannot block all the effluent conduits.

Abstract: A machine for the continuous finishing of webs of textile or artificial leather material or the like in accordance with a variety of finishing processes, the machine comprising a reversible continuous flow drum having web feed and withdrawal devices, the feed device being associated with direct radiation means, one or more moistening devices and one or more devices for applying additives, and the drum being mounted in a casing in which are provided a ventilation device, at least one steam spraying device and a radiator, the component of the machine being independently controllable and the drive of the drum being adjustable for achieving any desired angle of rotation of the drum.

Abstract: An ambient air intake system for a dry cleaner is disclosed which draws room air through the access opening when the door to the machine is open and vents this air to an outlet without passing it through the interior tubs which contain residual solvent vapor laden air. To accomplish this an air duct is interposed between the access opening of the cabinet housing the dry cleaner and the open end of the interior tubs, with the duct effectively sealed about the periphery of the cabinet opening and the open end of the outer tub and having aligned openings therethrough to define a passageway through which the clothes are inserted and removed. The duct is connected to an electrically actuated normally closed valve which in turn is connected to the inlet of a motor driven fan, the outlet side of which leads to an exhaust pipe.

Abstract: Method of dyeing a textile web having a relatively large volume or relief-like construction which includes immersing the web in a dye solution having a dye concentration corresponding to the quantity of liquid to be squeezed from the web in a subsequent dewatering step, passing the web between two absorbent endless entrainer members of a squeeze foulard that are continuously saturated with the dye solution prior to engagement of the endless entrainer members with the web, and squeezing the web in the foulard so as to dewater it to less than substantially 40% moisture with respect to dry weight of the web, then passing the web through an infra-red channel at an adjusted relatively low drying velocity so as to prevent the formation of cloudiness in the dye distribution and drying the web to a final moisture content of at most 5% with respect to dry weight of the web, and subsequently completing the steps of the dyeing process per se.