Abstract: A device for removing stains from fabric is a household laundry appliance that mechanically removes stains or spots from fabric. A piston/nozzle assembly lowers from a piston housing in the device until it contacts the non-stain side of the fabric. Multiple nozzles force cleaning solution through the stained fabric at a high pressure, thereby exculpating the particles causing the stain. The cleaning solution flows through the fabric, through a screen below and into a reservoir in the hollow base of the device. The cleaning solution may be recycled for later use.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for patterning a substrate wherein liquid unfixed dye is applied to the substrate in the form of a spray. One or more streams of pressurized gas such as air are then directed onto the substrate for the purpose of displacing some of the unfixed dye where the streams impinge the substrate, thereby causing a visually distinctive area on the substrate where the relative dye concentration is reduced. Resulting products are also disclosed.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for patterning a substrate wherein liquid unfixed dye is applied to the substrate. One or more streams of pressurized gas such as air then directed onto the substrate for the purpose of displacing some of the unfixed dye where the streams impinge the substrate, thereby causing a visually distinctive area on the substrate where the relative dye concentration is reduced.

Abstract: The initial moisture content of textile material to be decatized and fixed is controlled by a feedback-type regulator circuit which is responsive to measured values of the water content of vapor clouds produced as the material emerges from its passage around a steaming cylinder. The moisture content is preferably controlled by regulating the amount of water applied by a moistening device upstream of the steaming cylinder.

Abstract: A water-repellent cellulose and articles comprising the water-repellent cellulose are disclosed together with a process and apparatus for preparing the same. The water-repellent cellulose is prepared by exposing one or more sides and edges of a cellulose sheet, pad, or cloth to aliphatic acid chloride vapors. The resulting product is water-repellent along the treated sides and edges and, in general, water-permeable along the untreated sides and edges. Therefore, the treated cellulose products of this invention are especially suitable for disposable articles of sanitary clothing, sanitary napkins, bandaging materials, paper cups, bags and the like.

Abstract: A pattern is placed on a porous transfer sheet by the use of sublimable dyes. Carpet face yarns are tufted into a backing material. The transfer sheet is placed adjacent the back of the carpet on the side of the carpet opposite from the carpet face yarns. Heated air causes the sublimable dye to move from the transfer sheet, through the carpet backing to the face yarns of the carpet to provide the dye pattern on the face yarns.