Abstract: The present invention relates to sealing devices and is most expedient to be applied in dyeing-and-finishing processes involved in textile industry. The hermetic seal of the chamber for treatment of bandlike material at an excess pressure has a hollow shell accommodating a pair of driving rollers for traversing the material under treatment, and a sealing device which hermetically divides, along with the rollers, the shell interior into an excess pressure zone communicating with the chamber, and an atmospheric pressure zone communicating with the atmosphere. According to the invention, communication between the atmospheric-pressure zone and the atmosphere is established through the agency of a check valve provided in the shell and made as a flexible sleeve whose bore is adapted for the bandlike material under treatment to freely pass. Such a constructional arrangement provides for reliable hermetic sealing of the chamber for treating bandlike material under an excess pressure.

Abstract: The apparatus comprehends a bath and a pad liquor supply charged thereinto, a guide means disposed within the bath for guiding the goods therethrough, and a steam jacket communicating with a steam source. The jacket lies in vertical disposition upwardly of the bath and has apertured top and bottom walls. A partition disposed within the jacket suspends downwardly from and connects to the jacket top wall in registry with the aperture thereof to define a primary passage through the partition which is open at its upper end to atmosphere and open at its lower end into the jacket, through which primary passage, the goods are passed before passage into the jacket. The jacket and partition cooperantly constrain the steam flow through the jacket in a first downward flow direction exteriorly of the partition in a heat transfer relationship therewith and in a second upward flow direction interiorly of the partition through the primary passage in a direction counter to the downward direction of movement of the goods.

Abstract: An apparatus for continuous liquid processing having either a mechanism which has a number of nozzle groups provided within a high pressure steamer and a cover which is so provided around the nozzle groups with the cloth to be treated passing through the group, or a nozzle mechanism provided in a preheating chamber within the high pressure steamer for spraying the processing liquid.

Abstract: An apparatus for the continuous thermal treatment of a product within an atmosphere made up of steam (saturated or superheated) of pure water or of a mixture of air and water vapor is disclosed. The product moves through an enclosed or confined space for its thermal treatment by the steam. The space is provided with entry and exit air-locks for the conveyance of the product into the space and for its removal. There are also means for guiding the product through the air-locks and the space. Additional means is provided to encourage thermal treatment and hence the space is provided with convection, radiation or conduction means to bring heat to the product. A first condensor receives vapor or humid air which is preferably extracted from the enclosed space via the adjacent air locks; it provides heat recovery of the purged vapor from the space. A second condensor is placed within the enclosed space and communicates with the high pressure discharge port of a compressor.

Abstract: The present invention relates to equipment for treating a band-type material and can be used most successfully in the textile finishing and dyeing industry. The chamber for treating a band-type material under overpressure is formed by hermetically joined arched bottom, arched roof and side walls built into flanges so that the chamber has a crescent cross section and is provided with throats located near the flanges. This layout of the chamber reduces considerably its metal content and allows a number of chambers to be combined into a single installation to be used both for prolonged single-stage treatment and for multiple-stage treatment of the material.

Abstract: A sealing device in a high pressure steamer which includes a pressure reducing chamber disposed between a cloth material inlet port of a drum body of the steamer and rubber seal rolls. The sealing device further includes a high pressure air supply pipe connected to the pressure reducing chamber; heat resistant seal rolls disposed beneath the pressure reducing chamber at a cloth passing port provided in the pressure reducing chamber on the side of the drum body of the steamer, the heat resistant seal rolls being provided for the purpose of making the pressure reducing chamber into a high pressure air chamber preventing the steam inside the steamer drum body from coming into the chamber; and a water reservoir which is formed with the frame thereof disposed close to each of the rubber seal rolls to cover about 1/4 of the circumference of the rubber seal roll. The surfaces of the rubber seal rolls are constantly washed clean by the water contained in the water reservoir and by other cleaning means.

Abstract: For sealing a high pressure steamer air, pressurized to a level higher than the internal pressurized medium, in the drum body of the high pressure steamer is directed against the mutually contacting portions of rubber seal rolls. Initially, the pressurized air flows over the outside of a cylindrical duct extending between the opening for the passage of textile articles into the drum body of the steamer and the rubber seal rolls and the air serves to block the flow of the pressurized medium within the steamer through the opening. Sealing plates positioned between the interior of the steamer and the seal rolls, are forced into contact with the seal rolls by the pressurized air. Further the flow of pressurized air collides with the internal pressure medium of the steamer within the cylindrical duct preventing the exhaust of the internal pressure medium through the cylindrical duct.

Abstract: A selvage curling prevention apparatus for a knitted cloth characterized in that pairs of metal rolls or pairs of metal walls, forming very narrow gaps to allow a knitted cloth to pass therethrough in a flat state, are provided in multiple steps in one straight line within a passage which is connected to a high pressure steamer vessel and has the cloth pass therethrough, further the metal rolls and metal walls are heated by steam heat supplied from said high pressure steamer vessel into the passage and at a same time humid heat is applied to the cloth.

Abstract: An apparatus is described for continuously dyeing textile fabrics. The apparatus may be best described in terms of its operation as follows: The fabric is preheated in a chamber and then impregnated with a bath consisting of dyestuff dissolved in a solvent in another chamber. Then the fabric is treated in a developing chamber where the dyestuff is fixed thereon by evaporation of the solvent. The excess solvent is then eliminated from the fabric in a water vapor atmosphere. The treatment in the developing chamber is effected by passing the fabric continuously and alternately a plurality of times to and from a zone of saturated solvent vapor and a zone of superheated solvent vapor. The solvent in these two zones is substantially the same as the solvent in the bath.

Abstract: A drain disposing device in a seal mechanism on a cloth material inlet side of a high pressure steamer wherein there are provided a drain receiving tray which is disposed at a desired position on the inner circumferential surface of the seal mechanism and a drain guiding passage which communicates with the drain receiving tray for discharging the drain in the drain receiving tray to the inside of a drum body of the high pressure steamer or to the outside thereof.

Abstract: Self-contained apparatus for vapor phase treating of garments with durable press treating agents. The apparatus comprises a vaporized treating agent supply tank, a pressurizable treating chamber for enclosing garments to be agent treated, and an unused treating agent recovery means, the assembly being adapted to cyclically depressurize and repressurize the chamber interior in timed relation to the presence of treating agent in the chamber to relatively pressure impregnate the garments with the treating agent.

Abstract: Disclosed is a device for adding and/or removing fluid media in a rotatable drum, such as a rotating washing machine drum, comprising a pair of flanges attached to the outer periphery of the drum and spaced apart to define an annular space extending around the drum, an elastically yielding sealing member attached to each flange and extending inwardly into the annular space where their sealing lips abut to form a seal in a generally radially extending sealing plane, fluid passageways extending through the wall of the drum in the region between the flanges, and means positioned in the sealing plane for spreading the sealing lips apart, preferably a flat tapered conduit or one or more tapered disks. In another embodiment a sealing device is disclosed having only one flange and one elastically yielding sealing member in association with an annular plate fixed to a partition wall through which the drum extends.

Abstract: In a pressure seal apparatus for a high pressure steamer, seal rolls form a nip in a roll seal mechanism mounted on the fiber products feed in and take out openings of a high pressure steamer vessel body. The roll seal mechanisms shield the inside of the vessel from external air when fiber products are fed in or taken out and are positioned on the upper planes of a seal block through which a fiber products passage extends. Different members can be combined with the seal rolls in forming the seal mechanism, such as intermediate rolls formed as water permeable hoses are inserted into concave parts provided on opposite sides of the fiber products passage through the seal block. In another embodiment an elastic sealing member is placed in contact with the seal block and the seal rolls. In still another embodiment a shielding valve is provided at one end of the fiber products passage for regulating vessel internal pressure and preventing sudden pressure leakage.

Abstract: A pressure sealing device for a high pressure steamer. The device comprises a main sealing body including 2 to 5 stages with a pressure reducing chamber in each stage and arranged into one unified body with a textile product passage continuously provided in the middle part of each of the pressure reducing chambers. On opposite sides of each of the upper and lower end openings of the passage provided through the main body, there are disposed a pair of seal rolls which are in pressed contact with each other in such a way as to close the opening.

Abstract: The yarn entry and exit openings in a container for high pressure gaseous or liquid yarn heating medium are each sealed by means of a plunger mounted to slide in a cylinder extending from the opening. Each plunger is formed with a longitudinal groove of U-shaped cross-section on its surface. Therefore, to thread the yarn, it is only necessary to withdraw the plungers from their cylinders, place the yarn in the grooves and replace the plungers. Substantially to eliminate the escape of medium along the grooves, each may have a depth substantially equal to its width and amounting to between 0.1 mm and 0.5 mm, according to the yarn. However, to accommodate yarn with knots along its length or strechable yarn, this dimension may be increased and the pressure of any escaping medium reduced in a stepwise manner by recesses distributed along the plunger and intersecting the groove, into which recesses any escaping medium can expand.

Abstract: A vacuum seal designed for the continuous movement therethrough of fibrous materials, such as carpet yarn, into a gaseous-plasma vacuum system while preserving a vacuum of about 1 Torr is described. The seal comprises a lower metal block with an elongated groove formed in the flat upper surface thereof and an upper metal block having an open bottom air chamber formed in its lower flat surface. In its assembled form, a flexible membrane is positioned between the formed, flat surfaces of the blocks. A seal is formed by pressurizing the air chamber in the upper block, thereby forcing the flexible membrane against the groove in the lower block and the upper side of the material passing therethrough, thus forcing the material to conform to the shape of the groove. Continuous variation in the degree of vacuum seal may be achieved by varying the pressure in the air chamber in the upper block.

Abstract: A pressure sealing method for sealing the inlet and outlet parts of a high pressure steamer which performs steaming with saturated steam of high temperature and high pressure in processing a textile product for desizing, scouring, bleaching, dyeing or the like. A pair or more than one pair of air pressure chambers made of a gas or fluid exudative material formed in a hollow cylindrical or semicylindrical shape or made of a gas impermeable thin plate are arranged to confront one another at the inlet or outlet part in the high steamer for the entry or exit of the treated product. The pressure of a pressure chamber of the steamer and that of atmospheric parts are shut off by one pair or more than one pair of nipping faces of these air pressure chambers which are pressed against one another. The treated product is allowed to pass through the inlet and outlet parts against the combined pressure developed between the nipping faces.

Abstract: A seal device for a high pressure steamer including a pair of rubber seal rolls pressed against each other and mounted on and forming a closure for the opening at one end of an inlet or outlet passage guiding the fabrics to be treated into or out of a high pressure steamer. The device also includes sealing plates disposed in pressed contact against the internal pressure of the steamer with pressure bearing surfaces of the rollsclose to the contacting or nip forming portion of the rolls for blocking the interior of the steamer from its exterior. A cylindrical duct is formed within the passage, with one end of the cylindrical duct communicating with the interior of the steamer while the other end is located close to the contacting portions of the seal rolls. An air port for supplying pressurized air is provided between the cylindrical duct and the passage.

Abstract: A high temperature and high pressure steamer which is made so it is possible to process a cloth giving the cloth impregnation or humidity of liquid in a suitable manner within a sealing mechanism of said high temperature and high pressure steamer when said cloth is processed by the steamer.

Abstract: A sealing apparatus which enables web material to be passed through a gap in a wall includes a plurality of main rollers in the gap in sequential contact between which the web material passes, an auxiliary roller in contact with the first and last main rollers, and a pressure-loaded bearing block mounted in a housing which forms part of the walls surrounding the gap, the coefficient of expansion of the bearing block being greater than the coefficient of expansion of the housing, and means for heating the bearing block.

Abstract: Sealing device for the continuous inlet and outlet of textile material in the form of endless ropes into and from a pressure-tight container under high temperature conditions, consisting of a number of locks of graduated pressure, which are positioned one behind the other in the transport direction of the rope, and characterized in that each pressure lock is a sealing element made of elastic material in the form of the common shell of two frusta of straight circular cones of different height, which abut on each other axially with their top faces, and which face, in the direction toward the open base of the lower frustum the room under higher pressure, and whose internal surface is lined with a smooth layer and the inner diameter of the sealing element approximately corresponds to the diameter of the cylindrically shaped textile rope, so as to be tightly pressed from all sides onto the textile material under the action of the higher internal pressure exerted in the pressure container on the outer shell of the

Abstract: A sealing arrangement for use at the inlet and outlet of containers in which a pressure above or below atmospheric pressure prevails, especially for treating webs of textile material. The sealing arrangement comprises two endless belts respectively looped around two pairs of reversing rollers with the rollers of each pair spaced from each other so that straight belt sections are formed between the rollers of each pair of reversing rollers. The web of goods is passed between two adjacent straight belt sections, which respectively pertain to the two endless belts, and rim portions, and which seal the space surrounded by the belts and located between the rollers against the pressure surrounding the container.

Abstract: A continuous process for the wet treatment of textile material in the form of endless ropes and for dwelling the textile a certain period under high temperature (HT) conditions, which comprises introducing the material in curls into the long leg of a vertically positioned, U-shaped tubular tunnel having legs of different length, impregnating the textile under atmospheric pressure with hot treatment liquor that is ejected at a high flow rate by means of spraying nozzles which are positioned at the top and at additional locations further down the descending long leg of the tubular tunnel, conveying the textile along the bent portion of the tubular tunnel under the hydrostatic pressure exerted on the material by the weight of the liquid column in the long leg, conveying the textile from the short leg of the tubular tunnel into a pressure-tight reaction and fixing chamber through at least two pressure locks placed one behind the other at the entrance of the reaction and fixing chamber, allowing the textile to dwe

Abstract: The combination of an air sealing device and liquid sealing arrangement including an air pressure chamber and a liquid chamber which are arranged along the incoming and outgoing path lines of a cloth or textile material or the like, the path lines being formed between a plurality of sealing rolls disposed on a drum body of a high pressure steamer and the inside of the drum body. The air pressure inside the air pressure chamber is arranged to be balanced through a water column in the liquid chamber with a high pressure, high temperature steam existing inside the drum body.

Abstract: In a pressure seal apparatus for a high pressure steamer, seal rolls form a nip in a roll seal mechanism mounted on the fiber products feed in and take out openings of a high pressure steamer vessel body. The roll seal mechanisms shield the inside of the vessel from external air when fiber products are fed in or taken out and are positioned on the upper planes of a seal block through which a fiber products passage extends. Different members can be combined with the seal rolls in forming the seal mechanism, such as intermediate rolls formed as water permeable hoses are inserted into concave parts provided on opposite sides of the fiber products passage through the seal block. In another embodiment an elastic sealing member is placed in contact with the seal block and the seal rolls. In still another embodiment a shielding valve is provided at one end of the fiber products passage for regulating vessel internal pressure and preventing sudden pressure leakage.

Abstract: A method of forming a pressure seal by employing an air balance in a high pressure steamer in which pressurized sealing gas is introduced into an air seal chamber which is shut off from the outside air by a roll seal mechanism installed at the fiber feed in and take out openings of a high pressure steamer vessel body, so that the sealing gas and steam leaking from within the vessel body into the air seal chamber buffer each other for forming and air balance within the vessel body.

Abstract: A web dispenser wherein an elongated coated web is dispensed from a container by manually pulling the same through a closely confined rotatable ball closure whereby the coating is metered.

Abstract: A roller sealing head for overpressure and underpressure containers, especially for processing webs of textile and synthetic material with non-fixed application of print or dye or for non-treated webs of goods, in which a first sealing roller has a second sealing roller arranged opposite and in spaced relationship thereto while two endless sealing strips held in a rim-shaped frame are respectively associated with the first and second sealing rollers. The roller sealing head furthermore includes a hollow roller of a narrower width than that of the first and second sealing rollers. The arrangement is such that the web of goods to be processed is directly passed through between the hollow roller and one of the first and second rollers, while only one straight section of each endless sealing strip engages the inside of the hollow roller whereas the curved sections of the sealing strips as well as the second straight section of each sealing strip engages the sealing rollers.

Abstract: Rapid dyeing process for piece-goods, especially knit fabrics, of synthetic fibre materials, preferably of texturized polyester fibers, by padding the material with an aqueous dyebath in a pressure vessel, which may be used both for the application and fixation of the dyestuff, at first under high-temperature (HT--) conditions and then exposing the material immediately after this operation to the action of high-pressure (HP)-- steam to fix the dyestuff completely.

Abstract: A treating liquid in form of a preferably highly concentrated solution or dispersion is entrained in a stream of gas, and the thus-entrained finely divided particles of liquid are sprayed against a material to be treated.

Abstract: An apparatus for the continuous treatment of an advancing web such as a cotton fabric with one or more reactive gases comprises one or more reaction chambers, each including fluid dicharge means for directing a treating gas onto the web in the chamber and evacuation means disposed on both ends of the chamber to prevent both the fluid from escaping from the chamber and the fluid outside the chamber from entering the chamber. Heating means adapted to heat the continuously advancing web of fabric material may also be provided, if desired.Such an apparatus may be used for the application of gases such as ammonia to a fabric impregnated with monomeric tris (hydroxymethyl) phosphine to form on the fabric a polymerized phosphorus-containing material and to impart flameproofing properties thereto. The apparatus can also be used to apply gases such as formaldehyde or sulfur dioxide or both to a cellulose fiber-containing fabric at an elevated temperature and in the presence of controlled amounts of moisture.

Abstract: An apparatus for the treatment of a textile material comprising at least one treatment zone intermediate upstream and downstream treatment zones wherein successive zones are separated from each other by respective sealing zones. The textile material is propelled through the treatment zones by means of a forced circulation of a sealing liquid that flows through the sealing zones.

Abstract: This invention relates to an apparatus for treating materials.The apparatus comprises a chamber defining a treatment space for treating the textile materials and having an inlet for introducing said textile materials to be treated and an outlet for extracting the treated materials. An endless conveyor traverses the treatment chamber, extending through said inlet and said outlet and conveying said textile materials in said treatment chamber. Means for feeding a treatment agent into said treatment space and means for creating at the inlet and/or said outlet of said treatment chamber, a pressure zone and/or a temperature zone to maintain within the treatment space a gas pressure and/or a temperature higher than that and/or those existing outside said treatment chamber are provided.The apparatus avoids the undersireable flows of gas at said inlet and outlet of said treatment chamber and allows regular treatment operations of the textile materials.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to an apparatus for steam processing tubular knitted fabric, as in a spreading or calendering operation. The steamer apparatus of the invention is characterized by its ability effectively to impart steam to the fabric at much higher rates than has been possible heretofore, consistent with satisfactory quality. Since the steaming of the fabric heretofore has constituted a limiting or bottleneck stage of calendering or similar processing operations, the ability of the new steaming device to increase the effective rate of steam application can be translated directly into higher production rates in the fabric processing operation as a whole.The new steaming apparatus includes a pair of dripless steam boxes of heretofore known construction arranged above and below the plane of the fabric in a manner well known per se.

Abstract: Apparatus comprising an inner cylinder and an outer cylinder which are telescoped with respect to one another to define between them an annular treatment chamber in which materials, such as textiles, are treated with a fluid medium. The ends of the annular chamber are closed by radial flanges on one of the cylinders, and clearances are sealed by pressurized seals. Material to be treated is wound onto the inner cylinder, and fluid medium is circulated through the chamber while one cylinder is rotated and the other remains stationary. At the conclusion of treatment, one of the cylinders is moved axially with respect to the other so as to expose the inner cylinder for unloading and reloading. Novel T-shaped seals of rubberlike material are mounted within annular grooves in the cylinder flanges, with the head of the T forming a diaphragm and the leg of the T projecting toward the other cylinder.

Abstract: Process for the continuous dyeing of high-quality polyester fibers, wherein on the textile material, which has been impregnated with a dyeing liquor, the dyestuff applied is fixed by means of a combined treatment with saturated vapor at high pressure and a wet treatment at high temperature.

Abstract: A chamber seal is provided, which accommodates the entry into and exit from a processing chamber for a web of fabric. The seal serves to minimize the flow of gases into or out of the chamber, while at the same time minimizing frictional drag on the fabric, so that the fabric may be processed without excessive tension. The invention is especially useful in connection with processing of fabrics with liquid ammonia.The low pressure seal includes a guide member which engages and guides one surface of the fabric. The opposite surface of the fabric is contacted by a thin, flexible web of low friction material, such as Teflon-impregnated glass fiber cloth. The sealing web, which is highly flexible and conformable, is urged into contact with the fabric by means of a slightly compressed resilient tubular element, which is supported opposite the fabric guide. To advantage, the resilient element is not inflated, but provides the desired low pressure sealing force by reason of a slight deformation.