Abstract: A collar cleaning system for dress shirts comprising a slide plate, a guiding plate, a pressured soap-water spraying subsystem and a rotating brush is presented. The shirt collar is loaded onto the sliding plate and moved under the rotating brush while being sprayed with soap water to remove the dirt ring around the collar.

Abstract: A rug or mat cleaning apparatus is disclosed which is comprised of first a dry lint and dust removing section, then a water or like liquid containing vessel having an initial wash section and then a rinse section and then finally a wringer section. A mat to be cleaned is passed through a first conveying roller at a slower driving speed. Thereafter, the mat or rug enters an increased speed brush which both removes dirt and agitates the surface of the rug and beats it to knock loose undesireable dirt and like particles. In the wash section of the apparatus, alternating feed rollers and brush rollers carry the mat or rug to be cleaned. Each feed roller clamps and holds the rug to prevent slipping while conveying it at a slower linear speed. Each brush roller provides a brushing surface having a substantially higher linear speed than the surface of the conveying rolls. Thus, a "tuck" or crease is created in the rug between each high speed roller brush and its adjacent and following slower conveying roll.

Abstract: Apparatus for applying dyestuffs to textile materials by transfer of the dyestuffs sublimated at reduced pressure, characterized in that it comprises a cooling roll for cooling heated, printed or dyed material to temperatures lower than its secondary transition point and, if desired, further comprises at least one of a pre-heating roll for lessening the temperature gradient between the surface and reverse sides of the textile material to be printed when transfer printing is effected on a heating roll, a brushing roll for remedying deformed, printed textile material and a means for controlling the feeding rates of a transfer printing paper and a backing paper with respect to each other thereby to minimize the difference in peripheral velocity on the heating roll between the printing paper and backing paper.