Abstract: The disclosure relates to techniques for high efficiency drying of wet-processed tubular knitted fabric. The wet tubular fabric is initially spread to flat form and then guided in a controlled manner over a so-called Mach nozzle, at which high velocity gaseous medium, usually steam, at speeds approaching the speed of sound and above, is discharged directly through the fabric, which is maintained in tension as it passes over the nozzle outlet. The thus treated tubular knitted fabric, now with a greatly reduced liquid content, is then immediately directed over a second spreader device, which distends the fabric widthwise to a predetermined, uniform width, to restore the fabric width lost during wet processing and during the relatively high tension nozzle treating operation. In this damp, geometrically stabilized condition, the fabric may be directed immediately into an otherwise conventional tensionless dryer for tubular knitted fabric, where the necessary final drying operations are completed.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a process for continuous wet treatment of textile material in a container holding treatment liquid through which the material is being transported and is being penetrated by treatment liquid in a manner which is essentially vertical to its surface, and to devices for carrying out the process.In a particularly appropriate device, textile material 16 is introduced from the top into treatment liquid 28, then is guided around a minimum of one part (52, 80, 81, 120) which is arranged in the lower region of inner container (30, 85, 87, 119) liquid permeable to a limited degree, along a wall, and is thereby deflected and transported in the direction of the upper edge of inner container (30, 85, 87, 119).

Abstract: A web treating method for treating both surfaces of a web of material, such as canvas, including treatment stations so arranged to place a coating on each side of the web; the web passing through at least one treatment station while running in one direction and through at least one other station after the direction of movement of the web has been reversed.

Abstract: Rinsing of textile material is accomplished in a tank having a rinsing zone through which the material passes upwardly from a resting zone. Rinsing fluid is applied to the upwardly moving material exclusively in the rinsing zone and in a quantity greater than that which the material can carry with it during its upward movement.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for applying a pattern to a continuously advancing web with a foam containing treatment medium. The pattern may be generated in the foam prior to or after the foam is transferred to the web. In one embodiment, the pattern is generated using two foam feeding devices arranged to form a patterned layer on a revolving element positioned over the web. The forward velocity of the web and the speed of rotation of the revolving element are controlled to obtain the desired pattern effect on the web.

Abstract: Pile articles, such as artificial furs, wherein at least a part of piles is colored in at least two kinds of colorations which vary in the length direction of the piles, said color variation being caused on level surfaces distant substantially constantly from a substrate fabric of said pile articles over a broad area of said pile articles, are produced by rotating a fibrous structure having piles fixed on a rotating body to raise the piles owing to centrifugal force caused by the rotation and contacting the raised piles with a treating liquid for fibers retained in a rotary container wherein a cylindrical interface of the treating liquid is formed due to the centrifugal force. The pile articles wherein the piles are uniformly gradationally colored in the length direction of the piles are also produced by gradually moving the above described level surface.

Abstract: A method for treating textile materials, such as carpet, employs an applicator station having a number of spray jets for causing a plurality of streams of fluid to be fanned out into a corresponding plurality of fan shape sheets of spray directed to the surface of a roller. The spray jets are used to spray either air, dye or gum. The roller is mounted for rotation in a dye or gum trough and the jets spray air or other fluid to cause a pattern to be formed in the dye or gum film on the roller. The pattern is transferred to the face of the carpet by a doctor blade or, alternately, directly to the carpet face. The trough may be filled with gum in which case the jets spray dye onto the film of gum picked up by the roller. The trough may also be used for dyeing in which case a different color dye is applied by the jets or multiple roll applicator stations may be provided for multi-color and tone effects. Alternately, no trough is used and dye or gum may be applied by the spray jets to the roller.

Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided for multi-color dyeing of a moving carpet with sharply defined specks forming no pattern from distribution of color, distribution of sizes, distribution of shapes, or attenuation of shapes of the specks. The specks are relatively high-viscosity colored segments in an aqueous immiscible gel mixture which is repeatedly mixed and distributed transversely of the direction of movement of the carpet and then spread into a thin layer by the upper surface of a Kuester roller and finally slid onto the moving carpet.

Abstract: A process and apparatus for treatment of continuous lengths of tubular knitted fabrics, involving wet processing, drying and then moisture conditioning of fabric. The fabric web is impregnated with a finishing resin in a wet processor, and is passed through a dryer to both eliminate the water of the processing solution and to cure the residual resin. The fabric emerging from the dryer is both extremely hot and, typically, bone dry, a condition considered unsatisfactory for gathering and further processing. In the disclosed invention, fabric enters a moisture conditioning chamber, in the lower portion, passes under a condensation guard, and then is guided vertically upward between opposed sets of finely atomizing spray nozzles. The fabric continues an upward course for a distance, and then is guided to a folder or roll up device.

Abstract: The very economical padding methods for applying liquid treatment agents and which have largely become established for flat-lying material are also interesting for dyeing and finishing tubular textile material. In the latter case, the use of this technique is however opposed by the finding that on impregnating circular-knitted goods on a pad mangle the squeeze edges are marked on both sides of the tube, which gives rise, for example, to undesirable color differences. According to the invention, this adverse phenomenon and the problems arising therefrom can be avoided if, through maintaining a relatively high liquor pick-up by the textile material and through mechanical shifting of the edges, the liquor is enabled to level out any unevenness produced on squeezing.

Abstract: A moisture control system is provided for controlling the amount of chemical added to a fabric. The system includes a suction pipe having a slot therein and a fabric positioned to pass over the slot. A vacuum source is connected through conduit means to the suction pipe. A source of liquid is provided including a predetermined percentage of chemical therein to be added to the fabric. Liquid from the liquid source is added to the fabric and the fabric containing the liquid from the liquid source is advanced over the suction pipe whereupon vacuum is applied to the fabric to deliquefy it. The vacuum source is set to provide a predetermined vacuum depending on the chemical concentration of the liquid and the composition of the fabric. As the fabric passes over the slot a change in the vacuum is sensed and the vacuum source is actuated to retain the vacuum to the predetermined condition thereby maintaining a constant moisture level and amount of added chemical in the fabric.

Abstract: Dye for coloring a carpet is applied to a manifold and then passed through a plurality of nozzles to a plate. The dye floods across the plate and then falls off the edge of the plate in a waterfall-like pattern to a carpet being carried below the plate. This provides for a coloring of the carpet with the dye. The improvement herein is in the recirculation of the dye in the manifold to maintain the particles in the dye in suspension, and further, to interrupt the flow of dye from the nozzles to the plate to better distribute dye particles on the plate for subsequent distribution to the carpet.

Abstract: Method of continuously treating planar textile structures by applying thereto a treatment medium in the form of foam, which includes subsequently applying underpressure to the planar textile structures at a magnitude at which the foam is completely destroyed without any appreciable flow through the material of the planar textile structures.

Abstract: In order to maintain at a constant value the quantity of liquor applied in the wet-on-wet application of two liquors of differing composition, it is necessary that the fabric web which is wet from the preceding wet treatment is first uniformly partially dewatered and the second liquor is then applied uniformly. By using high-moisture measuring instruments after the dewatering and also controlling the same with the aid of measured values, and by proceeding similarly after the repeated application of liquor, it is possible to stay within the tolerances which are necessary to ensure the uniformity of the two processes.

Abstract: A method for continuously treating strand-like textile material which is transported horizontally in vertical loops, by way of transverse rods or bars, through a treatment liquid, particularly a hot mixture of liquids; the formation of the loops occurs by way of vertical flow. The loop formation, the maintaining of the formed loop, the form or shape stability thereof, as well as the horizontal movement thereof are effected by transverse rods or bars, which are arranged in the lower loop bends and in the vicinity of the container bottom move from the textile strand inlet or entry side of the textile strand outlet or discharge side, and by a flow directed upwardly between the transverse rods or bars; the horizontal movement is aided by a horizontal transverse flow of the treatment liquid.

Abstract: A modified Kuester apparatus and a method for forming patterns of immiscible gels and of immobilized gels on a doctor blade functioning as a viewing screen before the gel pattern is deposited on a carpet are described. The preferred angle for the doctor blade is 30.degree.-40.degree..

Abstract: A method for applying a foam composition containing a coloring agent randomly dispersed therein onto a textile fabric. The coloring agent is mixed into the foam in a non-homogeneous manner and deposited onto a fabric in a system having a depositing means which is rotated and moved transverse to the direction of travel of the fabric being treated so as to achieve substantially random motion with respect to the fabric. The foam-coloring agent composition is caused to flow axially and in one embodiment over the edges of a baffle means in a random manner onto the textile fabric being treated so as to impart a random application of the coloring agent thereon.

Abstract: According to the invention disclosed herein wool sliver may be effectively shrinkproofed by immersing the sliver continuously into a bath of shrinkproofing solution to a depth of at least 1 meter if said sliver is carried down into said solution within 10.degree. of vertical. According to the invention the most useful solution is an aqueous solution into which chlorine gas has been aspirated. An apparatus according to the invention comprises a substantially U-shaped bath having a depth exceeding 1 meter and equipped with means to convey wool sliver into said bath within 10.degree. of vertical.

Abstract: This invention relates to a process and plant for the continuous mercerization of raw or colored, open or tubular knitted fabric. According to the invention the knitted fabric is impregnated with soda, passed through a series of rollers for causing reaction of the soda, passed through a series of at least five wash stages, and deeply wringed and collected in the case of raw fabric or deeply wringed, sized and further deeply wringed in the case of colored fabric. One or more dimensional control sections are distributed along the cycle.

Abstract: Dye is applied to the lower surface of a dye pickup roll for transfer to the pile surface of a length of carpet, and a squeegee roll engages the dye pickup roll after the dye has been applied to the pickup roll and before the dye is transferred from the pickup roll to the carpet. The external surface of the squeegee roll is approximately cylindrical with a multiple number of depressions formed therein, and the squeegee roll can be rotated and reciprocated with respect to the dye pickup roll, so that its high spots tend to wipe or "squeegee" the liquid dye from the surface of the dye pickup roll and its depressions or low spots tend to permit the dye to pass beyond the squeegee roll on the pickup roll in a pattern and move with the pickup roll into contact with the pile surface of the carpet. When the squeegee roll is reciprocated, it tends to prevent the pattern from being repeated on the dye pickup roll and on the carpet.

Abstract: A process is provided for dyeing textile materials in a solid shade with a jet injection dyeing apparatus, including conveying means for transporting the textile, jet orifices for delivering dye to said textile material, and control means for supplying data to control the operation of the application of dye from the jet orifices to the textile material, which comprises the steps of: modifying the textile material prior to dyeing of same by applying to said textile material an aqueous admixture containing an effective minor amount of a thickening agent to maintain the viscosity of said aqueous admixture at from about 150 to about 750 centipoises, preferably about 200 to about 400 centipoises, to thoroughly wet said textile material; dyeing said textile material in a solid shade with an acid dye composition having a viscosity of from about 150 to about 750 centipoises, preferably from about 200 to about 400 centipoises, by applying said dye composition by means of said jet injection dyeing apparatus in an amoun

Abstract: Continuous method for uniform foam treatment of planar textile structures wherein a foamed treatment medium for finishing and/or dyeing is applied to the planar structure which is then subjected to underpressure, which includes sucking the foam onto the planar structure to which the foam is to be applied, and introducing the foam together with the planar structure into an underpressure chamber wherein the pressure is low compared to the internal pressure of the bubbles of the foam.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for applying foam to an open-weave substrate. The apparatus contains angled shear strips to shear the foam positioned above a foam outlet. The shear strips, enclosed at each end, define a chamber above the foam outlet having open top and bottom sides for sequential contact of both sides of the substrate with the foam as the substrate travels across the outlet and both open top and bottom sides of the chamber.

Abstract: A process for desizing a fabric web comprising the steps of: first wetting the dry size-loaded fabric with the desizing liquor separated from a previous batch of fabric after desizing, so that the fabric, and the size adhering thereto, take up water from the desizing liquor by swelling and/or solvation, thereby increasing the concentration of the desizing liquor; separating the concentrated desizing liquor from the fabric; recycling the concentrated desizing liquor to a sizing operation; desizing the wetted fabric by a continuous fresh water wash; separating the desized fabric from the resulting desizing liquor; and recycling the desizing liquor to the first wetting step.

Abstract: A twisted textile web is detwisted by continuously withdrawing the web from a supply and passing the web longitudinally along a path and over a curved deflecting surface formed by a roller that deflects the web and divides the path into an upstream leg and a downstream leg that are out of alignment with each other. The deflecting surface can pivot about a pivot axis which passes through a pivot located to the upstream side of a straight line passing through the center of curvature of the deflecting surface and angularly equispaced between the legs. In a central position of the deflecting surface the two legs, the surface, and the pivot are all coplanar so that a twist in the web will pivotally deflect the surface in a direction depending on the direction of twist. The extent of pivoting is detected and the web is detwisted in the upstream leg in response to the detected pivoting of the surface.

Abstract: A carpet printing method is disclosed, and an apparatus for carrying out the method. The method includes the steps of supporting a piece of fabric on a perforate belt, generating a foam adjacent to the fabric and directing the foam through the belt to treat the fabric. The apparatus includes a pan having pipes for admitting dye and air into the pan to generate a foam. A belt is disposed across the open top of the pan, the belt carrying the fabric. The air both foams the liquid and provides pressure within the pan to urge the foam through the belt and into the fabric.

Abstract: A cold padding batch dyeing process for a tubular knitted fabric comprises feeding the fabric into a padding tank, subjecting it to air inflating, blowing compressed air into the fabric to expand it into its original tubular shape, squeezing the fabric at a squeezing rate of 95 to 120% by passing it between a pair of mangles each having a layer of rubber having a Shore hardness of 55 to 70, and leaving the fabric for ageing over a period of at least four hours. The length of time between entry of the fabric into the padding tank and its departure from the mangles is controlled to 10 to 20 seconds.

Abstract: In a method of heat fulling and water washing of cloth, hot fluid is injected onto both surfaces of the cloth from hot fluid injection nozzles in upper and lower rows to sandwich the cloth in such manner that the positions of nozzles in the upper row alternate with those nozzles in the lower row, with the cloth passing through an opening between upper and lower net conveyors so that the cloth is immersed in cleaning liquid, with both a cleansing effect and fulling effect being given to the cloth.

Abstract: A method and a washing machine for cleaning of rugs or mats having a nap or pile side, whereby the rugs or mats are successively conveyed along a conveying path and are exposed to cleaning operations, at least one of which is a pulsating operation, during which each mat or rug is also exposed to a relatively abrupt change of direction of conveyance in order to open an area of pile at the pile side of the mat or rug. The change of direction preferably has a radius of curvature in a range between 1.5 cm and 15 cm during an angular change of direction of approximately 180 degrees. The cleaning fluid used in one operation is for saving of energy preferably used also in another earlier cleaning operation on the mats or rugs, possibly after having been conditioned for this earlier operation.

Abstract: A horizontally moving belt has a waffle grid surface into the compartments of which dyes are injected in accordance with a desired color pattern to be printed. Carpeting is moved adjacent the waffle grid surface with the pile facing down toward the grid. A counter roller supports the waffle grid at the printing station, and an oppositely disposed protuberance-bearing pressure roller pushes the backing of the carpet so that the pile enters the compartments of the waffle grid and is immersed in the dye pattern. The protuberances ensure adequate immersion of the pile while permitting escape of air and avoiding squeezing of the dye from the pile, which would otherwise occur by engagement of the pressure roller with the grid walls in the absence of the protuberances. The angle of approach of the carpet to the printing station is slightly inclined from the horizontal to ensure a gradual depression of the pile and to avoid rolling the dye out away from the nip region of the printing station.

Abstract: A process for the continuous washing of printed dye-fixed, web-shaped textile material, e.g. woven or knit fabrics formed of natural and/or synthetic fibers, on a full-width washing machine which involves first moistening the textile material, allowing the textile material to dwell in a folded condition, the dewatering of the textile material and immediately thereafter subjecting the textile material to an intensive throughflow from the outside toward the inside of a washing material on a rotating sieve drum. In this process in order to promote the swelling of the printing paste or the like, the textile material dwells in a cold liquor and then a film detachable from the textile material which covers the textile material is removed mechanically and thereafter the textile material is subjected to the intensive throughflow with a hot liquid on the sieve drum.

Abstract: To obtain optical effects, particularly dye pattern effects, a treatment is proposed for a web of material or a number of webs of material guided side by side in the nip between treatment rollers, more particularly a web of material impregnated with or containing dye or other finishes, wherein the treatment pressure is set differently in individual longitudinal portions of the nip or is set intermittently, so that the web of material is exposed to different treatment pressures at different points, with the result that, in particular, the dye or other finish is forced out of the parts of the web of material subjected to the greatest pressure, and into those parts subjected to least pressure. An apparatus is proposed for carrying out this treatment, wherein one of the treatment rollers which form the nip is a deflection adjustment roller and comprises support members which are associated with controllable pressure regulators for regulating the pressure in the support members.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for wet treatment, especially treating with lye solution and mercerizing, of knitted tubular goods. According to the method, the tube is passed through the space between adjacent rollers. A longitudinal movement is imparted to one of the two respectively straight portions of the cross section of the tube, while a transverse movement is imparted to the other straight section. The apparatus for carrying out this method is a foulard having driven rollers, at least some of which are constantly movable in an axial direction, which is transverse to the longitudinal movement of the tube, successive axially movable rollers having a progressively delayed axial movement.

Abstract: A rug or mat cleaning system 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 system, 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: A system and method for cleaning and drying porous fabrics such as tufted carpet are disclosed. A porous fabric is first wetted and then passed over a slotted vacuum pipe. A backup plate is positioned opposite the slot, and the fabric passes between the slot and plate. Air is forced to flow in an indirect route into the slot to maximize cleaning and drying. The gap between the slot and backup plate is adjustable to enable the system to handle fabrics or carpets of varying thickness.

Abstract: In an apparatus for treating a blanket of rayon fibers with a treating solution having means for conveying said blanket and at least one means for compressing out excess solution prior to drying, including means along the edges of said blanket for causing the edges of said blanket to turn in and fold over on itself prior to compression during its advancement along the conveyor means.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for providing an impregnation/rinsing of a web with fluid is disclosed wherein the web is repeatedly gently squeezed and allowed to open. A preforated conveyor belt carries the web within a longitudinal tank in which a series of squeeze rollers and a series of singular or cooperating rollers are arranged with the cooperating rollers being disposed intermediate the squeeze rollers. The web is carried by the conveyor belt beneath the first squeeze roller where the web is gently squeezed in a nip defined between the conveyor belt and the roller. The conveyor belt then carries the web above a cooperating roller. After the web has been gently squeezed, it is allowed to absorb the fluid in the tank without restraint until the web is gently squeezed again between the conveyor belt and the next squeeze roller. The steps of squeezing and absorbing are repeated throughout the longitudinal tank.

Abstract: A process for continuously washing a printed textile sheet-like structure, wherein water or a wash liquor is applied to the goods so that they entrain from 80 to 500% of water, based on the weight of the goods, the goods are then squeezed off between rollers so as to remove at least 30% of water, based on the weight of the goods, and the surface-swollen print paste residues are transferred from the goods to the roller, from which they are removed by means of water. The treatment can be repeated one or more times, and a conventional afterwash can be carried out if appropriate. The process is cheaper than conventional processes and only slightly affects the color of the unprinted areas.

Abstract: A process for the treatment of textile materials, such as woven fabrics, with finishing agents such as dyestuffs, waterproofing materials and the like. The finishing agent is applied in a foam composition to a downwardly moving length of textile material immediately prior to the passage of the material through a pair of horizontally disposed pressure rollers. A predetermined quantity of the foam composition is maintained just prior to the pressure rollers in a dam through which the textile material passes. The pressure rollers break the foam and impregnate the finishing agent into the textile which is thereafter dried and/or cured/or fixed.

Abstract: The disclosure is directed to method and apparatus for processing of tubular knitted fabric with a liquid material, for uniformly impregnating the fabric with the liquid. The fabric initially is directed over a propeller-spreader frame, in which the fabric is laterally distended to flat form and to predetermined, uniform width. At the discharge end of the spreader, the fabric is guided directly into the nip of a pair of opposed, resilient pad rollers. Immediately in advance of the pad rollers, both the upper and lower surfaces of the generally horizontally disposed fabric are sprayed with the liquid processing solution. The sprays are directed from a plurality of nozzles, spaced across the width of the fabric, and directed at an angle to the surface of the fabric and toward the nip area of the pad rolls. The spreader frame is inclined downwardly toward the pad rolls, at a slight angle (e.g. 6.degree. or 7.degree.

Abstract: A process for the continuous dyeing or printing of lengths of textile material, such as carpet panels having a portion which consists of shrinkable fibers that are set prior to the application of dyes or printing inks includes the step of forcing a hot liquid medium through the length of textile material. An apparatus for effecting this process includes a sieve drum through which the hot liquid medium flows from the inside towards the outside with the material lying on the circumference of the sieve drum.

Abstract: An improved process for dyeing carpet by intermittently moving the carpet along a path having horizontal and vertical portions. The horizontal portion of the path is immersed in a print form having compartments separated by thin walls and filled with liquid dyes of varying colors, to impart a desired pattern to the fabric. After the horizontal portion of the fabric is withdrawn from the print form, the fabric is moved along its path so that the immersed portion is moved along the vertical portion of the path. A vacuum slot along the vertical portion of the path adjacent the horizontal portion is activated only while the carpet is in motion, and serves to draw the dye toward the backing of the carpet while removing excess dye therefrom. Thereafter the carpet is steamed to set the dyes.

Abstract: A method for continuously dyeing a thick textile material such as a blanket or carpet material or the like. The thick textile material is arranged to be continuously pulled upward and guided over a slanting plate from a lower position to a higher position. A nozzle tube is arranged to spray a dye solution at the thick textile material in an atomized state while the textile material is on the move being guided upward along the slanting plate. The spraying quantity of the dye solution discharged out of the nozzle tube is set to have all of the sprayed quantity of the dye solution absorbed by the thick textile material without having any superfluous portion of the solution flowing down and yet to ensure sufficient impregnation of the textile material with the dye solution. The textile material impregnated with the dye solution is further continuously fowarded and passed through a hygro-thermic treatment chamber and a water washing device.

Abstract: Methods of and apparatus for cold dyeing pile fabrics, particularly carpets, wherein dye liquor is first applied to the pile side of the fabric in an amount between 150% and 300% of the material weight, the dye impregnated fabric then being coiled, under tension, into a roll and the roll allowed to stand, all at room temperature. The magnitude of the tensile force applied to the fabric is greater than about 90% of that required to cause dye liquor to emerge from the roll, but is not more than that which enables 5%, at the most, of the liquor to emerge from the roll.

Abstract: Process for the uniform application of treatment liquors to textile material webs with the aid of a measurement of the total moisture content applied, wherein, in the course of the material run, immediately behind a machine for applying the liquor to the continuously fed material, several measuring position are arranged transversely to the transport direction of the material and measurements of the total moisture are made by means of a contactless method, the measuring pulses determined in this manner are transmitted to the control elements of the preceding liquor application unit and there the amount of liquor pick-up from several separately controllable sections, which are distributed across the width of liquor application unit, is controlled in agreement with the measured values of the total mixture.

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: A method and apparatus for washing running length textile fabric in open width, in which fabric advances generally upwardly through a washing chamber and along a sinuous path having a plurality of substantially planar runs inclined at an angle to the horizontal while wash water cascades downwardly on the fabric. The wash water cascades from one to another of a plurality of trays in such a manner as to bring fabric being washed into contact with progressively cleaner water as the fabric is being progressively cleaned.

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: Method and apparatus for washing rugs and the like which includes conveying a rug upwardly along an inclined path, with the nap of the rug facing upwardly, then compressing the rug, preferably by a roller, at a location extending transversely to the inclined path of the rug. A jet of water and detergent is then directed toward the rug as it is conveyed past the compressing roller to thereby form a pool of water and detergent that is dammed by the roller, such pool of water and detergent being continuously agitated by the directed jet to clean the rug. A cleaning brush may also be added ascensionally to the directed jet, and compartmentalized collection means may be provided for collecting the water and detergent mixture separately from the cleaner rinse water, with the rinse water being recirculated through the washing system to reduce the water requirements of the washing operation.

Abstract: The disclosure is that of an invention directed to a horizontal padder and extractor for circular knit fabric tubes and includes a pair of squeeze rolls disposed with their axes in the same horizontal plane, thus defining an upwardly open nip for retaining a puddle of impregnating liquid. A safety guard is pivotally mounted over the squeeze rolls and is operably connected to an electrical interlock to deactivate the machine whenever the safety guard is not in proper position. A steaming station is provided ahead of the padder and extractor and a horizontal orienting spreader feeds the spread fabric tube to the padder at a tangent to the upper surface of the front squeeze roll thereof.