Gaston County Dyeing Machine Co.

Owens-corning Fiberglas Corporation

James K Turner

Thomas W Van Scyoc

William C Sturkey

Graham F Clifford

Charles R Hornbuckle

Matthew A Meeker

Paul L Abernathy

George G Hacker

Christoph Walter Aurich

Mack W Spurrier

David G Laws

Bobby G Payne

Robert L Catoe

Roy C Killian

J Alan Morgan

A jet-type textile wet processing machine is equipped with a pivotable inner wall assembly within the entrance end of the fabric chamber in the processing vessel for selective pivotal disposition to control definition of the plug form of the fabric advancing through the chamber and has an internally segmented jet nozzle structure for creating annularly differentiated impinging streams of processing liquid on the traveling fabric rope. Unique processing applications enabled by the machine include simultaneously treating within a single chamber two independent disconnected endless fabric ropes or a single fabric rope or a single fabric rope in doubled form.

Textile wet processing machine and method

An adapter for using a yarn package carrier in both vertically and horizontally oriented treatment vats includes a platform for supporting the yarn package carrier, an assembly for engagement of the adapter by a carrier transfer device and a fluid passageway arrangement formed in the platform for directing treatment fluid from the vertically oriented vat into the yarn package carrier.

Adapter for using a horizontal package dyeing carrier with a vertical

A horizontal package dyeing machine in which yarn packages are supported in carriers that have a base with tubular posts projecting therefrom for stacking yarn packages thereon and a wall secured to and extending upwardly from the periphery of the base to form an enclosure for confining treating liquid. The base is formed with two liquid distribution chambers, one being an upper chamber communicating with the interior of the posts and the other being a lower chamber communicating with the interior of the enclosure. The distribution chambers have open ends that can communicate with liquid supplying and withdrawing ducts of the machine for circulation of treating liquid within the carrier enclosure. The carriers are dimensioned for positioning two carriers in a vessel with the open ends of the distribution chambers in communication for flow of treating liquid therebetween. The open end of the discharge chambers of a carrier at the opening end of the vessel has its discharge chamber ends blocked by a positioning member on the lid of the vessel. An insert member may be used in place of a second carrier when dyeing a half batch of yarn packages or less, with the insert member having a flow blocking surface disposed against the distribution chamber openings at the adjacent end of the adjacent carrier and having its other end against the positioning member of the lid of the vessel.

Horizontal wet treatment machines for textiles and textile material

An apparatus for driving a lifter reel in a machine for wet processing of fabric in endless rope form having a jet for directing a flow of liquid to the fabric rope to cause circulation thereof is disclosed and contains a rotatable lifter reel upstream of the jet and over which the fabric rope travels to the jet. The apparatus includes a baffle wheel affixed coaxially to one end of the lifter reel out of the path of the fabric traveling over the lifter reel. The wheel has radially extending baffles against which a liquid flow nozzle directs a flow of liquid in a direction to drive the lifter reel in the direction of rope travel to the jet. The liquid flow nozzle is adjustable radially with respect to the baffle wheel to vary the driven rate of rotation of the lifter reel. The nozzle is commonly connected with the jet to a source of liquid under pressure for use of liquid from the same source by the jet and the nozzle. A reverse nozzle may also be included which is positioned to direct a flow of fluid against the baffles in a direction opposite the rope lifting direction for alternatively causing reverse rotation of the lifter reel.

Apparatus for driving a lifter reel in a fabric wet processing machine

Apparatus particularly adapted for applying foamed treating liquor to a flat width of a traveling non-woven textile substrate includes a longitudinal tubular foam distribution nozzle one side of which has a plurality of closely-spaced staggered apertures for engaging and applying pressurized foam widthwise across the substrate and a driven drum opposed to the nozzle engaging widthwise the opposite side of the substrate for imparting traveling movement to the substrate. The drum and nozzle cooperate to compress the substrate therebetween in covering relation over the apertures to prevent lateral escape of the foam therefrom and to confine the emission of foam therethrough, thereby to uniformly control foam application across the substrate width as it travels by the nozzle. Limited contact of the apparatus with the substrate prevents frictional pulling and structural damage thereto. The drum is perforated for escape of the air component of the foam and to enhance foam penetration of the substrate. If desired, one apparatus may be employed to achieve full substrate penetration or two serial apparatus may be arranged to treat respectively opposite substrate sides for full penetration.

Apparatus for applying foamed treating liquor

A wet processing jet machine for treating textile piece goods in rope form at a low liquid ratio. A plug supporting tube is provided as a vertical extension of a U-shaped processing chamber. The sides of the chamber are perforated and the bottom is imperforate for enhanced movement of the plug through the chamber. The tube extension is perforated to allow flow of liquid therefrom for enhanced plaiting. The amount of liquid with the rope in the plug is minimized for low liquid requirements and the head of the plug causes the plug to progress through the chamber above the low level of the liquid in the bottom of the vessel, which liquid level is below the bottom of the chamber or at least at a level that does not cause substantial floatation of the plug. The rope entering the tube is plaited by passing through an inverted frusto-conical plaiting nozzle that is oscillated and reciprocated to provide effective plaiting. In addition, a steam jet nozzle is provided for treatment and also to provide a driving impetus to the rope as it travels through the machine. The nozzle is formed with an annular housing having a wide steam accumulation chamber connected to a narrow supply passage leading upstream to a wide distribution chamber from which the steam flows downstream through a delivery passage to an annular orifice opening at a downstream inclination into the interior housing through which the rope travels.

Low-liquid jet machine for wet processing textile fabric

A textile wet processing machine of the type wherein an endless fabric rope is circulated in plug form through a U-shaped chamber having perforated side walls is equipped with an inner wall having lateral flanges for mounting by special fasteners in differing dispositions between the chamber side walls utilizing the existing perforations therein to selectively vary the cross-sectional size of the chamber to accommodate particular processing requirements of differing fabrics.

Textile wet processing machine having fabric circulation chamber with

A liquor applying nozzle has a hollow tubular frame surrounding the path of a textile rope circulating in a textile dyeing machine to provide an opening having an elongated, generally straight, transversely extending bottom, a transversely extending top surface spaced from the bottom, and a pair of spaced, upstanding, generally straight side surfaces. Dye liquor is distributed through the hollow interior of the frame to lower and upper orifices extending across the bottom and top surface of the frame. The nozzle further includes an enclosure portion extending downstream from the tubular frame and upper and lower plate-like members that extend in spaced relation to the enclosure portion and are adjustable with respect thereto to adjustably define the size of the orifices.

Liquor applying nozzle for a textile dyeing machine

Means for applying foamed treating liquor to a flat width traveling textile substrate using a cylindrical supporting member extending axially transversely across the width of the substrate and supporting a projecting applicator nozzle. A circumferentially extending distribution chamber is formed on the cylindrical supporting member by a cover plate mounted in spaced relation on the cylindrical supporting member by resilient side strips to which the cover plate is tightened circumferentially in sealing disposition. The distribution chamber diverges from an inlet port adjacent the nozzle circumferentially around a major extent of the cylindrical supporting member to the full width of the nozzle. End closures are slidably manipulated in the ends of the nozzle to limit the transverse extent of the nozzle opening in following relation to variations in the transverse positions of the edges of the traveling substrate in response to a sensing device. A plate-like projection may be provided across the distribution chamber adjacent the nozzle to restrict flow of the foamed treating liquor and thereby assure proper uniform distribution of the liquor across the distribution chamber to the nozzle. The projection preferably tapers from a maximum circumferential extent at the center to minimum extents at the outer ends for further assurance of proper transverse distribution of the foamed treating liquor across the distribution chamber to the nozzle.

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Stanley, NC, United States of America

James K Turner