Gebruder Sucker & Franz Muller Gmbh & Co.

Siegfried Dudde

Gerhard Voswinckel

A web drying apparatus is provided for a textile machine of the type which is operable to apply a coating or otherwise to wet a web of textile material which is continuously traveled therethrough. The web drying apparatus includes at least a pair of groups of cylindrical drying rollers with each group of rollers being disposed on a respective side of a reference plane. The reference plane is inclined upwardly relative to a nip formed by a pair of squeezing rollers of the wetting device which applies the coating or otherwise wets the textile material. In one embodiment, the drying rollers of one group are disposed in a horizontal plane and the drying rollers of the other group are disposed in a vertical plane. The web drying apparatus additionally includes a device for separating a wet textile web into multiple separate webs. In one embodiment, each separate web travels around the rollers of a respective one of the groups of drying rollers and each separate web travels approximately the same extent from the separating location to the circumferential location on the initial one of the rollers around which it travels.

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Monchen-Gladbach, Germany

Siegfried Dudde