Gaston County Dyeing Machine Co.

William C Sturkey

James Keith Turner

Christoph Walter Aurich

Charles R Hornbuckle

James K Turner

Thomas W Van Scyoc

Paul L Abernathy

Christopher W Aurich

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

Apparatus for low liquid wet treatment of a textile material in various forms, such as lengths of fabric in rope form or yarn in skein form, through a treating chamber in the presence of a treatment liquid with the textile material being circulated through a predetermined path of treatment on oscillating support members in the form of parallel beams arranged in rows and caused to oscillate in an alternate manner in which alternate support members are driven through a raised support and movement path wherein the textile material is supported and moved forward thereon while intermediate support members are moved through a lowered return path out of supporting engagement with the textile material. While the textile material is being supported and moved by the support members, treatment liquid is applied by a system of horizontally opposed spray nozzles directed outwardly in a horizontally opposed manner such that the sprays collide, disrupting the spray pattern and causing the treatment liquid to fall as a mist onto the textile material passing thereunder.

Apparatus for low liquid wet treatment of a textile material

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

Apparatus for wet treatment of cloth in endless rope form through a treating chamber in the presence of a treating liquid, with the cloth rope being circulated through a cloth return tube that communicates with the ends of the treating chamber. A front venturi introduces treating liquid into the cloth return tube to apply impetus to the cloth rope to draw it from the treating chamber and circulate it back through the cloth return tube into the other end of the treating chamber. An optional rear venturi introduces treating liquid at the entry of the cloth return tube into the treating chamber to pull the cloth from the cloth return tube and direct the cloth and treating liquid upwardly against a deflecting plate that is adjustbaly positioned in the treating chamber to intercept the cloth and treating liquid, with the deflecting plate opening the cloth to substantially the full width of the treating chamber and direct it upwardly and forwardly for forming into folds that compact to form a plug of the cloth rope that progresses through the treating chamber. The circulating treating liquid is maintained at a predetermined level in the treating chamber and the deflecting plate directs the cloth above the liquid level so that air is entrained in the folds of the cloth plug to facilitate reorienting of the cloth as it is formed into folds and, thereby, minimizes creasing. The cloth plug is formed with an exposed portion above the level of the treating liquid in the treating chamber which exposed portion is sprayed with circulating treating liquid from a plurality of openings spaced longitudinally along the top of the inside of the treating chamber. The circulating liquid being sprayed from the openings provides multiple treatment locations for the progressing cloth plug and wets the interior surface of the treating chamber to prevent condensation and dripping of condensate onto the exposed portions of the cloth plug. The front venturi is incorporated in a liquid injection nozzle assembly that is removably mounted in the cloth return tube and has nozzle segments that are removable and adjustable in spacing to allow for modification of the capacity of the venturi to suit necessary handling requirements for various weight and type fabrics being treated.

Apparatus for wet treatment of cloth in endless rope form

An improved method and apparatus for wet processing an endless rope of material wherein a modified J-box arrangement is provided for storing an accumulation of rope in a treating bath and a combined overflow chamber and liquid jet assembly is provided for circulating the rope to and from the bath in an entraining liquid stream. The storage arrangement includes a partially perforate outer wall and an imperforate partial inner wall spaced inwardly therefrom forming a confinement area therebetween for rope and liquid returning from the circulatory system. The confinement is sufficient to maintain therein a column of the returning liquid extending above the level of the bath whereby gravitational forces acting thereon hydraulically move the rope accumulation through the bath, the rope in the confinement being released to expand as it moves past the terminating end of the inner wall whereby movement of the rope through the bath is enhanced.

Method for wet processing of textile material in endless rope form

Apparatus for wet processing of textile material in endless rope form

An improved jet dyeing machine is provided in which the jet circulation is arranged for extremely low impingement of the treating liquor on the fabric so that fabric composed of low twist spun yarns are handled at particularly good advantage, while excellent operating results are obtained as well with the considerable range of other fabrics that have heretofore been successfully handled by jet processing. The treating liquor circulation arrangement additionally provides for diversion of a major portion of the treating liquor being circulated so that foam generation is minimized and circulation performance is improved.

Soft flow jet dyeing machine

Apparatus is provided for effective low liquor wet processing of textile piece goods with exceptional flexibility as to type of fabric that may be handled and processing conditions that may be applied.

Apparatus for low liquor ratio wet processing of textile fabric

Effective bulking or shrinking of textile fabric prior to wet processing is obtained by recirculating the textile fabric in continuous loop form under an aspirating influence induced with an inert gas while applying heat to the fabric for such bulking or shrinking.

Heat treatment of textile fabric prior to wet processing

A reel for feeding cloth in rope form is provided that employs a plurality of spaced vanes radially arranged in alternately inclined relation so that their projected profiles cross intermediate their length and the outer vane edges are formed with a gently undulating configuration beyond such crossing for particularly effective feeding action.

Reel for feeding cloth in rope form

A jet machine for wet processing textile fabric in continuous loop form is provided that is capable of applying dyestuff effectively from either a migrating or non-migrating system and that may be employed as well for bulking or shrinking prior to wet processing.

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Charlotte, NC, United States of America

William C Sturkey