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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2015
Morrison Textile Machinery Company, Fort Lawn, SC (US);
Herman O. Humphrey, Fort Mill, SC (US);
Kent B. Clark, Lancaster, SC (US);
Owen G. Khoury, Lancaster, SC (US);
Timothy S. Threatt, Lancaster, SC (US);
John N. Realmuto, Heath Springs, SC (US);
Morrison Textile Machinery Company, Fort Lawn, SC (US);
Abstract
Apparatus and method for washing an elongate textile article of extended indeterminate length utilizes a containment structure defining a channel extending upwardly from a lower end to an upper end thereof, with a plurality of undulations spaced-apart from one another within the channel between the lower and upper ends thereof, each undulation extending transversely across the channel. A portion of the lengthwise extent of the traveling textile article is advanced transiently within the channel upwardly from the lower end to the upward end and across the undulations, while a substantially continuous supply of cleansing liquid enters the channel at the upper end to flow downwardly against the upwardly traveling portion of the textile article for cleansing thereof.