JP3340562B2 - Continuous cleaning equipment for long fabrics - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY The present invention enables effective cleaning of a long fabric while continuously transporting the long fabric, and can perform a cleaning treatment under water-saving resources and heat-saving energy. The present invention relates to a continuous cleaning apparatus for long fabrics configured as described above.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A long fabric produced and processed industrially is usually subjected to pre-treatment and post-treatment to produce a product. However, a washing treatment is required at appropriate times during the pre-treatment and post-treatment. The general cleaning equipment used in the production and processing industry for long fabrics is a large-scale equipment that occupies most of the pre-processing step or the post-processing step. In addition, a large amount of water resources and heat energy are consumed in the cleaning treatment performed using the cleaning treatment equipment.

[0003] For this reason, a continuous cleaning apparatus for long fabrics capable of performing effective cleaning under water-saving resources and heat-saving energy has been developed, and the present inventors have developed a wide variety of cleaning methods. An apparatus is provided.

[0004]

Although the continuous cleaning device for long fabrics which has already been developed is currently effective and excellent in practicality, the present invention further provides quick cleaning and water saving. It has been developed aiming at a continuous washing apparatus for fabrics that can increase resources and heat-saving energy.

[0005]

That is, the present invention constitutes a washing tower capable of continuously passing a long fabric to be washed, and the inside of the washing tower is divided into a lower section, a middle section and an upper section. The washing tower is provided with a cloth inlet at the middle position of the washing tower, and a sufficient amount of hot water is sprayed from both sides of the cloth transferred from the cloth inlet toward the upper part to form a cloth surface. Constitutes an impurity drop-off zone in which a number of hot water injection nozzles are disposed for dropping impurities adhered to the surface, and furthermore, a steaming zone of high temperature and high humidity is not provided in the upper section, and the fabric is directed to the fabric in the middle section. A washing zone to which washing water is applied, and furthermore, in the lower part, the washing water flowing down from the washing zone and the drainage etc. flowing down from the steaming zone are subjected to a filtration treatment to filter the impurities. A reuse zone for reduction to the falling zone is provided, and the fabric to be subjected to the cleaning treatment is sequentially passed through the steaming zone and the cleaning zone after the impurity removal zone, thereby making it possible to reduce water consumption and resources in a very short time. An object of the present invention is to provide a continuous cleaning apparatus for a long fabric, which can effectively perform cleaning under heat energy.

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to embodiments shown in the drawings.

Reference numeral 1 denotes a washing tower, and the inside of the washing tower 1 is divided into three zones of an upper stage, a middle stage, and a lower stage, the upper stage being a steaming zone 2, and the middle stage being a washing zone 3. The lower stage is configured as a reuse treatment zone 4 for treated water. Further, in the middle position, a cloth inlet 5 and a outlet 6 are provided, and from the inlet 5, the upper part is formed toward the upper part and the second part is formed from the upper part toward the lower part. The first and second hot water application zones 7 and 8 are configured.

In the steaming zone 2, a guide roll 10 for moving the fabric 9 in a meandering manner in the steaming zone 2 and a fabric meandering by the guide roll 10 are heated at a high temperature of about 100.degree. The spray nozzle 11 for steaming with steam and the heating means 22 for heating the fabric with far infrared rays or microwaves are provided.

In the washing zone 3, in addition to the guide roll 10 for guiding the cloth, a hot water supply tank 12 for supplying fresh hot water to the entire upper surface of the cloth guided by the guide roll 10 in the horizontal direction. And a vacuum box 13 opposed to the hot water supply tank 12 with the cloth 9 interposed therebetween.
Is arranged. The hot water supply tank 12 rectifies hot water supplied from a hot water supply source 14 provided outside the tower into a film by overflow means, and uniformly distributes the film-like running water over the entire width direction of the cloth 9. It is to be given. The hot water supply tank 12 can use a known device that has been already developed by the present inventor, so that the detailed description of the structure of the hot water supply tank 12 is omitted.

The vacuum box 13 is for sucking hot water impregnated in the cloth 9, and a pump 16 is connected to the vacuum box 13 via a filter box 15.

In the reuse treatment zone, the drain dropped from the steaming zone 2, the washing water dropped from the washing zone 3, and the hot water application zones 7, 8 described later.
An automatic filter box 17 for collecting and filtering the hot water dropped from the tank and a pump 18 for reducing the hot water stored in the box to the first and second hot water application zones 7 and 8 are provided.

Inside the first and second hot water application zones 7 and 8 which are vertical passages, the fabric 9 running in the first and second hot water application zones 7 and 8 faces toward both surfaces thereof. A number of hot water nozzles 19 for applying hot water sent from the pump 18 are provided in multiple stages vertically. Reference numeral 20 denotes a rectifying plate for uniformly applying the hot water supplied from the hot water nozzle 19 to the entire width direction of the fabric.

A nozzle 21 for applying the hot water sent from the pump 16 to the cloth 9 is provided at a substantially central portion in the vertical direction of the hot water application zone 8.
Reference numeral 23 denotes a squeezing roll installed outside the washing tower.

The construction of this embodiment is as described above. Next, the operation will be described. The cloth transferred from the outside of the washing tower 1 rises through the inlet 5 into the first hot water application zone 7 and is transferred. In the meantime, hot water jetted from the hot water nozzle 19 and further rectified in the width direction of the cloth 9 by the action of the rectifying plate 20 is applied, whereby the entire surface of the cloth 9 transported in the first hot water application zone 7 is provided. When the hot water is uniformly distributed, the nozzles and the rectifying plate 20 repeatedly apply the hot water to pre-wash impurities such as a paste and a dye adhered to the front and back surfaces of the fabric.

The fabric from which impurities adhering to the front and back of the fabric in the first hot water application zone 7 have been dropped is supplied into the steaming zone 2. Steaming zone 2
First, the inner core of the fabric (fiber) is heated and expanded by the heating means 22 using far-infrared rays, microwaves, etc., whereby impurities located in the inner core of the fiber migrate to the fiber surface. It is easy to be. The fabric heated and expanded by the heating means 22 is steamed by the steam injected from the steam injection nozzle 11, whereby impurities in the fiber inner core are transferred to the fiber surface.

The fabric whose impurities have been transferred to the fiber surface and the fabric surface in this way is supplied to the washing zone 3 through the second hot water application zone 8, and the second hot water application zone 8 The passing cloth receives the applying force of hot water from the hot water nozzle 19 and the applying force of hot water from the nozzle 21, whereby impurities located on the surface of the cloth are dropped, and then supplied into the washing zone 3.

The cloth 9 supplied into the washing zone 3
Receives fresh hot water overflowing from the hot water supply source 14 on the upper surface of the fabric and receives the suction force of the vacuum box 13 on the lower surface of the fabric, so that fresh hot water is transmitted from the front surface to the back surface of the fabric, whereby the fabric Impurities located in the inner core portion are washed away, thereby effectively cleaning the fabric.

On the other hand, the cleaning water flowing down from the first and second hot water application zones 7 and 8 and the cleaning zone 3 and the draining water flowing down from the steaming zone 2 are filtered in the automatic filter box 15 and the pump 18 Is sent to each hot water nozzle by the driving force of the above and reused.
Further, the impurities (scale) accumulated in the automatic filter box 17 are appropriately collected and collected, so that the automatic filter box can be continuously used.

As described above, in the present embodiment, the cloth supplied into the cleaning tower 1 is first subjected to pre-washing of impurities adhering to the front and back surfaces of the cloth by applying hot water, and then to In the steaming zone 2, impurities located in the core of the fabric and the fiber are transferred to the surface of the fabric and the fiber, and then the impurities transferred to the surface of the fabric and the fiber are washed away by the second hot water application zone 8. be able to.

Next, when the fabric is supplied into the washing zone 3, fresh water (fresh hot water) is transmitted from one side to the other side of the fabric, so that the fabric is positioned on the inner core portion and the fabric surface. Impurities are effectively removed from the fabric, and these are used to completely wash the fabric.

[0021]

As described above, according to the present invention, an inlet and an outlet for fabric are provided at substantially the vertical center of a vertically formed washing tower, and the inlet is provided inside the washing tower. From the top to the top, and during the pull,
A first hot water application zone in which a number of hot water nozzles for applying hot water toward both sides of the fabric are provided vertically, and formed at the upper inside of the washing tower, and from the hot water application zone Heating means for heating the supplied inner core of the fabric and a steaming zone for holding a steaming atmosphere for steaming and heat treatment, and hot water and hot water are applied to both sides of the fabric in the middle of a fabric passage extending below the steaming zone. A second hot water application zone in which a plurality of hot water nozzles and hot water nozzles to be applied are provided, and a fabric formed at a middle stage in the washing tower and fed from the second hot water application zone from one surface to the other surface. A washing zone provided with a hot water supply tank and a vacuum box through which fresh hot water permeates, and a treatment formed in the lower stage of the washing treatment tower and flowing down from each of the above zones Is a continuous cleaning apparatus for long fabrics comprising a re-use treatment zone provided with an automatic filter box for re-using, particularly in the present invention, in one vertical washing treatment tower 1, The first hot water application zone 7, the steaming zone 2, the second hot water application zone 8, and the washing zone 3 are arranged in this order, and the fabric to be subjected to the washing process is passed along each of the zones. In this way, continuous washing of long fabrics can be performed reliably and effectively in a short time.

In the apparatus of the present invention, the upper part of the vertical washing tower is formed as a steaming zone 2 in which steam is kept.
The heat energy rising from the hot water application zone 7 and the second hot water application zone 8 is accumulated, and as a result, there is an effect that the loss of the heat energy is small and the amount of heat can be effectively used.

Further, in the present invention, the hot water used in the first hot water application zone, the second hot water application zone, and the washing zone can be collected and filtered in the reuse treatment zone and reused. It is possible to save the cost and obtain the effect that the cloth can be washed under water-saving resources.

Further, in the present invention, since each of the above-mentioned processing zones is arranged inside the vertical washing tower, there is an effect that the entire apparatus can be made compact while having many processing zones.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a structural explanatory view showing a continuous cleaning apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Cleaning processing tower 2 ... Steaming zone 3 ... Cleaning zone 4 ... Reuse processing zone 5 ... Inlet 6 ... Outlet 7 ... 1st hot water application zone 8 ... 2nd hot water application zone 9 ... Fabric 10 ... Guide Roll 11 ... Steam injection nozzle 12 ... Hot water supply tank 13 ... Vacuum box 14 ... Hot water supply source 15 ... Filter box 16 ... Pump 17 ... Automatic filter box 18 ... Pump 19 ... Hot water nozzle 20 ... Rectifying plate 21 ... Nozzle 22 ... Heating means

──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuation of the front page (56) References JP-A-55-51872 (JP, A) JP-A-4-153355 (JP, A) JP-A-55-132763 (JP, A) 74696 (JP, U) Hikaru Hei 1-142488 (JP, U) (58) Field surveyed (Int. Cl. ⁷ , DB name) D06B 3/12

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] An inlet and an outlet for fabric are provided at substantially the center in the vertical direction of a vertically formed washing tower, and inside the washing tower, the fabric is pulled up from the inlet to the upper part. In the middle of pulling up, a first hot water application zone in which a number of hot water nozzles for applying hot water toward both sides of the fabric are provided up and down, and the hot water application zone is formed at the upper inside of the washing tower, and A heating means for heating the inner core of the fabric supplied from the hot water application zone and a steaming zone for holding a steaming atmosphere for steaming and heat treatment, and in the middle of a fabric passage extending downward from the steaming zone,
A second hot water application zone in which a plurality of hot water nozzles and hot water nozzles for applying hot water and hot water toward both sides of the fabric are formed, and a second hot water application zone formed at a middle stage in the washing tower; A washing zone provided with a hot water supply tank and a vacuum box through which fresh hot water permeates from one side of the fed fabric to the other side, and treated water formed in the lower stage of the washing treatment tower and flowing down from each of the zones is re-used. A continuous cleaning apparatus for a long fabric, comprising a reuse processing zone provided with an automatic filter box for use.