US3605454A - Method and apparatus for the continuous wet treatment of textile fabrics - Google Patents

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US3605454A
US3605454A US780631A US3605454DA US3605454A US 3605454 A US3605454 A US 3605454A US 780631 A US780631 A US 780631A US 3605454D A US3605454D A US 3605454DA US 3605454 A US3605454 A US 3605454A
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    • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
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  • a method and apparatus for the continuous wet treatment of fabrics involves leading the fabrics through a wet treatment zone extending over the entire Width of the fabrics.
  • the fabrics are subjected to jets of the treatment liquid, the jets being wide band jets which are laminar, dimensionally stable, and fixed as to time and location.
  • jets are directed against the textile materials under pressure and at an angle of between 45 and 135 to the surface of the fabrics, the pressure being such that the jets press through the textile material.
  • Continuous wet treatment of textile fabrics includes washing, bleaching, steaming, dyeing, impregnating, shrinking, creping, or mercerizing textiles such as woven or knit goods, fleeces of natural or synthetic fiber or filaments, and the like.
  • Difiiculty has hitherto been encountered in developing a method and apparatus for the continuous wet treatment of textile fabrics capable of providing an intensive and, at the same time, absolutely uniform treatment, of a textile material at a high throughput rate, and which is adaptable to all variables of the textile material, such as areal density, thickness, resistance to deformation, stiffness, permeability and wettability, as well as being adaptable to variables of the treatment liquid, such as temperature and viscosity.
  • Such adaptability is necessary to provide the best conditions for each textile material and for each type of treatment.
  • This invention relates to the continuous wet treatment of textile fabrics and, more particularly, to a novel and improved method and apparatus for continuous wet treatment of textile fabrics and capable of providing the best treatment conditions for each textile material or fabric and each type of treatment.
  • the treatment liquid in the form of a dimensionally and physically constant laminar jet, which is stationary or fixed with respect to time and place, is directed against successive lengths of the textile material under pressure and at an angle between 45 and 135 to the surface of the material and thus pressured through the textile material.
  • the apparatus of the invention includes devices to lead the textile material through the Wet treatment zone at a uniform speed, and includes a revolving supporting 3,505,454 Patented Sept. 20, 1971 body of circular cross section so disposed, in the path of the textile material through the treatment zone, that the textile material engages against the periphery of this body at least in the treatment zone.
  • the apparatus further includes at least one wide band jet nozzle which provides for treatment liquid supplied to it to be discharged through its discharge opening in the form of a constant wide band jet oriented in a direction toward the supporting body.
  • An object of the invention is to provide an improved method for the continuous wet treatment of textile fabrics.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide improved apparatus for the continuous wet treatment of textile fabrics.
  • a further object of the invention is to provide such a method in which the treatment liquid is directed against the travelling textile material in the form of a dimensionally constant laminar, physically stable wide band jet which is stationary with respect to time and location.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide such a method and apparatus in which the jet is directed against the textile material under pressure and at an angle of betwen 45 and 135 to the surface of the material for pressing of the treatment liquid through the textile material.
  • FIG. 1 is a somewhat schematic vertical sectional view through one form of treatment apparatus embodying the invention
  • FIG. 2 is a somewhat schematic vertical sectional view through a second form of treatment apparatus embodying the invention.
  • FIG. 3 is a somewhat schematic vertical sectional view through a third form of apparatus embodying the invention.
  • FIG. 4 is a perspective view of the discharge mouth of a wide band jet nozzle used in the apparatus of the invention.
  • FIG. 5 is a cross sectional view through a modified form of wide band jet nozzle having an adjustable jet thickness or width.
  • an open tank 1 contains treatment liquid 2 for the wet treatment of textile material 3.
  • Textile material 3 is pulled through the treatment liquid 2 in a known manner, consequently not shown in detail, over lightly tensioned rollers or over rollers which have a definite adjustable tension.
  • the textile material is moved through the treatment liquid at a uniform and adjustable rate of speed.
  • textile material 3 runs around a supporting body 4 designed as a cylindrical perforated drum and preferably rotated at a peripheral speed harmonizing with the linear speed of the textile material.
  • a supporting body 4 designed as a cylindrical perforated drum and preferably rotated at a peripheral speed harmonizing with the linear speed of the textile material.
  • two wide band jet nozzles 5 and 6 the details of which are shown in FIGS. 4 and 5.
  • the characteristic of wide band jet nozzles 5 and 6 is such that treatment liquid supplied thereto is discharged through their discharge mouths 7 in the form of a steady, dimensionally and physically stable wide band jet which is stationary or fixed with respect to time and place.
  • the discharge mouth of each jet is formed by two strips 9 which extend parallel to each other over the greatest part of their length, but which are bent toward each other at their ends to form bent points 8.
  • the curvaure at points 8 is so chosen as to develop the fewest possible eddy separations at the two ends of the liquid jet discharged from the gap between the strips 9.
  • the radius r of the curvature of the upstream ends is so selected as to be at least equal to the gap width b.
  • the gap width of the discharge mouth of a wide band jet nozzle is not adjustable.
  • the wide band jet nozzle becomes more universal when the thickness of the wide band jet leaving its discharge mouth can be varied or adjusted.
  • a nozzle design such as shown in FIG. 5, has a variable gap width in that the mutual spacing of the two strips 9 is made adjustable.
  • two such wide band jet nozzles and 6 are provided in the apparatus shown in FIG. 1. These jets are so positioned, below the level of treatment liquid 2 in tank 1, and outside of supporting body 4, that their discharge mouths 7 extend parallel to the axis of supporting body 4. Furthermore, the jet nozzles are so oriented toward the outer surface of drum 4 that the tangential plane of a wide band jet discharged from each nozzle forms a right angle at its line of contact with sup porting body 4 or textile material 3 extending around the supporting body.
  • the wide band jet discharged from the wide band jet nozzles 5 and 6 is oriented so as not to form a right angle at its line of contact with the drum 4 or the material 3, but rather to form an acute angle with respect to the contacted surface of the textile material.
  • the arrangement is such that, in a manner not shown, not only the spacing but also the orientation of each wide band jet nozzle is adjustable with respect to supporting body 4 and through a range sufiicient for the angle, included between the discharge wide band jet and the tangential plane at its line of contact with the supporting body shell 4, to be adjustable between 45 and 135 In FIG.
  • treatment liquid is supplied, by a pump 12, to nozzles 5 and 6 through respective lines 10 and 11 connected to respective flow decelerating bodies or chambers each mounting a nozzle 5 or 6.
  • Rotary valves 13 in lines 10 and 11 provide for individual adjustment of the quantity of liquid supplied through these lines and, accordingly, through the associated nozzles 5 and 6 downstream of the respective valve 13.
  • treatment liquid pumped by pump 12 is taken from tank 1 per se through a line 14.
  • FIG. 2 differs from that shown in FIG. 1 in that the wide band jet nozzles 15 and 16 are disposed in the interior of supporting body 4, which is again designed as a perforated drum.
  • the dis charge mouths of the nozzles 15 and 16 of FIG. 2 extend parallel to the drum axis or center line, and the nozzles are so disposed that the wide band jets discharged therefrom are radial to the drum.
  • two wide band jet nozzles 15 and 16 are shown in FIG. 2, having discharge mouths oriented toward respectively difierent parts of the drum shell, one nozzle or more than two nozzles can be disposed in a suitable manner to discharge radially toward the shell of drum 4.
  • Belt 17 is designed as an endless permeable belt, such as being in the form of a net which exceeds in width, as does also supporting body 4 as to axial width, the width of the textile material.
  • Belt 17 runs over tensioning rollers 19 and is preferably driven by one of these rollers at the same linear speed as the textile material and the same peripheral speed of supporting body 4 at the points of contact.
  • pump 12 which feeds the treatment liquid through a line 20 and a liquid channel located in the shaft of drum 4, takes this liquid from tank 1 outside of supporting body 4 at a point which is on that side of the textile material opposite to the wide band jet nozzles.
  • the jet nozzles are arranged in a common flow declerating body or chamber 18 within the shell of drum 4. In the embodiment of the invention shown in FIG. 2, it is also advantageous when the arrangement is such that the spacing and orientation of the nozzles, with respect to the shell of body 4, are adjustable.
  • FIG. 3 differs from that shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 in that tank 1, for treatment liquid 2, is divided into two chambers 21 and 22, of which chamber 21 is open and chamber 22 is designed as a closed, pressurized flow decelerating chamber.
  • Supporting body 4 again in the form of a perforated drum, is accommodated in open chamber 21.
  • Wide band jet nozzles 24, 25 and 26 are built into the separating wall 23 between the two chambers 21 and 22, and these wide band jet nozzles correspond to the nozzles 5 and 6 of FIG. 1 and the nozzles 15 and 16 of FIGS. 1 and 2.
  • Their discharge mouths open into the open chamber 21, and the nozzles are oriented radially of supporting body 4.
  • the treatment liquid is directed in the form of a steady, physically and dimensionally constant wide band jet or jets which are stationary with respect to time and location, the treatment liquid being directed under pressure over the entire width of successive part lengths of the textile material and pressed through the textile material.
  • This pressing of the treatment liquid is augmented, in the apparatus of FIG. 2, by the suction effect on that side of the textile material opposite to the side directly contacted by the wide band jets, the suction being effected by pump 12.
  • a steady, dimensionally and physically constant stationary wide band jet which. is stationary with respect to time and place, is here understood to mean a wide band jet whose lines of flow run parallel to each other and whose flow is uniform over the entire treatment zone of the textile material contacted by the wide band jet, thus meaning that the total energy supplied to the textile material is momentarily constant at every point of the treatment zone and each infinitesimal part of the entire textile material is supplied with exactly the same momentarily constant energy required for the material exchange between the textile and the treatment liquid.
  • the thickness of the flat liquid jet discharged from the nozzles can be adapted to carrying out any desired process by altering the gap widths of the nozzles.
  • the treatment liquid pressed through the textile widths in this manner flows, in the apparatus shown in FIG. 1, into the interior of supporting body 4 through the perfora tions and its shell, and there mixes again with the rest of the treatment liquid 2 in tank 1.
  • a treatment in which the liquid circulates in one direction and in a predeterminable manner can be carried out even more effectively with the apparatus shown in FIG. 3, where an intermixing of the liquid volume on opposite side of the textile web is made impossible by the dilferent pressures prevailing in the chambers 21 and 22.
  • the liquid under pressure in chamber 22 is directed against the textile material by the nozzles 24, 25 and 26, is forced through the textile web and is then drawn out of chamber 21. Since a part of the liquid discharged from the nozzles is deflected by the textile surface, there is developed, in the channel 28, a liquid layer having the concentration of the supplied fresh liquid and not the concentration of the used liquid in chamber 21.
  • liquid discharged from nozzles 24, 25 and 26 over the entire width of the tank prevents liquid of one concentration, from chamber 21, being transported into channel 28 by the motion of the textile material. Therefore, the textile material leaving the apparatus has ab sorbed substantially exclusively liquid discharged from chamber 22, which is a matter of importance, especially in washing.
  • textile fibers can also be treated in the described manner in the invention apparatus, in that the textile fibers are inserted with a certain thickness between, for instance, too permeable, such as net-like, supporting webs, and the assembly is then lead through the equipment as though it were one textile web. 7
  • an important advantage of the apparatus embodying the invention is that the apparatus is capable of high temperature treatment of the textile material, for instance in dyeing, bleaching, etc., in that the treatment liquid introduced is brought by the pump to, for example, 4 at-m. abs. or more, thus making it possible to bring the liquid onto and into the material to be treated at a temperature of more than 140 C. That the applied treatment liquid later evaporates until the thermodynamic equilibrium is attained in the processing tank is of no significance, because it is very much better intermixed with the material to be treated, in the treatment zone, than is the case of conventional methods.
  • the wide band jet nozzle or nozzles could, for certain applications, advantageously be placed outside of the treatment liquid.
  • the liquid level in the tank would have to be so selected that the supporting body opposite the wide band jet nozzle or nozzles is above the liquid level in the tank.
  • each jet nozzle being a wide band jet nozzle discharging treatment liquid through which discharge mouth in the form of a steady wide band jet; the discharge mouth of each wide band jet nozzle being formed by two strips which, for the major portion of their lengths are parallel, and which are bent toward each other and joined at their ends to form rounded joints; the ratio of the lateral spacing of said strips to the extent of said strips in the flow direction being between 1:3 and 1:7; the discharge mouth of each wide band jet nozzle being so arranged, with respect to said supporting body, that the treatment liquid discharged from each wide
  • each jet nozzle communicates with an expansion chamber decelerating the flow of treatment medium fed to the nozzle and positioned between each nozzle and the source of treatment medium.
  • each wide band jet nozzle being disposed in the lnterior of said drum and having a relatively elongated discharge mouth extending parallel to the axis of the drum; each wide band jet nozzle discharging against the inner surface of the peripheral wall of said drum; there bemg at least two wide band jet nozzles disposed within said drum with each having its discharge mouth directed against a respective different part of the inner surface of the peripheral wall of said drum.

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