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- This invention relates to apparatus for the treatment of textile materials and more particularly for the treatment of textile materials in continuous lengths in steam under pressure, or in aqueous liquids beneath an atmosphere of steam under pressure.
- textile materials in continuous lengths are textile fabrics, warps, tows and yarns, for instance nylon fabrics.
- steam under pressure means that the steam shows a gauge pressure; in other words, the steam is at a pressure above atmospheric pressure. Any specific pressures referred to throughout the specification will thus be gauge pressures.
- apparatus which comprises three adjacent chambers, namely a first chamber fitted with a conventional air supply to maintain a pressure of air therein and adapted to accommodate the feed roll and take up roll for the continuous lengths of textile material, a second intermediate diffusion chamber having an escape valve, and a third chamber fitted with a conventional steam supply to maintain a pressure of steam therein and containing appropriate rolls or other known devices for carrying the textile material to be treated, the chambers intercommunicating by means of orifices designed closely to fit the cross-sectional contour of the textile material whilst permitting its passage from the first through the second to the third chamber and its return via the second chamber to the first chamber.
- textile materials in continuous lengths which are to be treated with steam are forwarded from a first chamber filled with air under pressure through an orifice into a second adjacent chamber containing a mixture of air and steam at a slightly lower pressure and then through an orifice into a third adjacent chamber filled with steam at the same, or very nearly the same, pressure as that of the air in the said first chamber, and thence back through orifices by way of the second chamber to the first chamber, said orifices being designed closely to fit the cross-sectional contour of the textile materials whilst permitting their easy passage.
- the size of the intermediate diffusion chamber can conveniently be reduced by restricting its cross-sectional area to the neighbourhood of each orifice so that in fact the original single diffusion chamber becomes two smaller diffusion chambers, both however communicating with the air chamber which accommodates the feed roll and take up roll.
- the invention of British patent specification No. 914,600 also includes however an apparatus for the treatment of textile materials in continuous lengths with steam under pressure, comprising three adjacent chambers intercommunicating by means of orifices designed closely to fit the cross-sectional contour of the textile material whilst permitting its passage from the first to the third chamber and its return to the former, whereof the first chamber is fitted with a conventional air supply to maintain a pressure of air therein and (in addition to the orifices referred to above) possesses two orifices communicating with the outside atmosphere to permit the untreated textile material to enter the first chamber from the outside and the treated material to return thereto from the first chamber, which two orifices are sealed to prevent'undue leakage of air, the second intermediate diffusion chamber has an escape valve and the third chamber is fitted with a conventional steam supply to maintain a pressure of steam therein, and the first and third chambers contain appropriate rolls or other known devices which bear an endless track adapted to carry the textile material and running from the first chamber where the textile material joins it, through the second and
- this form of the apparatus in which the air chamber no longer accommodates the feed roll and take up roll can conveniently be modified not only by restricting the cross-sectional area of the diffusion chamber to the neighbourhood of each orifice but also by restricting the cross-sectional area of the air chamber in like manner so that it becomes two smaller air chambers corresponding with the two smaller diffusion chambers.
- each orifice of the steam chamber can be regarded as covered by its own diffusion surmounted by its own air chamber.
- the long and narrow shape is not regarded as inconvenient from the point of view of factory planning, nor indeed need the apparatus be unduly long despite the air and diffusion chambers at each end of it since for a given time of treatment the length of the steam chamber clearly depends on the rate at which it is desired to pass the fabric through the apparatus.
- the present apparatus is moreover relatively simple to build inasmuch as it does not necessitate the somewhat elaborate devices employed in the apparatus of British patent specification No. 914,600 to carry or convey the fabric along a sinuous or zigzag path within the steam chamber. That is not to say that the use of such devices is excluded from the present invention.
- the latter includes moreover long narrow steam chambers having a plurality of orifices at each end so that a number of separate textile materials can be passed through simultaneously.
- the orifices at each end can be covered by one diffusion and one air chamber, or if preferred each orifice may have its own diffusion and air chamber.
- each orifice can be provided with its own diffusion chamber, all the diffusion chambers at each end of the steam chamber communicating with a single air chamber.
- the provision of a plurality of diffusion chambers thus constitutes a characteristic of the present invention.
- the present invention consists of an apparatus for the treatment of textile materials in continuous lengths in steam under pressure or in aqueous liquids beneath an atmosphere of steam under pressure, comprising a steam chamber fitted with a conventional steam supply to maintain a pressure of steam therein and having a plurality of orifices designed closely to fit the crosssectional contour of the textile material and permit its passage into and out of the chamber, a plurality of diffusion chambers furnished with escape valves, with which diffusion chambers said orifices communicate, one or more air chambers communicating in turn by means of the same total number of similarly shaped orifices with the aforesaid diffusion chambers, provided with a conventional air supply to maintain a pressure of air therein and either adapted to accommodate the feed and take up rolls for the continuous lengths of textile material or having one or more sealed orifices to permit the untreated textile material to enter the air chamber from the outside and enable the treated material to return thereto by leaving the air chamber, and appropriate rolls or other known devices adapted to carry the textile material into and out of the steam
- the sealed orifices used in the air chambers when the latter communicate with the outside atmosphere may comprise, for example nip rolls, flap valves, or deformable elements pressed against the textile material, but it is preferred to effect the sealing by constructing each orifice or slot of two strips of material, e.g. metal or resin and especially polytetrafl'uoroethylene, one strip being fixed whilst the other may approach or recede therefrom to suit the thickness of the textile material.
- material e.g. metal or resin and especially polytetrafl'uoroethylene
- Known devices adapted to carry the textile material include tenters of stenters with continuous pin tracks, also accessories used in connection therewith such as fabric guiding devices, stripper rolls for separating fabrics from the pin track, scroll rolls for smoothing fabrics, uncurlers for uncurling the selvedges especially in the case of knitted fabrics, conventional mechanical arrangements for controlling the width and tension of fabrics and overfeeding devices.
- the present apparatus may optionally be employed in conjunction with other apparatus for treating textile materials in continuous lengths so that other treatments, e.g. dyeing, bleaching, scouring, and coating with impervious or other materials, e.g. rubber, can be combined consecutively with the steam treatment in one continuous process.
- other treatments e.g. dyeing, bleaching, scouring, and coating with impervious or other materials, e.g. rubber
- This invention is advantageously applicable not only to processes for the treatment of textile materials in continuous lengths in steam itself under pressure, but also to processes involving the application to the textile materials of aqueous liquids at temperatures above the boiling point of water, which are accordingly covered by an atmosphere comprising steam under pressure, into and out of which the textile materials must pass in coming from and returning to the outside atmosphere.
- FIGURE 1 is a sectional view illustrating one embodiment of the apparatus
- FIG- URES 2, 3, 4 and 5 are sectional views of second, third, fourth and fifth embodiments
- FIGURE 6 is ,a fragmentary view illustrating part of FIGURE 2.
- FIGURE 1 (illustrating a case of two diffusion chambers and one air chamber which contains the rolls of textile material):
- FIGURE 2 (illustrating a case of two diffusion chambers and one air chamber, with the rolls of textile material in the outside atmosphere):
- FIGURE 2 The other numerals in FIGURE 2 have the 'same significance as in FIGURE 1.
- FIGURE 3 (illustrating a case of two diffusion chambers and two air chambers with the rolls of textile material in the outside atmosphere):
- the numerals 1-14 have the meanings already assigned above. 15bsec0n'd air chamber.
- FIGURE 4 (illustrating a case of two diffusion chambers and two air chambers with six separate tows):
- FIGURE 5 (illustrating an arangement similar to FIG- I URE 2, except that the steam chamber is positioned vertically and accommodates a bath of hot aqueous liquid):
- the numerals 1-13 have the meanings already assigned.
- a roll of the textile material for treatment is inserted at 3 and the material taken on the continuous pin track conveyor 13 through the orifices 12 round the rolls 10 in chamber 9 and back to the take-up roll 4.
- Saturated steam at the required pressure to produce the requisite temperature is admitted to chamber 9 by means of the supply line 11 carrying a conventional pressure regulating valve 111.
- An equal pressure of air is similarly maintained in chamber 1 by the supply line 2 which is likewise furnished with a pressure regulating valve 102.
- the valves 107 and 108 of the vent pipes 7 and 8 are very slightly opened.
- the fabric is then mechanically forwarded from roll 3 through the diffusion chamber 5 into the steam chamber 9, round the rolls 10 and back via the diffusion chamber 6 to the take-up roll 4.
- the steam chamber 9 may advantageously be conventionally lagged and fitted with a water trap (not shown). The fact that only a slow leak of steam through the vent pipes 7 and 8 is required to pre- 14a provided, and-is wound up vent the intrusion of air into the steam chamber 9 constitutes a very important economic advantage of the invention.
- the orifices 12 take the form of slots.
- An appropriate steaming temperature is 153 C. This corresponds to a steam pressure in chamber 9 of 4.2 kgm. per sq. cm. Accordingly the air pressure in chambers 5 and 6 is also adjusted to 4.2 kgm. per sq. cm.
- a slow leak is allowed which need only amount to a total of about kgm. of steam per hour.
- the corresponding drop in pressure in the diffusion chambers is very small, about 0.25 cm. of water, say.
- the nylon fabric is forwarded through the steam chamber 9 on a suitable stenter, which controls its width, at such a speed that its time of passage therethrough, that is tosay, its period of treatment is 3 minutes.
- the rolls 3 and 4 are both positively driven, the former 5% faster than the latter in order to afford this degree of overfeed and allow corresponding longitudinal shrinkage of the fabric.
- the nylon fabric is then found to have been more efficiently set so that it does not become creased during domestic washing.
- the above apparatus may with advantage be controlled automatically in the following manner.
- any invasion of the steam chamber 9 by air from chamber 5 or chamber 6 causes a fall in temperature.
- This can be detected by suitably positioned temperature probes. It is arranged that a low temperature signal from such a probe causes a conventional temperature-sensitive device to increase the leak from the vent pipe (7 or 8) in question and thus prevent air invading the steam chamber.
- the pressure of steam in the latter can likewise be automatically controlled so that it is maintained at a selected value, e.g.,' 4.2 kgm. per sq. cm.
- a similar temperature-sensitive device can be placed, if desired, in chamber 1, which detects by the rise in temperature the presence of any steam finding its way into that chamber and automatically increases the leak from the vent pipes (7 and 8).
- the latter can be maintained at a constant value, and the invasion of the air chamber 1 by steam prevented by the automatic adjustment of the pressure of the air admitted to chamber 1.
- the invasion of the steam chamber 9 by air can be prevented by the automatic adjustment of the pressure of the steam admitted to the said chamber 9.
- These orifices are narrow slots designed to accommodate the textile material as it runs into and out of the air chamber.
- a continuous length of textile material is wound off the feed roll 3a, passes into the said chamber 10 through one of the beforementioned slots, and then engages with the pin track 13a and is carried by the track through chamber 5a into chamber 9a, where the textile material passes round the rolls 10a and is then taken back through chamber 6a by the pin track.
- the textile material then parts company with the pin track, leaves chamber 1 through the narrow slot on the take-uproll 4a situated outside chamber 1a.
- the slots 14a provided in the wall of chamber 101 for the passage of the continuous lengths of textile material must be sealed as well as possible to prevent undue leakage of air from chamber 1a.
- Suitable means for sealing can comprise known arrangements of nip rolls, but as shown in FIGURE 6 it is preferred to effect the sealing by constructing the slot of two strips 50 and 52 of polytetrafiuoroethylene, one strip 50 being fixed whilst the other 52 may approach or recede therefrom to suit the thickness of the textile material.
- the movable strip 52 is urged against the textile material, in order to minimise leakage of air, by suitable resilient means, the latter consisting conveniently of air pressure, applied indirectly to the back of said strip by inflating a rubber tube 54 held thereagainst.
- the slot shaped orifices are conveniently made adjustable by conventional mechanical means so as to fit different widths of fabric.
- the working of the apparatus can be nearly continuous because when the feed roll or textile material has become empty, it is only necessary to sew the end of the length of textile material being treated on to the beginning of a length carried on a fresh feed roll. At the same time the end of textile material emerging from the apparatus is severed and attached to a fresh (empty take-up roll. These operations can be carried out within about a minute, whereas to change the textile rolls in the apparatus shown in FIGURE 1 may occupy about 10 minutes on account of the necessity to release the steam and air pressures, and then re-establish them after the textile rolls have been changed.
- the apparatus illustrated in FIGURE 3 comprises a realtively long and narrow steam chamber compared with that of FIGURES 1 and 2, and has air and diffusion chambers at each end.
- the textile material for instance a fabric
- the textile material is conveyed from feed-roll 3b, through the sealed orifice 14b into the air chamber 1b where the fabric runs on to the pin track conveyor 13b. It is carried on the latter, via the orifices 12b, through the diffusion chamber 5b into chamber 917, which is full of saturated steam at a pressure of 4.2 kgm. per sq. crn. corresponding to a temperature of 153 C.
- the fabric is conveyed via orifices 12b through the diffusion chamber 6b into the air chamber 15b and from there via orifice 14b to the wind-up roll 4b.
- the steaming apparatus of FIGURE 3 may be employed for fixing the colours on dyed or printed fabrics.
- a scoured plain weave nylon fabric is conventionally dyed with a disperse dyestuff in a jig or with a vat dyestuff, e.g. Colour Index Vat Green No. 3 in a mangle, in a continuous process, the dyed fabric being dried by an oven.
- the fabric is then passed through the steaming apparatus of FIGURE 3 at such a speed that the time spent by any part of the fabric in the steam chamber 9b is 1 minute.
- the steamed fabric is dried by passage through an oven and wound up.
- a printing operation effected by a screen or roller printing machine or else a bleaching treatment.
- a cotton fabric which has been duly singed and desized can be bleached with an aqueous solution containing the following ingredients per litre:
- the steaming apparatus of FIGURE 3 can likewise be advantageously applied to the curing of proofed fabrics such as a tarpaulin.
- a fabric weighing 185 gms. per square metre constructed from nylon yarn of 840 denier is coated on each side with a layer of rubber 0.015 cm. thick, by repeated immersion in a soltuion of rubber in an organic solvent and removal of the latter by drying the fabric in an oven.
- the roll of coated fabric is positioned at 3b and the fabric passed through the steaming apparatus of FIGURE 3 at such a speed that each part of the fabric spends 1 hour in chamber 9b which contains saturated steam at a temperature of 153 C.
- the curing time can be reduced to about one quarter of the time normally needed when a conventional process employing saturated steam at atmospheric pressure is used.
- the fault of porosity in the rubber apt to occur in the latter process is eliminated.
- FIGURE 4 an apparatus wherein six crimped nylon tows each having a total denier of 1,000,000 are passed simultaneously through the steam chamber with its air chambers 1c and and diffusion chambers 50 and 6c in order to set the crimp.
- the feedrolls and take-up rolls are not depicted in FIGURE 4.
- the saturated steam in chamber 9c is maintained at a pressure of 6.3 kgm. per square cm. corresponding to a temperature of 166 C.
- the tows are conveyed through the steam chamber 9c, which is 122 cm. long at a speed of 366 metres per minute, and thus become effectively set.
- FIGURE 5 illustrates an embodiment of the present apparatus similar to that of FIGURE 2, except that the steam chamber 9d is arranged vertically with the air chamber 1d and diffusion chambers 5d, 6d at the top.
- the steam chamber 9d is arranged vertically with the air chamber 1d and diffusion chambers 5d, 6d at the top.
- In the bottom of the steam chamber is a 2% by weight aqueous solution of sodium hydroxide. Under a pressure of 4.2 kgm. per sq. cm. this solution boils at about 153 C. The solution is raised to this temperature by means of the heating coil 17d.
- the escape of steam is prevented by admitting air through pipe 2d so as to maintain an air pressure of 4.2 kgm. in chamber 1d and at the same time allowing a slight leak from the diffusion chambers 5d and 6d by means of pipes 7d and 8d.
- Cotton fabric which is to be scoured is conveyed through the hot sodium hydroxide bath by the pin track conveyor 13d round the rolls 10d at such a speed that any point on the fabric takes 5 minutes to pass through the chamber 9d. In this manner the cotton fabric is rapidly scoured without creasing or staining taking place.
- An apparatus for the treatment of textile materials in continuous lengths in steam under pressure and in aqueous liquids beneath an atmosphere of steam under pressure comprising a steam chamber; steam supply means maintaining an above atmospheric steam pressure in said chamber, said chamber having a plurality of orifices designed closely to fit the cross-sectional contour of the textile material and permit its passage into and out of the chamber, a plurality of diffusion chambers with which diffusion chambers said orifices communicate; means including escape valves maintaining said diffusion chambers at a lower pressure than the pressure in said steam chamber; an air chamber communicating in turn by means of the same total number of similarly shaped orifices with the aforesaid diffusion chambers; air supply means maintaining an air pressure in said air chamber about equal to the steam pressure in said steam chamber, said air chamber having sealed orifices to permit the untreated textile material to enter the air chamber from the outside and enable the treated material to return thereto by leaving the air chamber, and means for carrying the textile material into and out of the steam chamber by way of an air chamber and a diffusion chamber.
- An apparatus for the treatment of textile materials in continuous lengths in steam under pressure and in aqueous liquids beneath an atmosphere of steam under pressure comprising a steam chamber; steam supply means maintaining an above atmospheric steam pressure in said chamber, said chamber having a plurality of orifices designed closely to fit the cross-sectional contour of the textile material and permit its passage into and out of the chamber, a plurality of diffusion chambers with which diffusion chambers said orifices communicate; means including escape valves maintaining said diffusion chambers at a lower pressure than the pressure in said steam chamber; an air chamber communicating in turn by means of the same total number of similarly shaped orifices with the aforesaid diffusion chambers; and textile feed and take-up rolls in said air chamber; air supply means maintaining an air pressure in said air chamber about equal to the steam pressure in said steam chamber.
- sealed orifices are each constructed of two strips of material, one strip being fixed whilst the other may approach and recede therefrom to suit the thickness of the textile material.
- each of said diffusion chambers communicates with said steam chamber through a single orifice and with said air chamber through a single orifice, each of said diffusion chambers having a cross section, in a direction transverse to the direction of fabric travel through the orifices, which is substantially smaller than the cross sections of said air chamber and said steam chamber.
- An apparatus for the treatment of textile materials in continuous lengths in steam under pressure and in aqueous liquids beneath an atmosphere of steam under pressure comprising a long narrow steam chamber fitted with a conventional steam supply to maintain a pressure of steam therein and having at each end a plurality of orifices designed closely to fit the cross-sectional contour of the textile material and permit its passage into and out of the chamber, a plurality of diffusion chambers furnished with escape valves, with which diffusion chambers said orifices communicate, a plurality of air chambers communicating in turn by means of the same total number of similarly shaped orifices with the aforesaid diffusion chambers, provided with a conventional air supply to maintain a pressure of air therein and appropriate known devices to carry the textile material into and out of the steam chamber by way of an air chamber and a diffusion chamber.
- Apparatus for the treatment of textile materials in continuous lengths comprising: walls defining a steam chamber; steam supply means maintaining an above atmospheric steam pressure in said steam chamber, said walls having at least two orifices designed closely to fit the cross-sectional contour of the textile material and permit its passage into and out of said steam chamber; Walls defining at least two diffusion chambers each communicating with said steam chamber through a different one of said orifices; means including escape valves maintaining said diffusion chambers at a lower pressure than the pressure in said steam chamber; walls defining at least one air chamber, said walls having at least two orifices each of which communicates with a different one of said diffusion chambers; conveyor means carrying textile material into and out of said steam chamber by way of an air chamber and a diffusion; and air supply means maintaining an air pressure in said air chamber about equal to the steam pressure in said steam chamber.
- Apparatus as in claim 6 wherein there is a separate diffusion chamber located at each end of said steam chamber and a separate air chamber adjacent each of said separate diffusion chambers, wherein the orifices associated with said chambers are in general alignment with each other, and wherein said textile carrying means carries the textile through said apparatus in generally a straight line.
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