TEXTILE DRYING MACHINE HAVING PASS-THROUGH INTAKE CONDUIT FOR ONE DRYING FLUID DISTRIBUTION MEANS

摘要

A textile drying machine includes upper and lower distribution housings for applying streams of drying fluid to a traveling web of textile material from above and below the traveling web. The pair of distribution housings are each mounted to the floor on the same lateral side of the traveling web at a lateral spacing from one another and each provides a distribution opening which extends over the entire extent of the traveling web being treated. Each distribution housing includes an intake conduit for the intake of exhaust drying fluid which has been subjected to a heat exchange operation in which the heat content of the drying fluid is restored. The intake conduit for the respective distribution housing which is laterally outward of the other distribution housing includes an extension portion passing through the laterally inward distribution housing, thereby making possible the space-saving compact arrangement in which both of the distribution housings are mounted on the floor on the same lateral side of the traveling web. According to one aspect of the invention, separate exhaust drying fluid regions are provided for separately guiding the exhaust drying fluid respectively above and below the dedicated one of the distribution housings.