摘要 |
<p>Fibrous material in web or filament form, to be dyed or otherwise chemically treated, is successively passed through a plurality of chambers including a treatment chamber in which it is subjected to the spray of a fluid, a drying chamber which may be subdivided into several compartments, and an intervening reaction chamber in which a controlled amount of moisture is added and which may be preceded by a preconditioning chamber provided with temperature-control means. Air is forcibly circulated, with the aid of a primary blower, from a location near the inlet end of the treatment chamber to a point of the drying chamber remote from the treatment chamber whereby this air passes through the interconnected chambers in counter-current to the treated material. Each chamber may also be provided with an individual secondary air path containing a blower for generating a flow which passes only through that chamber in counterflow to the treated material.</p> |