Electronic control system for dyeing and printing materials

摘要

Apparatus for electronically controlling the application of dyestuffs and other liquids to moving textile materials to provide a printed pattern thereon. The system includes electronic circuitry for periodically receiving bits of pattern data and processing the information to operate a plurality of valves which control the flow of liquid into the materials. Means are provided for dispensing equal amounts of liquid across a line of textile material to those areas of the material which are to receive the liquid. These equal amounts also may be uniformly varied to change the amount of liquid applied to those areas. Furthermore, means are provided for applying additional amounts of liquid to only certain of those areas which are to receive liquid, thereby dispensing unequal amounts of liquid to such areas.