Textile rope washer

Claim 1

A MACHINE FOR CONTINUOUS TREATMENT OF FABRIC STRAND MATERIAL COMPRISING A TANK STRUCTURE BEING INTERIORLY COMPARTMENTED BY PARTITION DEVICES EXTENDING VERTICALLY TRANSVERSELY WITHIN THE TANK PROVIDING A PLURALITY OF TANK COMPARTMENTS, SAID PARTITION DEVICES HAVING FLUID TRANSFER APERTURES IN STAGGERED RELATION AT PROGRESSIVELY OPPOSITE SIDE PORTIONS THEREOF, PAIRED ROLLS MOUNTED RESPECTIVELY SIDE AT THE TOP AND AT THE BOTTOM PORTIONS OF SAID TANK COMPARTMENTS, A SQUEEZE ROLL UNIT MOUNTED IN THE TANK COMPARTMENT AT THE FABRIC DISCHARGE END, FABRIC STRAND INLET MEANS AT ONE END OF SAID TANK OPARABLE TO GUIDE THE INCOMING STRAND OF FABRIC TO ENTER THE TANK AND TO THEN TRAIN OVER ONE OF SAID UPPER ROLLS AND THENCE DOWNWARDLY AROUND THE PAIRED BOTTOM ROLL THEREOF AND THENCE UPWARDLY AND AGAIN OVER SAID UPPER ROLL AT A POSITION SPACED LONGITUDINALLY THEREALONG AND THENCE DOWNWARDLY AND AROUND SAID LOWER ROLL AGAIN, AND SO ON UNITL SAID FABRIC STRAND TRAVERSES THE LENGTHWISE EXTENTS OF SAID UPPER AND LOWER ROLLS WHEREUPON SAID STRAND IS THREADED TO PASS OVER INTO THE NEXT COMPARTMENT PORTION OF SAID TANK AND OVER AND AROUND THE PAIRED UPPER AND LOWER ROLLS THEREOF IN LIKE MANNER, AND SO ON THROUGHOUT THE VARIOUS COMPARTMENTS OF SAID TANK UNTIL SAID FARBIC STRAND IS FINALLY THREADED THROUGH SAID SQUEEZE ROLL UNIT AND THEN DISCHARGED FROM SAID TANK, POWER SUPPLY MEANS OPERABLY CONNECTED SEPARATELY TO EACH UPPER ROLL OF SAID MACHINE AND SELECTIVELY ADJUSTABLE WHILE THE MACHINE IS OPERATING WHEREBY THE SPEEDS OF SAID UPPER ROLLS MAY BE RELATIVELY ADJUSTED AT WILL WHILE A FABRIC STRAND IS RUNNING THROUGH SAID MACHINE, TREATING FLUID SUPPLY CONNECTION MEANS DISPOSED IN COMMUNICATION WITH THE COMPARTMENT ADJACENT THE DISCHARGE END PORTION OF SAID MACHINE AND ADAPTED CONNECTION DISPOSED AT THE OPPOSITE END PORTION OF SAID TANK, WHEREBY THE TREATING FLUID WILL CRISS-CROSS THROUGH THE LENGTH OF SAID TANK FROM THE FABRIC STRAND DISCHARGE END THEREOF TOWARD THE FABRIC STRAND INLET END THEREOF.