Apparatus for a wet finishing process for continuous sheets of materials

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR A WET FINISHING PROCESS FOR CONTINUOUS SHEETS OF MATERIALS COMPRISING A TREATMENT LIQUID CARRYING TROUGH, A PLURALITY OF ROTATABLY MOUNTED MATERIAL PULLING CYLINDERS IMMERSED IN THE LIQUID IN SAID TROUGH FOR SUCCESSIVELY PULLING A CONTINUOUS SHEET OF MATERIAL THROUGH THE TROUGH, A PLURALITY OF MATERIAL GUIDING AND TREATING ELEMENTS AROUND WHICH THE MATERIAL PASSES DURING TREATMENT, SAID ELEMENTS BEING POSITIONED ABOVE SAID PULLING CYLINDERS, HOODS HAVING OPEN BOTTOM SIDES IMMERSED IN THE TREATMENT LIQUID IN THE TROUGH AND MEANS SUSPENDING SAID HOODS SO THAT THEY CAN BE EASILY ADJUSTED AND REMOVED, SAID HOODS ENCLOSING SAID GUIDING AND TREATING ELEMENTS IN A PLURALITY OF SUCCESSIVE RUNS OF THE MATERIAL BEING TREATED, AND A CROSS PARTITION DISPOSED IN SEALING RELATION ACROSS AT LEAST ONE OF SAID HOODS PROXIMATE THE OPEN BOTTOM SIDE THEREOF, SAID CROSS PARTITION HAVING TRANSITION SLOTS THEREIN PERMITTING PASSAGE OF THE SHEET OF MATERIAL THERETHROUGH, SAID CROSS PARTITION CLOSING THE HOOD AND PROVIDING A SEPARATE TREATING ZONE THEREWITHIN.