Treatment box for wet treating textile goods and the like

Claim 1

IN A TEXTILE TREATING ARRANGEMENT: A TREATMENT BOX FOR WET TREATING TEXTILE MATERIALS; SAID TREATMENT BOX COMPRISING AN ENTRANCE LEG WITH AN INLET FOR RECEIVING TREATING LIQUOR AND THE GOODS TO BE TREATED, AN EXIT LEG WITH AN OUTLET FROM WHICH THE TREATED GOODS ARE TO BE WITHDRAWN, AND AN ARCHED U-SHAPED TUBULAR CONNECTING MEMBER INTERCONNECTING SAID TWO LEGS; SAID CONNECTING MEMBER HAVING A SUBSTANTIALLY UNIFORM CROSS-SECTION THROUGHOUT ITS LENGTH, SAID EXIT LEG HAVING A DIAMETER AT LEAST EQUALLING THAT OF SAID ENTRANCE LEG; FIRST OPENING MEANS AT SUBSTANTIALLY THE LOWEST POINT OF SAID CONNECTING MEMBER FOR WITHDRAWING TREATING LIQUOR THEREFROM; SECOND OPENING MEANS ARRANGED IN SAID EXIT LEG INTERMEDIATE THE OUTLET THEREOF FOR THE TEXTILE MATERIAL TREATED THEREIN AND THE CONNECTION OF SAID EXIT LEG WITH SAID CONNECTING MEMBER FOR WITHDRAWING TREATING LIQUOR FROM SAID EXIT LEG; CIRCULATING CONDUIT MEANS LEADING FROM SAID FIRST AND SECOND OPENING MEANS TO THE INLET OF SAID ENTRANCE LEG, PUMP MEANS INTERPOSED IN SAID CONDUIT MEANS WITH THE SUCTION SIDE THEREOF CONNECTED TO SAID FIRST AND SECOND OPENING MEANS AND WITH THE PRESSURE SIDE CONNECTED TO THE INLET OF SAID ENTRANCE LEG, SAID CIRCULATING CONDUIT MEANS ALSO HAVING INTERPOSED THEREIN HEATING MEANS INTERPOSED IN SAID CIRCULATING CONDUIT BETWEEN THE PRESSURE SIDE OF SAID PUMP MEANS AND SAID INLET FOR HEAT TREATING LIQUOR CONVEYED BY SAID PUMP TO SAID INLET; AND MEANS FOR FEEDING CHEMICALS INTO SAID CONDUIT MEANS BETWEEN SAID SUCTION SIDE OF SAID PUMP AND SAID FIRST AND SECOND OPENING MEANS TO RESTORE THE CONCENTRATION OF THE LIQUOR WITHDRAWN THROUGH SAID FIRST AND SECOND OPENING MEANS TO THE CONCENTRATION OF SAID LIQUOR DESIRED AT THE INLET OF SAID ENTRANCE LEG.