Claims
- 1. In apparatus for continuous treatment of a thread during rectilinear displacement therethrough which comprises:
- means for treating the thread with a liquid;
- at least one treatment chamber having inlet and outlet means adapted to receive said thread, said inlet and outlet means comprising convergent-divergent nozzles arranged in alignment with said means for treating the thread with a liquid;
- conduit means for connecting said treatment chamber at a location intermediate its ends to a source of compressed inert gas;
- a recovery chamber interconnecting said treatment chamber and said means for treating the thread with a liquid; and
- conduit means connected to said recovery chamber and adapted to remove liquid therefrom;
- the improvement wherein said treatment chamber includes between its inlet and outlet means a part constituted by a helical conduit.
- 2. Apparatus according to claim 1, comprising a plurality of alternating aligned liquid treatment chambers and gas treatment chambers, each of said chambers being interconnected by a recovery chamber.
- 3. Apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said treatment chamber is formed by a tube twisted about its own longitudinal axis along at least a part of its length.
Priority Claims (1)
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Parent Case Info
This application relates to the continuous treatment of threads and, more particularly, to apparatus for drying linearly advancing threads and is a continuation-in-part of copending application Ser. No. 307,763 filed Nov. 20, 1973, now U.S. Pat. No. 3,837,186, as a division of application Ser. No. 107,666 filed Jan. 18, 1971, now U.S. Pat. No. 3,724,088.
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