Maschine für das gleichmässige Befeuchten einer kontinuierlich fortschreitenden Gewebebahn

1,237,804. Spraying webs. CLUETT PEABODY & CO. Inc. 12 Aug., 1969 [3 March, 1969], No. 40227/69. Heading D1L. A moving fabric web A is uniformly dampened by means of a spray device comprising an endless mesh belt 9 carried by upper and lower rolls 8 and 7, the lower roll 7 being partly immersed in water 6 in an open tank 5 and the upper roll 8 being driven, and a blower 12 arranged to blow water picked up from the tank by the mesh belt to form a spray which impinges on the surface of the web A. The blower 12 may be an air manifold provided with a plurality of orifices. A pair of rotating rolls 14 may remove excess water from the pick-up flight 10 of the mesh belt, and a pair of rotating brushes 15 may clean the return flight 11 of the mesh belt.