THREAD COLORING INSTALLATION Russian patent published in 1994 - IPC

FIELD: textile industry. SUBSTANCE: installation has feeding, coloring, drying fixing, and winding assemblies. The feeding assembly is made as a space framework in which the threads from all the spools are brought to the axis of symmetry, to one bunch through a system of rollers. The bunch is part of the coloring assembly manufactured as two drum-cylinders coupled mechanically to each other and divided into a number of tanks with coloring tips placed along their periphery. The preliminary drying assembly is arranged behind the coloring one and is manufactured in the form of two cylinders rotating unidirectionally due to the tension force of the colored thread bunch divided into two branches. Every colored thread is wound on the spool of its own. The final drying and thermal fixation chamber is made as a voluminous chamber embracing all the winding assemblies and having a hinged upper part. EFFECT: more efficient coloring process. 2 cl, 6 dwg