METHOD FOR COLORLESS PATTERNING OF TEXTILE FABRIC AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING THEREOF Russian patent published in 2008 - IPC D06C23/00 D04H1/46 

FIELD: textiles.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to an apparatus for colourless patterning of a textile fabric made of mutually interlaced and thus strengthened natural or synthetic fibres, preferably of a nonwoven fabric such as a wadding web, which is also dried in the case of a wet treatment such as hydrodynamic needling. The apparatus comprises a housing and a revolving drum provided therein, whereby the textile fabric is pressed by an overpressure and underpressure against the drum having perforations so that the cross-sectional areas of the perforations generate a picture pattern on the textile fabric, wherein an external peripheral surface of the drum being subject to drawing is provided with perforations depicting an image, which perforations act in diverse pattern-imparting fashions on the textile fabric resting thereon. Moreover, the drum and its external peripheral surface are microperforated as a whole and thus fluid-permeable, and the pattern-imparting perforations are sized larger than the microperforation of the surface supporting the textile fabric, Moreover, the textile fabric is capable of leading the fluid away from the entire surface in a region of the pictorial pattern and also beyond peripheral regions of the pictorial pattern.

EFFECT: providing a method with which a pattern can be continuously imposed on a nonwoven fabric in the course of treatment.

11 cl, 2 dwg