Screw conveyor based fabric dyeing machine

{
  "publication_number": "US10801145B2",
  "country": "US",
  "kind": "B2",
  "title": "Screw conveyor based fabric dyeing machine",
  "abstract": "A screw conveyor based fabric dyeing machine including a machine body inside which a screw conveyor including a conveying screw and a fabric support board is arranged and generally parallel to an extension direction of the machine body. Fabric moves through a dyeing tube arranged with the machine body to fall down onto the screw conveyor so that the fabric can be conveyed by the screw conveyor forward through the machine body to reach a guide roller and a nozzle to complete a cycle of circulation for subsequently re-entering the dyeing tube to be dyed therein. As such, water consumption can be reduced and dyeing performance is enhanced, achieving energy saving and carbon reduction, reducing contamination to the surroundings, and realizing green economy.",
  "claims": [
    "1. A screw conveyor based fabric dyeing machine, comprising a machine body that comprises a dyeing tube and also comprises a nozzle and a guide roller arranged therein, the machine body has a bottom that is connected through a pump to the nozzle so that the pump draws and drives a dyeing liquid from the machine body to the nozzle and the dyeing tube to carry out dyeing of fabric, the dyeing liquid subsequently flowing and falling directly down to the bottom of the machine body, wherein the machine body comprises a screw conveyor arranged inside the machine body and comprising at least one conveying screw and a fabric support board for driving or assisting movement of the fabric; and wherein the conveying screw is spaced from two opposite sidewalls of the machine body and the fabric support board comprises two sections that are respectively arranged at two opposite sides of the at least one conveying screw in a direction perpendicular to an axial direction of the at least one conveying screw and are located in the spacings between the conveying screw and the two opposite sidewalls of the machine body, the two sections of the fabric support board being arranged between the at least one conveying screw and two opposite sidewalls of the machine body to each define a planar surface between the at least one conveying screw and the sidewalls of the machine body.",
    "2. The screw conveyor based fabric dyeing machine according to claim 1, wherein the screw conveyor comprises a single conveying screw or multiple conveying screws.",
    "3. The screw conveyor based fabric dyeing machine according to claim 1, wherein the fabric support board is mounted in a securely fixed manner.",
    "4. The screw conveyor based fabric dyeing machine according to claim 1, wherein the fabric support board is mounted in a manner of being movable with the fabric.",
    "5. The screw conveyor based fabric dyeing machine according to claim 1, wherein the bottom of the machine body has a relatively low portion where a liquid accumulation tank is mounted to collect all or a majority of the dyeing liquid falling down from the dyeing tube.",
    "6. The screw conveyor based fabric dyeing machine according to claim 2, wherein the fabric support board is mounted in a securely fixed manner.",
    "7. The screw conveyor based fabric dyeing machine according to claim 2, wherein the fabric support board is mounted in a manner of being movable with the fabric.",
    "8. The screw conveyor based fabric dyeing machine according to claim 2, wherein the bottom of the machine body has a relatively low portion where a liquid accumulation tank is mounted to collect all or a majority of the dyeing liquid falling down from the dyeing tube."
  ],
  "description_excerpt": "The present invention relates generally to a dyeing machine for dyeing fabrics, and more particularly to a dyeing machine that includes a screw conveyor to achieve circulation of fabric in order to greatly reduce water consumption and improve dyeing efficiency.\n\nA fabric dyeing process carried out with a conventional fabric dyeing machine is conducted by using a pump to pressurize dyeing liquid that is subjected to temperature rise or drop by means of a heat exchanger to subsequently get into a nozzle to generate a hydraulic power through jetting or overflowing, and then, the dyeing liquid flows back to a fabric accumulation tank of the dyeing machine. The fabric moves, as being is driven by a guide roller (or no guide roller being involved), into the nozzle and the hydraulic power generated by jetting of overflowing of the dyeing liquid drives the fabric to pass through a dyeing tube to then return back to a dyeing cylinder, in which buoyance and thrust provided by the dyeing liquid advance the fabric to a front end of the machine body for circulation. Meanwhile, the pump also introduces chemical agents, through pumping and pressurization, into the dyeing machine. As such, the dyeing liquid and the fabric move together through the circulation process during which heating, temperature-keeping, and cooling operations and processes achieved with the heat exchanger help make the dye absorbed by the fabric to thereby achieve effects of scouring, dyeing, and rinsing.",
  "cpc": [
    "D06B 3/36",
    "B65G 33/02",
    "B65G 33/265",
    "D06B 3/20",
    "D06B 3/28",
    "D06B 5/22"
  ],
  "ipc": [
    "B65G 33/02",
    "B65G 33/26",
    "D06B 3/20",
    "D06B 3/36",
    "D06B 5/22"
  ],
  "inventors": [
    "Chi-Lung Chang"
  ],
  "filing_date": "2018-11-05",
  "publication_date": "2020-10-13",
  "grant_date": "2020-10-13",
  "priority_date": "2018-11-05",
  "application_number": "US-201816180023-A",
  "family_id": "70459486",
  "cited_by_count": 0,
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