Abstract:
A continuously connected textile fabric having seams at predeterined intervals is fed along its length to a succesive processing apparatus. The apparatus includes a plurality of squeezing rollers and a textile feeding path comprising a plurality of processing liquid tanks arrayed in turn, and seam detecting limit switches are provided at the places of the squeezing rollers, with the distance of the path between adjacent limit switches being chosen to be almost the same as the interval of said seams. In a state where the seams are positioned at the squeezing rollers, and thus at the limit switches, all the squeezing rollers are driven in a forward direction at once and after a predetermined relatively large forward travelling amount, they are driven in a backward direction by a predetermined relatively small backward travelling amount, the difference between the forward and backward travelling amounts being chosen to be approximately equivalent to a distance of the interval of said seams divided by an integer. During the final backward driving operation in one full cycle of the forward and backward reciprocating operations for the number of times of said integer, said limit switches are enabled and according to the order of arrival the seams drive the limit switches to bring the squeezing rollers to a stop. When all the squeezing rollers are brought to a stop, the limit switches are disabled to repeat again said operation cycle. Thus, during the reciprocating operation for the number of times of said integer, the textile fabric is fed in the forward direction by the interval of said seams while being processed, and the slip produced therebetween is compensated by the stop of every squeezing roller responding to each of the limit switches.