Patent ID: 8746018

Claim:
An apparatus for treatment of strand-shaped textile products in the form of a continuous material strand, which is circulated at least during part of the treatment, comprising: an elongated, substantially tubular treatment container that has a material strand inlet and a head part containing a material strand outlet, a transport nozzle array that can be charged with a gaseous transport medium stream, a transport section that adjoins the transport nozzle array, opens into a storage section of the treatment container at the material strand inlet, and is provided on its inside with a surface having low friction in relation to the material strand, wherein the storage section is arranged in the treatment container adjoining the material strand inlet, and receives a piled-up material strand package, and wherein said storage section has: (i) a sliding floor for the material strand package located at a distance above a container wall below, and (ii) a pile-up unit for the material strand between the sliding floor and the transport section, wherein the pile-up unit comprises a funnel-shaped pile-up element which extends longitudinally inside the treatment container and which has an opening through which the material strand passes, and wherein the sliding floor is inclined in a manner descending in a straight line from the pile-up unit toward the head part so as to form an inclined plane, a pipe bend which is provided between the transport section and the pile-up unit of the treatment container, wherein the pipe bend has an exit path that is parallel to a longitudinal direction of the sliding floor, and a blower unit that is allocated to the head part of the treatment container and that is connected to the transport nozzle array, wherein charge elements are provided at least in a region of the transport nozzle array in order to charge the material strand with a liquid treatment agent.