Patent ID: 7114267

Claim:
A device for flowing or pressure treatment of textiles, nonwovens, tissue or paper comprising a treatment agent which is gaseous or liquid in the device, and is optionally also circulated, comprising a permeable drum having bottoms at the front and located under an induced draught, which serves as a transporting and supporting element for the material and which is covered for this purpose with a screen-shaped coating on its circumference, wherein sheet-metal strips extend straight without bending from one bottom to another between the bottoms of the drum to form the drum jacket, their width expansion extending substantially in the radial direction, and sheet-metal rings held on the sheet-metal strips are arranged between the sheet-metal strips, distributed uniformly over the length of the drum, wherein sheet-metal strips and sheet-metal rings can be pushed into one another and for this purpose both the sheet-metal strips and the sheet-metal rings are provided with radially directed insertion slots, characterised in that the free flanks of the insertion slots of the sheet-metal strips and of the sheet-metal ring are fixedly interconnected by means of at least one additional connecting plate in each case.