Multiple connected textile liquid treatment machines; also single receptacles provided with partition walls nonmovable with respect to the receptacles to maintain batches of textiles being treated separated from one another, with means in each compartment movable with respect to the textiles in that compartment to effect an operation on the textiles; also machines provided with a movable textile-engaging element, the exterior surface of which forms part of a liquid treatment means for operation upon one batch of articles and having within the element a receptacle wherein a second batch of textiles may be treated.
(1) Note. The compartments may or may not have fluid communication with each other and the means for effecting the treatment may be a tumbling cylinder in a compartment, or one or both machines may be of the liquid flow-type.
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11, for a textile-engaging element is transferred from one tub to another
143, and 145, for compartmented tumbling cylinders.
