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Abstract

There are disclosed two embodiments of a top transfer type continuous batch washing machine comprising an intermediate outer housing and an additional outer housing at each end thereof, with each outer housing having one or more bath sections, and a continuous elongate inner housing made up of cylindrically shaped drums having their inlets and outlets connected to one another. Rollers are mounted on the outside of the outer housings in position to support tubular members which extend between adjacent sections of the inner housing to suspend the lower portion of each drum of an intermediate section in a bath section of the intermediate outer housing and the lower portion of each drum of each outer section in a bath section of an additional outer housing. Chains are also mounted on the outside of the outer housings to rotate the tubular members and thus the inner housing as a whole, and the module or modules of each drum has a scoop arranged to oscillate or rotate in one directional sense to permit circulation of liquid through the goods and rotate in the opposite directional sense to transfer the goods through the outlet into the inlet of an adjacent drum or module.

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First Claim