seen in the exemplary embodiment shown in fig5 that the application container 40 is followed by a steamer 90 whose atmosphere is in communication with the application container 40 via a spill shaft 92 that is closed off from the ambient atmosphere steam from the steamer 90 that resides under slight over pressure in comparison to the application container 40 constantly flows into the application container 40 through the spill shaft 92 that the material traverses from left to right in fig5 and is employed for steam rinsing in said application container 40 in the way already set forth in conjunction with fig3 the steam flows through the spill shaft in counter current flow to the textile material 16 in this exemplary embodiment the application container comprises a total of four nozzle crosspieces 72 of the type already described whereby the extraction of the mixture of vapor chemicals and air from the interior of the application container 40 ensues with the blower 68 the nozzle crosspieces 72 are so to speak allocated to the application container 40 in the form of individual chambers whereby it is guaranteed that the two sides of the textile material 16 lying opposite one another are uniformly charged and no drops from the walls or pipelines of the application container 40 proceed onto the weave of the textile material 16 as may be seen from the drawing respectively two crosspiece housings of the.