housings and rotated by a drive motor not shown as conventionally disclosed in e g u s pat no 3 683 649 doctor blade 3 is located adjacent the surface of roller 2 and is downwardly inclined the top edge of doctor blade 3 is contiguous with roller 2 so as to scrape dye off the surface of roller 2 as the roller rotates the top surface of blade 3 is provided with a series of v shaped channels 4 by which the dye is directed into individual jets 5 to form a curtain of downwardly flowing dye streams as the dye streams 5 fall vertically downward they strike moving fingers 6 and are broken up into droplets fingers 6 are preferably u shaped as illustrated in fig1 but could also be of other configurations such as v shaped or simply straight the width of the fingers i e the distance from the top to the bottom of the u is preferably between about 3 to 6 inches fingers 6 are attached to an endless belt 7 which revolves around guide rollers 8 belt 7 is driven by conventional means such as an electric motor not shown it will be appreciated that the streams of dye 5 contact moving fingers 6 at two different vertical locations as the streams flow downward first at the upper portion of.