CA2094100A1 - Ink jet dyeing method - Google Patents

Ink jet dyeing method

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CA2094100A1
CA2094100A1 CA 2094100 CA2094100A CA2094100A1 CA 2094100 A1 CA2094100 A1 CA 2094100A1 CA 2094100 CA2094100 CA 2094100 CA 2094100 A CA2094100 A CA 2094100A CA 2094100 A1 CA2094100 A1 CA 2094100A1
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ink
ink jet
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Yoshimichi Yamakita
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YKK Corp
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Yoshida Kogyo KK
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    • DTEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06PDYEING OR PRINTING TEXTILES; DYEING LEATHER, FURS OR SOLID MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES IN ANY FORM
    • D06P5/00Other features in dyeing or printing textiles, or dyeing leather, furs, or solid macromolecular substances in any form
    • D06P5/30Ink jet printing
    • DTEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06PDYEING OR PRINTING TEXTILES; DYEING LEATHER, FURS OR SOLID MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES IN ANY FORM
    • D06P1/00General processes of dyeing or printing textiles, or general processes of dyeing leather, furs, or solid macromolecular substances in any form, classified according to the dyes, pigments, or auxiliary substances employed
    • D06P1/44General processes of dyeing or printing textiles, or general processes of dyeing leather, furs, or solid macromolecular substances in any form, classified according to the dyes, pigments, or auxiliary substances employed using insoluble pigments or auxiliary substances, e.g. binders
    • D06P1/52General processes of dyeing or printing textiles, or general processes of dyeing leather, furs, or solid macromolecular substances in any form, classified according to the dyes, pigments, or auxiliary substances employed using insoluble pigments or auxiliary substances, e.g. binders using compositions containing synthetic macromolecular substances
    • D06P1/5207Macromolecular compounds obtained by reactions involving only carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bonds
    • D06P1/525Polymers of unsaturated carboxylic acids or functional derivatives thereof
    • D06P1/5257(Meth)acrylic acid

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  • Textile Engineering (AREA)
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  • Ink Jet Recording Methods And Recording Media Thereof (AREA)

Abstract

ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE

In an ink jet dyeing method, a highly absorbing high polymer substance is applied to a cloth of fibers before dyeing the cloth by the ink jet method. The result is that any spread of dye ink on a cloth can be prevented perfectly by applying only a small amount of anti-spread agent to the cloth before dyeing. Because of such a small amount of anti-spread agent, it is possible to retain the texture of cloth and to give an excellent degree of waterproofness even if the anti-spread agent applied to the cloth was not removed by, for example, washing.

Description

IN~ JET DYEING N~THOD

BAC~GRO~ND OF ~H~ INV~N~ION
1. Fiel~ of the Invontion:
This invention relates to an ink jet dyeing method for dyeing various designs clearly and effec-tively on a surface of a woven, knit or non-woven cloth of various fibers by ink jetting.
2. Desoription of tha Rel~ted Art:
A so-called ink jet dyeing method for dyeing various designs effectively on the surface of a woven, knit or non-woven cloth by ink jettlng, which was de-veloped for printing on paper, is disclosed in, for example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open Publication No. Sho 54-18957. Various developments for realizing the ink jet method in the field of dyeing are going on.
For example, aktempts have been made to prevent any spread of dye on the surfac~e of a cloth, which is a matter of primary concern in ink jet dyeing on cloth. Generally although it can be expected that the spread o~ dye on the cloth surface will be reduced if the viscosity of dye ink is increased, the ink tends to stop in the ink jet nozzle so that management of the nozzle would be complicated and smooth operation is difficult to achieve.
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2~9~00 the spread of dye ink by instantaneously vaporiziny the solvent upon arrival of the ink at the cloth sur-face. In this case, however, the cloth must be heated up to a high temperature be~ore dyeing, and as a result, not only the cloth tends to be damaged but also the dye would degenerate which might lead deterioration of products.
Alternatively, a method of preventing the spread of dye ink by applying an anti-spread agent, which ad-heres to dye and retains it, onto the cloth surface before dyeing is disclosed in, for example, Japanese Patent Publication No. Sho 63-31594. Specifically, at least one kind of compound selected from the group consisting of a water-soluble high polymer, a water-soluble salt and water-soluble inorganic minute parti-cles, which are substantially unable to adhere to dye and are able to retain the dye, is attached to the cloth surface by 1 to 50% in th~e preparation process, then dye ink is given by ink jetting, whereupon the compound or compounds is heated to fix and is then washed away.
The dyeing method disclosed in Japanese Patent Publication No. Sho 63-31594 is effective as it is free of nozzle jamming and deterioration of products.
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retained by the anti-spread agent, there is no denying the fact that the degree of exhaustion would be lowered, compared to that in the case of one and the same dye. Further, since the anti-spread agentl which retains dye, is washed away after the dye is heated to fix, the dye would be removed during washing, which would lower the efficiency of adherence of dye further.

SUMMARY OF T~E INVENTION
it is an object of this invention to provide an ink jet dyeing method which is free of any spread of dye and deterioration of texture of a cloth and high in degree of exhaustion and from which a secondary ef-fect can be expected for the dyed products.
According to this invention, there is provided an ink jet dyeing method for dyeing a cloth of fibers by ink jetting, wherein a highly water-absorbing high polymer is applied to the cloth before ink jetting.
This invention will now be described in detail along with its mode of operation.
The ink jet method to be used in this invention should by no means be limited to a particular form.
The typical conventional form is exemplified by a electrostatic attraction method in which a typlcal form, a strong electric field is given between a nozzle and an accelerating electrode forwards of the ,. :, , . :
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nozzle and ink particles are jetted from the nozzle according to an i.nformation signal, an ultrasonic os-cillation method in which ink to be supplied under high pressure is sprayed in minute particles from a nozzle, which is vibrated by a cryskal vibrator, ac-cording to an information signal, and a piezo compo~
ment method in which ink is sprayed ~rom a nozzle by giving an electrical signal to a piezo component to apply pressure to ink.
For ink, known dyes such as direct dye, acid dye, chrome dye, reaction dye, dispersion dye or ca-tion dye may be used, depending on the kind of cloth fibers. Dye ink is prepared by adding, to the dye and liquid, various kinds of additives such as an anti-dry agent of, for example, glycol group, a dye solvent, a characteristic adjust agent, an antiseptic, a sterilizer and a chelating agent.
If a design was printed on a f.iber cloth with only the above-prepared dye ink by ink jet method, the dye would have spread horribly and so the resulting product would have been a defect. Whereas in this in-vention, it is possible to retard the spread of dye at least until after the dye is attached to the cloth, without damaging the texture of the cloth.
An anti-spread agent to be used in this inven-tion is a high polymer compound which is insoluble , ~ .
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with water and absorbs much water, i.e. a high polymersubstance called "hiyh water-absorbing resin". The high water-absorbing resin is exemplified by vinyl al-cohol acrylate, sodium acrylate copolymer, dextrin-acrylate graft copolymer cure and cured polyacrylate salt. Application of the anti-spread agent to the cloth may be performed by a suitable means, such as panting, soaking or spraying.
The indi~idual highly absorbing water-insoluble high polymer compounds has such a characteristic as to instantaneously absorb water tens to thousands times the own weight to gel. Accordingly, if the highly ab~
sorbing high polymer compound is applied to the cloth previously, the dye ink will be temporarily absorbed and held by this highly absorbing high polymer com-pound, and even a definitely small amount of highly absorbing high polymer compound applied will suffice to achieve the original purpose. When the dye is fixed, the water temporarily absorbed by the highly absorbing high polymer compound will be vapored and the dye held by the same compound will be combined with the fibers to develop a color while the compound also will be attached to the cloth surface to fix.
Since the amount of highly absorbing high polymer compound attached and fixed to the cloth surface is small, the texture of the cloth is Xept free from , , : , . ;. , :

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heing impaired. As a secondary excellent effect, the compound existing on the cloth surface does not allow raindrops on the front surface to pass to the back surface.
In general, af~er the development of color, dyeing is finalized by the drying step. Also in the drying st~p, the highly absorbing high polymer com-pound ~ixed on the cloth and serving as an anti-spread agent will not be removed from the cloth, staying in inter~iber spaces to give an excellent waterproofness.
EXAMPLE~
This invention will now be described in detail by examples.
Exa~ple l, Com~arative ExamPles 1 and 2 Three water solutions were prepared each con-taining tens grams per liter of each of Sumika Gel SP510 (Example 1, colloidal solution; vinyl alcohol acrylate copolymer produced by Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.), Arabia rubber (Comparative Example 1) and montmorillonite ~Comparative Example 2). A cloth woven of processed threads made from polyester fibers was soaked in each of the three solutions and was squeezed by 60~ using a pad, whereupon the cloth was dried at 100C for ten minutes. The resulting cloth was dyed under the following conditions.
(l) Preparation of Dispersion Dye Ink:

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10% by weight of Dianix Black FG-P (dispersion dye produced by Mitsub.ishi Chemical-Hechist Co., Ltd.), 15% by weight of polyPthylene glycol (average molecular weight: 400), 15% by weight of glycerine and 60% by weight of ion-exchange water were mixed togeth-er, and this mixture was pulverized at room tempera ture by a fine pulverizer such as a sand grinder or a paint condition~r and was filtered by a glass filter llP5VF (product by Iwaki Glass Co., Ltd., maximum pore diameter: about 1.0 ~m).
(2) Ink Jet Print Conditions:
Type of ink jet method: on-demand Nozzle diameter: 60 ~m Dot density. 180 dots/inch (vertical, horizontal) Distance between nozæle and cloth: 1 mm (3) Dyeing Conditions:
The printed cloth was treated to develop color under the following conditions and was then treated by reduction washing, whereupon washing by water, neutralization, washing by water and drying were per-formed.
Color development: dry heating at 200C for 3 minutes.
Reduction washing: Soaked at 90C for 20 minutes in a bath prepared of hydro-,;., :

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Neutralization: Soaked in an acetic solution t0-1 grams per liter) at 60C
for ten minutes.
(4~ Results:
Tablo 1 Spread L Value Example 1 Nil 22.64 Comparative Example 1 Slightly 22.93 Comparative Example 2 Sllghtly 23.07 .^,~^
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L Value: a value of brightness of cloth surface by a colorimeter; the darker the color, the smaller the value.~
Colorimeter: COLOR EYE MS-2020 produced by Macbeth ; Corp.
Table 1 shows that no spread came out in this invention while spread was found in Comparative Exam-ples, and that the L value in this invention was smaller than those in Comparative Examples.
ExamPle 2, Com~arative Examples 3 and 4 Three water solutions were prepared each con-taining tens grams per liter of each of Sanwet IM-1000MPS (Example 2, dextrin-acrylate salt graft copoly-mer cure produced by Sanyo Chemical Co., Ltd.), Arabia ;
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rubber ~Comparative Example 3) and montmorillonite (Comparative Example 4)~ A cloth woven of processed threads (cloth woven of viscose rayon threads) made from cellulose fibers was soaked in each of the three solutions and was squeezed by 60% using a pad, whereupon the cloth was dried at 100C for ten minutes. The resulting cloth was dyed under the fol-lowing conditions.
(1) Preparation of Reactive Dye Ink:
10% by weight of C.I. Reactive Black 5 (reactive dye), 15% by weight of polyethylene glycol (average molecular weight: 400), 15% by weight of glycerine and 60% by weight of ion-exchange water were mixed togeth-er, and this mixture was stirred at room temperature and was filtered by a glass filter llP5VF (product by Iwaki Glass Co., Ltd., maximum pore diameter: about 1.0 ~m).
(2) Ink Jet Print Conditions:
Type of ink ~et method: on-demand Nozzle diameter: 60 ~m Dot density: 180 dots/inch (vertical, horizontal~
~ istance between nozzle and ~loth: 1 mm (3) Dyeing Conditions:
The printed cloth was treated to develop color by exposed to saturated vapor at 100C for 15 minutes, g , .
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whereupon washing by water, neutralization by an acetic solution (O.l grams per liter~ and washing by hot water at 90C for 10 minutes, and finally washing by water and drying were performed.
(4) Results:
Table 2 Spread L Value Example 2 Nil 34.73 Comparative Example l Slightly 35.29 Comparative Example 2 Slightly 34.80 ;~
Table 2 also shows that in this invention it is possible to prevent spread of dve ink better than in Comparative Examples.
As is apparent from the foregoing description, according to this invention, it is possible to per-fectly prevent any spread of dye ink on a cloth by ap-plying only a small amount of anti-spread agent to the cloth before dyeing. In addition, because of such a small amount of anti-spread agent, it is possible to retain the texture of cloth and to give an excellent degree of waterproofness even if the anti-spread agent applied to the cloth was not removed by, for example, washing.

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Claims (2)

1. An ink jet dyeing method for dyeing a cloth of fibers by ink jetting, wherein a highly water-absorbing high polymer is applied to the cloth before ink jetting.
2. An ink jet dyeing method according to claim 1, said highly water-absorbing high polymer consists of vinyl alcohol acrylate, sodium acrylate copolymer, dextrin-acrylate graft copolymer cure or cured polyacrylate salt.
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AU4906699A (en) * 1998-07-08 2000-02-01 Ciba Specialty Chemicals Holding Inc. Method for printing fibrous textile materials using the ink jet technique
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