CN102926228B - Treating fluid for elastic fiber fabric - Google Patents

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CN102926228B
CN102926228B CN201210427488.7A CN201210427488A CN102926228B CN 102926228 B CN102926228 B CN 102926228B CN 201210427488 A CN201210427488 A CN 201210427488A CN 102926228 B CN102926228 B CN 102926228B
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The invention discloses treating fluid for an elastic fiber fabric and belongs to the technical field of printing treatment for the elastic fiber fabric. The treating fluid comprises sodium alginate paste and rigidifying fluid, wherein the rigidifying fluid is matched with the sodium alginate paste for use and comprises the following components according to weight percentages: 35-40 wt% of diethylene glycol, 2-5 wt% of potassium acetate, 50-55 wt% of white oil and 5-10 wt% of alkylbenzene sulfonate. The elastic fiber fabric treated by the treating fluid for the elastic fiber fabric provided by the technical scheme of the invention has the advantages of uniform coloring, very neat patterns on the fabric even after washing for multiple times, and good stereoscopic effect. Simultaneously, the whole production process can be applied in the conventional printing equipment and printing process without adding more equipment, so that the production control is convenient, and the production cost is lower, thus being capable of being applied in the printing process and the like.

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A kind of elastic fiber fabric treatment fluid
Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of elastic fiber fabric treatment fluid, belong to elastic fiber fabric fabric stamp processing technology field.
Background technology
Along with improving constantly and the progress of technology of living standard, people are to weaving face fabric, especially the requirement of wearing fabric is more and more higher, these fabrics not only will meet the advantages such as pliability is high, comfortableness is good, also to meet the ornamental and aesthetic property of certain degree, as formed various colored types and color by the mode such as stamp or jacquard weave, but such effect lacks third dimension, cannot meet people's demand; And take the colored shell fabric of hot pressing embossing molding or coating formation, although can give fabric certain third dimension, but this hot-pressing processing easily causes aberration, simultaneously, the third dimension of flower type is volatile, after the washing or dress of several times, hot-forming colored type fades away, not only visual effect is not good, folding line that hot pressing brings, crumples trace to the extremely inaesthetic sensation of people's one, the most important thing is, this hot-pressing processing to a certain extent, damaged the original wearing comfort of fabric itself, feel is stiff, wears poor effect; And the method that the different yarn of employing elasticity interweaves, braid method is realized stereoeffect, although overcome the problem of fixed effect, but this technique is extremely complicated, careless slightly, just there will be braiding mistake, flower type is prone to irregularity phenomenons such as running line, wrong look, between yarn, realize connection by knotting simultaneously, in the time of contact skin, can bring friction, be unfavorable for health care of body, the mechanical properties such as the stretching of fabric and water-wash resistance cannot ensure, practicality is not good, can not meet the demand of people to fabric.
Summary of the invention
The object of this invention is to provide a kind of elastic fiber fabric treatment fluid that type is regular, stereoeffect is good of spending.
For achieving the above object, the technical scheme of taking is as follows:
A kind of elastic fiber fabric treatment fluid, comprises sodium alginate paste, also comprises rigid liquid, and ossify liquid and sodium alginate paste are used in conjunction with, each component that described rigid liquid is following content: diglycol 35-40wt%; Potassium acetate 2-5wt%; White oil 50-55wt%; Alkylbenzenesulfonate 5-10wt%.
For realizing better result of use, further setting and operation principle are as follows:
Described diglycol (C 4h 10o 3) content is 38wt%; Potassium acetate content is (CH 3cOOK) 2wt%; White oil is C 16-C 21the mixture of positive isoparaffin, white oil content is 52wt%; The content of alkylbenzenesulfonate is 8wt%.
Described rigid liquid and the ratio of sodium alginate paste are 1:1-2, and preferably, the ratio of ossify liquid and sodium alginate paste is 1:1.
Described white oil is C 16-C 21the mixture of positive isoparaffin, the white oil of employing meets the standard of 15# white oil in SH0006-90.
Described alkylbenzenesulfonate is sodium alkyl benzene sulfonate.
The starching amount that described rigid liquid needs according to fabric is selected bar magnet and magnetic force, uses the neat agate rotary screen printing machine wholly computer controlled of Austria: thin stem, the type selection of small size flower No. 10 or No. 12 bar magnets, magnetic force 80%; Block flower type is selected 15-20 bar magnet, magnetic force 90%; Bulk face flower type is selected No. 25 bar magnets, magnetic force 100%.After described rigid processing, formalize, setting speed is 20m/min left and right, and setting temperature is 185-190 DEG C.
Described elastic fiber fabric is that spandex is woven into cotton, fiber crops, bamboo, day silk, model or wash/cotton etc.
Wherein, sodium alginate paste comprises each component of following content: water 80wt%; Calgon 0.6-0.8wt%; Soda ash 0.2-0.6wt%; Sodium alginate 5-8wt%; Formaldehyde 1-2wt%.The temperature of water is 50-60 DEG C, and formaldehyde is 37.5%.
In conventional printing assistant sodium alginate paste, add certain proportion rigid liquid of the present invention, after being stirred, pass through cylinder, the modes such as PLATE SCREAM PRINTING or manual brushing are by the colored type of design, patterns etc. ossify under corresponding processing time and treatment temperature, make rigid elastic fiber fabric part lost its bounce, and other positions still keep elasticity, thereby it is uneven that fabric is produced, allow fabric there is anaglyph, anaglyph coordinates with flower type and pattern, not only make the colored type of fabric be rich in third dimension, both can make underwear, skirting take fabric, also can be used as pillowcase, bedcover, the draperies such as curtain.When fabric is when taking, wear next to the skin, there is massage skin, promote the beneficial effects such as blood motion.
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Fig. 1 is the Partial Fragment structural representation that adopts the printed fabric of elastic fiber fabric treatment fluid acquisition of the present invention.
Number in the figure: 1, rigid part; 2, rigid part; 21, thin stem, small size flower type; 22, block flower type; 23, large face piece flower type.
Detailed description of the invention
In the present invention, thin stem, the long-pending < bulk of small size flower profile spend the long-pending < bulk face flower of profile profile long-pending, the difficulty of thin stem wherein and the small size flower type dyeing more block colored type of difficulty and bulk face flower type wants large, structure is also more complicated, as shown in fig. 1 thin stem, small size flower type 21 or block flower type 22 or large face piece flower type 23.
Embodiment 1
In the present embodiment, take the mode of ROTARY SCREAM PRINTING to carry out stamp, in conjunction with Fig. 1, flower type is thin stem, small size flower type 21.Elastic fiber fabric is carried out to stamp operation according to following operation: clot → loose cloth → preboarding → pre-treatment → stamp → evaporate → wash → dewater → dry → formalize, wherein, fabric treatment fluid in technical solution of the present invention is used for to stamp flow process, rigid liquid and dyeing assistant sodium alginate paste are used in conjunction with according to the mass ratio of 1:1, after rigid liquid and sodium alginate paste stir, by cylinder, PLATE SCREAM PRINTING or manual coating, fabric is ossify as colored type, the pattern of design.Wherein, the individual component that rigid liquid is following content: diglycol content is 38wt%; Potassium acetate content is 2wt%; White oil is 15# in SH0006-90 standard, and white oil content is 52wt%; Alkylbenzenesulfonate is sodium alkyl benzene sulfonate, and the content of sodium alkyl benzene sulfonate is 8wt%.
1. preboarding
In order to improve spinning situation, in the weaving process of elastic fiber fabric, use silicone oil lubricant and other auxiliary agents, As time goes on these auxiliary agents can cause fiber yellowing by natural degradation, the flexibility decrease of fabric; Meanwhile, elastic fiber fabric can form " cold setting " in long term storage, makes fabric in rear processing, produce the permanent wrinkle that cannot eliminate.So, containing the elastic fiber fabric of Polyurethane Knitted Fabric except reduce the storage time, the more important thing is weave after open width package after open-width immediately, avoid producing the chance of backfin trace.The object of pre-heat setting is exactly for the stretched and relaxed process by fabric eliminates stress, and makes the size of fabric fully stable, eliminates fabric and in rear processing, occurs permanent folding line.If the coil forming in the time that cylinder is weaved, second coil be on the left side of first coil, and entering so cloth direction when preboarding also should front 7%~10% (the relative fabric width) in the left side, makes to be consistent with the twist of finished product.Therefore, best preboarding scheme is: lax → decatize → overfeeding preboarding → (entering fabric pre-treatment → setting → stamp).Most of dye-works because there is no decatizing apparatus directly squezzing enter setting, when temperature below degree time, easily produces folding line at 10 DEG C on fabric.In technical solution of the present invention, fabric formalizes after first relaxing by steaming box again, can receive satisfied effect, setting temperature is unsuitable too high, otherwise can make fabric yellowing, therefore, preboarding is wanted first after steaming box is lax, to formalize again, preboarding temperature is 185-190 DEG C, and the preboarding time is 45-60 second.
2. pre-treatment
Before stamp, knitted cloth will pass through pre-treatment, to remove cotton stain impurity and grease wax etc., increase the whiteness of fabric, improve wettability and the water absorbing properties of fabric, thereby reach good printing quality, in the technical program, washing after pre-treatment adopts the progressively method of cooling, and rate of temperature fall is 1 DEG C/min, prevents that cooling suddenly from causing that filament contraction produces folding line.
3. the setting of semi-products
The setting of semi-products must be carried out according to intrinsic technique, and the fabric width that in general formalizes is 3%~5% left and right compared with Fabric width, and warp-wise shrinkage is controlled in the shrinkage of finished product requirement, the ratio of amplifying when the elongation of patch equals to retouch original text.If single knitting cloth so also needs the control of oar trimming and best twist, reduce the stamp skew of weft producing because of twist.The about lcm of width on slurry limit, breakpoint slurry.Should not be too thin or blocked up, thin do not have a due effect, too thick printing quality that can the nearly selvedge of impact.
4. enter the speed of cloth and the rigid liquid of seal
According to the performance containing spandex-knitted stamp elastic fiber fabric, select pyrocondensation resin or the patch of patch slurry, regulate into cloth edge guide, edge spreader, dust catcher, regulates into cloth tension force, contains Polyurethane Knitted Fabric patch tension force taking minimum as standard.Therefore, containing the ROTARY SCREAM PRINTING of spandex knitted fabric, stamp speed is comparatively suitable with 35~40m/min, the too fast speed of a motor vehicle is unfavorable for the ossify infiltration of liquid product and the control of product quality, simultaneously, the pattern return of ROTARY SCREAM PRINTING is subject to certain restrictions, and the return of ROTARY SCREAM PRINTING that different from PLATE SCREAM PRINTING is is direct system.Must be according to the ratio of having amplified, strict regulation speed, otherwise due to the changeability of knitted cloth patch size, cause and print the product flower molded dimension distortion ossifing after liquid, even from different, therefore in the time that cylinder is made, determined stamp speed, can not in operation afterwards, change arbitrarily.
5. cylinder prints the ossify pressure of liquid and the selection of bar magnet or scraper
When stamp, net the interior slurry high-low-position of cylinder moderate, it is a little less that thin stem, small size spend type 21 to deposit rigid liquid, and it is more that bulk face flower type 23 is deposited rigid liquid.Can be at calico of a certain amount of grey cloth indirect, in order to printing quality and the cylinder quality of the rigid liquid of regular check.With the neat agate of Austria rotary screen printing machine wholly computer controlled: thin stem, small size flower type 21 are selected No. 10 or No. 12 bar magnets, magnetic force 80%; Block flower type 22 is selected 15-20 bar magnet, magnetic force 90%; Bulk face flower type 23 is selected bar magnet, magnetic force 100% No. 25.According to well lower slurry amount and the osmotic effect of rigid liquid of the property regulation of rotary screen printing machines.
6. stamp post-drying
To strictly control drying room temperature well, stamp post-drying, wherein, the bake out temperature of COAT PRINTING is 140-145 DEG C, makes binder generating portion crosslinked in drying; The bake out temperature of printing with reactive dye is 135-140 DEG C, and dry evenly on both sides, when printing with reactive dye, enters the dewing of preferably spraying before rapid steamer, makes cloth surface temperature be unified in room temperature state, keeps uniformity and the integrality of tinctorial yield.
7. evaporate and wash
In technical solution of the present invention, evaporate in continuous steaming machine and carry out, steam flow is 2 t/h, and temperature is 103-105 DEG C, and the time of evaporating is 10min, enters cloth tension force and can drive cloth to enter rapid steamer; Washing adopts loose formula open width and loose formula rope form continuous washing, in the time of open width state, adopts shower water to wash.
It is good compared with cylinder steam box that elastomer (spandex) fabric evaporates with continuous steaming machine, if because evaporate at cylinder steam box, the Polyurethane Knitted Fabric hanging up properly not only can be in the damp and hot middle weft direction stretch distortion of evaporating, also have be dragged to case at the bottom of, amplify cylinder steam box and easily produced the drawback of the upper and lower depth, caused that to evaporate color development irregular.In the time that loop steamer evaporates, to note into cloth tension force equally little, as long as can drive cloth to enter rapid steamer.Enter cloth smooth, cloth cover can not fold, otherwise understands the faults such as generation cuts marks, tows out in the process of evaporating; The more general knitted cloth washing of elastomer (spandex) fabric washing more will be noted the stressed problem of warp-wise of whole water-washing process.Therefore, with loose formula open width Jia Songshi rope form continuous washing be current reasonable knitting rinsing machine, the knitted cloth of open width state passes through shower water, can make with comparalive ease slurry on fabric expanded, wash away and enter that rope form is soaped or reduction cleaning process after alkaline agent on fabric and a part of loose colour, can obtain good washing effect.8. the Polyurethane Knitted Fabric after finished product setting rinse dehydration, fabric width requires to dwindle a lot than finished product, and on boarding machine, once soft formalizing often do not reach the requirement of anticipation, need to be at loose formula drying machine drying, allow fabric have sufficient time overfeeding to be shaped.The too fast setting speed of a motor vehicle can make fabric produce tight, the middle loose out-of-flatness state in both sides, and the unfavorable spandex that stamps the rigid liquid of spandex ossifys.Therefore, in this programme, before setting, first fabric is dried on loose formula dryer, allow its natural preshrunk, then overfeeding is shaped, and setting speed is 20m/min left and right, setting temperature is 185-190 DEG C, make to stamp the ossify spandex of liquid and follow the string and occur to ossify, the rigid part 2 in Fig. 1, guarantees to obtain corresponding effect; And not stamping the part of liquid of ossifing, 1 of the part that do not ossify still keeps its good elasticity.
In the present invention, elastic fabric is that spandex is woven into cotton, fiber crops, bamboo, day silk, model or wash/cotton.
Embodiment 2
The present embodiment is identical with setting and the principle of embodiment 1, and difference is: flower type is block flower type 22, and the mass ratio of ossify liquid and sodium alginate paste is 1:1.5, ossify in liquid, and diglycol 30wt%; Potassium acetate 1wt%; White oil content 40wt%, sodium alkyl benzene sulfonate 5wt%; In the process of ossifing, select No. 20 bar magnet, magnetic force 90%.
Embodiment 3
The present embodiment is identical with embodiment 1, and difference is: flower type is bulk face flower type 23, and the mass ratio of ossify liquid and sodium alginate paste is 1:2, ossify in liquid, and diglycol 50wt%; Potassium acetate 5wt%; White oil content 60wt%, sodium alkyl benzene sulfonate 10wt%; Select No. 25 bar magnet, magnetic force 90%.
To taking the fracture strength of the fabric that in embodiment 1-3, technical scheme makes, water-fastness/WASHING COLOR FASTNESS, and contrast the deformation degree of the pattern adopting on the fabric that in the present invention prepared by technical scheme after washing, the results are shown in Table 1.
After under table 1 different disposal condition, the performance test results of the elastic fiber fabric of acquisition
Can find out, elastic fiber fabric treatment fluid elastic fiber fabric after treatment in technical solution of the present invention, not only painted homogeneous, through washing repeatedly, below the colored type on material is still very regular, and stereoeffect is good, simultaneously, whole production process can be applicable in existing printing equipment and stamp flow process, without adding too much equipment, not only production control is convenient, and production cost is lower.

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1. an elastic fiber fabric treatment fluid, comprises sodium alginate paste, it is characterized in that, also comprises rigid liquid, and ossify liquid and printing assistant sodium alginate paste are used in conjunction with, each component that described rigid liquid is following content: diglycol content is 38%; Potassium acetate content is 2%; White oil content is 52%; Alkyl benzene sulphonate salt content is 8%.
2. a kind of elastic fiber fabric treatment fluid according to claim 1, is characterized in that: described rigid liquid and the ratio of sodium alginate paste are 1:1-2.
3. a kind of elastic fiber fabric treatment fluid according to claim 2, is characterized in that: described rigid liquid and the ratio of sodium alginate paste are 1:1.
4. according to a kind of elastic fiber fabric treatment fluid described in claim 1,2 or 3, it is characterized in that: described white oil is the mixture of the positive isoparaffin of C16-C21.
5. according to a kind of elastic fiber fabric treatment fluid described in claim 1,2 or 3, it is characterized in that: described alkylbenzenesulfonate is sodium alkyl benzene sulfonate.
6. according to a kind of elastic fiber fabric treatment fluid described in claim 1,2 or 3, it is characterized in that: described rigid liquid is selected bar magnet and magnetic force according to the starching amount of fabric needs, thin stem, small size flower type are selected No. 10 or No. 12 bar magnets, magnetic force 80%; Block flower type is selected 15-20 bar magnet, magnetic force 90%; Bulk face flower type is selected No. 25 bar magnets, magnetic force 100%.
7. according to a kind of elastic fiber fabric treatment fluid described in claim 1,2 or 3, it is characterized in that: after described rigid processing, will dry and formalize, wherein, the bake out temperature of COAT PRINTING is 140-145 DEG C, the bake out temperature of printing with reactive dye is 135-140 DEG C, allows its natural preshrunk, and then overfeeding is shaped, setting speed is 20m/min left and right, and setting temperature is 185-190 DEG C.
8. according to a kind of elastic fiber fabric treatment fluid described in claim 1,2 or 3, it is characterized in that: described elastic fiber fabric is that spandex is woven into cotton, fiber crops, bamboo, day silk, model, wash/cotton.
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