DE602004005138T2 - Patterned glass textile fabric - Google Patents

Abstract

Provided is a woven, patterned glass fiber textile comprised of a warp yarn having a titer in the range of from 155 to 300 tex, and a weft yarn having a titer in the range of about 68 to 660 tex. The resulting textile fabric is aesthetically pleasing, and finds excellent applicability as a wallcovering.

Description

BACKGROUND THE INVENTION

Territory of invention

The The present invention relates to a fiberglass textile fabric which is aesthetically pleasing appealing and special application as a fabric for wall coverings place. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method for making a patterned fiberglass textile using a jacquard weaving process.

description of the prior art

Looms, like Dobby, have been used for many decades to make glass fabrics. This also applies to the production of fabrics with glass fiber yarns to be woven. In the production of aesthetically pleasing glass fabrics However, there was a difficulty, and especially in glass fabrics, which contain a pattern. In general, glass fabrics are used as reinforcement and its aesthetic qualities are not important. The application of fiberglass textiles at However, wall coverings have a demand for aesthetically pleasing fiberglass fabrics elevated and in particular those that are efficiently using a Loom can be made.

Glass fabric, which are woven with a pattern on a loom, are known. See, for example, U.S. Pat. Patent No. 6,267,151 issued to Andre Moll from Vitrulan Textilglas GmbH. In the minor patent becomes a method for producing a patterned glass fabric, especially for wallpaper is suitable or for similar materials with a fabric made of fiberglass yarns was woven. The fiberglass yarn has a titer between 130 tex and 150 tex, and preferably between 139 and 142 tex, which for the Warp thread is used. A fiberglass yarn with a titer between 190 tex and 400 tex, and preferably 215 tex, is shot used in the tissue. The yarn is generally on one patterned jacquard made. In the patent will noted that the processing of glass fibers on jacquards previously never succeeded, but states that by sticking to the specific limiting Values of the glass fiber yarns used, patterned glass fabric made can be.

The Importance of aesthetics However, in commercial products like wall coverings, that requires more flexibility ensured in the creation of patterns in woven glass textile fabrics becomes. The demand is such that an inability to pattern fiberglass textiles on a jacquard loom using a variety of fiberglass yarns, which is much bigger, as required by Moll in US Pat. No. 6,267,151 to weave to one Obstacle for commercial acceptance. As a result, an additional flexibility in the creation of patterned fiberglass textiles and the discovery such flexibility very welcomed in the industry.

As a result, it is an object of the present invention to produce a glass textile fabric, which is aesthetically pleasing looks attractive and made on a jacquard loom has been.

One Another object of the present invention is the provision a process for making a patterned fiberglass textile, that for Wall coverings is of use and on a jacquard can be woven using fiberglass yarns for the warp yarn, the one larger titer have, as previously used.

These and other objects of the present invention will become apparent to those skilled in the art upon review of the following disclosure.

SUMMARY THE INVENTION

In accordance With the foregoing objects, the present invention ceases Glastextilgewebe ready, which looks aesthetically pleasing and patterned. The textile is made using a weaving process made according to Jacquard. The fabric is covered with a fiberglass yarn with a titer of 155 tex to 300 tex in the machine direction or woven as a warp thread. The fiberglass yarn, as a weft thread or transverse direction is within a range of about 68 to 680 tex.

Because for other reasons For example, the present invention is based on the discovery that a patterned Fiberglass textile successful using a jacquard can be woven when the warp yarn in a range of 155 to 300 tex lies. Such textiles find particular application as a tissue for Wall coverings.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

The warp yarn used in the woven, patterned fiberglass fabric of the present invention has a titer in the range of 155 to 300 tex. More preferably, the glass fiber yarns used for the warp yarn have a denier in the range of 270 to 290 tex, and most preferably about 278 tex. The Kettfa The density of the fabric, which may be suitably used as a wallcovering, is generally in the range of 2.5 to 20 threads / cm and preferably in the range of about 6 to 10 threads / cm, with about 6.5 Threads / cm is the most preferred warp density.

The Weft yarn used together with the warp yarn may have a titer in the range of 68 to 660 tex. More preferred is the titer of the glass fiber yarn, as the weft or is used as a cross direction yarn, in a range of 190 to 350 tex, and is more preferably about 200 or about 330 tex. The weft yarn density of the fabric is in a range of preferably 2.0 to 12 threads / cm and is more preferably about 2.4 threads / cm or 5 threads / cm.

The Glass fiber textiles according to the invention, which use the above-described warp yarns and weft yarns, are preferably made on a jacquard loom. Such Jacquard looms are well known and are used due to their pattern control. It was found that fiberglass textiles actually on a jacquard loom can be woven, if the warp yarns and weft yarns together as described above used to be a nice one woven, patterned fiberglass textile. The glass yarns, which are used as the warp yarn and weft yarn, can a glass tap fiber sorgharn, a superglass raspberry strorgarn, a continuous one Yarn, a roving or a textured yarn cover, as long as the particular warp thread and weft thread titer are adhered to. Glass staple fiber sorghum, which can be used as a staple fiber strand or a discontinuous fiber yarn is well known and is described, for example, in Fiber Glass, by J. Gilbert Mohr and William P Rowe, 1978, van Nostrand Rinehold Company. The Production of glass staple fiber using the so-called "drum pull" method also becomes in US Pat. No. 4,863,502 and referred to. The Use of glass staple or a textured yarn is either for the warp yarn or the weft yarn when weaving the patterned, according to the invention Fiberglass textile on a jacquard loom is preferred.

The are glass types used in the production of the glass fiber yarns preferably C-glass or E-glass. Such chemical glass or electronic glass composition are well known in the industry.

The woven, inventive, patterned fiberglass textile looks aesthetically pleasing and feels pleasant and is therefore for Wall coverings suitable. Even if the patterned effect of Textile is appealing, sometimes can be extra color within the Must be desired pattern. In such cases was found to be mixing synthetic resin yarns with the glass fiber yarns, in particular for the weft, it allows the textile additional To give color. Such synthetic resin fibers are well known and include, inter alia, polyester. The synthetic resin fibers can colored be to the desired To convey color.

As soon as the patterned fiberglass textile was woven on the jacquard loom, The textile may be used as is or preferably on conventional Coated / impregnated, to finalize the product To give properties. Chemical treatments of glass fabrics are known to have such properties as strength, volume, stability and opacity of the finished textile product to elaborate / adapt. Any such chemical treatments can with respect to the glass fiber textile according to the invention be used.

In a preferred embodiment, the woven fabric of the invention is impregnated with a chemical formulation consisting of a starch binder, a synthetic polymeric binder or a wet booster / crosslinking agent. The starch binder is preferably a potato starch, but may also be any suitable starch derived from other types of plants or cereal materials, such as e.g. B. corn starch. The polymeric binder used is preferably characterized by a low T _g . Such synthetic binders may be based on vinyl acetate and may be latex binders. The wet booster or crosslinking agent may be either an organic or inorganic material which enhances the wet properties of the finished textile product. The additional use of a crosslinking agent, generally an inorganic crosslinking agent, such as ammonium zirconium carbonate, can enhance the effect that the starch binder / polymer binder exerts on the entire textile product by stabilizing the chemical mixture upon application.

The chemical formulation used to impregnate or coat the woven fabric is preferably water based and generally has a dry matter content of between 5 and 20 weight percent, preferably between 10 and 20 weight percent in the chemical bath. It is also possible to add or use pigments, either white or colored pigments, to produce colored fabrics. A typical chemical formulation is calculated on a dry basis, from 20 to 60 weight percent starch binder, from 30 to 60 weight percent polymeric binder, from 0 to 20 weight percent wet booster / crosslinker and from 0 to 20 weight percent other ingredients such as pigments.

The chemical formulation is applied to the textile using any suitable impregnation or coating technology applied. Such techniques include preferably a rotary printing or a padding technique. After impregnation For example, the tissue can be transferred to a drying device which is steam-heated Cylinder, air dryer or any other suitable drying device that can not be opposite Effect on the finished textile material.

After this now the preferred embodiments of the invention have been described, it should be understood that the Invention is not limited to these precise embodiments, rather, one skilled in the art can make various changes and modifications make it without departing from the scope of the invention, as in the defined in the appended claims, is deviated.

Claims (11)

Woven, patterned fiberglass textile, consisting from a fiberglass yarn with a titer of 155 to 300 tex as the warp thread, and a fiberglass yarn with a titer in the area from 68 to 660 tex as the weft. Glastextile fabric according to claim 1, wherein the titer the warp yarn is in the range of about 270 to 290 tex. Glastextile fabric according to claim 1, wherein the titer the warp yarn is about 278 tex. Glastextile fabric according to claim 1, wherein the titer of the weft yarn is in the range of about 190 to 350 tex. Glastextile fabric according to claim 1, wherein the titer the weft yarn is about 200 tex. Glastextile fabric according to claim 1, wherein the titer the weft yarn is about 330 tex. Glass textile fabric according to claim 1, wherein the density of the warp of the textile fabric is in the range of 2.5 to 20 threads / cm. Glastextile fabric according to claim 7, wherein the density of the warp thread of textile wallcovering in the range of about 6 up to 10 threads / cm lies. Glass textile fabric according to claim 1, wherein the density of the weft yarn of the textile in the range of about 2.0 to 12 Threads / cm lies. Glass textile fabric according to claim 1, wherein the textile impregnated with a chemical formulation consisting of a starch binder and a polymeric binder. Process for making a woven, patterned Fiberglass textile, comprising the following steps: provision a pattern-controlled jacquard loom, Using a Fiberglass warp yarns with a titer of 155 to 300 tex, and use a fiberglass weft yarn with a titer in the range of 68 up to 660 tex.