EP0031624A1 - Procédé de fabrication de paquets de réseaux - Google Patents

Procédé de fabrication de paquets de réseaux Download PDF

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EP0031624A1
EP0031624A1 EP80201218A EP80201218A EP0031624A1 EP 0031624 A1 EP0031624 A1 EP 0031624A1 EP 80201218 A EP80201218 A EP 80201218A EP 80201218 A EP80201218 A EP 80201218A EP 0031624 A1 EP0031624 A1 EP 0031624A1
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Joseph Johannes Petrus Bömers
David Geoffrey Ellis
Johann Josef Janssen
Jan Martinus Jozef Maria Bijen
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D04—BRAIDING; LACE-MAKING; KNITTING; TRIMMINGS; NON-WOVEN FABRICS
    • D04H—MAKING TEXTILE FABRICS, e.g. FROM FIBRES OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; FABRICS MADE BY SUCH PROCESSES OR APPARATUS, e.g. FELTS, NON-WOVEN FABRICS; COTTON-WOOL; WADDING ; NON-WOVEN FABRICS FROM STAPLE FIBRES, FILAMENTS OR YARNS, BONDED WITH AT LEAST ONE WEB-LIKE MATERIAL DURING THEIR CONSOLIDATION
    • D04H13/00—Other non-woven fabrics
    • D04H13/02—Production of non-woven fabrics by partial defibrillation of oriented thermoplastics films
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D04—BRAIDING; LACE-MAKING; KNITTING; TRIMMINGS; NON-WOVEN FABRICS
    • D04H—MAKING TEXTILE FABRICS, e.g. FROM FIBRES OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; FABRICS MADE BY SUCH PROCESSES OR APPARATUS, e.g. FELTS, NON-WOVEN FABRICS; COTTON-WOOL; WADDING ; NON-WOVEN FABRICS FROM STAPLE FIBRES, FILAMENTS OR YARNS, BONDED WITH AT LEAST ONE WEB-LIKE MATERIAL DURING THEIR CONSOLIDATION
    • D04H1/00—Non-woven fabrics formed wholly or mainly of staple fibres or like relatively short fibres
    • D04H1/40—Non-woven fabrics formed wholly or mainly of staple fibres or like relatively short fibres from fleeces or layers composed of fibres without existing or potential cohesive properties
    • D04H1/54—Non-woven fabrics formed wholly or mainly of staple fibres or like relatively short fibres from fleeces or layers composed of fibres without existing or potential cohesive properties by welding together the fibres, e.g. by partially melting or dissolving
    • D04H1/559—Non-woven fabrics formed wholly or mainly of staple fibres or like relatively short fibres from fleeces or layers composed of fibres without existing or potential cohesive properties by welding together the fibres, e.g. by partially melting or dissolving the fibres being within layered webs
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D04—BRAIDING; LACE-MAKING; KNITTING; TRIMMINGS; NON-WOVEN FABRICS
    • D04H—MAKING TEXTILE FABRICS, e.g. FROM FIBRES OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; FABRICS MADE BY SUCH PROCESSES OR APPARATUS, e.g. FELTS, NON-WOVEN FABRICS; COTTON-WOOL; WADDING ; NON-WOVEN FABRICS FROM STAPLE FIBRES, FILAMENTS OR YARNS, BONDED WITH AT LEAST ONE WEB-LIKE MATERIAL DURING THEIR CONSOLIDATION
    • D04H13/00—Other non-woven fabrics

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  • the invention relates to a process for the manufacture of network packages from reticulate webs obtained through stretching, fibrillating and spreading of film of organic polymer material.
  • Such network packages can be used for reinforcement of brittle materials, such as brittle plastics; for reinforcement of water-hardening materials, such as cement and gypsum; as insulation material; as carpet underlay; as filler material in the clothing industry, and also as reinforcement material in road building construction and in water- defense work, such as dikes.
  • the Netherlands Patent Application No. 7714571 describes a process for the application of networks as reinforcement in water-hardening material.
  • the product obtained showed considerable deviations in strength in different directions.
  • This proposal is said to require complicated equipment and to yield products with inferior strength properties.
  • the inferior strenghth properties of the products obtained is due to the zig-zag folding in the transport direction of the networks, the continuously fed network being folded onto itself in the transport direction as a result of a reciprocating motion.
  • the number of layers is indeed increased, but these show considerable discontinuities, so that the fibres of the networks cannot sufficiently transmit stresses because they do not run continuously.
  • Fibre packets can be manufactured starting from discontiuous, chopped fibres of filaments, which webs are made coherent through carding and needling. However, such webs have a low tensile strength and the cost of manufacture is high.
  • thermoplastic filaments or fibrils Another possibility is to start from webs of spun or extruded thermoplastic filaments or fibrils, but these webs also have a low tensile strenght owing to the low tensile strength of the only little stretched filaments or fibrils and to the low strength of the inter-fibre bonding. If these fibre packets are used in a matrix material like cement, plastics, resins or if they are bonded together by means of adhesives or welds, the tensile strength of the resultant product would be unsatisfactory.
  • the object of the present invention is to provide a process for the manufacture of network packages from networks obtained through stretching, fibrillating and spreading of a film of organic polymeric material, which process does not have the said drawbacks and with which an even distribution of the fibres over a given surface area is achieved, so that less material is needed.
  • the uniform high strength in the longitudinal direction of the networks can be converted into strength in any desired direction or even into uniform strength in all directions due to the special manner of folding.
  • Networks made from stretched and fibrillated film have very high tensile strengths in the stretching direction.
  • the network packages made from these networks in accordance with the present invention are used in cement, plastics or resins or when the networks are bonded together by means of adhesives or welds, the resultant tensile strength is high due to the high tensile strength of the coherent filaments and/or fibrils.
  • the transversal strength is very low.
  • the simply transverse folding gives a network package with high irregularities, which makes processing difficult.
  • the invention thus provides a process to distribute this high tensile strength homogeneously over the two-dimensional plane, if desired in a matrix material.
  • a network of fibrillated plastic film is preferably prepared by extruding a plastic to form a film with a thickness of between 10 and 1000 m, in particular between 50 and 500 m, which film may be cut into strips, stretching it to for instance 10 times the original size, resulting in a thickness of preferably between 5 and 150&m, which brings the materal into a state of imminent fibrillation, and next passing it over a pin roll, brush or comb or subjecting it to shearing forces by means of rollers or air streams.
  • the fibrillation may also be effected by twisting.
  • the stretched and fibrillated film is spread to form a network.
  • a continuous web of such a network may consist of a coil of this material, but also of a direct supply from an extruder, the extruded film being stretched and fibrillated between the extruder mouth and the place where the networks are folded.
  • discontinuous' also refers to the use of a certain length of such a reticulate web, fed for instance from a coil, which length is many times larger however than the size of the product ultimately formed.
  • the reticulate web applied according to the invention therefore consists of continous fibres. This means that the elements of which the network is made up, such as fibres and fibrils, extent virtually throughout the network package.
  • 'spreading of the stretched and fibrillated film' is meant enlargement of the dimensions in a direction which is virtually normal to the stretching direction. Preferably, the widening is by a factor of at least 4, for instance 6 to 12. If tubular film is used, this can be done by draiwing the fibrillated film over a conical mandril, as described in the non-prepublished British patent applicatio No. 41478, dated 21st Oct. '78.
  • Another method, which is also applicable for flat film and for a pack of films, one on top of the other consists in lateral spreading by means of clamping rollers, and has been described in the non-preblushised Netherlands Patent Application No. 7905782.
  • the longitudinal or transverse dimension is enlarged.
  • the fibrillated film is thus made into a network with meshes formed by coherent fibrils and filaments.
  • the reticulate webs are preferably dimensionally stabilized after the enlargement, for instance by heating and/or spraying with a resin-like material. This spraying gives the additonal advantage of preventing the reticulate webs superimposed one upon te other from being displaced relatively to each other during processing in an installation for manufacture of reinforced products.
  • the carrier onto which the reticulate webs are laid and on which they are folded may be a driven conveyor belt, but also for instance a table with one or more detached driven rollers for continous discharge of the folded network package.
  • the rate of supply of the reticulate webs and the rate of discharge of the folded reticulate webs are preferably chosen so that the angle between to successive folded sides of the reticulate webs is between 1 and 50°,in particular between 1° and 20°. It is required for one or more additional reticulate webs, stretched longitudinally or in the transport direction, to be supplied in the direction of motion of the folded network package.
  • the overlap angle can be adjusted by varying the ratio of the rate of supply of the web fed in to the rate of discharge of the folded networks.
  • a network package is preferably made up as follows: at one of the two sides of the folded network, reticulate webs stretched in the transport direction are applied and at the other side only one or two of such reticulate webs, after which the whole is combined.
  • the folding can be samplified by directing small air flows internally at the folding lines, in such a manner that these folding lines are pushed in a direction opposite to the folded reticulate webs. This causes the pressure forces on the reticulate webs along the folding lines during the folding to be converted into tensile forces, so that irregularities along the folding lines such as wrinkles, are prevented.
  • the resultant network packages are integrated into a whole preferably by welding the edges together, for instance by ultrasonic or thermal methods, which facilitates handling and later application.
  • the webs of the package may also be welded together at other places, for instance in the middle. It is advantageous to compact the network package obtained, for instance by passing it between rollers; the network package is thereby also levelled.
  • One or more of the rollers may be treated, for instance to 75-125°C.
  • the network packages manufactured according to the invention show better properties, in particular with regard to the strength properties in the different directions, due to the special manner of zig-zag folding. Moreover, the required equipment is relatively uncomplicated. There are few irregularities and the network packages is well-processable.
  • the plastic used for the preparation of the fibrillated films may be a polyolefine, but also other film-forming and fibre-forming thermoplastics are suitable, such as polymers of styrene, acrylonitrile or vinyl chloride and copolymers thereof.
  • partially crystalline polymers are used, such as polyamides and modified polyesters.
  • polyolefines modified or non-modified.
  • Most preference is given to ethylene or propylene homopolymers, although copolymers and block copolymers may also be used.
  • mixtures of polymers may also be used.
  • filler and auxiliary materials may be added, such as carbon black, polar compounds, pigments, light and heat stabilization agents and anti-oxidation agents. It is of great importance that the correct stabilization agents be added to the networks.
  • Favourable results may be achieved with a combination of -, metal de-activator and an anti-oxidant. These compounds are used in quantities of 0.001 to 2.5 % by wt., in particular 0.01 to 1 X by wt.
  • one layer or several layers, one upon the other, of non-spread, stretched and fibrillated film is supplied, in the direction indicated by arrow a, to a spreading and stabilization unit 2. After spreading of the network and subsequent stabilization at the resultant width, this network 3 is supplied to a folding unit 5 arranged over carrier 4.
  • This carrier 4 may be a belt conveyor or a table provided at the discharge end with driven rollers which continuously discharge the folded network.
  • Unit 5 deposits the reticulate webs 3 onto carrier 4 and folds them on it, with a continuous reciprocating motion at right angles to carrier 4.
  • the network is continuously discharged, it is folded to a zig-zag, the degree of this.zig-zagging being dependent upon the rate at which the reticulate webs are supplied to the folding device and the rate of which the folded network is discharged on carrier 4.
  • the overlap angle ⁇ i.e. the angle between two successive folded sides of the reticulate web, is determined by these factors.
  • One or more further reticulate webs may be added to the folded network, applied longitudinally in relation to the folded network. As the drawing shows, an additional supply unit for non-spread, stretched and fibrillated film la is arranged ahead of the supply end of carrier 4.
  • This film is spread to the desired width and stabilized at this width in spreading and stabilization unit 2a, to be subsequently supplied longitudinally in relation to carrier 4, so as to be integrated with the folded network obtained.
  • These additional reticulate gebs may be applied to one or to both sides on the folded network package.
  • the obtained folded network package, with or without additional reticulate webs, is welded at the sides by means of a welding unit 6.
  • Welding may be by an ultrasonic or by a thermal method.
  • welding unit 6 may additionally weld the package in the middle. After welding unit 6 heated rollers 7 are installed between which the network package is passed for compacting and levelling it.
  • the network package leaving rollers 7 can be coiled onto a reel 8.
  • Fig. 2 shows an elevation of the folding unit 5 of Fig. 1, as viewed in the direction normal to that in which the folded network is discharged.
  • the network 3 -consisting of one or of several webs - leaving the spreading and stabilization unit 2 is supplied by a transport unit 10 in a direction normal to that in which the folded network is discharged.
  • network 3 is passed on, with the aid of a guide 12, to a transport unit 13 reciprocating in a direction normal to carrier 4, and at the end 14 of this unit 13 it is passed on to a transport unit 15, likewise reciprocating in a direction normal to carrier 4, which unit 15 takes the network to its end 16.
  • This roller 17 likewise reciprocates, synchronously with transport unit 15. Owing to the reciproating motion of transport unit 15 and guide roller 17 in a direction normal to carrier 4, network 3 is deposited onto carrier 4 in the folded condition.
  • this carrier may be, for instance, a continuously running belt conveyor, network 3 is folded zig-zag onto carrier 4.
  • the overlap angle a between two successive sides of the folded network 3 is determined by the rate at which the network is supplied to the folding unit and the rate at which the folded network is discharged from carrier 4.
  • the reciprocating motion of transport unit 13 is opposed to that of transport unit 15 with guide roller 17, the length of network 3 between discharge point a from transport unit 10, and supply point b on carrier 4 remains constant. This is essential, as otherwise the network would be too taut at one moment and too slack at another, resulting in the chance of the network being folded non-uniformly.
  • Transport unit 13 and transport unit 15 with guide roller 17 always keep network 3 tightly stretched.
  • the network was next folded zig-zag with an overlap angle of 19°.
  • the stabilized network was supplied at a rate of 60m/min.
  • the folded network was discharged at a rate of almost 10 m/min in a direction normal to the feeding direction.
  • stretched, fibrillated and spread reticulate webs made of the above-said composite film were carried off in a longitudinal direction at one side of the folded reticulate webs
  • the network package thus obtained was then passed between heated rollers (100 °C), coiled and stored.
  • test piece 50 x 50 mm was cut.
  • Denier number of this test piece was 160.000 (gr/9000 m).
  • the maximum strength of the piece was 147 kg at a stretching percentage of 18 %.
  • the stretching rate was 100 % per minute.
  • the tenacity was 0,9 gr/denier. Testing at an angle normal thereto yielded the same results.
  • a stretched and fibrillated polypropylene film with a thickness of 50 ⁇ m and a modulus of 15000 N/mm 2 at a stretching ratio of 0,1 % and a stretching rate of 5 % per minute was spread from a width of 15 to 90 cm.
  • the network was stabilized by means of heat at a temperature of 170 °C.
  • the network was folded zig-zag with an overlap angle of 11°30'.
  • the stabilized network was suppled at a rate of 60 m/min and folded on top of a layer of 7 networks, each with a thickness of 50 ⁇ m and a spreading ratio of 1 to 6.
  • the folded network and the added layer of reticulate webs were discharged at a rate of practically 6 m/min in a direction normal to the direction of supply of the network to folded.
  • a stretched, fibrillated and spread reticulated web was discharged along at the top side.
  • the resultant network package was then passed between heated rollers (100 °C), coiled and stored. From the network package thus obtained, a test piece 50 x 50 mm, was cut.
  • the Denier number of this test piece was 75000 (gr/9000 m).
  • the maximum strength of the piece was 70 kg at a stretching percentage of 10 %.
  • the stretching rate was 100 % per minute.
  • the tenacity was 1,1 gr/denier. Testing at an angle normal thereto yielded the same results.

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