EP0380271B1 - Fabrication d'un store en matière textile translucide à structure en nid d'abeilles comprenant l'utilisation d'une bande de séparation - Google Patents

Fabrication d'un store en matière textile translucide à structure en nid d'abeilles comprenant l'utilisation d'une bande de séparation Download PDF

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EP0380271B1
EP0380271B1 EP19900300638 EP90300638A EP0380271B1 EP 0380271 B1 EP0380271 B1 EP 0380271B1 EP 19900300638 EP19900300638 EP 19900300638 EP 90300638 A EP90300638 A EP 90300638A EP 0380271 B1 EP0380271 B1 EP 0380271B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B31—MAKING ARTICLES OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER; WORKING PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31D—MAKING ARTICLES OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER, NOT PROVIDED FOR IN SUBCLASSES B31B OR B31C
    • B31D3/00—Making articles of cellular structure, e.g. insulating board
    • B31D3/02—Making articles of cellular structure, e.g. insulating board honeycombed structures, i.e. the cells having an essentially hexagonal section
    • B31D3/0207—Making articles of cellular structure, e.g. insulating board honeycombed structures, i.e. the cells having an essentially hexagonal section of particular shape or construction
    • B31D3/0215—Making articles of cellular structure, e.g. insulating board honeycombed structures, i.e. the cells having an essentially hexagonal section of particular shape or construction for window coverings
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B31—MAKING ARTICLES OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER; WORKING PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31F—MECHANICAL WORKING OR DEFORMATION OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31F5/00—Attaching together sheets, strips or webs; Reinforcing edges
    • B31F5/04—Attaching together sheets, strips or webs; Reinforcing edges by exclusive use of adhesives

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  • This invention relates to a method of manufacture of an improved cellular window shade. More particularly, the invention relates to a method of manufacture of an expandable and collapsible material for a cellular window shade, which consists of a number of horizontally-extending cells formed of fabric strips adhesively bonded to one another, according to which sheer fabrics not previously suited for manufacture of such shades may be employed.
  • cellular shades in which the body of the shade consists of a number of identical fabric strips, folded and adhesively-bonded to one another so as to define cells.
  • the cells extend transversely, but they may also be arranged vertically, or at an angle to the horizontal.
  • the shade When the shade is raised, the cells are collapsed; when the shade is lowered, the cells expand.
  • Such shades contain essentially static masses of air, and thus provide useful thermal insulation.
  • US-A-4677013, 4685986, 4631217, 4677012 and 4676855 show further methods of manufacture of cellular shades.
  • the strips may be creased to take a Z-shape, and tabs on either side of the strip are adhesively bonded to the prior and successive strips to form the completed shade structure. See also US-A-4732630 and EP-A-375146.
  • the fabrics have had to have been selected such that the adhesive does not penetrate the fabric, so that the tabs from a first strip do not adhere to the strip from which they are formed, but only to the strips to which they are to be bonded; i.e., so that the interiors of the cells are not bonded closed.
  • Sheer refers to fabrics which are highly translucent or are substantially transparent to visible light. Such sheer fabrics are normally relatively open weave, and are typically woven or knit of monofilament thread.
  • a bead of conventional adhesive sufficient to form a good bond when employed to form cellular blinds of typical non-sheer materials is placed on these open-weave sheer fabrics, the adhesive tends to penetrate the fabric, particularly if pressure is exerted thereon to ensure a good bond.
  • sheer materials are used in the normal manufacturing process, the inner walls of the cells tend mutually to adhere, which ultimately prevents the blind from opening properly. This difficulty has in fact prevented manufacture of cellular shades of sheer materials, especially fabrics, permeable to liquid adhesives, which would be highly desirable to many consumers.
  • US-A-4673600 addresses this problem, and discloses how sheer materials can be formed into "honeycomb” or cellular shades and adhesively bonded by allowing the adhesive to cure while the cells are in the expanded state. This method is useful if quick-setting adhesives, e.g. hot melt adhesives, are used. However, this method poses certain constraints on the design of the cellular shade thus manufactured, and on the manufacturing processes employed.
  • the prior methods may be considered to include the steps of: providing the sheet material in a strip form; folding the strip material along parallel lines in a longitudinal direction corresponding to the longitudinal direction of the cells to be formed; applying adhesive in liquid state to one or more areas of the strips of sheet material; stacking said strips so as to bring together the parts of the strips of sheet material to be mutually adhered in direct contact to form the cells; and allowing the adhesive to cure.
  • the present invention is characterised by the steps of: positioning a strip of non-bonding material with respect to the folded strip of sheet material so that during subsequent steps said non-bonding material will prevent any portion of a particular strip of sheet material permeated with adhesive from adhering to any other portions of the same strip of sheet material in a manner which would prevent formation of a cell; and removing said strips of non-bonding material after the adhesive has cured.
  • the method of the invention can yield a reasonably priced product.
  • Figure 1 shows the shade of the invention in the shades-open position, that is, wherein the shade is drawn letting light flow unimpeded through an accompanying window (not shown), while Figure 2 shows the corresponding shades-closed position.
  • the shade of the invention comprises a number of cells indicated generally at 10 which extend transversely to the window.
  • the cells are expanded, exhibiting a generally polygonal cross-section, while in the Figure 1 condition they are shown having been compressed by drawing a base member 12 upwardly.
  • the arrangement of draw cords 14 shown controlling the motion of the base member 12 is strictly schematic and by no means a limitation on the invention.
  • the cords pass through the centers of the cells and are invisible.
  • the cells In the expanded position of Figure 2 the cells each essentially retain static air masses, which serve as very useful window insulation.
  • the open ends of the cells may move within U-shaped vertical end caps to assist in retention of air therein.
  • Figure 5 shows a conventional prior art construction, which may be carried out according to the teachings of US-A-4450027, in which successive strips of fabric 20 have been creased to define tabs 20a and central portions 20b.
  • the tabs 20a are adhesively bonded to the central portions 20b by conventional adhesives as at 22.
  • the fabric used in this prior art embodiment is not sheer and is essentially impermeable or only slightly permeable to the adhesive, such that the shade material can be manufactured simply by putting a bead of adhesive on the tabs 20a and stacking the strips such that they are aligned with the central body portions 20b of successive strips. After the adhesive has set, the material of the shade is essentially completed.
  • a sheer fabric material which is typically translucent or transparent in the structure of Figure 5.
  • Such materials tend to be of open weave construction to let light pass through freely and are commonly knit of woven of monofilament synthetic fibers.
  • Such monofilament fibers are very smooth-surfaced, such that they do not present small hairs or sub-fibers to which the adhesive can bond.
  • the open weave fabrics in general comprise relatively few fibers. Therefore, in order to form a suitable bond, the adhesive must penetrate the sheer fabric, such that when it hardens into a mass, it encapsulates the fibers of the fabric.
  • a strip 28 of non-bonding material that is, a material which does not bond to the adhesive used, is interposed between the tabs 20a and the central portions 20b of the sheer fabric used.
  • the adhesive is then applied as indicated at 32 to the upper surfaces of the tabs, and the assembly made as previously.
  • the adhesive will normally penetrate the tabs 20a and central portions 20b, but does not bond to the non-bonding strips 28.
  • the non-bonding strips 28 can be removed.
  • Figures 7 and 8 show the shade formed of a sheer material according to the invention after removal of the non-bonding strips 28.
  • the adhesive 30 tends to penetrate the central portions 20b of the strips but has been prevented from adhering to the corresponding tabs 20a by the presence of the non-bonding material 28 as shown in Figure 6.
  • the shade is opened, as shown in Figure 8, the adhesive 30 then extends above the central portion of each strip, but does not interfere with the proper operation of the shade.
  • Figure 9 shows an alternative form of "honeycomb” or cellular shade, as described for example in US-A-4676855, which can be manufactured of adhesive-permeable sheer materials according to the method of the invention.
  • the basic member of the cell is a strip of material 40 creased to define an overall Z-shape, with tabs 40a on either side of a central section. The tabs of each strip are joined to the central portions of the preceding and succeeding strips. If the strips 40 are formed of a glue-permeable material, adhesive is applied, and the strips stacked, the tabs 40a will tend to be adhesively bonded to the strips from which they are formed; e.g., tab 40a will tend to be bonded to the same strip 40 at a point 40b.
  • strips 42 of a non-bonding material are inserted into the interior spaces of the cells before the strips are stacked, to prevent the interiors of the cells from thus being adhesively bonded closed. Strips 42 are removed when the adhesive has at least partially cured.
  • the method of the invention is similarly applicable to other honeycomb-configuration cellular shades.
  • the principal steps in the practice of the invention are simply the formation of the strips by creasing them to define the tabs and central portions of cell precursors, insertion of the non-bonding material, deposition of beads or droplets of liquid adhesive along the tabs or on the corresponding mating portions of the strips, and stacking a large number of these assemblies to form the shade precursor. After exposure of the shade precursor to suitable conditions for cure of the adhesive, the strips of non-bonding material are simply removed, yielding the completed structure.
  • the preferred material for the non-bonding strips may be a polyethylene plastic to which the adhesive does not bond.
  • a nonstick silicone coating on the strips may be desirable in connection with certain combinations of adhesives and polyethylenes or other materials for the strip. Numerous other appropriate materials will occur to those of skill in the art.
  • Various sorts of adhesives such as water activated catalyst adhesives, hot melt glues, moisture-curing hot melts and various silicones are all suitable. Adhesives applied dry and activated by heating after stacking of the strips, with or without application of pressure, may also prove useful in the future. It will be appreciated that the key is that the adhesive must penetrate the fibers of the fabric to fully encapsulate them, forming a suitable bond, and must be sufficiently viscous to remain in place during the various processing steps.
  • Removal of the non-bonding strips 28 can be feasibly accomplished simply by laborers using their fingers, but obviously more mechanized approaches may also be economically feasible in some circumstances. It has been found that certain desirable fabrics are sufficiently permeable to air that it is not satisfactory to simply blow the strips of non-bonding material out from the cells thus formed.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Blinds (AREA)
  • Curtains And Furnishings For Windows Or Doors (AREA)
  • Decoration Of Textiles (AREA)
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  1. Procédé de fabrication de store alvéolaire dépliable et repliable constitué d'un certain nombre d'alvéoles creuses longitudinales superposées, lesdites alvéoles étant chacune constituée de tissu, ledit procédé comprenant les opérations consistant à :
       façonner le tissu en forme de lamelle ;
       replier le tissu en lamelles suivant des lignes parallèles dans une direction longitudinale correspondant à la direction longitudinale des alvéoles que l'on veut former ;
       appliquer une colle à l'état liquide sur une zone au moins des lamelles de tissu en bande ;
       empiler lesdites bandes de façon à assembler les parties de lamelles de tissu devant être collées mutuellement en contact direct pour former les alvéoles, et
       permettre à la colle de cuire.
       caractérisée par les opérations consistant à :
       positionner une lamelle de matière non adhérente (28 ; 42) par rapport à la lamelle repliée de tissu de sorte que pendant les opérations suivantes ladite matière non adhérente empêchera qu'une partie quelconque de lamelle particulière de tissu, dans laquelle la colle a pénétré, colle à l'une quelconque des autres parties de la même lamelle de tissu d'une manière qui empêche la formation d'une alvéole, et
       enlever lesdites lamelles de matière non adhérente après que la colle ait cuit.
  2. Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que ladite étape de pliage comprend le plissage de chacune desdites lamelles dans le sens de la longueur pour former des pattes de tissu sur chacun des côtés d'une partie centrale de la lamelle, définissant un élément de la structure de base des alvéoles, lesdits éléments de la structure de base des alvéoles étant reliés ensemble pour former le matériau du store.
  3. Procédé selon la revendication 2, caractérisé en ce que lesdits éléments de la structure de base des alvéoles sont de section transversale généralement en forme de U.
  4. Procédé selon la revendication 2, caractérisé en ce que lesdits éléments de la structure de base des alvéoles sont de section transversale généralement en forme de Z.
  5. Procédé selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que ledit tissu est perméable à une colle liquide.
  6. Procédé selon la revendication 5, caractérisé en ce que ledit tissu est un tissu translucide.
  7. Procédé selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que lesdites lamelles empilées sont soumises à une pression pour assurer que ladite colle relie totalement lesdites pattes auxdites parties centrales adjacentes.
  8. Procédé selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce qu'une quantité de chaleur est appliquée pour cuire ladite colle.
  9. Procédé selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que les alvéoles sont dépliées pour permettre l'enlèvement desdites lamelles de matière non adhérente.
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