EP0458591A2 - Schwabbelpolster - Google Patents
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- EP0458591A2 EP0458591A2 EP91304577A EP91304577A EP0458591A2 EP 0458591 A2 EP0458591 A2 EP 0458591A2 EP 91304577 A EP91304577 A EP 91304577A EP 91304577 A EP91304577 A EP 91304577A EP 0458591 A2 EP0458591 A2 EP 0458591A2
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B24—GRINDING; POLISHING
- B24D—TOOLS FOR GRINDING, BUFFING OR SHARPENING
- B24D3/00—Physical features of abrasive bodies, or sheets, e.g. abrasive surfaces of special nature; Abrasive bodies or sheets characterised by their constituents
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B24—GRINDING; POLISHING
- B24D—TOOLS FOR GRINDING, BUFFING OR SHARPENING
- B24D13/00—Wheels having flexibly-acting working parts, e.g. buffing wheels; Mountings therefor
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- the present invention relates to buffing pads and in particular to buffing pads adapted to be releasably engaged with buffing apparatus having an attachment surface of the hook-face type.
- buffing pad commonly used in the automobile trade comprises a web of non-woven fibers.
- the attachment surface of the back-up pad of buffing apparatus such as rotary and orbital buffers, is provided with a multiplicity of projecting, resiliently-flexible filaments bearing at the distal end thereof a bulbous substantially semi-spherical head or hook. This surface is commonly referred to as a hook-face attachment surface.
- the head or hooks of the attachment surface mechanically interlock with the non-woven fibers of the pad to secure the pad in position.
- this type of buffing pad has found great favor by allowing the user to easily reposition the pad or remove it entirely for replacement.
- the present invention provides a buffing pad suitable for use with softer paint products but having an improved adhesion for buffing apparatus having a hook-face attachment surface.
- a buffing pad adapted to be releasably engaged with a buffing apparatus having an attachment surface of the hook face type, the buffing pad characterized by having a non-woven buffing layer comprising crimped fibers having a fiber thickness of up to 11 dtex and a fiber length of at least 40 mm, and a non-woven attachment layer comprising crimped fibers having a fiber thickness greater than 11 dtex and a fiber length of at least 40 mm.
- the buffing pads of the invention comprise a multilaminate construction formed from the combination of thick and thin fibers, with a preponderance of thick fibers forming an attachment layer to provide good adhesion to the attachment surface of the back-up pad, and a preponderance of thin fibers forming a buffing layer to provide a milder buffing action suitable for use with softer substrates.
- the total thickness of the buffing pad varies with its intended use, but generally the pads are formed with a thickness in the range from 3 to 8 mm, preferably in the range from 4 to 6 mm, with a typical value being about 5 mm.
- buffing pads may be constructed outside of this range, pads less than 3 mm thick tend to lack sufficient structural integrity for prolonged use and for pads greater than 8 mm thick there is no further practical advantage to be gained without the cost of manufacture becoming uneconomical.
- the buffing pads comprise a laminate of a buffing layer bonded to an attachment layer optionally via one or more intermediate layers.
- the non-woven, crimped fibers of the attachment layer provide a surface having a multiplicity of loops suitable for engagement with the filament of a hook-face attachment surface.
- the buffing layer generally comprises at least 50% of the total pad thickness, normally in the range from 50 to 75% with the remainder comprising the attachment layer.
- the buffing layer comprises in the range from 50 to 65% of the total pad thickness and the attachment layer in the range from 50 to 35%.
- the buffing pads generally have a density in the range from 0.1 to 0.3 g/cm3, preferably in the range from 0.12 to 0.18 g/cm3, with a typical value in the range from about 0.15 to 0.16 g/cm3.
- the buffing layer is composed of thin fibers having a caliper of up to 11 dtex, preferably up to 8 dtex, with a typical value being about 6.7 dtex.
- the length of the individual fibers is normally at least 40 mm to reduce linting during use, i.e., detachment of individual fibers.
- the length of the buffing layer fibers is in the range from 40 to 200 mm, preferably in the range from 40 to 80 mm, with a typical value of about 60 mm. Fibers of greater than 200 mm length may be used but tend to present handling difficulties during manufacture.
- the attachment layer comprises thicker fibers having a caliper of greater than 11 dtex, preferably at least 13 dtex, with a typical value of about 17 dtex.
- the attachment layer may comprise solely "thick" fibers or a blend of both thick and thin fibers may be used.
- the fibers of the attachment layer generally have a length in the range from 40 to 200 mm, preferably in the range from 60 to 100 mm, with a typical value being about 75 mm.
- Suitable crimped fibers are known in the art and are commercially available in a range of standard dtex, such as, for example, 1.5, 3.3, 6.7, 8.9, 11, 13, 17, 23 and 30.
- the fibers may be formed from natural materials, such as, for example, wool, cotton and other cellulosic materials, and synthetic polymers and co-polymers such as, for example, polyamides, polyacrylates, polyesters, nylons and viscose.
- Each layer may comprise a single fiber type or a mixture of two or more fibers.
- the buffing layer from fibers of a different color or tonal contrast to those used in the attachment layer as this is found to provide a simple and effective means of indicating to the user, the correct orientation of the buffing pad. This may be conveniently achieved by employing some colored fibers in the attachment layer, e.g., 30% colored fibers and 70% white fibers.
- the buffing and attachment layers may be secured to each other by any desirable means, but are preferably secured by interlocking fibers from the two layers, e.g., by needle punching the laminate.
- the needle punching is preferably effected from the buffing layer causing fibers from the buffing layer to be intermingled with the fibers in the attachment layer.
- Needle punching is a conventional technique in the manufacture of certain types of non-woven materials. Generally, needle punching of the laminate is effected using needle size numbers in the range from 38 to 32. Typically the needle punching maybe effected to provide approximately 500 apertures/cm2.
- the individual buffing and attachment layers may be formed from the filaments by a similar needle punching process.
- the fibers are carded, air laid as a web, compressed by calender rollers and needle punched to form a self-supporting material.
- the buffing layer and/or the attachment layer may be formed by combining two or more of such webs of material and needle punching.
- the composite comprising the buffing and attachment layers may undergo a further treatment in which a bonding agent is applied throughout the composite to provide further structural integrity and to reduce the propensity of the material to lint during use.
- the bonding agent is conveniently applied by immersion the material in a bath of liquid bonding agent followed by drying, e.g., in a air tunnel or with infrared heaters.
- Suitable commercially available bonding agents include, for example, polyvinyl alcohol, polyvinyl acetate, acrylic emulsions, butadiene-acrylo nitrile copolymer and other water-dispersible lattices.
- the bonding agents are usually employed as a 15 to 25%, typically 20% by weight of solids dispersed in water.
- the buffing pads of the invention are suitable for use in any type of buffing apparatus having a hook-face attachment surface.
- the buffing apparatus may be of the rotary or orbital type or it may be in the form of a block or pad for hand use.
- the hook-face attachment surface comprises a multiplicity of projecting, resiliently-flexible filaments having at the distal end thereof a head or hook-like projection.
- Suitable hookface attachment surfaces generally comprise in the range from 50 to 120 filaments/cm2, preferably in the range from 60 to 100 filaments/cm2, the filaments having an average height in the range from 0.75 to 1.5 mm, preferably in the range from 0.9 to 1.3 mm; an average diameter in the range from 0.15 to 0.35 mm, preferably in the range from 0.2 to 0.3 mm; and an average head diameter in the range from 0.4 to 0.75 mm, preferably in the range from 0.55 to 0.65 mm.
- Suitable materials are commercially available under the trademarks "lH2” from Kanebo Bell-Touch Ltd. of Osaka, Japan, "HOOK-IT” from Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company of St. Paul, MN and “KLETTOGRIP” from Gottling Binder GmbH and Co. of Holzgerlingen, Germany.
- Typical rotary buffer apparatus will utilize a circular buffing pad having a diameter in the range from 50 to 200 mm.
- a typical process for the manufacture of a buffing pad in accordance with the invention comprises: providing a source of crimped fibers suitable for the buffing layer, e.g., having a caliper of 6.7 dtex and an average fiber length of 60 mm, e.g., in the form of a bale; carding the fibers and air laying the carded fibers in one or more layers onto a moveable support member to form a fleece of substantially horizontally aligned fibers; calendering the fleece and optionally needle punching from either one or both sides to form a non-woven web of fibers suitable for the buffing layer; providing a source of crimped fibers suitable for the attachment layer, e.g., having a caliper of 17 dtex and an average fiber length of 75 mm and repeating the above steps to form a non-woven web of fibers suitable for use as the attachment layer; overlaying the web to form the attachment layer with at least one web to form the buffing layer and needle punching the combined layers from the
- the web of fibers to form the attachment layer is preferably needle punched from one side only in order to attain a surface having a multiplicity of exposed loops of fiber which form an effective attachment surface for co-operation with the hook-face surface.
- a buffing pad having 60 mm long crimped 6.7 dtex viscose fibers (commercially available in crimped form from the VFG Company of Giengen/Brenz, Germany) on the buffing side and 60 mm long crimped 17 dtex viscose fibers (commercially available in crimped form from the VFG Company) on the attachment side was prepared.
- each of the 6.7 dtex fibers and 17 dtex fibers were carded and air laid in a layer to provide fleeces of substantially horizontally aligned fibers. Each fleece was then calendered to provide a nonwoven web comprising 6.7 dtex fibers and a nonwoven web comprising 17 dtex fibers.
- the web comprising the 6.7 dtex fibers was overlaid onto the web comprising the 17 dtex fibers (attachment web).
- the needle punching provided about 500 apertures/cm.
- the resulting diameter of the resulting buffing pad was about 12.7 cm (5 inches).
- a conventional automobile hood was sprayed with a 2K polyurethane two component paint (commercially available from Herberts of Wuppertal, Germany).
- the paint was cured by heating the painted hood in an oven at a temperature of about 60°C for about 30 minutes.
- a portion of the painted hood (about 2 cm by about 2 cm) was hand sanded using a 3.65 cm diameter scallop disc having 9 micrometer abrasive particles thereon (commercially available under the trademarked designation "FINESSE-IT 9 MICRON SCALLOP DISC” from the 3M Company of St. Paul, MN), which was mounted to a sanding hand block (commercially available under the trademarked designation "FINESSE-IT HAND BLOCK” from the 3M Company).
- the buffing pad was attached to a conventional rotary air polishing machine with a soft, hook faced backup pad (commercially available under the trademarked designation "FINESSE-IT BACKUP PAD” from the 3M Company).
- the sanded area of the paint was buffed using the buffing pad and a buffing compound (commercially available under the trademarked designation "FINESSE-IT FINISHING COMPOUND” from the 3M Company).
- the free spinning rotational speed of the air polishing machine was about 1800 rpm.
- the buffing time was about 10 seconds.
- the gloss of the buffed and unbuffed i.e., a portion of the painted hood as sprayed and cured
- the gloss of the buffed area measured at an angle of about 60 degrees was about 90 to 92, whereas the gloss of the unbuffed area was about 92.
- the buffing pad was detached from the backup pad by pulling the pad perpendicularly from the pad-backup pad interface.
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Applications Claiming Priority (2)
Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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GB9011343 | 1990-05-21 | ||
GB909011343A GB9011343D0 (en) | 1990-05-21 | 1990-05-21 | Buffing pad |
Publications (3)
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EP0458591A2 true EP0458591A2 (de) | 1991-11-27 |
EP0458591A3 EP0458591A3 (en) | 1992-10-14 |
EP0458591B1 EP0458591B1 (de) | 1995-10-18 |
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EP91304577A Expired - Lifetime EP0458591B1 (de) | 1990-05-21 | 1991-05-21 | Schwabbelpolster |
Country Status (7)
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EP (1) | EP0458591B1 (de) |
JP (1) | JPH04300167A (de) |
KR (1) | KR910019731A (de) |
CA (1) | CA2042825A1 (de) |
DE (1) | DE69113865T2 (de) |
ES (1) | ES2079031T3 (de) |
GB (1) | GB9011343D0 (de) |
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US8206511B2 (en) | 2009-10-06 | 2012-06-26 | Ecolab Usa Inc. | Daily cleaner with slip-resistant and gloss-enhancing properties |
US9920281B2 (en) | 2009-11-12 | 2018-03-20 | Ecolab Usa Inc. | Soil resistant surface treatment |
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WO2012080884A2 (en) | 2010-12-13 | 2012-06-21 | Ecolab Usa Inc. | Soil resistant floor treatment |
Citations (4)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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US3112584A (en) * | 1961-08-15 | 1963-12-03 | Gen Foods Corp | Scouring article and method for making same |
GB1083547A (en) * | 1964-02-17 | 1967-09-13 | American Felt Co | Improvements in polishing heads for glass or the like |
EP0333611A1 (de) * | 1988-03-04 | 1989-09-20 | Michel Philippeau | Scheibe zum Polieren von Marmor oder ähnlichem |
DE3903204A1 (de) * | 1988-08-13 | 1990-02-15 | Peter Joest | Schleifkoerper mit temperatursperre |
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- 1990-05-21 GB GB909011343A patent/GB9011343D0/en active Pending
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- 1991-05-17 CA CA002042825A patent/CA2042825A1/en not_active Abandoned
- 1991-05-20 JP JP3114485A patent/JPH04300167A/ja active Pending
- 1991-05-21 DE DE69113865T patent/DE69113865T2/de not_active Expired - Lifetime
- 1991-05-21 EP EP91304577A patent/EP0458591B1/de not_active Expired - Lifetime
- 1991-05-21 ES ES91304577T patent/ES2079031T3/es not_active Expired - Lifetime
- 1991-05-22 KR KR1019910008242A patent/KR910019731A/ko not_active Application Discontinuation
Patent Citations (4)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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US3112584A (en) * | 1961-08-15 | 1963-12-03 | Gen Foods Corp | Scouring article and method for making same |
GB1083547A (en) * | 1964-02-17 | 1967-09-13 | American Felt Co | Improvements in polishing heads for glass or the like |
EP0333611A1 (de) * | 1988-03-04 | 1989-09-20 | Michel Philippeau | Scheibe zum Polieren von Marmor oder ähnlichem |
DE3903204A1 (de) * | 1988-08-13 | 1990-02-15 | Peter Joest | Schleifkoerper mit temperatursperre |
Cited By (2)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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US8206511B2 (en) | 2009-10-06 | 2012-06-26 | Ecolab Usa Inc. | Daily cleaner with slip-resistant and gloss-enhancing properties |
US9920281B2 (en) | 2009-11-12 | 2018-03-20 | Ecolab Usa Inc. | Soil resistant surface treatment |
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Publication number | Publication date |
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JPH04300167A (ja) | 1992-10-23 |
EP0458591A3 (en) | 1992-10-14 |
KR910019731A (ko) | 1991-12-19 |
GB9011343D0 (en) | 1990-07-11 |
DE69113865D1 (de) | 1995-11-23 |
ES2079031T3 (es) | 1996-01-01 |
EP0458591B1 (de) | 1995-10-18 |
DE69113865T2 (de) | 1996-06-05 |
CA2042825A1 (en) | 1991-11-22 |
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