EP0537395A1 - Procédé et appareil pour l'enlèvement de matière par jets de fluide chaud sous pression - Google Patents

Procédé et appareil pour l'enlèvement de matière par jets de fluide chaud sous pression Download PDF

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EP0537395A1
EP0537395A1 EP91309601A EP91309601A EP0537395A1 EP 0537395 A1 EP0537395 A1 EP 0537395A1 EP 91309601 A EP91309601 A EP 91309601A EP 91309601 A EP91309601 A EP 91309601A EP 0537395 A1 EP0537395 A1 EP 0537395A1
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Francis William Marco
Colman Barrett O'connell
Howard Christy Willauer, Jr.
James Ansel Jacobs, Jr.
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06C—FINISHING, DRESSING, TENTERING OR STRETCHING TEXTILE FABRICS
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  • This invention relates to improved method and apparatus for removal of relatively moving substrate materials by means of a heated pressurized fluid stream and the novel products produced thereby, more particularly, to provide a structurally weakened recess in a thermally modifiable substrate such as a textile fabric containing thermoplastic yarn or other fiber components, including, but not limited, to rayon, nylon, polyester, polypropylene, acetate, wool, nomex, and polypyrrole treated quartz fabric. It is foreseen that materials not included in the above list can be shown to be capable of thermally melting so that the above list should not be considered exhaustive.
  • the textile fabric is intended to include all types of continuous or discontinuous webs or sheets containing fiber or yarn components, such as knitted, woven, tufted, flocked, laminated, or non-woven fabric constructions. Furthermore, it is foreseen that other substrates which are not usually considered textile fabrics, such as foam substrates, may be used advantageously, and are considered as a textile material for use in connection with this invention.
  • the term "fluid” includes gaseous, liquid, and solid fluent materials that may be directed in a cohesive pressurized stream or streams against the surface of substrate material.
  • substrate is intended to define any material, the surface of which may be contacted by a pressurized stream or streams of fluid to melt, remove and weaken material.
  • the apparatus is configured and arranged to melt and remove textile material thereby facilitating the separation of textile material by allowing the textile to be pulled apart at these structurally weakened recesses.
  • the textile material is then treated by a mixture of an acrylic melanie resin and a acrylic polymer which hardens and stiffens the material and prevents jagged or frayed ends resulting from the separation of the textile material and thereby creates a solid fabric edge.
  • 2,563,259 discloses a method of patterning a flocked pile fabric by directing plural streams of air into the flocked surface of the fabric, before final curing of the adhesive in which the fibers are embedded, to reorient the pile fibers and produce certain patterns therein.
  • U.S. Patent No. 3,585,098 discloses apparatus for hot air or dry stream treatment of the pile surface of a fabric to relax stresses in the synthetic fibers throughout the fabric.
  • U.S. Patent No. 2,241,222 discloses apparatus having a plurality of jet orifices for directing pressurized air or steam perpendicularly into a fluffy fabric surface to raise and curl the nap or fluff of the fabric.
  • 2,110,118 discloses a manifold having a narrow slot for directing pressurized air against the surface of a fabric containing groups of tufts during a textile treating operation.
  • the prior art devices removed or structurally weakened material, it would be counter to the purposes of the these devices which is to provide a visual and tactile surface change only. Any structural weakness created in the textile would be considered a defect. It is believed that such prior art treatment devices, as described in the aforementioned patents, are only capable of producing patterns of surface modifications of a random, non-defined nature in the textile in a manner that does not weaken the substrate.
  • FIG. 1 shows, diagrammatically, an overall side elevation view of apparatus for heated pressurized fluid stream treatment of a moving substrate material to melt and remove material to create a recess in the moving substrate.
  • the apparatus includes a main support frame including end frame support members 10, one of which is illustrated in FIG.1.
  • a plurality of substrate guide rolls Suitably rotatably mounted on the end support members of the frame 10 are a plurality of substrate guide rolls which direct an indefinite length of substrate material, such as a textile fabric 12, from a fabric supply roll 18, past a pressurized heated fluid treating unit, generally indicated at 16. After treatment, the fabric is collected in a continuous manner on a take-up roll 14.
  • fabric 12 from supply roll 18 passes over an idler roll 36 and is fed by a pair of driven rolls 32, 34 to a main driven fabric support roll 26.
  • the surface of the fabric passes closely adjacent to the heated fluid discharge outlet of an elongate fluid distributing manifold assembly 30 of treating unit 16.
  • the treated fabric 12 thereafter passes over a series of driven rolls 22, 24 and an idler roll 20 to take up roll 14 for collection.
  • fluid treating unit 16 includes a source of compressed fluid, such as an air compressor 38, which supplies pressurized air to an elongate air header pipe 40.
  • Header pipe 40 communicates by a series of air lines 42 spaced uniformly along its length with a bank of individual electrical heaters indicated generally at 44.
  • the heaters 44 are arranged in parallel along the length of heated fluid distributing manifold assembly 30 and supply heated pressurized air thereto through short, individual air supply lines, indicated at 46, which communicate with assembly 30 uniformly along its full length.
  • Air supplied to the heated fluid distributing manifold assembly 30 is controlled by a master control valve 48, pressure regulator valve 49, and individual precision control valves, such as needle valves 50, located in each heater air supply line 42.
  • the heaters 44 are controlled in suitable manner, as by temperature sensing means 47 located in the outlet lines 46 of each heater as shown in FIG. 2.
  • a single temperature sensing means 47 can be used as a representative sample for the entire bank of individual heaters. Although economical, the use of one temperature sensing means results in less accuracy.
  • the regulation of air flow and electrical power to each of the heaters maintains the heated fluid at a uniform temperature and pressure as it passes into the manifold assembly along its full length.
  • the heaters are employed to heat air exiting the heaters and entering the manifold assembly to a uniform temperature of about 500° Fahrenheit to 900° Fahrenheit.
  • the range of temperature for fabric treated with this apparatus may be between about 350° Fahrenheit to about 1000° Fahrenheit or more.
  • the preferred operating temperature for any given substrate depends upon: the components of the substrate, the construction of the substrate, the desired amount of material removal, the speed of transport of the substrate, the pressure of the heated fluid, the tension of the substrate, the proximity of the substrate to the treating manifold, and others.
  • the heated fluid distributing manifold assembly 30 is disposed across the full width of the path of movement of the fabric and closely adjacent the surface thereof to be treated.
  • the length of the manifold assembly may vary, typically in the treatment of textile fabric materials, the length of the manifold assembly may be 76 inches or more to accommodate fabrics of up to about 72 inches in width.
  • manifold assembly 30 comprises a first large elongate manifold housing 54 and a second smaller elongate manifold housing 56 secured in fluid tight relationship therewith by a plurality of spaced clamping means, one of which is generally indicated at 58.
  • the manifold housings 54, 56 extend across the full width of the fabric 12 adjacent its path of movement.
  • first elongate manifold housing 54 is of generally rectangular cross-sectional shape, and includes a first elongate fluid receiving compartment 81, the ends of which are sealed by end wall plates 99 suitably connected by means of bolts 68.
  • the temperature of the first elongate fluid receiving compartment 81 is monitored by thermocouple 100 whose input controls the associated needle valve 50 in order to maintain uniform melting and removing of material 12 across the entire substrate width.
  • the control of this process can be accomplished by any of a wide variety of electronic computer control systems which use data storage means such as magnetic tape, EPROMS, and so forth.
  • the manifold housings 54, 56 are constructed and arranged so that the flow path of fluid through the first housing 54 is generally at a right angle to the discharge axes of the fluid stream outlets of the second manifold housing 56.
  • manifold housing 54 is provided with a plurality of fluid flow passageways 86 which are disposed in uniformly spaced relation along the plate in two offset rows with an indented channel 87 connecting them. The fluid then flows through a solitary fluid flow passageway 88 positioned between said two offset fluid flow passageways 86 that connect to the fluid receiving compartment 89 within the second smaller elongate manifold housing 56.
  • Baffle plate 92 serves to define a fluid receiving chamber in the compartment 81 having side openings or slots 94 to direct the incoming heated air from the bank of heaters in a generally reversing path of flow through compartment 81.
  • baffle means 98 that is attached to the upper wall 96 of compartment 81 extending downward with the bottom of the v-shaped configuration adjacent to the top of baffle plate 92.
  • the opposed wall members 70, 71 are maintained in spaced relation by an elongate front shim plate 73 which has a plurality of parallel, elongate outlet channels 75, as shown in FIG. 4, in one side edge thereof, and a rear elongate shim plate 74 disposed between the opposed faces of the wall members 70, 71 in fluid tight engagement therewith.
  • the rear elongate shim plate 74 is held in position by an elongate bar 51 which, as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, is secured to the first elongate manifold housing 54 and the second elongate manifold housing 56 by conventional bolts 90 parallel to wall members 70 and 71.
  • elongate plate 51 The bottom of elongate plate 51 is held in position by a u-shaped clamping means 84 that encloses the elongate plate 51.
  • the u-shaped clamping means 84 holds the elongate bar in position and is attached by two parallel bolts to the first elongate housing 54.
  • the notched edge 76 of shim plate 73 is disposed between the first and second wall members 70, 71 along the front elongate edge portions thereof to form a plurality of parallel heated fluid discharge outlet channels 75 which direct heated pressurized air from the fluid receiving compartment 89, within the smaller elongate manifold housing 56, in narrow, discrete streams at a substantially right angle into the surface of the moving fabric substrate material 12.
  • the discharge outlet channels 75 of manifold 56 may be .010 inches to about 6 inches and greater in width with the optimal range being .010 to .125 inches.
  • the thickness of the front shim plate 73 should range between .015 to .125 inches with the optimal value being .065 inches.
  • the discharge outlet channels are preferably maintained between about .010 to .125 inches from the fabric surface being treated with the optimal range being .020 to .060 inches.
  • this distance from the face of the fabric can be as much as .200 inches or more and still produce a significant recess to facilitate separation depending on the substrate and other constraints.
  • the fabric thickness can range from .002 to .250 inches.
  • Wall members 70, 71 of the second manifold housing 56 are connected at spaced locations by a plurality of threaded bolts 78, and the second manifold housing 56 is maintained in fluid tight relation with its shim members and with the elongate channel 87 of the first manifold housing 54, by the adjustable clamp 58.
  • the adjustable clamp 58 as shown in FIGS. 2 and 4, has a u-shaped notch 59 which provides access to threaded bolt 78.
  • the adjustable clamp 58 applies pressure to a bridge 63 by means of a standard machine screw 65.
  • the adjustable clamp 58 is attached to the first manifold housing 54 by means of standard bolts 91 as shown in FIG. 4.
  • the bridge 63 is attached to the top of the second manifold housing 56 by means of two standard flat head machine screws 64 that are inserted upward through the second manifold housing 56 prior to assembly as shown in FIGS 2, 3 and 4.
  • the fluid distributing manifold assembly 30 is attached to the end frame support members 10, as shown in FIG. 4, by conventional bolts 61.
  • the substrate materials are treated by a combination of acrylic melamine resin and acrylic polymer.
  • This provides for a hardened finished edge for the substrate material due to the chemical reaction that solidifies the chemical solution.
  • the acrylic melamine resin can be found under the trademark AEROTEX M-3 manufactured by American Cyanamid Corporation.
  • the percentage of acrylic melamine resin in the solution should range from 5 to 12 percent of the formula.
  • the acrylic polymer can be found under the trademark POLYCRYL 7F-7 manufactured by Morton Chemical Company.
  • the percentage of acrylic polymer in the solution should optionally range from 10 to 20 percent of the solution.
  • the remainder of the solution should consist of water or a similar aqueous-like solution with ammonium hydroxide (NH4OH) solution to achieve a pH of 8.0.
  • NH4OH ammonium hydroxide
  • the means of chemically treating a textile substrate by dipping the substrate material in a chemical bath, rolling out the substrate material to remove the excess chemical solution with the substrate acquiring a 75 percent weight increase, stretching out the substrate material on a tenter frame at a rate of twenty yards per minute and curing the textile is well known in the art as described in U.S. Patent No. 4,329,389 which is incorporated herein by reference. It is believed that the treatment of the substrate material by the chemical solution in the above process can occur either before or after the process of melting and removing the substrate material by means of a heated pressurized fluid stream.
  • the curing process should be performed at an optimal range of between 365° to about 410° Fahrenheit.
  • a polyester fabric, as shown in FIG. 5, having a weight of 2.14 ounces per square yard and a height of .005 inches was continuously fed through the apparatus illustrated in FIG. 1 at a speed of 12 yards per minute.
  • the temperature and pressure of the heated air in the discharge manifold compartment was maintained at 860° F and 4 p.s.i., respectively.
  • the discharge slot of the manifold was maintained at a distance of approximately .100 inches from the fabric surface.
  • the spaced discharged channels formed in the slot were of rectangular cross-sectional dimension of .03 inches by .065 inches.
  • the length of each channel through the slot was .625 inches and the channels were spaced on .125 inch centers across the manifold.
  • the heated streams of gas striking the surface of the fabric melts the fabric and thereby creates a channeled recess in the fabric. This provides a structural weakness in the fabric and facilitates the separation of the fabric along this recess when tension is applied to the fabric. This recess is illustrated in FIG. 6 of the drawings.
  • the fabric is then dipped in a chemical bath consisting of 6 percent acrylic melamine resin and 15 percent acrylic polymer and 79 percent water with ammonium hydroxide added to give the solution a pH of 8.0.
  • the fabric is then rolled out and then stretched on a tenter frame at a rate of 20 yards per minute while simultaneously being cured at a temperature of 375° Fahrenheit. This chemical treatment provides for a clean hard edge with no jagged or frayed edges upon fabric separation.
  • FIG. 7 of the drawings displays the nonmelted fabric on the left side of the photograph with the melted recess on the right side of the photograph.

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US3635625A (en) * 1970-01-12 1972-01-18 Phillips Petroleum Co Apparatus for carving a material sheet
FR2261683A7 (en) * 1974-02-15 1975-09-12 Zimmer Kg Taunus Textildruck Textile strips for lacework prodn - incorporating non-woven web to opacify perforated zones and increase cohesion
US4471514A (en) * 1981-07-10 1984-09-18 Milliken Research Corporation Apparatus for imparting visual surface effects to relatively moving materials
EP0193078A1 (fr) * 1985-02-19 1986-09-03 Nitto Boseki Co., Ltd. Matériau tissé en fibres inorganiques et son procédé de fabrication

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US3635625A (en) * 1970-01-12 1972-01-18 Phillips Petroleum Co Apparatus for carving a material sheet
FR2261683A7 (en) * 1974-02-15 1975-09-12 Zimmer Kg Taunus Textildruck Textile strips for lacework prodn - incorporating non-woven web to opacify perforated zones and increase cohesion
US4471514A (en) * 1981-07-10 1984-09-18 Milliken Research Corporation Apparatus for imparting visual surface effects to relatively moving materials
EP0193078A1 (fr) * 1985-02-19 1986-09-03 Nitto Boseki Co., Ltd. Matériau tissé en fibres inorganiques et son procédé de fabrication

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