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EP0740980A2
EP0740980A2 EP96303036A EP96303036A EP0740980A2 EP 0740980 A2 EP0740980 A2 EP 0740980A2 EP 96303036 A EP96303036 A EP 96303036A EP 96303036 A EP96303036 A EP 96303036A EP 0740980 A2 EP0740980 A2 EP 0740980A2
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Roy Stubbs
Coenraad Jekel
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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
    • B24D3/02—Physical features of abrasive bodies, or sheets, e.g. abrasive surfaces of special nature; Abrasive bodies or sheets characterised by their constituents the constituent being used as bonding agent
    • B24D3/20—Physical features of abrasive bodies, or sheets, e.g. abrasive surfaces of special nature; Abrasive bodies or sheets characterised by their constituents the constituent being used as bonding agent and being essentially organic
    • B24D3/28—Resins or natural or synthetic macromolecular compounds
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B24—GRINDING; POLISHING
    • B24D—TOOLS FOR GRINDING, BUFFING OR SHARPENING
    • B24D11/00—Constructional features of flexible abrasive materials; Special features in the manufacture of such materials
    • B24D11/02—Backings, e.g. foils, webs, mesh fabrics

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  • the invention relates to an abrasive article and in particular to an abrasive article comprising a foamed plastic substrate, one side of which bears a coating of abrasive mineral, and the other side of which is laminated to a layer of nonwoven web abrasive.
  • the article usefully combines two types of abrasive action in a single product.
  • GB-A-840484 discloses scouring pads comprising a sheet or block of foam having an abrasive layer secured to at least one face.
  • a pad may have one abrasive layer of coarser particles and another of finer particles.
  • GB-A-955713 discloses a cleaning device comprising two cleaning or abrasive pads, which may be of dissimilar materials, secured back to back and a flexible strap-like handle.
  • US-A-4856134 discloses an abrasive pad comprising a foam block and two non-woven webs sandwiching the block therebetween.
  • US-A-5140785 discloses a block including several different pads attached to a flexible connecting sheet that permits superimposing the pad in at least two different configurations so that the surfaces of different pads define the outer surfaces of the block.
  • Direct-coated sponge abrasives are those in which abrasive mineral is coated on the surface of a resilient, cellular (sponge) material, such as foamed plastic, together with the relevant adhesives and binders. Although one or more resin layers may be coated on the foam prior to coating the abrasive, it is the foam itself which provides the overall structural integrity of the finished article, and largely determines its bulk physical properties such as tensile strength, flexibility, elasticity, etc.
  • Direct-coated sponge abrasives are distinct from laminated-sponge abrasives in which abrasive mineral is bonded to one surface of a backing, such as paper or cloth, the other surface being laminated to a layer of sponge material.
  • Direct-coated sponge abrasives show several advantages, including reduced raw material costs and an improved performance in terms of the smoothness of finish for a given rate of cut.
  • Nonwoven abrasive materials are well known in the literature and in the marketplace and are disclosed, for example, in GB 1014297 and US-A-5152809.
  • Such materials comprise a lofty nonwoven web of fibres (usually of a synthetic thermoplastic polymer) bonded at their points of contact by melt fusion or by means of a suitable resin.
  • Abrasive particles may be distributed within this matrix and resin-bonded to the individual fibres.
  • Such materials are sold by Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company in a variety of grades under the trademark "Scotchbrite", and are widely used in industry and the home for purposes of cleaning and surface conditioning.
  • a layer of sponge or cellular material laminated to a layer of nonwoven abrasive.
  • Such products are designed for cleaning hard, nonporous surfaces, as in the cleaning of glassware, crockery, kitchen utensils, sinks, baths, worktops etc.
  • the nonwoven abrasive is used to dislodge dirt and foreign matter from the surface being cleaned, while the sponge layer acts as a reservoir for water and soap or detergent to assist in the cleaning process, and (after wringing out) can be used to mop up excess water and suspended debris.
  • the sponge layer does not exert any abrasive action.
  • US-A-5,109,637 discloses an implement having a flexible core, which may be a foam, to which compressible, resilient and flexible fibre mats bearing fine abrasive material are secured to form a tool that can conveniently conform or coincide with convex, concave, flat or curved surfaces and to corners and crevices to enable improved, easier cleaning and smoothing of relatively soft greenware without damage to the surface.
  • the tool can be an elongated member with parallel working surfaces or it can be a cylindrical, conical or other shape for adaptation to special requirements.
  • US-A-4343910 discloses a polishing article comprising a foam layer containing finely divided abrasive particles distributed throughout, with some of the particles being exposed on the surface of the foam layer, in which the foam layer is affixed a plastic base by an adhesive layer and a crocus cloth layer comprised of finely divided iron oxide is affixed to the other side of the base by an adhesive layer.
  • the present invention provides an abrasive article comprising a sponge layer having a coated abrasive and a nonwoven layer, both of which exert an abrasive action, which can be used both wet and dry, and finds use on surfaces which may be of a porous or flaky nature.
  • an abrasive article comprising a substrate of cellular material with a pair of major planar surfaces
  • the substrate may comprise any sponge material suitable for use as an abrasive backing, including both open-cell and closed-cell materials, such as those disclosed in US-A-4,966,609, 4,629,473, 4,038,047, and 3,607,159 and GB 1,597,455, and 1,472,087.
  • the substrate comprises a sheet of open-cell polyester-urethane foam of density 50 to 100 kg/m 3 and thickness 2 to 15 mm, more preferably about 4 mm in thickness. This is considerably thinner than the foam layers commonly used in cleaning pads comprising a sponge/nonwoven laminate.
  • One major surface of the substrate bears a layer of abrasive particles and at least one binder resin.
  • the layer does not comprise a web of fibres. It is preferred the coated abrasive layer is bonded to the substrate without use of an intermediate backing material.
  • this may comprise a single layer of cured adhesive resin in which abrasive particles are partially embedded.
  • the abrasive coating comprises (in sequence) a "pre-size” resin layer which seals the surface of the foam substrate, a “make” resin layer which secures abrasive particles to the substrate, a “size” resin layer which controls the extent to which the abrasive particles project above the surface of the abrasive coating, and a "supersize” layer which confers antiloading properties on the finished article.
  • Suitable presizes may be applied to a surface of the foam substrate (in the form of a continuous web) as solvent- or water-based formulations, or as 100% solids hot melt formulations.
  • Hot melt formulations are preferred, and suitable resins for this use include those commercially available under the trade names "Thermaflow 6876" (a hot melt ethylene/vinyl acetate copolymer from Evode), "3M 3748” and “3M3789” (respectively, a hot melt polyethylene and a hot melt polyamide from 3M).
  • Suitable make resins include any of the thermosetting or photocurable resins known in the art of abrasive coatings. These include phenol-formaldehyde, urea-formaldehyde and melamine-formaldehyde resins, epoxy resins, acrylate resins, aminoplast resins and urethane resins, including mixtures and/or modified versions of these. Make resins of these types may be applied to the substrate as solvent- or water-based formulations by any of the standard coating techniques. However, in preferred embodiments of the invention, the make resin comprises a moisture-curable hot melt adhesive, applied as a 100% solids formulation.
  • Hot melt adhesives suitable for use in this way include moisture-curable polyurethanes such as those available under the tradenames Tivomelt 9617/11, 9628 and 9635/12 from Tivoli, Purmelt QR116 and QR3310-21 from Henkel, and Jet Weld TS-230 from 3M; and moisture-curable silane-functional hot melts such as X200/9 (TM), available from Swift Adhesives Ltd (Twickenham, UK), as described in UK Patent Appln. Nos. 9316715.3 and 9416179.1 respectively.
  • TM moisture-curable silane-functional hot melts
  • any conventional type of abrasive particle may be embedded in the make adhesive, including silicon dioxide, silicon carbide, aluminium oxide, white aluminium oxide, ceramic aluminium oxide, cerium oxide, fused alumina-zirconia, diamond, cubic boron nitride etc. Preferred grit sizes are in the range P36 to P1000.
  • the abrasive particles are preferably coated subsequent to coating the make resin but while the latter is still in a molten, semi-molten or tacky state so that the particles become embedded therein.
  • the abrasive particles are applied to the make coating by the electrostatic coating methods commonly used in the abrasives industry, which impart a degree of orientation to the particles. However, other methods such as drop coating may also be used.
  • a slurry of make resin and abrasive grains may be coated directly on the substrate.
  • a size layer is preferably coated above the make resin (after the latter has at least partially cured or hardened) in order to provide further anchorage of the abrasive grains, and to control the height of their projection above the surface of the coated layers.
  • Any of the resins suitable for use as make resins may be used for sizing purposes, water-based formulations of urea-formaldehyde resins being preferred.
  • the size layer may incorporate antiloading additives, but these are more preferably applied as an outer, super-size layer.
  • the supersize may comprise an antiloading coating.
  • Antiloading additives are compounds or mixtures of compounds which reduce the tendency of the finished article to "load" during use, i.e., become clogged with dust and debris and hence lose its abrasive properties.
  • Suitable antiloading additives include salts of fatty acids (especially stearates) and fluorochemicals (as disclosed in US 5,164,265), and a preferred antiloading supersize comprises an aqueous dispersion (approx. 30% solids) or a mixture comprising calcium stearate (Nopco EC 769 from Henkel, 210 parts by wt), Vinacryl 71322 (a water-based acrylic dispersion from Vinyl Products Ltd, 40 parts by wt) and FC396 (TM) (a fluorochemical compound available from Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, 2 parts by wt), spray coated to a dry weight of 20 to 30 g/m 2 .
  • nonwoven abrasive material On the other major surface of the cellular substrate there is laminated a layer of nonwoven abrasive material.
  • the latter comprises an open, lofty nonwoven web of synthetic fibres bonded at their points of contact by means of a resin or by melt fusion. Abrasive particles are secured to the fibres by means of a suitable binder resin.
  • Preferred fibres are crimped, staple, synthetic organic fibres such as polyester fibres and nylon fibres, which may be processed and entangled into nonwoven webs by conventional web-forming machines such as that sold under the tradename "Rando Webber” through Rando Machine Company of New York, as described for example in US-A-2,958,593 and 3,537,121.
  • the resulting web may be heated to bring about melt-bonding of the fibres at their points of contact, and/or treated (by spraying, roll-coating etc) with a liquid resinous composition which (after drying and curing) bonds the fibres together at their points of contact.
  • Abrasive particles may be present as a dispersion in the aforesaid liquid resinous composition, or they may be applied to the web as a dispersion in a separate binder formulation.
  • Suitable abrasive particles range in average diameter of from 0.001 to about 1mm, preferably 0.01 to 0.5mm, and may be selected from a wide range of materials including those abrasive materials described above with reference to the coated abrasive layer.
  • the abrasive particles in the non-woven layer are selected from garnet, flint, silica, pumice, calcium carbonate, silicon carbide, corundum, aluminium oxide, fused alumina-zirconia, boron nitride, tungsten carbide, silicon carbide, glass bubbles, glass beads and iron particles as well as particles of organic resins such as polyesters, polycarbonates, polyacrylates and methacrylates etc. Mixtures of different abrasive particles may be used.
  • Suitable nonwoven abrasives are available commercially in a variety of thicknesses, densities and abrasive powers under the tradename "Scotchbrite” from Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company.
  • a particularly suitable grade is that designated “5447”, which has a layer thickness of about 5 mm and a basis weight in the range 200 to 250 g/m 2 .
  • the layer of nonwoven abrasive is typically bonded to the cellular substrate by means of a suitable adhesive.
  • a suitable adhesive may be used, including solvent-based adhesives, 100% solids hot melt adhesives etc, but a preferred adhesive is a two-part polyurethane type adhesive comprising equal parts of "Desmophene 1800" and "Desmodur L75", both available from Bayer.
  • the layer of nonwoven abrasive is most conveniently laminated to the cellular substrate as a continuous web, using conventional web handling techniques, subsequent to the coating of abrasive grains on the other major surface of the substrate.
  • the abrasive article comprises a substrate (2) of cellular material e.g. foamed plastic substrate.
  • the substrate may have any desired shape e.g. square, rectangular, circular, hexagonal etc.
  • the substrate is a polyester-urethane foam of about 4 mm thickness.
  • a compressible mat (4) of nonwoven fibres having abrasive particles adhered to the fibres is bonded to one major surface of the substrate (2) by adhesive layer (6).
  • the mat (4) preferably comprises a layer of about 5 mm thickness of Scotchbrite 5447 nonwoven abrasive bonded by a hot melt or polyurethane adhesive.
  • the other major surface of the substrate (2) is bonded to an abrasive layer (8) without the use of a backing material.
  • the abrasive layer (8) is direct coated on the substrate and comprises one or more binders (12) in which abrasive particles (10) are embedded.
  • the abrasive layer is preferably formed of a pre-size layer, make resin layer and a size layer and optionally a supersize layer.
  • the abrasive articles of the invention find use in a variety of cleaning, sanding and surface conditioning processes.
  • the articles are highly durable, yet are highly flexible and resilient, which enables them to conform to curved or irregular surfaces.
  • a particular area of utility is in the preparation of surfaces, especially wood, plaster etc, for painting.
  • the direct coated side is particularly suitable for removing old paint and surface irregularities (which is normally carried out under dry conditions), while the nonwoven side is particularly suitable for finishing the surface left in the first operation and for roughening otherwise sound, glossy surfaces.
  • the latter operation may be carried out under wet conditions so that final traces of dust and grease are removed, leaving the surface ready for painting once dry.
  • Cleaning agents such as microencapsulated soaps, detergents, ammonia etc, may optionally be incorporated in the nonwoven layer to assist with the degreasing process.

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WO2000003840A1 (en) * 1998-07-15 2000-01-27 Minnesota Mining And Manufacturing Company Resilient abrasive article with hard anti-loading size coating
FR2840523A1 (fr) * 2002-06-11 2003-12-12 J S O Article multicouche absorbant et recurant
EP1625821A2 (de) * 2004-06-23 2006-02-15 Johnson Co., Ltd. Reinigungskissen, laminierter Körper von einem Reinigungskissen und Reinigungsgerät
WO2017180210A1 (en) * 2016-04-13 2017-10-19 3M Innovative Properties Company Supersize composition, abrasive article and method of making an abrasive article
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EP1625821A2 (de) * 2004-06-23 2006-02-15 Johnson Co., Ltd. Reinigungskissen, laminierter Körper von einem Reinigungskissen und Reinigungsgerät
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WO2017180210A1 (en) * 2016-04-13 2017-10-19 3M Innovative Properties Company Supersize composition, abrasive article and method of making an abrasive article
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