EP1456441B1 - Verfahren und vorrichtung zum herstellen eines schrumpfarmen glattgarns - Google Patents

Verfahren und vorrichtung zum herstellen eines schrumpfarmen glattgarns Download PDF

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EP1456441B1
EP1456441B1 EP02735329A EP02735329A EP1456441B1 EP 1456441 B1 EP1456441 B1 EP 1456441B1 EP 02735329 A EP02735329 A EP 02735329A EP 02735329 A EP02735329 A EP 02735329A EP 1456441 B1 EP1456441 B1 EP 1456441B1
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D02—YARNS; MECHANICAL FINISHING OF YARNS OR ROPES; WARPING OR BEAMING
    • D02G—CRIMPING OR CURLING FIBRES, FILAMENTS, THREADS, OR YARNS; YARNS OR THREADS
    • D02G1/00—Producing crimped or curled fibres, filaments, yarns, or threads, giving them latent characteristics
    • D02G1/12—Producing crimped or curled fibres, filaments, yarns, or threads, giving them latent characteristics using stuffer boxes
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D02—YARNS; MECHANICAL FINISHING OF YARNS OR ROPES; WARPING OR BEAMING
    • D02G—CRIMPING OR CURLING FIBRES, FILAMENTS, THREADS, OR YARNS; YARNS OR THREADS
    • D02G1/00—Producing crimped or curled fibres, filaments, yarns, or threads, giving them latent characteristics
    • D02G1/12—Producing crimped or curled fibres, filaments, yarns, or threads, giving them latent characteristics using stuffer boxes
    • D02G1/125—Producing crimped or curled fibres, filaments, yarns, or threads, giving them latent characteristics using stuffer boxes including means for monitoring or controlling yarn processing
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D01—NATURAL OR MAN-MADE THREADS OR FIBRES; SPINNING
    • D01D—MECHANICAL METHODS OR APPARATUS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL FILAMENTS, THREADS, FIBRES, BRISTLES OR RIBBONS
    • D01D5/00—Formation of filaments, threads, or the like
    • D01D5/12—Stretch-spinning methods
    • D01D5/16—Stretch-spinning methods using rollers, or like mechanical devices, e.g. snubbing pins
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D02—YARNS; MECHANICAL FINISHING OF YARNS OR ROPES; WARPING OR BEAMING
    • D02G—CRIMPING OR CURLING FIBRES, FILAMENTS, THREADS, OR YARNS; YARNS OR THREADS
    • D02G1/00—Producing crimped or curled fibres, filaments, yarns, or threads, giving them latent characteristics
    • D02G1/12—Producing crimped or curled fibres, filaments, yarns, or threads, giving them latent characteristics using stuffer boxes
    • D02G1/122—Producing crimped or curled fibres, filaments, yarns, or threads, giving them latent characteristics using stuffer boxes introducing the filaments in the stuffer box by means of a fluid jet
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D02—YARNS; MECHANICAL FINISHING OF YARNS OR ROPES; WARPING OR BEAMING
    • D02G—CRIMPING OR CURLING FIBRES, FILAMENTS, THREADS, OR YARNS; YARNS OR THREADS
    • D02G1/00—Producing crimped or curled fibres, filaments, yarns, or threads, giving them latent characteristics
    • D02G1/12—Producing crimped or curled fibres, filaments, yarns, or threads, giving them latent characteristics using stuffer boxes
    • D02G1/127—Producing crimped or curled fibres, filaments, yarns, or threads, giving them latent characteristics using stuffer boxes including drawing or stretching on the same machine

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  • the invention relates to a method for producing a low-shrink synthetic plain yarn according to the preamble of claim 1 and to an apparatus for carrying out the method according to the preamble of claim 10.
  • high tenacity smooth yarns used in the manufacture of PVC coated tarpaulins, conveyor belts, or V-belts are required to have little shrinkage later during heat processing.
  • the invention is characterized in that even at relatively high yarn speeds a Relaxier awareness with long residence times is possible.
  • the mulitifile thread is first stretched after melt spinning.
  • the thread is conveyed under the action of heat in the stuffer box and compressed there.
  • the plug is conveyed without tension through the relaxation device. Since the plug has a significantly larger diameter than the thread, the speed of stuffing is orders of magnitude lower than the feeding speed of the thread because of the continuity condition.
  • relatively high residence times can be achieved under high temperature and in a tension-free state.
  • the plain yarn Upon exiting the relaxation device, the plain yarn is pulled out of the plug under tension.
  • the yarn withdrawn here in the hot state from the relaxation and further processed with such high thread tension that no crimping remains in the yarn and thus a typical plain yarn is present.
  • polyester can be produced even at relatively low withdrawal voltage from the plug a plain yarn.
  • all polyester types are considered to be particularly suitable.
  • a hot medium is preferably used to convey the thread, which is guided by means of a delivery nozzle together with the thread in the stuffer box.
  • the medium can be formed from a hot air or a hot steam.
  • a process variant of the method according to the invention provides once again a post-stretching after relaxation. As a result, a latent residual crimp possibly still remaining in the yarn is broken down.
  • the step of pulling the plug apart is supplemented and secured by additional method steps. Due to fluctuations in yarn or process parameters, different sizes of incoming and outgoing yarn mass flows can occur. This is to the effect that the length of the plug may possibly increase or decrease continuously. Therefore, in this variant of the method, the position of the stopper end is sensed and intervened in a correcting manner to the temperature of the medium.
  • the speed of the godet pulling off the thread is acted upon alternatively or additionally. By this intervention, an immediate effect on the stopper length is achieved.
  • Characteristic of the invention is that the yarn speed in the yarn path behind the relaxation is less than the yarn speed in the yarn path before the relaxation.
  • the winding speed is again slightly higher than the thread speed behind the relaxation device. This results for the invention that the winding device is operated at a winding speed which is more than 85% of the peripheral speed of the last godet before the relaxation.
  • the method according to the invention can also be used for the production of 8 / ionofilaments, that is to say threads which consist only of one thick filament.
  • An apparatus for carrying out the method according to the invention consists of a spinning device in which the filaments are melt-spun, a Verstreclc featured in which the thread is stretched into a high-strength thread, a compression chamber as relaxation and a winding device.
  • the stuffer box is designed so that form as few loops and bows in the deposited filaments when upsetting the thread.
  • Essential here is the possibility that the tempered thread is guided stress-free in the stuffer box as a plug for a long residence time as long as possible, so that a very low-shrinkage smooth yarn is present after dissolution of the plug.
  • a Nachverstreckung is provided behind the relaxation, which raises the thread tension slightly to smooth the smooth yarn behind the stuffer box again.
  • this Nachverstreckungs is formed from a pair of godets, which cooperates with the winding device.
  • two Galettenduos be used, the second pair of godets is operated at a slightly higher speed, so that a yarn tension is built up.
  • godets with overflow rollers can also be used.
  • the relaxation device preferably has a delivery nozzle which is connected to a medium source and is acted upon by a hot medium.
  • the thread can thus be heated, for example, by hot air or hot steam and promote.
  • a first embodiment of the device according to the invention is shown schematically, to which the inventive method is applied.
  • the device has a spinning device which is formed by a spinning head 1 and a plurality of spinning nozzles 15.
  • the spinning head 1 is connected by a melt inlet 29 with a melt source, not shown here, for example, with an extruder.
  • a plurality of spinnerets 15 are mounted, each containing a plurality of spinneret holes, through which each a filament bundle 2 is extruded.
  • four spinnerets 1 are shown by way of example.
  • the filament bundle 2 is cooled after extrusion by a cooling air 3, wetted in a preparation device 4 with a preparation and combined to form a thread 5.
  • the yarn 5 After the yarn 5 is formed, it is first pulled off a godet 6, which cooperates with an overflow roller 25. It is common that on such spinning plants several threads are made in a parallel process and are treated in parallel on the same godets. In the following description, the devices of the device and the method for simplifying a thread will be described.
  • the thread 5 After the godet 6 of the thread 5 is guided to a drawing device, which is formed by several Galettenduos 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3. In this case, the thread 5 is first stretched between two heated godet duos 7.1 and 7.2 in a first draw zone 8.1 and then between two heated godet ducks 7.2 and 7.3 in a second draw zone 8.2. After this treatment, the thread 5 has reached a high strength. He has, however, the desire to shrink under the influence of temperature. This is especially in the cases mentioned where the threads in the subsequent processing with hot coating materials be sheathed, undesirable. Therefore, the thread 5 is guided in a subsequent relaxation zone 16 with a relaxation device 9. Under temperature and in a tension-free state, the thread 5 in the relaxation device 9 is given the opportunity to relax, ie to reduce its shrinkage tendency. The thread shortens, depending on polymer and process parameters, by about 13%.
  • the thread 5 is upset within the relaxation device 9, which is described in detail in Figure 2, to a stopper.
  • the relaxation device 9 which is described in detail in Figure 2, to a stopper.
  • a NachverSCHincardi 21 is provided, which is formed in this embodiment by another Galettendo 7.4.
  • the plain yarn 22 is wound by means of a winding device 10 to form a coil 26. Since, after the relaxation device 9, in particular between Galettendo 7.4 and winding device 10, a higher yarn tension level prevails, any curl which may have remained behind in the yarn is reduced. This process is referred to in this context as Nachverstreckung.
  • the Nachverraceinides 21 could also be formed by a godet with an overflow roller. For re-stretching then act the godet and the Aufspulautoimmune together.
  • FIG. 2 shows in section a possible embodiment of a relaxation device 9 with the aid of which the method according to the invention can be realized.
  • the relaxation device 9 has a delivery nozzle 17 to which a heated medium 18 is supplied via a line 28.
  • the medium 18, which has been previously heated by heater 13, is passed into a thread channel 27 in order to convey the thread 5.
  • the thread channel 27 opens into a stuffer box 19 of the Relaxing device 9.
  • the thread 5 is guided to a stopper 20.
  • the thread loops which leads to a congestion and consequently to a compression, so that from the Faden5 the plug 20 is formed, which is slowly conveyed through the stuffer box 19 of the relaxation device 9.
  • a hot fluid such as hot air or steam is used as the conveying medium 18 to provide the thread with the temperature required for relaxation.
  • a hot fluid such as hot air or steam is used as the conveying medium 18 to provide the thread with the temperature required for relaxation.
  • a guide portion 23 of the stuffer box 19 a plurality of slots are introduced, through which the medium is discharged again.
  • the plug 20 then leaves via the outlet opening 24, the relaxation device 9 and is dissolved into the plain yarn 22.
  • the plain yarn 22 After leaving the relaxation device, the plain yarn 22, since it is then further promoted from the godet duo 7.4 shown in Figure 1 again at high speed, pulled out of the plug 20. Due to the high acceleration occurring occur inertial forces that cause tensile forces in the yarn and sufficiently stabilize the yarn. In this case, the speed at which the yarn is withdrawn, must be adjusted in such a way that the relaxation mass per unit time supplied yarn mass is identical to the discharged yarn mass.
  • FIG. 3 Another embodiment of the relaxation device 9 is shown, which would be used for example in a device according to Fig. 1 and which has a control of the plug formation.
  • You relaxation facility 9 is constructed substantially identical to the embodiment of FIG. 2, so that only the differences are listed below.
  • a sensor 11 is provided, which senses a plug growth or a plug fading.
  • the signaled value of the sensor 11 is compared in a comparator 30 with a desired value and supplied to a controller 12 in deviation.
  • the regulator 12 is connected to a heater 13 which heats the medium 18 supplied to the delivery nozzle 17. The heating of the medium 18 can thus be corrected by way of the regulator 12.
  • the controller 12 is also coupled to a godet drive 14 which drives the godet duo 7.4 Nachverskeinides 21. In addition, the rotational speed of the godet drive 7.4 driving the godet drive 14 can be corrected accordingly.
  • the relaxation device 9 shown in FIG. 3 can only be used in conjunction with a temperature control of the pumped medium or only with a speed control of the godet hood.
  • any relaxation device could be used in the apparatus of FIG. 1, in which the thread is guided by means of a conveying means within a stuffer box to a stopper and heated.
  • the thread By the Aufstauchung the thread can be sufficient even at high Fadengeschwindiglceiten To reach residence times for the relaxation of the thread.
  • the compression of the thread is preferably carried out with a low stuffing density in order to obtain a complete dissolution of the loops and loops in the filaments upon dissolution of the plug, so that after the dissolution of the yarn contains no crimp more.

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