EP2657386A1 - Appareil et procédé de teinture à la mousse de fils de textile en mouvement - Google Patents

Appareil et procédé de teinture à la mousse de fils de textile en mouvement Download PDF

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EP2657386A1
EP2657386A1 EP13165120.0A EP13165120A EP2657386A1 EP 2657386 A1 EP2657386 A1 EP 2657386A1 EP 13165120 A EP13165120 A EP 13165120A EP 2657386 A1 EP2657386 A1 EP 2657386A1
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06B—TREATING TEXTILE MATERIALS USING LIQUIDS, GASES OR VAPOURS
    • D06B1/00—Applying liquids, gases or vapours onto textile materials to effect treatment, e.g. washing, dyeing, bleaching, sizing or impregnating
    • D06B1/08—Applying liquids, gases or vapours onto textile materials to effect treatment, e.g. washing, dyeing, bleaching, sizing or impregnating from outlets being in, or almost in, contact with the textile material
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06B—TREATING TEXTILE MATERIALS USING LIQUIDS, GASES OR VAPOURS
    • D06B11/00—Treatment of selected parts of textile materials, e.g. partial dyeing
    • D06B11/002—Treatment of selected parts of textile materials, e.g. partial dyeing of moving yarns
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06B—TREATING TEXTILE MATERIALS USING LIQUIDS, GASES OR VAPOURS
    • D06B19/00—Treatment of textile materials by liquids, gases or vapours, not provided for in groups D06B1/00 - D06B17/00
    • D06B19/0088—Treatment of textile materials by liquids, gases or vapours, not provided for in groups D06B1/00 - D06B17/00 using a short bath ratio liquor
    • D06B19/0094—Treatment of textile materials by liquids, gases or vapours, not provided for in groups D06B1/00 - D06B17/00 using a short bath ratio liquor as a foam

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  • foamed dye to dye textile substrates by applying multiple coats of dye in a foamed state sequentially on traveling textile substrates using spaced foam applicators on opposite sides of the traveling substrates.
  • One such prior art apparatus and method developed by the assignee of the present invention has a vertical series of spaced pairs of opposed foam applicators that apply foam to opposite sides of a traveling cotton textile substrate.
  • the apparatus and method are used to dye undyed cotton yarn with reduced leuco-state indigo dye to produce a dye for use in making denim fabric.
  • the applicators are mounted inside a sealed chamber containing an inert gas, such as nitrogen, and the dye is applied to the yarn in sheet form by a plurality of pairs of spaced foam applicators.
  • undyed yarn is fed from a plurality of beams as a single sheet of yarn.
  • the amount of waste liquid runoff is substantially less than in vat dyeing.
  • a problem with the prior art apparatuses and methods is that the mass of yarns in the traveling sheet are crowded together and tend to overlap or otherwise become entangled with adjacent yarns, which makes it difficult, if not impossible, to coat the entire surface of each yarn without leaving undyed streaks as a result of the limited amount of dye applied during the first application.
  • the present invention provides a unique solution to the problem of applying a limited amount of dye with foam applicators to the surfaces of the yarn of a traveling sheet of yarn to accomplish full-surface application without penetrating the center of the yarn.
  • the present invention provides this beneficial advantage by separating the sheet of yarn into separate spaced portions of the yarn sheet, thereby reducing the density of the yarns in each separate portion of the yarn sheet, and then applying foamed dye to the inwardly facing and outwardly facing surfaces of the yarns in each separated portion with applicators located between the separated portions for applying foamed dye to the inner facing surfaces of the yarns and foam applicators at the outer facing surfaces of the yarns to apply foamed dye to the outwardly facing surfaces of the yarns.
  • the separate yarn sheet portions are then recombined and subjected to further foam dyeing with a plurality of applicators spaced downstream of the recombining.
  • the dye applied by the different applicators can be the same as or different in concentration or color or type of dye from the dye or shade of dye applied in the other applicators. Using the same dye in all the applicators results in a deepening of the shade of the color imparted by the dye. Using dyes of different colors in various applicators results in selected color variations in the yarns and in the resulting fabric woven or knitted from the yarns. Having the centers undyed while the surfaces are dyed allows color fashioning in a woven fabric made from those dyed yarns, which is particularly of interest in denim fabrics, such as used for manufacturing fashionable blue jeans.
  • Dividing of a traveling sheet of yarn into separate spaced sheet portions is known in the slashing art where the spaced separate yarns are fed into two different sizing boxes, but this has not involved foam dyeing and particularly foam applicators located between divided yarn sheets to apply foamed dye to the inner facing surfaces of the opposite divided yarn sheets.
  • the preferred embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus and method for dyeing traveling textile yarns with dye applied in a foam condition.
  • a method of dyeing traveling textile yarns with a dye in foamed condition is provided, and, more particularly, dyeing by separating a traveling combined sheet of yarn into separate spaced sheets and applying foamed dye to the inner facing and outer facing surfaces of the yarns in the separate sheets. Then recombining the separate sheets into a single sheet and further applying foamed dye to the yarn in the recombined sheet.
  • a pair of driven infeed nip rollers feeds the yarn in a downstream direction, and a pair of outwardly spaced guide rollers downstream of the infeed rollers guide the sheet in separated spaced sheets.
  • a pair of driven yarn sheet recombining nip rollers is located downstream of the outwardly spaced rollers for recombining the separated sheets into a single sheet.
  • An exit guide roller, downstream of the recombining nip rollers guides the recombined yarn sheet from the apparatus.
  • a pair of outwardly facing, inner foam applicators and a pair of inwardly facing, outer foam applicators are disposed with the pair of outwardly facing, inner foam applicators being between the paths of separated yarn sheets or yarn sheet portions for applying foamed dye to the inner facing portions of the surface of the separated yarn sheet portions with their nozzles projecting oppositely into the paths of the separated yarn sheet portions to deflect the yarn sheet portions outwardly to maintain foam dispensing contact with the applicator nozzles.
  • the pair of inwardly facing outer foam applicators are disposed outwardly of the paths of the separated yarn portions for dispensing foamed dye to the outer facing surfaces of the yarns, and their nozzles project into the path of the yarn sheet portions to deflect the yarn sheet portions inwardly to maintain foam dispensing contact with the nozzles of the applicators.
  • Additional pairs of foam applicators are located downstream of the recombining rollers and have nozzles for applying foam dye to the opposite surfaces of the yarns in the recombined sheet of yarn.
  • the method and apparatus are adapted for dyeing undyed cotton yarn with reduced indigo dye in a leuco-state.
  • the rollers feed the sheet of yarn through a sealed chamber containing an inert gas, such as nitrogen.
  • an inert gas such as nitrogen.
  • the yarn sheet is divided into separate spaced paths.
  • the pairs of foam applicators are located within the chamber.
  • the concentration of dye being applied may be different with selected applicators in comparison with other applicators.
  • concentration of dye in the applicators that apply dye to the yarns in the separated sheet portions may be less than the concentration applied in the other applicators to assure less than a full depth penetration of the dye into the yarn in the separated portions.
  • foam generators for different pairs of applicators to provide different colors to the yarns.
  • the dyeing apparatus 10 of the preferred embodiment of the present invention illustrated in the accompanying drawings feeds originally undyed cotton yarns that are wound on warp beams 12 supported in two racks, 14 and 16, arranged in series with each rack supporting four warp beams 18 and 20 in a two over two stacking arrangement.
  • One rack 14 is outboard of the other rack 16. Yarns from the four beams 18 of the outboard rack 14 are withdrawn and combined into a single yarn sheet 22 that passes under the beams 20 of the inboard rack 16 and combined with the yarn sheet 23 drawn from the beams 20 of the inner rack 16 to form a combined single sheet 24 drawn from the eight warp beams.
  • a cross yarn 26 is laid across the top of the sheet 22 of yarns from the outboard rack 14 prior to the sheet passing under the beams 20 of the inner rack 16.
  • the yarns from the inner rack 16 are laid on top of the cross yarn 26 in combining with the yarns from the outer rack 14.
  • the combined single yarn sheet 24 is then threaded under a guide roller 28, upwardly to the top of the dyeing frame 30 over an intermediate guide roller 32 and then over a top guide roller 34, under a tensioning roller 36 and again upwardly over a driven roller 38 from which it is initially threaded downwardly into the dyeing frame 30.
  • the yarn sheet is threaded downwardly through a top gas seal 40 into the top of a dyeing chamber 42 and into the chamber between a pair of driven nip rollers 44 near the top of the chamber.
  • the cross yarn 22 is pulled to one side to displace the yarn from one of the racks 14 in one direction from the yarns from the other rack 16, thereby separating the yarn sheet 24 into spaced separate yarn sheet path portions 46, 48, also referred to as separate sheets 46, 48 or spaced separate sheets 46, 48.
  • the spaced separate yarn sheet portions 46, 48 are then threaded oppositely outwardly over a pair of spaced guide rollers 50, 52 downwardly to a pair of combining nip rollers 54 which recombine the spaced separate yarn sheet path portions into a combined single sheet 56.
  • the combined sheet 56 is then threaded downwardly past a guide roller 58 through a lower gas seal 60 at the bottom of the chamber, around a tension roller 62 at the bottom of the dyeing frame 30 and outwardly under another guide roller 64 to a pair of stacked heating drums 66 around which the sheet is threaded and from which the dyed yarn sheet is fed to a conventional take-up apparatus or further processing apparatus.
  • a pair of inner foam dye applicators 68 and 70 having nozzles 72, 74 positioned in contact with and extending across the inner facing surfaces 76, 78 of the spaced separate yarn sheet path portions 46, 48.
  • Each of these inner applicators 68, 70 has an inlet 80, 82 through which foamed dye is fed into parabolic foam distribution chambers 84, 86 of the type described in U.S. Patent No. 4,655,056 .
  • These foam distribution chambers 84, 86 are arranged vertically so as to fit within the space between the separate yarn sheet path portions 46, 48.
  • the foamed dye in the chambers 84, 86 exits through the nozzles 72, 74, to apply foamed dye to the inwardly facing surfaces of the yarns.
  • a pair of outer foam applicators 88, 90 are disposed outwardly of the space between separate yarn sheet path portions 46, 48 upstream of the nozzles 72, 74 of the inner foamed dye applicators 68, 70 and have nozzles 92, 94 and horizontal parabolic distribution chambers 96, 98.
  • the nozzles 92, 94 of these outer applicators 88, 90 extended horizontally across and in contact with the inner facing surfaces of the yarns in the separate yarn sheet path portions to apply foamed dye thereto.
  • each pair has an upper applicator 104 with the nozzle 106 projecting into the dyeing chamber 42 in contact with the surface of the recombined sheet 56, and projects inwardly sufficiently to displace the yarn sheet slightly out of its normal path to assure foam dispensing contact with the yarn surface.
  • the lower applicator 108 of each pair has its nozzle 110 projecting into the chamber 42 in contact with and displacing the yarn sheet 56 in a direction opposite to the displacement by the upper applicator, thereby maintaining full contact of the nozzle with the yarn sheet 56.
  • Each of the nozzles 106, 110 of both of these pairs have infeeds 112 and parabolic distribution chambers 113 outside the dyeing chamber 42.
  • the dyeing chamber 42 is shaped around the interior components in close proximity thereto for a minimum interior volume, thereby efficiently utilizing a limited quantity of inert gas to provide an inert atmosphere.
  • Nitrogen or other suitable inert gas is fed from a gas supply tank 114 through a supply line 116 to the chamber 42 to maintain the interior of the chamber substantially inert, and under a pressure slightly above atmospheric to avoid bleeding of oxygen containing atmosphere into the chamber 42.
  • the inert gas is also fed to a main foam generator 118 that also receives reduced indigo dye in a leuco state from a main dye supply tank 117.
  • This main foam generator 118 generates foam that is then fed through the foam supply line 120 to distributors 119 and valves 121 on the dyeing frame 30 for measured distribution to the various foam applicators.
  • a secondary supply of foamed reduced indigo dye is fed through a conduit 122 from a secondary foam generator 124 that receives inert gas from the main supply tank 114 and dye from a secondary dye supply tank 126.
  • the sheet passes over the top of the dyeing frame 30 and then downwardly into the dyeing chamber 42 where it separates into spaced separate yarn sheet path portions for application of foamed dye to the inner and outer facing surfaces of the separate yarn sheet portions, and then downwardly through the combining nip rollers past the pairs of applicators that apply foamed dye to deepen the shade of the dye on the yarn.
  • the amount of foamed dye applied by each pair of applicators can be limited so that there is no significant runoff and no need for pressure rolling after each pair of applicators to be sure that the foam penetrates the yarn.
  • the yarn leaves the chamber 42 with the foamed dye imparted thereto, it enters the ambient atmosphere and the oxygen in the atmosphere fixes the originally leuco-state dye on the surface.
  • FIG. 3 The vertical sectional view of Fig. 3 is taken down through the center of the dye frame 30 and illustrates the yarn travel in a separated yarn sheet path 46 past an inner applicator 68 with its parabolic foam distributor chamber 84 and then past the nozzles 100, 110 of the applicator pairs 88, 90 that apply foamed dye to the recombined yarn sheet 56.
  • Fig. 4 is a horizontal sectional view of the pairs of applicators 68, 70, 88, 90 that apply foamed dye to the spaced separate yarn sheet portions.
  • Fig. 5 diagrammatically illustrates the separate spaced yarn sheet portions 46, 48 progressing past the pairs of applicators 68, 70 that apply foam to the separate spaced yarn sheet portions 46, 48 and illustrates the combining of the separate spaced yarn portions back into a single yarn sheet 56 and the passage past the pairs of applicators 88, 90 that apply foamed dye to the recombined sheet 56.
  • the dyeing frame 30 is enclosed with panels 127.
  • the panels laterally outward of the dyeing chamber 42 are in two separable portions 128 meeting in alignment with the center line of the interior components. Opening of these panel portions 128 allows access into the interior of the dyeing frame 30 for threading of yarn through the apparatus and for maintenance and correction of any malfunction.
  • the dyeing chamber is formed in separable halves for separating with the supported opposing rollers and applicators. This is accomplished with opposing gears 130 driven by a motor 132.
  • the yarn sheet entering the dyeing frame is 63 inches wide with a yarn density of 74 ends per inch. This results in a total number of yarns in the sheet of 4662 ends. When the sheet is divided into separate spaced sheet portions, this results in 2331 ends across the width of each spaced separate sheet portion. This reduces substantially the likelihood of any white spots remaining on any of the yarns due to overlapping or entangling during travel past the applicators. This advantage is particularly significant when dyeing cotton yarn for use in weaving denim fabric as the initial dye application can be light to retain an undyed center while fully tinting the outside surface of each yarn. The subsequent dyeing of the recombined yarn sheet then deepens the shade or, if desired, applies a different color to the yarn.
  • Having an undyed center is an advantage in the manufacture of current day denim fabric where spots of undyed yarn can be generated during stone washing or other treatment to provide desired fashion effects. While use of the present invention allows for retaining undyed centers in the yarn, it importantly avoids the generation of noticeable undyed streaks that are undesirable in the ultimate denim fabric.
  • An advantage of the apparatus of the present invention is that the tension in the traveling yarn sheet can be maintained uniform because of the driven nip rollers and take up rollers that can be synchronously driven to maintain uniform travel as well as assuring desirable full contact of the tensioned yarns with the nozzles of the applicators.
  • the invention is applicable as well to applying other dyes, such as sulfur, vat dye and other dyes, or a combination of applying one dye from some of the applicators and other dyes from other applicators for different fashion effects.
  • the invention is applicable for other types of foam dyeing in a non-inert atmosphere without a dyeing chamber.
  • a leuco-state dye such as reduced indigo
  • a leuco-state dye passes from an inert atmosphere within a dyeing chamber, and enters the ambient atmosphere, the oxygen in the atmosphere oxidizes and sets the dye.
  • the dye concentration in the liquid phase of the foam applied by the applicators to the spaced separated yarn sheet portions is about 6% and is applied at a wet pick-up rate of about 25% to a yarn sheet traveling at 25 yards per minute.
  • the concentration of the dye in the foam that is applied by the applicators that apply foamed dye to the recombined sheet is the same wet pick-up.
  • the flow rate of the liquid varies, however, because for equal wet pick-up, the liquid flow rate will by necessity be one-half for half the yarn sheet in comparison to a full sheet.
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