JP2008079912A - Towel cloth - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide towel cloth which makes a user feel neither stiffness nor hardness and does not make the user feel reduction in the thickness after washing the towel cloth even if repeatedly washed. <P>SOLUTION: The towel cloth 1 has an woven base 5 composed of warp yarns 2 and weft yarns 3. From the woven base 5, a plurality of loops 7 and 9 are formed adjacent to each other on the front surface or the rear surface of the towel cloth using the warp yarns and the weft yarns. Regarding one loop and loops adjacent to the loop, at least one of the loops adjacent to the loop have forming heights (L1 and L2) set to have forms different from the loop. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

    The present invention relates to a toweling cloth that has little feeling of hardness and hardness even after repeated washing.

    Conventionally, most of the piles formed in the loop shape of the towel material constituting the towel have a uniform length, and some of the pile lengths are changed on the front and back of the towel material. Known (for example, Patent Document 1).

JP 2004-261365 A

    In conventional towel fabrics, during washing, fibers are rubbed and pulled, and the fiber cuticle is damaged and destroyed by repeated drying and wetting, protecting oils and fats attached to the fibers. Leakage of components and decrease in fiber rigidity and elasticity occur.

    Damage and destruction of the fiber cuticle are caused by kinking of the pile loop, dropping of the fiber, that is, generation of fluff, and further entanglement of the generated kink. , Which leads to the feeling that the thickness has become thinner.

    The present invention has been made in view of the circumstances described above, and an object thereof is to provide a toweling cloth that is less likely to feel irritating, hard, and thin after washing even after repeated washing. It is.

The invention of claim 1 has a ground weave (5) composed of warp (2) and weft (3),
From the ground weave (5), a towel fabric (1) in which a plurality of loops (7, 9) are formed adjacent to each other on the front or back surface of the towel fabric using the warp or weft,
In a loop adjacent to a certain loop, the formation height (L1, L2) of at least one loop adjacent to the certain loop is set differently from that of the certain loop.

In the invention of claim 2, the loop is composed of two types of a large loop (9) having a high formation height and a small loop (7) having a low formation height.
The formation height of the small loop is constituted by about ½ of the formation height of the large loop.

In the invention of claim 3, the loop is composed of two types, a large loop having a high formation height and a small loop having a low formation height.
The formation pitch (P) of the large loop with respect to the ground weave (5) is different from the formation pitch (P / 2) of the small loop with respect to the ground weave.

    According to the present invention, since the adjacent loops of the towel cloth have different heights, there is a low loop between the high loops, and the frequency and degree of contact between the high loops during washing can be reduced. Towel fabric that reduces the occurrence of rubbing and pulling of the accompanying fibers, and even after repeated washing, it is less likely to feel irritating, hard, and thinner after washing. Can be provided.

    In addition, by forming the formation pitch (P) for the large-loop ground weave (5) and the formation pitch (P / 2) for the small-loop ground weave so that the small loop and the large loop are mutually washed. The frequency of contact can be reduced and it is more effective.

    Note that the numbers in parentheses are for the sake of convenience indicating the corresponding elements in the drawings, and therefore the present description is not limited to the descriptions on the drawings.

    Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 shows one embodiment of the toweling material according to the present invention, (a) is a sectional view of the toweling material, (b) is an organization chart thereof, and FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a pile portion of the toweling material of FIG. FIG. 3 shows another embodiment of the toweling material according to the present invention, in which (a) is a sectional view of the toweling material, (b) is its organization chart, and FIG. 4 is yet another example of the toweling material according to the present invention. (A) is a sectional view of a towel cloth, (b) is an organization chart thereof, FIG. 5 is a view showing an example of a towel made by combining the towel cloths of FIGS. 3 and 4, (a) Is the surface of the towel, (b) is the back of the towel, (c) and (d) are each a part of the towel surface, and FIG. 6 is an example of a towel made using the toweling according to the present invention. In the figure, (a) is a view showing the front surface, (b) is a view showing the back surface, and FIG. FIGS. 8A and 8B show another embodiment, in which FIG. 8A is a sectional view of a towel cloth, FIG. 8B is an organization chart thereof, FIG. 8C is a perspective view of the towel cloth, and FIG. (A) is a sectional view of a towel cloth, (b) is its organization chart, (c) is a perspective view of the towel cloth, and FIG. 9 is a comparison of the towel cloth of the present invention and a conventional towel cloth according to the number of washings. It is a graph.

    As shown in FIG. 1 (a), a towel cloth 1 according to the present invention that constitutes at least a part of a towel has a large number of weft yarns 2 (circled numbers 1 to 3) extending in a direction perpendicular to the paper surface in the drawing. The weft 2 has a set of three wefts 2 adjacent to each other in the vertical direction in the figure as shown in the organization chart FM when weaving the toweling cloth in FIG. 1 (b). It is configured. In the weft 2, four warps 3 (indicated by circled alphabets a to d) are knitted in a form that forms a set on the organization chart FM. The state of weaving of the three weft yarns 2 and the four warp yarns 3, that is, the organization chart FM is configured as shown in FIG. In addition, you may comprise the relationship between the warp and the weft in a figure reversely. That is, the pile 10 to be described later may be formed using a weft.

    Of the four warp yarns 3, two warp yarns (the alphabets b and d circled) are plain weaves together with the weft yarns 2 and constitute the base weaving 5 portion of the towel cloth 1. Of the four warp yarns 3, the remaining two warp yarns (the circled alphabets a and c) are terry woven together with the weft yarn 2, and both sides of the towel fabric 1 from the ground weave 5 portion in the figure. The pile 10 which consists of the loops 7 and 9 formed by protruding is formed.

    For the sake of convenience, the left side of the ground weave 5 in FIG. 1A is referred to as “table”, and the right side in the figure is referred to as “back”. Of the two warp yarns 3 and 3 constituting the terry weave, the circled warp yarn 3 is formed on the front side of the towel cloth 1 with a small loop 7 having a height L1 from the center CL of the thickness of the base fabric 5 and a height of the small loop 7. Large loops 9 each having a length L2 are formed in the vertical direction, and the warp 3 of c surrounded by a circle is formed on the back side of the towel cloth 1 from the center CL of the thickness of the base weave 5 to the height L1. The small loop 7 and the large loop 9 having the height L2 are formed in the vertical direction every other piece. Note that the height L1 is approximately half the height L2. Thereby, as shown in FIG. 2, the towel fabric 1 is formed in the form which has the pile 10 which consists of the loops 7 and 9 formed by protruding different height L1, L2 from the ground weave 5 to the front and back.

    In this way, by forming the pile 10 formed on the towel cloth 1 with different heights L1 and L2, a case where a towel made from the towel cloth 1 is washed and a conventional loop having a uniform height are used. As a result of an experiment using the number of washings as a variable, the twisting of the loop and the occurrence of fluff when the towel made of the towel material was washed were the results shown in FIG.

    FIG. 9 (a) is a graph relatively showing the degree of twisting of the loop depending on the number of washings, but a towel cloth made of a loop having a conventional uniform height is compared with the towel cloth 1 of the present invention. Thus, it can be seen that a large twist is generally generated. The twist of the loop increases the hardness of the entire loop, and as a result, the feeling of hardness, hardness and thinness of the towel cloth 1 are increased, so that it is understood that the towel cloth 1 according to the present invention is superior in this respect.

    FIG. 9 (b) is a graph relatively showing the degree of fluff generation due to the number of washings, and the towel cloth made of a loop having a uniform height in comparison with the towel cloth 1 of the present invention. As a result, it can be seen that large fluff is generated. As the fluff of the loop becomes larger, it is entangled with other adjacent loops and the loop is fixed to the ground weave 5, so that the overall feeling of stiffness, hardness and thinness are increased. It can be seen that 1 is better.

    When washing, the height of adjacent loops of the toweling material is different, so there will be a low loop between the high loops, and the frequency and degree of contact between the high loops at the time of washing will be reduced, This is thought to be because the occurrence of rubbing and pulling of fibers with each other is reduced.

    FIG. 3 shows another embodiment of the toweling cloth 1 according to the present invention. The parts already described in FIG. 1 are denoted by the same reference numerals and the description thereof is omitted. In the case of FIG. 3A, the loops 7 and 9 of the two warps a and c constituting the pile 10 out of the warp 3 protrude only on the back side of the towel cloth 1. FIG. 3B shows the organization chart FM. Similarly, in FIG. 4A, contrary to FIG. 3, the loops 7 and 9 of the two warps a and c constituting the pile 10 out of the warp 3 protrude only on the front side of the towel cloth 1. An example is shown. FIG. 4B shows the organization chart FM.

    Since the formation form of each of the loops 7 and 9 of the pile 10 of the towel cloth 1 is completely arbitrary, the towel cloth 11 shown in FIG. 5 may be formed by combining the towel cloths 1 shown in FIGS. Is possible. In the towel 11 of FIG. 5, (a) is the surface of the towel 11, and (b) is the back surface of the towel 11. A region A surrounded by a-e-i-h and if-c-g in FIG. 5A is formed by the towel cloth 1 shown in FIG. 4, and a high loop of the pile 10 is formed on the surface side of the towel 11. A loop 7 as low as 9 is formed. In addition, a region B surrounded by ebfi and higd in FIG. 5B is formed by the towel cloth 1 shown in FIG. 3, and the pile 10 is formed on the back surface side of the towel 11. A high loop 9 and a low loop 7 are formed. In this manner, a towel 11 having a desired design can be manufactured by combining a plurality of arbitrary towel fabrics 1.

    The same applies to FIG. 6, which is an example in which a towel 11 having a floral pattern CA is formed using the towel cloth 1 shown in FIGS. 3 and 4. 6A shows the front surface, and FIG. 6B shows the back surface. The ground GL which is a portion other than the floral pattern CA of the towel 11 is the towel cloth 1 shown in FIG. 3, and loops 7 and 9 having different heights are provided on the back side of the towel cloth 1. The floral pattern CA portion is the towel cloth 1 shown in FIG. 4, and loops 7 and 9 having different heights are provided on the front side of the towel cloth 1.

    Furthermore, as the toweling cloth 1 according to the present invention, as shown in FIG. 7A, only the large loop 9 is formed by the warp a of the two warps a and c constituting the pile 10 among the warps 3, It is also possible to form the small loop 7 with the warp yarn c. The organization chart FM at this time is shown in FIG. In this case, as shown in FIG. 7C, the towel cloth 1 has a long pile made up of the large loops 9 and a short pile made up of the small loops 7 arranged alternately in the left-right direction in the drawing.

    Further, as shown in FIG. 8 (a), the towel fabric 1 according to the present invention is composed of two warp yarns a and c constituting the pile 10 of the warp yarn 3 and a ground weave 5 of the large loop 9 of the warp yarn a. The formation pitch P may be set to be twice (or more than twice) the formation pitch P / 2 with respect to the ground weave 5 of the small loop 7 of the warp yarn c. The organization chart at this time is shown in FIG. In this case, as shown in FIG. 8 (c), the towel fabric 1 has a long pile made up of large large loops 9 and a short pile made up of small loops 7. It becomes the form arranged in. In this case, the portion where the large loop 9 and the small loop 7 are in contact with each other at the portion of the ground weave 5 is every formation pitch P of the large loop 9 (or every least common multiple of the formation pitch of the large loop 9 and the small loop 7). Accordingly, the area where the large loop 9 and the small loop 7 are in contact with each other can be reduced, and more effects of mitigating the sensation of stickiness and hardness associated with washing can be expected.

    In the present invention, the loops adjacent to each other of the towel cloth 1 are formed with the heights L1 and L2 of at least one of the loops adjacent to the loop between the loop and the loop adjacent to the loop. As long as different shapes are set, the height of the loop may be two or more.

    The present invention can be used as a toweling material for manufacturing towels.

FIG. 1 shows one embodiment of a toweling cloth according to the present invention, in which (a) is a sectional view of the toweling cloth and (b) is an organization chart thereof. FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a pile portion of the towel cloth of FIG. FIG. 3 shows another embodiment of the toweling cloth according to the present invention, wherein (a) is a sectional view of the toweling cloth and (b) is a structure chart thereof. FIG. 4 shows still another embodiment of the toweling cloth according to the present invention, in which (a) is a sectional view of the toweling cloth and (b) is an organization chart thereof. FIG. 5 is a view showing an example of a towel made by combining the towel cloths of FIGS. 3 and 4, (a) is the surface of the towel, (b) is the back of the towel, (c) and (d) are respectively The figure which shows a part of towel surface. FIGS. 6A and 6B are diagrams showing an example of a towel prepared using the toweling cloth according to the present invention, in which FIG. 6A shows the front surface, and FIG. 6B shows the back surface. FIG. 7 shows still another embodiment of the toweling cloth according to the present invention, in which (a) is a sectional view of the toweling cloth, (b) is an organization chart thereof, and (c) is a perspective view of the toweling cloth. FIG. 8 shows still another embodiment of the towel cloth according to the present invention, wherein (a) is a sectional view of the towel cloth, (b) is an organization chart thereof, and (c) is a perspective view of the towel cloth. FIG. 9 is a graph comparing the towel fabric of the present invention and a conventional towel fabric according to the number of washings.

Explanation of symbols

1 ... Towel 2 ... Weft 3 ... Warn 5 ... Base weave 7,9 ... Loop

Claims (3)

Has a ground weave consisting of warp and weft,
From the ground weave, a towel fabric in which a plurality of loops are formed adjacent to each other on the front or back surface of the towel fabric using the warp or weft,
A towel cloth, wherein a height of at least one loop adjacent to a certain loop is set to be different from that of the certain loop in a loop and a loop adjacent to the certain loop. The loop consists of two types: a large loop with a high formation height and a small loop with a low formation height.
The toweling according to claim 1, wherein the formation height of the small loop is about ½ of the formation height of the large loop. The loop consists of two types: a large loop with a high formation height and a small loop with a low formation height.
The towel fabric according to claim 1, wherein a formation pitch of the large loop with respect to the ground weave is different from a formation pitch of the small loop with respect to the ground weave.

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