JP2012062598A - Fiber tow guide roll unit, wet spinning machine having the same and carbon fiber manufacturing apparatus having the same - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide: a guide roll unit for a precursor fiber bundle giving a high-quality product and excellent in productivity, which leads to no increase in installation space, requires no time for exchanging work, prevents an increase in equipment cost, and can smoothly and stably guide even various types of the precursor fiber bundles having different volumes or the like; a wet spinning machine having the same; and a carbon fiber manufacturing apparatus having the same.SOLUTION: A guide roll unit (10) for guiding a plurality ot fiber tows (3) in a parallel manner through a grooved guide roll (11) for guiding the running fiber tow (3) composed of a number of filaments, comprises: an shaft part (13) having both ends in its axial direction rotatably supported through a bearing (12); at least one pair of brackets (14) provided in both ends of the shaft part so as to be extended from the shaft part; and a grooved guide roll (11) supported between the brackets, in which the shaft part is provided with two or more sets of the pair of brackets (14).

Description

  The present invention relates to a guide roll unit with a groove for stably guiding the fiber tow while maintaining the form of various fiber tows that travel, a spinning machine equipped with the unit, and a carbon fiber manufacturing apparatus. The present invention relates to a guide roll unit that can be easily switched to a grooved guide roll suitable for different fiber tows, a wet spinning machine equipped with the guide roll unit, and a carbon fiber manufacturing apparatus.

  The demand for carbon fiber has been increasing for several years, and is widely used for premium applications such as aircraft and sports, and general industrial applications such as civil engineering and construction. In order to meet these demands for expanding applications, there is a need for a significant increase in production capacity as well as cost reduction. As a means to increase the productivity of acrylic yarns that are carbon fiber precursors, the number of single fibers constituting the yarn is increased to increase the total fineness of the yarn. The most common practice is to improve productivity.

  In a normal production method, a plurality of rolls are used to guide and stretch a filament made of a large number of filaments after the spinning dope is introduced into a coagulation bath to obtain a coagulated yarn and then dried and densified. The yarn is sent using. However, when the total fineness of the yarn is increased or the number of constituent weights is increased, the distance between the adjacent weights on the roll becomes narrower, resulting in interference between the yarns and fiber mixing. Problems such as damage to the yarn, thread breakage, fluff and adhesion are hindered. At the same time, the physical properties of the carbon fiber that can cause unevenness in fineness due to unevenness in stretching between the subsequent stretching processes are also lowered.

  To prevent this, it is necessary to lengthen the width of each roll and widen the gap between adjacent weights. In that case, a large-scale equipment modification including the drive unit is required, and the roll is unnecessarily large. If the length is longer, it becomes difficult to deal with tow yarn introduction work and trouble handling, which causes a serious safety problem.

  Thus, for example, according to Patent Document 1 (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2002-161432), the swollen yarn is guided using a roll having a groove to produce a carbon fiber precursor acrylic yarn. The groove shape of the grooved roll at that time is defined as a specific shape. It is said that the yarn width and the uniform tow shape can be controlled very effectively by using the grooved roll having the groove of such a shape.

  On the other hand, such grooved rolls are used in various processes in the production of carbon fibers. For example, as disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 10-266024 (Patent Document 2) and Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2009-242993 (Patent Document 3), in a step of making an acrylic precursor fiber bundle flame resistant, a flameproof furnace In general, a folding roll made of a grooved roll is arranged at the entrance and exit of the fiber, and the precursor fiber bundle yarn is passed through the flameproofing furnace in a zigzag shape. In this way, by adopting a grooved roll and guiding the precursor fiber bundle into the groove of the roll, the yarns are separated and made independent, so that the treated yarns get entangled with each other, over the guide rolls, Preventing the occurrence of However, in such a method, when the number of filaments per one treated yarn increases, the size of the groove does not change, and particularly when the cross-sectional shape is circular, the maximum thickness of the yarn increases, and the yarn due to heat storage This causes a problem that cutting is likely to occur.

Even in these Patent Documents 2 and 3, by defining the groove shape of the grooved roll arranged on both sides of the flameproofing furnace, the average flatness and average of the acrylonitrile-based precursor fiber bundle having a substantially rectangular cross section Control the fineness to obtain a flame-resistant fiber bundle with a uniform progression of flame resistance, prevent the occurrence of fuzz and thread damage in the subsequent carbonization process, and obtain a high-quality, high-quality carbon fiber bundle It is said.

JP 2002-161432 A Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 10-266024 JP 2009-242993 A

  By the way, only the specific grooved roll which has a predetermined groove shape is distribute | arranged to the arrangement position of the grooved roll disclosed by the said patent documents 1-3. On the other hand, the fiber tow to be spun and the fiber tow processed in the post process are various, for example, the single fiber fineness of the filaments constituting the fiber tow is different, or the number of filaments is different. If fiber tows with different volumes are guided with the same type of grooved guide rolls, they will not have a groove shape that matches the type of fiber tow, so the fiber tow will rotate during running and twist into the tow with a large volume. If a grooved guide roll that matches the shape and number of grooves is used, the productivity of tows with a small volume will be reduced with the guide roll, and in the opposite case, the tow will protrude between adjacent grooves and the fiber tows will be entangled. As a result, fuzz and thread breakage occur frequently, and high quality products cannot be obtained.

  Nevertheless, replacing the grooved guide roll for each production type leads to an increase in work load, and a long time is required to change the type. In addition, if one lifting device is provided for each type of grooved guide roll and it is desired to change the product type by raising and lowering each grooved guide roll, a large facility such as a lifting device and installation space therefor are required. Naturally, this leads to high costs.

  The present invention was developed based on the above points, and does not lead to an increase in installation space, does not require labor for replacement, avoids an increase in equipment costs, and has a variety of fibers with different volumes. Provides a fiber tow guide roll unit with excellent productivity that can smoothly and stably guide even tows, and a wet spinning machine equipped with the guide roll unit and a carbon fiber production apparatus. The purpose is to do.

  In order to achieve such an object, a basic configuration of the present invention is a guide roll unit that guides a plurality of fiber tows in parallel through a grooved guide roll that guides a fiber tow composed of a large number of traveling filaments. The guide roll unit includes: a shaft portion in which both end portions in the axial direction are rotatably supported via bearings; and at least a pair of brackets extending from both end portions of the shaft portion to the shaft portion; The fiber tow guide roll unit has a grooved guide roll supported between the brackets, and two or more pairs of the pair of brackets are arranged on the shaft portion.

  According to a preferred aspect, a handle for rotating the shaft portion via a worm gear mechanism is disposed at one end of the shaft portion, and the handle can be provided with a rotation angle positioning means for the shaft portion. A preferable application of these guide roll units is that the fiber tow is a fiber bundle of carbon fiber precursors, the guide roll unit is arranged in a coagulation bath, or the guide roll unit is an outlet for introducing the fiber tow in a firing step. It is arranged in.

  Since the guide roll unit of the present invention has the above-described configuration, it is possible not only to rotate a shaft portion of the unit, but also to guide a plurality of types of fiber tows having different volumes, and the shaft portion. By appropriately changing the rotation angle, the thread toe height of the fiber tow can be arbitrarily changed, and a stable fiber tow guide becomes possible, greatly reducing the work load for changing the type and shortening the time for changing the type. Connect and improve productivity significantly. When a handle is used to rotate the shaft portion, if a worm gear mechanism is interposed between the handle and the shaft portion, no special positioning and fixing means for the roll position is required due to the characteristics of the worm gear.

It is a schematic block diagram of the flame-proofing process which shows typical embodiment of this invention. It is a schematic mechanism diagram of a guide roll unit showing a typical embodiment of the present invention. It is arrow sectional drawing along the III-III line | wire in FIG. It is a fragmentary sectional view which shows an example of the groove shape of a guide roll with a groove | channel.

Hereinafter, typical embodiments of the present invention will be specifically described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 schematically shows a flameproofing process to which the guide roll unit of the present invention is applied. The precursor fiber bundle yarn subjected to the flame resistance treatment in this flame resistance process may have any total fineness, for example, a polyacrylonitrile-based precursor fiber bundle having a total fineness of 3,000 dtex or more. In particular, a polyacrylonitrile-based precursor fiber bundle having a total fineness of 3,000 to 600,000 dtex is preferable from the viewpoint of productivity. The polyacrylonitrile-based precursor fiber bundle is flameproofed at 200 to 300 ° C., and then carbonized at a temperature exceeding 600 ° C. to produce a carbon fiber bundle. According to Patent Document 3, the cross-sectional shape of the precursor fiber bundle yarn subjected to the flameproofing treatment is kept substantially rectangular. Here, “substantially rectangular” refers to a shape surrounded by two sets of substantially parallel straight lines, and the corners may be curved.

In order to keep the cross-sectional shape of the precursor fiber bundle yarn substantially rectangular, as shown in FIG. 1, the precursor fiber bundle yarn 3 is reciprocated in a zigzag manner, for example, a plurality of times in the horizontal direction, as shown in FIG. A groove member may be disposed between the flameproofing furnace 1 and the folding roll 2 through a zigzag.
In the present invention, a guide roll unit 10 including two or more sets of grooved guide rolls 11 as shown in FIG. 2 is employed as the groove member. A guide roll unit 10 shown in FIG. 2 includes a rotating shaft portion 13 that is rotatably supported by bearings 12 at both ends. A flat plate-like bracket 14 is fixed to each of both end portions in the axial direction of the rotating shaft portion 13 in the inner portion of the pair of bearings 12. The rotating shaft 13 passes through the center of each of the pair of brackets 14, and each bracket 14 is divided into right and left with the rotating shaft 13 interposed therebetween. The shaft ends of the pair of left and right roll support shafts 15 are supported between the respective front end portions of the two divided brackets facing each other. A grooved guide roll 11 is attached to the roll spindle 15 so as not to rotate or to rotate freely.

  In the present embodiment, an example is shown in which one bracket 14 is fixed to each end of the rotary shaft 13. However, each bracket 14 is not necessarily one, and is composed of two or more. In addition, the rotating shaft portion 13 is not fixed so as to penetrate the center of one bracket 14, and only one end of each of the two or more brackets 14 is cantilevered, or they are supported. It can also be combined. Furthermore, the bracket 14 does not necessarily have a plate shape, and may have a rod shape.

Further, according to the illustrated example, a handle 18 is attached to one end of the rotating shaft portion 13 via a worm gear mechanism 17, and two or more of the grooved guide rolls 11 are centered on the rotating shaft portion 13 by this handle operation. Rotate the desired angle. The rotation angle of the grooved guide roll 11 is arbitrarily determined by the worm gear mechanism 17. By adjusting the rotation angle of the grooved guide roll 11, the yarn path height of the fiber tow 3 guided by the grooved guide roll 11 is adjusted.

  The shape of the guide groove formed in the grooved guide roll 11 is varied according to the volume of the precursor fiber bundle yarn 3 of different varieties for each grooved guide roll 11. Therefore, according to Patent Document 1, in order to keep the cross-sectional shape of the precursor fiber bundle yarn 3 in a flat and substantially rectangular sheet shape in FIG. 4, the ratio of the width a of the groove top portion to the width b of the groove bottom portion. b / a is preferably set to 0.75 ≦ b / a ≦ 0.85. When b / a is less than 0.6, the groove shape becomes nearly V-shaped and cannot be maintained in a substantially rectangular sheet shape. When b / a exceeds 0.9, the slope of the slope of the mountain forming the groove is inclined. Is larger than the groove bottom, and the end of the traveling precursor fiber bundle yarn 3 is highly likely to be broken, so that the shape maintenance of the yarn is lowered.

  Further, if the groove depth h is less than 0.2 times the width a of the groove top, a part of the running yarn may get over the groove, and the adjacent yarn may get tangled and cause fluffing. In addition, when the groove depth h exceeds 0.5 times the width a of the groove top, the ratio of the cross-sectional area of the substantially rectangular sheet to the groove cross-sectional area is reduced, which increases the processing cost and is economical. Absent. Therefore, the groove depth h is preferably in the range of 0.3 to 0.4 times the width a of the groove top. Further, regarding the roundness of the groove bottom corner, the radius R is preferably in the range of 1.3 × (ab) ≦ R ≦ 1.7 × (ab).

  An example of the arrangement relationship between the guide roll unit 10 and the folding roll 2 with respect to the flameproofing furnace 1 in the present invention will be described with reference to the above-mentioned Patent Document 3. As shown in FIG. The body fiber bundle yarn 3 is changed in direction by the folding roll 2 which is a flat roll through the guide roll unit 10 and enters the flameproofing furnace again.

  Here, as shown in FIG. 1, when the guide roll unit 10 is on the entry side of the folding roll 2, the distance between the guide roll unit 10 and the folding roll is set to 250 mm or more. This interval is a distance (center distance) between the center of the grooved guide roll 11 of the guide roll unit 10 and the center of the folding roll. Since the precursor fiber bundle yarn 3 has a shape along the groove when the guide roll unit 10 passes the grooved guide roll 11, when the gap between the grooved guide roll 11 and the folding roll 2 is less than 250 mm, the yarn is short. There is a possibility that the folded roll will be reached in a state where the width of is narrowed and then put into the flameproofing furnace 1. The center distance is more preferably 300 mm or more. The center-to-center distance may be long as long as the grooved guide roll 11 is disposed outside the flameproofing furnace 1, but is preferably 550 mm or less.

  Now, when the volume of the precursor fiber bundle yarn 3 is changed, the grooved guide roll 11 of the guide roll unit 10 arranged as described above is switched. This switching is performed by operating the handle 18. When the handle 18 is manually rotated, the rotary shaft portion 13 is rotated via the worm gear mechanism 17 and the bracket 14 fixed to the rotary shaft portion 13 is rotated by a desired angle. The grooved guide roll 11 selected at this time matches the volume of the precursor fiber bundle yarn 3 to be changed, and the rotation angle of the grooved guide roll 11 is determined by the selected grooved guide roll 11. The angle is suitable for guiding the bundle 3 and is automatically positioned and fixed at the position where the rotation operation is stopped due to the characteristics of the worm gear mechanism.

The grooved guide roll 11 can also be arranged on the exit side of the folding roll 2. In this case, the distance between the centers of the grooved guide roll and the folding roll 2 is 450 mm or more.
00 mm or less is preferable. The tension applied to the precursor fiber bundle yarn 3 conveyed in the flameproofing furnace 1 is reduced by the generation of yarn fluff, the quality and tensile strength of the carbon fiber bundle obtained in the subsequent carbonization process, or the flame resistance. In order to obtain a desired flame-resistant fiber bundle in a stable flame-proofing process in consideration of the increase in fluff due to single yarn breakage in the forming process and the occurrence of winding on the roll, the tension applied to the yarn is 1 × preferably set to ^{10 -1 ~1.7 × 10 -1 g /} dtex.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Flame resistance furnace 2 Folding roll 3 Precursor fiber bundle thread (fiber tow)
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Guide roll unit 11 Groove guide roll 12 Bearing 13 Rotating shaft part 14 (Plate shape) Bracket 15 Roll support shaft 17 Worm gear mechanism 18 Handle

Claims (5)

A guide roll unit that guides a plurality of fiber tows in parallel through a grooved guide roll that guides a fiber tow composed of a large number of traveling filaments,
The guide roll unit is
A shaft portion in which both end portions in the axial direction are rotatably supported via bearings;
At least a pair of brackets extending from both ends of the shaft portion to the shaft portion;
A grooved guide roll supported between the brackets;
A fiber tow guide roll unit, wherein two or more pairs of the pair of brackets are arranged on the shaft portion.   The guide roll unit according to claim 1, wherein a handle for rotating the shaft portion via a worm gear mechanism is disposed at one end of the shaft portion.   The guide roll unit according to claim 2, wherein the handle includes rotation angle positioning means for the shaft portion.   The wet spinning machine in which the fiber tow according to claim 1 is a fiber bundle of a carbon fiber precursor, and the guide roll unit is arranged in a coagulation bath.   The carbon fiber manufacturing apparatus by which the said guide roll unit of Claim 1 is distribute | arranged to the lead-out inlet of the said fiber tow of a baking process.

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