JP2022092086A - Towel product and manufacturing method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

To provide a towel product enabling printing with high resolution while maintaining flexibility, touch or the like of a towel cloth.SOLUTION: A towel product includes: a base cloth 11; a shirring surface 15 which is formed on one surface of the base cloth 11; and a pile surface 25 which is formed on the other surface of the base cloth 11. The shirring surface 15 is formed by performing shirring of the pile surface 25 composed of double or more loops. In the shirring surface 15, shirring is performed two or more times. In the base cloth 11, density of a ground warp is 48 to 60 in kujira reed yarn number and the density of the ground warp is 50 to 60 in the number of times of the implantation per inch.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

Description

The present invention relates to a towel product suitable for printing a pattern.

A large number of towel fabrics having a pile protruding in a loop shape have been conventionally provided as having excellent heat retention, moisture retention, and water absorption. If you want to show a pattern such as letters, figures, characters, etc. on a towel product, you can woven the dyed pile thread by inverting it on the front and back, or you can add the pattern by embroidery, but it is troublesome. And costly.

On the other hand, although the design is also printed on the towel product, when the pile surface is printed, uneven printing occurs depending on the orientation of the pile, and only low resolution printing is possible. Therefore, in order to print a pattern with high resolution, it is performed by performing a shirring process to cut the pile or raising the pile surface before printing. For example, in Patent Documents 1 to 3 below. It has been disclosed.

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However, even when the pile surface is shirred or brushed, it is inevitable that the resolution will be lower than that of printing on the plain weave portion. On the other hand, if one side or a part of the towel product is made of a plain woven portion for high resolution, the advantages of the towel cloth such as flexibility and touch are impaired.

The present invention has been made in view of such problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a towel product capable of printing at high resolution while maintaining the flexibility and feel of the towel cloth.

In order to solve the above problems, the towel product according to the present invention has a base cloth, a shirring surface formed on one surface of the base cloth, and a pile surface formed on the other surface of the base cloth. The shirring surface is characterized in that it is formed by shirring a pile surface composed of two or more loops.

Further, the method for manufacturing a towel product according to the present invention includes a base cloth, a shirring surface formed on one surface of the base cloth, and a pile surface formed on the other surface of the base cloth. In the manufacturing method of the above, a weaving step of weaving a double-sided pile towel cloth having a pile surface composed of two or more loops on at least one surface, and one pile surface composed of the double or more loops are used. The first shirring process for shirring, the washing and drying step for washing and drying the towel cloth after the first shirring step, and the shirring process for the shirred surface of the towel cloth after the washing and drying step are performed again. A method for manufacturing a towel product, comprising: a second shirring process for cutting and sewing, and a cutting and sewing step for cutting and sewing the towel cloth after the second shirring process.

According to the towel product according to the present invention, a pattern can be printed with high resolution on a shirred surface having high density and high smoothness.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a towel according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is an enlarged schematic cross-sectional view of the towel according to the embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a method for manufacturing a towel according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 4 is an enlarged schematic cross-sectional view during the production of the towel according to the embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 5 is an enlarged schematic cross-sectional view during the production of the towel according to the embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, a towel product suitable for printing according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. In this embodiment, a face towel suitable for high-resolution printing will be described. The towel 10 includes a base cloth 11 which is a ground structure, a shirring surface 15 which is a surface suitable for printing located on the front side, and a pile surface 25 which is located on the back side.

The shirring surface 15 is a surface obtained by cutting the upper part of the loop with a shirring machine with respect to the pile surface woven with pile. The shirring surface 15 is formed by cutting the upper part of a double loop (two-hair pile) composed of two pile warps (first pile warp 18, second pile warp 19).

The pile structure of the double loop is realized by double-passing two pile warps 18 and 19 through one pile heddle through which the pile warp for the front side is passed. Further, the shirring surface 15 is formed by cutting the pile surface of two hairs twice with a shirring machine.

In this way, by performing the shirring cut twice on the pile surface composed of the double loops, the smoothness and density of the surface of the shirring surface 15 are increased, so that printing with high resolution is performed. Can be done. Further, the pile surface 25 is composed of a loop of a third pile warp 28.

As described above, the repeating unit of the warp in the width direction of the towel 10 according to the present embodiment is the first ground warp 12 and the second ground warp 13 constituting the base cloth 11 and the first pile warp constituting the shirring surface 15. The unit is a set of five of the 18 and the second pile warp 19 and the third pile warp 28 constituting the pile surface 25.

In the present embodiment, the ground warp threads 12, 13 and the ground warp threads 14 and the pile warp threads 18, 19, 28 constituting the base cloth 11 are 100% cotton cotton threads. The ground warp yarns 12 and 13 use 40 count (English cotton count) twin yarns, the ground weft yarn 14 uses 30 count twin yarns, and the pile warp yarns 18, 19 and 28 use 40 count twin yarns.

The basis weight of the towel 10 is 373 g / m ² . Regarding the density of the ground warps 12 and 13 of the towel 10, the whale reed count indicating the number of warps (number of birds) per whale size (3.7879 cm) is 56. Regarding the density of the ground weft 14 of the towel 10, the number of wefts driven per inch (2.54 cm) is 53 to 54.

Of course, the yarn counts of the ground warp yarns 12, 13, the ground warp yarns 14, and the pile warp yarns 18, 19, 28 can be changed as appropriate, and the material and structure can also be changed. Further, the weaving density of the folds of the ground warp threads 12 and 13 and the ground weft thread 14 can be appropriately changed. However, the weaving densities of the ground warp threads 12 and 13 and the ground warp and weft 14 have a reed count of 48 to 60 for the ground warp threads 12 and 13 in order to ensure the soft texture of the towel while achieving high resolution of the printed pattern. It is desirable that the number of ground wefts 14 driven is 50 to 60. Further, more preferably, the reed counts of the ground warp threads 12 and 13 are 54 to 58, and the number of driven ground weft threads 14 is 52 to 56.

The structure of the towel 10 has been described above, and subsequently, a method for manufacturing the towel 10 will be described with reference to FIGS. 3 to 5. First, in S1, the above-mentioned yarn is used to weave a double-sided pile towel cloth at the above-mentioned density. FIG. 4A is an enlarged schematic cross-sectional view of the towel cloth of the double-sided pile after weaving by S1, and the upper side in the figure processed into the shirring surface 15 is the pile surface and pile of two hairs (double loops). The lower side of the surface 25 is a pile surface of one hair (single loop).

Further, FIG. 5 is an enlarged schematic cross-sectional view of the towel cloth of the double-sided pile after weaving by S1, more specifically than FIG. 4, including the ground warp threads 12 and 13 and the ground weft thread 14 of the base cloth 11. In the figure drawn, the upper side is the pile surface of double hairs (double loops).

Subsequently, in S2, the woven towel cloth is refined and bleached. In S3, the first shirring process is performed on the pile surface (two hairs) on one side (upper side), and the upper part of the double loop of the pile warp threads 18 and 19 is cut. After cutting, in S4, the towel cloth after the shirring process is washed and dried.

After the shirring process of S3, the tips of the cut pile warps 18 and 19 are unraveled and widened, and the cut surface becomes flat to some extent. The tips of the warp threads 18 and 19 become uneven, and the cut surface becomes uneven.

FIG. 4B is an enlarged schematic cross-sectional view of the towel cloth after being washed and dried in S4 after the first shirring process. As shown in the figure, after S4, the upper shirring surface subjected to the first shirring process has an uneven upper surface, but the tips of the cut pile warps 18 and 19 are unraveled and expanded.

In the present embodiment, in order to eliminate such unevenness, a second shirring process is subsequently performed in S5. In the second shirring process, the second shirring process, so-called makeup cutting, is performed while keeping the same cut position as the first shirring process without changing the cutting depth by the shirring machine.

After cutting the makeup, when the towel cloth is washed and dried in S6, the height of the shirring surface remains almost the same, and the tips of the cut pile warps 18 and 19 are aligned, and as shown in FIG. 2, the density is high. A shirring surface 15 with high smoothness is formed.

After washing and drying S6, cut into the width of the towel 10 and sew the ears with S7. Subsequently, in S8, the pattern is printed on the towel cloth and dried. Printing is performed using a reactive dye ink by an inkjet printer. Of course, as the printing method, other methods can be appropriately adopted, and for example, pigment or dye ink may be printed by the screen method.

After printing, the towel 10 is completed by washing and drying in S9, cutting the towel cloth into the size of the towel 10 in S10, and performing hem sewing.

The towel 10 according to the present embodiment has been described in detail above. According to the towel 10, the shirring surface 15 is formed on one side, and the shirring surface 15 is shirred twice and is double-layered. Since the pile surface of the loop is shirred to form a high-density, high-smoothness, high-resolution printing is possible.

The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and various modifications can be made without departing from the gist of the present invention. For example, the shape, size, material, and the like of the members constituting the towel according to the present embodiment can be changed as appropriate.

Further, in the above embodiment, the face towel has been described as an example of the towel product, but it can be applied to all towel products having a pile structure such as bath towels and towels.

Further, in the above embodiment, as for the shirring surface, the pile surface of the double loop (two hairs) is shirred twice, but the pile surface of the triple or more loops (three or more hairs) is shirred. You may do it, or you may perform shirring processing 3 times or more.

10 Towel 11 Base cloth 12 First ground warp 13 Second ground warp 14 Ground weft 15 Shirring surface 18 First pile warp 19 Second pile warp 25 Pile surface 28 Third pile warp

Claims (4)

It comprises a base fabric, a shirring surface formed on one surface of the base fabric, and a pile surface formed on the other surface of the base fabric.
The shirring surface is a towel product characterized by being formed by shirring a pile surface composed of two or more loops. The towel product according to claim 1, wherein the shirring surface is subjected to the shirring process twice or more. The towel product according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the base cloth has a density of ground warp yarns of 48 to 60 and a density of ground warp yarns of 50 to 60 per inch. In a method for manufacturing a towel product comprising a base cloth, a shirring surface formed on one surface of the base cloth, and a pile surface formed on the other surface of the base cloth.
A weaving process for weaving a double-sided pile towel fabric that has a pile surface consisting of two or more loops on at least one side.
The first shirring process of shirring one pile surface composed of the double or more loops, and
After the first shirring process, a washing / drying step of washing / drying the towel cloth and a washing / drying step of washing and drying the towel cloth.
A second shirring step of re-shirring the shirred surface of the towel cloth after the washing and drying step, and a second shirring step.
After the second shirring process, the cutting and sewing process of cutting and sewing the towel cloth and the process of cutting and sewing.
A method of manufacturing a towel product, which comprises.

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