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- D04—BRAIDING; LACE-MAKING; KNITTING; TRIMMINGS; NON-WOVEN FABRICS
- D04H—MAKING TEXTILE FABRICS, e.g. FROM FIBRES OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; FABRICS MADE BY SUCH PROCESSES OR APPARATUS, e.g. FELTS, NON-WOVEN FABRICS; COTTON-WOOL; WADDING ; NON-WOVEN FABRICS FROM STAPLE FIBRES, FILAMENTS OR YARNS, BONDED WITH AT LEAST ONE WEB-LIKE MATERIAL DURING THEIR CONSOLIDATION
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- D04H1/58—Non-woven fabrics formed wholly or mainly of staple fibres or like relatively short fibres from fleeces or layers composed of fibres without existing or potential cohesive properties by applying, incorporating or activating chemical or thermoplastic bonding agents, e.g. adhesives
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- D04—BRAIDING; LACE-MAKING; KNITTING; TRIMMINGS; NON-WOVEN FABRICS
- D04H—MAKING TEXTILE FABRICS, e.g. FROM FIBRES OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; FABRICS MADE BY SUCH PROCESSES OR APPARATUS, e.g. FELTS, NON-WOVEN FABRICS; COTTON-WOOL; WADDING ; NON-WOVEN FABRICS FROM STAPLE FIBRES, FILAMENTS OR YARNS, BONDED WITH AT LEAST ONE WEB-LIKE MATERIAL DURING THEIR CONSOLIDATION
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- D04H1/40—Non-woven fabrics formed wholly or mainly of staple fibres or like relatively short fibres from fleeces or layers composed of fibres without existing or potential cohesive properties
- D04H1/58—Non-woven fabrics formed wholly or mainly of staple fibres or like relatively short fibres from fleeces or layers composed of fibres without existing or potential cohesive properties by applying, incorporating or activating chemical or thermoplastic bonding agents, e.g. adhesives
- D04H1/593—Non-woven fabrics formed wholly or mainly of staple fibres or like relatively short fibres from fleeces or layers composed of fibres without existing or potential cohesive properties by applying, incorporating or activating chemical or thermoplastic bonding agents, e.g. adhesives to layered webs
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- B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
- B05B—SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
- B05B7/00—Spraying apparatus for discharge of liquids or other fluent materials from two or more sources, e.g. of liquid and air, of powder and gas
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- B05B7/08—Spray pistols; Apparatus for discharge with separate outlet orifices, e.g. to form parallel jets, i.e. the axis of the jets being parallel, to form intersecting jets, i.e. the axis of the jets converging but not necessarily intersecting at a point
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- This invention relates to methods and apparatus for spraying liquids, especially easily coagulable liquids, such as aqueous dispersions of rubber, and the invention is especially useful in the manufacture of sheet material of unwoven fibers held united at their crossing positions in reticulated sheet form by a flexible agglutinant, as described in the copending application of Carl H. Heldenbrand, Serial No. 557,810, filed August 18, 1931, for Cushioning bodies and method of producing the same.
- Fig. 1 is an elevation, with parts broken away and sectioned, of apparatus constructed according to and embodying the invention in its preferred form.
- Fig. 2 is a section taken along the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.
- Fig. 3 is an enlarged elevation, with parts broken away, of the left hand spraying device of Fig. 1, and illustrating its operation.
- a conveyor belt 10 for supporting and advancing a layer A of the material upon which it is desired to deposit the liquid, the layer illus trated being of unwoven fibers arranged in crossing relation and upon which it is desired to deposit an aqueous dispersion of rubber to unite the fibers at their crossing positions to form a flexible, reticulated sheet.
- the belt 10 is mounted an open-bottomed, chamber-defining structure 11 arranged substantially to confine a space directly above and accessible to the layer A.
- the wall of the chamber preferably at both ends thereof, is apertured at 12, 12 for the admission of the liquid in spray form, and for limiting the extent of the liquiddeposit to the width of the layer A, the chamber is provided with end troughs 13, 13 adapted to catch the superfluous liquid.
- troughs 14, 14 are provided at the side walls of the chamber to catch the liquid that accumulates and flows in contact with the walls, so that substantially the only liquid deposited upon the layer is that of the free mist of the liquid sprayed into the chamber. Suitable drains (not shown) may be provided for the troughs.
- spray devices are provided at the chamber apertures 12, 12.
- Each of these spray devices comprises a supporting bracket 15 in which is mounted a horizontally disposed air jet 16 connected through a valve 1'? to a suitable source (not shown) for delivering a continuous stream of air horizontally into the chamber.
- a nozzle 18 having its oriflced tip lowermost and being connected through a valve 19 to a fluid supply tank 20 for gravity feed of the liquid to the nozzle.
- a fluid supply tank 20 for gravity feed of the liquid to the nozzle.
- Each tank preferably is provided with a suitable motor driven agitator 21. The agitators of the two tanks may be driven together as shown.
- Each of the air jets 16, 16 and liquid nozzles 18, 18 preferably is adjustably mounted in its supporting bracket, as by means of clamps 22, 22 and 23, 23, respectively, so that these parts may be relatively positioned for most effective operation.
- each spray device is mounted in such vertically spaced relation to the horizontal flow of air from the jet 16 that the tip of the nozzle is substantially clear of the air flow.
- the objectionable drying action of the air flow at the tip of the liquid-supplying nozzle that is present in prior spraying devices is thereby substantially avoided in the apparatus herein described.
- the liquid may be permitted to flow from the nozzles 18, 18 at any desired rate, but preferably the valves 19, 19 are adjusted to cause the liquid to flow in successive independent drops which, when they strike the horizontal streams of air from the jets 16, 16, are minutely broken up by the forces of the airiflow and the liquid is delivered into the chamber in the form of mist.
- This is desirable where the structure to be sprayed is a 110 layer of crossing fibers of widely open mesh inasmuch as the large number and well distributed character of the liquid particles facilitates the chance depositing of an adequate amount of the liquid at the small zones of the crossing positions of the fibers to unite them with sufficient tenacity for subsequent manipulation of the reticulated shoot.
- the smell sod lipid liquid psl'tiolos do Variations may be resorted to without departing from the scope of the following claim.
- the method of producing a reticulated sheet of unwoven fibers united at their crossing positions by a flexible agglutinant which comprises disposing the fibers in a loosely matted. layer upon a supporting suriooe, dropping the spplutioopi in. li uid form in independent drops through on ole space, directing an air current in a direction to intercept the falling drops and to create a fine mist of the liquid in a zone above the supported fibers, and permitting the particles of the mist to be deposited upon the fibers substantially by gravity alone.
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0d. 1934- E. B. SUTHERLAND 1,978,034
METHOD FOR SPRAYING LIQUIDS Filed Sept. 10, 1932 Patented Oct. 23,1934
1,978,034 METHOD FOR SPRAYING LIQUIDS Eugene B. Sutherland, Akron, Ohio, assignor to The B. F. Goodrich Company, New York, N. Y., a corporation of New York Application September 10, 1932, Serial No. 632,557
1 Claim.
This invention relates to methods and apparatus for spraying liquids, especially easily coagulable liquids, such as aqueous dispersions of rubber, and the invention is especially useful in the manufacture of sheet material of unwoven fibers held united at their crossing positions in reticulated sheet form by a flexible agglutinant, as described in the copending application of Carl H. Heldenbrand, Serial No. 557,810, filed August 18, 1931, for Cushioning bodies and method of producing the same.
It has been found that where such a liquid as an aqueous dispersion of rubber is sprayed by means of such prior devices as comprise a liquid feeding nozzle and an air jet directed to blow the liquid from the nozzle, the liquid rapidly coagulates at the nozzle, due to the drying influence of the air blast, and the nozzle becomes obstructed, causing a lack of uniformity in the delivery of the liquid and requiring frequent cleaning of the nozzle.
It is an object of this invention to provide improved spraying procedure and apparatus with avoidance of the above difliculties, and it is a further object of the invention to provide procedure and apparatus especially well suited to the effective depositing of a liquid agglutlnant upon a layer of crossed, unwoven fibers to unite them in reticulated sheet form for such purposes as are described in the said copending application.
These and further objects will be apparent from the following description, reference being had to theaccompanying drawing, in which:
Fig. 1 is an elevation, with parts broken away and sectioned, of apparatus constructed according to and embodying the invention in its preferred form.
Fig. 2 is a section taken along the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is an enlarged elevation, with parts broken away, of the left hand spraying device of Fig. 1, and illustrating its operation.
In a suitable frame structure, as shown, is
mounted a conveyor belt 10 for supporting and advancing a layer A of the material upon which it is desired to deposit the liquid, the layer illus trated being of unwoven fibers arranged in crossing relation and upon which it is desired to deposit an aqueous dispersion of rubber to unite the fibers at their crossing positions to form a flexible, reticulated sheet.
Above the belt 10 is mounted an open-bottomed, chamber-defining structure 11 arranged substantially to confine a space directly above and accessible to the layer A. The wall of the chamber, preferably at both ends thereof, is apertured at 12, 12 for the admission of the liquid in spray form, and for limiting the extent of the liquiddeposit to the width of the layer A, the chamber is provided with end troughs 13, 13 adapted to catch the superfluous liquid. Preferably also, troughs 14, 14 are provided at the side walls of the chamber to catch the liquid that accumulates and flows in contact with the walls, so that substantially the only liquid deposited upon the layer is that of the free mist of the liquid sprayed into the chamber. Suitable drains (not shown) may be provided for the troughs.
For creating a mist of the liquid within the chamber, spray devices are provided at the chamber apertures 12, 12. Each of these spray devices comprises a supporting bracket 15 in which is mounted a horizontally disposed air jet 16 connected through a valve 1'? to a suitable source (not shown) for delivering a continuous stream of air horizontally into the chamber.
Vertically disposed in the bracket is a nozzle 18 having its oriflced tip lowermost and being connected through a valve 19 to a fluid supply tank 20 for gravity feed of the liquid to the nozzle. Each tank preferably is provided with a suitable motor driven agitator 21. The agitators of the two tanks may be driven together as shown.
Each of the air jets 16, 16 and liquid nozzles 18, 18 preferably is adjustably mounted in its supporting bracket, as by means of clamps 22, 22 and 23, 23, respectively, so that these parts may be relatively positioned for most effective operation. it
The liquid nozzle 18 of each spray device is mounted in such vertically spaced relation to the horizontal flow of air from the jet 16 that the tip of the nozzle is substantially clear of the air flow. The objectionable drying action of the air flow at the tip of the liquid-supplying nozzle that is present in prior spraying devices is thereby substantially avoided in the apparatus herein described.
The liquid may be permitted to flow from the nozzles 18, 18 at any desired rate, but preferably the valves 19, 19 are adjusted to cause the liquid to flow in successive independent drops which, when they strike the horizontal streams of air from the jets 16, 16, are minutely broken up by the forces of the airiflow and the liquid is delivered into the chamber in the form of mist. This is desirable where the structure to be sprayed is a 110 layer of crossing fibers of widely open mesh inasmuch as the large number and well distributed character of the liquid particles facilitates the chance depositing of an adequate amount of the liquid at the small zones of the crossing positions of the fibers to unite them with sufficient tenacity for subsequent manipulation of the reticulated shoot. The smell sod lipid liquid psl'tiolos do Variations may be resorted to without departing from the scope of the following claim.
I claim:
The method of producing a reticulated sheet of unwoven fibers united at their crossing positions by a flexible agglutinant which comprises disposing the fibers in a loosely matted. layer upon a supporting suriooe, dropping the spplutioopi in. li uid form in independent drops through on ole space, directing an air current in a direction to intercept the falling drops and to create a fine mist of the liquid in a zone above the supported fibers, and permitting the particles of the mist to be deposited upon the fibers substantially by gravity alone.
EUGENE B. SUTHERLAND.
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US2785090A (en) * | 1953-09-21 | 1957-03-12 | Du Pont | Fabric coated with poly-p-xylene |
US3236586A (en) * | 1959-10-09 | 1966-02-22 | Du Pont | Process of solvent bonding napped textile fabric |
US3475198A (en) * | 1965-04-07 | 1969-10-28 | Ransburg Electro Coating Corp | Method and apparatus for applying a binder material to a prearranged web of unbound,non-woven fibers by electrostatic attraction |
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US2785090A (en) * | 1953-09-21 | 1957-03-12 | Du Pont | Fabric coated with poly-p-xylene |
US3236586A (en) * | 1959-10-09 | 1966-02-22 | Du Pont | Process of solvent bonding napped textile fabric |
US3475198A (en) * | 1965-04-07 | 1969-10-28 | Ransburg Electro Coating Corp | Method and apparatus for applying a binder material to a prearranged web of unbound,non-woven fibers by electrostatic attraction |
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