US20160122910A1 - Installation for producing a textile web-shaped material and method for producing a textile web-shaped material - Google Patents

Installation for producing a textile web-shaped material and method for producing a textile web-shaped material Download PDF

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US20160122910A1
US20160122910A1 US14/891,248 US201414891248A US2016122910A1 US 20160122910 A1 US20160122910 A1 US 20160122910A1 US 201414891248 A US201414891248 A US 201414891248A US 2016122910 A1 US2016122910 A1 US 2016122910A1
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  • the invention relates to an installation for producing a textile web-shaped material according to the precharacterizing part of claim 1 and to a method for producing a textile web-shaped material according to claim 9 .
  • Installations for producing a textile web-shaped material comprise at least one device for parallelizing fibers and at least one transport device for transporting the textile web-shaped material in transport direction. Further, such installations preferably comprise consolidating devices for consolidating the textile web-shaped material. However, for different textile web-shaped materials, use is made of different installations comprising different devices. This makes it necessary e.g. to modify these installations and to exchange various devices.
  • the invention advantageously provides that at least one device for flow-through treatment of the textile web-shaped material with a gaseous medium, at least one device for applying a binding agent to the textile web-shaped material, and at least one transport deflection device are provided, wherein said transport deflection device can deflect the textile web-shaped material around said device for flow-through treatment and/or around said device for applying a binding agent.
  • the installation is very flexible.
  • the installation can be used as an installation comprising a device for flow-through treatment of the textile web-shaped material or, alternatively, as an installation comprising a device for applying a binding agent, or, by way of a further alternative, as an installation comprising both said device for flow-through treatment of the textile web-shaped material and the device for applying a binding agent.
  • the installation can be quickly adapted to the demands.
  • the device for flow-through treatment of the textile web-shaped material can be arranged in transport direction behind the device for applying a binding agent.
  • the at least one transport deflection device can be adjustable in such a manner that the textile web-shaped material can be deflected around the device for applying a binding agent and can be passed through the device for flow-through treatment of the textile web-shaped material, wherein the device for flow-through treatment of the textile web-shaped material can be used as a thermobonding device.
  • the at least one transport deflection device can be adjustable in such a manner that the textile web-shaped material can be passed both through the device for flow-through treatment and through the device for applying a binding agent, wherein the device for flow-through treatment of the textile web-shaped material can be used as a dryer.
  • the device for flow-through treatment of the textile web-shaped material can be used, on the one hand, as a thermobonding device if the textile web-shaped material is guided around the device for applying a binding agent, and, on the other hand, if the textile web-shaped material is passed through the device for applying a binding agent, the device for flow-through treatment of the textile web-shaped material, which is arranged therebehind, can be used as a dryer.
  • thermobonding device is a device wherein, during the flow-through treatment e.g. by means of air, the textile web-shaped material passed through this device will be heated to a temperature above the melting temperature of individual fibers existing in the textile web-shaped material, so that the nonwoven will be consolidated in the process.
  • the device for flow-through treatment of the web-shaped material can comprise at least one deflection device by which the textile web-shaped material treated by said device can be guided, for cooling, out of the device or, alternatively, can be deflected to the device for curing.
  • the textile web-shaped material can be transported without cooling from the device for flow-through treatment to the device for curing.
  • a heating channel can be arranged through which the web-shaped material can be transported with the aid of the transport device.
  • the device for flow-through treatment can also be arranged in transport direction before the device for applying a binding agent, wherein the device for flow-through treatment of the textile web-shaped material can be used as a thermobonding device.
  • both the device for flow-through treatment and the device for applying a binding agent can be passed by with the aid of the transport deflection device, i.e. the textile web-shaped material can be deflected both around the device for flow-through treatment and around the device for applying a binding agent.
  • the invention advantageously provides a method for producing a textile web-shaped material comprising the following method steps:
  • the textile web-shaped material can be passed through the device for flow-through treatment of the textile web-shaped material and can be deflected around the device for applying a binding agent, wherein the device for flow-through treatment of the textile web-shaped material is usable and respectively is used as a thermobonding device.
  • the textile web-shaped material can be guided through the device for applying a binding agent and be guided around the device for flow-through treatment of the textile web-shaped material.
  • the textile web-shaped material can be passed through the device for flow-through treatment of the textile web-shaped material and then through the device for applying a binding agent, wherein the device for flow-through treatment of the textile web-shaped material is used as a thermobonding device for preconsolidation.
  • the textile web-shaped material can be passed through the device for applying a binding agent and then through the device for flow-through treatment of the textile web-shaped material, wherein the device for flow-through treatment of the textile web-shaped material is used as a dryer.
  • the textile web-shaped material treated by the device for flow-through treatment of the textile web-shaped material can be guided, with the aid of a deflection device, to a device for curing, wherein the textile web-shaped material is passed, preferably without cooling, to the device for curing.
  • the textile web-shaped material treated by the device for flow-through treatment of the textile web-shaped material can be guided, with the aid of a deflection device, directly out of the device.
  • the device for parallelizing fibers can be a carding unit or a carding machine.
  • the device for flow-through treatment of the textile web-shaped material can be a thermobonding device or a dryer.
  • the device for applying a binding agent can be a foulard.
  • the transport device can comprise one or a plurality of transport belts.
  • the device for flow-through treatment of the textile web-shaped material by a gaseous treatment medium comprises at least one drum having a gas-permeable drum casing, wherein the drum casing is at least partially covered by the textile web-shaped material to be transported in the circumferential direction of the drum, and wherein a vacuum can be applied in the interior of the drum.
  • a treatment chamber at least partially surrounding the drum wherein, upon application of the vacuum in the interior of the drum, at least a part of the gaseous treatment medium will flow from the treatment chamber through the textile web-shaped material arranged on the drum casing and through the gas-permeable drum casing into the interior of the drum.
  • FIG. 1 shows an installation for producing a textile web-shaped material
  • FIG. 2 schematically shows the passage of the textile web-shaped material through the installation according to FIG. 1 ,
  • FIG. 3 schematically shows an alternative passage of the textile web-shaped material through the installation according to FIG. 1 ,
  • FIG. 4 shows an alternative installation for producing a textile web-shaped material
  • FIG. 5 shows a further alternative installation for producing a textile web-shaped material
  • FIG. 6 shows a device for flow-through treatment of the textile web-shaped material.
  • FIG. 1 shows an installation 1 for producing a textile web-shaped material.
  • fibers will be fed from a fiber supply device 2 into a device 4 for parallelization of fibers.
  • the device 4 for parallelization of fibers preferably is a carding unit or a carding machine.
  • the fibers will be parallelized.
  • the textile web-shaped material 7 will be conveyed, via transport devices 6 and 8 which in the illustrated exemplary embodiment are transport belts, to a device 10 for applying a binding agent.
  • the device 10 for applying a binding agent is a foulard.
  • Said transport device 8 is preferably deflectable by means of a transport deflection device 9 .
  • the transport device 8 i.e. the transport belt, can be adjusted.
  • the textile web-shaped material 7 can be introduced into the device 10 for applying a binding agent or, alternately, be guided around the device 10 for applying a binding agent.
  • the textile web-shaped material 7 will be guided via the transport device 8 to the transport device 12 . In the illustrated embodiment, this is represented in interrupted lines.
  • the textile web-shaped material 7 is passed, via transport device 8 , to the device 10 for applying a binding agent because the transport device 8 has been adjusted with the aid of the transport deflection device in such a manner that the textile web-shaped material 7 will be guided directly to the device 10 for applying a binding agent.
  • the textile web-shaped material 7 After application of the binding agent within the device 10 for applying a binding agent, the textile web-shaped material 7 will be passed into a contact or cylinder dryer 15 .
  • the contact or cylinder dryer 15 comprises a plurality of heated cylinders around which the textile web-shaped material will be guided for drying.
  • the transport deflection device 9 has been adjusted in such a manner that the device 10 for applying a binding agent will be passed by, also the textile web-shaped material 7 will be deflected around the contact or cylinder dryer 15 .
  • the textile web-shaped material 7 will be guided via transport device 12 around the device 10 for applying a binding agent and the contact or cylinder dryer 15 .
  • the textile web-shaped material 7 After the textile web-shaped material 7 has passed through the contact or cylinder dryer 15 , the textile web-shaped material 7 will be guided via a transport device 16 to a device 19 for flow-through treatment of the textile web-shaped material 7 by a gaseous medium. Also in the case where the textile web-shaped material 7 has been deflected around the device 10 for applying a binding agent and the contact or cylinder dryer 15 , the textile web-shaped material 7 will be guided via transport device 16 to said device 19 for flow-through treatment of the textile web-shaped material 7 by a gaseous medium.
  • the device 19 for flow-through treatment comprises a casing 24 .
  • a drum 18 Internally of casing 24 , a drum 18 is arranged.
  • Drum 18 is gas-permeable.
  • the gas-permeability of drum 18 is effected by perforations in the drum casing.
  • Drum 18 can be rotatable around the drum axis 29 .
  • Drum axis 29 is supported in casing 24 .
  • Drum 18 is surrounded by a treatment chamber 26 .
  • a gaseous medium preferably air, is arranged.
  • the textile web-shaped material 7 will be entered, via a deflection roll 20 , into treatment chamber 26 and will be guided over at least a part of the drum casing.
  • the textile web-shaped material 7 will be transported in transport direction 70 .
  • the textile web-shaped material 7 When leaving the treatment chamber 26 , the textile web-shaped material 7 will be deflected around a further deflection roller 22 and be conveyed further in transport direction 70 by means of a transport
  • a gaseous medium preferably air
  • a vacuum in the drum interior 28 of drum 18 , there is preferably applied a vacuum so that the gaseous medium will be guided from treatment chamber 26 through the textile web-shaped material 7 and into the perforated drum casing of drum 18 into the interior. In this manner, the gaseous medium will flow through the textile web-shaped material 7 .
  • the gaseous medium is heated so that the textile web-shaped material 7 can be dried and/or that even melt fibers arranged in the textile web-shaped material can be caused to melt.
  • the device 19 for flow-through treatment of the textile web-shaped material is used as a dryer. Due to the arrangement of the drum 18 and the deflecting roll 20 and respectively 22 , the illustrated device 19 for flow-through treatment which is used as a dryer can also be referred to as an omega dryer.
  • the textile web-shaped material 7 After the textile web-shaped material 7 has been guided out of the device 19 for flow-through treatment of the textile web-shaped material, the textile web-shaped material 7 will be rolled onto a drum within a rolling-up device 30 . Using the installation according to FIG. 1 , a nonwoven can be produced.
  • the device 19 for flow-through treatment of the textile web-shaped material is used as a thermobonding device.
  • a textile web-shaped material 7 comprising melt fibers.
  • the temperature of the gaseous medium flowing through the textile web-shaped material 7 in the device 19 for flow-through treatment of the textile web-shaped material is selected in such a manner that the melt fibers arranged in the textile web-shaped material will melt and will thus consolidate the textile web-shaped material into a nonwoven.
  • FIG. 2 there is once more schematically illustrated the passage of the textile web-shaped material 7 which is guided through the device 10 for applying a binding agent and the device 19 for flow-through treatment of the textile web-shaped material.
  • the transport deflection device 9 is adjusted to the effect that the textile web-shaped material 7 will be guided both through the device 10 for applying a binding agent and the device 19 for flow-through treatment of the textile web-shaped material.
  • FIG. 3 Illustrated in FIG. 3 is an alternative where the transport deflection device 9 has been adjusted in such a manner that the device 10 for applying the binding agent will be passed by and the textile web-shaped material 7 will be directly guided to the device 19 for flow-through treatment.
  • the transport deflection device 9 has been adjusted in such a manner that the device 10 for applying the binding agent will be passed by and the textile web-shaped material 7 will be directly guided to the device 19 for flow-through treatment.
  • FIG. 2 and in FIG. 3 not all of the cylinders 14 of the contact or cylinder dryer 15 are shown. Further, not all of the elements of the device 19 for flow-through treatment are shown.
  • the contact or cylinder dryer 15 does not need to be provided.
  • the textile web-shaped material 7 can be guided directly from the device 10 for applying a binding agent into the device 19 for flow-through treatment.
  • FIG. 4 an installation for producing a textile web-shaped material 7 is shown wherein the device 19 for flow-through treatment is arranged in transport direction 70 before the device 10 for applying a binding agent.
  • the installation 1 according to FIG. 4 comprises, as is the case also in the installation 1 according to FIG. 1 , a fiber supply device 2 , a device 4 for parallelizing fibers, a device 19 for flow-through treatment, a device 10 for applying a binding agent, a contact or cylinder dryer 15 and a rolling-up device 30 .
  • the installation 1 comprises, in transport direction 70 behind the contact or cylinder dryer 15 , a flow-through dryer 40 having two drums.
  • the fibers supplied by the fiber supply device 2 will be parallelized by means of the device 4 for parallelizing fibers which preferably is a carding unit or a carding machine.
  • the thus produced pile can be guided by a transport device 6 and a further transport device 43 to the device 19 for flow-through treatment.
  • the textile web-shaped material 7 can be guided by said transport device 6 and said transport device 43 and also via the transport device 44 directly to the device 10 for applying a binding agent.
  • transport deflection devices 42 , 46 and 47 by means of which the transport devices 43 and 44 can be adjusted in such a manner that the textile web-shaped material can be deflected around the device 19 for flow-through treatment.
  • the textile web-shaped material 7 will be deflected around the device 19 for flow-through treatment and be guided directly to the device 10 for applying a binding agent.
  • the transport deflection device 42 , 46 and 47 can also be adjusted in such a manner that the textile web-shaped material 7 will be guided from the device 4 for parallelizing fibers to the device 19 for flow-through treatment and, there, will be treated by means of a gaseous medium. After exiting from the device 19 for flow-through treatment, the textile web-shaped material 7 can then be guided further to the device 10 for applying a binding agent.
  • the textile web-shaped material will be guided through the contact or cylinder dryer 15 and the flow-through dryer 40 and then, in the rolling-up device 30 , be wound onto a drum.
  • FIG. 5 shows an alternative installation for producing a textile web-shaped material 7 .
  • the installation according to FIG. 5 is very similar to the installation according to FIG. 1 .
  • This installation also comprises a device 19 for flow-through treatment of the textile web-shaped material which in transport direction 70 is arranged behind the device 10 for applying a binding agent.
  • the textile web-shaped material will be guided from the supply device 2 through the device 4 for parallelizing fibers via transport devices 6 and 8 either to the device 10 for applying a binding agent or alternatively around the device 10 for applying a binding agent.
  • the transport deflection device 9 is used.
  • the textile web-shaped material 7 When the textile web-shaped material 7 has been guided through the device 10 for applying a binding agent, the textile web-shaped material 7 can be guided through the contact or cylinder dryer 15 , to then be guided by means of the transport device 17 to the device 19 for flow-through treatment.
  • the textile web-shaped material 7 In the case where the textile web-shaped material 7 is deflected around the device 10 for applying a binding agent, the textile web-shaped material 7 can be guided, via the transport devices 12 and 16 , directly to the device 19 for flow-through treatment.
  • the device 19 for flow-through treatment is similar to the device 19 for flow-through treatment according to FIG. 1 and FIG. 4 .
  • the device 19 for flow-through treatment again comprises a casing 24 , a treatment chamber 26 , a drum 18 , an interior 28 of drum 18 and two deflection rollers 20 , 22 .
  • the device 19 for flow-through treatment according to FIG. 5 comprises a deflection device 66 . This can be seen in FIG. 6 in which the device 19 for flow-through treatment of FIG. 5 is shown in greater detail.
  • Said deflection device 66 can be adjusted in such a manner that the textile web-shaped material 7 that has passed through the device 19 for flow-through treatment will be guided further on the deflection roller 22 or, alternatively, to a deflection roller 67 , and from there to a device 62 for curing.
  • said deflection device 66 will be adjusted in such a manner that the textile web-shaped material 7 will be conveyed to the device 62 for curing.
  • a heating channel 60 Between the device 19 for flow-through treatment and the device 62 for curing, there is preferably arranged a heating channel 60 .
  • the textile web-shaped material 7 when being guided to the device 62 for curing, is preferably guided to the device 62 for curing without being cooled. In the process, the textile web-shaped material 7 will be guided within the casing 24 of the device 19 for flow-through treatment and then through the heating channel 60 to the device 62 for curing.
  • said deflection device 66 will be adjusted in such a manner that the textile web-shaped material 7 will be guided, via deflection roller 22 , out of the device for flow-through treatment and then, via transport devices, directly to the device 30 for rolling up the textile material 7 .
  • the device 19 for flow-through treatment can further comprise a flap, not shown, in the discharge area for adapting the air flow to the two different traveling modes.

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