US2078339A - Manufacture of artificial silk - Google Patents

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US2078339A
US2078339A US608802A US60880232A US2078339A US 2078339 A US2078339 A US 2078339A US 608802 A US608802 A US 608802A US 60880232 A US60880232 A US 60880232A US 2078339 A US2078339 A US 2078339A
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Pfannenstiel Hugo
Matthaes Werner
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D01—NATURAL OR MAN-MADE THREADS OR FIBRES; SPINNING
    • D01F—CHEMICAL FEATURES IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL FILAMENTS, THREADS, FIBRES, BRISTLES OR RIBBONS; APPARATUS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF CARBON FILAMENTS
    • D01F2/00—Monocomponent artificial filaments or the like of cellulose or cellulose derivatives; Manufacture thereof
    • D01F2/06—Monocomponent artificial filaments or the like of cellulose or cellulose derivatives; Manufacture thereof from viscose

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  • One of its objects is to provide a process of producing artificial silk having a high tensile strength and an improved extensibility. Further.
  • the present invention is based on the observa- 'tion that the operation of washing threads spun in a strongly acidbath must not be applied to the threads while they are under high tension but must be applied in any suitable manner to the 35 threads while they are being led to the collecting device and while they are capable of contracting to a determined extent.
  • This procedure imparts to the threads asubstantialiy increasedextensibility which is conditioned by the'shrinkage of ⁇ q the threads.
  • the extent to whichsthe threads can shrink as a result of the washing operation is determined by the reduced tension to which V they are subjected in the second 'zone, and thus remains constant for a given adjustment of the a apparatus.
  • the shrinking treatment which is to cause-longitudi- L nal contraction, to threads while they lie loosely on a roller; this condition is satisfied ii the roller ID on which the threads undergo treatment with' the liquid rotates with a lower peripheral velocity than the preceding roller which delivers the threads to the first-named roller. It is important that in no case must the treatment of the threads with a washing agent while they are capable of Artificial silk made from viscose by spinningcontractingbe preceded by a like treatment applied to the threads while under high tension.
  • the problemof increasing the extensibility exists only in the case of viscose silks of high tensile strength that is to say in the case of silks having a tensile strength exceeding 2 grams per denier and produced with the aid of the known sulfuric acid baths containing a high proportionv of free sulfuric acid or of sulfuric acid which is semi-bound.
  • the present invention is-therefore limited to the use of such spinning baths. If there is used a spinning bath having a smaller concentration of acid, such as is used for the manufacture of threads of normal commercial tensile strength and normal extensibility, the extensibility is not increased, or is increased only to a very limited extent, when the freshly spun threads are allowed to shrink under the conditions used in the present invention.
  • Water is a suitable agent for reducing the concentration of acid on'the threads in carrying out the inventi n, for a thread which has been spun in a str gly acid bath shrinks strongly and thus acquires an increased extensibility even when it is brought into water, provided that the thread is not under such a tension as would oppose the shrinkage.
  • the contraction experienced by a thread spun in a strongly acid bath when it is brought, for instance, into hot water, may amount to 15, to 30 form'of a bath through which the thread is conducted, the thread: may be sprayed with the shrinking liquid. .i
  • the threads' may be stretched before being subjected to the action of the shrinking liquid in any known manner.
  • the stretching may be applied by means of rollers or rods, either driven or not, or it may be due to the use of along bath or along passage through the air, or by the selection of a high speed of draught, compared with the speed of delivery of the spinning liquid.
  • an unripened viscose is to be preferred for producing threads which can be subjected to a high degree of stretching, a somewhat advanced spinnin'g ripeness of the vis'cose is advantageous for attaining good shrinkage. Therefore,- viscoses having common salt ripeness between 8 and 6 are preferred for this invention, that is to say viscoses of which one drop into a solution of sodium chlosisting of glass rods, each out of line with each other.
  • the thread is drawn by a roller c, around which the thread passes twice to avoid slipping.
  • the stretched thread is then exposed to the action of a swelling agent in a bath (1, in which it passes under two guides, such as rods or rollers e and f arranged inthe bath.
  • a swelling agent in a bath (1, in which it passes under two guides, such as rods or rollers e and f arranged inthe bath.
  • the thread is drawn from the bath by means of the roller 9 at a speed essentially smaller than that at which it isdelivered by the roller 0, it being of importance that the thread lies only lightly against the glass rods or rollers in the shrinking bath.
  • h. is the spinning box, in which the thread is finally collected.
  • Fig. 2 the parts a, b and c are essentially the same as in Fig. 1.
  • the thread From the roller 0 the thread passes through a trough i into which the shrinking or swelling agent is caused to act on the thread.
  • the thread leaving the trough is wound on a spool k which is driven at constant peripheral speed by means of conoidal gear, so that the thread is drawn in determined degree more gradually from the bath than it is delivered into the bath from the roller 0.
  • g conoidal gear
  • Fig. 4 the thread leaving the nozzle a is extended by passage over a number of glass rods arranged in staggered relationship and is drawn by the roller c around which it is led in one or more turns.
  • the thread is in a condition in which it is capable of shrinking, owing to the fact that the peripheral velocity of the roller is on which .the thread is wound is lower than that of the roller 0.
  • the roller k rotates in a trough d containing the shrinking liquid.
  • Example 1 non-matured alkali cellulose is sulfided with 32 per cent. of CS2 (calculated on the weight of the cellulose) and dissolved to form a viscose containing 6 per cent. of cellulose and 6.5 per cent. of alkali.
  • the viscose is ripened at 18 C. until it shows a common'salt ripeness of 5, .and is then spun in a precipitating bath which contains 36.5 per cent. of sulfuric acid monohydrate, 30.5 per cent. of ammonium bisulfate and 12' per cent. of sodium bisulfate.
  • the temperature of the precipitating bath is 43 C.
  • the spinning arrangement is that illustrated in Fig. 2.
  • the thread leaving the precipitating bath is stretched over three glass rods and led one and a half times round a glass roller 0 of 20 cm. di-
  • the peripheral speed of the collecting spool is 25 meters per minute.
  • the viscose pump is adjusted to a total titer of 120 deniers and delivers correspondingly with the collecting speed of 25 meters per minute 5.85'cc. of viscose per minute.
  • the spinning nozzle has 120 perforations, each of 0.07 mm. diameter.
  • the speed of the draught roller is 32 meters per minute, that is to say it is so adjusted that the thread on its way to the collecting spool can shrink by about 22 per cent.
  • the thread being wound on to the spool may advantageously sufler a further sprinkling with water to wash away the acid of the spinning bath.
  • Artificial silk having a tensile strength of 330 to 375 grams per 100 deniers with an extension of 12.5 to 14.5 per cent. may be obtained, whereas without the interposition of the draught roller an extension of only 7 to 8 per cent. with the same tenacity can be obtained.
  • Example 3 --A viscose prepared as described in Example 1 is spiin'in a precipitating bath consisting of sulfuric acid of '72 per cent. strength 'at 12 C., the spinning arrangement being that shown in Fig. 1. The thread is drawn by the draught roller 0 at a speed of 33 meters per minute and is drawn from the shrinking bath by the.
  • roller 9 at a speed of 25 meters per minute; it is then collected in the spinning box h.
  • the shrinking bath consists of water of 45 C.
  • the thread obtained may have a tenacity of 300 to 400 grams per 100 deniers and 'an extension of 12 to 18 per cent.
  • the threads are first stretched to a finer-titer of 94 to 93 deniers; when they are wound at a speed exceeding 2 grams per denier, stretching the freshly precipitated threads until theyhave a titer finer'than that desired for the final thread while avoiding any treatment with a washing agent for reducing the concentration of acid in the thread, and in the second zone subjecting the threads coming from the stretching device to a positive tension lower than that prevailing in the first zone, thus allowing the stretched threads to shrink to the desired final titer and simultaneously promoting the shrinkage of the threads by a treatment with a shrinking agent.
  • a process of spinning artificial silk from viscose which comprises subdividing the spinning operation into two distinct zones; in the first zone squirting viscose having a common salt ripeness of 3 to 6 through a spinning nozzle into a spinning bath adapted for the production of 75 artificial silk threads having a tensile strength the threads coming from the stretching device to a positive tension lower than that prevailingin the first zone, thus allowing the stretched threads toshrink to the desired final titer and promoting the shrinkage of the threads by washing with water.

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US2427993A (en) * 1944-07-26 1947-09-23 Ind Rayon Corp Production of rayon
US2538283A (en) * 1946-08-14 1951-01-16 American Viscose Corp Apparatus for spinning artificial filaments
US2542098A (en) * 1943-10-02 1951-02-20 American Viscose Corp Artificial filament spinning machine

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US2542098A (en) * 1943-10-02 1951-02-20 American Viscose Corp Artificial filament spinning machine
US2707668A (en) * 1943-10-02 1955-05-03 American Viscose Corp Method and apparatus for fluid treating yarn in a helical path
US2427993A (en) * 1944-07-26 1947-09-23 Ind Rayon Corp Production of rayon
US2538283A (en) * 1946-08-14 1951-01-16 American Viscose Corp Apparatus for spinning artificial filaments

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