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US3439490A
US3439490A US343314A US3439490DA US3439490A US 3439490 A US3439490 A US 3439490A US 343314 A US343314 A US 343314A US 3439490D A US3439490D A US 3439490DA US 3439490 A US3439490 A US 3439490A
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D02—YARNS; MECHANICAL FINISHING OF YARNS OR ROPES; WARPING OR BEAMING
    • D02J—FINISHING OR DRESSING OF FILAMENTS, YARNS, THREADS, CORDS, ROPES OR THE LIKE
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    • D02—YARNS; MECHANICAL FINISHING OF YARNS OR ROPES; WARPING OR BEAMING
    • D02G—CRIMPING OR CURLING FIBRES, FILAMENTS, THREADS, OR YARNS; YARNS OR THREADS
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  • yarns produced from staple fibers especially from the natural fibers such as wool and cotton, are inherently more voluminous and bulky in character than are continuous filament yarns.
  • the bulkiness of the staple yarns imparts to a fabric made from such a yarn a soft hand and high covering power.
  • Various methods have been employed in an attempt to prepare bulked yarns from the synthetic filaments which have the desirable properties possessed by the natural fibers.
  • one method used in the production of bulked yarns from man-made fibers is a normal high-bulk process. This is accomplished by blending regular fibers with a lower percentage of high-bulk fibers to form a composite yarn.
  • the resulting yarn is bulked by developing the shrinkage of the high-bulk portion thereof with the aid of heat. This may be achieved in a heated chambet, a hot water bath, a dye bath by steaming, or other heat treatment.
  • a composite yarn produced by this process has the undesirable property of what is commonly called a locust wing" appearance, which is obviously objectionable.
  • the primary object of this invention is to overcome the disadvantages described herein above by providing a novel composite yarn having both desirable bulk and hand characteristics while being dimensionally stable.
  • Another object of the present invention is to provide a novel dimensionally stable composite yarn that can be woven or knitted into a fabric either before or after permanent bulking of the yarns has been developed.
  • variable shrinkage segment of a given length of tow or filaments processed in accordance with the aforesaid method preferably constitutes 50 to percent of the length treated in one cycle and the remaining part of the composite yarn is comprised of filaments occurring in the constant shrinkage portion of the cycle.
  • a cycle is herein defined as the amount of stretch or relaxation applied to a given length of tow or filaments from minimum to maximum, or vice versa, to a point where the stretch or relaxation changes direction thereby repeating the cycle.
  • the differential between minimum and maximum is determined by the amount of stretching or relaxing imposed upon the tows or filaments during heating whereby a predetermined shrinkage range is established.
  • a range of shrinkage is defined as shrinkage differential imparted to the several segments which make up the given length of tow or filaments processed during a cycle.
  • the components thereof are comprised of a given number of filaments of which 50 to 80 percent of such filaments have differential shrinkage values ranging from a preferred minimum to a preferred maximum, and the remainder of the filaments have like shrinkage characteristics at the preferred maximum whereby the bulked yarn is rendered dimensionally stable.
  • the variable shrinkage part of the cycle may be from 30 to percent of the entire cycle and the remaining 70 to 5 percent thereof at constant shrinkage, depending upon the degree of dimensional stability desired.
  • the constant shrinkage components become the load-bearing members when a load is imposed on the bulked composite yarn. Accordingly, an increase in the proportion of constant shrinkage fibers forming the composite yarn similarly increases the number of load-bearing members whereby the dimensional stability of the novel bulked yarn and the wear resistance of fabric formed therefrom is improved.
  • the fiber employed in this invention may be prepared from any synthetic fiber-forming materials such as polyacrylonitrile, copolymers, including binary and ternary polymers containing at least 80 percent by weight of acrylonitrile in the polymer molecule, or a blend comprising polyacrylonitrile with from 2 to 50 percent by weight of another polymeric material, the blend having an overall polymerized acrylonitrile content of at least 80 percent by weight.
  • the polymer from which the fibers are prepared may be a copolymer of from 80 to 98 percent by weight of acrylonitrile and from 2 to 20 percent by weight of another monomer containing the linkage and copolymerizable with acrylonitrile.
  • Suitable monoolefinic monomers include acrylic, alpha-chloroacrylic and methacrylic acid; the acrylates, such as methylmethacrylate, ethylmethacrylate, butylrnethacrylate, methoxymethyl methacrylate, beta-chloroethyl methacrylate, and the corresponding esters of acrylic and alpha-chloroacrylic acids; vinyl chloride, vinyl fluoride, vinyl bromide, vinylidene chloride, l-chloro-l-bromoethylene; methacrylonitrile; acrylamide and methacrylamide; alpha-chloroacrylamide, or monoalkyl substitution products thereof; methylvinyl ketone; vinyl carboxylates, such as vinyl acetate, vinyl chloroacetate, vinyl propionate, and vinyl stearate; N-vinylirnides, such as N-vinylphthalimide and N-vinyl-succinimide; methylene malonic esters; ita
  • the polymer may be a ternary polymer or higher interpolymer, for example products obtained from the interpolymerization of acrylonitrile and two or more of any of the monomers, other than acrylonitrile enumerated above. More specifically, and preferably the ternary polymer comprises acrylonitrile, methacrylonitrile and 2- vinylpyridine.
  • the ternary polymers preferably contain from 80 to 98 percent by weight of acryonitrile, from 1 to percent by weight of a vinyl-pyridine or a l-vinylimidazole, and from 1 to 18 percent by weight of another substance, such as methacrylonitrile or vinyl chloride.
  • the polymer may also be a blend of a polyacrylonitrile or of a binary interpolymer of from 80 to 98 percent by Weight of acrylonitrile and from 1 to 20 percent by weight of at least one other containing substance with from 2 to 50 percent of the weight of the blend of a copolymer of from 10 to 70 percent by weight of acrylonitrile and from 30 to 90 percent by weight of at least one other containing polymerizable monomer.
  • the polymeric material when it comprises a blend it will be a blend of a copolymer of 90 to 98 percent acrylonitrile and from 2 to 10 percent of another mono-olefinic monomer, such as a vinyl acetate, which is not receptive to dyestuff, with a sufiicient amount of a copolymer of from 10 to 70 percent of acrylonitrile and from 30 to 90 percent of a vinyl-substituted tertiary heterocyclic amine, such as vinylpyridine or l-vinylimidazole, to give a dyeable blend having an overall vinyl-substituted tertiary heterocyclic amine content of from 2 to 10 percent, based on the weight of the blend.
  • a copolymer of 90 to 98 percent acrylonitrile and from 2 to 10 percent of another mono-olefinic monomer such as a vinyl acetate, which is not receptive to dyestuff
  • the fiber may be prepared from other synthetic fiberforming materials as, for example, polyethylene terephthalate, polyamides, as, for example, polyhexamethylene adipamide, polyhexamethylene sebacamide, polycaproamide and copolymers of various amides, vinyl polymers, as, for example, vinyl chloride/vinyl acetate copolymers,- polymers and copolymers of tetrafluorethylene, monochloro-trifluorethylene and hexafluoropropylene, polyethylene, cellulose derivatives, as, for example, cellulose acetate, regenerated cellulose, or ethyl cellulose.
  • synthetic fiberforming materials as, for example, polyethylene terephthalate, polyamides, as, for example, polyhexamethylene adipamide, polyhexamethylene sebacamide, polycaproamide and copolymers of various amides, vinyl polymers, as, for example, vinyl chloride/vinyl acetate copolymers,- polymers and cop
  • FIGURE 1 illustrates graphically the percent shrinkage versus percent of cycle wherein the variable portion of the processing cycle is linear
  • FIGURE 2 is similar to FIGURE 1, but illustrates the variable portion of the processing cycle as being nonlinear
  • FIGURE 3 is the same as FIGURE 2 except the nonlinearity of the variable portion of the processing cycle is reversed;
  • FIGURE 4 is similar to FIGURE 1, but illustrates the variable portion of the processing cycle occurring intermediate constant portions thereof;
  • FIGURE 5 is a side view of the invention, greatly enlarged, showing a segment of the blended fibers prior to bulking;
  • FIGURE 6 is a side view of the invention, greatly enlarged, showing a segment of the blended fibers after bulking which form a dimensionally stable bulked yarn having a substantially uniform surface appearance;
  • FIGURE 7 is a side view of a common high-bulk blended yarn illustrating the non-uniform surface possessed by yarns of this type.
  • FIGURES 1-4 illustrate graphically the percent shrinkage at degrees centigrade plotted as ordinate versus percentage of fiber processed at selected intervals during any given cycle.
  • a yarn blended from fiber prepared in accordance with the cycle illustrated approximately 35 percent of the blend will exhibit 20 percent shrinkage properties when bulked and the remainder of the blend will exhibit variable shrinkage which varies linearly from 20 percent to substantially no shrinkage.
  • the shorter fibers form the core and the variable length fibers spiral outwardly around the core yarns progressively to form a bulked yarn having a uniform cross section. Since 35 percent of the blend becomes load-bearing members upon imposition of tension thereon, the yarn is thereby rendered dimensionally stable.
  • FIGURES 2 and 3 are referred to for the purpose of illustrating such an example.
  • the nonlinear condition would tend to increase dimensional stability and slightly decrease bulk, whereas, the reversed nonlinear condition shown in FIGURE 3 produces an opposite eifect.
  • Yet another type yarn having different characteristics can be formed from fiber processsed in accordance with FIGURE 4. Here the yarn would tend to be more porous because of the additional percentage of non shrinkage fiber whereby bulkiness of the yarn is increased.
  • a yarn in accordance with the invention is produced from a high-bulk tow consisting of fibers of polyacrylonitrile, the tow having a uniform shrinkage of 22 percent when immersed in boiling water or like heating.
  • the tow is subjected to treatment over live steam in a discontinuous manner to relax the tow and to impart to the tow longitudinally thereof a complete range of variable and constant shrinkage cycles which will have the configuration graphically illustrated in FIGURES 1-4 of the accompanying drawings, wherein the percentage values of shrinkage of the tow at 100 degrees centigrade are plotted against the percentage values of the variable shrinkage ranges in the cycles being illustrated by dotted lines 10 and the constant shrinkage ranges by continuous lines 11.
  • Shrinkage of Variable Variable Constant Constant tow before shrinkage, shrinkage shrinkage, shrinkage, treatment percent range, percent percent of cycle percent of cycle The high-bulk tow used as a starting material in the examples (a), (b), (c) and (f) set out in the above table, is comprised of filaments having like stretch characteristics at the percent indicated. Such tow is treated during a predetermined cycle successively wherein a relaxation process occurs to provide the variable and constant shrinkage portions and their respective shrinkage range. If a stretch process is used, distinguished from a relaxation process, tows having less than 5 percent shrinkage, such as those indicated under (d) and (e) in the above table, should be used.
  • the example indicated under (f) is illustrated by FIGURE 4.
  • One method involves relaxing a tow or filament having a degree of shrinkage in excess of the required maximum shrinkage.
  • the relaxing at operation is performed on a special apparatus by feeding the tow or filament through a relaxing zone at a variable speed corresponding to the shrinkage cycle desired to insure that only sufiicient relaxation is permitted to obtain the maximum shrinkage percentage.
  • the feed of the apparatus is then increased through a range of shrinkage by passing from the maximum speed thereof, gradually reducing the speed to the desired minimum which is maintained throughout the remainder of the treatment cycle for producing the constant shrinkage portion of the tow or filament.
  • a second method of producing the fiber contemplates imparting to a tow or continuous filament a variable stretch having a stretch cycle which increases from zero to the maximum desired during a predetermined portion of the cycle, the tow or filament then being maintained at the maximum stretch for the remaining part of the cycle.
  • An example of such a cycle is illustrated by the curves appearing in FIGURES 1-4 of the accompanying drawings.
  • the length of the cycle will depend partially on the amount of blending that the fiber may receive in subsequent processing steps such as during carding and drawing operations. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the cycle can be extended substantially with an increase in the amount of subsequent blending.
  • a fiber of completely variable shrinkage having blended therewith a high-bulk fiber having the same shrinkage as the maximum shrinkage possessed by the variable shrinkage blend.
  • 35 percent of the component fiber used for preparing the novel composite yarn is a high-bulk acrylonitrile polymer staple having 20 percent shrinkage is blended with 65 percent acrylonitrile polymer tow of variable shrinkage and having a shrinkage range of 0 to 20 percent to form a dimensionally stable yarn.
  • the material produced in accordance wtih the present invention would normally be in the form of a continuous filament and subsequently reduced to staple form prior to being blended into a yarn.
  • the reduction to staple form can be accomplished an any desired manner by conventional apparatus to suit the blending process.
  • Staple can be blended on any conventional staple-to-yarn processing system such as linen, cotton, woolen, worsted or jute systems, or fed as tow blends into tow-to-yarn conversion systems such as the Pacific Converter.
  • FIGURE 5 a longitudinal section is shown of an unbulked yarn 12 comprised of a plurality of fibers 13 which are processed and blended in accordance with the above methods.
  • the fibers Prior to development of the bulkiness' retained by blended fibers 13, the fibers are oriented in a side by side relationship with respect to the mean longitudinal direction thereof.
  • a novel dimensionally stable bulked yarn 14 is produced, shown in FIGURE 6.
  • the core yarns provide increased stability in the yarn to overcome the destruction of yarn structure experienced heretofore in the known yarns having similar surface appearance.
  • a yarn of this type is illustrated by FIGURE 7.
  • the low shrinkage fibers 15 tangle outwardly from the core fibers 16 to form a bulky yarn 17 having an uneven surface appearance, commonly referred to as a locust wing appearance.
  • Yarns produced in accordance with this invention afford greater strength duringv dyeing and hot-wet processing than the known yarns of like bulk and hand.
  • Such yarns also possess a more desirable structure than conventional high-bulk yarns, and are dimensionally stable in both yarn form and fabric made from such yarn.
  • a yarn possessing excellent aesthetic properties and soft hand can be provided since blends of various denier per filament fibers exhibit these additional properties.
  • These desirable properties can be enhanced by the fact that the load-bearing fibers have constant shrinkage characteristics whereupon stronger fiber can be utilized in this part of the blend to reduce the number of such members normally required to prepare a dimensionally stable yarn and maximize the bulk.
  • Fiber strength is controlled by denier, chemical composition, or prior processing thereof and may be increased by either of these means.
  • a method of making high bulk yarn from synthetic filaments comprising (a) imparting a constant shrinkage characteristic to a first length of said filament to form a first component having a constant shrinkage characteristic along the length thereof,
  • a high bulk yarn comprising first and second distinct components of filaments, said first component of filaments each having a constant shrinkage characteristic along the length thereof, said second component of filaments having a shrinkage characteristic which varies uniformly along the length of said filaments, the maximum shrinkage characteristic of each of the filaments of the second component being no greater than the shrinkage characteristic of the filaments of the first component.

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US3732684A (en) * 1971-02-23 1973-05-15 Du Pont Product and process
US4307566A (en) * 1979-02-05 1981-12-29 Teijin Limited Bulky spun yarn and a method for manufacturing the same from a combination of thermally extensible and thermally shrinkable fibers
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