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US3506536A
US3506536A US557036A US3506536DA US3506536A US 3506536 A US3506536 A US 3506536A US 557036 A US557036 A US 557036A US 3506536D A US3506536D A US 3506536DA US 3506536 A US3506536 A US 3506536A
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    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29B—PREPARATION OR PRETREATMENT OF THE MATERIAL TO BE SHAPED; MAKING GRANULES OR PREFORMS; RECOVERY OF PLASTICS OR OTHER CONSTITUENTS OF WASTE MATERIAL CONTAINING PLASTICS
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    • D21D—TREATMENT OF THE MATERIALS BEFORE PASSING TO THE PAPER-MAKING MACHINE
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  • the present invention relates to a method of treating suspensions of natural, regenerated or synthetic fibres in a liquid medium.
  • the purpose of the method of the invention is to enable the formation within a suspension of aggregates of regular fibres which are individualized and relatively consistent, said aggregates generallybeing of regular shape such as, for example, spheroidal, and of a size which may be of the order of the length of the fibres insuspension (0.2 to 15 mm).
  • It is an object of the invention to provide amethod of treating suspensions of fibres comprising causing a general agitation in a liquid bath containing fibres in suspension, said agitation being carried out under con ditions which are produced by the rotating and circulating movements of the said fibres in a weak shearing or cutting field so that said fibres cling to one another and form aggregates, which are roughly grouped or sized and of regular shape.
  • the agitation of the bath is followed by filtration enabling the aggregates of the liquid medium to be separated from the nonfibrous elements and if desired from the non-aggregated fibres.
  • the fibres of the other solid components of a bath may be separated, this being particularly advantageous and especially applicable to the shearing of a paper pulp.
  • At least two categories of fibres may be separated, thus providing for manufacturing from the same suspension at least two paper pulps having different properties.
  • the aggregates separated by filtration are disintegrated and returned to homogeneous suspension by agitation in a liquid medium while the other components are removed with a filter and subjected to further treatment as desired.
  • the fibrous aggregates separated by filtration can also be drained and then dried in a current of hot air, which technique has the advantage of being more economical than the technique, Which is currently used, of draining and drying the paper pulp in sheets. Moreover, by this technique, independent aggregates are obtained, which are roughly grouped or sized, light, easy to stock, and
  • the fibrous aggregates can be agglomerated either by using the other components of the bath as bonds, or after impregnation with a deposited bond, said operation being followed by a drying of the porous agglomerate thus obtained, and if desired also by a thermal treatment.
  • agglomerates thus produced can be used, depending upon the nature and amount of the bonds, as linings for walls, floors or other partitions, or for thermal or sound insulation.
  • the fibrous aggregates can be impregnated with a resin or with a prepolymer in order to constitute fibrous granules for compression by heat in order to form molded or laminated parts.
  • a fibrous structure forming a'reinforcement can be given to molded or laminated parts by heat and under pressure.
  • the invention also has as an object the provision of apparatus for carrying out the aforesaid method, such apparatus comprising a tank which is to be partially filled from the bath to be treated, and means for gently agitating said bath.
  • the agitation means may comprise means for rotating the tank which maybe cylindrical and mounted so as to rotate about an axis, or by a rotatable member arranged in a fixed tank, or by at least one gas injecting member.
  • the apparatus may be cyclically or continuously operated.
  • the apparatus may comprise a tank mounted on a horizontal axis and in which an Archimedean screw is arranged, the latter constituting the agitation means, if desired.
  • the invention also relates to the new industrial products obtained by carrying out the method and which may be constituted by:
  • fibrous spheroids the diameter of which may vary from 0.2 to 15 mm. and which may have a low apparent density of between 0.05 and 0.70, after draining and drying,
  • molded or laminated parts having a fibrous structure made by compression and thermal treatment of granules formed from' fibrous spheroids impregnated with a resin or other products.
  • FIGURE 1 diagrammatically illustrates cyclically-operated apparatus employed in accordance with a first embodiment of the invention
  • FIGURE 2 diagrammatically illustrates cyclically-operated apparatus employed in accordance with a second embodiment of the invention
  • FIGURE 3 diagrammatically illustrates cyclically-operated apparatus employed in accordance with a third em-- bodiment of the invention
  • FIGURE .4 is a diagrammatic view illustrating a continuously operated apparatus
  • FIGURE 5 shows the paths and speed distributions of. the fibres in'the suspension produced in the above apparatus.
  • FIGURE 6 shows the variations in production and yield of the particles as a function of the concentration of the fibres in the suspension.
  • a fibrous suspension to be 3 treated is subjected to agitation produced under conditions which cause:
  • the changes in the structure of the suspensions also depend on the morphological and physiochemical properties of the fibres.
  • certain fibres refuse to cling together and others, on the contrary, rapidly form regular? aggregates.
  • This aptitude of the fibres may moreover be modified by physical or chemical treatments and by the action upon them by the properties of the suspension medium.
  • the aggregates appear in the form of separate regular pellets which are of relatively uniform dimensions which may be of the order of the mean length of the fibres. They are easy to separate by means of a rough filtration and may represent more than 80% of the total quantity of fibres.
  • the dimensions of said spherical pellets depend not only on the sizes of the fibres, but also on their concentration and the characteristics of the agitation (form and strength).
  • the invention enables a new industrial product to be manufactured which is constituted by fibrous spheroids, the diameter of which may vary from 0.2 mm. to mm. After draining and drying, they have a low apparent density of between 0.05 and 0.70.
  • the drainability of the suspension of fibrous aggregates is clearly improved compared with that of the initial homogenous suspension.
  • the drying of the drained fibrous pulp in the form of independent aggregates
  • the method of the invention also enables the fibres of the other elements in suspension (fillers, fine elements, vessels and accessory elements of annual plants in particular) to be separated. These non-fibrous elements are incorporated very slightly with the aggregates and conse-,
  • the aggregates or fibrous spheroids are separated by filtration, then they are disintegrated and replaced in homogeneous suspension by agitation in a liquid medium of suitable nature and strength, the invention extending to the new industrial product constituted by the paper pulp thus sheared.
  • the fibrous spheroids formed in the bath may be agglomerated together either in their humid state, the non-aggregated elements of the suspension, if desired, serving as a bond or a bonding agent, or after impregnation by a bond.
  • the bath may contain deposited matter, serving particularly as a bond such as, for example resins, gums, polymerizable or cross-linkable products this matter. being adapted for being put into solution or emulsion in order to be integrated in the fibrous aggregates during their formation and/ or to be connected to the aggregates formed.
  • a new industrial product is thus obtained, after drying and, if desired, thermal treatment, said product being constituted by a conglomerate, which is more or less porous, the apparent density of which may be still lower than that of the spheroids. It varies for example between 0.02 and 1. These spherules, associated or not With other matter, polymeric bonds for example, enable panels and other products to be produced, the properties of which may be varied to a large extent from the point of view of density, strength, porosity, and thermal or sound insulation.
  • the fibrous spheroids, formed and dried may be impregnated with a resin or with a prepolymer and may thus constitute fibrous granules.
  • a resin or with a prepolymer By compression of said latter and thermal treatment if desired or found necessary, molded or laminated parts may be produced, the fibres of which serve as a reinforcement.
  • the inverntion thus also povides new industrial semi-finished products constituted by the granules and the new industrial finished product formed by parts having a fibrous structure.
  • Apparatus for carrying out the method can be cyclically (FIGURES 1 to 3) or continuously (FIGURE 4) operated.
  • the equipment comprises a tank 1 containing the bath, i.e. the liquid, to be treated, which preferably only partially fills the said tank.
  • This bath has in these circumstances a free surface 2 and is in contact with solid surfaces constituted by the internal Wall of the tank and possibly by internal rigid elements.
  • These solid surfaces may advantageously be smooth, i.e. without roughness, and their structure must be evolutive, i.e. without any abrupt variation of curvature, in order to prevent the fibres linking 0r hooking together and violent shocks on the aggregates in suspension.
  • the relative movemet of the suspension and of the solid surfaces causing the agitation necessary for carrying out the method is produced either by the movement of the tank itself (FIGURES 1 and 2) or by the movement of a member 3 internally located (FIGURE 3) or by the application of other forces (for example, by injecting gas) or by various combminations of these means.
  • the tank 1 is cylindrical and the agitation is produced by rotating the member provided for agitating the bath preferably about the axis of the member, namely either the tank 1 itself (FIGURES l and 2) or the rotatable member 3 (FIGURE 3).
  • the axis of the tank may be horizontal (FIGURE 1), inclined (FIGURE 2) or vertical (FIG- URE 3).
  • This arrangement enables a suitable circulation of the fibres to be obtained and a sufficient speed gradient on the walls to be maintained in order to produce the rotation of said fibres in different planes by compounding the action of gravity and the action of rotation.
  • the rotatable member 3 has a highly developed movable surface which is, for example, a simple spiral. It could also have other shapes.
  • the cyclically operated apparatus is associated with means for filling and emptying the tank 1, put into operation at the beginning and end of the treatment.
  • the continuously operated apparatus comprises a tank 1 and agitation means set up and adapted to operate in such a way that the circulation of the suspension is orientated to effect a continuous progression of the suspension from the inlet to the outlet of the tank where permanent filling and emptying means are put into operation.
  • the tank 1 is cylindrical and an Archimedean screw 4 is arranged therewithin along its substantially horizontal axis. This screw can moreover constitute the agitation means.
  • the tank 1 may be rotatable and the screw 4 fixed, or the tank may be fixed and the screw rotatable, or the screw and the tank can even be secured and rotatable together.
  • the rotation of the agitation member causes the progression of the suspension from the inlet 5 of the tank 1 to the outlet 6.
  • the sus pension to be treated is continuously fed in through a coaxial supply pipe 7 in the inlet 5, is subjected to the treatment during its progression through the tank 1, and the treated suspension flows out through an emptying opening 8 to a utilization circuit 9 (for filtration and drying or agglomeration or diluting. etc.).
  • the continuous progressioh of the bath to be treated is eifected by the application of a difference in pressure between the inlet and outlet ends.
  • FIG. 6- The paths and distributions of speed in the fibrous suspension subjected to the above mentioned slight turbulent agitation, in the case where the tank 1 is cylindrical and is rotated in the direction of the arrow F about its horizontal axis is shown in FIG. 6-.
  • the solid line 2. represents the shape of the surface which is free from the suspension during this rotation.
  • the dotted lines 35 and 36 in particular, show the shape in projection on a straight section of the cylinder of the orbits followed by the suspended particles which for the most part are generally constituted by the fibres. These orbits are not stable for various reasons (beatings due to the drive by the flat walls limiting the ends of the cylindrical curve, variations in the dimensions of the particles in the course of the aggregation, vibrations and so on), but the projection retains the general shape indicated in the drawing.
  • the gradient of speed thus existing between the diiferent layers of fluid causes a shearing in the center of the suspension and produces a torque determining the rotation of the fibres.
  • the speed VR applied to the center of gravity of the rotating fibre AB in question causes the circulation of this fibre along the indicated orbits.
  • the present invention has as an object the increasing of the efficiency of the treatment, and improving the output of the products obtained and of varying these latter and their applications.
  • the concentration by weight of the fibres in the suspension, at the beginning of the treatment is, lower than 15%. In the case of conventional papermaking fibres, this original concentration is preferably between one and four percent. In connection with leafy wood fibers (i.e. fibres from leafy European type trees), the production of aggregates is maximum, based on equal durations of treatment and if the composition is not modified in the course of treatment, when the original concentration of fibres is between 2.8 and 3.4%.
  • the concentration of the fibres may be modified during the treatment.
  • the composition of the fibrous suspension may be modified during this treatment.
  • a plurality of successive additions of fibres having different qualities and properties, may be provided during the same treatment.
  • the fibrous suspension must remain sutficiently fluid in order to permit the fibres to move with respect to one another in order to be organized into aggregate form under the action of liquid currents.
  • the most effective zone of concentration at the beginning of the treatment for the conventional paper-making fibres is between 1 and 4% by weight with respect to the fluid.
  • the x axis shows the percentage concentration (C%) which is equal to the ratio of the weight of the fibres placed originally in the suspension and of the weight of the fluid of this suspension;
  • the solid line of the y axis shown the production (Pr) of the particles formed in four liters of suspension, this production being expressed in grams;
  • the dotted line of the y axis shows the yield (R%) of the treatment which is equal to the ratio of the weight of the particles formed and of the total weight of the fibres placed originally in suspension.
  • the solid line curve 37 represents the variation in the production Pr and shows that this production is maximum, for a fixed duration of treatment and if the composition is not modified during this treatment when the concentration C% is between 2.8 and 3.4%.
  • the dotted curve 38 shows the variation in the yield R% and shows that this yield is maximum, under the same conditions as previously, when the concentration C% is between 2.4 and 2.8%.
  • the optimum concentrations may be higher. They depend upon the length and the suppleness of the fibres.
  • the optimum concentration may be moved towards denser zones. In any case, the profitable zones of concentration generally remain lower than 15%.
  • the concentration of the fibres may be modified during the treatment.
  • Several successive additions of fibres of different qualities and properties may even be provided during the same treatment, for the particular purpose of obtaining a stratification.
  • the fibrous suspension may comprise not only a fluid and fibres but also other products responding to the well-determined aims which are mentioned hereinafter.
  • the composition of this fibrous suspension may be established once and for all at the beginning of the treatment, may be also maintained constant during this treatment, or may even be modified in the course of said treatment.
  • the particles obtained whether they be constituted by simple aggregation without any binding agent or whether they are mixed or covered with other products, have a structure which is substantially isotropic, i.e. Without any preferential orientation of the fibres. This property has particular interest in all the applications envisaged in the following.
  • germs or primers are introduced into the suspension at the beginning of the treatment.
  • the latter may be constituted by mineral or organic powders, crystals, particles of natural or synthetic resins, sawdust, particles of cork or bark, fibrous agglomerates which may or may not be manufactured for this purpose during a previous operation or produced by the disintegration of paper-making pulp or old papers, disintegrated cardboard or the like.
  • gaseous bubbles may be diffused in the center of the suspension.
  • composition of the fibrous suspension treated for the purpose of granulation may be very complex.
  • Concerning the fibres they may vary considerably in dimension, shape and nature and utilized alone or in a mixture (mineral fibres; asbestos, glass, drawn rock, drawn metals; various natural, regenerated or synthetic fibres which are or are not chemically modified, and so on).
  • additional products may be introduced into the fluid which are intended either for facilitating or controlling the particulation, or for conferring to the particles particular properties which will substantially be useful.
  • products in solution, emulsion, suspension, encapsulated products and the like may be incorporated in the suspension, so that they become integrated by inclusion, adsorption, chemical contact, grafting, with the fibrous network of the aggregates.
  • These products may be mineral or organic charges, adhesives, gum, polymers or prepolymers, natural or synthetic, thermoplastics or hardenable resins, various monomers, polymerizable or cross-linkable condensable products.
  • the fluid which is generally utilized for placing the fibres in suspension is generally water. But it is obvious that other pure or mixed liquids may be used.
  • the fluid may be entirely constituted by polymerizable, condensable or cross-linkable products.
  • Reactions may also be provoked either in the medium where the particles are located or in the particles after draining one part of the liquid medium which surrounds them, or even after drying the particles.
  • these latter may be treated in the vapor phase by polymerizable, condensable or cross-linkable products. They may also be covered by a simple projection of various products such as those mentioned above.
  • the reactions may be triggered by any conventional means such as catalysis, irradiation and so on, possibly permitting graftings on the elements constituting the particles.
  • porophores or inflating agents may be included, for the purpose of developing small bubbles, forming foam.
  • This expansion of the alveolar product thus obtained may be caused either during the manufacture of the particles or granules, or only at the moment when they are used during later operations, and this expansion may affect all or only part of said particles or granules.
  • the program of the development of the operations is established as a function of the aim to be achieved and the product to be obtained.
  • the particulation or granulation may be begun with a composition comprising cheap raw fibres: mechanical pulp, pulp made from old papers, etc. and terminated with the addition of different fibres which surround the granules by giving them a better appearance, (bleached or colored fibres) or properties which are useful for later transformation of the particles or granules. Whatever is possible with the fibres is also possible with the products accompanying said fibres.
  • Two or more types of particles or granules can even be produced in which are included products capable of reacting together finally when particles or granules of different types are close to one another by means of an external action: mechanical, physical or chemical, irradiation, catalysis, etc., for the sole purpose of producing the most varied effects: change of color, variations in size or mechanical properties, release of volatile products, etc.
  • EXAMPLE 1 For treating a suspension in water of blanched beech fibres having a concentration of 3%, treatment is effected under the following conditions: the tank (FIGURE 2) is made of polyvinyl chloride and is rotated about its axis, which is inclined at 45. The ratio of the diam- .eter of the cylinder to its height is about 1. The peripheral speed of the cylindrical wall is 40 meters per minute. After five hours of treatment, almost all the fibres of the suspension are separated into small regular pellets with a diameter of about 1 mm.
  • EXAMPLE 2 There is treated, under the same conditions as in Example 1, a suspension of resinous fibres. Fibrous pellets are then obtained, the diameter of which is about 3 EXAMPLE 3
  • a suspension of spruce fibres unbleached kraft pulp
  • the apparatus diagrammatically illustrated in FIGURE 1 is rotated about its axis at a peripheral linear speed of 30 meters per minute. After several hours of agitation, fibrous pellets .9. with a diameter of about mm. are separated from the suspension.
  • EmMPLE-4 For the production of a very porous conglomerate, the suspension of 'beech pellets obtained in Example 1 is poured onto a rough sieve. The cake of pellets thus obtained is dried after being drained. The fine elements andthe fibres, whichremain in suspension, serve as bonds between the spheroids and thus" a very light porousagglomerate is obtained, having a density of about 0.14.
  • EXAMPLE'G For the production of a very resistant agglomerate, the suspension of pellets obtained in Examplel is drained and replaced in suspension without destroying the pellets, in a water/ alcohol solution of a resorcinol-fonmol precondensate. After agitation, drainage and drying, and a slight thermal treatment (15 minutes at 110 C.), a
  • EXAMPLE 7 If it is required to produce colored fibrous granules intended to be associated with a larger quantity of bleached granules in order to manufacture a decorative covering, granulation is begun with an aqueous suspension containing 2% by weight of raw resinous paper-making fibres produced by a highly effective baking. After the granules have been formed according to the previously described method, colored fibres are added with respect to the weight of the initial fibres. The treatment is followed until the granules are suitably covered by raw fibres. Thus, the granules with a diameter of 6 to 8 mm. are obtained having the coloring of the fibres which were added last.
  • EDLAMPLE 8 In this example, the requirement is to produce very cheap supple granules for manufacturing sub-layers for covering the ground.
  • the fibres utilized are constituted by mechanical resinous pulp (paper-making pulp constituted by rasped wood); moreover, fragments of disintegrated old paper are added in an amount of and fine sawdust in an amount of 10%.
  • 10% In order to facilitate the granulation, 10%, with respect to the weight of the fibres, is added of a less stable styrene-butadiene latex whose flocculation will be produced during the granulation treatment.
  • granules After treatment of a few hours, granules are obtained with a heterogeneous granulometry or grain size, from about 1 mm. to 8 mm.
  • these granules constitute a light raw material, of apparent density between 0.10 and 0.30, which is supple and economical for the manufacture of agglomerates.
  • EXAMPLE 9 For manufacturing granules covered with fibres of colored rayon for the purpose of constituting a decorati-ve coating Stratified under high pressure, after impregnation with transparent, thermosetting resins, particula- For manufacturing granules of fibres of polyvinyl chloride, for the purpose of constituting insulating supple :agglomerates, polyvinyl chloride fibres of 2.5 denier and 3 mm. length are dispersed in water in an amount of 2%. After a few hours of treatment, all the fibres are agglomerated in the form of granules whose diameter is about 5 to 6 mm. At this moment 20% of a latex which is made insoluble, on the granules, is added in order to facilitate their final agglomeration.
  • EXAMPLE 11 For manufacturing particles or granules containing a thermoplastics polymer for the purpose of manufacturing parts for extrusion, and an aqueous suspension containing 2% of fibres of a kraft paper-making pulp and an equal weight of polyvinyl chloride in the form of fine powder, is treated. In order to facilitate the dispersion of the powder, 0.02% of a tension-active agent is added. In order to increase the fixing of the powder in the fibrous network, a flocculant polyethylene-amine for example may be added.
  • the particles or granules are drained and dried and can be used for supplying a machine for pressing toilet soap into cylinders.
  • EXAMPLE 12 For the production of particles or granules intended for manufacturing molded parts such as packing cases, an aqueous suspension containing 1% of mechanical pulp and 2% of a pulp of highly effective birch fibres is treated. A solution of soda alginate is added in an amount of 896 with respect to the fibres; when the adjuvent is well distributed in the suspension, 5% of aluminum sulphate in solution is added by fractions. There is created a precipitate of aluminum alginate which accelerates the formation of the fibrous granules and gives them after drying an increase in cohesion and rigidity.
  • EXAMPLE 13 For manufacturing thermoplastics granules reinforced with fibres, for extrusion or molding purposes, a suspension of bleached beech paper-making fibres is produced in an amount of 2% in a monomer, methyl methacrylate for example. After forming the granules, the excess monomer is separated and polymerization is effected by the separated granules, by a conventional means (atomization of a catalyst, irradiation, etc.). The granules may be kept on a rotating sieve in order to limit their agglomeration. Thus reinforced granules containing a high proportion of polymer and suitable for manufacturing molded or extruded objects are thus obtained.
  • a method of treating a suspension of cellulosic fibres to form aggregates comprising subjecting a suspension of the fibres in a liquid in a cylindrical tank of a diameter of about 20 cm. to a gentle rotational agitation, with a pcripheral speed of the order of 35 meters per minute whereby a speed gradient is established between different points in the suspension causing the formation of eddies, which result in the fibres moving together into groups and becoming mechanically interlocked, the grouped fibers being constituted so as to cling to one another to form aggregates under the above conditions, the concentration by 11 Weight of the fibres in the suspension, at the beginning of the treatment, being less than 15%.
  • a method according to claim 1 comprising the further step of following the agitation of the bath by a filtration to separate the aggregates from the liquid medium and from the non-fibrous elements and any non-aggregated fibres present.
  • a method according to claim 4 comprising the further step of disintegrating the aggregates separated by filtration and replacing them in homogeneous suspension by agitation in a liquid medium to constitute a refined pulp.
  • a method according to claim 4 comprising the further step of draining the fibrous aggregates separated by filtration and then drying them in a current of warm gas.
  • a method according to claim 1 comprising the further step of impregnating the fibrous aggregates with a binder to constitute fibrous granules compressed while hot to form a part.
  • composition of the fibrous suspension is modified during the treatment.
  • a method as claimed in claim 1 comprising impregnating the fibrous aggregates with a pre-polymer to constitute fibrous granules which are compressible while hot, to form a body.

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