US3734813A - High frequency-weldable material - Google Patents

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US3734813A
US3734813A US3734813DA US3734813A US 3734813 A US3734813 A US 3734813A US 3734813D A US3734813D A US 3734813DA US 3734813 A US3734813 A US 3734813A
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Definitions

  • the dipolar plastics material which is incorporated as a bonding material between the textile fabrics or webs to be joined by welding is heated to its melting point and subjected to pressure so that it begins to flow and will constitute the so-called seam weld having a very high strength whereas the sheets to be joined by welding are not subjected to an appreciable temperature rise so that the properties possessed by the unjoined sheets are not adversely affected, different from all other thermal bonding processes.
  • a bonding material is required because a number of textile materials which are used can be welded only with difficulty.
  • foamed plastics materials such as polyurethane foams
  • polyurethane foams are of great importance as a filler for cushions, pads, linings of motor vehicle bodies, airplane cabins 'etc.
  • dipolar plastics materials particularly synthetic resins
  • the hot counterelectrode which has the configuration of the required seam weld, in order to ensure that the electron current flowing in the high-frequency field between the anode and cathode causes the dipoles contained in the dipolar plastics material to become aligned.
  • the weldability of a plastics material in a high-frequency electric field depends on the welding factor, which is equal to the product of the dielectric constant, which is a measure of the insulation resistance of the dielectric, and the difference between.1r/2 and the tangent of the phase angle between current and voltage.
  • the above-mentioned tangent of the last-mentioned angle delta depends on the alignment of said dipoles. If the'product representing the welding factor is sufficiently high, the losses of electric energy will be converted into heat, which causes a melting of plastics materials, particularly synthetic resins, which are used as dipolar materials.
  • the last-mentioned processing involves another requirement, which resides in that the bonding substances must be selected so that the layers vin question may be joined by the processor himself so that this joining need not be effected where the'material is made. For instance, if a manufacturer of garments desires to make a mans jacket having a predetermined, fitting shape, which should be durable, the product which supports the jacket fabric and imparts shape to it and holds it in shape must be adapted to be cut in the garment factory so that a conventional ironing operation is sufficient to stiffen and reinforce the outer fabric as may be desired.
  • the above remarks do not'fully define the requirements to be met and the technical objects based thereon.
  • the material comprises a support, which is rustleproof and permeable to air and moisture and which carries particles of synthetic thermoplastic resins, such as polyamides, which resist washing and dry-cleaning and which are adapted to establish a bond under the action of highfrequency energy.
  • the particles of synthetic resin may be provided on and fixed to the supportin such a manner that they are discrete particles in the form of dust, powder, grains or agglomerates and assist the welding in dependence on the size and form of electrodes which are subjected to the high-frequency field.
  • a number of advantageous possibilities reside in the arrangement of the particles in a geometrically ordered dot pattern.
  • the particles may be arranged to form a preferably ordered line pattern, which may surround fields forming parallelograms having equal pairs of sides (rhombi).
  • polyamides meet the requirements to be fulfilled as regards the resismum to detergents and dry-cleaning agents.
  • Modified vidual polymeric components the length of these blocks depends on the degree of polymerization of the homopolyamides which are employed. Because the short residence time at elevated temperatures permits of only a slight conversion, these modified block copolyamides are in part only a physical blend of the components.
  • True copolyamides of the type Nylon 6/6, 6/l2 differ from the block copolyamides in that they exhibit a statistical distribution of the monomeric units in the macromolecule and are polyamides having modified properties. The crystallinity is reduced because hydrogen bridges cannot form to an appreciable extent.
  • modified copolyamides are rel atively expensive, their use within the scope of the present invention is still economical because surprisingly small amounts of the modified polyamide are sufficient to provide for the required bonding strength under the special conditions of high-frequency welding.
  • Copolyamides consisting of polycondensation products of hexamethylene diamine and adipic acid have proved particularly desirable. The same applies to products of epsilon-aminocaproic acid.
  • Other suitable substances include polyamides of 7-aminoheptanic acid, 9-aminononanic acid, IO-aminodecanic acid, 11- aminoundecanic acid, as well as polyamides based on dodecalolactam or polylaurinlactam.
  • the bonding material may be provided on one or both of the boundary surfaces of the support.
  • the bonding material provided on a boundary surface of the support may be enclosed between the latter and, e.g., a textile fabric or another layer which seals and covers the support, e.g., by sheeting which is made of various materials and which instead of a single covering layer may consist of a plurality of layers or a composite material.
  • the bonding material is provided on both boundary surfaces of the support, it will be inherent in this embodiment that the bonding material deposited on the support will be provided on each side of the support between the latter and a covering layer of set of layers.
  • the support may consist of a wide range of materials, preferably of foams, including polyurethane ester foams, non-woven fabrics, woven fabrics, bobinets, knitted fabrics, stitchable knitted fabrics, needle punched pile fabrics, textile fabrics having adhered tufts, foam-bonded textile fabrics, cellulose, wadding and felt.
  • the non-woven fabrics may have been formed by mechanical, aerodynamic and hydrodynamic methods as well as by spinning.
  • Non-woven fabrics include also flexible bonded non-woven fabrics as well as bonded spun non-woven fabrics. These bonded nonwoven fabrics may be mechanically or adhesively bonded, e.g. with or without a bonding agent, or they may consist of expanded or needle-punched nonwoven fabrics.
  • reinforced non-woven fabrics which may be reinforced by arrays of filaments or threads, woven fabrics, knitted fabrics, nettings and plastics material sheeting.
  • Covering layers may be joined by calendering on one or both sides.
  • cellulose may be used as a material for the support carrying the particles of synthetic resin used as a bonding material. This is of great importance because it enables the support to be made from all thin sheets of felted fibers. Even a few fiber layers or only a single fiber layer will be sufficient for an adequate fixation of the minute amounts of particles of synthetic resin which are required in practice and for such a reliable support thereof that the support can be sold as such, particularly if it consists of wound-up fiber layers.
  • the thickness of the support may be as large as or smaller than the largest dimension of a particle of synthetic resin provided on the support. The required economy will be particularly obtained if the fibers of the support consist of cellulose.
  • the resulting support has a cellulose-like structure or consists of cellulose.
  • Thin sheets of foam are just as important.
  • the support can perform the required functions even if it has a thickness of only 1.00-1.50 millimeters.
  • the use of a smaller thickness is prevented only by the fact that the handling becomes difficult in practice.
  • Such thin layers of plastics material may be produced by a peeling operation.
  • the means which are available have been used to make sheets of foam which have the abovementioned thickness of 1.00 millimeter and a smaller thickness throughout their area. This does not preclude the manufacture of even thinner foam layers by improved processes.
  • each particle of bonding material is used for welding whether it is directly subjected to the thermal influences during the welding on one boundary plane or on both boundary planes or between the two boundary planes of the support consisting of a thin sheet of foam.
  • the particles of plastics materials which form dots or may have been rolled to form platelets or lenticles have a thickness which is virtually negligible relative to the other dimensions, such particle in the form of a dot, platelet or lenticle is entirely utilized for welding.
  • Tissue paper preferably in the form of tissue papers, which have been impregnated or coated with a solution of polyvinylchloride, have also been used in the highfrequency welding of foams.
  • Tissue paper is not a rustle-proof support and lacks the essentially required permeability to air and water (moisture, sweat).
  • An additional disadvantage resides in that the materials are highly embrittled along the welded zones. The feeding of strips and webs of paper involves a certain structural expenditure and a risk of a lateral displacement of the material to be welded relative to the bonding material. As a result, only straight-lined welded zones can be formed in this way whereas ornaments and curved welded zones cannot be obtained, unless the bonding material is adhered to one of the materials to be welded.
  • the above-mentioned synthetic resin powders have been made only of polyvinylacetate (PVA), polyvinylchloride (PVC), polyvinylpropionate, polyvinylidenechloride, acrylic ester, and their copolymers. These plastics materials resist neither detergents nor dry-cleaning agents.
  • the surface heat-treating process may be carried out with success only by highly experienced, skilled persons which have had years of training and inevitably involves considerable dangers in operation.
  • At least one rustle-proof support which is permeable to air and moisture, is provided with particles of thermoplastic synthetic resins,- such as polyamides, which are resistant to detergents and dry-cleaning agents, the support is combined with at least one additional layer to form a composite material, preferably in the form of a web, and the material or web is shaped into a three-dimensional, profiled material by means of electrodes which are subjected to a high-frequency field.
  • the desired distribution is obtained in that particles of synthetic resin in the form of dust, powder, grains and/or preferably agglomerates are arranged in an array, preferably in the form of a dot or line pattern, and a support is applied, preferably under pressure, to thearray so that the latter is transferred to a boundary surface with which the support contacts the array.
  • the particles of synthetic resin which have been transferred to the support may be fixed to the latter. Alternatively, the particles may be sintered to the support at the same time or thereafter. If the support is to be covered with a textile fabric, it
  • the first application of plastics material was carried out at elevated temperatures or if treating operations have succeeded which have resulted in elevated temperatures of the support, it will be suitable to cool the support before the second application of plastics material so that the plastics material on the side provided therewith first will not be adversely affected until such action must be taken intentionally during the final treatment of the plastics material which has been applied.
  • the first application of plastics material may be carried out at a temperature above room temperature because during the first application of plastics material the support is free of plastics material which could be adversely affected by the heat treatment.
  • the plastics material applied in the second application step may subsequently be fixed to the support or may be sintered to the support at the same time or thereafter. It will be understood that additional steps may be adopted to introduce particles of plastics material into the support and to carry out the above-mentioned heat treatments thereafter. However, the provision of plastics material on the surface of the support has proved entirely sufficient to enable the further treatments.
  • a sickle shaped gap will be formed between the surface of any conveying and distributing rolls which are employed and the material or web which has been provided with plastics material.
  • This sickle-shaped gap is desirable for various reasons.
  • the force of gravity acting in this sickle-shaped gap causes a dropping of those particles which have not been transferred to the material or web to which they have been applied or pressed.
  • This effect may be promoted in that vibration is imparted to the conveying and distributing means.
  • Such vibration will be produced, e.g., if a conveying or distributing roll is rapped.
  • Such rapping is preferably rhythmic or periodic.
  • a direct contact between the conveying and distributing surface of rolls or belts used for this purpose and the surface of the material or web provided with plastics material is avoided so that the generally ordered distribution of the plastics material will not be changed.
  • a support provided with plastics material on both sides and materials or webs which are joined to the support on both sides thereof are introduced into the same nip between the rolls of a calender, preferably at elevated temperatures, in order to form a composite material
  • the provision of plastics material on the support may be immediately succeeded by the manufacture of the composite material so that the elevated temperatures existing e.g., during the fixing and sintering operations may be economically utilized in the manufacture of the composite material.
  • What has been said in connection with a joint on both sides of the support will also be applicable if the support is covered only on one side with additional materials in one or more layers.
  • the particles are to be transferred to supports in the form of thin sheets, which may consist of only one layer of fibers.
  • the particles of synthetic resin which have been transferred to the support may be spread by rolling to form flattened islets, which penetrate into or through the support and at least partly displace or replace material of the support and preferably impart a structure to the surface of the support.
  • the rolling does not spread the particles to such an extent that at least one boundary surface of one islet lies in at least one boundary plane of the support, particularly if the latter consists of a web, so that the rolled islet is at least embedded in or forms the support web in this portion, the islets at least on one side of the support web will have the shape of lenticles so that a support made by this process assumes the abovementioned structured appearance in dependence on the degree of distribution of the roll-spread particles of plastics material. Owing to the higher transparency and the altered reflectance of the platelets or lenticles of synthetic resin the support appears to be covered by a filmy filter paper having a honeycomb pattern.
  • the plastics material may be subjected to at least one additional heat treatment between the manufacture of the support web and the joining thereof to at least one layer of the composite material to be made so that any tendency of the support to bond to the layer contacted with it in the formation of the composite material will be re-established in a lower, equal or higher degree if such tendency had been produced by the at least incipient sintering of the particles of plastics material and has subsequently been reduced or even eliminated.
  • thermal aftertreatment will be particularly desirable if at least one additional layer or web or another part of a composite is not joined to the support immediately after the manufacture of the finishing material proposed by the invention but at a later time, e.g., after the material has been handled within the manufacturing plant or sent from one plant to another.
  • What has been said in connection with at least one layer of the composite material will also be applicable if any desired number of individual layers of the same material are used to form a composite layer having a larger thickness.
  • finishing material according to the invention may thus be used to bond layers of any desired thickness so as to form plates and bodies, in which the welded zones remain just as flexible as the adjoining layers joined by the welded zone, or in which stiffer zones and gradual transitions are provided, so that the utility of the composite will be ensured or intentionally increased. These effects will depend on the amount and/or nature of the plastics material which is employed.
  • Apparatus for carrying out the stated processes comprise a supply container for particles of synthetic resin, and conveying and distributing means which succeed said container and have a surface structure which comprises cuplike recesses and/or' bosslike projections, which recesses and projections have a size, shape and arrangement selected in accordance with the size, shape and distribution of the particles and according to the invention are characterized in that a movable backing member is associated with the conveying and distributing means and has a boundary surface which faces the conveying and distributing means and contacts the material which is supported by the conveying and distributing means and which is to be provided with the particles, said backing member contacting said material under a pressure which is sufficient to cause the particles to be carried along mechanically.
  • the conveying or distributing means may consist of a surfacestructured roll or a surface-structured belt. At least in the region in which they receive the particles from the supply container, the conveying and distributing means are at room temperature or a temperature below room temperature so that a tendency of the plastics material, particularly of the synthetic resin, to become tacky at higher temperatures will be suppressed. Such tendency might disturb the transfer from the supply to the surface structure. On the other hand, it may be suitable to provide heating means in the region in which the particles are applied to the material to be provided therewith, unless the temperature rise due to radiation, heat conduction or heat convection is sufficient.
  • near-by heat generators are required which can induce a tackiness to such a degree that the particles are sufficiently transferred to the support to be provided therewith.
  • It may be suitable to provide an endless conveyor belt which removes the material provided with plastics material from the conveying and distributing means and to provide additional treating means, such as infrared radiators, hotair tunnel ovens, cooling devices or the like along said endless conveyor belt.
  • the support which consists, e.g. of foam so that it has a low strength, is desirably supported by the conveyor belt which forms at the same time an abutment for taking up the jet pressure of hot air, which is blown against the surface of the support provided with particles of plastics material.
  • calenders and calendaring processes does not suggest a change in the high-frequency welding properties of the novel material.
  • These calendering treatments serve only to join the support formed according to the invention to an additional layer.
  • the support is still provided with the particles of synthetic resin which are required and suitable for high-frequency welding.
  • the support having this property and provided with at least one additional layer is subjected to a subsequent high-frequency welding treatment so as to assume the desired profiled shape.
  • the support is not joined to only one additional layer but to a plurality of said layers and at least one layer is adjoined by a filler.
  • Such filler may be provided between two layers, one of which has been joined to the support by a calendering treatment.
  • Such composite body may then be supplied to consecutively arranged machines and high-frequency equipment for a continuous and sequential shaping of the composite web to impart the desired profile thereto.
  • FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of apparatus for manufacturing a compositeweb according to the invention, which web consists of the support for specially shaped particles of synthetic resin, and of two layers applied to both sides of the support, which constitutes an intermediate layer. Such composite web is then subjected to further processing and a desired profile is imparted thereto by high-frequency welding.
  • FIG. 2 shows another, simplified and smaller appara tus for the manufacture of a specially designed web for supporting particles of synthetic resin.
  • An additional device is provided which enables the manufacture of a composite comprising such support web and a layer applied thereto.
  • FIG. 3 shows a first embodiment of a web according to the invention.
  • FIG. 4 shows also diagrammatically another embodiment of the web.
  • FIG. 5 is a fragmentary top plan view showing an engraved roll, such as has been shown in FIG. 1 as items 2 and 6 and provided with an engraved pattern 21 or 62 and in FIG. 2 as item 12.
  • FIg. 6 is a diagrammatic view showing an apparatus according to the invention for use in a process in which a moving support web for the particles of synthetic resin is to be provided on both boundary surfaces with said particles of synthetic resin in an array and distribution which are prescribed by the engraved patterns of the two rolls serving to apply such particles.
  • FIG. 7 shows an embodiment of the apparatus according to the invention in which there are no thermal treating means intended to ensure the distribution of the particles on the web to be provided therewith but the transfer of the particles to the receiving support web is effected in a strictly mechanical way by brushing.
  • FIG. 1 shows a roll 1, which consists of a thin sheeting of cellulose or foam. This sheeting is to be processed to form a bonding material core or facing according to the invention.
  • a set of two rolls 2, 3 is provided. The first of these rolls constitutes a conveying and distributing means.
  • surface 21 of the roll 2 is structured in that it has numerous depressions and bosslike projections. The depressions have the shape of small cups having such a size, shape and depth that each cup can receive at least one particle of a ternary copolyamide of the type Nylon 6/6, 6/12 consisting of a commercially available modified polyamide in the form of dust, powder or grains.
  • a supply of the synthetic resin powder is contained in a hopper 4 disposed above the roll 2.
  • the hopper 4 contains a wiping doctor 41, which in cooperation with the surface structure 21 of the roll 2 ensures that the depressions will be filled with synthetic resin and the surplus will be wiped off when the roll rotates in the direction of the arrow shown in the drawing.
  • the roll 2 comprises a cylindrical shell, which is mounted on rollers so that the cavity of such drumlike roll may accommodate a stationary pipe, which has perforations through which, e.g., compressed air can be supplied, which flows out toward the hopper 4 so that the structure 21 is cooled as it moves past the outlet opening of the hopper 4.
  • the tackiness of the particles of plastics material can be temporarily eliminated so that the depression of the structure 21 can be filled without difficulty.
  • bosslike projections may be provided and be spaced such distances apart that each projection adjoins a depression which can accommodate one or more grains of synthetic resin. Such aggregations of the grains may have been formed artificially by agglomeration.
  • the wiping doctor 41 is suitably replaced by a rolling doctor, which in addition to a heavy core may carry a resiliently yielding cover, which promotes the doctoring of the synthetic resin into the structure 21.
  • the contact pressure roll or press-forming roll 3 is disposed opposite to the roll 2.
  • the roll 3 is mounted on an axle 31, which is engaged by a yoke 32, which is acted upon by a spring 33, which bears on a stationary abutment 34.
  • the cylindrical rings 35 are fitted on the end portions of the axle 31 and are guided between the sliding shoes 36, 37. In this way, a contact pressure or forming pressure is applied to the support web 11, which consists of cellulose or foam and has been introduced into the nip 38, 39 between the rolls 2 and 3.
  • Another stationary pipeline may be provided in the cavity of the drumlike roll 2 near the common point of contact between the rolls 2 and 3 and support web 11 of cellulose or foam and this additional pipeline may comprise perforations which face said common point of contact. If this second pipeline is connected to a source of hot air, the temperatures at the point of contact will be higher than those at the remaining portions of the roll 2.
  • the particles of synthetic resin which have been received are somewhat tacky so that they adhere to the web 11 of cellulose or foam and are carried along by the same, which is thus provided with particles of synthetic resin in the desired distribution.
  • These measures are only supplemental. Because the web 1 1 of cellulose or foam is subjected to the contact pressure exerted by the roll 3, elements of the web 11 of cellulose or foam enter the depressions or the spaces between the bosslike projections. These elements of the web 11 contact the particles of synthetic resin and carry the latter along mechanically in an entirely sufficient degree.
  • An endless belt conveyor 51 is disposed below the means 1, 2, 3, and 4. Additional means for treating the support web 11 are disposed along the length of the belt 51.
  • the conveyor belt 51 is trained around pulleys 52, one of which is driven.
  • the conveyor belt is arranged so that the web 11 of cellulose or foam can just pass between the bottom of the roll or drum 2 and the upper course of the conveyor belt 51.
  • the roll or drum 2 is succeeded by the infrared radiators 53, which transform the particles received by the web 11 of cellulose or foam into a state in which they are adhered and thus fixed.
  • the radiators are succeeded by a treating unit 54, e.g., in the form of a tunnel oven.
  • the web 11 of cellulose or foam lying on the conveyor belt 51 traverses the unit 54 in the length which is required for a transformation of the web of cellulose or foam and the particles into the desired state.
  • streams of hot air 55 may be directed onto the web and the particles at such a rate and temperature that the particles of synthetic resin are at least superficially sintered and may be completely sintered if this is desired.
  • cold air nozzles 56, 57 are provided, which cool the web 11 of cellulose or foam and the particles of synthetic resin on one side of said web to room temperature.
  • Plastics material is applied to the rear side by means of apparatus 6 comprising a hopper 61 for a further supply of particles of synthetic resin, a doctor means 62, a roll 63 having a surface structure 64, a contact roll or contact pressure roll 65, a belt conveyor 66, infrared radiators 67 and a tunnel oven 68.
  • the final unit of the apparatus consists of a double calender 7 comprising calender rolls 71 and 72.
  • the particles on both sides of the support 1 1 have become tacky so that textile fabrics 81, 82 withdrawn from the rolls 83, 84 may be introduced into the nip between the rolls 71, 72.
  • the resulting composite web has the desired properties and is then subjected to further processing, particularly to profiling by highfrequency welding with or without additional inserts, fillers, inserted or applied pads, because only those particles of synthetic resin which are disposed on the surface of the support 11 were used as bonding material when the webs 81, 82 were joined by calendering.
  • the web of cellulose or foam is so thin that there are also particles inside the layers of cellulose or foam in an amount which is sufficient to enable them to act as bonding material during the subsequent high-frequency welding.
  • the term dot pattern describes a distribution of the particles of synthetic resin in which these particles, on a statistical average, form spaced apart dots. Such a dot pattern will be automatically obtained as a loosely scattered pattern if the synthetic resin is applied electrostatically, under the action of high-voltage electrostatic fields.
  • the field may be controlled so that the resulting lines of force are such that the electrostatically accelerated particles of synthetic resin form the desired dot pattern when they impinge on and penetrate the support.
  • the support may be pretreated for this step, e.g., by moistening, which may be effected by very fine water sprays or by steaming.
  • the support is highly delicate, e.g., if it consists of a very thin sheet of foam, it will be suitable to depart from the embodiment shown by way of example and to move the web along a vertical path.
  • Such movement along a vertical or very steep path also enables the application of the particles of synthetic resin on both sides on the same level, e.g., by the electrostatic method discussed hereinbefore, so that the endless supporting, guiding and/or conveying belts discussed in conjunction with the illustrated embodiment and required in conjunction with delicate supports moved along a horizontal path may be eliminated.
  • These supports moving along steep paths may be provided with the synthetic resin on different levels, of course, particularly when it is deemed desirable to provide synthetic resin on one side of the support first and then to subject said synthetic resin to treatments which are suitably completed before particles of synthetic resin are applied to the other boundary surface of the web.
  • FIG. 2 shows a much smaller and simpler plant for the manufacture of a support according to the. present invention.
  • the machine according to FIG. 2 comprises a U-shaped frame 101, which is open toward the foundation.
  • the upper boundary surface of a web 103 of the U-shaped frame carries a number of units disposed along the path of a very thin web 104 consisting of cellulose or polyurethane ester foam.
  • This web has a thickness of 1.00-1.50 millimeters if it consists of foam and will be much thinner if it consists of cellulose.
  • the devices carried by the upper boundary surface of the table top formed, by the web 103 of the frame 101 are preceded in the path of the support web 104 by a tensioning and stretching device 105, which ensures that the support web 104 will have a perfectly flat and smooth configuration;
  • the support web 104 is supplied by the reversing rollers 106 to the first press-forming roll 107, which is carried by the table top 102.
  • the required pressure isproduced by the cylinder-piston unit 100, which comprises a piston rod 110 connected to an axle 109 on which the press-forming roll 107 is mounted.
  • the latter contacts a surface-structured intermediate roll 112, which rotates in the direction of arrow 111. and is provided with cooling and heating means which are not shown.
  • the cylinder-piston unit 100 which comprises a piston rod 110 connected to an axle 109 on which the press-forming roll 107 is mounted.
  • the latter contacts a surface-structured intermediate roll 112, which rotates in the direction of arrow 111. and is provided with
  • the structuring consists of recesses, which are formed in the peripheral surface of the roll 112 and have a size and distribution to match a synthetic resin particle of medium size and the desired distribution thereof.
  • These lenticular recesses are disposed one beside the other on the surface of the roll 112 and do not substantially exceed in size that spherical cap which is formed on an assumedly spherical particle of synthetic resin generally having a size between and 150 microns and faces the structured surface. This statement does not exclude exceptions residing in the use of smaller or larger particles.
  • Such synthetic resin powder is placed into a hopper l13,-which is disposed above a structured roll 112.
  • Rolling and scraping doctors 114 are provided to restrict the rate at which synthetic resin powder is supplied to the recesses in the structured sur face of the roll 112 to the total capacity of the roll 112 on the assumption that there is virtually only one powder particle in each recess.
  • the roll is at a temperature which is higher than room temperature and which is selected so that the resulting operating conditions are such that a powder particle in a recess in the surface of the roll 112 will remain in this recess during the rotation of the roll. This will not involve difficulties if the heated powder particle is sufficiently tacky.
  • the support web 104 enters a nip between the rolls 107 and 112 and subsequently covers the entire lower hemicylinder of the roll 112 inclusive of the powder particles of synthetic resin therein so that the particles of synthetic resin received by the recesses formed by the surface structure of the rolls will be unable to leave their position even if there is a lack of adhesive forces which could hold the particles in position.
  • a pressforming roll 116 is alsoprovided with cooling or heating means and operates under such conditions that the combination of mechanical and thermal actions results in a removal of the support 104 together with the particles of synthetic resin from the roll 112.
  • the mechanical actions are again exerted by a piston-cylinder unit 117, which by a piston rod 118 acts on the mounting for a shaft 119, which carries the press-forming roll 116.
  • the above-mentioned cooling and/or heating means are provided for exerting the thermal actions. It appears suitable to maintain at the surface of the roll 116 a somewhat higher temperature than at the structured surface of the roll 112 so that there is an increased safety that the particles of synthetic resin disposed in the recesses of the structured surface of the roll 112- are in fact transferred from the surface of the roll 112 to the support 104.
  • a finishing material thus made is to be joined in the same machine to another layer to form a composite material in such a manner that the existing bonding tendency of the finishing material is utilized or partly or completely re-established
  • that other layer which may consist, e.g., of a foam layer, may be withdrawn from a roll, which has been wound on a reel 124,- which is carried by a mount supported by the frame 101.
  • That layer of the composite material which is to be bonded to the finishing material 104 is designated 126 and moves around a deflecting and tensioning roll 127 to the nip between the press-forming roll 116 and another pressure roll 129 provided for this purpose.
  • the tensioning roll 127 is under the influence of a tensioning lever 130, to which a piston-cylinder unit or a tension spring 131 is pivoted.
  • the tensioning lever is pivoted by an articulated joint 132 to one end of a rocker lever 133, which is pivoted at 134 to the frame 101 or the piston-cylinder unit 117.
  • the pistoncylinder unit 108 and 117 may obviously be replaced by biasing springs or biasing weights which are adjustable as to spring stress or weight and/or lever arm.
  • a means for driving the entire arrangement is indicated at 135.
  • Cooling and/or heating are suitably effected by cooling and heating liquids consisting, e.g., of liquid sols, oils, diphenyl, polyglycols and other inert liquids.
  • a direct cooling e.g., by Peltier elements, or directly acting heating means consisting, e.g., of electric heating coils, steam pipes etc., may be used.
  • FIG. 3 is an enlarged sectional view showing diagrammatically a web according to the invention.
  • Upper and lower facings are indicated at 201 and 202, respectively.
  • Fillers 203 and 204 in the form of non-woven fabrics are disposed between the facings 201 and 202.
  • Such fillers may consist of all fiber materials having properties enabling their use as fillers. These materials include particularly natural and man-made fibers.
  • natural fibers include plant and animal fibers and man-made fibers include fibers of natural and synthetic raw materials.
  • a support 205 for the bonding material is also provided.
  • the bonding material is diagrammatically indicated by synthetic resin particles 251 of modified polyamides.
  • the intermediate layer 205 has been shown to be divided into sections 252, 253, 254, in order to indicate that as shown, e.g., at 252 the support for the particles 251 of synthetic resin may consist of a foam layer, which may preferably consist of foamed plastics material, such as polyurethanes.
  • Reference numeral 253 indicates that one or more layers of non-woven fabric may be used to form the intermediate layer 205. Particles of synthetic resin incorporated therein are indicated at 255.
  • the section 254 illustrates that cellulose may be used as a support for synthetic resin particles 256 consisting of modified polyamides. Alternatively, a spun-bond fabric may be used, although the same is not shown in the drawing. Any material may be used which is capable of accommodating synthetic resin which is in a suitable form and has been applied or incorporated, and of holding said synthetic resin in position.
  • a three-dimensional profile is indicated at 271, 272 and formed by the application of high-frequency electrodes at these points. The shaping of the bonding layer 205 has not been shown in order to avoid a disturbance of the showing of the sections consisting of different materials.
  • the three-dimensional profile which is due to the high-frequency welds 271, 272 is formed also in the bonding layer 205 so that the deformation affects the synthetic resin particles 251, 255, 256 and the entire stack of layers 201, 203, 205, 204, 202.
  • the simultaneous welding of the layers at 271 and 272 results in the three-dimensional profile.
  • such profile could be formed only by the provision of quilted seams, particularly of ornamental quilted seams, at these points.
  • the function of the stitching threads is now performed by the synthetic resin particles 251, 255, 256, etc. and three-dimensional profiles are formed in a configuration which corresponds to the arrangement and shape of the high-frequency electrodes, which are not shown themselves.
  • the fillers 203 and 204 remain in their original shape to form resilient pads indicated at 201, 202, 203.
  • the same high-frequency welding may be utilized to seal the web 208 at 209 and to join the filler layers 203 and 204 disposed there and the intermediate bonding layer 205 by an integral, compressed seam. It will be understood that trimming ribbons and other known means may be used at 209 to impart a pleasing appearance to the web 200 in a section thereof which is used, e.g., to make a quilt.
  • a bonding layer 310 is provided on one side of a web 306, which on the opposite side is provided only with an upper facing 301.
  • a foam layer 311 and a filler layer 312 consisting of a non-woven fabric are disposed between the web 301 and the bonding layer 310.
  • the bonding outer layer may consist of foam, as is indicated by section 313, or of a non-woven fabric, as is indicated by section 314, or of cellulose, as is indicated by section 315, or of a spun-bonded layer, which is not shown.
  • the bonding layer 310 may consist of individual layers which consist of the same materials as the sections 313, 314, 315 etc. and which succeed each other in a direction which is at right angles to the direction in which the sections 313, 314, 315 etc. succeed. Regardless of the composition of the bonding layer 310, it will also comprise applied or embedded particles 316 or 315 of synthetic resin so that the same requirements are met as in the web of FIG. 3 regarding the shaping of the web into a three-dimensional profile, which is not shown in FIG. 4.
  • the invention extends the field of application of finishing materials in general and enables the use of such materials in composite materials having layers which are so sensible to elevated temperatures that it was difficult or impossible to use them in a composite material.
  • These applications include, e.g., the manufacture of seats, seat backs, door linings, side part linings for use by the motor vehicles industry; side parts of easy chairs and couches, seat cushions for easychairs and couches, back cushions for easychairs and couches, complete couch seat covers in one piece, couch backs in one piece, profiled backs for upholstered furniture (these could be made before only by manual stacking), mattress cover plates, mainly in one piece, with the usual quilting ornaments, for use by the mattress industry; facings for use on parts of furniture and wall surfaces, which facings comprise weldprofiled sheetings, for use by manufacturers of furniture and room decorations; mattress covers, healthpromoting mattress cover pads, diamond pattern covering featherbeds, covered blankets, quilts filled with fibers, downs and feathers, blankets for daytime use, pillows filled with washable synthetic fibers, for use by manufacturers of bed goods; filled dressing gowns, anoraks and sleeping bags, for use by garment makers; material for camping purposes, comprising heatinsulating, upholstered tent walls, tent flooring, tent
  • finishing materials according to the invention may be used in general for welding any textile fabric or three-dimensional textile structure regardless of the nature and composition of the fiber material.
  • the finishing material may also be used with natural leather, particularly for upholstery purposes, also with artificial leather, plastics material sheeting covered with textile fabrics, plastics material sheeting alone, or the like.
  • welding to paperboard, carton and other backings of textile or other character without need for any preparatory work, or to metallic backings, metal foil, sheet metal, metal plate and any combinations of such material and structures which are formed thereby and attached to or incorporated in or built around other structures, is not excluded.
  • layers or parts and- /or bodies of composite materials may also consist of foams or foam bodies which are independent of the nature of the finishing material, and that the new finishing material may be used on the outer boundary surfaces of layers, parts and/or bodies as well as in the form of intermediate layers, intermediate parts and/or intermediate bodies.
  • sintering temperatures includes temperatures at which the particles are tacky. Specifically, higher temperatures which are below the melting or sintering temperatures may be sufficient in special cases to produce the technical results for which they are used.
  • polyamides are available which have an excellent resistance to water and almost all conventional solvents, and do not exhibit embrittlement or other signs of ageing, e.g., as a result of a change in plasticizer content by evaporation or otherwise, so that these polyamides may be used in composite materials from which textile produces can be made which do not tend to become as stiff as boards and which maintain their textile hand even when worn for a prolonged time and when dry-cleaned several times.
  • This statement relates particularly to a resistance to hydrocarbons (gasoline, benzene, xylene, etc.). and chlorinated hydrocarbons (ethylene trichloride, carbon tetrachloride, ethylene perchloride etc.).
  • Composite materials made according to the invention may be subjected to the action of acids of low concentration and of alkaline solutions with negligible effect. They are soluble in mixtures of lower alcohols (methanol, butanol etc.) and water only when heated at the same time, and any initially formed solution will be stabilized in 1:1 mixtures of methanol and methylene chloride at room temperature when a concentration of 20 percent has been reached. Such copolyamides perfectly resist warm water and swell only slightly in boiling water. Hence, they can be washed at temperatures up to 80 and perfectly resist all usual dry-cleaning processes.
  • acids of low concentration and of alkaline solutions with negligible effect. They are soluble in mixtures of lower alcohols (methanol, butanol etc.) and water only when heated at the same time, and any initially formed solution will be stabilized in 1:1 mixtures of methanol and methylene chloride at room temperature when a concentration of 20 percent has been reached.
  • Such copolyamides perfectly resist warm water and swell only slightly in boiling water
  • FIG. 5 indicates how synthetic resin particles transferred to the support, e.g., in a pattern corresponding to the engraved pattern of the engraved rolls 2 and 6 in FIG. 1 and engraved rolls 12 in FIG. 2 from a line pattern, which surrounds parallelogram fields having equal side lengths. These fields are indicated at 501, 502, 503, 504 etc. in FIG. 5 and are not provided with particles of synthetic resin.
  • the fields 501, 502 etc. are surrounded by fields 510, 511, 512, 513, 514 etc. and 521, 522, 523, 524, 525, 526, etc. in the form of very narrow, elongated strips, which are provided with particles.
  • the mutually opposite sides of the parallelograms have the same length so that the particles form the uniform pattern of arrays shown in FIG. 5.
  • FIG. 6 shows an embodiment of the invention for use in a process in which a moving support web 601 is to be provided with particles of synthetic resin on both sides.
  • the means used for this purpose are generally similar to the engraved rolls 2 and 6 in FIG. 1. It is apparent that hoppers 602 and 603 are provided for the particles of synthetic resin to be applied to the support 601, which is moved in a downward direction. Doctor means are indicated at 604, 605. These wiping doctors may be replaced by rolling doctors. Openings 606, 607 of the hoppers are in register with annularrolls 608, 609, which are supported at their inside peripheryby supporting rollers 610, 611.
  • Cooling air flows through the cavities of segment-like ducts 612, 613 disposed between the outlet openings 606, 607 of the hoppers 602, 603.
  • steam pipes 614, 615 are disposed in cavities 616, 617 of the annular rolls 608, 609 so that the support web 611 passing through the nip between'the annular rolls 608, 609 is heated to a temperature at which the particles of synthetic resin received at 606, 607 from the hoppers 602, 603 begin to plasticize.
  • thepowder particles of synthetic resin disposed in the hoppers 602, 603 are received at relatively low temperatures in the engraved pattern, not shown, on outside peripheral surfaces 618, 619 of the annular .rolls 608, 609. Owing to this low temperature, the particles are not tacky and readily enter the engraved pattern provided to receive these particles. As a result,,the particles are distributed as is represented by the line pattern of FIG. 5 if the engraved patterns, not shown, in the peripheral surfaces 618, 619 are filled with particles of synthetic resin whereas no particles are applied to parallelogram fields 501, 502, 503, 504 etc. disposed between the recesses formed by this engraved pattern. In this condition the peripheral surfaces 618, 619 of the rolls contact the support 601.
  • annular rolls 608, 609 are provided with pressure-applying devices indicated in FIG. 1 at 31-37 and the particles are very tacky because they begin to plasticize under the action of the steam pipes 614, 615, the particles are transferred to the boundary surfaces of the support 601 exactly in the intended distribution shown in FIG. 5. This distribution is indicated by reference numbers 620, 621.
  • FIG. 7 shows a simpler apparatus for transferring particles to a support 701 in an arrangement and distribution which is prescribed by the engraved pattern of a roll 702.
  • the apparatus comprises a hopper 703 for the particles of synthetic resin and a wiping doctor 704.
  • the particles of synthetic resin enter through an opening 705 of the hopper 703 the engraved pattern, not shown, of the roll 702 and are entrained by said pattern in the direction of arrow 706.
  • a first part of the particles falls out of the engraved pattern under the action of gravity onto the upper boundary surface of the support 701, which is advanced in the direction of arrow 707.
  • a high frequency weldable material for use in the manufacture of a composite material containing said weldable material, said weldable material comprising a thin, web-like structure which is permeable to gas, vapor and liquid and which is free of a tendency to rustle when subjected to deformation, and discrete particles arranged in a line pattern on at least one boundary surface of said structure and consisting of a thermoplastic synthetic resin resistant to the action of detergents and drycleaning agents and which is adapted to melt and to produce a high-frequency welded seam under the action of a high-frequency field for joining said structure to a layer adjacent thereto.

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