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EP1878817A1
EP1878817A1 EP06014442A EP06014442A EP1878817A1 EP 1878817 A1 EP1878817 A1 EP 1878817A1 EP 06014442 A EP06014442 A EP 06014442A EP 06014442 A EP06014442 A EP 06014442A EP 1878817 A1 EP1878817 A1 EP 1878817A1
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D01—NATURAL OR MAN-MADE THREADS OR FIBRES; SPINNING
    • D01D—MECHANICAL METHODS OR APPARATUS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL FILAMENTS, THREADS, FIBRES, BRISTLES OR RIBBONS
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    • D01—NATURAL OR MAN-MADE THREADS OR FIBRES; SPINNING
    • D01D—MECHANICAL METHODS OR APPARATUS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL FILAMENTS, THREADS, FIBRES, BRISTLES OR RIBBONS
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  • the present invention relates to a novel fiber, high airtightness fabrics and a fabricating method, more particularly a fabricating method for a tetragon fiber and fabrics made of the tetragon fiber.
  • the present invention provides high airtightness fabrics by compact arrangement of the tetragon fibers.
  • High airtightness fabrics have been used extensively in clothing-related products such as waterproof, windproof, and warmth-retention fabrics.
  • Industrial applications of high airtightness fabrics include the leisure articles, packing materials, shoes materials, conveying belts, automobile airbags and other textile products.
  • the fibers used in air-tight fabrics must be able to yield high degrees of compaction and thus low interstices among the fibers to lower the air permeability.
  • the airbag fabric must have low air permeability, in addition to dimensional stability and durability, to ensure high performance on instant inflation of the airbag in action.
  • Commercial products generally have air permeability less than 1.0 cc/cm 2 sec. The desired air permeability is as low as possible.
  • the fibers In order to achieve the lowest air permeability possible, the fibers should be designed to provide lowest degree of inter-fiber spaces. Tetragon fibers, preferably square fibers, are most desirable for this purpose.
  • the prior arts JP2002-129444 and JP2003-183945 both are Japanese patents, disclose a flat fiber and airtight fabrics made of this fiber. However, the flat fibers have relatively low tensile strength. Furthermore, it is necessary but difficult to control the fiber orientation during the weaving process.
  • the present invention provides a method for fabricating tetragon fibers.
  • the main purpose of the invention is to achieve ultrahigh airtightness in fabrics by altering the cross section of the fiber to tetragonal shape and compacting the stacking of the tetragon fibers in fabrics.
  • a fiber of tetragonal cross section may be partially oriented yarn (POY), fully oriented yarn (FOY) or spin draw yarn (SDY).
  • the fibers can be arranged with minimal interstices in the fabricated fabrics to achieve the objective of high airtightness. Futhermore, the production is straightforward, using no polluting coating and therefore potentially low-cost as compared to the prior arts.
  • Another objective of the present invention is to provide a fabric made of the tetragonal fiber that may be used in the production of airbag, safety belt, tent, and other industrial products requiring high airtightness or fabric density.
  • the present invention provides a method for fabricating tetragon fibers, comprising the steps of melting a thermoplastic polymer; extruding the molten polymer from a special contoured nozzle which yields the tetragonal cross section in the molten polymer threads; passing the molten polymer threads through a modified quenching zone, in which the cooling air blocking section is reduced at the upper part of the quenching zone; solidifying the molten polymer threads to form solid polymer threads; and finally, rolling up and stretching the polymer threads to form fibers with a tetragonal cross section.
  • the length of the shortened air-blocked zone is within 0.1 - 15 cm; the ratio of the long to the short side of the tetragonal cross-section is in the range of 1.0-2.0.
  • the tetragon fiber provided by the present invention is produced by the method aforementioned.
  • the cross section of the tetragon fiber is preferably a rectangle, and most preferably a square.
  • the tetragon fiber of the present invention may be a non-hollow tetragon fiber or a hollow tetragon fiber, preferably the non-hollow tetragon fiber.
  • the fiber material is a thermoplastic polymer, copolymer or mixture thereof.
  • the thermoplastic polymer includes, but is not limited to polyamide resin, polyester or polyolefin; the preferred polyamide resin is the nylon family, e.g. Nylon 6, Nylon 11, Nylon 12, Nylon 46, Nylon 66, Nylon 610, and Nylon 612, etc.
  • Other examples of polyamide resin suitable for the present invention are described in pp. 19-20 of J. Gordon Cook's Handbook of Textile Fibres, 5th edition, Trowbridge GB (1984 ).
  • the relative viscosity of the polyamide resin used for fabricating the fiber of the present invention is preferably in the range of 30-150 (tested with 90% HCOOH at a concentration of 1.0 g/dl and 25°C).
  • the polyester used by the present invention includes but is not limited to polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polytrimethylene terephthalate (PTT) or polybutylene terephthalate (PBT).
  • the polyolefin used by the present invention includes but not limited to polyethyelene (PE) and polypropylene (PP).
  • the present invention further provides a fabric made of the aforementioned tetragon fiber, in which the warp and the weft fibers may be consisted of monofilament or multifilament fibers.
  • the present invention presents a novel method of producing a tetragonal non-hollow fiber by the design of a special contour-shaped nozzle hole and the design of a shortened air-blocked zone in the spinning duct.
  • the shape of the fiber thereof differs from the round or elliptical shape of traditional fibers.
  • the fiber with a tetragon cross section of the present invention yields a denser fabric construct than traditional fibers with round cross sections in the weaving process; hence the airtightness and thus the windproof performance of the fabrics increase.
  • the tetragon fiber, fabrics thereof and the manufacturing method of the present invention present a new technology of making airtight fabrics to reach a performance level which has not been achieved before by noncoated fabrics. These high performance airtight fabrics are suitable for many apparel and industrial applications.
  • the present invention relates to a special tetragon fiber and a high airtightness fabric made by the fiber.
  • the airtight fabric may be used in applications requiring low air permeability such as automobile airbags and others.
  • the fiber of the present invention is produced by melting a thermoplastic polymer to form a molten polymer, which is extruded from special contoured nozzles and passed through a shortened air-blocked section in the air quenching zone for accelerated solidification of the filaments. The spinning conditions are controlled to maintain the tetragonal shape in the spinning line.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates the design of the shortened air-blocked section in the air quenching zone in the present invention
  • FIG. 1 (b) displays the corresponding design of the air quenching zone in a traditional setup.
  • the method of fabricating the tetragon fiber of the present invention comprises the steps of: heating and melting a thermoplastic polymer; extruding the molten polymer from the special contour-shape nozzle; passing it through an air-blocked zone in the form of molten filaments; cooling and solidifying the molten filaments in the air quenching zone to form solid filaments; finally, drawing the filaments to form fibers of the desired tetragon cross section and winding up on a winder .
  • the cross section of the tetragon fiber preferably has a rectangular shape, and more preferably a square shape.
  • the shape of the nozzle hole is determined by the shape of the target fiber. More precisely, the tetragon fiber is made with a nozzle of contoured tetragon holes; similarly, the square fiber is extruded through a nozzle of contoured square holes. The molten polymer, after leaving the nozzle, swells to the desired tetragonal or square shape with proper control of spinning conditions.
  • the shortened air-blocked section in the air quenching zone to accelerate cooling which leads to the fixation of the desired cross section in the molten filaments.
  • the molten polymer after being extruded from the nozzle, enters the air quenching zone more quickly than in conventional spinning apparatus as a result of the reduced length of the air-blocked zone.
  • the length of the air-blocked zone is set at 0.1 - 15 cm, and more preferably 0.1 - 5 cm.
  • the length of the traditional air-blocked zone is approximately 20 - 30 cm, as shown in FIG. 1(b).
  • the method for preparing the airtightness fiber of the invention comprises the following steps. First, heat and melt the fiber material.
  • the nozzle temperature which varies with the fiber material, is generally set in the range of 180 - 320°C, above the melting point of the fiber material. For example, the nozzle temperature for preparing the polyamide 66 fiber is set at 285 - 300°C.
  • Second, the melted fiber material extruded from the nozzle is cooled and solidified quickly to form solid filaments in the air quenching zone. Cooling and solidifying is conducted by blowing cold air of 15 - 23°C and application of finish oil to consolidate the filament bundle.
  • the cooling air speed is 0.1 - 1.5 m/sec, and more preferably 0.5-1.0 m/sec.
  • the solidified filaments are subsequently winded up or further drawn in a heated roller set to achieve desired fiber properties before being winded up.
  • the spun fiber may be subjected to texturing processes such as false twisting, air texturing or others to enhance the bulkiness of the fiber and fabrics. It should be noted that the cross section of the fiber must be maintained throughout the process of drawing or texturing.
  • the tetragon fiber produced by the aforementioned process may have the ratio of the long side vs. the short side of tetragon cross-section is preferably between 1.0 and 2.0.
  • the fibers produced by the aforementioned process are used to construct fabrics by weaving.
  • the fabrics comprise weft and warp yarns of 10-500 threads/inch.
  • the tetragon fibers herein can be used to produce all kinds of fabrics, but not limited to woven, knitted, and non-woven structures.
  • the fabrication methods for the fabrics are known to all skilled textile professionals and are not otherwise specified or described.
  • fibers By the nature of tetragon cross section, fibers can be arranged and stacked in a very compact format, which leads to high airtightness in the fabrics.
  • the fabrics can be applied in windproof and thermal wears, shoe material, tent, conveying belt, and air bag, etc.
  • Example 1 Fabrication of square fibers used for the production of high airtightness fabrics
  • Nylon 66 chips of RV 100 is charged into an extruder, heated and melted at 290°C and extruded, at a rate of 72 g/min, from a special contoured nozzle to form molten polymer threads of tetragonal cross section.
  • the molten filaments are passed through an air-cooling zone, in which air is blocked for a length of 5 cm at the upper part of the zone; a quenching air of 0.7 m/sec is blown at the rest of the cooling zone.
  • the molten filaments are solidified and sprayed with finish oil to achieve a dynamic coefficient of friction of 0.35 (F/U ⁇ d) at the location of 150 cm below the exit of the spinning nozzle.
  • the solidified tetragon filaments are fed into a heated roller set and drawn at a ratio of 5.0.
  • the winding tension of the filaments is controlled around 0.15 g/d, and the winding speed is set at 3200 m/min.
  • the fiber obtained has a tenacity of 8.3 g/denier and a breaking elongation of 19%.
  • the cross section of the fiber is as shown in FIG. 2.
  • FIG. 3(a) is a sketch of the perfectly stacked squares
  • FIG. 3(b) is a sketch of the perfectly stacked spheres.
  • the higher packing density of the squares is the logic behind the present invention.
  • FIG. 4(a) and (b) show the scanning electron micrographs of the physical fibers of square and round cross section.
  • the square fiber obtained in Example 1 is used to produce woven fabrics to investigate its effect on air permeability.
  • Two weaving densities have been adopted in the construction of the fabrics: 49 and 55 threads/inch for both the warp and the weft directions.
  • the first part of the experiments uses the square fiber to investigate the effect of the square fiber on air permeability as the weft yarn only.
  • the second part of the experiments employs the square fiber in both the weft and the warp directions to fully exploit the effect of the square fiber on airtightness.
  • Du Pont's T725 420d /68f M1V297 industrial yarn which is of round cross section, is used for the warp; the square fiber obtained in Example 1 and Du Pont's round fiber, same as the warp, are used for the weft.
  • the content of the fibers in the fabrics is therefore roughly 50% round fiber and 50% square fiber.
  • the air permeability data are shown in Table 1.
  • the fabric with the square fiber as the weft yarn has a permeability of 0.335 cc/cm 2 . sec, which is 57% lower than the 0.782 cc/cm 2 . sec of the control sample with all round fibers.
  • the fabric with the square fiber as the weft yarn has a permeability of 0.117 cc/cm 2 . sec, which is 45% lower than the 0.213 cc/cm 2 . sec of the controlled sample with 100% round fibers.
  • both the warp and the weft yarns employ the square fiber.
  • the air permeability is further decreased to 0.168 and 0.057 cc/cm 2 .
  • the data are shown in Table 1.
  • the weaving tension is controlled to be 95 and 100 kg for the 65 * 49 * 49 and 65 * 55 * 55 constructions, respectively.
  • the woven fabrics are subsequently heat-set at 185 °C at a conveyor speed of 30 m/min.
  • Table 1 Comparison of the air permeability of the fabrics constructed with the square and the round fiber Woven fabric Width (inch)* warp density (threads/inch)* weft density (threads/inch) Warp (420d/68f) Weft (420d/68f) Air permeability (cc/cm 2 ⁇ sec) Difference (%) 65*49*49 Dupont (round fiber) Dupont (round fiber) 0.782 - Dupont (round fiber) ITRI (square fiber) 0.335 57.2 ITRI (square fiber) ITRI (square fiber) 0.168 78.5 65*55*55 Dupont (round fiber) Dupont (round fiber) 0.213 - Dupont (round fiber) ITRI (square fiber) 0.117 45.1 ITRI (square fiber) ITRI (square fiber) 0.057 73.2
  • the fibers disclosed in the present invention have a tetragonal cross section and the woven fabrics made thereof exhibit higher air permeability than the fabrics with conventional round fibers.
  • the fiber in the prior art JP2002129444 may also be used to produce airtight fabrics; however, the strength uniformity of the fabrics is not adequate due to the difficulty of the tension control in the weaving process.
  • airtight fabrics are fabricated by coating the fabrics with resin. Coating uses chemicals which generally cause environmental pollution; furthermore, resin coating may peel off in use and involve higher production cost.
  • the tetragon fiber, and in particular the square fiber, of the present invention employs the physical principle of compact stacking of the special cross section.

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EP2221400A1 (de) * 2009-02-23 2010-08-25 Shinkong Synthetic Fibers Corporation Quadratisch-analoge Vierloch-Hohlklammerfaser
CN111235651A (zh) * 2019-01-10 2020-06-05 光山县群力化纤有限公司 一种8d锦纶6超亮光三叶型单丝的生产方法
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EP2221400A1 (de) * 2009-02-23 2010-08-25 Shinkong Synthetic Fibers Corporation Quadratisch-analoge Vierloch-Hohlklammerfaser
CN111235651A (zh) * 2019-01-10 2020-06-05 光山县群力化纤有限公司 一种8d锦纶6超亮光三叶型单丝的生产方法
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