EP1550754A1 - Procédé d' introduction d'additifs chimiques à un nontissé - Google Patents

Procédé d' introduction d'additifs chimiques à un nontissé Download PDF

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EP1550754A1
EP1550754A1 EP04029656A EP04029656A EP1550754A1 EP 1550754 A1 EP1550754 A1 EP 1550754A1 EP 04029656 A EP04029656 A EP 04029656A EP 04029656 A EP04029656 A EP 04029656A EP 1550754 A1 EP1550754 A1 EP 1550754A1
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    • D04—BRAIDING; LACE-MAKING; KNITTING; TRIMMINGS; NON-WOVEN FABRICS
    • D04H—MAKING TEXTILE FABRICS, e.g. FROM FIBRES OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; FABRICS MADE BY SUCH PROCESSES OR APPARATUS, e.g. FELTS, NON-WOVEN FABRICS; COTTON-WOOL; WADDING ; NON-WOVEN FABRICS FROM STAPLE FIBRES, FILAMENTS OR YARNS, BONDED WITH AT LEAST ONE WEB-LIKE MATERIAL DURING THEIR CONSOLIDATION
    • D04H3/00—Non-woven fabrics formed wholly or mainly of yarns or like filamentary material of substantial length
    • D04H3/08—Non-woven fabrics formed wholly or mainly of yarns or like filamentary material of substantial length characterised by the method of strengthening or consolidating
    • D04H3/10—Non-woven fabrics formed wholly or mainly of yarns or like filamentary material of substantial length characterised by the method of strengthening or consolidating with bonds between yarns or filaments made mechanically
    • D04H3/11—Non-woven fabrics formed wholly or mainly of yarns or like filamentary material of substantial length characterised by the method of strengthening or consolidating with bonds between yarns or filaments made mechanically by fluid jet
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D04—BRAIDING; LACE-MAKING; KNITTING; TRIMMINGS; NON-WOVEN FABRICS
    • D04H—MAKING TEXTILE FABRICS, e.g. FROM FIBRES OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; FABRICS MADE BY SUCH PROCESSES OR APPARATUS, e.g. FELTS, NON-WOVEN FABRICS; COTTON-WOOL; WADDING ; NON-WOVEN FABRICS FROM STAPLE FIBRES, FILAMENTS OR YARNS, BONDED WITH AT LEAST ONE WEB-LIKE MATERIAL DURING THEIR CONSOLIDATION
    • D04H1/00—Non-woven fabrics formed wholly or mainly of staple fibres or like relatively short fibres
    • D04H1/40—Non-woven fabrics formed wholly or mainly of staple fibres or like relatively short fibres from fleeces or layers composed of fibres without existing or potential cohesive properties
    • D04H1/44—Non-woven fabrics formed wholly or mainly of staple fibres or like relatively short fibres from fleeces or layers composed of fibres without existing or potential cohesive properties the fleeces or layers being consolidated by mechanical means, e.g. by rolling
    • D04H1/46—Non-woven fabrics formed wholly or mainly of staple fibres or like relatively short fibres from fleeces or layers composed of fibres without existing or potential cohesive properties the fleeces or layers being consolidated by mechanical means, e.g. by rolling by needling or like operations to cause entanglement of fibres
    • D04H1/492—Non-woven fabrics formed wholly or mainly of staple fibres or like relatively short fibres from fleeces or layers composed of fibres without existing or potential cohesive properties the fleeces or layers being consolidated by mechanical means, e.g. by rolling by needling or like operations to cause entanglement of fibres by fluid jet
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D04—BRAIDING; LACE-MAKING; KNITTING; TRIMMINGS; NON-WOVEN FABRICS
    • D04H—MAKING TEXTILE FABRICS, e.g. FROM FIBRES OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; FABRICS MADE BY SUCH PROCESSES OR APPARATUS, e.g. FELTS, NON-WOVEN FABRICS; COTTON-WOOL; WADDING ; NON-WOVEN FABRICS FROM STAPLE FIBRES, FILAMENTS OR YARNS, BONDED WITH AT LEAST ONE WEB-LIKE MATERIAL DURING THEIR CONSOLIDATION
    • D04H1/00—Non-woven fabrics formed wholly or mainly of staple fibres or like relatively short fibres
    • D04H1/70—Non-woven fabrics formed wholly or mainly of staple fibres or like relatively short fibres characterised by the method of forming fleeces or layers, e.g. reorientation of fibres
    • D04H1/72—Non-woven fabrics formed wholly or mainly of staple fibres or like relatively short fibres characterised by the method of forming fleeces or layers, e.g. reorientation of fibres the fibres being randomly arranged
    • D04H1/732—Non-woven fabrics formed wholly or mainly of staple fibres or like relatively short fibres characterised by the method of forming fleeces or layers, e.g. reorientation of fibres the fibres being randomly arranged by fluid current, e.g. air-lay
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D04—BRAIDING; LACE-MAKING; KNITTING; TRIMMINGS; NON-WOVEN FABRICS
    • D04H—MAKING TEXTILE FABRICS, e.g. FROM FIBRES OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; FABRICS MADE BY SUCH PROCESSES OR APPARATUS, e.g. FELTS, NON-WOVEN FABRICS; COTTON-WOOL; WADDING ; NON-WOVEN FABRICS FROM STAPLE FIBRES, FILAMENTS OR YARNS, BONDED WITH AT LEAST ONE WEB-LIKE MATERIAL DURING THEIR CONSOLIDATION
    • D04H3/00—Non-woven fabrics formed wholly or mainly of yarns or like filamentary material of substantial length
    • D04H3/02—Non-woven fabrics formed wholly or mainly of yarns or like filamentary material of substantial length characterised by the method of forming fleeces or layers, e.g. reorientation of yarns or filaments

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  • the invention relates to a method for adding a chemical additive to a fiber web of nonwoven material comprising cellulose pulp fibers and synthetic fibers and/or filaments.
  • nonwoven Typical properties of nonwoven include the ready ability to absorb tensile stress energy, their drapability, and good textile-like flexibility, properties that are frequently referred to as bulk softness, a high surface softness, and a high specific volume with a perceptible thickness. Further desirable properties are as high a liquid absorbency as possible and, depending on the application, a suitable wet and dry strength as well as an attractive visual appearance of the outer product surface. These properties, among others, allow nonwoven to be used for example as cleaning wipes: paper or nonwoven wipe, windscreen cleaning wipe, kitchen paper, etc, sanitary products: e.g. toilet paper, paper or nonwoven handkerchiefs, household towels, towels, cosmetic wipes: facials and as serviettes or napkins just to mention some of the products that can be used.
  • cleaning wipes paper or nonwoven wipe, windscreen cleaning wipe, kitchen paper, etc
  • sanitary products e.g. toilet paper, paper or nonwoven handkerchiefs, household towels, towels, cosmetic wipes: facials and as serviettes or napkins
  • the components and added chemicals included in nonwoven material are chosen in accordance with the intended field of use.
  • Softening and/or debonding agents as well as wet strength agents, various lint-preventing agents and all kind of different additives are in the conventional prior art applied in the wet end of the manufacturing process.
  • the softening or debonding agents decrease the hydrogen bonding between the fibers, resulting in higher bulk softness but also in a strength reduction.
  • the lint-preventing agents reduce the fiber linting from the material surface and bulk. If fibers are released from the nonwoven material surface or from the bulk they will during use eventually end up on the object that is wiped, something highly undesirable in many applications.
  • EP-B1-0 602 881 describes a method of producing a nonwoven material with a wet strength agent added in the wet end of the process.
  • a fiber dispersion comprising water, fibers, and a wet strength agent is prepared.
  • the fibers are formed into a web in a forming step.
  • a hydroentanglement process step succeeds the forming step.
  • Nonwoven materials are hydroentangled. Hydroentangling, or spunlacing as it is also called, is a technique introduced during the 1970'ies, see e.g. CA patent no. 841 938.
  • the method involves forming a fiber web, which is either drylaid or wetlaid, after which the fibers are entangled by means of very fine water jets under high pressure. Several rows of water jets are directed against the fiber web, which is supported by a movable fabric or drum. The fibers are thereby subjected to a mechanically entangling and intertwining action of the fibers as to form the nonwoven web. The entangled fiber web is then dried.
  • the fibers that are used in the nonwoven web can be synthetic or regenerated cellulose staple fibers, e.g. polyester, polyamide, polypropylene, rayon or the like, pulp fibers or mixtures of pulp fibers and staple fibers.
  • Spunlace materials of high quality can be produced to a reasonable cost and have a high absorption capacity. They can be used as wiping materials for household or industrial use, for hygiene purposes or as disposable materials in medical care or hygiene products, etc.
  • the enriched chemicals in the hydroentanglement water cleaning system will cause a number of problems.
  • filters could be clogged, e.g. in cases of wet strength agents are added, and further it may cause stops in the production process.
  • surfactants When for example surfactants are added, there might also be problems with foam formation, and also there is a risk that the flocks in the flocculation are broken, etc.
  • the chemical cost may be very expensive. Further, the yield and efficiency of the chemical additive is very low.
  • softening agents are applied onto paper by spraying onto the surface of the material.
  • the surface is lubricated and friction between fibers at the surface and friction between the surface of the material and the hand of the user is reduced.
  • US 5,484,453 it is known to spray water based treatment liquors onto textile materials, where the used liquors contain deaeration components, which are foam-free in order to thoroughly wet the textile material almost immediately.
  • a coating process is known from EP-B1-594 983 which comprises a brush spray application method, in which the material to be treated is passed through a path of fluid spray emitted from the brush spray applicator.
  • the smoothness of the surface will be improved, but only limited improvement of the softness as to e.g. drapability stiffness and bulk softness will be obtained. Also, only the fibers at the surface of the material will be affected.
  • a purpose of the invention is to reduce or remove any of the above-mentioned problems and negative effects.
  • the present invention relates thus to a method of adding a chemical additive to a fiber web of nonwoven material comprising cellulose pulp fibers and synthetic fibers and/or filaments.
  • the chemical additive is added to the fiber web by penetration into the fiber-to-fiber intersections in at least one hydrojet treatment step where the hydrojet liquid is applied at a pressure of at least 5 bar but not more than 100 bar.
  • Each hydrojet treatment step may include several hydroentanglement manifolds and comprises at least one vacuum collecting box.
  • the hydrojet liquid comprises the chemical additive.
  • the chemical additive is thus added to a fiber web of nonwoven material by using a high-pressure liquid, preferably water, e.g. via at least one separate hydroentanglement manifold.
  • the hydroentanglement treatment which is a high-pressure treatment, comprising the chemical additive according to the claimed method will be called the hydrojet treatment.
  • the hydrojet liquid is preferably a dilute solution used in the hydrojet treatment step and the dilute solution comprises preferably water and the chemical additive.
  • the claimed method will allow penetration of the chemicals, the chemical additive, through the whole material and will not only treat the surface of the material.
  • the chemical additive is added to give a certain desired effect in the nonwoven material. All the desired features according to the invention where one wish to enhance certain properties and get the added chemicals into the bulk will prosper from the claimed method.
  • the invention permits the chemical additive to penetrate into the fiber-to-fiber intersections in the nonwoven material.
  • the added chemical additive is forced into the fiber-fiber intersections by the high-pressure fluid jets, such as water jets.
  • the high pressure water jets created by the hydrojet assembly in the hydrojet treatment will move the fibers in the material and will thus allow the chemical additive to go into the fiber to fiber intersections.
  • the chemical additive will penetrate into and throughout the whole material and not only treat the surface.
  • the hydrojet liquid used in the hydrojet treatment step for penetrating the fiber web is preferably applied in an amount such that the hydrojet liquid replaces exchangeable water within the fiber web, whereby the fiber web is saturated with the hydrojet liquid comprising the chemical additive. Since the machine speeds are high it is most probable that it is the capillary water in pores and capillaries, which is exchanged.
  • the method according to the invention results in a good retention of the chemical additive.
  • the high retention of the chemicals added in the material has a high influence of the nonwoven material properties, such as linting as well as the softening effect of course.
  • the hydrojet liquid is applied in an amount corresponding to at least about 2 gram of liquid per gram of dry fiber web material weight but not more than about 10 gram of liquid per gram of dry fiber web material weight.
  • the chemical additive is selected from one or more of the following groups of wet or dry strength agents, lint-preventing agents, copolymer dispersions, latex, debonders or softeners, or mixtures thereof.
  • the wet strength agent can also be a temporary wet strength agent.
  • the chemical additive can be a chemical or chemicals and of course also be a group of chemicals.
  • the hydrojet liquid used according to the claimed method is preferably a dilute solution comprising the chemical additive.
  • the hydrojet liquid is applied at a pressure of at least 5 bar, preferably at least 20 bar but not more than 100 bar, preferably not more than 80 bar, more preferably not more than 60 bar and most preferably not more than 40 bar.
  • the hydrojet liquid is preferably a dilute solution comprising the chemical additive, which is mixed with water before it penetrates the fiber web.
  • the nonwoven material is preferably hydroentangled with a dilute solution of the chemical additive.
  • the chemical additive comprises a softening agent
  • penetration is especially desirable since the bulk properties are enhanced as the hydrogen bonds at the fiber-fiber intersections are broken in the material or at least softened or loosened up by the softening chemicals. Decreasing or reducing the inter-fiber bonding within the web when the nonwoven web comprises cellulose fibers to a certain degree can thus increase the softness and bulk. But also the stiffness of the material will be lower as the softeners will influence the fibers throughout the material. Also for other chemical additives such as wet strength agents, the effect of the additives will be greater since all of the fiber to fiber intersections are treated and not only the surface of the nonwoven material web.
  • Wet strength agents are primarily added to reduce the linting.
  • the expression "low linting” means a low release of fibers from a web, i.e. that a wipe, for example, does not release fibers onto the object that is wiped.
  • Wet strength agents can also enhance the wet strength, especially when a high content of cellulose pulp is used in the nonwoven material.
  • the term 'wet strength' also refers to the ability of the material to maintain its integrity and function in a wet condition.
  • the nonwoven material with its improved properties preferably could be produced in an inline process. This provides many advantages; among others that there is no need to dry the material several times, since all is done in the same process. Pressing is sometimes optional to get a smoother web, but when chemicals are added according to the claimed method, there is no need for such a pressing action.
  • the nonwoven material web treated with softeners or debonders will already have a softer feel and therefore no pressing is needed.
  • the natural bulk in the material is kept, which in turn have several positive effects to absorbency, softness through bulk, drapability stiffness, the elasticity in the web, etc.
  • Tables 1-6 show the different results from the laboratory experiments, evaluating some chemical additives.
  • Figures 1-2 show how the softness of nonwoven webs measured as drapability stiffness is affected when debonders are used as a chemical additive.
  • the synthetic component i.e. fibers and/or filaments
  • the synthetic component can preferably be synthetic staple fibers and/or continuous filaments.
  • Continuous filaments can preferably be laid down directly or extruded on a forming wire where they form into a web in one step.
  • the cellulose pulp fibers alone or together with synthetic fibers are either drylaid or wetlaid.
  • the synthetic component comprises continuous filaments
  • the cellulose pulp fibers, with or without synthetic fibers are drylaid or wetlaid in a preceding step or onto the web of continuous filaments in a subsequent step.
  • the wetlaying step can be a conventional step or a foam-forming step.
  • the fiber web of the nonwoven material comprising cellulose pulp fibers there could preferably be at least one hydroentanglement step.
  • the formed fibrous web is hydroentangled while it is still supported by the wire.
  • the entangling wire may optionally be patterned in order to form a patterned nonwoven material.
  • the filaments can be manufactured in different ways. Extruding a molten polymer through a spinneret to form discrete filaments produces spunlaid fibers. Subsequently, the filaments are cooled and stretched out to an appropriate diameter in a mechanic or pneumatic way so that they form a fiber web of continuous filaments.
  • the fiber diameter is usually above 10 ⁇ m, e.g. between 10 and 100 ⁇ m.
  • Meltblown fibers are formed by means of meltblown equipment, for example of the kind shown in the US patents 3,849,241 or 4,048,364. The method shortly involves that a polymer melt is extruded through a nozzle in very fine streams.
  • the polymer melt discharges from the nozzle, it is stretched out into thin, continuous filaments by means of converging air streams in a high-pressure fluid, such as hot air or vapor, which are directed towards the polymer streams.
  • the fibers can be microfibers or macrofibers depending on their dimension. Microfibers have a diameter of up to 20 ⁇ m.
  • the extrusion method can thus be carried out, for example, by means of a meltblowing or spunbonding technique.
  • the cellulose pulp fiber fraction is laid on top of the continuous filaments as an aqueous or a foamed fibrous dispersion from a head box.
  • the fibers are dispersed in water and the fiber dispersion is dewatered on a forming fabric to form a wetlaid fibrous web.
  • Foam forming is an alternative to the wetforming of the fiber web.
  • foam forming a foam forming surfactant is added to the fiber dispersion, hereafter the fiber dispersion is dewatered on a wire in corresponding way as in wetforming.
  • a foamformed fibrous web has a very uniform fiber formation; the foam forming technique is described in for example WO 96/02701, GB 1,329,409, US 4,443,297 and EP-A-0938 601.
  • the nonwoven material can use different fibers in various mixing proportions.
  • the synthetic fibers and/or filaments used in the nonwoven material can be fibers such as e.g. polyester, polypropylene, polyamide, polyethylene, and polylactides. Copolymers of these polymers may of course also be used, as well as natural polymers with thermoplastic properties.
  • the nonwoven material can be formed of rayon, lyocell etc, but also of natural fibers, such as cellulose or cotton fibers, or a mix of different fibers.
  • the synthetic component may be continuous filaments in the form of meltblown and/or spunbond fibers, or prefabricated fibers of a finite length, as synthetic fibers produced in situ or in the form of staple fibers.
  • natural fibers with a long fiber length can be used, e.g. above 12 mm, such as seed hair fibers, e.g. cotton, kapok and milkweed; leaf fibers, e.g. sisal, abaca, pineapple, New Zealand hamp, or bast fibers, e.g. flax, hemp, ramie, jute, kenaf. Varying fiber lengths can be used.
  • Cellulose pulp fibers that can be used in accordance with the invention may be of any kind available. Some of the conventional available chemical pulps may be sulphite, sulphate or organosolve pulp. Mechanical cellulose pulp can be grinded, refined, thermo-mechanical, high thermo-mechanical, chemi-mechanical and so on. The pulp may be of any kind: coniferous, deciduous or any other alternative source of cellulose fibers or the like. Another important pulp source is recycled fibers, both from internal rejects and brokes as well as from external recycled fibers.
  • the fiber web of nonwoven material to which a chemical additive is added according to the invention may thus use any synthetic fibers.
  • fibers of many different kinds and in different mixing proportions of varying fiber lengths can be used for making the wetlaid, drylaid or foam formed fibrous web.
  • Cellulose pulp fibers, synthetic fibers or mixtures thereof can be used.
  • the nonwoven material hydrojet treated according to the invention comprises cellulose pulp fibers and synthetic fibers and/or filaments.
  • the cellulose pulp makes the material cheaper to produce since synthetic fibers are expensive. Further, the pulp may be necessary in order to be able to reach the right material properties depending on the manufacturing process.
  • the fiber web comprises at least about 20% dry weight of cellulose fibers. There is a visible and clear change in the nonwoven product when the cellulose pulp reaches and exceeds the amount of about 20% by dry weight.
  • the cellulose pulp contributes with absorbent properties to the material, but it also makes the material stiffer mainly due to the strong hydrogen bonding.
  • the fibers in the cellulose pulp fills up the holes in the network and thereby contributes to the strength and the integrity and opacity of a much more solid material, however it also makes the problem with linting much bigger.
  • the softeners and/or debonders used according to an embodiment of the invention could be any of the commercially available softeners and/or debonders.
  • Examples of often used softeners and/or debonders are chemicals containing one or more substances such as cationic and/or nonionic surfactants, quaternary ammonium compounds, polyhydroxy compounds and imidazolinium quaternary compounds, polysiloxanes, or mixtures thereof.
  • tissue paper consisting mainly of cellulose fibers depends very much on the fiber-to-fiber bond. Therefore, when a material with cellulose pulp fibers is treated with softeners or debonders, the fiber-to-fiber hydrogen bonding of the cellulose pulp fibers is reduced and higher bulk softness is obtained at the same time as the material tends to lose some or even much of its original strength which may adversely affect the strength of the product.
  • the strength in spunlace nonwoven materials depend more on the hydroentanglement of the pulp and the synthetic staple fibers and/or the continuous filaments. The strength is of course also highly dependent of any continuous filaments in the spunlace nonwoven material, which have a reinforcement effect of the material.
  • the effect on strength reduction by a debonding or softening agent is thus less in a nonwoven material, especially in a spunlace nonwoven material compared with tissue paper manufactured in a conventional paper machine. Therefore, the chemical treatments to improve softness and bulk have a great potential in nonwoven materials and especially in spunlace nonwoven materials.
  • the lint-preventing agent refers to an agent, such as the wet strength agent, which prevents linting of the nonwoven material, i.e. fiber linting from the material surface and bulk.
  • an agent such as the wet strength agent
  • One way of avoiding this is to add a substance that forms a fiber network with itself around the fibers. This fiber network prevents fiber linting.
  • Another way is to add a substance, which is capable of reacting with functional groups on the fibers, and to form bonds between the fibers in this way.
  • wet strength agents can be given in the following group of chemicals: poly(amido-amine)-epichlorohydrin (PAE), polyacrylamides, styrene-butadiene lattices; insolubilized polyvinyl alcohol; ureaformaldehyde; polyethyleneimine; chitosan polymers and mixtures thereof.
  • PAE poly(amido-amine)-epichlorohydrin
  • GPAM glyoxylated polyacrylic amide
  • CMC carboxymethyl cellulose
  • Some of the temporary wet strength agents may be chosen from the group of dialdehyde starch or other resins with aldehyde functionality.
  • each hydrojet step includes several hydroentanglement manifolds.
  • the fiber web is corona-treated after the hydroentanglement step as a post treatment step. This is done in order to increase the liquid absorption capacity of the nonwoven material, and in order to further increase the wet strength of the material.
  • Example 1 The effect of the softness has been evaluated in Example 1.
  • Example 2 The effect of a wet-linting agent is evaluated in Example 2.
  • a wetlaid spunlace material was used in the examples that comprised about 40% short cut polyester staple fibers 1.7 dtex, 19 mm long and about 60% pulp with a basis weight of about 87 g/m 2 .
  • the hydrojet treatment was made in laboratory equipment comprising a hydroentanglement device on the inside of the rotating drum, dewatered by vacuum. The hydroentanglement was performed by one row hydroentanglement strip with holes of 120 ⁇ m in diameter and a hole-to-hole distance of 0.6 mm at a speed of about 140 m/min.
  • the spunlace material was wet before the hydrojet treatment and contained an amount of water before as well as after the treatment that was about 3 g/g, i.e. gram of water/gram of dry fiber web weight.
  • the hydrojet pressure was 20, 40 and 60 bar.
  • the spunlace material was saturated with a corresponding amount of hydrojet liquid of about 3, 4 and 4.8 gram water per gram dry fiber material weight.
  • the hydrojet liquid used in the hydrojet assembly for penetrating the fiber web was applied in an amount such that an exchange and saturation of the hydrojet liquid comprising the chemical additive took place in the fiber web as the exchangeable water within the fiber web was replaced.
  • the amount of water in the fiber web before and after this treatment could be between 2 and about 4 or 5 g water/g dry fiber material weight. Therefore, the hydrojet liquid was applied in an amount corresponding to at least about 2 gram of water per gram of dry fiber material weight but not more than about 10 gram of water per gram of dry fiber material weight.
  • the wetlaid nonwoven material is preferably hydroentangled with a dilute solution of functional chemicals.
  • a wetlaid spunlace nonwoven material was hydrojet treated with pure water.
  • there is also a wet end addition as a comparison in the first example.
  • the method for determining the drapability stiffness is based on Edana, 50.2-80.
  • a rectangular shaped test specimen is cut from the nonwoven material and will be bent under its own weight to a specific angle.
  • the test specimen is brought over the edge of a measuring instrument and the length of the material will be determined as the intersecting point of the test specimen and an imagined sloped plane of a specific angle is reached.
  • the method for determining the tensile stiffness is based on SCAN-P 44:81.
  • St tensile stiffness
  • N/m F tensile force
  • N E elongation in %
  • W sample specimen width
  • m The Tensile stiffness index ⁇ MDxCD shown in Table 2 was calculated by means of the formula: ( ⁇ (tensile stiffness MD * tensile stiffness CD)) / basis weight.
  • the MD and CD stands for machine and cross direction respectively.
  • the wet linting measurements on the different samples were performed on dried nonwoven material samples by means of a method called "Bi-axial Shake Linting". This method is based on Standard Test Method IST 160:2 (95) (Aqueous Method for Determining Release of Particles) and is suitable for determining the linting level of nonwoven materials in a wet state.
  • a test specimen is cut from the nonwoven material and is placed in water at the bottom of the container below the water surface.
  • the plastic container is placed on bi-axial shaking table where it is subjected to shaking. Fibers and particles (>20 ⁇ m), which are present in the water, are counted. The results are reported as particles/cm 2 material, wherein the surface area includes both sides of the test specimen.
  • Example 1 two different softening agents which enhances bulk softness and surface smoothness were evaluated, Berocell 589 and XP 7026 supplied by Eka Chemicals.
  • the Berocell 589 is an additive in the manufacture of fluff pulp and is a mixture of cationic and nonionic surfactants and comprises alkyl-benzyl-dimethyl ammonium chloride and fatty alcohol ethoxylate.
  • XP 7026 is a softener for tissue and also a mixture of cationic and nonionic surfactants and comprises benxyl-dimethylammonium chloride.
  • the concentration of the softening agents in the hydroentanglement water was 0.07%, 0.14% and 0.21% by volume. This would result in a corresponding concentration of about maximum 0.2%, 0.4% and 0.6% by weight in the fiber material, if a complete exchange to the hydrojet liquid occurs.
  • the reference used and shown in table 4 has of course the same corresponding nonwoven material, fiber composition and basis weight as used in example 1a as well as in example 2.
  • the reference is thus a nonwoven web with a basis weight of about 87 g/m 2 consisting of 60% cellulose pulp fibers and 40% polyester fibers (T-100) supplied by KOSA, 1.7 dtex, 19 mm long.
  • the web was prepared by wet laid technology in a dynamic sheet former and subsequently bonded by hydroentanglement at high pressure of about 100 bar on both sides and about 300 kWh/ton at a speed of about 140 m/min.
  • the chemical tested and evaluated was a wet strength resin, Kenores 1445, a polyamidoamine-epichlorohydrin resin (PAE), supplied by EKA chemicals.
  • PAE polyamidoamine-epichlorohydrin resin
  • the wet linting method used to characterize the linting was the bi-axial shake linting.
  • the results of the bi-axial linting are shown for the wetlaid spunlace material hydrojet treated with Kenores 1445 wet strength resin as a function of chemical concentrations and hydroentanglement pressure.
  • the reference used and shown in table 5 and 6 has of course the same corresponding nonwoven material, fiber composition and basis weight as used in example 1a and 1b.
  • dilute solutions of about 0,9% Kenores 1445, (PAE) were sprayed onto the corresponding spunlace nonwoven material consisting of pulp and polyester at a basis weight of about 87 g/m2.
  • the spraying nozzle was traversing over the material at constant speed.
  • Two different spraying nozzles were used resulting in dry PAE weights corresponding 0.16 and 0.33 g/m 2 respectively. This corresponds to a chemical concentration in the material of about 0.19 and 0.38 % respectively.
  • the sprayings were made onto dry as well as prewetted materials with about 2.7 g/g water on the dry weight to simulate process conditions and conditions used in the example where the wet strength agent was added with the hydrojet liquid.

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