US20140317865A1 - Low weight terry fabric and a method of producing the same - Google Patents

Low weight terry fabric and a method of producing the same Download PDF

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US20140317865A1
US20140317865A1 US14/187,512 US201414187512A US2014317865A1 US 20140317865 A1 US20140317865 A1 US 20140317865A1 US 201414187512 A US201414187512 A US 201414187512A US 2014317865 A1 US2014317865 A1 US 2014317865A1
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    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
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  • the present invention relates to terry fabric having open structured pile yarn of finer counts with a cotton/synthetic blend in ground warp and weft yarns.
  • the present invention relates to terry towel preferably having 100% cotton yarn in the pile, with cotton preferably blended to 100% synthetic ground warp and weft yarns.
  • Terry fabrics belong to a group of pile fabrics in which an additional yarn is introduced or inserted in such a manner that forms loops, called “piles,” to give a distinct appearance. These fabrics can be produced either by weaving or by knitting.
  • terry towels are woven from all cotton or a combination of cotton and polycotton yarns, primarily because cotton is inexpensive and has the property of high absorbency.
  • Using cotton for the manufacture of terry towels has been found to be advantageous in many respects, such as good moisture absorption durability, and easy availability.
  • it also presents several drawbacks, one being slow release of absorbed moisture, resulting in the drying time for cotton towels being relatively longer.
  • Slow drying is disadvantageous because it results in increase in time between the instances when the towels can be used, and promotes the souring of towels and mildew formation. It also results in increased energy consumption to dry the towels.
  • Cotton before being spun into a yarn, can absorb about 25 times its weight and is exceptionally soft.
  • the conventional terry toweling process reduces the absorbency and the inherent soft nature of cotton.
  • Most conventional terry towels woven from cotton or blended fibres can absorb only about 3-5 times its weight. They are made in the weight ranges of 300 gsm to 450 gsm to get high absorbency.
  • the pile loops in the conventional towels which constitute around 60% of the weight of the towel, absorb water and dry due to capillary action.
  • Each of the pile loops acts as a capillary to draw the water from the surface of the skin.
  • the yarn diameter of each pile loop is 0.3958 mm, resulting in less absorbency, lower bulkiness and low wet compressibility.
  • terry towels with weight below 300 gsm are not produced, since low weight does not result in sufficient absorbency and further does not provide sufficient strength or durability.
  • Terry towels are usually woven with 10.5 to 12 ends per cm of yarn in the pile warp and 10.5 to 12 ends per cm yarn in the ground warp interwoven with 13 to 20 picks per cm of weft yarn.
  • yarns of counts finer than 16 s Ne are used for all the warps and weft to reduce the weight, the fabric does not have sufficient strength to withstand vigorous laundering especially in institutional use.
  • a primary aspect of the present invention is to provide a terry fabric having open structured pile yarn of finer counts with a cotton/synthetic blended yarn in ground warp and weft.
  • weft yarn has high tensile strength, with a tensile strength greater than 700 gf/tex.
  • the pile warp yarns has counts finer than 16 s Ne and a pile ratio of from 1:3 to 1:4.
  • pile warp yarns have a span length of 2.5% or longer than 3.5 times the loop length of one pile loop.
  • each loop of the pile yarn is open structured using low twist or no twist, and more preferably the pile yarn having a twist multiplier less than 2.4, so as to provide a greater exposed surface and thereby resulting in quick drying of the terry towel.
  • the stripes are woven in widths of from 2 mm to 25 mm.
  • the process uses a combination of open structured 100% cotton pile yarn of finer counts with the ground and weft yarn having a proportion of synthetic fiber greater than 10% and up to 100%, thereby producing a low weight, highly absorbent terry towel.
  • the process involves weaving a stripped pattern of 100% of pile yarn on one side alternated with 100% of pile yarn on other side to create a double density loop stripes, which causes the loops to stand exact and not fall down due to lack of additional space around the loop. These stripes are woven in width in the range of 2 mm to 25 mm.
  • FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a terry towel according to the present invention.
  • FIG. 2 is an enlarged perspective view of a section of the terry towel of FIG. 1 .
  • FIG. 3 is an enlarged end view of the towel of FIG. 2 showing the pattern of alternating pile loops on opposite sides of the towel.
  • FIGS. 4 and 5 are enlarged end views of a top and bottom stripe, respectively.
  • Tensile strength is the usual breaking strength of yarn. Tensile strength of typical cotton yarn is from about 450 gf/tex to about 500 gf/tex.
  • Pile ratio is understood to be the ratio calculated between ground warp and pile warp. Usually it is measured from 10 centimeter of a towel size. Pile warp will be usually in excess length due to loop formation than the ground warp.
  • the “loop length” of a pile loop is the height of the loop multiplied by two.
  • span length is the distance spanned by 2.5% of fibers in the specimen being tested when the fibers are parallelized and randomly distributed and where the initial starting point of the scanning in the test is considered as 100%. This length is measured using digital fibrograph. In a towel, span length is the measurement of the cotton fiber length.
  • “Yarn loop diameter” is the diameter of a strand of yarn measured through an image analyzer (microscopic view), from which the thickness is measured.
  • a woven towel may consist of five parts: the pile area, fringes, the beginning and end parts, the selvedge, and the border.
  • the present description relates to the pile area.
  • the pile area comprises four groups of yarn: the pile warp, the ground warp, the weft (filling), and the border weft.
  • a towel comprises a ground cloth formed of warps and wefts, with loop piles on one or both sides.
  • FIG. 1 perspective view of a towel 10 according to the present disclosure is seen, the towel 10 having a plurality of stripes formed by pile loops.
  • FIG. 2 it is seen that the towel has a series of alternating stripes 12 and flat weave 14 on a first side of the towel and another series of stripes 16 and flat weave 18 on the second side of the towel, the stripes 12 on the first side being backed by flat weave 18 on the second side and the stripes 16 on the second side being backed by flat weave 14 on the first side.
  • the towel 10 comprises a ground cloth made from a plurality of wefts 20 , a first ground warp 22 , and a second ground warp 24 .
  • Interwoven in the ground cloth is a pile warp 26 that alternates between forming loops on the front and back sides of the ground cloth to form the alternating stripes of pile loops and flat weave on the front and back sides.
  • the pile loops are woven in a three-pick repeating pattern, with two wefts 20 between each pile loop.
  • repeating patterns with other pick counts are also contemplated.
  • the stripes are woven in widths of from 2 mm to 25 mm.
  • the pile loops are double density upright loops, but may alternatively comprise spiral loops without departing from the scope of the invention.
  • the pile loops have a density of approximately 60 loops per cm 2 .
  • the pile warp yarn has counts finer than 16 s Ne and a pile ratio of from 1:3 to 1:4, and, preferably, a span length of 2.5% or longer than 3.5 times the loop length of one pile loop.
  • the towel 10 preferably comprises an open structured pile yarn of finer counts, with a cotton/synthetic blended yarn in ground warp and weft.
  • the towel comprises 100% cotton open structured yarn in the pile, with cotton/synthetic blended yarn for the ground warp and weft yarns, the blend comprising up to 100% synthetic.
  • the warp and weft yarns comprise from 10% to less than 100% synthetic fibers.
  • the weft yarn has high tensile strength, with a tensile strength greater than 700 gf/tex.
  • the warp yarns comprise a combination of fibers having a tensile strength of from 450 gf/tex to 500 gf/tex.
  • each loop of the pile yarn is open structured, using low twist or no twist yarn, so as to provide a greater exposed surface and thereby resulting in quick drying of the terry towel.
  • the pile yarn has a twist multiplier less than 2.4.
  • the yarn diameter of each pile loop is preferably about 0.8 mm, thereby making the towel bulkier.
  • the loop diameter of each pile loop is approximately 1.6 mm, thereby making the towel both highly absorbent and bulkier.
  • the towel 10 has an absorbency of from 8-10 times its weight.
  • a process for manufacturing a terry towel, wherein the weight of towel produced is less than 240 gsm.
  • the process uses a combination of open structured 100% cotton pile yarn of finer counts with the ground and weft yarn having a proportion of synthetic fiber greater than 10% up to 100%, thereby producing a low weight highly absorbent terry towel.
  • the process involves weaving a stripped pattern of 100% of pile yarn on one side alternated with 100% of pile yarn on other side to create a double density loop stripes, which causes the loops to stand exact and not fall down due to lack of additional space around the loop. These stripes are woven in width in the range of 2 mm to 25 mm.
  • the process includes subjecting the yarns to enzymatic pretreatment to make the loops bulkier during processing.

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