EP1944411A1 - Feutre de presse pour la fabrication du papier - Google Patents

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EP1944411A1
EP1944411A1 EP06768454A EP06768454A EP1944411A1 EP 1944411 A1 EP1944411 A1 EP 1944411A1 EP 06768454 A EP06768454 A EP 06768454A EP 06768454 A EP06768454 A EP 06768454A EP 1944411 A1 EP1944411 A1 EP 1944411A1
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Takashi Ohuchi
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D21—PAPER-MAKING; PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE
    • D21F—PAPER-MAKING MACHINES; METHODS OF PRODUCING PAPER THEREON
    • D21F7/00—Other details of machines for making continuous webs of paper
    • D21F7/08—Felts
    • D21F7/083—Multi-layer felts

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  • the present invention relates to a felt used for a press section of a papermaking machine, and particularly to a press felt for papermaking which is capable of enhancing the dewatering ability (hereinafter referred to as a "press felt").
  • a press machine In a papermaking process, a press machine is conventionally used to dewater a wet paper web.
  • a press machine In the press machine, a wet paper web is dewatered through a press felt within a press nip.
  • a press machine usually has a plurality of press nips.
  • Figure 5 is a schematic view of a press nip in a press machine.
  • the press nip as shown comprises a pair of press rolls P', P' and a pair of press felts 11', 11' holding a wet paper web W' in between.
  • the press felts 11', 11' and the wet paper web W' are compressed within a nip between the press rolls P', P', and the press felts 11', 11' absorbs the water from the wet paper web W'.
  • the wet paper web W' and the press felts 11' , 11' are rapidly released from the pressure as it exits the nip.
  • the volumes of the press felts 11', 11' and the wet paper web W' drastically expand to produce negative pressures within the press felts 11', 11'.
  • the wet paper web W ' is composed of thin fibers, a capillary phenomenon occurs.
  • unexamined Japanese Patent Publication No. 143627/2004 discloses a batt layer comprising an ultra fine fiber or a hydrophilic nonwoven fabric.
  • Figure 6 is a CMD sectional view of a conventional press felt 10'.
  • a conventional press felt 10' comprises a base fabric 20', batt layers 30' and a hydrophilic nonwoven fabric 40', all of which are needled together to form a press felt.
  • the batt layers 30' comprise a paper web side layer 31' and a press side layer 32 '.
  • the batt layers 30' are composed of the base fabric 20' to which staple fibers 50' are needled. Therefore, the staple fibers 50' are disposed in the base fabric 20'.
  • the hydrophilic nonwoven fabric 40' is positioned in the paper web side layer 31'.
  • a spunbonded nonwoven fabric is employed by way of an example as the hydrophilic nonwoven fabric 40', which is made of hydrophilic nylon fibers with the fineness of 4 or less deci tex (dtex).
  • the hydrophilic nonwoven fabric 40' has higher density and less permeability to water than the batt material. Because of such characteristics, the water within a second paper web side layer 31b 'and the rolles side layer 32' is hard to permeate the hydrophilic nonwoven fabric 40' into the wet paper web.
  • the hydrophilic nonwoven fabric 40' is less finer than the batt layers 30' , the water within the first paper web side layer 31a' is absorbed easily into the hydrophilic nonwoven fabric 40' due to a capillarity phenomenon.
  • the conventional press felt 10' has a high anti-rewetting effect with a hydrophilic nonwoven fabric positioned within the paper web side layer of the batt layers.
  • US Patent No. 6179965 discloses a press felt for which hollow monofilament yarns are used as warps or wefts to form a base fabric.
  • the base fabric formed with hollow fibers has higher resiliency, increasing the contact area within the nip, which translates into improved dewatering and prevention of rewetting.
  • the characteristics of such yarns are not fully utilized in terms of prevention of rewetting, in that the void core does not have the effect to absorb the water within the press felt, because the hollow filament yarns are lint filaments and hence their ends are not integrated into the press felt.
  • the present invention concerns the backing of the water to a wet paper web with the release of the press felt from compression as it exits the press nip ("rewetting"), with an object to provide a press felt for papermaking which is capable of reducing the amount of water transferring to the paper web side layer and hence the rewetting phenomenon, by utilizing hollow fibers.
  • the present invention solved above-mentioned problems by providing a press felt for papermaking with batt layers comprising a paper web side layer and a press side layer, characterized in that within said paper web side layer an intermediate layer is formed which includes hollow staple fibers (hereinafter referred to as "hollow fibers”) .
  • hollow fibers hollow staple fibers
  • the water within the press felt can be absorbed into the void cores at the ends of the hollow fibers.
  • the water is prevented from backing to the surface of the press felt, resulting in the effective prevention of rewetting.
  • staple fibers are usually short fibers (cut cotton) which range from 50 to 150mm in length, a number of ends thereof are integrated in the batt layers of the press felt.
  • the present invention can provide a press felt for papermaking with a superior anti-rewetting effect, by a relatively simple structure in which an intermediate layer including staple fibers is disposed in the batt layer of the paper web side.
  • Figure 1 and Figure 2 are CMD sectional views of the press felt 10 of the present invention.
  • Machine direction means the longitudinal direction toward which a paper machine transfers a press felt
  • cross machine direction means the latitudinal direction crossing said direction toward which a paper machine transfers a press felt.
  • the press felt 10 comprises a base fabric 20 and batt layers 30, which are needled together to form a press felt for papermaking.
  • the base fabric 20 is provided to impact strength to the press felt 10, and can be made of various materials proposed by those skilled in the art, such as a woven fabric, an unwoven material with yarns laid on each other, or a film.
  • Preferable materials for the base fabric 20 are natural fibers such as wool, synthetic fibers such as polyester, nylon 6, and nylon 66 etc. with a selected resiliency, tenacity, anti-wearing and anti-stain characteristics.
  • Batt layers 30 comprise a paper web side layer 32, an intermediate layer 34, and a press side layer 36.
  • preferred staple fibers 50 for the batt layers 30 are those with the fineness of about 10-25 deci tex (dtex) for the paper web side layer 32, and those with the fineness of about 15-25 deci tex (dtex) for the press side layer 36.
  • preferred staple fibers 50 are those with the fineness of about 10-15 deci tex (dtex) for the paper web side layer 32, and those with the fineness of about 10-20 deci tex (dtex) for the press side layer 36.
  • preferred staple fibers 50 are those with the fineness of about 5-15 deci tex (dtex) for the paper web side layer 32, and those with the fineness of about 5-20 deci tex (dtex) for the press side layer 36.
  • An intermediate layer 34 including hollow fibers 52 is positioned within the batt layers 30 of the paper web side.
  • the intermediate layer 34 can be made either of a blend of the staple fibers 50 and the hollow fibers 52 or solely of the hollow fibers 52.
  • the intermediate layer 34 is made of the hollow fibers 52 only, the basis weight thereof should be in the range of 100-300g/m 2 , around 200g/m 2 being most preferred.
  • the intermediate layer 34 can be made of 25-75 % by weight of the hollow fibers 52 with the staple fibers 50 composing the rest.
  • the sectional shape of the hollow fibers 52 includes but not limited to a circle, a square, a star, or can be porous.
  • a synthetic fiber such as polyester or nylon with the fineness of 3-25 deci tex (dtex) may be employed as the hollow fibers 52.
  • the hollow fibers 52 range from 50 to 150mm in length.
  • the hollow fibers 52 for example with a circle-shaped hollow, is capable of rebounding to their uncompressed state as it is released from the compression after being subjected to nip pressures, and have a selected anti-wearing characteristic against repetitive compression.
  • Preferred hollow fibers 52 for the intermediate layer 34 are those with the fineness of about 15-25 deci tex (dtex) in the pick-up felt used for the first step of the press section, and with the fineness of about 10-20 deci tex (dtex) in the felt used in the second and the third press machines in the middle step of the press section, and with the fineness of about 5-20 deci tex (dtex) in the felt used in the fourth press machine or a shoe press in the last step of a press section.
  • the staple fibers 50 and hollow fibers 52 are interwoven into the base fabric 20, resulting in a firmly and stably integrated press felt.
  • the press felt 10 of the present invention has the intermediate layer 34 comprising hollow fibers which are easily flattened by the nip pressure. Then the density of the intermediate layer 34 increases, but due to the nip pressure, the water transfers to the base fabric and the press side layer 36 which are formed between the intermediate layer 34 and the press roll. With especially effective compression, the water is pressed out of the press side layer 36 to the press roll side.
  • the press felt 10 of the present invention effectively prevents rewetting, by reducing the water backing to the paper web side 32 as the felt is released from the nip pressure.
  • the hollow fibers 52 absorb more water from the batt layers 30 and therefore reduce the water transferring from the paper web side layer 32 back to the wet paper web.
  • the batt layers 30 of the paper web side comprises a plurality of layers: a first paper web side layer 32a which contacts the wet paper web and a second paper web side layer 32b which contacts the base fabric.
  • intermediate layers 34a, 34b and 34c are formed between the paper contacting layer 320a and the base fabric 20.
  • the intermediate layer 34 is formed as a part of the second paper web side layer 32b.
  • the ratio of the hollow fibers blended in the intermediate layers 34a, 34b, 34c, and 34 increases in the order hereof, namely, the more distant from the paper contacting side layer 320a, the more hollow fibers 52 are blended therein. Due to such a composition, smoothness of the paper contacting side layer 320a against the wet paper web is maintained, whereas more water within the batt layers 30 is absorbed by the hollow fibers 52, thereby reducing the water transferring from the paper contacting side layer 320a back to the wet paper web.
  • the basis weight of the paper contacting layer 320a, the intermediate layer 34a, 34b and 34c was set at 50g/m 2 .
  • the paper contacting layer 320a was made of staple fibers 50 only, while the staple fibers 50 and the hollow fibers 52 were blended in the ratio of 75%:25% by the basis weight for the intermediate layer 34a, 50%:50% for the intermediate layer 34b, 25%:75% for the intermediate layer 34c..
  • base body plain-woven fabric with twisted yarns of nylon monofilament
  • batt layer nylon 6 and hollow staple fibers
  • total basis weight 550g/m 2 needle punching frequency 700 times/cm 2 .
  • the embodiments had an intermediate layer comprising hollow fibers within the paper web side layer of batt layers which comprises a paper web side layer (a first paper web side layer and a second paper web side layer) and a press side layer.
  • Table 1 shows the above-mentioned materials, the fineness and the basis weight of the embodiments and the comparative example.
  • P press rollers
  • 110 is an upper side felt
  • 10 is a downside felt
  • SC is a suction tube
  • SN is a shower nozzle.
  • Said embodiments and comparative example are used as the downside felt 10 in both machines.
  • a press felt shown as the comparative example 1 in the Table 1 is used as the upper side felt 110.
  • the felt travels 500m/min and is subjected to nip pressures of 100kg/cm.
  • the wet paper web released from the nip pressure is placed on and transferred by the downside felt 10. Accordingly, water content data of a rewet paper web can be gathered by measuring the humidity of the wet paper web at a position (press exit 1) where a wet paper web is transferred by the downside felt 10 after it exits the nip.
  • the downside felt 10 is in contact with the press roller over a larger area, resulting in a brief contact of a wet paper web released from the nip pressure with the felts 10, 110.
  • Water content data of the wet paper web with less rewetting can be gathered, by measuring the humidity of the wet paper web at the position (press exit 2) where it just travels out of the nip.
  • the next step is to evaluate whether rewetting occurred based on the difference between the respective water content data gathered with the press machines shown in Figure 3 and 4 .
  • the difference is less than 0.5%, it is considered no rewetting occurred (evaluated as "good"), whereas the difference ranging from 0.5% to less than 1.0% is considered to be with slight rewetting (evaluated as "fair"), and when the difference exceeds 1.0% it is considered that rewetting occurred (evaluated as "failure").
  • the press felt for papermaking of the present invention has a beneficial effect on the prevention of rewetting.
  • the comparison between the embodiments and the comparative example proved the effect of forming an intermediate layer including hollow fibers within the paper web side layer of the batt layers.
  • the preferred embodiment of the present invention is said batt layers being multilayered with the first layer on the paper web side being made of nylon without hollow fibers and the other layers comprising 25 to 75% of nylon and 75 to 25% of hollow fibers.
  • the present invention provides a press felt for papermaking with an excellent anti-rewetting effect, by employing a relatively simple structure in which an intermediate layer including hollow fibers is disposed in the batt layer of the paper web side.

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