US3604196A - Method of making latently crimpable yarn from polyblend and product - Google Patents

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US3604196A
US3604196A US840759A US3604196DA US3604196A US 3604196 A US3604196 A US 3604196A US 840759 A US840759 A US 840759A US 3604196D A US3604196D A US 3604196DA US 3604196 A US3604196 A US 3604196A
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    • D01—NATURAL OR MAN-MADE THREADS OR FIBRES; SPINNING
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  • the process involves subjecting a monofil, film or tape of the polymer blend, in semiamorphous state, to a rolling pressure applied progressively down the length against one crosswise dimension, and then applying a transverse force gradient preferably created by impelling the structure in a high velocity gas stream against a deflecting surface.
  • the crimp is preferably developed by exposing the split yarn under low tension to hot gas or vapor.
  • This invention relates to production of latently crimpable synthetic filaments, especially in the form of yarns, and to the latently crimpable and the crimped filaments obtained.
  • the process of the invention produces yarns composed of fine filaments or fibers averaging not over four denier in size, which yarns can display free fiber ends but are nevertheless sufficiently strong and coherent-to permit further processing.
  • These yarn products of the invention show latent crimpability; i.e. upon exposure to conditions releasing internal strains, such as upon exposure to conditions releasing internal strains, such as heat or swelling agent, the filamentary products obtained by this process assume crimps which impart to the yarn bulkiness, covering power, and insulating properties.
  • the resulting yarn confers desirable feel, appearance, and comfort in fabrics made therefrom.
  • latently crimpable fibers are produced from a thin film or tape of fiber-forming polymer by heating and stretching the film or tape, then passing it over an edgecrimping" blade or wire; then splitting it into fibrous material, e.g. by passing it across a bar file, via one pair of nip rolls to forward the film to the file and another like pair to take up the resulting fibrous material.
  • Suitable polymeric materials include materials such as polyethylene, polypropylene, polyamides, polyesters, polyacrylonitrile and the like.
  • 3,398,441 are of mean size 7-15 denier. To achieve desirable soft feel, much finer individual fibers must be produced. Such fine fibers can be produced by splitting, under controlled conditions, blends of incompatible polymers (polyblends") wherein one or more polymer species is in dispersed phase in a continuous phase or matrix of another polymer species. Such polyblends are disclosed in British Pat. No. 930,074 of Union Carbide Corp., published July 3, 1963, as well as methods of splitting structures thereof, e.g. flexing over a sharp edge.
  • Another obstacle in achieving high production rates using edge crimping is that the degree of crimping achieved by this method decreases rapidly with increasing linear speed of film.
  • Abrasion is another problem particularly noticeable when polyblend is used for films which are rubbed against an edge.
  • the loss in weight may exceed several percent with consequent increase in cost of production.
  • the abraded material tends to accumulate at the edge which may cause filament breakage and nonuniformity in the final product.
  • the present invention is advantageously operated using an air jet to effect splitting.
  • This invention is operable with structures such as thin films or tapes and also with round or near round filaments (e.g. monofils) and thick tapes.
  • an asymmetric strain is inducted in an elongated structure composed of a blend of incompatible thermoplastic polymers. More particularly the polymers are fusible and the blend is extruded from the melt in the form of an elongated structure, which is solidified preferably by quenching in a liquid bath.
  • the polymers or one of them is capable of molecular orientation
  • the resulting structure is usually stretched to produce high molecular orientation. During the stretching, exposure to elevated temperature is such that at least one of the polymer components retains more than its normal equilibrium amorphous content.
  • a rolling pressure is then applied progressively down the length against one crosswise dimension of the solid elongated structure, which is maintained in its semiamorphousstate, i.e. at less than full crystallinity, by maintaining its temperature below the glass transition temperature of at least one component thereof.
  • the glass transition temperature is a second order transition temperature at which an abrupt change occurs in a property such as bending modulus or tensile modulus.
  • This pressure serves to reduce one crosswise dimension of the structure by at least 30 percent, suitably about 50-80 percent.
  • the structure is subjected to-a transverse force gradient as by twisting, flexing, rubbing, or tearing, serving to split the structure longitudinally into fine fibers.
  • a preferred means of creating this transverse force gradient is by forwarding the elongated structure, which has been strained by rolling pressure, in a high velocity stream of air by which the structure is impelled against a deflecting surface.
  • the structure splits into a multitude of filaments or fibers which show latent crimpability, i.e. capability to crimp upon release of strain therein, for example by heating while the yarn is under low tension not above 0. 1' gram per denier. Release of strain by exposing the yarn in relaxed, tensionless state to hot air is a particularly convenient method, e.g. by conveying the yarn down a heated tube in a stream of heated air.
  • the crimped yarn of this invention consists of a multitude of fine fibers having varying denier, with ayerage denier per fiber not over four. Thereby desirable softness of feel is assured. Average denier per fiber as low as 0.4 can be obtained using compositions particularly well adapted to splitting, such as 50/25/25 parts by weight of polycaproamide/polyethylene terephthalate/polypropylene.
  • the crimp is irregular as seen in the accompanying drawing, and can be varied in intensity by varying the processing conditions discussed below and the composition of the polyblend.
  • the crimp index i.e. (straightened length-tensionless crimped length)/(tensionless crimped length), can be adjusted from as low as 20 up to several hundred, e.g. from 20 up to 300, expressed in percent.
  • the rolling pressure can be applied to a monofil or tape by means of two rollers which are set e.g. at constant clearance or constant pressure, or at clearance maintained constant unless pressure falls outside a predetermined range.
  • the accompanying drawing shows the appearance of crimped yarn of this invention as seen in a photomicrograph.
  • One special feature of the present invention is the latent crimpability of the fibers, whereby a mechanical deformation followed by a heating step results in a spontaneous increase in the extent of deformation.
  • the molecular mechanism responsible for this effect is not completely understood. it is believed, however, that it can be at least in part attributed to the differential crystallization characteristics in different polymers composing the fibers, or in different portions of a single polymer within a fiber. When the split fiber is heated, these differences introduce asymmetrical shrinkages or extensions which cause the fibers to crimp. A process of crystallization most likely accounts for the phenomenon as can be demonstrated by annealing the unsplit monofil.
  • Such an annealed monofil when subjected to the sequence of straining, splitting and heating steps previously described, will give yarn crimped to a much lesser extent than a monofil and yarn in which crystallization has been inhibited up to the time of exposure to the temperature at which the crimp is developed. Accordingly the maximum crimp is obtained when the monofil is quenched in a liquid bath, at say about room temperature (25 C.), as it emerges from the spinning die and thereafter is maintained at the lowest temperature consistent with good performance in other processing steps such as molecular orientation by stretching, and rolling to impose strain.
  • splitting and crimping should be carried out with minimum delay after extrusion, since long aging has the same restrictive effect on the development of crimping as does annealing.
  • the degree of permanent reduction in thickness (for convenience herein called flattening") of the elongated structure can vary between wide limits.
  • the process of this invention will give crimped yarn when the gap between rollers is such that the ratio of gap to monofil diameter is as high as 0.8.
  • the permanent reduction in thickness sufficient to produce crimp can be as little as 10 percent.
  • Adjusting the gap between the rollers exercises a fine control on the number of fibers into which the structure is divided when splitting is accomplished using an air jet. Varying the ratio of gap to monofil diameter from 0.8 to 0.2 provides, from the same monofil, split yarns with average denier per fiber ranging from to 0.4. Over the whole range, high degree of crimp was developed by subjecting the split yarns to the action of a stream of hot air. The lower ratios should be used to obtain fine denier filaments in accordance with this invention, viz. not over 0.7, suitably about 0.5 to 0.2. Temperatures of the rolls, as above noted, should be below the glass transition temperature of at least one of the polymer components of the monofil; unheated rolls are suitable.
  • the air jet referred to above as being used for splitting is essentially a means of impelling the elongated structure, strained by rolling pressure as above described, against a deflecting surface with high velocity.
  • the jet is a nozzle with a central channel through which air is forced under pressure such as 10-100 p.s.i.g. thus imparting high velocity.
  • the elongated structure e.g. flattened monofil, is introduced into the air stream, e.g. from one side, and is carried thereby through a tubular or like guide or passage and against a surface or obstacle at or just beyond the passage.
  • the monofil is abruptly deflected by the surface and thereupon splits into numerous fibers; and is withdrawn.
  • a suitable surface is, for example, a cylindrical surface from which the split yarn is deflected.
  • the resulting yarn product is made up of fine fibers having latent crimpability.
  • crystallization is here meant to include any process in which either the amount or the type of crystallinity is altered.
  • the first kind of crystallization simply involves a conversion of noncrystalline or amorphous to crystalline material.
  • the second kind can involve changes in the crystal structure from one conformation to another. For example, it has been shown that nylon 6 (i.e. fiber-forming polycaproamide) can exist in three distinguishable crystalline forms beside the amorphous form, and that by suitable treatment the less stable forms can be transformed to the more stable.
  • soft bulky yarns can be produced having many free fiber ends and frequent fiber entanglement so as to form a kind of network when spread out. Consequently the yarns have substantial tensile strength even without being twisted.
  • the crimp that can be developed in these materials can be varied from a low level comparable to that found in wool to a very tight, coiled confonnation which makes the yarn suitable for stretch-type apparel.
  • Other uses in which yarns of this invention can be employed are in draperies, upholstery, carpet, insulation, and linenlike textiles.
  • Reduced viscosity is given by: (n-n,,)/n,,C where n viscosity of polymer solution n viscosity of pure solvent C concentration in grams of polymer per deciliter of solvent.
  • EXAMPLE I A dry blend of 70 parts of polycaproamide having a number average molecular weight of 27,000 and 30 parts of polyethylene terephthalate having a reduced viscosity in metacresol of 0.27 deciliter/g. was extruded as a monofil at a temperature of 277 C. through a die 0.030 inch in diameter into a quench path. The extrudate was attenuated in the molten state by being pulled down around a roll rotating at greater peripheral speed than the average linear speed of the molten stream flowing from the die orifice, to give a monofil 0.012 inch in diameter. The quench bath contained water at 17 C.
  • the monofil was then stretched fourfold at a temperature of 175 C. thus molecularly orienting it and reducing its diameter to about 0.006 inch. It was split by being passed at 500 f.p.m. between rollers separated by a 0.003-inch gap, then impelled against a cylindrical surface by use of an air jet.
  • the resultant yarn consisted of an average of 200 fine fibers, of average size about one denier per fiber.
  • the yarn was transported down a heated tube under zero tension in a current of hot air at 150 C.
  • a crimp was instantly developed, characterized by a 2.5-fold increase in length when the tensionless crimped yarn was pulled out straight by applying a tension of 0.1 gram per denier, i.e. the crimp index was 250.
  • EXAMPLE II A dry blend of 40 parts of polycaproamide having a number of average molecular weight of 27,000, 30 parts of polyethylene tercphthalatc having a reduced viscosity in mcresol of 0.20 deciliter/g. and 30 parts of polypropylene having a number average mol. wt. of 208,000 was extruded as a monofil at a temperature of 277 C. through a die 0.030 inch in diameter. The extrudate was pulled down faster than it flowed from the die orifice so that the resulting monofil was 0.010 inch in diameter. The quench bath contained water at 17 C. and was held one-half inch below the die. The monofil was then stretched 35-fold at a temperature of 160 C.
  • the diameter of the monofil, thus molecularly oriented, was about 0.005 inch.
  • the monofil was split by being passed between a set of rollers separated by 0.002-inch gap and then through an air jet device.
  • the resultant yarn consisted of an average of 250 fine fibers, of average size about 0.5 denier per fiber.
  • Crimp was developed by heating as in example 1, characterized by a 2.75-fold increase in length when the tensionless crimped yarn was pulled straight with a tension of 0.1 g./denier; i.e. the crimp index was 275.
  • EXAMPLE lll A dry blend of 35 parts of polycaproamide having a number average molecular weight of 19,000 and 65 parts of polypropylene having a number average molecular weight of 295,000 was extruded as a monofil at a temperature of 271 C. through a die 0.030 inch in diameter into a quench bath. The extrudate was drawn down in the melt as described in examples l and 11 to obtain a 0.02l-inch diameter monofil. The quench bath was water at 17 C. held one-half inch below the die. The monofil was stretched fourfold at C. to a molecularly oriented monofil of diameter about 0.010 inch.
  • lt was split by being passed between a set of rollers separated by 0.0025-inch gap and through the air jet device as described in example 1.
  • the resultant split yarn consisted of an average of fine fibers of average size about three denier per fiber.
  • Crimp was developed as in example I. The crimped yarn when straightened under a tension of 0.1 gram per denier showed a 2.6-fold increase in length, i.e. the crimp index was 260.
  • An improved multifilament crimped yarn composed of a polymeric blend of incompatible thermoplastic polymers wherein one or more polymer species is in dispersed phase in a continuous phase of another polymer species; said yarn comprising individual filament fineness such that the average denier per filament or fiber is not over four and havin latently developed crimpability of the filaments or fibers w ich have been developed by heat to produce a crimp index of at least 20.
  • a multifilament crimped yarn composed of a polymeric blend of incompatible thermoplastic polymers wherein one or more polymer species is in dispersed phase in a continuous phase of another polymer species; said yarn having the improvement comprising individual filament fineness such that the average denier per filament or fiber is not over four, combined with crimp at a crimp index of at least 20.
  • transverse force gradient is created by impelling the elongated structure, strained by rolling pressure, in a high velocity stream of gas or vapor against a deflecting surface.

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