Chisso Corporation

Chisso Corportion

Hiroshi Sonoda

Takayoshi Nakajima

Katsutoshi Sasaki

Taizo Sugihara

Shigeru Goi

Teruaki Hane

Teruari Hane

In a process for producing tubular shaped fibrous articles of small diameter by heating and cooling a fibrous bundle containing at least 20 weight % of hot-melt-adhesive composite fibers, the improvements comprise using a shaping apparatus including an injecting chamber, an injecting hole formed in the wall of the chamber, a fibrous bundle outlet provided with a nozzle of a desired shape in cross-section, a cylindrical pipe for introducing the fibrous bundle, which has a cross-sectional area larger than that of the outlet, is located at a position opposite to the outlet and projects toward the outlet and terminates in the injecting chamber, and a core pipe which is open at its base on the outside of the injecting chamber, has its one end inserted through the cylindrical pipe and extending into the nozzle through the injecting chamber, and having a vent in its portion exposed within the injecting chamber, and passing the fibrous bundle through the cylindrical pipe to the outlet, while injecting a hot compressed gas through the injecting hole, thereby to heat and shape the fibrous bundle to and at its hot-melt-adhesive temperature.

Process for producing tubular shaped fibrous articles

A method for producing a hollow-cylindrically shaped fibrous article stabilized by hot adhesion and an apparatus suitable to produce the same are provided. Said method comprises passing a web of gathered fiber layer carried on a conveyer belt through a heating zone, heating said web in such a way that a lower-melting component of composite fiber contained in the lower part of said web contacting the conveyer belt is not in the molten state and a lower-melting component contained in the upper part of said web is in the molten state, while separating said web from the conveyer belt, winding up said web on a take-up rod or tube in such a way that the upper surface thereof occupies the inner side of the winding, while heating the web further, cooling the wound up article and drawing out the take-up rod or tube from the shaped product. The production method of the present invention is simple and does not require complicated apparatus and the resultant product is useful for filtration.

Apparatus for producing hollow-cylindrically shaped fibrous articles

A method for producing a hollow-cylindrically shaped fibrous article stabilized by hot adhesion and an apparatus suitable to produce the same are provided. Said method comprises passing a web of gathered fiber layer carried on a conveyor belt through a heating zone, heating said web in such a way that a lower-melting component of composite fiber contained in the lower part of said web contacting the conveyor belt is not in the molten state and a lower-melting component contained in the upper part of said web is in the molten state, while separating said web from the conveyor belt, winding up said web on a take-up rod or tube in such a way that the upper surface thereof occupies the inner side of the winding, while heating the web further, cooling the wound up article and drawing out the take-up rod or tube from the shaped product. The production method of the present invention is simple and does not require complicated apparatus and the resultant product is useful for filtration.

Method of and apparatus for producing hollow-cylindrically shaped

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Hiroshi Sonoda