Chisso Corporation

Chisso Corportion

Katsutoshi Sasaki

Takayoshi Nakajima

Hiroshi Sonoda

Teruaki Hane

Kenji Hamada

Teruari Hane

A tow feeding apparatus which requires no continuous observation, shortens the reset time when tow is wound around pinch rolls for feeding into a case, and operates safely, includes guide rolls for leading a tow to a winding roll or pinch rolls, a winding roll apparatus provided between the guide rolls and pinch rolls at a normal position for winding up a tow around a winding roll when wrapping trouble occurs at the pinch rolls. A pinch roll apparatus for feeding the tow from the guide rolls through the winding roll apparatus into a case, and a transport device for transporting the winding roll apparatus from the normal position to a reset position behind the pinch roll apparatus when wrapping trouble occurs. A cutter shears the tow along the tow route before the pinch roll apparatus. An exchanger for substituting the pinch roll apparatus with another set of pinch rolls, and a detector for detecting wrapping of a tow around the pinch rolls are further included. A controller receives a signal from said detector to actuate the cutter and the driving motor for driving the winding roll, stops the pinch roll apparatus, drives the exchanger, actuates the transport device for moving the winding roll apparatus from the normal position to the reset position, starts the pinch roll apparatus at the same time as the winding roll apparatus is stopped, and returns the winding roll to the normal position.

Tow feeding apparatus

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.

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Shiga-ken, Japan

Katsutoshi Sasaki