(19)
(11) EP 1 869 238 B1

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT SPECIFICATION

(45) Mention of the grant of the patent:
29.07.2009 Bulletin 2009/31

(21) Application number: 05771134.3

(22) Date of filing: 16.08.2005
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC): 
D04H 13/00(2006.01)
(86) International application number:
PCT/KR2005/002658
(87) International publication number:
WO 2006/109905 (19.10.2006 Gazette 2006/42)

(54)

PRODUCING METHOD FOR NON WOVEN SILK FABRIC

VERFAHREN ZUR HERSTELLUNG EINES SEIDENVLIESES

PROCEDE DE FABRICATION DE NON-TISSE DE SOIE


(84) Designated Contracting States:
AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC NL PL PT RO SE SI SK TR
Designated Extension States:
AL BA HR MK YU

(30) Priority: 13.04.2005 KR 20050030610

(43) Date of publication of application:
26.12.2007 Bulletin 2007/52

(73) Proprietor: The Non Woven Silk Fabric Co., Ltd.
1121 Hogye-dong Dongan-gu Anyang-city Gyeonggi-prefecture 431-080 (KR)

(72) Inventor:
  • SAMYONG, Lee, Saemmaeul Apt. 114-2602
    Anyang-city Gyeonggi-prefecture 431-080 (KR)

(74) Representative: Gritschneder, Martin 
Abitz & Partner Patentanwälte Postfach 86 01 09
81628 München
81628 München (DE)


(56) References cited: : 
WO-A-97/07273
CN-A- 1 475 619
JP-A- 06 235 154
JP-A- 2000 296 280
CN-A- 1 085 614
JP-A- 9 279 463
JP-A- 60 059 109
JP-A- 2003 159 322
   
       
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    Description

    Brief description of drawings



    [0001] Drawing 1 shows the manufacturing process of the non woven silk fabric flow chart according to the invention.

    < The explanation on the indicating numbers of the major parts of drawing 1 >



    [0002] 

    10: cutting the cocoons

    20: boiling the filament material

    30: washing the refined filaments

    40: drying the filaments

    50: beating

    60: jetting adhesive agent

    70: drying the silk fabric

    80: ironing the silk fabric

    90: trimming the silk fabric.



    [0003] Drawing 2 shows the proper machine system for the manufacturing of the non woven, silk fabric according to the invention.

    < The explanation on the indicating numbers of the major parts of drawing 2 >



    [0004] 
    ① and ②: beating device ④: device for jetting the adhesive agent
    ⑤: drying device ⑥: ironing device
    ⑦ and ⑧: trimming device  

    Precise description of the invention


    Technical field



    [0005] This invention is related to the manufacturing method for a non woven silk fabric and is more concretely about the mechanical production of a non woven silk fabric including the steps of splitting the cocoon, getting rid of the wax composite at the high temperature and pressure, extracting only the fibroins, the pure fabric materials, primary forming through beating and completion of the shape with the adhesive agent, the Korean paper mulberry glue.

    Background Art



    [0006] As already known wide, the silk fabric was developed some thousands years ago and the way to acquire the silk fabric that the cocoons constructed by the silk worm are boiled, the yam is drawn manually or by machine from the boiled cocoons and the silk fabric is woven with the yam and the thread is continuously inherited for thousands years.

    [0007] Besides such traditional know how to get the silk fabric, it seems a very rare idea to try to procure practically not the woven but the non woven fabric from the cocoons, let alone the theory.

    [0008] KR 10-1980-0000358 (Application Date of Jan. 31 st 1980) discloses a method for producing a non woven silk fabric by using an alternative sheet-like cocoon instead of the normal oval one.

    [0009] KR 10-2003-7011871 (Application Date of 9th Nov. 2003) is related to a non woven fabric made from a silk fibroin and/or a ultra fine fibre of the silk-like material, being dissolved in hexafluoroacetone hydrate or a solvent, the main component of which is the hexafluoroacetone hydrate. The non woven fabric is electro spun and formed from the silk fibroins.

    [0010] CN-A-1 085614 (Publication Date of 20th Apr. 1994) discloses a non woven silk fabric, which is produced using silk as material, which is passed through degreasing, drying, opening, carding, glue spraying and settling devices.

    [0011] KR 20-2003-0039912 (Application date of 23rd Dec. 2003), discloses a manufacturing method of a non woven fabric which is hard to inflame. The idea of that method is to manufacture a non woven silk fabric by the steps of:

    obtaining a pure fibroin from silk worm cocoons, which are cut apiece, boiled at high pressure and temperature; cleaning, washing and beating the fibroins; dissolving the fractured and segmented fibroins again in water; adding adhesive glue to it; scooping it up in sheet shape with the wooden web wire for the Korean paper mill; drying it and finally getting the non woven silk fabric, so to speak utterly manually.


    Disclosure of Invention



    [0012] As might be appreciated from the above, this invention can be one of the most suitable ways to automate the production of the non woven silk fabric, being the utmost method to acquire the non woven silk fabric more effectively with lesser efforts and costs than by any other conventional method.

    [0013] The silk worm cocoon is composed of some wax, sericin part and the filaments of the fibroin. The content of pure protein is over 77%. As it were, the silk worms make the cocoon, the natural non woven fabric, from their filaments fixed in its own way. Since such non woven fabric can not be utilized to the human needs, there arises the necessity to disorganize and to reorganize it to our want. Upon such basic premise, the three following technical tasks for this invention to achieve can be referred.

    [0014] The first one is the technique of separating the two major components of the cocoon. The way adopted by this invention to this effect is to execute the process of dissolving and removing the waxen part in hot water under high pressure.

    [0015] The second one is that of the prime forming of the separated pure filaments as the basis of the non woven fabric. To solve this task, we intended to apply the beating machine which has been used to handle the cotton and developed the beating system to meet the treatment of the new material.

    [0016] The third one is that of the setting of the non woven fabrics primarily formed by beating into the more stable tissue of the fabric. This task is reached at last by applying the Korean paper glass glue used at the traditional Korean paper mill (the vegetable adhesive made from the roots of the Korean abelmosk).

    [0017] Upon solving the technical tasks as mentioned above, we come to give the birth to the non woven silk fabric, totally different from the natural non woven silk fabric in the point of view of the shape and the components.

    Best Mode for Carrying Out the Invention



    [0018] This invention is precisely explained as follows, with reference to enclosed drawing 1 and drawing 2.

    [0019] If the basic composition of this invention is examined at first, we can say the production method for the non woven silk fabric by this invention has the characteristics to include, at the manufacture of it, the following steps:

    splitting the silk worm cocoons and procuring the filament material (10);

    boiling the filament material procured through the above process (10) in the pressure tank at the high temperature and pressure for the appropriate time and claiming the filaments with the removal of the pollution and the waxen component (20);

    washing the filaments claimed through the above process (20) in an industrial laundry and in flowing distilled water (30);

    drying the filaments washed through the above process (30) with hot air (40);

    beating the filaments dried through the above process (40) three times vertically and horizontally (50);

    evaporating an adhesive agent in the shape of the fog onto the non woven fabrics primarily formed by beating(50), by which the filaments become more stable fibrous tissue thereafter (60);

    drying the non woven fabric finally formed by jetting the glue (60), by letting it pass between hot tubes (70);

    ironing the dried non woven fabric (80);

    trimming the ironed non woven fabric ironed (90).



    [0020] Let us more precisely describe this invention according to the desirable example of the conduct as follows.

    [0021] The silk worm cocoons, regardless if they are classifiable or not, and the other by-products of them can be used and the oval ones have to be cut in half, from which the larvae with the shield membranes are removed.

    [0022] For the next step, the pieces of the cocoons split into two by cutting (10) are boiled in the 135°C hot water of a tanker of the 3 M/T to 3.5 M/T pressure for 2 and half hours and the pure filaments, which are the collective of the fibroins constituted of amino acid protein are obtained from the fragments of the cocoons through this process. These fibroins are known to be composed of lots of fibril, the hyper ultra fine threads in the range of nanometer thickness, at which the numberless pores can be observed with the aid of an electronic microscope. Such structure could be declared to be one of the reasons why the non woven silk fabric has the nature to be affine to the surrounding environment and to be beneficial to the human body.

    [0023] After boiling the filaments held together in the shape of the wad of the cotton wool, they meet the step of washing (30), that has the two sub processes of for 30 minutes and of cleaning it in the running water, purified like the diluted during 24 hours. The washed and cleaned wad of the filaments is dried fully through the process of the drying (40) and thereafter, bears the appearance of a densely interlocked fibrous tissue.

    [0024] As the wad of the filaments is evenly spread in front of the inlet of the beating machine, the beating devices beats and elongates it 3 times vertically and horizontally to make the outlook of a soft silk non woven fabric

    [0025] The next important step is jetting of the adhesive agent (60), i.e., that the Korean paper glue made from the roots of the Korean abelmosk is evenly sprayed onto the surface (in the case of the non woven silk fabric for the filter or the wall paper) or both faces (in the case of the non woven silk fabric for the padding of the garments) of the non woven fabric sheet already formed in a certain breadth and thickness through the previous step of beating(50), while it passes the glue evaporating system and the stabilized fibrous tissue as the non woven fabric is fixed finally.

    [0026] Whereafter, the non woven silk fabric almost completed by glue jetting (60), is dried by going between heated iron tubes (70) and by ironing (80) to make the appearance and the shape neat. After trimming (90) to adjust the edge and the measure, the make of the non woven silk fabric is finished.

    [0027] The non woven silk fabric manufactured through the above steps can be roughly classified in two kinds - one is in the shape of a flat sheet and the other one is in the form of a felt-like and downy sheet with some thickness according to the way of the adhesive agent evaporation and may be used for filters, wall papers and garments padding etc., according to the shape and form, respectively.

    Industrial Applicability



    [0028] The human kind has got a new material which is affined to the environment as a natural substance, beneficial to the human body, hard to inflame when set fire to and at the same time, uncomparably surpassing in the easiness of being tailored, sewed and filled between the outer fabric of clothes and the interlining when used as padding of garments, compared with a similar kind of padding material like cotton wool, wool, duck down and the goose down, etc..


    Claims

    1. Method of producing a non woven silk fabric, comprising the steps:

    cutting cocoons (10), such that the cocoons are split half and the innate larvae with the surrounding protect membranes are removed;

    boiling (20) the filament material, obtained by cutting the cocoons (10), in a hyper pressure tank at the pressure of 3 to 3.5 metric tons at the high temperature of 135°C for 2.5 hours, such that impurities like tainted materials and waxen components are removed, to obtain the refined filaments;

    washing (30) the filaments, obtained by boiling (20), in the industrial laundry with hot water of 100°C for 30 minutes and rinsing the filaments thereafter with pure or distilled water for 24 hours;

    drying (40) the filaments, cleaned and washed by washing (30), in the hot air dryer;

    beating (50) the dried filaments three times vertically and horizontally for the wad of the filaments to make 1.5mm thick non woven fabrics after beaten;

    jetting an adhesive agent (60) - a vaporized Korean paper mulberry glue - evenly onto the surface of the non woven fabrics (if the non woven fabric is used for filters or wall papers) or both faces of the non woven fabrics (if the non woven fabric is used for padding of garments) formed in a certain breadth and thickness primarily by beating (50) to make a stable fibrous tissue of the final form by letting the webs pass through a jetting device;

    drying (70) the non woven silk fabric, formed by jetting of the adhesive agent (60), between hot iron tubes;

    ironing (80) the dried non woven silk fabric;

    trimming (90) the ironed non woven silk fabric.


     


    Ansprüche

    1. 

    Die Herstellung der nichtgewebte Seide folgt durch den folgenden Gängen: Der Schnitt Gang (10) wo der Kokon geschnitten wird und die Puppe und die Schutzmembranen entfernt wird;

    Der Koch Gang (20) wo das vom Schnitt Gang (10) enthaltende Seide Fiber Material durch das hochgehitzte (135°C) Wasser mit Hochdruck (3 tons ∼ 3.5 tons) 2.5 Stunden lang gekocht wird das dadurch der Schmutz und die Wachs Bestandteile vollständig entfernt werden und die Seide Fiber erhält wird;

    Der Abwasch Gang (30) wo das vom Koch Gang (20) erhaltende Seide Fiberin in einer Waschmaschine mit 100°C Wasser hinein kommt und 30 Minuten lang gekocht wird und danach in reinigem oder destilliertem Wasser 24 Stunden lang abgewascht wird;

    Der Trocknung Gang (40) wo das vom Abwasch Gang (30) abgewuschte Seide Fiberin durch die heiße Luft getrocknet wird;

    Der Tapp Gang (50) wo das vom Trocknung Gang (40) getrocknete Seide Fiberin 3 Male kreuz und quer getappt das es 1.5 mm dick wird;

    Der Sprühkleber Gang (60) wo an dem vom Tapp Gang (50) erste Formlierung gemacht wordene Seide Fiberin auf die Oberfläche (nichtgewebte Seide für Filter oder Tapeten) oder auf die beiden Seiten(nichtgewebte Seide für Stoffe der Bekleidungen) der Hibiscus manihot Kleber nebelartigweise gesprüht wird das durch diese zweite Formulierung die nichtgewebte Seide mit der stabil Struktur entsteht;

    Der Trocknung Gang (70) wo die vom Sprühkleber Gang (60) formulierte nichtgewebte Seide mit der Hitzplatte getrocknet wird;

    Der Bügel Gang(80) wo die vom Trocknung Gang (70) getrocknete nichtgewebte Seide gebügelt wird;

    Der Beschnitt Gang(90) wo die vom Bügel Gang (80) gebügelte nichtgewebte Seide zuletzt beschnitten wird.


     


    Revendications

    1. 

    Méthode de la fabrication de la soie non-tissée, composée des étapes suivantes:

    Processus de coupe (10) consistant à couper les cocons pour ôter les chrysalides et les membranes de protection;

    Processus de cuisson (20) pour obtenir les filaments de soie après avoir supprimé complètement les éléments de cire en cuisant les fibres de soie obtenus par le processus de coupe (10) à l'eau à haute température (135°C) et haute pression (3 tonnes à 3.5 tonnes) pendant 2.5 heures;

    Processus de lavage (30) consistant à faire bouillir les fibres de soie obtenus par le processus de cuisson (10) dans une machine à laver à 100°C pendant 30 minutes puis à les laver pendant 24 heures avec l'eau pure ou distillée;

    Processus de séchage (40) consistant à faire sécher à l'air chaud les fibres de soie laves par le processus de lavage (30);

    Processus de battage (50) consistant à battre les fibres de soie séché par le processus de séchage (40) trois fois verticalement et horizontalement afin d'obtenir l'épaisseur de 1.5mm;

    Processus de pulvérisation d'adhésif (60) permettant la formation d'une structure des fibres stables par le deuxième modelage, en pulvérisant de la colle de Coréen papier mûrier sous forme du brume sur la surface(soie non-tissée pour filtre ou papier mural) ou sur les deux côtés(soie non-tissée pour rembourrage de vêtement) des tissus premièrement modelé par le processus de battage (50);

    Processus de séchage (70) consistant à faire sécher sur une plaque chaude la soie non-tissée modelé par le processus de pulvérisation d'adhésif (60);

    Processus de repassage (80) consistant à repasser la soie non-tissée séché par le processus de séchage (70);

    Et processus d'ébarbage (90) pour affiner la soie non-tissée par le processus de repassage.


     




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