B29L2031/726

METHOD FOR THE UTILIZATION OF CONSTITUENTS FROM BLENDED TEXTILE WASTES

The invention relates to a method for the treatment and utilization of waste liquor containing at least polyester degradation products and originating from an alkaline pulping process for the extraction of cellulose raw material from blended textile waste which contains at least a cellulose component and a polyester component. In order to make the method environmentally friendlier and more resource-efficient, it is proposed that the method comprises the following steps: the evaporation of water from the waste liquor in order to precipitate the polyester degradation product from the waste liquor and to obtain a two-phase mixture having an aqueous phase and a solid phase including the polyester degradation product, b) the separation of the solid phase from the liquid phase, and c) the thermal/energetic utilization of the solid phase.

NOZZLE FOR MAKING MELTBLOWN FILAMENTS

A nozzle has a body having a face extending in a longitudinal direction and transversely thereto in a transverse direction. The nozzle plate is provided with an array of melt openings and compressed-air openings on the face in a plurality of longitudinally extending rows and a plurality of transversely extending rows. A polymer melt to the nozzle openings to extrude the polymer melt downstream from the melt openings as polymer filaments and compressed air to the compressed-air openings to form air jets issuing downstream from the compressed-air openings between the polymer filaments. Only the polymer melt and no air is supplied to the melt openings such that only the polymer melt issues from the melt openings. Only compressed air and no polymer melt is supplied to the compressed-air openings such that only the compressed air issues from the compressed-air openings.

METHOD FOR PROCESSING TEXTILE WASTE INTO RECYCLED PLASTIC GRANULE
20230227621 · 2023-07-20 · ·

The invention relates to a for recycling fabric into plastic granule for plastic manufacturing processes, the method comprising the steps of: a) Collecting fabric comprising fabric fibers b) Pulverizing the fabric into a powder of fabric particles c) Pelletizing the powder with a binder such that fabric pellets comprising the powder of fabrics are formed d) Extruding a mixture of the fabric pellets and a plastic compound into plastic granule.

METHOD FOR RECYCLING POLYESTER FABRIC
20230093536 · 2023-03-23 ·

A method for recycling a polyester fabric is provided. The method includes providing a polyester fabric that is dyed and has dye and water repellent attached thereon, providing a composite solvent containing water and acetic acid mixed with each other, performing an extraction operation including infiltrating the polyester fabric with the composite solvent and extracting the dye and the water repellent, and carrying out a liquid state polycondensation reaction on the polyester fabric so that an intrinsic viscosity of the polyester fabric is increased and residual impurities of the polyester fabric are further removed.

RECYCLING METHOD OF POLYESTER COTTON BLENDED FABRIC

Provided is a recycling method of a polyester cotton blended fabric, including the following steps. A dye-containing polyester cotton blended fabric is put into an acidic aqueous solution containing an oxidizing agent for heating and soaking, so as to degrade the cotton in the polyester cotton blended fabric into powder, and decolorization is performed at the same time to remove the dye. After that, a polyester fabric and cotton powder are obtained by double filtration.

METHODS OF ADHERING FUSED DEPOSITION MODELING 3D PRINTED ELEMENTS ON FABRICS
20230066967 · 2023-03-02 ·

The present disclosure is directed to the use of additive manufacturing, and in particular, a fused deposition modeling (FDM) process, in the production of fabrics. More specifically, the present disclosure is directed to the use of additive manufacturing to fabricate three-dimensional elements on a fabric support structure. Also disclosed are methods for determining the spatial relationship between a fabric support structure and a print head used in additive manufacturing.

TEXTILE RECYCLING
20230069369 · 2023-03-02 · ·

A textile recycling method receives textile-waste-to-be-recycled, sorts the waste to isolate cellulose-containing articles from non-cellulose-containing articles, and re-sizes at least some of the cellulose-containing articles to create feedstock. The feedstock is processed in a cellulose solvent reactor, which has at least one ionic liquid. The ionic liquid dissolves intermolecular cellulose bonds of the feedstock to create a spinning dope. Cellulose fibers dissolved in the cellulose-bearing spinning dope solution are extruded in a cellulose coagulation bath reservoir to reconstitute at least some of the cellulose fibers, and the reconstituted fibers are wet-spun to form a continuous cellulose thread that is commercially indistinguishable from virgin fiber thread. Synthetic fiber material is vacuum-extracted or mechanically extracted from the cellulose-bearing solution and recycled into a continuous synthetic thread. Original color of textile-waste-to-be-recycled can be retained or removed, and new color can be added.

TEXTILE SEPARATION METHODS
20230147533 · 2023-05-11 ·

Provided herein is a method of separating spandex from textile blends using biosolvents. The recovered material is of high purity while the chemical structure and molecular weight remain substantially unaffected by the treatment.

Methods for producing through-fluid bonded nonwoven webs

A method of creating a soft and lofty continuous fiber nonwoven web is provided. The method includes providing first and second, different molten polymers to a spinneret defining a plurality of orifices and flowing a fluid intermediate the spinneret and a moving porous member. The method includes using the fluid to draw the first and second molten polymers, in a direction toward the porous member, through at least some of the plurality of orifices to form a plurality of individual continuous fiber strands. The method includes depositing the continuous fiber strands onto the porous member at a first location to produce an intermediate continuous fiber nonwoven web, and intermittently varying, in at least two different zones, a vacuum force applied to the moving porous member and to the intermediate web downstream of the first location and without the addition of more continuous fibers and without any heat applied.

SPINNING DIE FOR MELT-BLOWING

A spinning die for melt-blowing has plastic passages, a hot air passage, and an opening surface, in which discharge ports and blowing ports open. Adjacent and closest two of the discharge ports are first and second proximate discharge ports. One of the blowing ports corresponding to the first proximate discharge port is a first proximate blowing port, and one of the blowing ports corresponding to the second proximate discharge port is a second proximate blowing port. The first proximate blowing port includes a guide portion that projects away from the center of the first proximate discharge port. The guide portion is formed such that, as the distance from the opening surface increases, the hot air flow guided by the guide portion flows to be separated away from the hot air flow blown onto the molten plastic discharged from the second proximate discharge port.