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OwnerYukio Yamakawa, Tadashi Furuya +2inventors
InventorsYukio Yamakawa, Tadashi Furuya, Tsutomu Teshima, Yutaka Tanaka
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The invention provides a thermoplastic elastomer nonwoven fabric roll that exhibits minimal longitudinal wrinkles and minimal delayed restoration when unrolled, and a method and apparatus for producing the same. Thermoplastic elastomer filaments that have been melt-spun are piled on a belt conveyor thereby forming a sheet of nonwoven fabric, that is guided to a rotating roller disposed above the transportation zone of the belt conveyor and peeled off therefrom. Since minimal tension is applied to the nonwoven fabric during processing, the nonwoven fabric can be unrolled with little stretching by applying relatively little tension to the nonwoven fabric. By the method of this invention, a nonwoven fabric roll with unrolling tension of 0.25 g/cm/basis-weight or less can be formed.
A thermoplastic elastomer nonwoven fabric roll made by piling and bonding thermoplastic elastomer filaments into a sheet of nonwoven fabric, and winding the nonwoven fabric thus formed around a tube thereby forming a nonwoven fabric roll, characterized in that the tension required to unroll the nonwoven fabric from the nonwoven fabric roll is 0.25 g/cm/basis-weight or less.
A method of producing a thermoplastic elastomer nonwoven fabric roll, comprising:
An apparatus for producing a thermoplastic elastomer nonwoven fabric roll, comprising:
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