Manufacture of wetlaid nonwoven webs
AssigneeJames River Corporation of Virginia
InventorsStephen H. Tse, David H. Hollenberg, Richard L. Martin, James H. Manning
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Abstract
A method for forming a fabric web by wet-laying fibers on paper-making equipment, the web comprising staple length natural or synthetic fibers and optionally wood cellulose papermaking fibers and an adsorbed polymeric surface active agent. The method comprises making up an aqueous fiber furnish with a polymeric surfactant having a plurality of both hydrophilic and hydrophobic groupings per molecule. The polymeric surfactant is adsorbed by the fibers and may be added to the fibers or it may be included in the aqueous carrier medium. In either case, the finished web contains and is improved by the inclusion of the polymeric surfactant.
Claims12
In a method for the production of a fibrous web from natural synthetic fibers which comprises forming a fiber furnish by dispersing the fibers in water and supplying the fiber furnish to the wire of a papermaking machine forming a fibrous web, the improvement which comprises dispersing the fibers in an aqueous carrier in the presence of a polymeric surfactant associative thickener containing two or more of both hydrophobic and hydrophilic groupings per molecule and having a molecular weight in the range of from about 10,000 to about 400,000 in an amount within the range of from about 1 to about 150 pounds polymeric surfactant per pound of dry fiber.
In a process for manufacture of a wet laid fibrous web from a dispersion of papermaking fibers in an aqueous carrier medium, the improvement which comprises forming a fiber in water furnish containing from 1 to 150 pounds per ton of dry fiber of polymeric surfactant ethylene oxide based urethane block copolymers having a molecular weight in the range of from about 10,000 to about 200,000 and hydroxyethyl cellulose ethers having a C.sub.10 to C.sub.24 alkyl side chain and a molecular weight in the range of from about 50,000 to about 400,000 and forming the wet laid web from the resulting unfoamed fiber furnish.
A composition of matter consisting essentially of dry paper or papermaking fibers having associated therewith from about 1 to 150 pounds per ton of dry fiber of polymeric surfactant associative thickener containing two or more of both hydrophilic and hydrophobic groupings per molecule with a molecular weight in the range of from about 10,000 to about 400,000.
In a process for the manufacture of a wet laid fibrous web from a fiber furnish comprising a dispersion of papermaking fibers in a an aqueous carrier medium, the improvement which comprises incorporating a polymeric surfactant associative thickener containing two or more of both hydrophobic and hydrophilic groupings per molecule and having a molecular weight in the range of from about 10,000 to about 400,000 into the fibers and thereafter dispersing the papermaking fibers containing from about 1 to about 150 pounds of polymeric surfactant per ton of dry fibers in an aqueous carrier forming the fiber furnish.
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