# US 5,702,815 A · Thermal bondable fiber

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- Number: US 5,702,815 A
- Document ID: US5702815A
- Status: Granted
- Kind: A
- Application number: 08/811,307
- Filed: 1997-03-04
- Granted: 1997-12-30
- Earliest claimed: 1994-03-31
- Assignees: Montell North America Inc.
- Inventors: Eric J. Evain
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US5702815A

## CPC

- D01D 10/00: Physical treatment of artificial filaments or the like during manufacture, i.e. during a continuous production process before the filaments have been collected (finishing D02J)
- D01F 6/06: from polypropylene
- Y10T 428/29: Coated or structually defined flake, particle, cell, strand, strand portion, rod, filament, macroscopic fiber or mass thereof
- Y10T 428/2913: Rod, strand, filament or fiber
- D01D: MECHANICAL METHODS OR APPARATUS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL FILAMENTS, THREADS, FIBRES, BRISTLES OR RIBBONS
- D01F: CHEMICAL FEATURES IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL FILAMENTS, THREADS, FIBRES, BRISTLES OR RIBBONS; APPARATUS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF CARBON FILAMENTS
- Y10T: TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION

## Abstract

A process for preparing thermal bondable fibers including exposing molten fiber grade polymer to electromagnetic radiation at the one or more orifices of the spinneret and the upper portion of the spin line, and the fibers prepared therefrom.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A thermally bondable fiber prepared according to a process which comprises extruding fluid molten polymer downwardly through a spinneret having a spinneret face containing at least one orifice through which a fluid molten polymer filament emerges, exposing the fluid molten polymer filament(s) emerging downwardly from the spinneret face to an electromagnetic energy of from 1.times.10.sup.31 4 to 100 W/cm.sup.2, and solidifying said fluid molten polymer filament(s), said thermally bondable fiber having a denier of from 1 to 50 denier per filament and a greater bond strength than a fiber prepared in the same manner but without being exposed to said electromagnetic energy upon emerging downwardly from said spinneret face, wherein bond strength is the amount of force required to separate bonded segments of at least two of said fibers from one another after they have been bonded together by application of heat and pressure.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The thermally bondable fiber of claim 1, wherein said polymer contains at least one member of the group consisting of tetrakis ›methylene (3,5-di-tert-butyl-4-hydroxy-hydrocinnamate)!methane, tris-(2,4-di-tert-butylphenyl)phosphite,calcium stearate, and octadecyl-3-(3', 5'-di-tert-butyl-4'-hydroxyphenyl)propano-ate.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The thermally bondable fiber of claim 1, wherein said polymer is a member of the group consisting of polyethylene, polypropylene, random copolymer of propylene and ethylene, polyisobutylene, polyamide, polyester, polystyrene, polyvinyl chloride, polyacrylate and mixtures thereof.