Leather-like sheet and production method thereof
AssigneeToray Industries, Inc.
InventorsTomoyuki Horiguchi, Kentaro Kajiwara, Satoru Shimoyama
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Abstract
A leather-like sheet excellent in repulsive feeling is provided by a leather-like sheet substantially including a fibrous material which is a leather-like sheet in which a staple fiber nonwoven fabric (A) in which ultra-fine fibers of an average single fiber fineness of 0.0001 to 0.5 dtex and an average fiber length of 1 to 10 cm are entangled with each other and a woven or knitted fabric (B) including a conjugate fiber in which two or more polyesters are disposed in side-by-side or eccentric sheath-core relationship are laminated.
Claims19
A leather-like sheet substantially not containing polyurethane and comprising a fibrous material, wherein a staple fiber nonwoven fabric (A), in which ultra-fine fibers of an average single fiber fineness of about 0.0001 to about 0.5 dtex and an average fiber length of about 1 to about 10 cm are entangled with each other, and a woven or knitted fabric (B) comprising a conjugate fiber in which two or more polyesters are disposed in side-by-side or eccentric sheath-core relationship, are laminated.
A method of producing a leather-like sheet that substantially does not contain polyurethane comprising 1) obtaining an ultra-fine staple fiber nonwoven fabric (A′) in which staple fibers convertible into ultra-fine fibers of an average single fiber fineness of about 1 to about 10 dtex which are convertible into ultra-fine fibers of an average single fiber fineness of about 0.0001 to about 0.5 dtex and an average fiber length of about 1 to about 10 cm are entangled by needle punching and then converted into ultra-fine fibers, and 2) laminating said nonwoven fabric (A′) on a woven or knitted fabric (B) comprising a conjugate fiber in which two or more polyesters are disposed in side-by-side or eccentric sheath-core relationship and subjecting (A′) and (B) to a fluid jet treatment at a pressure of at least about 10 MPa to entangle the ultra-fine fibers in the nonwoven fabric (A′) with each other to convert it into a nonwoven fabric (A) simultaneously with entangling the nonwoven fabric (A) and the woven or knitted fabric (B).
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