Method for producing a wet-laid nonwoven fabric

• US 10,443,167 B2
• Filed: 08/23/2016
• Issued: 10/15/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hokuetsu Corporation
• Original Assignee: Hokuetsu Corporation
• Inventors: Soyama, Toshihiko, Sakadume, Nobuyuki, Nemoto, Junji
• Primary Examiner(s): Salvatore, Lynda
• Application Number:
  US15/244,050
• Publication Number:
  US 20160355961A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,148 Days
• Field of Search: 442327, 442164, 428141, 162206
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 69/105 Support pretreatment
• CPC Class Codes: D04H 1/04 from fleeces or layers composed of fibres having existing or potential cohesive properties, e.g. natural fibres, prestretched or fibrillated artificial fibres felting apparatus D04H17/00
• CPC Class Codes: D04H 1/26 Wood pulp
• CPC Class Codes: D04H 1/4218 Glass fibres
• CPC Class Codes: D04H 1/5412 sheath-core
• CPC Class Codes: D04H 1/55 Polyesters
• CPC Class Codes: D04H 1/732 by fluid current, e.g. air-lay
• CPC Class Codes: D21H 13/10 Organic non-cellulose fibres
• CPC Class Codes: D21H 13/24 Polyesters
• CPC Class Codes: D21H 13/40 vitreous, e.g. mineral wool, glass fibres
• CPC Class Codes: D21H 17/53 Polyethers; Polyesters
• CPC Class Codes: D21H 17/67 Water-insoluble compounds, e.g. fillers, pigments
• CPC Class Codes: D21H 25/04 Physical treatment, e.g. heating, irradiating D21H25/18 takes precedence; dryer section of machines for making continuous webs of paper D21F5/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 442/60 Nonwoven fabric [i.e., nonwoven strand or fiber material]

Abstract

A method for producing a wet-laid nonwoven fabric for a semipermeable membrane supporting body, the method comprising: performing papermaking according to a wet papermaking method by using a fiber slurry containing a synthetic fiber as a main constituent fiber; drying the fiber slurry; subsequently subjecting the dried sheet to hot press processing two times by using a heat calender apparatus, wherein the hot press process temperature in the second treatments is adjusted to be higher by 10° C. or more than the hot press processing temperature in the first treatment, while treating the dried sheet by using a hard nip heat calender apparatus equipped with a combination of a metal roll and a metal roll for at least one time of the hot press processing; and thereby obtaining a wet-laid nonwoven fabric for a semipermeable membrane supporting body.

Claims

1. A method for producing a wet-laid nonwoven fabric for a semipermeable membrane supporting body, the method comprising:

performing papermaking according to a wet papermaking method by using a fiber slurry containing a synthetic fiber as a main constituent fiber;

drying the fiber slurry to form a dried sheet;

subsequently subjecting the dried sheet to hot press processing a first time and a second time by using a heat calender apparatus,

wherein the hot press processing at the second time is at a temperature that is higher by 10°

C. or more than the hot press processing at the first time,

wherein the heat calender apparatus used for hot press processing during the first time and the second time is a hard nip heat calender apparatus in which the metal rolls are arranged in four or more stages along a height direction of the hard nip heat calender apparatus;

thereby obtaining a wet-laid nonwoven fabric for a semipermeable membrane supporting body; and

determining whether the wet-laid nonwoven fabric for a semipermeable membrane supporting body satisfies at least one of a first condition or a second condition by extracting one or more samples,

wherein the first condition is that spots where a printing ink does not easily adhere on a printed surface side are not observed when solid printing is carried out with the printing ink over an entire surface of the one or more samples,

wherein the second condition is that when the one or more samples have been cut to a size of 210 mm×

297 mm and subjected to solid printing over an entire surface with the printing ink, spots where the printing ink does not easily adhere on a printed surface side are not observed in 95% or more of the one or more samples, and

using the wet-laid nonwoven fabric on a semipermeable membrane supporting body to which a semipermeable membrane liquid is to be applied if at least one of the first condition or the second condition is satisfied.