Wiping sheet

• US 20060009106A1
• Filed: 05/19/2005
• Published: 01/12/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/20/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Daiwabo Company Limited (Daiwabo Holdings Company Limited), DiPro Co. Ltd. (DiPro Co. Ltd. /Fong/)
• Original Assignee: Daiwbo Company Limited, DiPro Co. Ltd. (DiPro Co. Ltd. /Fong/)
• Inventors: Nishimura, Akinori, Aota, Mitsuhiro
• Application Number:
  US11/132,716
• Publication Number:
  US 20060009106A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 442/404
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 13/16 Cloths; Pads; Sponges metal scraping sponges A47L13/07
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 5/02 characterised by structural features of a fibrous or filamentary layer layer formed of metallic wires B32B15/02; layer formed of natural mineral fibres B32B19/02; layer formed of wood fibres B32B21/02
• CPC Class Codes: D04H 1/54 by welding together the fibres, e.g. by partially melting or dissolving in combination with needling D04H1/485
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 442/20 Coated or impregnated woven, knit, or nonwoven fabric which is not [a] associated with another preformed layer or fiber layer or, [b] with respect to woven and knit, characterized, respectively, by a particular or differential weave or knit, wherein the coating or impregnation is neither a foamed material nor a free metal or alloy layer
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 442/2762 Coated or impregnated natural fiber fabric [e.g., cotton, wool, silk, linen, etc.]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 442/277 Coated or impregnated cellulosic fiber fabric
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 442/2787 Coating or impregnation contains a vinyl polymer or copolymer
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 442/2869 Coated or impregnated regenerated cellulose fiber fabric
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 442/608 Including strand or fiber material which is of specific structural definition
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 442/614 Strand or fiber material specified as having microdimensions [i.e., microfiber]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 442/615 Strand or fiber material is blended with another chemically different microfiber in the same layer
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 442/616 Blend of synthetic polymeric and inorganic microfibers
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 442/637 Including strand or fiber material which is a monofilament composed of two or more polymeric materials in physically distinct relationship [e.g., sheath-core, side-by-side, islands-in-sea, fibrils-in-matrix, etc.] or composed of physical blend of chemically different polymeric materials or a physical blend of a polymeric material and a filler material
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 442/682 Needled nonwoven fabric
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 442/685 Containing inorganic and polymeric strand or fiber materials
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 442/689 Hydroentangled nonwoven fabric
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 442/692 Containing at least two chemically different strand or fiber materials

Abstract

A wiping sheet is provided, which presents excellent in handling during wiping, high wiping ability for greasy dirt, and less liquid remains on an object after wiping. A wiping sheet having a fiber structure (such as a woven fabric, a knitted fabric and a nonwoven) is obtained, which includes an ultrafine fiber layer containing ultrafine fibers having a fineness of at most 0.9 dtex which result from at least two types of ultrafine fiber-generating conjugate fibers, at least one conjugate fiber giving ultrafine fibers containing a modified vinyl alcohol resin, and the other conjugate fibers giving ultrafine fibers containing another resin(s). The ultrafine fibers can be obtained by a first splittable conjugate fiber including a component containing the modified vinyl alcohol resin and a second splittable conjugate fiber composed of components of other resins. In the ultrafine fiber layer, the fibers are preferably bonded by thermoadhesive resin-containing ultrafine fibers.

Claims

1. A wiping sheet including a fibrous structure which has an ultrafine fiber layer comprising ultrafine fibers which are obtained from at least two types of ultrafine fiber-generating conjugate fibers and have a fineness of not greater than 0.9 dtex, wherein the ultrafine fibers that are obtained from at least one type of the ultrafine fiber-generating conjugate fiber comprise a modified vinyl alcohol resin, and one or more types of the ultrafine fibers that are obtained from the other ultrafine fiber-generating conjugate fibers comprise another resin(s).

2. The wiping sheet according to claim 1, which comprises at least two types of the ultrafine fibers containing the another resin(s), wherein at least one type of the ultrafine fibers comprising a thermoadhesive resin whose melting point is lower by at least 10°

C. than that of any of the other resins which constitute the fibers included in the ultrafine fiber layer and the constituent fibers of the ultrafine fiber layer are thermally bonded by the thermoadhesive resin.

3. The wiping sheet according to claim 1, wherein the fibrous structure is a woven fabric, a knitted fabric, a nonwoven or a combination of thereof.

4. The wiping sheet according to claim 1, wherein the fibrous structure is a nonwoven and the ultrafine fiber-generating conjugate fibers are splittable conjugate fibers comprising a plurality of components and the constituent fibers are entangled by a hydroentangling treatment in the ultrafine fiber layer.

5. The wiping sheet according to claim 4, wherein the ultrafine fibers which are obtained from first splittable conjugate fibers composed of a component containing the modified vinyl alcohol resin and at least one another resin component(s) and second splittable conjugate fibers composed of at least two resin components made of resins other than the modified vinyl alcohol resin.

6. The wiping sheet according to claim 5, wherein the second splittable conjugate fibers are composed of a component containing a thermoadhesive resin whose melting point is lower by at least 10°

C. than the melting point of any of the resins constituting the first splittable conjugate fibers, and at least one another resin component(s), and the constituent fibers are thermally bonded by the thermoadhesive resin in the ultrafine fiber layer.

7. The wiping sheet according to claim 5, wherein the ultrafine fiber layer is obtained from a fiber web comprising the first splittable conjugate fibers and the second splittable conjugate fibers at a mass ratio of 8:

2 to 3;

7 (the first splittable conjugate fibers;

the second splittable conjugate fibers).

8. The wiping sheet according to claim 5, wherein the first splittable conjugate fibers have a higher splitting rate than the second splittable conjugate fibers.

9. The wiping sheet according to claim 6, wherein the splitting rate of the second splittable conjugate fibers is in a range of 20% to 80%.

10. The wiping sheet according to claim 5, wherein a vinyl alcohol content of the modified vinyl alcohol resin is in a range of 50% to 70% by mol.

11. The wiping sheet according to claim 5, wherein the component containing the modified vinyl alcohol resin is a component containing an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer resin and at least one of the another resin component(s) is a component containing a polyolefin resin in the first splittable conjugate fibers.

12. The wiping sheet according to claim 6, wherein the component containing the thermoadhesive resin is a component containing a polyethylene resin, and at least one of the another resin component(s) is a component containing at least one resin selected from a polyester resin and a polyolefin resin whose melting points are higher by 10°

C. than that of the polyethylene resin in the second splittable conjugate fibers.

13. The wiping sheet according to claim 5, wherein a fineness of the ultrafine fibers obtained from the first splittable conjugate fibers and the second splittable conjugate fibers is not greater than 0.5 dtex.

14. The wiping sheet according to claim 5, wherein the nonwoven is composed of a plurality of the ultrafine fiber layers which are laminated, and at least two of the ultrafine fiber layers are obtained from at least two fiber webs having the mass ratios of the first splittable conjugate fiber to the second splittable conjugate fibers different from each other.

15. The wiping sheet according to claim 14, wherein the nonwoven is composed of the ultrafine fiber layers constituting surfaces and the ultrafine fiber layer constituting inner part,

the fiber layers constituting the surfaces of the nonwoven is obtained from a web comprising the first splittable conjugate fibers and the second splittable conjugate fibers at a mass ratio of 7:

3 to 1;

9 (the first splittable conjugate fibers;

the second splittable conjugate fibers) and the fiber layer constituting the inner part of the nonwoven is obtained from a web comprising the first splittable conjugate fibers and the second splittable conjugate fibers at a mass ratio of 10;

0 to 5;

5 (the first splittable conjugate fibers;

the second splittable conjugate fibers).

16. The wiping sheet according to claim 1, which further comprises a hydrophilic fiber layer comprising hydrophilic fibers,

wherein the ultrafine fiber layers are laminated on both surfaces of the hydrophilic fiber layer, and the constituent fibers of the ultrafine fiber layer are entangled by a hydroentangling treatment, and the hydrophilic fiber layers and the ultrafine fiber layer are integrated by the hydroentangling treatment.

17. The wiping sheet according to claim 16, wherein the hydrophilic fiber layer comprises regenerated cellulose fibers and the regenerated cellulose fibers are self-bonded to give point-bonded areas in the hydrophilic fiber layer.

18. The wiping sheet according to claim 16, wherein the hydrophilic fiber layer comprises regenerated cellulose filaments and has fiber-entangled areas which are formed by entanglement of the regenerated cellulose fibers before the integration with the ultrafine fiber layer.

19. The wiping sheet according to claim 16, wherein the hydrophilic fiber layer comprises hydrophilic filaments and the hydrophilic filaments are at least partially self-bonded in the hydrophilic fiber layer.

20. The wiping sheet according to claim 1, wherein the nonwoven of 100 parts by mass is impregnated with a wetting agent of not greater than 1000 parts by mass.