Quick-drying pure cotton fabric with two faces having different properties and a method of producing same

• US 20060148356A1
• Filed: 03/06/2006
• Published: 07/06/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Guangdong Esquel Textiles Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Guangdong Esquel Textiles Company Limited
• Inventors: Xiao, Jun, Zhou, Liming, Zhang, Yugao
• Application Number:
  US11/369,264
• Publication Number:
  US 20060148356A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 442/310
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 31/12 Hygroscopic; Water retaining
• CPC Class Codes: D04B 1/14 Other fabrics or articles characterised primarily by the use of particular thread materials
• CPC Class Codes: D06M 13/419 Amides having nitrogen atoms of amide groups substituted by hydroxyalkyl or by etherified or esterified hydroxyalkyl groups
• CPC Class Codes: D06M 13/432 Urea, thiourea or derivatives thereof, e.g. biurets; Urea-inclusion compounds; Dicyanamides; Carbodiimides; Guanidines, e.g. dicyandiamides
• CPC Class Codes: D06M 15/277 containing fluorine
• CPC Class Codes: D06M 15/647 containing polyether sequences
• CPC Class Codes: D06M 2101/06 cellulosic
• CPC Class Codes: D10B 2201/02 Cotton
• CPC Class Codes: D10B 2401/021 hydrophobic
• CPC Class Codes: D10B 2401/022 hydrophylic
• CPC Class Codes: D10B 2403/0114 with one or more yarns appearing predominantly on one face, e.g. plated or paralleled yarns for pile fabrics D03D27/00, D04B1/02, D04B21/02; for intarsia fabrics D04B1/126
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 442/40 Knit fabric [i.e., knit strand or strip material]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 442/438 Strand material formed of individual filaments having different chemical compositions
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 442/488 Including an additional knit fabric layer

Abstract

The present invention is a quick-drying pure cotton fabric whose two faces have different properties and a method of producing same. One face of said fabric is a hydrophobic face formed largely or entirely from hydrophobic pure cotton, and the other face is a hydrophilic face formed largely or entirely from hydrophobic pure cotton. Moreover, said fabric is capable of unidirectional transportation of water. The method of producing said fabric consists mainly of separate hydrophobic treatments of pure cotton yarn. The result is hydrophilically-treated yarn and hydrophobically treated yarn. Then the two types of yarn are knit according to a certain knitting process to produce a fabric whose two faces have different properties: hydrophilicity and hydrophobicity. The fabric is also comfortable and has moisture management and fast-drying functions.

Claims

1. A quick-drying pure cotton fabric with two faces having different properties, the first face of said fabric being a hydrophobic face formed largely or entirely from hydrophobic pure cotton yarn and the second face being a hydrophilic face largely or entirely formed from hydrophilic pure cotton yarn, said fabric being capable of unidirectional transportation of water.

2. The quick-drying pure cotton fabric as described in claim 1, wherein said fabric has a single-knit or a double-knit structure.

3. The quick-drying pure cotton fabric as described in claim 1, wherein the yarn used to form the hydrophobic face contains from 60% to 100% hydrophobically-treated yarn and from 0% to 40% hydrophilically-treated yarn, and the yarn used to form the hydrophilic face is 100% hydrophilically-treated yarn.

4. The quick-drying pure cotton fabric as described in claim 3, wherein the yarn that forms the hydrophobic face contains 60% to 99% hydrophobically-treated yarn and 1% to 40% hydrophilically-treated yarn.

5. The quick-drying pure cotton fabric as described in claim 3, wherein the yarn that forms the hydrophobic face contains 100% hydrophobically-treated yarn.

6. The quick-drying pure cotton fabric as described in claim 1, wherein said fabric is a double-knit fabric or a single-knit plated fabric knit from said pure cotton yarn.

7. The quick-drying pure cotton fabric as described in claim 2, wherein said fabric is a double-knit fabric or a single-knit plated fabric knit from said pure cotton yarn.

8. The quick-drying pure cotton fabric as described in claim 3, wherein said fabric is a double-knit fabric or a single-knit plated fabric knit from said pure cotton yarn.

9. The quick-drying pure cotton fabric as described in claim 4, wherein said fabric is a double-knit fabric or a single-knit plated fabric knit from said pure cotton yarn.

10. The quick-drying pure cotton fabric as described in claim 5, wherein said fabric is a double-knit fabric or a single-knit plated fabric knit from said pure cotton yarn.

11. A pure cotton garment made from the quick-drying pure cotton fabric as described in claim 1.

12. A method of producing a quick-drying pure cotton fabric, comprising the following steps:

hydrophilically treating pure cotton yarn to obtain hydrophilically-treated yarn;

hydrophobically treating pure cotton yarn to obtain hydrophobically-treated yarn; and

knitting the hydrophilically-treated yarn and the hydrophobically-treated yarn to make a fabric that has a hydrophobic face formed largely or entirely from the hydrophobically-treated pure cotton yarn and a hydrophilic face largely or entirely formed from the hydrophilically-treated pure cotton yarn such that the fabric can unidirectionally transport water.

13. The method as described in claim 12, wherein the step of hydrophilically treating said cotton yarn comprises dyeing the yarn, softening the yarn in a bath with a hydrophilic softener, and drying it.

14. The method as described in claim 13, wherein said hydrophilic softener in said softening step is selected from the group consisting of aliphatic amines, aliphatic amine derivatives, organic silicon compounds, and a mixture thereof.

15. The method as described in claim 14, wherein the hydrophilic softener is used in a concentration of 1-10 grams per liter and said treatment with the hydrophilic softener is carried out for 10-50 minutes at 30°

C.-100°

C.

16. The method as described in claim 13, wherein said drying step comprises drying the cotton yarn at 80°

C.-150°

C.

17. The method as described in claim 12, wherein said step of hydrophobically treating the cotton yarn comprises dyeing the yarn, treating it with a hydrophobic agent, and drying it.

18. The method as described in claim 17, wherein said step of treating the yarn with a hydrophobic agent is carried out at 40-100°

C. for 5-60 minutes with a hydrophobic agent in an amount from 1-100 g/L.

19. The method as described in claim 17, wherein said hydrophobic agent in said treating step is selected from the group consisting of aliphatic acid amides, polycyanamides, organic silicon compounds, fluorocarbon hydrophobic softening oils, and mixtures thereof.

20. The method as described in claim 19, wherein said hydrophobic agent is selected from the group consisting of hydroxymethyl aliphatic acid amide, etherified polyhydric melamine, hydrosilicon oil emulsion, and organic fluorine emulsion.

21. The method as described in claim 20, wherein the said hydrosilicon oil emulsion is selected from the group consisting of a hydrosilicon emulsion with cationic silicon, an active group-carrying polydimethylsiloxane hydrosilicon oil emulsion, and a methyl hydrosilicon oil emulsion;

and said organic fluorine emulsion is selected from the group consisting of a fluorine-containing alkyl acrylic ester copolymer emulsion, a fluororesin, and a coordinated mixture of fluorocarbons and hydrocarbons.

22. The method as described in claim 17, wherein said drying step comprises drying the yarn at a temperature of 100°

C. to 180°

C.

23. The method as described in claim 12, wherein said knitting step comprises knitting the fabric using a double-knit double-faced knitting method, a double-knit rib jacquard knitting method, or a single-knit structure knitting method.

24. The method as described in claim 23, wherein said single-knit plated-structure knitting method comprises a single-knit plated jersey knitting method, a single-knit plated pique knitting method, a single-knit plated Lacoste knitting method, or a single-knit plated jacquard knitting method.

25. The method as described in claim 12, further comprising the step, after said knitting step, of after-treating the fabric using a procedure selected from the group consisting of mercerization, enzyme washing, resin finishing, garment making, and garment washing.