Dust filter bag including a highly porous backing material ply

• US 6,706,086 B2
• Filed: 10/16/2001
• Issued: 03/16/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 10/16/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Neenah Gessner GmbH (Mativ Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Fibermark Gressner GmbH & Company KG
• Inventors: Emig, Dietmar, Raabe, Ernst, Klimmek, Albrecht
• Primary Examiner(s): PHAM, MINH CHAU THI
• Application Number:
  US09/978,888
• Publication Number:
  US 20020083690A1
• Time in Patent Office: 882 Days
• Field of Search: 553/82, 554/86, 554/87, 55D/IG.2, 55D/IG.5, 55D/IG.39, 95/57, 95/78, 952/87, 96/15, 96/69, 153/47, 153/52
• US Class Current: 55/486
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/14 Bags or the like; Rigid filtering receptacles; Attachment of, or closures for, bags or receptacles
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 39/163 sintered or bonded
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 39/18 the material being cellulose or derivatives thereof cork or peat B01D39/1646 ; making filter paper D21F11/14
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 39/2024 otherwise bonded, e.g. by resins
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 55/02 Vacuum cleaner bags
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 55/05 Methods of making filter
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 55/19 Crankcase ventilation

Abstract

A dust filter bag having a highly porous backing material ply and a method for producing the dust filter bag. The dust filter bag includes at least one filter material ply and at least one backing material ply, the backing material ply possessing an air permeability of at least 900 l/m² x s, a burst strength of at least 70 kPa, a rupture strength longitudinally better than 10 and transversely better than 3 N, a flexural rigidity longitudinally better than 0.5 cN cm² and transversely better than 0.25 cN cm², a basis weight of 30-80 g/m² and a droplet sink-in time of less than 10 minimum. The dust filter bag can be produced by the following steps: mixing fibers including cellulose fibers and fusible fibers into a homogenous fiber mix, processing the fiber mix into a fiber web by wet laying, drying the fiber web, curing the dried fiber web by thermofusion into a backing material ply, processing the backing material ply with a filter material ply into a raw bag, and finishing the raw bag into a dust filter bag.

Claims

1. A dust filter bag comprising at least one filter material ply and at least one backing material ply, wherein said at least one backing material ply possesses an air permeability of at least 900 l/m²x s, a burst of at least 70 kPa, a rupture strength longitudinally better than 10 N and transversely better than 3 N, a flexural rigidity longitudinally better than 0.5 cN cm² and transversely better than 0.25 cN cm², a basis weight of 30-80 g/m² and a droplet sink-in time of less than 10 min.

2. The dust filter bag as set forth in claim 1, the righting angle of said backing material ply longitudinally and transversely is less than 90°

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3. The dust filter bag as set forth in claim 1, wherein the thickness of said backing material ply is in the range of 0.05-1 mm.

4. The dust filter bag as set forth in claim 1, wherein said backing material ply contains 20-90% by weight cellulose fibers, 10-80% by weight bicomponent fibers and 0-30% by weight binder, each relative to the weight of said backing material ply.

5. The dust filter bag as set forth in claim 4, said backing material ply additionally contains glass fibers.

6. The dust filter bag as set forth in claim 4, wherein said backing material ply additionally contains synthetic fibers.

7. The dim filter bag as set forth in claim 6, characterized in that said synthetic fibers and bicomponent fibers total at least 30% by weight relative to the weight of said backing material ply.

8. A method of producing a dust filter bag as set forth in claim 1, comprising the steps:

mixing fibers including cellulose fibers and fusible fibers into a homogeneous fiber mix,

processing said fiber mix into a fiber web by wet laying,

drying said fiber web,

curing said dried fiber web by thermofusion into a backing material ply,

processing said backing material ply with a filter material ply into a raw bag,

finishing said raw bag into a dust filter bag.

9. The method as set forth in claim 8, wherein after drying said fiber web or after curing said fiber web by thermofusion it is impregnated with a binder.

10. The dust filter bag as set forth in claim 5, wherein said backing material ply additionally contains synthetic fibers.