Detailed Description
As described above, in view of the defects of the prior art, the inventor of the present invention has made extensive studies and practices to provide a technical solution of the present invention, which is mainly to attach a carrier to fluffy cotton to enhance the strength of the fluffy cotton, while maintaining the fluffy characteristic of the fluffy cotton, and then to directly use the fluffy cotton in the production line of finished products such as baby diapers, paper diapers and pull-ups, adult incontinence products, sanitary napkins and pads, and to broadcast absorbent materials such as absorbent powder on line, and to realize various absorbent structures, thereby reducing transportation costs, improving the production efficiency of cores, and comprehensively reducing the production costs of products.
The technical solution, its implementation and principles, etc. will be further explained as follows.
In one aspect of the present invention, a method for manufacturing a light, thin and flexible absorbent body on-line and integrally with a finished product includes:
providing a fluffy material with gaps, and compounding the fluffy material with a liner material to form a composite absorption main body;
applying a water absorbing material on at least one composite absorption main body by online broadcasting in an online production mode together with the sanitary care product, wherein the water absorbing material is uniformly distributed on the surface and/or in the gaps of the fluffy material, and then combining the water absorbing material with a wrapping material; and the number of the first and second groups,
and respectively arranging a first surface layer and a second surface layer on the first surface and the second surface of the obtained composite absorption main body to obtain a light, thin and soft absorption body, wherein the first surface and the second surface are oppositely arranged.
In some embodiments, the lofty material comprises a lofty nonwoven fabric, but is not limited thereto.
Further, the fluffy non-woven fabric can be 18-150 g/m in gram weight2Preferably 25 to 100g/m2Any type of nonwoven fabric.
In some embodiments, the liner-type material includes liner non-woven fabric or threads, that is, the fluffy non-woven fabric may be first combined with the liner non-woven fabric or threads, so as to increase the strength and effectively realize online high-speed unwinding.
Further, the non-woven fabric pad can be 6-80 g/m in gram weight2Especially 8 to 25g/m2Such as, but not limited to, spunmelt nonwoven (SMS), Spunbond (Spunbond), spunlace, or airlaid, etc.
In some embodiments, the method of making comprises: and compounding the fluffy material and the liner material by adopting a glue laminating, ultrasonic wave, hot pressing or cold pressing mode.
Further, the manufacturing method further comprises the following steps: and slitting the composite absorption main body.
Further, the width of cutting is 70-160 mm, and especially preferred is 80-120 mm.
Further, the slitting comprises integral slitting or offline individual slitting, wherein when the offline individual slitting is performed, the composite absorption main body is in a winding type package, a spindle type package or a box type package, particularly preferably in the box type package, and the box type package is more economical.
In some embodiments, the manufacturing method specifically includes: and by means of vacuum adsorption, oscillation, pressing or stamping, the water absorbing material is unreeled on line and is simultaneously scattered on one composite absorbing main body or between at least two composite absorbing main bodies, and the water absorbing material is uniformly distributed on the surface and/or in gaps of the fluffy material.
Further, the absorbent material includes, but is not limited to, SAP, i.e., absorbent polymer material, absorbent wood pulp-based material, and the like.
Further, the water absorbing material is preferably a powdery water absorbing powder.
Further, the online unreeling speed is 50-800 m/min, preferably 80-600 m/min.
Further, the water-absorbent polymer may be spread on the bulky nonwoven fabric in the form of a line, and 0.2g to 100g of the water-absorbent polymer per one sheet of the absorbent material may be realized.
Further, the absorbent material may be a layer of bulky material-dispersed water-absorbent material such as a water-absorbent polymer structure, or may be a layer of two or more layers of bulky material-dispersed water-absorbent polymer structures.
In a preferred embodiment, the manufacturing method comprises: adopt shale shaker formula dusting system will water-absorbing material unreels simultaneously in one on line or at least two in the combined absorption main part between the combined absorption main part, wherein, shale shaker formula dusting system includes: the device comprises a water absorbing material feeding mechanism, a weighing mechanism, a vibrating screen water absorbing material receiving mechanism and a vibrating dusting mechanism.
Further, the manufacturing method specifically comprises the following steps: and conveying the water absorbing material into a weighing mechanism by adopting a water absorbing material feeding mechanism, conveying the weighed water absorbing material into a vibrating screen water absorbing material receiving mechanism, and uniformly conveying the water absorbing material into a vibrating dusting mechanism, so that the water absorbing material is uniformly scattered on the surface and/or in gaps of the fluffy material.
Further, the running speed of the vibration dusting mechanism is 20-500 m/min, preferably 50-450 m/min.
Further, the vibration amplitude of the vibration dusting mechanism is 15-800 mm, preferably 30-300 mm, and the vibration frequency is 3-40 times per second, preferably 5-30 times per second.
In a preferred embodiment, the manufacturing method comprises: adopt vacuum adsorption formula dusting system will water-absorbing material unreels simultaneously in one on line or at least two on the compound absorbs the main part between the main part, wherein, vacuum adsorption formula dusting system includes: the water-absorbing material feeding mechanism, the weighing mechanism and the forming cavity forming mechanism are internally provided with vacuum adsorption.
Further, the manufacturing method specifically comprises the following steps: the water absorbing material feeding mechanism is adopted to convey the water absorbing material into the weighing mechanism, then the weighed water absorbing material is conveyed into the forming cavity forming mechanism, the composite absorbing main body moves around the forming cavity forming mechanism, and therefore the water absorbing material is uniformly adsorbed on the surface and/or in gaps of the fluffy material while being scattered into the forming cavity forming mechanism.
Further, the running speed of the vacuum adsorption type powder scattering system is 20-500 m/min, and preferably 50-450 m/min.
In a preferred embodiment, the manufacturing method comprises: adopt stamp formula dusting system will water-absorbing material unreels simultaneously in one on line or at least two on the compound absorbs the main part between the main part, wherein, stamp formula dusting system includes: water-absorbing material feeding mechanism, weighing mechanism and impression mechanism.
Further, the manufacturing method specifically comprises the following steps: and conveying the water absorbing material into a weighing mechanism by adopting a water absorbing material feeding mechanism, and conveying the weighed water absorbing material into a stamping mechanism, so that the water absorbing material is uniformly scattered on the surface and/or in gaps of the fluffy material.
Further, the running speed of the stamping mechanism is 20-500 m/min, preferably 50-450 m/min.
In one embodiment, the manufacturing method further comprises: before or after the water absorbing material is broadcast, C-shaped wrapping, O-shaped wrapping or surface attaching treatment is carried out on the water absorbing material by adopting a wrapping material.
Further, the wrapping material includes a hydrophilic non-woven fabric, but is not limited thereto.
In one embodiment, the first skin layer is a skin-contacting front layer and the second skin layer is a skin-noncontacting back layer.
Further, the first surface layer may include a spunmelt nonwoven fabric, a spunbond nonwoven fabric, a spunlace nonwoven fabric, a hot air nonwoven fabric, or a dust-free paper, but is not limited thereto, and the thickness of the first surface layer is 20 to 500 μm.
Further, the second surface layer may include a spunmelt nonwoven fabric, a spunbond nonwoven fabric, a spunlace nonwoven fabric, a hot air nonwoven fabric, or a dust-free paper, but is not limited thereto, and the thickness of the second surface layer is 20 to 500 μm.
In another aspect of the present invention, the present invention relates to a light, thin and flexible absorbent body manufactured by the above method.
Preferably, the light, thin, soft absorbent body includes:
a first surface layer which is a front surface layer contacting the skin;
a second surface layer which is a back surface layer not contacting with the skin; and the number of the first and second groups,
the composite absorption body is arranged between the first surface layer and the second surface layer, the composite absorption body is provided with a first surface and a second surface, the first surface and the second surface are arranged oppositely, the first surface layer is attached to the first surface, the second surface layer is attached to the second surface, the composite absorption body comprises a fluffy material and a liner material which are mutually combined and provided with gaps, and water absorption materials are uniformly distributed on the surface of the fluffy material and/or in the gaps.
Further, the water absorbing material is distributed on one composite absorption body or between at least two composite absorption bodies.
Further, the absorbent body includes a front sheet disposed on the skin-facing side, a back sheet disposed on the non-skin-facing side, and a composite absorbent body disposed between the front sheet and the back sheet; the absorber is light, thin and soft, and mainly comprises fluffy materials such as fluffy non-woven fabrics, so that the water-absorbing polymers can be spread on the absorber manufacturing equipment on line.
Further, the fluffy material and the liner material are compounded to realize online unreeling.
Further, the thickness of the light, thin and soft absorber is 0.1-15 mm, preferably 0.3-10 mm.
Further, the first surface layer may include a spunmelt nonwoven fabric, a spunbond nonwoven fabric, a spunlace nonwoven fabric, a hot air nonwoven fabric, or a dust-free paper, but is not limited thereto, and the thickness of the first surface layer is 20 to 500 μm.
Further, the second surface layer may include a spunmelt nonwoven fabric, a spunbond nonwoven fabric, a spunlace nonwoven fabric, a hot air nonwoven fabric, or a dust-free paper, but is not limited thereto, and the thickness of the second surface layer is 20 to 500 μm.
Correspondingly, the invention also provides application of the light, thin and soft absorber in the field of preparing sanitary care products.
Further, the sanitary care products include baby diapers, baby pull-ups, adult incontinence products, feminine sanitary napkins or pads, and the like, but are not limited thereto.
Correspondingly, the invention further provides a sanitary care product which comprises the light, thin and soft absorber.
Further, the sanitary care products include baby diapers, baby pull-ups, adult incontinence products, feminine sanitary napkins or pads, and the like, but are not limited thereto.
By the technical scheme, the fluffy cotton is attached with the carrier to enhance the strength of the fluffy cotton, the fluffy characteristic of the fluffy cotton is kept, and then the fluffy cotton is directly used in the production lines of finished products such as baby diapers, paper diapers, pull-ups, adult incontinence products, women sanitary napkins, pads and the like, and water absorbing materials such as water absorbing powder and the like are scattered on line, so that various different absorbing structures can be realized, the transportation cost is reduced, the production efficiency of the core body is improved, and the production cost of the product is comprehensively reduced.
The method for manufacturing the light, thin and soft absorber integrally with the finished product on line provided by the invention is to directly manufacture the absorbing core body on a production line of the sanitary product, thereby avoiding the influence of external production and transportation conditions on the quality of the core body, improving the stability of the absorbing performance of the product, and realizing various different water absorbing powder scattering and distribution modes, thereby realizing the thinness and softness of the core body and obviously improving the performance.
The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be obtained by a person skilled in the art without any inventive step based on the embodiments of the present invention, are within the scope of the present invention.
Referring to fig. 1-4, which are schematic structural views of a light, thin and soft absorbent body according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, fig. 1 is a fluffy nonwoven fabric with a gram weight of 18 to 150g/m2Of 25 to 100g/m, in particular2More economical and effective, the fibers on the fluffy non-woven fabric are loosely connected, and gaps are formed in the middle, so that water absorbing powder particles enter into the fibers, but the fibers are loosely connected with the fibers, so that the fluffy material has low strength, fig. 2 shows that the medium for compounding the fluffy non-woven fabric with the liner material can be glue or other mechanical pressing, ultrasonic waves and other compounding modes, and fig. 3 shows that the liner material is in a liner typeThe material can be various non-woven fabrics, and is selected according to the product performance requirements, and fig. 4 shows the fluffy non-woven fabrics and the cushion materials after being compounded.
The strength of the compounded material is greatly improved relative to fluffy non-woven cloth, so that the material can meet the requirement of deep processing on high-speed equipment.
The composite material can be packaged in a winding mode, a spindle mode, a box mode and the like.
In this embodiment, a method for manufacturing a light, thin and soft absorber on-line and integrally with a finished product includes the following steps:
1. slitting
The composite body of fluffy non-woven fabric and liner non-woven fabric or silk thread designed by the invention can be pre-cut into required width by a splitting machine according to production arrangement, and can also realize on-line splitting, namely, a splitting device at the front section of a paper diaper production line is directly split into small rolls with required size from a large roll, so that flexible core body width is provided for paper diaper design, and meanwhile, the splitting device can provide materials for a plurality of paper diaper production lines.
The method specifically comprises the following steps: the fluffy non-woven fabric on the mother roll is compounded with the liner non-woven fabric in a compounding mode of gluing or pressing, ultrasonic waves and the like, then different widths are cut according to the width of the required material, the commonly used width is 70-160 mm, the commonly used width is 80-120 mm, and the cutting can be realized on the absorber equipment as required to be integrally cut or be separately cut off line.
If slit separately off-line, the material can be wound differently: winding, spindles, boxes, etc., which are more economical.
2. Water-absorbing powder dusting process
The dusting process can be compatible with various different types of water-absorbing polymer materials and can be matched with different design requirements
2.1 vibrating screen dusting method
As shown in fig. 5, a vacuum adsorption broadcasting mode is introduced, wherein fluffy cotton is wound on a drum, and water-absorbing powder passes through a forming cavity and then is adsorbed and broadcasted on the fluffy cotton.
The length of the vibrating screen is designed by using vibrating screen type powder scattering equipment according to the running speed of the paper diaper equipment, and meanwhile, the vibration amplitude and frequency in production are controlled according to the amount of the water absorbing powder required to be added in the production of specific products, so that the addition amount of the water absorbing powder required by the specification is reached.
The vibrating screen type dusting equipment mainly comprises a water-absorbing polymer feeding mechanism, a weighing and conveying mechanism, a vibrating screen water-absorbing polymer receiving mechanism and a vibrating screen vibrating dusting mechanism.
The feeding mechanism conveys the water-absorbing polymer out of the packaging bag and prepares to enter the next weighing mechanism.
The weighing mechanism weighs the water-absorbing polymer conveyed by the feeding mechanism, the feeding mechanism stops feeding after the weight or the volume reaches a set value, and the weighing mechanism simultaneously conveys the polymer material to the vibrating screen receiving mechanism according to the amount required by the product specification and the speed of a machine. When the high molecular weight in the weighing mechanism approaches the lower limit, the feeding mechanism begins to re-feed the high molecular weight to the weighing mechanism.
The vibrating screen hydroscopic polymer receiving mechanism receives the hydroscopic polymers conveyed by the weighing mechanism and uniformly conveys the polymers to the vibrating dusting mechanism.
The vibrating powder scattering mechanism can be adjusted according to the width difference of the absorber, the speed is also adjusted according to the speed of the host machine, so that the quantitative high polymer requirement of the machine running direction area is met, and the uniform or local non-uniform configuration can be realized in the vertical direction.
The powder scattering mechanism can be matched with the equipment from low speed to high speed (20m/min to 500m/min), especially 50m/min to 450 m/min.
2.2 vacuum adsorption type dusting method
As shown in fig. 6, a vibration type absorbent powder spreading mode is introduced, and absorbent powder can be added to fluffy cotton in a vibration mode. This mode uses the design of shaping chamber, and whole system includes hydroscopicity polymer feed mechanism, weighs conveying mechanism, becomes constitutions such as shaping chamber forming mechanism, and fluffy non-woven fabrics is through encircleing the shaping chamber, receives the hydroscopicity polymer in the fluffy non-woven fabrics.
The feeding mechanism conveys the water-absorbing polymer out of the packaging bag and prepares to enter the next weighing mechanism.
Weighing the water-absorbing polymer conveyed by the feeding mechanism by the weighing mechanism, stopping feeding by the feeding mechanism after the weight or the volume reaches a set value, and simultaneously conveying the polymer material to the forming cavity by the weighing mechanism according to the amount required by the product specification and the speed of a machine. When the high molecular weight in the weighing mechanism approaches the lower limit, the feeding mechanism begins to re-feed the high molecular weight to the weighing mechanism.
The fluffy non-woven fabrics and the liner non-woven fabrics after being compounded move around the forming cavity, vacuum adsorption is arranged in the forming cavity, and the quantitative macromolecules conveyed by the weighing mechanism are broadcasted and adsorbed on the fluffy non-woven fabrics through the movement in the forming cavity.
The shape, the length, the width and the like of the forming template in the forming cavity can be designed according to the product requirements.
The vacuum adsorption type dusting mode can be matched from low speed to high speed (20m/min to 500m/min), especially 50m/min to 450 m/min.
The molding equipment can be used for a cotton core molding system, and the scrappage of the equipment is reduced.
2.3 stamping type dusting method
As shown in fig. 7, a stamping method is described to spread the absorbent powder on the fluffy cotton. The mode adopts a stamping mode, and the whole system comprises a water-absorbing polymer feeding mechanism, a weighing and conveying mechanism, a stamping mechanism and the like.
The feeding mechanism conveys the water-absorbing polymer out of the packaging bag and prepares to enter the next weighing mechanism.
The weighing mechanism weighs the water-absorbing polymer conveyed by the feeding mechanism, the feeding mechanism stops feeding after the weight or the volume reaches a set value, and the weighing mechanism simultaneously conveys the polymer material to the stamping mechanism according to the amount required by the product specification and the speed of the machine. When the high molecular weight in the weighing mechanism approaches the lower limit, the feeding mechanism begins to re-feed the high molecular weight to the weighing mechanism.
The stamping mechanism receives the water-absorbing polymer and broadcasts the quantitative polymer into the fluffy non-woven fabric by matching the machine speed.
The die printing mechanism can meet the product size requirement by replacing the die plate according to the design.
The overprint dusting can be matched from low to high speeds (20 to 500m/min), especially 50 to 450 m/min.
3. Package
Before or after the water-absorbing polymer broadcasting station, the hydrophilic non-woven fabric is used for wrapping the absorbing body in a C shape or an O shape or only adhering the surface of the absorbing body. Therefore, the water-absorbing polymer is wrapped in the core body, and the problem of leakage is avoided.
After the water-absorbing polymer is broadcast, the water-absorbing polymer is compounded with the hydrophilic non-woven fabric and wrapped, and the next process of the product is carried out.
4. Preparation of Disposable absorbent
After the water-absorbing polymer is broadcast and the core body is wrapped, the product is cut according to the design size of the product and is compounded with other materials of the disposable absorber, such as a skin-contacting front layer, a skin-non-contacting back layer and the like, and the preparation of the disposable absorber product is finished.
The technical solution of the present invention is further described in detail by the following examples. However, the examples are chosen only for the purpose of illustrating the invention and are not to be construed as limiting the scope of the invention.