WO2000048834A1 - Laminates of elastomeric and non-elastomeric polyolefin blend materials - Google Patents
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- the present invention generally relates to a composite polyolefin-containing blend composition having improved physical properties. More particularly, this invention relates to a composition comprising, and a method for using, a polymeric blend of at least one elastomeric polyolefin and at least one nonelastomeric polyolefin.
- the composition may be used in various applications, such as substrates for nonwoven laminates.
- polymeric blends comprising at least one elastomeric polymer and at least one nonelastomeric polymer are known in the prior art.
- U.S. Patent 4,804,577 to Hazelton et al. which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety, discloses a nonwoven web prepared by meltblowing fibers from a polymeric blend comprised of a highly viscous elastomer with a less viscous thermoplastic resin.
- the webs may be used in making various clothing articles such as shoes and protective clothing as well as tarpaulins and tents.
- the elastomers disclosed for use in this process include polyolefin rubbers such as polyisobutylene, other olefin- rubbers, and elastomers prepared by polymerizing diolefins with various alkenyl aromatic hydrocarbons such as butadiene and styrene elastomers.
- the elastomeric polyolefin is present in the blend from about 5 to about 75% by weight and the thermoplastic polymeric resin is present in the blend from about 95 to about 25% by weight.
- Hazelton et al. discloses that blends comprising more than about 10% by weight of the elastomeric polyolefin would be subjected to degradation prior to melt blowing.
- U.S. Patent 5,597,194 to Daugherty et al. discloses a plastic net produced from a blend of plastics having different densities and peak melting points.
- the polymeric blend includes a polyethylene or a metallocene-catalyzed polyethylene component and a polyethylene plastomer component.
- the polyethylene plastomer component is formed using metallocene catalyst technology and are homopolymers of ethylene, or copolymers of ethylene with higher alphaolefins.
- the plastomers utilized are commercially available from Dow Plastics under various designations and trademarks such as ENGAGE and from Exxon Chemical Americas, Polymer Group under the trademark EXACT.
- the blend can be extruded to produce a high friction, non- slip, flexible and heat resistant plastic net that can be used as a truck bed liner.
- U.S. Patent 5,635,262 to Best et al. discloses articles made from a high molecular weight, high density polyethylene component and an elastomer component such as a styrenic copolymer, a rubber, or a metallocene-catalyzed polyethylene.
- the elastomer is present in the fabricated article from 1 to 15 weight percent.
- Articles include films, bags made from films, and extrusion blow-molded articles.
- U.S. Patent No. 5,110,685 to Cross et al. discloses a polymer coating consisting of a blend of high density polyethylene and ethylene/propylene rubber elastomers.
- U.S. Patent No. 4,833,194 to Kuan et al. also discloses a blend of crystalline polymers such as polyethylene and elastomers such as ethylene-propylene copolymer or ethylene-propylene diene terpolymer.
- Various methods and means of making and utilizing materials with elastic properties are known in the art.
- U.S. Patent No. 4,720,415 to Vander Wielen et al. which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety, discloses a method of producing a composite elastic material.
- the method comprises stretching an elastic web, such as a nonwoven web of elastic fibers, and bonding the elongated web to one or more webs of gatherable material under conditions which soften at least a portion of the elastic web to form the bonded composite web of elastic material.
- the gatherable material in one embodiment, may be a spunbonded polyester fiber material.
- the composite material is relaxed immediately after the bonding to prevent the elastic web from losing its ability to contract from the stretched dimensions that it assumes during the bonding step.
- Vander Wielen et al. utilizes polystyrene/po!y(ethylene-butylene)/polystyrene block polymers that are available under the trademark KRATON from Shell Chemical Company.
- KRATON rubber-type materials have been used to provide the elastic component for various articles including stretchable protective covers and wraps, outerwear, undergarments, menstrual and incontinence control articles and garments such as disposable diapers.
- KRATON materials are particularly useful in applications requiring a good deal of elastic memory such as baby diapers and incontinence control garments.
- the KRATON materials exhibit the ability to retract to near original forms after being stretched.
- elasticity for various articles has also been provided by the metallocene-catalyzed polyethylenes.
- Dow Plastics a division of Dow Chemical Company
- Dow Plastics has introduced several families of elastic polyolefins created by single-site, or constrained geometry, catalysts.
- U.S. Patent Nos. 5,472,775 to Obijeski et al., and 5,278,272 and 5,272,236 to Lai et al. which are incorporated herein in their entireties by reference thereto, describe various metallocene-catalyzed polyolefins produced by Dow Chemical.
- the materials have both plastic and rubbery characteristics.
- Other companies, such as Exxon Chemicals have also developed various processes for forming elastic polyolefins using metallocene-catalyzed synthesis.
- U.S. Patent No. 5,324,800 to Welborn, Jr. et al. describes several processes for forming such materials using metallocene catalysts, and is incorporated herein in its entirety by reference thereto.
- KRATON elastomers described above avoid some of the problems encountered when using 100% metallocene-catalyzed polymers, such rubber materials are extremely expensive. Typically, KRATON rubber materials will be as much as three times more expensive than comparable metallocene-catalyzed polyolefins. Although the use of KRATON materials results in webs having excellent elastic properties as well as articles having suitable "quilted” textures, the expense of such KRATON material generally prevents their use in cheaper, low end products such as wipers. Except for applications involving high end products such as diapers, the use of the KRATON materials is often inhibited because of the raw material cost involved.
- the present invention recognizes and addresses the foregoing disadvantages, and others of prior art constructions and methods.
- It is another object of the present invention to provide a polymeric composition comprising at least one elastomeric polyolefin and at least one nonelastomeric polyolefin.
- It is yet another object of the present invention to provide a polymeric composition comprising a polyethylene formed using narrow molecular weight distribution elastomeric polyolefins as a first component, and a nonelastomeric polyolefin resin as a second component.
- a polymeric composition that can be used in forming the elastic portions of various nonwoven materials such as wipers.
- the foregoing and other objects and advantages are accomplished by preparing a nonwoven web from a polymeric fiber blend comprising at least one elastomeric polyolefin and at least one nonelastomeric polyolefin.
- the polymeric blend will comprise a nonelastomeric olefin resin in the range of from about 10 to about 90 percent by weight, and an elastomeric resin of from about 90 to about 10 percent by weight.
- the density of the elastomeric polyolefin will be less than about 0.885 g/cm 3 and the density of the nonelastomeric polyolefin will be at least about 0.890 g/cm 3 .
- the polymeric blend may comprise about 50 percent to about 90 percent by weight of a metallocene-catalyzed polyethylene and about 50 percent to about 10 percent by weight of a nonelastomeric polyolefin such as a linear low density polyethylene.
- the nonwoven web may be prepared using any of the methods known in the prior art, including conventional meltblowing processes.
- the use of a suitable lower density elastomeric resin blended with a nonelastomeric polyolefin resin of lower viscosity results in a substrate that may be advantageously meltblown into a nonwoven web.
- the meltblowing process utilized with the present inventive composition allows for improved web formation and lessens the quenching and die tip pressure problems associated with the use of only the higher density and more viscous elastomers.
- the elastic nonwoven web formed from the present blended composition may be utilized as the elastic sheet(s) in various nonwoven laminate constructions, such as stretch-bonded and neck- bonded laminates.
- the elastic nonwoven web itself may be formed from various processes, including meltblowing techniques or techniques that form continuous filaments such as spunbond webs or an array of substantially parallel continuous fibers or strands.
- the elastic nonwoven webs of the present invention may be laminated to one or more outer layer webs. These outer layer webs may be meltblown, spunbonded, or coformed webs. In addition, such webs may be formed from continuous filaments. In one particular embodiment, the meltblown webs formed from the present elastomeric/non-elastomeric polyolefin blend is sandwiched between two outer layers of coformed webs formed from cellulosic and meltblown polypropylene fibers.
- the present invention relates to nonwoven laminates wherein the elastic materials comprise a polymeric composition prepared from a blend of at least one elastomeric polyolefin and at least one nonelastomeric polyolefin, in a ratio dictated by the properties and applications desired.
- the elastic materials comprise a polymeric composition prepared from a blend of at least one elastomeric polyolefin and at least one nonelastomeric polyolefin, in a ratio dictated by the properties and applications desired.
- a meltblown substrate for a coformed stretch-bonded laminate base sheet a one-to-one ratio of each component has been found to provide a product with improved tensile strength at 200% extension (after being extended to 250% of its original length) when compared to a product comprised solely of an elastomeric polyolefin.
- Other properties desired in various other laminates may require different additive ratios of the two components. For example, a 4:1 ratio of elastomeric to non-elastomeric polyolefin
- the presently disclosed elastomers may be blended with a compatible polyolefin resin and used to produce the nonwoven elastic substrate of the present invention.
- a compatible polyolefin resin used to produce the nonwoven elastic substrate of the present invention.
- Various definitions have been employed to define elastomers in the past.
- an elastomer is defined as a substance that has the properties of a rubber such that it stretches under tension, generally has a high tensile strength, retracts rapidly, and generally recovers its original dimensions upon being released after stretching.
- An elastomer will typically have plastic-type traits in processing and rubber-type traits in functionality.
- an “elastomer” or an “elastomeric polyolefin” is a polyolefin that exhibits a density of less than about 0.885 g/cm 3 .
- Such polyolefins when formed into various substrates, will be extensible or elongatable in at least one direction when a biasing force is applied, and will return to some portion of its original dimensions after the biasing force is removed.
- elastomeric compositions when formed into a meltblown web, will generally, but not always, have the capability of being stretched to an elongation of at least about 25% of its original relaxed length, i.e, can be stretched to at least about 1.25 times its relaxed length, and upon release of the stretching force will recover at least about 30% of the elongation, i.e., will, in the case of 25% elongation, contract to an elongation of not more than about 17.5%.
- a 100 centimeter length of material will be deemed to be an elastomer if it can be stretched to a length of at least about 125 centimeters and if, upon release of the stretching force, it contracts, in the case of being stretched to 125 centimeters, to a length of not more than about 117.5 centimeters.
- non-elastomer or “non-elastomeric polyolefin” is defined for purposes of the present invention as being a polyolefin that exhibits a density of at least about 0.890 g/cm 3 .
- nonelastomeric polyolefins when formed into a meltblown web, will, but not always, fail to meet the stretch characteristics for an elastomeric web set forth above.
- nonwoven fabric, web, or material refers to a material having a structure of individual fibers or threads that are interlaid, but not in an identifiable manner as in a knitted fabric.
- Nonwoven fabrics or webs have been formed by many processes such as, for example, by meltblowing processes, spunbonding processes, hydroentangling, air-laid and bonded carded web processes.
- nonwoven laminate is defined as a product which comprises two or more nonwoven webs bonded together to form a laminate.
- an elastic sheet formed from the above- described elastomeric polyolefins will be bonded to at least one layer of nonwoven material.
- nonwoven laminates include, but are not limited to, stretch-bonded laminates and neck-bonded laminates.
- Stretch-bonded refers to an elastic member, or layer, being bonded to another member, or layer, while the elastic member is extended at least about 25 percent of its relaxed length.
- Stretch- bonded laminate refers to a composite material having at least two layers in which one layer is a gatherable layer and the other layer is an elastic layer. The layers are joined together when the elastic layer is in an extended condition so that upon relaxing the layers, the gatherable layer is gathered. Such a multilayer composite elastic material may be stretched to the extent that the nonelastic material gathered between the bond locations allows the elastic material to elongate.
- One type of stretch-bonded laminate is disclosed, for example, by U.S. Patent No.
- “Neck-bonded” refers to an elastic member being bonded to a non-elastic member while the non-elastic member is extended or necked.
- “Neck-bonded laminate” refers to a composite material having at least two layers in which one layer is a necked, non-elastic layer and the other layer is an elastic layer. The layers are joined together when the non-elastic layer is in an extended condition. Examples of neck-bonded laminates are such as those described in U.S. Patent Nos. 5,226,992, 4,981 ,747, 4,965,122, and 5,336,545, all to Morman and all of which are incorporated herein by reference thereto.
- Narrow molecular weight distribution polyolefin refers to a polyolefin that exhibits a molecular weight distribution of less than about 3.5.
- the molecular weight distribution of a polymer is the ratio of the weight average molecular weight of the polymer to the number average molecular weight of the polymer.
- Examples of narrow molecular weight distribution polyolefins include the metallocene-catalyzed polyolefins, the single-site catalyzed polyolefins, and the constrained geometry- catalyzed polyolefins described above. As is known in the art, the metallocene-catalyzed polyolefins and the constrained geometry- catalyzed polyolefins are sometimes referred to as types of single-site catalyzed polyolefins.
- elastomers suitable for use in the present invention will have the capability of being stretched to at least three times their original length. When stretched to at least three times their original lengths, such elastomeric webs would typically contract to no more than two and half times their original lengths. For example, if a 10.5 centimeter web were stretched three times its original length to approximately 31.5 centimeters, it would typically retract to no more than 25 centimeters, and may typically retract to about 18 centimeters.
- an elastomeric polyolefin having a density of less than about 0.885 g/cm 3 may be utilized.
- a narrow molecular weight distribution polyolefin such as a metallocene-catalyzed polyethylene, a metallocene-catalyzed polypropylene, other metallocene-catalyzed alphaolefins, or, as discussed above, various single-site catalyzed polyolefins and constrained geometry catalyzed polyolefins may be preferred in certain embodiments.
- such elastomeric polyolefins will have a density of between about 0.860 g/cm 3 and about 0.880 g/cm 3 and may, more desirably, have a density of between about 0.863 g/cm 3 and about 0.870 g/cm 3 .
- These elastic polyolefins, or plastomers may utilize, for example, metallocene catalyst technology which permits precise control of the comonomer incorporated into the polyethylene polymer and of molecular weight distribution.
- a metallocene catalyst is a metal derivative of cyclopentadiene and the catalysis of the polymer can be described as a homogeneous single site or constrained geometry catalysis.
- a metallocene is a neutral, ancillary ligand stabilized transition metal complex and can have the following general formula:
- Li is a cyclopentadienyl or substituted cyclopentadienyl moiety bonded to the metal through ⁇ -5 bonding
- L 2 is an organic moiety, which may or may not be a cyclopentadienyl moiety, strongly bonded to the metal which remains bonded to the metal during polymerization
- B is an optional bridging group that restricts the movement of L-i and L 2 and that modifies the angle between Li and L 2
- M is a metal such as, for instance, titanium or zirconium X and Y are halides or other organic moieties, such as methyl groups
- the metallocene complex can be shown as follows:
- Metallocene complex acts as a catalyst that initiates polymerization of a monomer to form a polymer. For instance, in order to form a metallocene-catalyzed polymer, a liquid monomer, such as ethylene, is combined with metallocene under constant agitation and heat. Controlled amounts of hydrogen gas are then fed to the mixture to halt polymerization. In general, the amount of hydrogen gas fed to the reactor determines the melt index of the resulting polymer.
- melt index refers to a measure of the viscosity of the polymer at a given set of conditions. As applied to the materials herein, the Ml is expressed as the weight (or mass) of material that flows from a capillary of known dimensions under a specified load or shear rate for a measured period of time and is measured in grams/10 minutes at 190°C and a load of 2160 grams according to, for example, ASTM test 1238.
- the plastomers that may be utilized in certain embodiments of the present invention are typically homopolymers of ethylene, or copolymers of ethylene with higher alphaolefins having from 3 to about 10 carbon atoms such as 1-butene, 1-hexene, and 1-octene.
- Such plastomers are commercially available from Dow Plastics, Dow U.S.A., of Midland, Michigan under various product designations as well as under the trademark AFFINITY or under the trademark
- ENGAGE which are Dupont Dow Elastomers, LLC.
- One such suitable elastomer available commercially is a metallocene-catalyzed polyethylene sold by Dow under the product designation DOW XU58200.02. This particular elastomer has a density of about 0.870 grams/cubic centimeter (g/cm 3 ), a melt index of about 30 grams/10 minutes, and a peak melting point of about 140°F (60°C).
- Another elastomeric plastomer is sold by Dupont Dow Elastomers, LLC. under the trademarks ENGAGE 8100 and ENGAGE 8200 which is claimed by the manufacturer to be an ethylene/1-octene copolymer.
- Some of the ENGAGE plastomers may have density ranges of from about
- the second component of the polymer blend utilized in the present invention a higher density, more crystalline polyolefin is utilized.
- These nonelastomeric olefinic polymers will have densities of at least 0.890 g/cm 3 .
- the nonelastomeric polyolefins will have a density of between about 0.900 g/cm 3 and about 0.920 g/cm 3 , and may more desirably have a density of between about 0.900 g/cm 3 and about 0.917 g/cm 3 , and may even more desirably have a density of between about 0.900 g/cm 3 and about 0.910 g/cm 3 .
- Polymers such as polyethylene, polybutylene, polypropylene, or other polyolefins may be utilized.
- the particular non-elastomeric polyolefin will be chosen based on its compatibility with the elastomeric polyolefin, and in particular based on the compatibility to a metallocene-catalyzed polymer, when such metallocene-catalyzed polymers are used.
- the non-elastomeric polyolefin may, for example, be linear low density, high density, or low density (including branched) polyethylene in some particular embodiments. Linear low density polyethylenes, for example, typically have densities in the range of from about 0.915 to about 0.930 g/cm 3 .
- this second component may be variously chosen from the group consisting of polyolefin resins, including polymers of branched and straight chained olefins such as polyethylene, polypropylene, polybutylene, polypentene, polymethylpentene, and the like.
- the nonelastomeric polyolefins may be produced according to various processes and may even be produced according to processes similar to those described above such as metallocene-catalysis.
- Such higher density polyolefins can also be made by more traditional catalyst systems such as Ziegler- Natta catalysts such as described in Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Engineering, Volume 8, pages 162-179 (1987).
- a variety of higher density polyolefins including linear low density polyethylenes and high density polyethylenes are commercially available including those under the trade designations AFFINITY, ELITE, or ASPUN, all of which are available from Dow Chemical and those under the name EXCEED which are available from Exxon Chemical.
- One particular such nonelastomeric polyolefin resin suitable in preparation of the composition of the present invention is a linear low density polyethylene available from Dow Chemical under the product designation DOW ASPUN 6831.
- the non-elastomeric polyolefin particularly if it is a polyethylene, will typically have a melt index of at least 30, with a melt index of at least 150 also being usable in the inventive blend.
- the non-elastomeric polyolefin again particularly if it is a polyethylene, will have a melting temperature of at least about 100°C (212°F), preferably at least about 120°C (248°F).
- the polymeric blend will comprise from about 10 to about 90 percent by weight of the non-elastomeric resin, preferably from about 10 percent to about 75 percent by weight, more preferably from about 10 percent to about 50 percent by weight, and most preferably from about 10 percent to about 20 percent by weight.
- the elastomeric resin will be present in the composition from about 90 percent to about 10 percent by weight, preferably from about 90 percent to about 25 percent by weight, more preferably from about 90 percent to about 50 percent by weight, and most preferably from about 90 percent to about 80 percent by weight.
- any of the methods known in the prior art for blending polymeric materials may be used to blend together the elastomeric resins with the nonelastomeric polyolefin resins useful in the present invention.
- pellets of each of the materials to be premixed could be physically admixed, using suitable solid mixing equipment, and the solids mixture then passed to the extruder portion of a meltblowing apparatus.
- Such dry blending techniques are well known in the art.
- the resins may be first physically admixed as solids in a dry blending process. They may then be fed into a meltblowing extruder.
- any suitable dry mixing equipment could be used for mixing, followed by the use of any suitable meltblending equipment to heat and melt the two components together.
- meltblending also facilitates feeding of the blend to the meltblowing equipment.
- the polymeric components were first dry blended and then provided to a meltblowing extruder without melt blending. Any required melt blending was carried out within the meltblowing extruder itself.
- Meltblown fibers are fibers formed by extruding a molten polymeric material through a plurality of fine, usually circular, die capillaries as molten threads or filaments into converging, usually hot and high velocity, gas (e.g. air) streams to attenuate the filaments of molten material and form fibers.
- gas e.g. air
- the diameters of the molten filaments are reduced by the drawing air to a desired size.
- the meltblown fibers are carried by the high velocity gas stream and are deposited on a collecting surface to form a web of randomly disbursed meltblown fibers.
- Such a process is disclosed, for example, in U.S. Patent Nos. 3,849,241 to Buntin et al.,
- meltblown fibers may be continuous or discontinuous and are generally smaller than ten microns in average diameter.
- molten polymer is provided to a die that is disposed between a pair of air plates that form a primary air nozzle.
- Standard meltblowing equipment includes a die tip with a single row of capillaries along a knife edge. Typical die tips have approximately 30 capillary exit holes per linear inch of die width. The die tip is typically a 60 degree wedge-shaped block converging at the knife edge along which the capillaries are carried.
- air plates in many known meltblowing nozzles are mounted in a recessed configuration such that the tip of the die is set back from the primary air nozzle.
- air plates in some nozzles are mounted in a flush configuration where the air plate ends are in the same horizontal plane as the die tip; in other nozzles the die tip is in a protruding or "stick-out" configuration so that the tip of the die extends past the ends of the air plates.
- more than one air flow stream can be provided for use in the nozzle.
- hot air is provided through the primary air nozzle formed on each side of the die tip.
- the hot air heats the die and thus prevents the die from freezing as the molten polymer exits and cools. In this way the die is prevented from becoming clogged with solidifying polymer.
- the hot air also draws, or attenuates, the melt into fibers prior to exiting the nozzle.
- Primary hot air flow rates typically range from about 15 to about 24 standard cubic feet per minute per inch of die width (scfm/in) .
- Primary air pressure typically ranges from about 1 to about 10 pounds per square inch gauge (psig).
- Primary air temperature typically ranges from about 400° to about 600° Fahrenheit (°F). The particular temperature of the primary hot air flow will depend on the particular polymer being drawn as well as other characteristics desired in the meltblown web.
- polymer throughput is typically 0.5 to 1.25 grams per hole per minute (ghm).
- polymer throughput may be up to about 10 Ibs/inch/hour (pih).
- meltblown fibers from an input of about five pounds per inch per hour of the polymer melt, from about fifty to about one hundred pounds per inch per hour of hot air is required to draw or attenuate the melt into discrete fibers.
- This drawing air must be heated to a temperature on the order of 400- 600°F in order to maintain proper heat to the die tip.
- the fibers are collected and bonded to form an integrated nonwoven web.
- the fibers are collected with the aid of a suction box onto a forming web that comprises a moving mesh screen or belt located below the die tip.
- a forming web that comprises a moving mesh screen or belt located below the die tip.
- forming distances of at least about 6 to 12 inches between the polymer die tip and the top of the mesh screen are required in the typical meltblowing process, although various forming distances may be employed, depending on the particular web properties desired. For example, forming distances of up to about 18 inches are acceptable.
- the web possesses integrity due to entanglement of the individual fibers in the web as well as some degree of thermal or self- bonding between the fibers, particularly when collection is effected only a short distance after extrusion.
- typical forming distances were approximately 7 inches, and in others the forming distances were approximately 9 inches, although distances between about 6 and about 14 inches, with about 6 to about 12 inches being preferred, could have also been employed.
- the web formed on the foraminous belt may be compacted or otherwise bonded by one or more rollers. From the belt, the nonwoven web may then be wound onto cores for later use or may be provided, in a continuous process, to another station for further web treatment and use.
- meltblowing apparatus shown and described in U.S. Patent No. 5,350,624 to Georger et al. could be used.
- Georger et al. which is incorporated herein in its entirety by reference thereto, two meltblowing dies 16 and 18 (as indicated in the drawings therein) may be positioned to provide polymeric filaments to the forming belt. Any number of multi- die banks of meltblowing nozzles could be utilized in forming the webs.
- additional secondary fibers may be added to the streams of polymer emanating from the two opposed meltblowing dies.
- a meltblown web having the stretchability characteristics of the present inventive composition may be formed into a stretch-bonded laminate base sheet such as described by Vander Wielen et al. which has been incorporated herein by reference.
- the base sheet in the present invention is formed from the above-described elastomeric/non-elastomehc polyolefin blend.
- the present polymeric blend may also be formed into an elastic nonwoven web for use in a neck-bonded laminate material as previously explained.
- nonwoven webs formed from the present composition may also be utilized as the inner layer(s) for various wiper products where the outer layers of such products are coformed cellulose and polypropylene.
- Other applications of the present invention include various types of laminates such as nonwoven/stretchable web/nonwoven laminates, stretchable web/nonwoven/stretchable web laminates, and nonwoven/stretchable web laminates where the nonwoven portions of the laminates are typical thermoplastics nonwoven spunbond or meltblown webs and the stretchable web portions are made from the present polymeric blend material.
- the polymer blend of elastomeric and non-elastomeric materials is formed into an elastic meltblown nonwoven web.
- thermoplastic nonwoven web or a coform of approximately 65% pulp and about 35% polymer such as polypropylene.
- the elastic nonwoven web is sandwiched between at least two outer meltblown nonwoven coformed webs.
- coformed webs will typically consist of cellulosic fibers and fibers formed from a polyolefin such as polypropylene or polyethylene.
- the inner nonwoven elastic web will be maintained in a stretched condition within its elastic range during the bonding of the outer layers to it so that upon contracting or recovering after release of the stretching, the outer layers will gather or pucker.
- the resulting laminate will exhibit a texture and feel of a gathered quilt-type material.
- the outer layers may be webs formed by meltblowing or by spunbonding, and may, themselves, have elastic properties.
- the process of forming nonwoven webs by spunbonding is described in U.S. Patent No. 4,340,563 to Appel et al., which is incorporated herein in its entirety by reference.
- Spunbonding techniques form small diameter fibers by extruding molten thermoplastic material as filaments from a plurality of fine, usually circular, capillaries of a spinnerette with the diameter of the extruded filaments then being rapidly reduced.
- Other examples of spunbonded fibers are set forth in U.S. Patent No. 3,692,618 to Dorschner et al., U.S. Patent No. 3,802,817 to Matsuki et al., U.S. Patent No. 3,338,992 to Kinney, U.S.
- Spunbond fibers are generally continuous and have average diameters (from a sample of at least 10) larger than 7 microns, more particularly, between about 10 and 40 microns.
- the fibers may also have shapes such as those described in U.S. Patent No. 5,277,976 to Hogle et al., U.S. Patent No. 5,466,410 to Hills, U.S. Patent No. 5,069,970 to
- a coformed nonwoven web is formed by combining in a gas stream a mixture of meltblown thermoplastic and cellulosic fibers such as wood pulp or staple fibers.
- the thermoplastic and cellulosic fibers are combined prior to the combined fibers being collected on a forming wire to form a coherent web of randomly dispersed fibers.
- a typical coformed nonwoven web may comprise about 65% by weight cellulosic fibers and about 35% by weight thermoplastic fibers, although this ratio may be varied to achieve various desirable properties in such coformed webs.
- the laminate may comprise about 50% by weight synthetic fibers and about 50% by weight cellulosic fibers, with other ratios also being suitable.
- Suitable apparatus for forming such coformed webs includes the device shown in Georger et al. which is discussed and incorporated by reference above.
- An elastic inner web 4 which may be formed from the presently-described elastomeric/non-elastomeric polyolefin blend is unwound from a supply roll 2 of such elastic material.
- the elastic inner web 4 then travels in the direction indicated by the arrows and passes through the nip of S roll arrangement 5 which is comprised of stacked rollers 6 and 8 in the reverse-S path indicated by the rotation direction arrows associated with stacked rollers 6 and 8. From S roll arrangement 5, web 4 passes into the pressure nip of a bonder roll arrangement 9, which is comprised of a patterned calender roller 10 and a smooth anvil roller 12.
- a first gatherable web 16 is unwound from a supply roll 14 and a second gatherable web 20 is unrolled from a supply roll 18.
- First web 16 and second web 20 travel in the direction indicated by the arrows associated therewith as supply rolls 14 and 18 rotate in the directions indicated by the respective arrows.
- Elastic web 4 is stretched to a desired percent elongation between S roll arrangement 5 and the pressure nip of bonder roll arrangement 9.
- elastic web 4 is therefore stretched to a selected percent elongation and maintained in such elongated condition during heat-bonding of the webs 16 and 20 to the elastic web 4 in bonder roll arrangement 9.
- One or both of patterned calender roller 10 and smooth anvil roller 12 may be heated and the pressure between these two rollers may be adjusted by well-known means to provide the desired temperature and bonding pressure to bond the webs 16 and 20 to the elastic web 4 to form composite laminate material 22.
- composite laminate material 22 may be passed to an optional holding box 24 wherein it is maintained in a relaxed, unstretched condition for a length of time sufficient for elastic web 4 to cool. Cooling while in a stretched condition should be substantially avoided so that the elastic web's ability to contract from the stretched dimensions which it had assumed during bonding will be maintained. If maintained under tension at or above its softening temperature for long periods of time, the webs would lose their ability to contract to or return to its original unstretched dimensions. A brief recovery period in a relaxed, untensioned condition immediately after bonding allows lower basis weight elastic webs to contract and gather the outer gatherable webs so that the bonded web retains some of its elasticity.
- composite laminate material 22 is withdrawn for winding up on a storage roll (not shown).
- the holding box 24, or other equivalent means allows the untensioned heat-bonded composite laminate to stabilize, or cool, while it is in an untensioned arrangement, allowing the elastic web 4 to contract and gather the outer gatherable webs 16 and 20 immediately after all the webs are bonded together.
- All of the Examples 1 - 43 are nonwoven meltblown elastic webs spun with a basis weight of 30 grams per square meter (GSM). All of the Examples 1 - 43 were extruded from a dry blends mixture where appropriate, using a polymer flow rate of 1.0 Ibs/inch/hour
- Table 1 compares various characteristics of the webs of Examples 1-13, composed solely of a metallocene-catalyzed elastomeric polyolefin (DOW XU58200.02), which serves as a control.
- Table number 2 summarizes Examples 14 - 25, comprised of a
- Table 3 summarizes Examples 26 - 34, blended from 75%, by weight, elastomeric resin (DOW XU58200.02) and 25%, by weight, linear low density polyethylene resin (DOW ASPUN 6831 ).
- Table 4 summarizes Examples 35-43, comprising a polymer blended from 90%, by weight, elastomeric resin (DOW XU58200.02) and 10%, by weight, linear low density polyethylene resin (DOW ASPUN 6831).
- Melt Temperature Melt Temperature (Melt Temp) in degrees Fahrenheit (°F), Primary Air Temperature (°F), Primary Air Flow (Ft 3 /M), and load at 2.5X and 2. OX is detailed.
- the load at 2.5X was determined by quantifying the load required to stretch the polymeric web to 2.5 times its original length. A spring-type hanging scale was used to quantify the weight. The load at 2. OX was determined by relaxing the polymer web, already having been stretched to 2.5 times its original length, to 2 times its original length.
- Table 5 demonstrates the difference in Spin Pump Pressure and Melt Pressure at the die inlet between meltblown substrates comprised of 100% metallocene-catalyzed elastomers (DOW XU58200.02) and those blended from a 50/50 ratio of elastomeric polyolefin to nonelastomeric polyolefin resin (DOW XU58200.02/DOW ASPUN 6831).
- Table 5 indicates the fact that the dual meltblowing die arrangement described in Georger et al. was utilized.
- Table 6 sets forth additional elastomeric polyethylene/nonelastomeric polyethylene blends that were utilized in forming elastic meltblown sheets for use in various nonwoven laminates.
- the particular elastomeric polyethylenes were the DOW- brand elastomerics referred to earlier. Densities, melt indices, and amounts by weight of the two components are indicated.
- Table 7 indicates various processing conditions at which the meltblown sheets were formed and the relevant processing conditions at which the meltblown sheets were bonded to polypropylene facing material to form laminates.
- Table 8 sets forth the results of peak strain percent, percent set and percent hysteresis (during the first and the fifth stretching cycles) of meltblown webs formed from the various blends shown in Table 6.
- Table 9 sets forth the results of melt temperature, percent stretch to stop, percent set, and percent hysteresis (during the first and the fifth stretching cycles) when the elastic webs formed as indicated in Table 6 were utilized in forming a stretch-bonded polypropylene laminate as described above.
- Equilibrium hysteresis testing was performed by cycling a sample web between zero and a predetermined cycle elongation for a predetermined number of cycles. This cycle testing was used to determine % stretch, % set, and % hysteresis for the various samples running at 20 inches per minute as a test speed.
- “stretch” is a measurement of the difference between an elastic material's extended and unextended length in a particular dimension.
- the “stretch %” is determined by determining that difference and then dividing by the elastic material's unextended length in that same dimension (and then multiplying by 100% to obtain a percentage).
- “Set” is a measurement of the amount a material is stretched from its original length after being cycled. The remaining strain after the removal of the applied stress is measured as the "% set”. Percent set is where the retraction curve of a cycle crosses the elongation axis. Tension set gives a measure of the irreversibility of deformation.
- “Hysteresis” is a measurement of the amount of energy loss within a specific cycle. The loading and unloading energy are calculated by integrating the area under the respective curves using the Trapezoidal rule. The percent hysteresis of a cycle is defined as:
- Melt temperature of the meltblown webs are shown as the range of melt temperatures at which the particular samples were produced.
- the elastic webs summarized in the above examples could be utilized as the stretchable material layer in various known products such as described above.
- One such example would be the stretch- bonded laminate material described above.
- Another example would be neck-bonded laminates.
- Other examples would be the utilization of the present polymeric blend in various continuous filament applications to form elastic fibrous sheets that could be employed in various laminates and products.
- a further benefit of utilizing the present inventive composition is that releasing of the nonwoven web from the wire does not become an issue. Because of the higher melting temperature of the blend as opposed to the 100% metallocene-catalyzed polyethylene web, the nonwoven webs formed from the blends released more readily from the forming screens and were less likely to adhere.
- the present webs may be used in various other applications where laminates may be typically employed. For example, any laminates that are used in materials to provide body conformance (i.e., to allow "give” without rupturing) would be suitable products to manufacture from the present webs. Examples of such products include personal care absorbent products such as training pants, diapers, and other incontinence products, as well as protective workwear such as industrial coveralls and surgical gowns. Other products include various garments such as undergarments, pants, shirts, jackets, gloves, socks, and the like. Such products and their manufacturing techniques are well known in the industry.
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