Method for preparing yarn with cloud dyeing effect

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Solution Overview

Problem

Traditional chemical fiber dyeing methods struggle to achieve a cloud dyeing effect with multi-color mixing, resulting in uniform single-color yarns and high water and resource consumption.

Innovation Solution

A method involving mixing dyes of multiple colors with a dispersing agent (0.1-0.5% of total mass) and extruding the mixture through a spinneret to create a melt fine stream, which is then cooled and solidified into cloud dyeing yarn, eliminating the need for later printing and dyeing.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Manufacturing precision

If traditional solution dyeing method is used, then single-color uniform yarn is produced, but multi-color cloud dyeing effect cannot be achieved

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedyeing effectVSAvoidcolor variety
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the dyeing process by introducing multiple independently flowing dye streams (each with different colors) instead of using a single uniform dye solution. Each dye stream maintains its own flow characteristics and color identity, allowing multiple colors to coexist in the final yarn without complete mixing, thus achieving cloud dyeing effect with multi-color variety.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies local quality by creating spatial variation in color distribution within the yarn cross-section. Different regions of the yarn contain different dye concentrations and color combinations, resulting in the characteristic cloud-like multi-color effect. The dye streams are arranged to create specific local color patterns as they solidify into fiber.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Ease of manufacture

If traditional printing and dyeing process is used, then cloth blank can be produced, but large amount of water and resources are consumed

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveproduction processVSAvoidwater consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSLoss of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent performs preliminary dyeing action during the fiber formation stage itself, rather than dyeing the finished fabric later. By incorporating multiple colored dyes into the spinning solution and maintaining their separation through controlled flow during extrusion, the cloud dyeing effect is achieved in-situ during fiber production, eliminating the need for subsequent printing and dyeing processes that would consume large amounts of water and resources.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent merges the dyeing function with the fiber production process. The spinning and dyeing operations that are traditionally separate and sequential are combined into a single integrated process where multi-color dye streams are incorporated during fiber extrusion and solidification, achieving both fiber formation and coloration simultaneously without additional water-intensive steps.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

The method produces yarn with a randomly distributed multi-color cloud dyeing effect, reducing water usage and resource consumption, and achieving a three-dimensional pattern effect while being energy-saving and environmentally friendly.

Implementation Method 1

heating the spinning box to enable the spinning raw material to be in a molten state

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectHeating: Heating

Implementation Method 2

cooling and solidifying melt fine stream obtained in step 3 to form nascent fiber

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectCooling: Cooling

Implementation Method 3

cooling and solidifying melt fine stream obtained in step 3 to form nascent fiber

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectPhase change: Phase Change

Data Source

PatentUS11846046B2Method for preparing yarn with cloud dyeing effect
Publication Date: 2023.12.19 FUJIAN HUAFENG NEW MATERIALS

AI summary

The invention relates to the technical field of textile printing and dyeing, in particular to a method for preparing yarn with cloud dyeing effect; dyes with more than one color are mixed, and a small amount of dispersing agent is added, so that the pigment is not completely uniformly mixed, and the yarn obtained by extrusion molding of the pigment mixed spinning raw material has a randomly distributed multi-color cloud dyeing effect, and the cloud dyeing yarn with multi-color cloud dyeing effect is prepared, and compared with the cloth blank prepared by the traditional single-color yarn, the prepared cloth blank has a more three-dimensional pattern effect.