Fabric flocked

The preparation of flocked fabric using acryflc adhesives is detailed in Reference 198. In flocking, cut fibers are bonded to an adhesive-coated fabric to achieve both a decorative and a functional effect. Acrylics can be tailored to provide the unique balance between softness and durability required for this... 

Home furnishings, which is primarily dominated by cotton and polyester, includes drapes, curtains, bedding, table cloth, bathroom fabrics, and Upholstery. In the United States, nearly all of the nylon upholstery velours are flocked, printed fabrics. Nylon-flocked blankets are also made in the United States. 

The main applications are piece dyeing, which is important for the dyeing of the CEL component of PES-CEL blended fabrics, yarn dyeing, and dyeing of flock, card, sliver, etc., for blended yams with wool and man-made fibers. 

For the dyeing or finishing of pile fabrics, such as carpets, flocked goods, velvets or sliver knits, the foam can be applied to the face of the fabric by means of a knife over-roll or knife over table coater (Figure l). 

There are different types of plastics that are usually identified by their composition and/or performance. As an example there are virgin plastics. They are plastic materials that have not been subjected to any fabricating process. NEAT polymers identify plastics with Nothing Else Added To. They are true virgin polymers since they do not contain additives, fillers, etc. They are very rarely used. Plastic materials to be processed are in the form of pellets, granules, flakes, powders, flocks, liquids, etc. Of the 35,000 types available worldwide there are about 200 basic types or families that are commercially recognized with less than 20 that are popularly used. Examples of these plastics are shown in Table 1.1. 

Fillers used in large quantities to reinforce plastics are alumina (aluminum oxide), calcium carbonate, calcium silicate, cellulose flock, cotton (different forms), short glass fiber, glass beads, glass spheres, graphite, iron oxide powder, mica, quartz, sisal, silicon carbide, dtanium oxide, and tungsten carbide. Choice of filler varies and depends to a great extent upon the requirements of the end item and method of fabrication. 

It is compatible in solutions at a pH as low as 2.0 and as high as 10.0. CNC SOFT XXX produces a full, soft, cationic hand on cotton and synthetics and has been very effective on crushed flocked velvet and pile fabrics. It is also an excellent napping assistant. 

High-solids emulsions with rapid water-release properties. Cure at low temperatures. Recommended for fabric finishing and coating adhesive for flocking and laminating low-crock binder in pigment printing. 

Acrylic acid ester dispersion with extremely high stability to solvents, back-sizing of velvet upholstery fabrics good pile fixation basis for fiber flock binder. 

In textile industry it is used in laminating and as adhesive in the flocking of fabrics and in the finishing product of the fabrics as a mixture with formaldehyde containing reactants and resins. Nonwoven textile industry uses it as binder and thermosetting of acrylic emulsion. 

Poirier, V., "Fabrication and Testing of Flocked Blood Bladders In Synthetic Biomedical Polymers Concepts and Applications", Szycher M., Robinson, W. J., Eds., Technomlc Publishing Company, Inc. Westport, 1980, p. 73. 

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