Polyamide fibres in these fine structures are affected by the drawing treatments, and these effects may alter greatly the dyeing property.
Amounts of dye taken up by the fibre are measured from the infinite dyebath condition at a constant concentration of dye, temperature and agitation of dyebath, and apparent diffusion coefficient from these experimental data on the amount of dye absorbed is determined by the use of Hill's equation. The apparent diffusion coefficient (
D) so determinated is regared as a function of the change of fibre alone.
Accordingly, we studied the effect of the residual strain, shown after the drawing of Amilan on the diffusion of dye through the fibre, as expressed in term “
D”. The dye Fast Red EA acid salt (old Cl No.182) was used, and following results are obtained.
1. Between
D and the draw ratio of the cold drawn, unstretched Amilan the following relation is found. Where
D and
D0 are apparent diffusion coefficients of stretched and unstretched yarn,
N is the draw ratio, and
A is a constant.
D of Amilan is decreased by the cold drawing, due to the improved orientation of the fibre.
2. In the case the residual strain (≤3%) is obtained from strained (≤16%) of the stretched Amilan, the equation (1) does not hold.
The residual strain which is brought about by tension during the weaving and knitting process etc. of Amilan in atomosphere at room temperature and fumidity dose not affect the dyeing property with the levelling acid dye.
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