The banana fiber and its manufacturing method, the blended yarn, and skin peeling uses that

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a banana fiber using a banana stem which is an industrial waste as a raw material, a method for producing the banana fiber, a union yarn composed of a staple fiber of the banana fiber and other fiber and a fiber structure prepared from the union yarn.;SOLUTION: The banana fiber is obtained by drying peeled temporary stem of banana and opening the fiber so as to have 10-50 mm average fiber length and 0.5-80 dtex average fineness. The method for producing the banana fiber comprises a step (a) for cutting stems of banana, a step (b) for peeling and removing colored epidermis of stems, a step (c) for peeling much bark constituting stems to provide a unit bark, a step (d) for taking out a fiber bundle by pressing the unit bark by a press, a step (e) for drying the fiber bundle, a step (f) for obtaining a monofilament from the dried fiber bundle and a step (g) cutting the monofilament into a definite length and obtaining the staple fiber.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO