Liquid Wiping performance of Micro-fiber Kitchen Wiping Cloth.

To obtain fundamental information for designing micro-fiber kitchen wiping cloth with a superior liquid wiping performance, the authors studied the liquid wiping performance of three different prototypes of micro-fiber kitchen wiping cloth. Each cloth was tested against the liquid samples of water, soy sauce and Worcester sauce. Each cloth differed in fiber diameter, yarn density and thickness, etc. A cotton kitchen cloth on the market in Japan was used as a control sample. A vertical wiping method and a horizontal wiping method were used to test the cloth against the liquid samples. The results showed that each micro-fiber cloth easily absorbed water and soy sauce, especially along the yarn axes and when both the vertical and horizontal wiping methods were used. However, when each type of micro-fiber cloth' was tested against Worcester sauce sample, the sauce was not easily absorbed and most of sauce was left smeared on the surface. The horizontal wiping method was particularly unsuitable for wiping Worcester sauce. The authors suggested that design of micro-fiber kitchen wiping cloth should be guided by an adequate parameters of thickness and surface roughness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]