Bleaching and dyeing; fluid treatment and chemical modification – Chemical modification of textiles or fibers or products thereof – Cellulose fibers
Patent
1990-08-21
1993-06-22
Willis, Jr., Prince
Bleaching and dyeing; fluid treatment and chemical modification
Chemical modification of textiles or fibers or products thereof
Cellulose fibers
8120, 81161, D06M 1500
Patent
active
052212858
ABSTRACT:
Catalysts for the rapid esterification and crosslinking of fibrous cellulose in textile form by polycarboxylic acids at elevated temperatures are disclosed. The catalysts are acidic or weakly basic salts selected from the alkali metal dihydrogen phosphates and alkali metal salts of phosphorous, hypophosphorous, and polyphosphoric acids. Suitable polycarboxylic acids include saturated, unsaturated and aromatic acids, as well as alpha-hydroxy acids. The textiles so treated exhibit high levels of wrinkle resistance and smooth drying properties durable to repeated laundering in alkaline detergents, and do not contain or release formaldehyde. Textiles treated by the polycarboxylic acids and alkali metal phosphite or hypophosphite catalysts, and having residues of these catalysts present, may be identified by infrared spectroscopy and electron spectroscopy for chemical analysis, because these textiles exhibit the presence in infrared spectra of the phosphorus-hydrogen bond and the ester groups of cellulose crosslinked with the polycarboxylic acids, and the presence of trivalent phosphorus in spectra from electron spectroscopy for chemical analysis.
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Andrews Bethlehem K.
Donaldson Darrell J.
Morris Nancy M.
Welch Clark M.
Fado John D.
McNally John F.
Silverstein M. Howard
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of
Willis Jr. Prince
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