GB2240790A - Treating wool to improve its resistance to shrinkage - Google Patents
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- GB2240790A GB2240790A GB9101054A GB9101054A GB2240790A GB 2240790 A GB2240790 A GB 2240790A GB 9101054 A GB9101054 A GB 9101054A GB 9101054 A GB9101054 A GB 9101054A GB 2240790 A GB2240790 A GB 2240790A
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- 239000004902 Softening Agent Substances 0.000 claims description 8
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- 238000007254 oxidation reaction Methods 0.000 claims description 7
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- CEJLBZWIKQJOAT-UHFFFAOYSA-N dichloroisocyanuric acid Chemical class ClN1C(=O)NC(=O)N(Cl)C1=O CEJLBZWIKQJOAT-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 claims description 3
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- QTBSBXVTEAMEQO-UHFFFAOYSA-N Acetic acid Chemical compound CC(O)=O QTBSBXVTEAMEQO-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 6
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- BRLQWZUYTZBJKN-UHFFFAOYSA-N Epichlorohydrin Chemical compound ClCC1CO1 BRLQWZUYTZBJKN-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 4
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- ZAMOUSCENKQFHK-UHFFFAOYSA-N Chlorine atom Chemical compound [Cl] ZAMOUSCENKQFHK-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 2
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- WNLRTRBMVRJNCN-UHFFFAOYSA-N adipic acid Chemical compound OC(=O)CCCCC(O)=O WNLRTRBMVRJNCN-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 2
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- 239000000460 chlorine Substances 0.000 description 2
- 229910052801 chlorine Inorganic materials 0.000 description 2
- BDAGIHXWWSANSR-UHFFFAOYSA-N formic acid Substances OC=O BDAGIHXWWSANSR-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 2
- JVTAAEKCZFNVCJ-UHFFFAOYSA-N lactic acid Chemical compound CC(O)C(O)=O JVTAAEKCZFNVCJ-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 2
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- LYRFLYHAGKPMFH-UHFFFAOYSA-N octadecanamide Chemical class CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC(N)=O LYRFLYHAGKPMFH-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 2
- 229920000573 polyethylene Polymers 0.000 description 2
- GEHJYWRUCIMESM-UHFFFAOYSA-L sodium sulfite Chemical compound [Na+].[Na+].[O-]S([O-])=O GEHJYWRUCIMESM-UHFFFAOYSA-L 0.000 description 2
- 239000000126 substance Substances 0.000 description 2
- IMNIMPAHZVJRPE-UHFFFAOYSA-N triethylenediamine Chemical compound C1CN2CCN1CC2 IMNIMPAHZVJRPE-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 2
- OSWFIVFLDKOXQC-UHFFFAOYSA-N 4-(3-methoxyphenyl)aniline Chemical compound COC1=CC=CC(C=2C=CC(N)=CC=2)=C1 OSWFIVFLDKOXQC-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 1
- OKTJSMMVPCPJKN-UHFFFAOYSA-N Carbon Chemical group [C] OKTJSMMVPCPJKN-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 1
- 239000004952 Polyamide Substances 0.000 description 1
- MBHRHUJRKGNOKX-UHFFFAOYSA-N [(4,6-diamino-1,3,5-triazin-2-yl)amino]methanol Chemical compound NC1=NC(N)=NC(NCO)=N1 MBHRHUJRKGNOKX-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 1
- 230000002378 acidificating effect Effects 0.000 description 1
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- 125000000217 alkyl group Chemical group 0.000 description 1
- 150000001408 amides Chemical class 0.000 description 1
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- 229910052799 carbon Inorganic materials 0.000 description 1
- 125000004432 carbon atom Chemical group C* 0.000 description 1
- 239000003795 chemical substances by application Substances 0.000 description 1
- 239000012320 chlorinating reagent Substances 0.000 description 1
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- 238000007865 diluting Methods 0.000 description 1
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- 239000002612 dispersion medium Substances 0.000 description 1
- 239000000839 emulsion Substances 0.000 description 1
- 125000003700 epoxy group Chemical group 0.000 description 1
- 238000009950 felting Methods 0.000 description 1
- 239000000835 fiber Substances 0.000 description 1
- 230000005484 gravity Effects 0.000 description 1
- 239000004615 ingredient Substances 0.000 description 1
- 239000004310 lactic acid Substances 0.000 description 1
- 235000014655 lactic acid Nutrition 0.000 description 1
- 239000000463 material Substances 0.000 description 1
- 239000007800 oxidant agent Substances 0.000 description 1
- 239000002245 particle Substances 0.000 description 1
- 229920001281 polyalkylene Polymers 0.000 description 1
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- 230000009257 reactivity Effects 0.000 description 1
- 150000003839 salts Chemical class 0.000 description 1
- 235000010265 sodium sulphite Nutrition 0.000 description 1
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- 230000006641 stabilisation Effects 0.000 description 1
- 229940037312 stearamide Drugs 0.000 description 1
- 229920003002 synthetic resin Polymers 0.000 description 1
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- D—TEXTILES; PAPER
- D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- D06M—TREATMENT, NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE IN CLASS D06, OF FIBRES, THREADS, YARNS, FABRICS, FEATHERS OR FIBROUS GOODS MADE FROM SUCH MATERIALS
- D06M15/00—Treating fibres, threads, yarns, fabrics, or fibrous goods made from such materials, with macromolecular compounds; Such treatment combined with mechanical treatment
- D06M15/19—Treating fibres, threads, yarns, fabrics, or fibrous goods made from such materials, with macromolecular compounds; Such treatment combined with mechanical treatment with synthetic macromolecular compounds
- D06M15/37—Macromolecular compounds obtained otherwise than by reactions only involving carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bonds
- D06M15/39—Aldehyde resins; Ketone resins; Polyacetals
- D06M15/423—Amino-aldehyde resins
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- D—TEXTILES; PAPER
- D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- D06M—TREATMENT, NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE IN CLASS D06, OF FIBRES, THREADS, YARNS, FABRICS, FEATHERS OR FIBROUS GOODS MADE FROM SUCH MATERIALS
- D06M15/00—Treating fibres, threads, yarns, fabrics, or fibrous goods made from such materials, with macromolecular compounds; Such treatment combined with mechanical treatment
- D06M15/19—Treating fibres, threads, yarns, fabrics, or fibrous goods made from such materials, with macromolecular compounds; Such treatment combined with mechanical treatment with synthetic macromolecular compounds
- D06M15/37—Macromolecular compounds obtained otherwise than by reactions only involving carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bonds
- D06M15/643—Macromolecular compounds obtained otherwise than by reactions only involving carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bonds containing silicon in the main chain
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Description
h 1.
TREATMENT OF WOOL This invention relates to the treatment of wool, and is particularly concerned with a process for improving its resistance to shrinkage.
A process very widely used for this purpose entails subjecting the wool to an oxidation treatment, usuallya chlorination, as with free chlorine or a hypochlorite or dichloroisocyanurate salt; removing unreacted (and potentially very damaging) oxidising agent from the wool fibres, as by passage through a reducing medium such as sodium sulphite solution, followed by a water rinse; and synthetic resin to impart a by but then treating the wool with a resistance to shrinkage which the oxidation sometimes supplements that given treatment. Usually thereafter, simultaneously with the resin -treatment, the wool is treated with a softening agent to soften the harsh handle which it would otherwise have as a result of the 2 resin treatment; and in due course the treated wool is dried evenly at a moderately raised temperature to ensure that adequate curing of the resin has taken place.
-The process just outlined can be applied to the treatment of wool tops (ie wool fibre before it is spun) as well as to the treatment of yarn and of woollen piece goods and garments.
that obtained Probably the resins most used in the process are those obtained by reaction of epichlorhydrin (a compound having a reactive epoxy group attached to the radical -CH2C1) with a polyamide whose repeating unit contains basic -NH or -NHZ groups, as distinct from the non-basic -NH- groups of the amide linkage -CO.NH-. Such a resin is for example by the reaction of epichlorhydrin with the condensation product of a polyalkylene amine eg triethylene diamine (H2NCHZCHRNHCH2CH2NH2) and adipic acid (H02.C.CH.ZCHZCH-ZCH2CO;LH). Not all such resin is exhausted onto the wool from whatever medium the epichlorhydrin resin is applied, and there is now strong evidence that the resin-containing aqueous effluent from the process is harmful because of the presence in it of chlorine covalently bound to carbon, as in the -CH2C1 group.
1 Ir' i 1 3 We have now found that effluent problems can be greatly reduced, and a treated wool product obtained with properties just as good as those that result when an epichlorhydrin resin is employed, by using a colloidal melamine resin as the resin to impart shrinkage. Colloidal melamine resins are used in the treatment of paper to improve its wet strength, and are obtained by dissolving a partially condensed melamine formaldehyde resin in an acid such as hydrochloric, formic, acetic or lactic acid under controlled conditions, and further diluting with water. The solution becomes infinitely miscible with water, and on aging develops a bluish haze. The solution contains positively charged colloidal particles of the melamine resin.
According to the invention, there is provided a process for the treatment of wool to improve its resistance to shrinkage, by subjecting it first to an oxidation treatment and then to a resin treatment to supplement the shrink resistance imparted by the oxidation treatment, the resin treatment being accompanied or followed by treatment with a softening agent to soften the harsh handle associated with use of the resin, in which process resin employed is a colloidal melamine resin and softening agent employed is a silicone polymer.
the the 1 4 Preferably, the silicone polymer is dispersed in the colloidal melamine resin,ie in the aqueous phase which constitutes the dispersion medium of that system.
-There is described in EP-A-80272 a process for the shrinkresist treatment of wool, by a chlorinating-the wool with an acidified hypochlorite i b removing excess chlorinating agent from the wool c applying to the acidified wool an acid colloid solution of a methylol melamine resin, which solution may contain a suitable softening agent, such as for example those of the polyethylene type.
EP-A-80272 is not, however, concerned to avoid effluent problems arising from the presence of -CH2C1 or like groups in the resin conventionally used for treatment; nor does it mention the use of a silicone polymer as softening agent, a use which we have found has the advantage over polyethylene softeners of producing in the wool better stabilisation against shrinkage and better_ non-felting properties during washing.
The silicone cationic, but polymer employed as softening agent may be is preferably non-ionic. In general the silicone polymer used shows no chemical towards the colloidal melamine resin.
reactivity The melamine resin employed is preferably one which has at least two - CH2OR groups per melamine nucleus, where R H or is an alkyl group containing from one to four carbon atoms.
The invention Examples.
is further illustrated by the following Example 1
An acidic melamine resin solution was produced by mixing the following ingredients in the following proportions by weight.
Aqueous solution (80% reactive solids; pH at 1:1 HZO dilution=8.5) of partially condensed melamine formaldehyde resin available as BEETLER 336 10kg Concentrated hydrochloric acid (specific gravity=1.16) 1kg Water at 400 C 36kg 6 The mixture was allowed to stand for 2 hours to develop colloidal properties, and was then diluted with an equal volume of water to give a colloidal melamine resin having a shelf life of more than 6 months.
The diluted composition (1 part by weight) was further diluted with water (4 parts) and to this mixture was added an aqueous emulsion of a nonionic polydimethylsiloxane (0.5 parts by weight; silicone content 35% by weight).(The silicone release agent sold by Basildon Chemicals under the designation BC330 is very suitable.) conventionally salt, treated The mixed melamine resin/silicone polymer composition was then applied, from a bath adjusted with acetic acid to pH 56, to knitted wool garments which had been chlorinated with a dichloroisocyanurate with antichlor, and rinsed.The bath temperature was slowly raised from ambient to 400 C during 10 minutes, and held at that temperature for a further 10 minutes to exhaust the melamine resin and silicone polymer onto the wool. Weight gain was about 1.5% by dry weight of the wool.The material was then removed from the bath, hydroextracted and tumble-dried at 60-800 C.
i 1 i 1 t i d 7 Example 2
For the treatment of wool tops the procedure of Example 1 was modified as follows.
The mixed melamine resin/silicone polymer was applied in the 4th bowl of a conventional 5-bowl unit to deposit about 1.5% of solid mixture onto the tops. The treated tops were then passed to the 5th bowl, in which a cationic substituted stearamide had been included as additional softener. The tops were finally dried at 70800 C.
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Claims (8)
1 A process for the treatment of wool to improve its resistance to shrinkage, by subjecting it first to an oxidation treatment and then to a resin treatment to supplement the shrink resistance imparted by the oxidation treatment, the resin treatment being accompanied or followed by treatment with a softening agent to soften the harsh handle associated with use of the resin, in which process the resin employed is a colloidal melamine resin and the softening agent employed is a silicone polymer.
2 A process according to claim 1, in which the silicone polymer is dispersed in the colloidal melamine resin.
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3 A process according to claim 1 or 2, in which the silicone polymer is non- ionic.
4 A process according to claim 3, in which the silicone polymer is a polydimethylsiloxane.
A process which the groups per C1-4 alkyl.
according to any of claims 1 to 4, in melamine resin has at least two -CHZOR melamine nucleus, where R H or 9 A process according to any of claims 1 to 3, in which the oxidation treatment is a chlorination.
A process according to claim 6, in which the chlorination utilises a dichloroisocyanurate salt.
8 A process according to any of claims 1 to 7, applied to the treatment of wool tops.
A process according to any of claims 1 to 7, applied to the treatment of knitted wool garments.
A process according to claim 1, substantially as herein described with reference to the Examples.
Published 1991 at Ile Patent Office. State House. 66171 High Holbom. London WC I R 47P. Further copies maybe obtained from Sales Branch. Unit 6. Nine Mile Point, Cwmfelinfach. Cross Keys. Newport. NPI 7HZ. Printed by Multiplex techniques lid. St Mary Cray. Kent.
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| Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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| GB909002680A GB9002680D0 (en) | 1990-02-07 | 1990-02-07 | Treatment of wool |
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| GB9101054D0 GB9101054D0 (en) | 1991-02-27 |
| GB2240790A true GB2240790A (en) | 1991-08-14 |
| GB2240790B GB2240790B (en) | 1993-06-02 |
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| GB909002680A Pending GB9002680D0 (en) | 1990-02-07 | 1990-02-07 | Treatment of wool |
| GB9101054A Expired - Fee Related GB2240790B (en) | 1990-02-07 | 1991-01-17 | Treatment of wool |
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| EP (1) | EP0441421B1 (en) |
| AU (1) | AU630275B2 (en) |
| DE (1) | DE69108588T2 (en) |
| GB (2) | GB9002680D0 (en) |
| NZ (1) | NZ237014A (en) |
| ZA (1) | ZA91605B (en) |
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| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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| EP0080272A2 (en) * | 1981-10-28 | 1983-06-01 | South African Inventions Development Corporation | Shrink-resist treatment of wool |
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| GB2217741B (en) * | 1988-04-21 | 1991-07-31 | Bip Chemicals Ltd | Treatment of silk fabrics |
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| EP0080272A2 (en) * | 1981-10-28 | 1983-06-01 | South African Inventions Development Corporation | Shrink-resist treatment of wool |
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| DE69108588D1 (en) | 1995-05-11 |
| GB9101054D0 (en) | 1991-02-27 |
| EP0441421A1 (en) | 1991-08-14 |
| EP0441421B1 (en) | 1995-04-05 |
| DE69108588T2 (en) | 1995-10-05 |
| GB9002680D0 (en) | 1990-04-04 |
| GB2240790B (en) | 1993-06-02 |
| AU630275B2 (en) | 1992-10-22 |
| ZA91605B (en) | 1991-10-30 |
| NZ237014A (en) | 1992-09-25 |
| AU7086691A (en) | 1991-08-08 |
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