Classifications

• • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
  • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • D06L—DRY-CLEANING, WASHING OR BLEACHING FIBRES, FILAMENTS, THREADS, YARNS, FABRICS, FEATHERS OR MADE-UP FIBROUS GOODS; BLEACHING LEATHER OR FURS
  • D06L4/00—Bleaching fibres, filaments, threads, yarns, fabrics, feathers or made-up fibrous goods; Bleaching leather or furs
  • D06L4/10—Bleaching fibres, filaments, threads, yarns, fabrics, feathers or made-up fibrous goods; Bleaching leather or furs using agents which develop oxygen
  • D06L4/12—Bleaching fibres, filaments, threads, yarns, fabrics, feathers or made-up fibrous goods; Bleaching leather or furs using agents which develop oxygen combined with specific additives

Definitions

• the invention relates to a liquid at room temperature aid for the treatment and finishing of textile fiber material and / or textile products and a corresponding method.
• the textile substrate is refined, for example bleached, to prepare it for dyeing or finishing.
• different chemicals are used for bleaching textiles.
• Oxidative bleaching agents such as hydrogen peroxide, sodium hypochlorite, sodium chlorite or reductive bleaching agents such as thiourea dioxide are known in the art.
• a bleach activator the less water-soluble powdered tetraacetylethylenediamine (TAED), has also been used in some cases.
• TAED water-soluble powdered tetraacetylethylenediamine
• said bleaching agents are used for stain removal or disinfection in the event of contamination by microorganisms.
• Chlorine-based bleaching components such as sodium hypochlorite and sodium chlorite form organohalogen compounds during the bleaching process that are classified as harmful to health.
• organohalogen compounds depending on the bleaching agent, it can also lead to the formation of harmful gases and to strong odor nuisance, eg by formation of chlorine dioxide, come during the bleaching.
• bleaching with sodium chlorite is only possible on special machines, which must be made of special materials.
• the activation of the hydrogen peroxide takes place primarily with alkali.
• Caustic soda is used almost exclusively for the bleaching of cellulose fibers, while sodium carbonate is used for bast fibers.
• Alkali-sensitive fibers such as protein fibers or some synthetic fibers can not be treated with the alkaline peroxide bleach. Otherwise, damage may occur until the fibers are destroyed during alkaline bleaching. Furthermore, some fiber-blending substances and fiber impurities can not be oxidatively destroyed with an alkaline peroxide bleach.
• hydrogen peroxide can also be activated in other ways, for example, by chemical reaction of the hydrogen peroxide to form peracids or by activation by means of special metal catalysts.
• Peracetic acid is obtained in the textile industry from acetic acid hydride and hydrogen peroxide.
• Acetic anhydride is explosive in the gaseous state with air. In addition, it has a pungent smell, etches and burns the skin.
• the formation of peracetic acid from acetic anhydride and hydrogen peroxide can lead to the formation of diacetylperoxoid. This chemical is poorly soluble and has a strong irritant effect on the skin. Furthermore, it reacts explosively when heated.
• Typical solid bleach activators are usually used in household detergents in admixture with other excipients as powder or granules.
• liquid suspensions may also be of interest.
• Suspensions would be of interest because of their dust-free utility, ease of pumping and generally better and faster solubility in the textile industry.
• such agents must be present as stable homogeneous products.
• the stability of the components used is a problem. It can come to the separation or decomposition of the individual components. The blends are steadily losing activity and the agents have reduced bleaching performance.
• DE OS 1 695 219 describes the use of acylated glycolurils, mainly TAGU, as a bleach activator in the bleaching of fibers of all kinds.
• EP 0 125 641 B1 and US Pat. No. 4,544,503 disclose the use of acyloxibenzolsulfonic acid salts (AOBS) as a bleach activator.
• AOBS acyloxibenzolsulfonic acid salts
• the bleach activator is used in the peroxide bleaching of fabrics and as a dyeing assistant in the dyeing of acrylic fibers.
• N-acetylcaprolactam as a bleach catalyst for the clear-wash cycle of an automatic washing machine for the cleaning of textiles.
• EP 1 065 262 A1 describes the use of phthalimidoperoxycarboxylic acids as bleaching agents for fabrics and hard surfaces.
• EP 0 737 241 B1 describes the mixture of solid acyl lactam bleach activator compounds and additional components for the production of a powder product.
• DE PS 1 291 317 discloses a bleaching process which is suitable for removing stains on textiles.
• the bleach activator used is an organic N-acyl compound.
• the activating agent for the inorganic persalts used such as sodium perborate tetrahydrate, sodium perborate and sodium percarbonate, is also called N-acetylcaprolactam.
• a disadvantage of these processes is the mandatory use of inorganic persalts.
• WO 94/27970 describes a process for producing a powdered combination product for commercial laundries.
• the bleach activator used is a benzoylcaprolactam derivative.
• the combination product further includes a peroxide supplier such as percarbonate or perborate, a detergent and fillers.
• EP 0 584 710 A2 mentions a process for bleaching textile raw materials with the aid of hydrogen peroxide and peracids.
• the bleach activator used is a carboxylic acid amide, carboxylic acid ester or sulfonic acid salt.
• the listed bleach activators possess the disadvantage that they can not be used in the textile industry with the dosing designed for liquid products.
• WO 98/00510 a non-aqueous liquid detergent composition with powdery bleach activators dispersed in the surfactant phase by the addition of polycarboxylates and solvents is described.
• DE 40 24 531 A1 describes an anhydrous bleach activator-containing liquid detergent with nonionic and anionic surfactants.
• the liquid matrix contains solvent and as a bleach activator preferably the powdered TAED is used.
• the examples of the invention contain only small amounts of TAED and achieve their storage stability by a high viscosity adjustment. Both are not very desirable for the users, in particular, viscous products can not be processed on conventional dosing.
• N-acyl lactam derivatives as bleach activators.
• N-acetylcaprolactam is used for bleaching textile materials.
• the listed bleach activators become separate to the treatment liquor added.
• a disadvantage of this method is the separate addition of the bleach activator.
• a separate dosing unit for the bleach activator is necessary due to the separate addition.
• the listed bleach activators have no wetting effect on the substrate to be bleached. Only by the addition of an additional wetting agent to the fleet is a sufficiently good wetting of the goods with the fleet and thus ensures efficient bleaching. In addition, the sufficiently rapid homogeneous distribution of the bleach activator in the liquor is not ensured by the separate addition of the bleach activator.
• the object of the present invention is to provide concentrated low-viscosity peroxide activators for the textile industry, including industrial laundry, which are available from the prior art avoid the known disadvantages of the technology for peroxide activators and their blends.
• the blends are intended to combine the properties of peroxide activation and wetting power in one product.
• a further object of the present invention was to provide a stable, liquid, low-viscosity, peroxide-activating and at the same time wetting mixture for the textile industry , which has good storage stability and is rapidly distributed homogeneously in the liquor.
• liquid bleach activators with liquid surfactants, wherein the activator of the mixture is at least 35 wt .-%, in particular at least 50 wt .-%.
• the invention relates in a first embodiment to a liquid at room temperature aid for the treatment or finishing of textile fiber material and / or textile products comprising a blend of at least one or more, liquid at room temperature peroxide and at least one or more liquid at room temperature surfactants.
• the auxiliary consists only of peroxide activator and surfactant.
• the auxiliaries according to the invention are homogeneous and storage-stable. They can therefore be used particularly well with dosing systems for liquid substances in the finishing or treatment processes.
• the aids according to the invention ensure that the peroxide activator distributes itself homogeneously in the liquor sufficiently quickly.
• the surfactant admixed with the peroxide activator ensures a faster distribution process of the only slightly water-soluble peroxide activator.
• blends according to the invention in combination with hydrogen peroxide and an alkali source have wetting and, at the same time, whitening-increasing effects.
• the formulations of the invention are liquid at room temperature (25 ° C) and low in viscosity.
• Low viscosity for the purposes of the present invention means that the formulations according to the invention have a viscosity of up to 200 mPas at 25 ° C.
• Peroxide activators for the purposes of the present invention are reactive acyl compounds which form bleach-active species with bleaching agents such as hydrogen peroxide in the bleaching liquor at pH> 7 peroxide anions.
• acetylated compounds are effective in the peroxide activators.
• Particularly preferred peroxide activators include, for example, ethylene glycol diacetate, N-acetylcaprolactam, triacetin or tributylacetyl citrate, and mixtures thereof.
• Surfactants in the sense of the present invention comprise amphiphilic compounds having at least one hydrophobic and one hydrophilic moiety.
• the surfactants are preferably selected from one or more nonionic surfactants.
• the weight ratio in the inventive mixture of peroxide activator to surfactant from 9.5 to 0.5 to 0.5 to 9.5, more preferably 9 to 1 to 5 to 5 proves.
• An essential preferred element of the invention is the treatment or refinement of textile fiber material and / or textile products with the aid of a liquid auxiliary which, in addition to liquid peroxide activator and wetting surfactant, also contains or consists of solubilizers.
• the auxiliary according to the invention particularly preferably contains up to 20% by weight of the solubilizers.
• Solubilizers for the purposes of the present invention include chemicals which allow a mixture of surfactant with bleach activator, which do not form a homogeneous mixture without the addition of solubilizers.
• solubilizers examples include glycol ethers such as butyl diglycol, butyl triglycol or alcohols such as methanol, ethanol or ketones such as acetone, butanone or esters such as glycol esters.
• the formulations according to the invention preferably contain less than 1% by weight of water, since peroxide activators can hydrolyze in the presence of water.
• the treatment liquor furthermore contains hydrogen peroxide and, if appropriate, an alkali donor such as, for example, inorganic carbonates or phosphates.
• the auxiliary is used at 0.5 to 10% by weight, preferably at 2 to 6% by weight, based on the weight of the product. This will ensure that there is minimum wetting and sufficient peroxide activator.
• the textile substrate is treated batchwise or continuously in aqueous liquor.
• the pH of the treatment liquor is in particular in the range of 4 to 11, preferably 6 to 9.5.
• the weight ratio of the auxiliaries according to the invention to hydrogen peroxide (35% strength by weight in water) in the treatment liquor is 0.5 to 10 to 1, particularly preferably 0.75 to 1.5 to 1.
• the process according to the invention preferably carries out the treatment at 20 to 130.degree.
• a textile fiber material are preferably cellulosic fibers such as linen, hemp, cotton, jute; Regenerated cellulose fibers such as viscose, viscose acetate; animal fibers such as wool and silk; Chemical fibers such as polyamide, polyacrylonitrile, polyester, elastomers and fiber blends such as cotton / spandex or cotton / polyamide used.
• the material to be treated can be present in various presentations, for example flake, roving, roving, yarn, twisted yarn, knitted fabric, knitted fabric, fleece, woven fabric or as a ready-made textile.
• the individual components were added successively, examples according to the invention are marked as M1 to M15.
• the comparative components used were the unblended individual components which are identified by K1 to K12.
• Table 1 below shows the weight proportions of the components used.
• Example M1 to M11 were stable for 3 months.
• Mixture M12 and M14 showed a phase separation or a sediment.
• a further formulation was ever prepared for comparison with Example M12 and M14.
• Example M13 corresponded to Example M12, but instead of 35 parts of component K6 thereof 31 parts and instead 4 parts of the solubilizer K11 were used.
• Example 15 corresponded to Example 14 but instead of 35 parts of component K8, only 15 parts and 20 parts of the solubilizer K12 were used.
• Each 1 liter of solution was prepared with 4 g / L of the stable mixture according to the invention or the components K1 to K4. Thereafter, the solutions were stirred for 1 minute. After a service life of 2 minutes, the fleet was assessed visually.
• the mixtures according to the invention were tested both after preparation and after a storage time of 3 months. A loss of activity was not detectable.
• the determination of the wetting times of the blends according to the invention is carried out according to DIN ISO 8022 Determination of the immersion wetting power. The result of the examinations is given as the net time in seconds.
• White table linen made of 100% cotton was applied on a washer-extractor together with standard dirt cloth EMPA Art. 111 (BW fabric with blood stain) and EMPA Art. 114 (BW fabric with red wine stain) at 60 ° C with a liquor ratio of 1 to 5 with 2 g / L mixture according to the invention (Table 5), 2 mL / L hydrogen peroxide 35% and 2 g / L sodium metasilicate for pH adjustment for 15 minutes.
• the comparative value was determined without blending according to the invention, but with 2 g / L of the components K. The liquor was then drained off, the goods were rinsed and dried.

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