US2415113A - Flameproofing textile materials - Google Patents

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US2415113A
US2415113A US50609843A US2415113A US 2415113 A US2415113 A US 2415113A US 50609843 A US50609843 A US 50609843A US 2415113 A US2415113 A US 2415113A
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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
    • D06M13/00—Treating fibres, threads, yarns, fabrics or fibrous goods made from such materials, with non-macromolecular organic compounds; Such treatment combined with mechanical treatment
    • D06M13/244—Treating fibres, threads, yarns, fabrics or fibrous goods made from such materials, with non-macromolecular organic compounds; Such treatment combined with mechanical treatment with compounds containing sulfur or phosphorus
    • D06M13/282—Treating fibres, threads, yarns, fabrics or fibrous goods made from such materials, with non-macromolecular organic compounds; Such treatment combined with mechanical treatment with compounds containing sulfur or phosphorus with compounds containing phosphorus
    • D06M13/292—Mono-, di- or triesters of phosphoric or phosphorous acids; Salts thereof
    • 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
    • D06M13/00—Treating fibres, threads, yarns, fabrics or fibrous goods made from such materials, with non-macromolecular organic compounds; Such treatment combined with mechanical treatment
    • D06M13/322—Treating fibres, threads, yarns, fabrics or fibrous goods made from such materials, with non-macromolecular organic compounds; Such treatment combined with mechanical treatment with compounds containing nitrogen
    • D06M13/402—Amides imides, sulfamic acids
    • D06M13/432—Urea, thiourea or derivatives thereof, e.g. biurets; Urea-inclusion compounds; Dicyanamides; Carbodiimides; Guanidines, e.g. dicyandiamides
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    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10T442/00—Fabric [woven, knitted, or nonwoven textile or cloth, etc.]
    • Y10T442/20—Coated or impregnated woven, knit, or nonwoven fabric which is not [a] associated with another preformed layer or fiber layer or, [b] with respect to woven and knit, characterized, respectively, by a particular or differential weave or knit, wherein the coating or impregnation is neither a foamed material nor a free metal or alloy layer
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Patented Feb, 4, 1947 anarie A B F G TEXmE m'rans I No naming. Application October 13, 1943,
' Serial No. 506,098
. Claims. (Cl. 117-137) "I'his'invention relates to the treatment of textile materials and relates more particularly to processes for the treatmentof textilematerials containing cellulose acetate or other organic derivative of cellulose to ren der said materials fle z efl An object of this/invention is to provide a novel I processfor' rendering cellulose acetate or other t organicderivative of cellulose textile materials Another object of this invention is toprovide a novel process for rendering cellulose acetate or other organic derivative of cellulose textile materials flameproof without imparting a harsh hand to the materials.
A further object of this invention is the prepa- V ration of fiameproofed textile materials having a wbasis of cellulose acetate or other organic derivative of cellulose.
Other objects of this invention will appear from the following detailed description. i l
Various treatments have been provided for renderingtextile materials having a basis of cotton, or other non-thermoplastic material, flameproof. These processes comprise depositing certain inorganic salts on the non-thermoplastic material, which materials substantially raise the ignition temperature of the latter. While these processes yield satisfactory results on non-thermoplastic materials, they are without any appreciable, utility whatever when applied to textile materials made of or containing cellulose acetate or other organic derivative of cellulose. Since the latter .materials are thermoplastic; they tend to melt away from the flameproofing agents deposited on the thermoplastic material and'the molten material, free of the flameproofing agent, ignites as qt lt falls away. The flaming drops of molten cellugeous'" V a of the material. While we do not wish to be loseacetate coming in contact with other inflammable materials, will, of course, cause the latter to. ignite.
flameprooi must beemployed.
We have now discovered that cellulose acetate 1 Mother organic derivative of cellulose textile materials in the form ofyarns, fabrics, staple fiber, etc. may be rendered fiameproof if said mate- Accordingly, processes specifically 1 adapted for rendering cellulose acetate materials bound byany theoretical considerations, it appears that the thiourea lowers thejviscosity of molten cellulose acetate material to the extent that when cellulose acetate material, treated with thiourea in the above manner, comes in contact with an open flame of a suificiently high temperature to melt the cellulose acetate, the molten cellulose acetate drips away from the flame so rapidly that the flame is unable to raise the molten cellulose acetate to its ignition temperature, 1
Other agents may be employed in conjunction with thiourea to improve the characteristics of the fiameproofed material. Such other agents may be ammonium salts as, for example, ammonium bromide, ammonium chloride, ammonium borate and diammonium phosphate. When these ammonium salts are employed, we have found that an excellent hand may be imparted to the cellulose acetate fabrics if an alkyl substituted diammonium phosphate is also present in the solution employed for treating the fabric.
Examples ofsuitable diammonium alkyl phosphates are diammonium methyl phosphate, diammonium ethyl phosphate, diammonium amyl phosphate and diammonium octyl phosphate.
The concentration of the solution may vary depending, oi course, upon the amount of the agent desired on the fiameproofed textile material. Solutions containing thiourea. in amounts of from 5 to 20% by weight, and preferably from 10, to 12%, are satisfactory for treating the cellulose acetate materials. Where ammonium salts are rials are treated with .asolutionof thiourea in l a-suitable solvent medium, and the solvent mediumis removed. When the solvent medium is removed, as by any convenient drying process, the thiourea is deposited upon the cellulose acetate material and imparts a very satisfactory degree of 'flameproofing thereto without disadvantaaiiecting the hand or draping qualities employed in conjunction with the thiourea, they may be present in amounts of from 2 to 20% by weight. while the diammonium alkyl phosphates yield effective results when employed in the soluti'on in amounts of from 5 to 20%.
Assolvents for the thiourea, we may employ aqueous or aqueous-alcoholic solutions. When ethyl alcohol is employed as the solvent in the form of an] aqueous solution, it may, comprise from 10 to by weight of the solvent.
The quantity of, the flameprooiing agent or agents applied to the textile material may vary depending upon'the textile material being treated andthe degree of flameproofing desired. We
have found that satisfactory results are obtained when the weight of the textile is increased from about 10 to 15% by treatment with aqueous or aqueous-alcoholic solutions of thiourea. Where ammonium salts alone or together with a diammonium alkyl phosphate are employed in addition to the thiourea, a desirable degree of flameproofing may be efiected when the weight of the textile materials is increased from about 10 to 25% by our novel treatment. To attain the deamples are given: Example I An aqueous solution comprising 10% by weight of thiourea is padded on to a cellulose acetate fabric and the latter is dried in a hot tower. The fabric is increased in weight 12% by this treatment. When tested for its flameproof qual-. itiesby being placed in the open luminous flames of a Bunsen burner, the ,fabric does not ignite but melts away rapidly from the flame.
Example II A cellulose acetate fabric is padded with an aqueous solution containing 10% by weight of thiourea and 10% by weight of ammonium bromide. The fabric is dried in a hot tower and a weight increase of 20% is effected. The fabric is rendered flameproof by this treatment and does not ignite oncontact with an open flame.
Example 111 A cellulose acetate fabric is padded with an aqueous solution containing 10% by weight of thiourea, 10% by weight of ammonium bromide and by weight of diammoniuin methyl phosphate. The fabric is dried with heated air and the treatment effects a weight increase of 25%.
On being exposed to an open flame, the fabric is found to be flameproof, and drips away from the open flame without igniting.
The flameproofing solutions of the above examples may also be employed for treating staple fibers having a basis of cellulose acetate and, by efiecting a weight increase of to 25%, flameprooistaple fiber may be obtained. The fiber may then be processed into yam by suitable spinning operations.
While our invention has been more particularly described in connection with the treatment of textile materials having a basis. of cellulose ace-' tate, textile materials made of 'or containing other organic derivatives of cellulose may also be rendered flameproofin like manner by this novel treatment. Examples of other organic derivatives of cellulose' are'cellulose esters, such as cellulose propionate and cellulose butyrate, mixed esters such as cellulose acetate-propionate and cellulose acetate-butyrate, and cellulose ethers, suchas methyl cellulose and benzyl cellulose.
It is to be understood that the foregoing detailed description is given merely by way of illustration and that many variations may be made therein without departing from the spirit of our invention. Having described our invention, what we desire to secure by Letters Patent is:
1. Flameproof textile materials containing cellulose acetate which drip away rapidly when melted by contact with an open flame, characterized by having present thereon from 5 110.20% of thiourea, from 5 to 20% of a diammonium alkyl phosphate and from 2 to 20% of an ammonium salt, the amounts being based upon the weight of the textile materials.
2. Flameproof textile materials containing eellulose acetate which drip away rapidly when melted by contact with an open flame, characterized by having present thereon 10% of thiourea, 10% of ammonium bromide and 5% of diammonium methyl phosphate, the amounts being based upon the weight ofthe textile materials.
3. Process for the treatment of textile matev rials to cause the same to drip away rapidly when melted by contact with an open flame, which comprises applying to a textile material containing cellulose acetate a solution containing 5 to 20% by weight of thiourea, 5 to 20% by weight ofa diammonium alkyl phosphate and 2 to 20% by weight of an ammonium salt, and removing the-solvent medium.
4. Process for the treatment of textile materials to cause the same to drip away rapidly when melted by contact with an open flame, which comprises applying to a textile material containing cellulose acetate a solution in an aqueous-alcoholic medium containing 5 to 20% by weight of thiourea, 5 to 20% by weight of a diammonium alkyl phosphate and 2 to 20%-by weight of an ammonium salt, and removing the solvent medium.
5. Process for the treatment of textile materials to cause the same to drip away rapidly when melted by contact with an open flame,
which comprises applying to a textile material containing cellulose acetate an aqueous-alcoholic solution containing 10% by weight of thiourea. 5% by weight of diammonium methyl phosphate and 10% by weight of ammonium bromide, and removing the solvent medium. GEORGE W. SEYMOUR.
GEORGE c. WARD.
' REFERENCES CITED The following referencesare of record in the flle of this patent:
UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,310,841 Robinson July 22, 1919 1,429,295 Nikolas Sept. 19, 1922 1,792,457 Arent Feb. 10, 1931 2,212,152 Cupery Aug. 20, 1940 2,262,634 Cobbs Nov. 11, 1941 2,329,051 Hunsicker Sept. 7, 1943 1,982,539 Reeves Nov. 2'1, 1934. 2,089,679 Groebe Aug. '10, 1937 2,097,509 Baller' Nov. 2, 1937 2,278,285 Reese- Mar. 31, 1942 1,867,658 Dreyfus July 19,1932
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