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US671760A
US671760A US71536399A US1899715363A US671760A US 671760 A US671760 A US 671760A US 71536399 A US71536399 A US 71536399A US 1899715363 A US1899715363 A US 1899715363A US 671760 A US671760 A US 671760A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05D—PROCESSES FOR APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
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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
    • D06M15/693—Treating fibres, threads, yarns, fabrics, or fibrous goods made from such materials, with macromolecular compounds; Such treatment combined with mechanical treatment with natural or synthetic rubber, or derivatives thereof

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  • the wool cludes the basic mineral salts-as basic alum, for example.
  • the second class includes the organic salts, such as the acetates, oxalates, tartrates, sulfocyanates, &c.
  • the third class includes the combinations of the hydrates of these metals with potash or caustic sodaas sodium aluminate, for example.
  • the bath may be made with any one of the above salts-as aluminium acetate, for example-and fifty liters of the aluminium acetate at 12 Baum may be mixed with one thousand liters of water to form the bath. If anothersalt of those specified be employed, a corresponding amount in weight will be used.
  • the wool either in fiber or fabric, is allowed to steep in this bath for about one hour. It is then removed, rinsed, and dried in the open air.
  • the softening-bath is not exhausted by use, and it may be used continuously by merely adding a little of the salt to maintain it at the proper strength. By heating the bath the action will be accelerated.
  • the wool or woolen fabric from the softening-bath will still be harsh to the touch at first; but it loses this harshness in time, and after drying it will be found soft and supple.
  • the neutralizing of the acid in the halogenated wool can be efiected either before or after the softening treatment.
  • the order of these steps is not very important.

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UNITED TATES ATENT @FFICE.
J ULES AUGUSTE JOSEPH FLORIN AND HENRI LOUIS LAGAOHE, OF ROUBAIX, FRANCE.
PROCESS OF SOFTENING WOOL.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters'Patent No. 671,760, dated. April 9, 1901.
Application filed May 2, 1899- Serial No. 715,363. (No specimens.)
To ail whom it may concern.-
Be it known that we, J ULES AUGUSTE J o- SEPH FLORIN and HENRI LOUIS LAGACHE, citizens of the Republic of France, residing in Roubaix, Nord, France, have invented cer tain new and useful Improvements in Processes for Softening Chlorinated or Halogenated Wool, of which the following is a specification.
Itis well known that wool treated with chlorin or other halogens, such as bromin or iodin, commonly known as chlorinated Wool, becomes dry, hard, and harsh to the touch; and it is the object of the present invention to render such wool, by the treatment to be hereinafter described, soft and supple and also to restore to it that elasticity and quality which it possessed previous to chlorinating. By reason of the ability to restore to the wool its primitive characteristics after chlorinating this last-named treatment may be carried to such an extent as to render the restored wool practically unshrinkable.
It will not be necessary to describe the ordinary or known process of chlorinating or halogenating further than to say that ordinarily the wool, previously moistened in a bath of water acidulated with sulfuric acid, is put in a bath containing chlorid of lime, (bleaching-chlorid.) When the Wool is removed from this bat-h, it is treated according to our method, which will now be described. After rinsing the Wool or wool fabric is put in a vessel containing an aqueous solution of sodium carbonate of sufficient strength to neutralize any free acid yet remaining in the wool, where it remains until there is no acid reaction. Then it is removed and wrung out or the liquid drained therefrom. The wool cludes the basic mineral salts-as basic alum, for example. The second class includes the organic salts, such as the acetates, oxalates, tartrates, sulfocyanates, &c. The third class includes the combinations of the hydrates of these metals with potash or caustic sodaas sodium aluminate, for example.
The bath may be made with any one of the above salts-as aluminium acetate, for example-and fifty liters of the aluminium acetate at 12 Baum may be mixed with one thousand liters of water to form the bath. If anothersalt of those specified be employed, a corresponding amount in weight will be used. The wool, either in fiber or fabric, is allowed to steep in this bath for about one hour. It is then removed, rinsed, and dried in the open air.
The softening-bath is not exhausted by use, and it may be used continuously by merely adding a little of the salt to maintain it at the proper strength. By heating the bath the action will be accelerated.
The wool or woolen fabric from the softening-bath will still be harsh to the touch at first; but it loses this harshness in time, and after drying it will be found soft and supple.
The neutralizing of the acid in the halogenated wool can be efiected either before or after the softening treatment. The order of these steps is not very important.
Having thus described our invention, we claim- 1. The herein-described process of softening halogenated Wool or wool fabric, which consists in immersing same in a bath in which is dissolved a salt of a tetravalent metal in which the hydrate is feebly held or retained.
2. The herein-described process of treating halogenated wool or wool fabric, which consists in neutralizing the acid in the said material, and immersing same in an aqueous bath of a salt of a tetravalent metal in which the hydrate is feebly held or retained, the order of said treatment being immaterial.
3. The herein-described process for softening Wool or Wool fabric rendered harsh by strongly chlorinating or halogenating it, I specification in the presence of two subseribwhich consists in exactly neutralizing the ing witnesses.
free acid remaining in the material, immers- JULES AUGUSTE JOSEPH FLORIN. ing the material in an aqueous bath of a salt HENRI LOUIS LAGAOHE.
5 of a tetravalent metal, and finally exposing Witnesses:
the material for several hours to the air. GUSTAVE ALFRED G. DEREANY,
In testimony whereof we have signed this OH'ARLES LOUIS OYRUSS.
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Cited By (4)

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US2987474A (en) * 1957-03-21 1961-06-06 American Cyanamid Co Preparation of concentrated dispersions of basic aluminum salts
US3203821A (en) * 1961-05-25 1965-08-31 Plate Gmbh Dr Flocks for the production of velvet-like or plush-like materials and process for theproduction of such materials by electrostatic means
US5403362A (en) * 1993-05-10 1995-04-04 Allegro Natural Dyes Inc. Mordant and method of dyeing fibers
US5651795A (en) * 1993-05-10 1997-07-29 Allegro Natural Dyes Llc Mordant composition containing citric acid for dye processes

Cited By (4)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2987474A (en) * 1957-03-21 1961-06-06 American Cyanamid Co Preparation of concentrated dispersions of basic aluminum salts
US3203821A (en) * 1961-05-25 1965-08-31 Plate Gmbh Dr Flocks for the production of velvet-like or plush-like materials and process for theproduction of such materials by electrostatic means
US5403362A (en) * 1993-05-10 1995-04-04 Allegro Natural Dyes Inc. Mordant and method of dyeing fibers
US5651795A (en) * 1993-05-10 1997-07-29 Allegro Natural Dyes Llc Mordant composition containing citric acid for dye processes

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