Abstract: Disclosed are a hot-melting acrylonitrile (AN) polymer composition comprising a non-volatile component modified from AN alone or a AN monomer composition through chemical reaction, an AN polymer and water, a method for producing the composition, and a method for producing a shaped article of AN polymer by melting the composition under heat followed by shaping the melt. The composition and the shaped article do not contain toxic AN and AN monomer mixture.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is fine inorganic particles-containing fiber which is characterized in that the fiber contains fine inorganic particles with an average particle size of not larger than 10 .mu.m and the fiber-forming polymer contains not less than 0.01 milliequivalent/gram of any of the polar groups consisting of sulfonic acid group, carboxyl group and phosphoric acid group.

Abstract: The present invention offers a safe and economic method for manufacturing chitosan fiber wherein an aqueous solution of sodium thiocyanate is used. In the present invention, chitosan having a degree of deacetylation of not less than 60% is dissolved in an aqueous solution of not less than 44% by weight of sodium thiocyanate and the resulting spinning solution is subjected to a wet spinning to manufacture a chitosan fiber.

Abstract: Fine metallic particles-containing fibers with various fine metallic particles therein, which have fiber properties to such degree that they can be processed and worked, and which can exhibit various functions of the fine metallic particles, such as antibacterial deodorizing and electroconductive properties are provided, as well as a method for producing the same.

Abstract: Disclosed are acidic or basic gas absorptive fiber having both a degree of acidic gas absorption of 70% or higher and a degree of basic gas absorption of 80% or higher, and also fabric comprising the fiber. The fiber and fabric, after having absorbed acidic and basic gases, can easily be restored to its original condition if they are exposed to clean air. The fiber is preferably crosslinked acrylic fiber, which has a specific increase in its nitrogen content resulting from crosslinking with hydrazine, a specific amount of carboxyl groups resulting from modification with nitrile groups, a specific ratio of free carboxyl groups to all carboxyl groups existing therein, and a specific equilibrated pH in water, and which is prepared from acrylic fiber through crosslinking with hydrazine, hydrolysis, and conversion of carboxyl groups therein into metal carboxylate groups. The fiber and fabric are durable to cycle use.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a fiber capable of basic gas absorption and easy regeneration. Disclosed also herein is a process for producing said fiber. The basic gas absorptive fiber is an acrylic fiber characterized by a specific amount of nitrogen which is increased by crosslinking with hydrazine, a specific amount of carboxyl groups and amido groups resulting from modification of nitrile groups, and a specific value of tensile strength. It is prepared from acrylic fiber by crosslinking with hydrazine and subsequent hydrolysis and conversion of hydroxyl groups into carboxylic acid. It has good processability and can be used repeatedly.

Abstract: Fine particles (having a particle diameter smaller than 10 .mu.m) of crosslinked acrylonitrile polymer capable of absorbing and releasing a large amount of moisture, in which the acrylonitrile polymer is crosslinked with hydrazine such that the nitrogen content increases by 1.0-15.0 wt % and there being introduced salt type carboxyl groups in an amount of 1.0 mmol/g or more into a part of the remaining nitrile groups. Said fine particles are prepared by treating an emulsion of acrylonitrile polymer with hydrazine so that crosslinks are formed in the acrylonitrile polymer and the nitrogen content increases by 1.0-15.0 wt % and then hydrolyzing the crosslinked acrylonitrile polymer so as to introduce more than 1.0 mmol/g of carboxyl groups in salt form into nitrile groups remaining uncrosslinked and to introduce amide groups to the rest of nitrile groups.

Abstract: A process for producing a homogeneous phase melt of polyacrylonitrile suitable for extrusion molding and melt spinning, by the steps of preparing polymer/water crumb containing 30-60 wt % of polyacrylonitrile and dewatering the crumb in a molten state with stirring at temperatures above 140.degree. C. and at pressures above autogenous pressure until the concentration of the polymer in the crumb exceeds 70% by weight.

Abstract: Saturated or superheated steam, or an inert gas, or a combination thereof is introduced into a gas phase above a molten acrylonitrile polymer in a vessel having a stirrer, while the polymer has a temperature of at least 120.degree. C. and a pressure at least equal to its autogenous pressure. Any unreacted acrylonitrile monomer, or both any such monomer and any acrylonitrile monomer or water used as a plasticizer are removed by evaporation from the vessel.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an acrylic fibrous material capable of absorbing and evaporating water stably and rapidly without requiring any water-absorbing material. It finds use as the water-absorbing and -evaporating member of a humidity controller. Disclosed also herein is a humidity controller provided with such an acrylic fibrous material.

Abstract: Provided is a wool-like acrylic composite fiber having excellent crimp developability, dyeability and processability, which is characterized in that the difference in the amount of sulfonate groups in the higher and lower heat shrinkable fiber components constituting the fiber is defined to fall within a particular range, that the amount of sulfonate groups in the higher heat shrinkable fiber component is periodically varied within a particular range in the axial direction of the fiber, and that the product of the difference in the amount of sulfonate groups between the higher and lower heat shrinkable fiber components and the ratio of the maximum content of sulfonate groups in the higher heat shrinkable fiber component to the minimum content of the same is defined to fall within a particular range. The composite fiber has a natural hand near to that of natural wool and, when commercially dyed, it has much reduced dyeing specks.

Abstract: This invention offers the porous fiber in which the porous form of the fiber is with an excellent durability to heat and accordingly can afford the fiber products with a shape-retaining ability.Porous acrylonitrile fiber comprising the polymers containing not less than 95% by weight of acrylonitrile in a bonded form whereby the pores in the fiber constituting the porous structure are connected each other and are communicated with the fiber surface and, in addition, having a specific decreasing rate in the average pore diameter due to an introduction of a crosslinking structure thereinto.It is possible to offer a porous acrylonitrile fiber which has a porous structure wherein the micropores in the fiber are connected each other and are communicated with the fiber surface and also exhibits an excellent retaining ability of the shape of the fiber.

Abstract: A continuous heat treating machine for synthetic fiber tow provides a method for maintaining pressure having excellent stability on maintaining the pressure inside of the pressure chamber while avoiding quality deterioration and while ensuring minimum leakage of steam for heating medium. The length and breadth dimensions of the exit pressure seal part are set to be narrower than those of the entrance pressure seal part. The method ensures minimum damage on heat treating fiber, gives minimum unit requirement of steam for heating medium, and offers a stable operation and uniform heat treatment.

Abstract: A safe, energy-Saving process for recovering (or purifying) thiocyanate from a large amount of waste liquid (or thiocyanate-containing aqueous solution) by the aid of a reverse osmosis membrane whose sodium chloride rejection is from 10% to 70%. The process performs recovery without decreasing the concentration of thiocyanate in feed.

Abstract: A process for removing colored components from a recovered inorganic solvent of polyacrylonitrile, without an appreciable decrease in the concentration of active components, using a reverse osmosis membrane whose NaCl rejection is in the range of 10% to 97%, under a permeation pressure lower than 20 kg/cm.sup.2.

Abstract: An apparatus for automatically preparing dyeing solutions, comprising for respectively accommodating dye stock solutions and dye auxiliary solutions; transfer means loaded with the containers; outflow pipes incorporated with a cleaning mechanism and also equipped with a pump and a valve for causing an outflow of the dye stock solutions and the dye auxiliary solutions from the containers; receiving vessels for successively receiving the dye stock solutions and the dye auxiliary solutions from the outflow pipes; weighing means for converting, into electric signals, weight changes of the dye stock solutions and the dye auxiliary solutions which have been received in the receiving vessels; transfer means loaded with the receiving vessels; a control mechanism for continuously or intermittently opening and closing the pump and the valve by making a comparison with a predetermined value in accordance with a level of the electric signal; a dilution water outflow pipe provided with a valve for causing dilution water t

Abstract: The present invention provides cation exchange fibers having a high capacity of ion exchange and a high utilization rate of ion exchange radicals. The fibers are produced so as to have 3 m eq/g or more of carboxyl groups introduced by simultaneous crosslinking and hydrolyzing treatments of acrylic fibers, and to have tensile strength 1 g/d or more and a degree of water-swellability less than 100%, while maintaining fiber properties without problems in practical use.

Abstract: The present invention provides a soil conditioner composed of a powdery or granular composition in which a filler is integrally included in hydrogel and a method of producing the same wherein an aqueous solution of a hydrophilic cross-linkable polymer is mixed with a filler and then the mixture is subjected to cross linking treatment by which the polymer is made to have cross-linked structure and formed into gel. Since the filler is integrally included in hydrogel, the soil conditioner, when mixed with soil, does not separate into the respective components, and there is no problem of the hydrogel emerging up to the surface of soil with the passage of time.

Abstract: Acrylic fibers with high physical properties particularly suitable as material for cement reinforcement are provided by spinning a spinning solution of an acrylonitrile polymer at a particular linear velocity ratio of extrusion, thereby forming gel fibers; regulating the internal water content of the gel fibers, subjecting the fibers to dry-heat treatment under tension or dry-heat stretching under a particular temperature condition; and cooling the fibers under tension.

Abstract: Acrylic fibers of extremely short length suitable as a matting agent for paint, etc. The fibers are produced from a polymer containing more than 50 weight % acrylonitrile, the fiber diameter is less than 100.mu. and the fiber length is less than 3 mm.