Patents Examined by Clingman
  • Patent number: 4600407
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the production of swellable filaments, fibers and shaped structures of acrylic polymer, by reacting the free carboxyl groups of the filament-forming substance with substances which react in a basic manner, with water being excluded, and to swellable filaments and fibers thus obtained, which, in the dry state, have tensile strengths of more than 10 cN/tex and knot strengths of more than 6 cN/tex and which can be further processed by means of the customary textile machinery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1986
    Assignee: Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Bernd Huber