Abstract: Fire retardant and heat resistant yarns, fabrics, and other fibrous blends incorporate one or more fire retardant and heat resistant strands comprising oxidized polyacrylonitrile and one or more strengthening filaments such as metallic filaments (e.g., stainless steel), high strength ceramic filaments, or high strength polymer filaments. Such yarns, fabrics, and other fibrous blends have a superior tensile strength, cut resistance, abrasion resistance, LOI, TPP and continuous operating temperature compared to conventional fire retardant fabrics. The yarns, fabrics, and other fibrous blends are also more soft, supple, breathable and moisture absorbent and are therefore more comfortable to wear, compared to conventional fire retardant fabrics. The inventive yarns may be woven, knitted or otherwise assembled into a desired fabric or other article of manufacture.

Abstract: This invention is to provide yarns including fishing lines which contain ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene filaments with low elongation rate, adjustable specific gravity and excellent abrasion resistance, and to provide a method for manufacturing the same.

Abstract: The present invention is a meltblown fiber and a fabric manufactured from the fiber comprising reactor grade polypropylene having a melt flow rate of from 100 to 5000 and having less than 50 stereo defects per 1000 units. Further, the polypropylene is typically produced from a metallocene catalyzed process, the metallocene being at least one bridged 2,4 di-substituted indenyl metallocene in one embodiment, and a bridged 4-phenyl indenyl metallocene in another embodiment. The metallocene is part of a system that can include a fluorided support and a non-coordinating anion activator.

Abstract: An organic compound having an affinity for a resin of a molded resin article and sublimation properties is allowed to penetrate/disperse into the surface of the molded resin article, thereby modifying and/or coloring a resin surface layer. The molded resin article and the organic compound having the affinity for the resin and the sublimation properties are put into a tightly closable container, and the pressure and the temperature in the container are adjusted to place them in a saturated sublimation pressure state of the organic compound, whereby a vapor of the organic compound is uniformly deposited on the surface of the molded resin article and it further penetrates/disperses into the resin surface layer, and in consequence, the resin surface layer can be modified and/or colored. In addition, the modification of the resin surface layer permits imparting a function thereto.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a process for treating a fiber or a fiber-based material such as a yarn, a woven, knitted or nonwoven textile material, paper, or leather, to improve its adsorption properties, wherein the following successive operations are carried out on said fiber or said material: a) applying a solid mixture of cyclodextrin(s) and/or cyclodextrin derivative(s) and/or inclusion complex(es) of cyclodextrin and/or cyclodextrin derivatives, at least one poly(carboxylic) acid and/or at least one poly(carboxylic) acid anhydride and optionally a catalyst; b) heating to a temperature in the range 150° C. to 220° C.; c) washing with water; and d) drying. The present invention also concerns fibers or fiber-based materials with improved cation exchange properties and improved hydrophilic characteristics.

Abstract: A string binder is disclosed which is useful for making reinforcing articles for use in the manufacture of molded composite articles. The string binder comprises a fibrous substrate with a chemical treatment, applied thereto, comprising an epoxy film former, a curing agent, a thickener, and water. Additionally, the string binder may be co-roved with one or more ends of a separate fibrous pre-form material to make a product suitable for use in various molding applications.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the application of lubricant to fluoropolymer yarn which enables the yarn to be drawn at a high draw ratio and is removable by scouring, the lubricant being thermally stable at a temperature of at least 120° C., and being removable from the yarn by scouring and comprising oil and surfactant and/or wetting agent to enable the lubricant to spread over the surface of the yarn upon application to the yarn, the lubricant comprising oil such as a C6-C20 aliphatic acid ester of a polyol and a surfactant and/or wetting agent.

Abstract: Exemplary mechanically-flattened fibers of the invention comprise generally elongate bodies having varied width or thickness dimensions and micro-diastrophic surface deformities. Preferred fibers are elongate synthetic polymer or multipolymer blend fibers for reinforcing matrix materials such as concrete, shotcrete, gypsum-containing materials, asphalt, plastic, rubber, and other matrix materials. Preferred methods for manufacturing such fibers comprise subjecting synthetic polymer fibers to compressive forces sufficient to achieve flattening and surface micro-diastrophism without substantially shredding and abrading the fibers.

Abstract: A composite article is formed from yarn, comprising high strength fibres and fusible blocking material, and outer fusible material. The yarn is formed into its required shape and placed in a mould. The outer fusible material is introduced into the mould and its temperature is raised so as to melt the lower-melt temperature blocking fibres of the yarn. Under the action of temperature and pressure in the mould, the blocking material fuses so as to fill any interstices between the strength fibres, and the yarn is enclosed within the outer fusible material. The method is useful for forming electrical insulators of high strength glass fibre in the form of a loop (4) blocked against flow of moisture by polypropylene and enclosed within non-tracking polyethylene electrically insulating material (6).

Abstract: Fibers such as caustic-treated non-round polyester fibers are prepared having certain lubricants strongly adhered to the surfaces thereof. These fibers are prepared by contacting the fibers, such as immediately prior to a crimping means, with a suitable heated hydrophilic lubricant in a processing operation followed by heating to dry or "bake" the lubricant onto and/or into the surface of the fibers.

Abstract: Described are aramid fibers with a spin finish comprisingA) a compound of the formula I and/or IIR.sup.1 --COO--(R.sup.2 --O).sub.x --R.sup.3 (I)R.sup.3 --(O--R.sup.2).sub.x --OOC--R.sup.4 --COO--(R.sup.2 --O).sub.x --R.sup.3 (II)and B) a compound of the formula III ##STR1## where R.sup.1 is alkyl or alkenyl having eight to eighteen carbon atoms, x is an integer from four to twenty, R.sup.2 is butylene, propylene or ethylene, R.sup.3 is hydrogen or C.sub.1 -C.sub.22 -alkyl or C.sub.2 -C.sub.22 -alkenyl, R.sup.4 is alkylene or alkenylene having eight to eighteen carbon atoms, R.sup.5 is alkyl or alkenyl having eight to eighteen carbon atoms, R.sup.6 and R.sup.7 are each alkyl having one to twelve carbon atoms, and R.sup.8 is alkylene having one to four carbon atoms. The aramid fibers are usable in particular in the production of textile sheet materials by intermingling, twisting, braiding or folding.

Abstract: A varnish-coated electric wire includes cured coatings of polybenzimidazole. The polybenzimidazole coatings are cured utilizing a polymerization initiator. The varnish-coated electric wire has a high heat-resistance.

Abstract: A polyester tire cord is produced from a polyester multi-filamentary yarn having a novel internal microstructure containing crystalline, amorphous and mesomorphous portions which are changed to a definite structure of crystalline and amorphous portions during formation of the tire cord. A polyester resin containing at least 90 mol % polyethylene terephthalate is melt-spun and solidified by quenching to produce an undrawn yarn with a birefringence of 0.03 to 0.08, which is then drawn at a total draw ratio of 1.4:1 to 2.2:1 and thermally treated and relaxed. The resulting filamentary yarn is dipped in a rubber solution to produce a tire cord which exhibits excellent dimensional stability and fatigue resistance when it has been incorporated into a rubber matrix of a tire.

Abstract: The present invention provides a flammability multifilament yarn comprising a polyester formed from dicarboxylic acid and diol components which contains, in the polymer chain, units of the formula I ##STR1## where R is a saturated open-chain or cyclic alkylene, arylene or aralkylene radical, andR.sup.1 is an alkyl radical of up to 6 carbon atoms or an aryl or aralkyl radical,wherein the yarn has a tenacity of at least 65 cN/tex, a total burn time, when made into a loomstate cloth and subjected to the flammability test of DIN 4102/B2, which is at least 5 times shorter than that of a comparable loomstate cloth composed of non-phosphorus-modified polyester, and wherein the yarn has no afterburning on 3 and 15 sec flaming according to DIN 54336 and 3 sec flaming according to DIN 54333.

Abstract: Thermosetting powder coatings are provided which comprise a high epoxide equivalent weight epoxy resin or mixture of epoxy resins, a cure catalyst for the epoxy resin, an acrylic resin and a polyamide resin. These powder coatings are useful for forming corrosion resistant, essentially crack-free coatings on metal cable, especially cable which is subjected to post-tensioning.

Abstract: A conjugate fiber obtained by melt spinning (A) a crystalline poly-.alpha.-olefin and (B) an ethylene copolymer containing from 40 to 95% by weight of an ethylene unit and from 5 to 60% by weight of at least one dialkylaminoalkylacrylamide comonomer unit represented by formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 each represents an alkyl group having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms; and n represents an integer of from 2 to 5, said ethylene copolymer having a melt index of from 10 to 1000 g/10 min as measured according to JIS K-6760, either by aligning the components (A) and (B) in parallel or by aligning the component (A) as a core and the component (B) as a sheath. The conjugated fiber is excellent in thermal adhesion, absorptivity by an acid aqueous solution, and dyeability and can easily be fabricated into a nonwoven fabric or nonwoven molding suited for various applications including separators of lead accumulators.