Abstract: A process for the preparation of a woven fabric of low air permeability which comprises preparing a woven fabric by use of a composite fiber of a splitting and severing type, which consists of polyester and polyamide and produces extremely fine fibers of 0.001 to 0.8 denier size, as a warp and/or a weft; treating thus obtained woven fabric by use of an aqueous emulsion of a swelling agent for polyester and nylon under the conditions where nylon is mainly allowed to swell and then shrink; scouring and dyeing the woven fabric; and after calendering the woven fabric with the use of heated rollers rotated under pressure.

Abstract: A fabric conditioning composition in solid or liquid form contains a fabric softening agent and a halite material such as sodium chlorite as a bleaching and/or germicidal agent. When in liquid form the composition may contain a stabilizing material to improve physical stability. In use, fabrics are contacted with a liquor containing the composition and the fabric and/or the liquor is irradiated with UV-light from an artificial source or from daylight.

Abstract: Textile-treatment agents which containA. 50-80% by weight of acylated alkanolamines formed from saturated or unsaturated fatty acids having 12-22 C atoms and alkanolamines containing 1 or 2 nitrogen atoms, 1-3 hydroxyl groups and 2-6 C atoms, in a molar ratio of 1:1 to 3:1,B. 10-30% by weight of water-soluble quaternary ammonium salts of the general formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 denotes an alkyl or alkenyl radical having 14-25 C atoms which is interrupted by an amide or ester groups,R.sub.2 denotes a radical such as R.sub.1 or an alkyl radical having 1-4 C atoms,R.sub.3 denotes an alkyl radical having 1-4 C atoms or an hydroxyethyl or hydroxypropyl radical,R.sub.4 denotes an alkyl radical having 1-4 C atoms or an hydroxyethyl, hydroxypropyl or benzyl radical andX.sup.(-) denotes an anion.C. 2-20% by weight of a fatty acid ester formed from saturated or unsaturated fatty acids having 12-22 C atoms or dicarboxylic acids having 4-10 C atoms and monohydric to tetrahydric alcohols having 3-20 C atoms,D.

Abstract: Textile goods containing synthetic fibers are washed and after-treated by a process wherein, as an antiredeposition agent, a copolymer is employed which contains, as copolymerized monomers,(a) from 50 to 90% by weight of one or more vinyl esters of C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 aliphatic carboxylic acids,(b) from 5 to 35% by weight of one or more N-vinyllactams,(c) from 1 to 20% by weight of one or more monomers containing basic groups, or of salts or quaternization products of these monomers, and(d) from 0 to 20% by weight of one or more further monomers which are copolymerizable with monomers (a), (b) and (c) and are free from carboxyl and basic groups,the percentages in each case being based on the sum of the monomers, with the proviso that the percentages sum to 100.

Abstract: A process by which 1-hydroxy-2-pyridinethione (pyrithione) can be deposited in cellulosic textiles in a water-insoluble form is disclosed. A polyamine is used to keep a zinc complex of pyrithione in aqueous solution prior to and during its application to textiles; when the solution also contains urea, heating fabric impregnated with the solution converts the pyrithione complex to an insoluble material. Fabric treated by the process has high bacteriostatic and fungistatic activity, and retains antimicrobial properties after repeated laundering.

Abstract: What are disclosed are improved methods for the preparation of leather wherein, in one or more steps for preparing leather from limed animal skins or hides, including beamhouse operations such as deliming, bating, pickling, and degreasing to prepare unhaired tannable hides from animal skins or hides, and including subsequent tanning, retanning, and dyeing steps performed on said unhaired tannable hides, small amounts of a high polymeric water soluble cellulose ether or of an acrylic polymer are added to at least one of the treating baths involved in such method steps as a lubricant for said skins or hides.

Abstract: The invention relates to a novel anticrease finishing composition which comprises at least(A) an O-cyanoethylated compound of the formula(1) R(O--CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 CN).sub.n,wherein R is an n-valent aliphatic, cycloaliphatic or araliphatic radical, and n is 1 to 5, and(B) a carboxylated polypropylene oxide adduct, or salt thereof, which adduct is obtainable from(a) an aliphatic diol having an average molecular weight of at most 2600,(b) an aliphatic dicarboxylic acid, or anhydride thereof, containing 4 to 10 carbon atoms,(c) an adduct of propylene oxide and an at least trihydric aliphatic alcohol containing 3 to 10 carbon atoms, and(d) a fatty acid containing 8 to 22 carbon atoms, and optionally,(C) an aliphatic alcohol containing 5 to 18 carbon atoms, a siloxane-oxyalkylene copolymer, or a mixture thereof, and/or(D) a polar solvent.The novel composition is used in dyeing or whitening textile material which contains polyester fibres.

Abstract: Stable concentrated fabric softener compositions comprising a mixture of an imidazolinium quaternary ammonium compound with a dicationic quaternary ammonium compound. Such compositions exhibit stable viscosity characteristics at both low and high ambient temperatures.

Abstract: Concentrated textile treatment compositions suitable for use in the rinse cycle of a textile laundering operation containing from 12.3% to 25% of water-insoluble cationic fabric softener or of a mixture thereof with a water-insoluble nonionic fabric softener in a weight ratio of cationic:nonionic softener of at least 2.5:1, and 0.1% to 3% of an alkoxylated amine, or ammonium derivative thereof, having the general formula I ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is C.sub.8 -C.sub.22 alkyl or alkenyl, R.sub.2 is C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl or (C.sub.n H.sub.2n O).sub.y H, where n is 2 or 3 and x, y are from 0 to 14 with (x+y) from 2 to 14. The compositions provide fabric softening/static control benefits combined with excellent storage stability and viscosity characteristics.

Abstract: Liquid textile softeners composed of an aqueous solution or dispersion of compounds of the formula I ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 denotes C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl, x and y each denote hydrogen or methyl, it being excluded, however, for x and y to denote simultaneously methyl, n is an integer of from 1 to 10, m is the integer 1 or 2, p is an integer of from 1 to 5, R.sub.2 denotes C.sub.8 -C.sub.30 alkyl and, if appropriate, other auxiliaries.

Abstract: The embroidered transfer includes a pattern embroidered with thread of one color on a substrate in a manner so that a portion of the pattern is sculptured. The pattern is at least in part colored and outlined by transfer printing a dye stuff onto the pattern in registration therewith on the warp side of the pattern. Adhesive is applied to the shuttle side of the pattern.

Abstract: The invention relates to oligomers containing structural units of the formulae ##STR1## wherein X.sub.1 is --CN, --COOR.sub.1, --OOCR.sub.2 or --CONHR.sub.3, Y.sub.1 is --COOH or --COOM.sub.2, Y.sub.2 is --CONH.sub.2, --CH.sub.2 OH, --OCH.sub.3 or --OC.sub.2 H.sub.5, each of Z.sub.1, Z.sub.2 and Z.sub.3 is hydrogen, methyl or ethyl, each of M.sub.1 and M.sub.2 is an amine cation, an ammonium cation or an alkali metal cation, and each of R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 is C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 alkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 -hydroxyalkyl or alkoxyalkyl containing altogether at most 8 carbon atoms, fatliquoring the treated leather and drying it, and, if appropriate, additionally dyeing said treated leather before or after it has been fatliquored.These oligomers are suitable for use as tanning agents in a process for retanning chrome-tanned leather.

Abstract: This invention is directed to an oiling agent for treating synthetic fibers which comprises a specified fluorine-containing ionic surfactant and a specified poly(oxyethylene-oxypropylene) ether derivative and further comprises or does not comprise a nonionic surfactant, a mineral oil and a fatty acid ester, and when the oiling agent is attached in the form of an aqueous solution or emulsion onto synthetic fibers in the production and processing steps thereof, lubricating property and antistatic property are imparted to the fibers to thereby improve the operability of the production, processing steps and the like of the fibers.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the production of anti-shrink treated wool dyeings in which wool is dyed with acid milling or metal complex dyes either before, after or between the steps of an anti-shrink treatment and, after the dyeing or the anti-shrink treatment or one of the steps of the anti-shrink treatment subsequent to the dyeing, is after-treated with a liquor containing a cationic fixing agent and a levelling/retarding agent having affinity for wool dyestuffs, and to a composition usable for such a process.

Abstract: A disperse dye composition containing:20 to 50% by weight of a water-insoluble or sparingly soluble dye; and1 to 5% by weight of a water-soluble surface active agent represented by the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is a hydrogen atom or an .alpha.-methylbenzyl group, R.sup.2 is a hydrogen atom or an .alpha.-methylbenzyl group, R.sup.3 is a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, R.sup.4 is a hydrogen atom, a methyl group or an .alpha.-methylbenzyl group, any one of l and n is 0 and the other is an integer of 7 to 20, and m is an integer of 0 to 5.

Abstract: Oligomers containing pyromellitic rings, divalent linking groups, pendant fluoroalkoxy or hydrocarbon alkoxy groups and pendant polar groups of various kinds impart soil repellency to fibers that persists after repeated laundering. An exemplary material is prepared by the reaction of pyromellitic difluoroester/diacid chloride with 1,4-butanediol (the linking group) and 3-chloro-1,2-propanediol (the pendant polar group).

Abstract: Materials for substantively preparing yarns or plied yarns, especially sewing threads and preferably those of polyester, in the form of an oil/water dispersion are disclosed. The materials contain 5 to 80 weight percent of silicone oil of a viscosity of 500 to 50,000 mm.sup.2 /sec at 25.degree. C., 10 to 80 weight percent of wax with a melting point not less than 40.degree. C., 1 to 10 weight percent of fatty acids with 6 to 22 carbon atoms, 0.4 to 12 weight percent of cationic imidazolinium salts and 0 to 10 weight percent of ethoxylated fatty amines, dissolved or dispersed in water, the sum of the components having to add up to 100 weight percent. The production of this preparation is also disclosed. The inventive preparation materials have a good and uniform substantivity and bring about uniform reduction in friction over a long length of yarn and for different speeds of the running thread.

Abstract: A process for effecting flame retardation of fibrous structures, such as fabrics, particularly fabrics made from mixtures of natural and synthetic fibers, such as cotton and nylon. The process includes the steps of contacting the fabric to be treated with halomonomers and/or inorganic salts, followed by fluorocarbon grafting, and then by photohalogenation. The aforesaid treatment results in fabrics which are not only flame resistant but also have improved hand, manifested by softness, silkiness, and unwettability of the resulting fabric.

Abstract: Described are acylated derivatives of triisobutylene defined according to the generic structures: ##STR1## wherein, in each of the molecules one of the dashed lines represents a carbon-carbon double bond and each of the other of the dashed lines represents a carbon-carbon single bond; and wherein, in each of the molecules R.sub.3 represents methyl or ethyl; uses thereof in augmenting or enhancing the aroma of perfume compositions, colognes and perfumed articles (e.g.

Abstract: This invention concerns a concentrated softening composition for textile fibers characterised in that it includes active softening agents constituted by one or several specific cationic agents representing 10 to 30% by weight of the whole composition and one or more non-ionic agents acting as emulsifying or stabilising agents for the cationic or cationics, as well as one or more solvents of the methanol, ethanol, isopropanol or glycol type, combined so as to give a concentrated solution having an appropriate consistency for storage in a flexible plastic dose and capable of being diluted in tap water by simple agitation.