Abstract: The present invention relates to a process of fabric cleaning utilizing a solvent emulsion which effectively combines the dissolving and suspending power of water for hydrophilic substances with the dissolving power of organic compositions for hydrophobic substances. The factor lending economic practicability to the process is the breaking of the emulsion after it has performed its cleaning function whereby only the organic fraction thereof undergoes distillation cleansing.

Abstract: Acrylic homopolymers and copolymers are being used in laundering operations to impregnate fabrics to render them soil and stain resistant. In finely divided form these acrylic resins are extremely dusty. Dedusting agents for acrylic resins and dustless compositions are disclosed which are suitable for fabric impregnation during laundering.

Abstract: In a process for producing polyethylene terephthalate yarn wherein a liquid finish is applied to the yarn, said process involving spinning and drawing steps, the improvement comprising first applying to the yarn prior to said drawing step a liquid finish composition consisting essentially of a polyalkylene glycol compound which is a mixed polyoxyethylated-polyoxypropylated monoether prepared in accordance with the equation: ##STR1## where R is an alkyl group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms, x and y are the number of moles of propylene oxide and ethylene oxide respectively and wherein ethylene oxide comprises 40 to 60 percent by weight of the combined total of ethylene oxide and propylene oxide and x+y has a value to produce a molecular weight of from 300 to 1,000, and then applying to said yarn after said drawing step a liquid finish composition consisting essentially of about 70 to 95 parts by weight of said mixed polyoxyethylated-polyoxypropylated monoether, about 5 to 30 parts by weight of a silane having the s

Abstract: Novel polyacetal polymers are presented. The polymers provide outstanding renewable soil release, anti-soil redeposition and anti-static properties when applied to natural and synthetic textile substrates, especially textile substrates containing polyester fibers.

Abstract: A fabric coating composition, including a polymer having a glass transition temperature above room temperature, an ionic fluorinated surfactant and a carrier. The preferred fluorinated surfactants have 5 to 30 carbons per hydrophylic end and include fluoro ether surfactants having radicals of the formula (CF.sub.3).sub.2 CFOCF.sub.2 CF.sub.2 -- or fluoroalkyl surfactants having radicals of the formula CnF.sub.2n+1 -- where n is 6 to 12. The polymer may be dissolved or, preferably, emulsified by an emulsifier to form a latex. The polymer is preferably applied to fabric at a rate giving a dry solids content of about 0.25 to 10%, to give dry soil resistance.

Abstract: New organosilicon compounds which are suitable for use in finish compositions for treatment of textile fibers are disclosed. The silicone oils disclosed contain aryloxy and polyether groups and possess excellent thermal stability, compatibility with other substances and antistatic effects. Finish compositions containing the novel silicon compounds of the present invention are also disclosed.

Abstract: Yarn finishes, particularly of the coning oil type, containing a hydrocarbon soluble, long molecular chain polymeric viscosity index improver, such as polyisobutylene, and an alkoxylated polysiloxane are disclosed.

Abstract: Detergent active materials which are effective in the absence of phosphate builders comprise ring polysulfonated alkylphenoxy alkylols of the formula: ##STR1## in which R is linear alkyl of 16 to 22 carbon atoms, R" is alkylene of 1 to 5 carbon atoms, X is H or a water-soluble salt-forming cation, and m is an integer of 1 to 10.

Abstract: A composition for softening fabrics or hair consisting essentially of an aqueous solution or dispersion containing 3 to 20 weight percent of a cationic amine derivative capable of softening fabrics or hair and 0.005 to 1.0 weight percent of a polyoxyalkylene derivative obtained by reacting an adduct of 20 to 300 moles of ethylene oxide, propylene oxide or mixture thereof to a monohydric alcohol, a monothiolmercaptan or an alkylphenol having from 12 to 26 carbon atoms with from 0.5 to 5 equivalents of a diepoxide, per one equivalent of said adduct.

Abstract: Process for the even dyeing of synthetic fiber materials and mixtures thereof with natural fibers with water-insoluble disperse dyes according to the exhaustion method, which comprises adding to the dyebath as levelling agents linear water-soluble, or dispersible polyesters containing sulfo groups.

Abstract: Secondary etheramine acetates of the formula ##STR1## in which R is alkyl or alkenyl having from 7 to 24 carbon atoms, cyclohexyl or aryl optionally substituted by alkyl, X and Y represent hydrogen or methyl, but are not both methyl at the same time, and n is an integer in the range of from 2 to 20. They are obtained by reacting secondary etheramines of the general formula ##STR2## IN WHICH R, X, Y and n are defined as above, with glacial acetic acid. These compounds are used as lubricating agents in the preparation and processing of synthetic fibers.

Abstract: A method of washing laundry which comprises admixing with laundry and wash water at a washing temperature in the tub of a washing machine, a plurality of separate units of different detergent composition components, in the range of 1 to 10 of each of said units, to produce a liquid washing medium containing 0.05% to 0.5% of an operator formulated synthetic organic detergent composition and agitating the medium for a time sufficient to remove soil from the laundry being washed, said units being of tablet, envelope, packet, capsule or other container form having a weight of 5 to 30 grams each and a volume of 4 to 20 milliliters.

Abstract: A polyoxyalkylene tetrahalophthalate ester composition is provided and the use thereof as a polyester fabric finishing agent to give the fabric durable flame retardancy, and improved water wicking ability wth no added tendency to soil. SUBACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION1. Field of the InventionThe present invention relates to a polyoxyalkylene tetrahalophthalate ester composition and the method of applying this composition to fabrics, such as 100% polyester, to give the fabrics durable flame retardancy, with no added tendency to soil, and water wicking ability. It also pertains to the finished fabric product with the polyoxyalkylene tetrahalophthalate ester thereon.2. Description of the Prior ArtPolyoxyalkylene tetrahalophthalates are known in the prior art for flame proofing materials. U.S. Pat. No. 3,775,165 (A) teaches the use of a tetrabromophthalate diester to make polyester fabric flame retardant and to improve the fabric's dyeing properties.

Abstract: Process for the treatment of cellulosic or synthetic fibres, or blends of these, to impart resilience and anti-pilling properties. The process comprises applying to the fibres a composition, especially an aqueous emulsion, containing (A) a polydiorganosiloxane in which at least two silicon-bonded substituents contain at least two amino groups, (B) a siloxane having silicon-bonded hydrogen atoms and (C) a siloxane curing catalyst.

Abstract: Basic dye compositions suitable for dyeing acid modified polyester and polyacrylonitrile fibrous articles comprise one or more finely dispersed, difficultly soluble dye complex salts composed of one or more water-soluble basic dyes and one or more dispersants capable of being ionically bonded to said basic dye. Appropriate anionic dispersants include a naphthalenesulfonic acid-formaldehyde condensate, a methylnaphthalenesulfonic acid-formaldehyde condensate, lignin sulfonic acid, and an alkyl sulfate.

Abstract: A non-staining fabric softening composition comprising sorbitan esters in combination with soaps or tallowalkyl sulfates is used to soften fabrics in an automatic dryer.

Abstract: Fabric conditioning particles comprising a hydrogenated castor oil and a fatty quaternary ammonium salt. These particles are suitable for incorporation into detergent compositions, and adhere to fabric laundered in such compositions. When the laundered fabrics are heated in a clothes dryer, the particles melt and spread uniformly on the fabrics, thus providing a fabric conditioning coating.

Abstract: A process for the manufacture of synthetic staple fibers having a marked separating capability by preparing the synthetic fibers with fatty acid-amine-condensation products, which comprises preparing or conditioning the fibers, prior to the textile spinning processes, with fatty acid-hydroxy-alkyl-ethylene-diamine condensation products, the hydroxyalkyl radical or which shows 2 or 3 carbon atoms, and 1 to 2 identical or different radicals of saturated fatty acids having from 14 to 18 carbon atoms are present per mole of hydroxy-alkyl-ethylene-diamine.

Abstract: A process for producing solutions of salts of lower aliphatic carboxylic acids of cationic dyestuffs which consists essentially of converting the halide, especially the chloride, of a cationic dyestuff into the salt of a lower aliphatic carboxylic acid by reacting the halide with the corresponding carboxylic acid in the presence of an epoxide compound having a maximum of 12 carbon atoms.

Abstract: There are disclosed oxidation stable heteric or block copolymer polyoxyalkylene compositions suitable for the treatment of thermoplastic fibers, particularly polyester and nylon fibers, prior to the processing of such fibers in conventional processes to impart false twist, or to produce textured yarn or other type yarns by mechanical heat treatment and tensioning processes. The polyoxyalkylene compounds of the invention derived from lower alkylene oxides can be initiated with a difunctional aromatic compound containing reactive hydrogens such as a dihydroxyphenol to obtain an aromatic nucleus in the polymer chain and are capped on at least one end of the chain with an alpha-olefine epoxide or mixtures thereof with at least one aliphatic monocarboxylic acid. Hydroxyl functionality can be retained on one end of the molecule.