Patent ID: 8708162
Filing Date: 2014-04-29
Classification: B01D,C09J,D04H,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A non-woven web of polymeric fibers comprising a water-insoluble binder comprised of a reaction product of a reducing sugar with an amine salt of an inorganic acid formed from an oxygenated acid as the inorganic acid selected from the group consisting of phosphoric acid, pvrophosphorie acid, phosphorus acid, sulfuric acid, sulfurous acid, nitric acid, boric acid, hypochloric acid, and chlorate acid or a non-oxygenated acid as the inorganic acid selected from the group consisting of hydrochloric acid, hydrogen sulfide, and phosphine, wherein the amine is 1,4 butanediamine or 1,6 hexanediamine.