Patent GB-588469-A (GB)
Title: Process for imparting a transparent or organdie effect to fibres or fabrics
IPC: D06Q1/02
Filed: 1945-02-20
Abstract: The process for imparting a transparent or organic effect to natural or artificial fibres, or fabrics made therefrom, according to the parent Specification is modified in that the materials are impregnated with a solution or emulsion in an organic solvent or dispersion medium of a urea-formaldehyde or amino-triazine-formaldehyde resin wholly or partially etherified with an alkyd resin, the solution or emulsion containing more than 10 per cent of the resin, after which the materials are dried and heated, the amount of resin deposited on the fibrous material being such as to result in an increase in weight of less than 50 per cent.  Fabrics may be printed with the resin solutions to p  produce transparent patterns and the fabric may be dyed before or after impregnation with the resin solution.  Alternatively, dyestuffs, e.g. Sudan Red may be incorporated in the resin solution.  Cellulosic fabrics, after treatment with the resin solution, may be dyed with acid dyestuffs, and if a bath containing both acid and substantive dyestuffs is employed, two colour effects may be obtained.  Fabrics may also be printed with coloured designs and at the same time the transparent patterns may be printed beside or over them.  The resin solution printing process may also be used in combination with pigment printing, or, alternatively, the resin treated fabric may be subsequently printed with pigments.  Shrinkable fabrics, such as cotton, may be shrunk, locally if desired, with lyes after the transparent pattern has been printed thereon.  Cr<\>zepe fabrics, under a strong tension may be printed with the resin solution, and subsequently recr<\>zeped in, for example, a soap bath.  In the examples: (1) a dyed viscose muslin fabric is impregnated with a 60 per cent solution of a mixed resin prepared by esterifying glycerine first with stearic acid and then with phthalic anhydride and etherifying the alkyd resin so obtained by boiling under reflux with hexamethylol-melamine dissolved in butanol.  The treated fabric is dried and heated at 120 DEG  C.; (2) bleached viscose rayon fabric is printed with an 80 per cent solution in butanol of a mixed alkyd-amino-triazine-aldehyde resin, to which nitro-cellulose and amyl acetate are added, and the printed fabric dried, heated at 130 DEG  C. and dyed in a bath containing substantive dyestuffs and, if desired, solubilized thiophenols. The mixed resin is prepared by esterifying glycerine first with oleic acid and then with phthalic anhydride and heating a butanol solution of the alkyd resin so obtained with hexamethylol melamine at 100 DEG  C.; (3) viscose cr<\>zepe yarn fabric is desized, bleached, dried under tension, printed with the resin solution of example (2), dried and heated at 140 DEG  C.  The unprinted ground is further cr<\>zeped in a bath of soap, a fatty alcohol sulphonate or a fatty acid condensation product; (5) bleached viscose satin is printed with a solution containing an 80 per cent solution of a mixed alkyd-urea-formaldehyde resin, tricresyl phosphate, nitrocellulose, amyl acetate, ethyl acetate and toluene, and the material dried and heated at 150 DEG  C. The mixed resin is obtained by esterifying glycerine first with stearic acid and then with phthalic anhydride and boiling under reflux a butanol solution of the alkyd resin so obtained with dimethylol urea.  Specifications 344,401, 520,579 and 538,993 are referred to.