Patent ID: 6858044

Claim:
A method for the treatment of textile piece goods in rope form or tubular form by an exhaust process from aqueous liquor, comprising the steps of: providing textile piece goods; applying (P A ) water-dispersible or colloidally soluble polyamides containing hydrophilic polyalkylene glycol ether chains in the skeletal structure as wet-acting lubricants, and then applying a textile treatment agent (T) consisting essentially of (T 1 ) pre-treatment agents, (T 2 ) main treatment agents, or (T 3 ) after-treatment agents; wherein said (P A ) is made from (A 1 ) aliphatic, araliphatic diamines which contain no hydrophilic components or substituents, (A 2 ) a diamine of the average formula in which x denotes a number ≧0, y denotes a number ≧2 z denotes a number ≧1 and the sum x+y+z=3 to 100, with the proviso that y [≧x+z,] is in the range from 2(x+z) to 10(x+z), and (B 1 ) alkanedicarboxylic acids having 2 to 36 carbon atoms, aromatic dicarboxylic acids having one to three benzene rings, two of which may optionally be fused, or araliphatic dicarboxylic acids which contain 9 to 18 carbon atoms and contain one benzene ring or two optionally fused benzene rings, where aromatic rings may be bonded to further aliphatic, aromatic or araliphatic parts of the molecule, optionally via oxygen.