Imperial Chemical Industries Limited

Colin A Dewar

Harry Brody

Nigel W Hayman

Kevin J Artus

A method of producing a highly porous melt spun fibrous tube for use as a separation medium comprising melt spinning a blend containing from 30 to 70 parts by weight of a first polymeric component and from 70 to 30 parts by weight of a second polymeric component to form a tube having a wall consisting of interpenetrating networks of the two polymeric components and, using a suitable solvent, leaching out of the tube wall one of the two polymer networks so producing a tube having a wall comprising the other polymer network.

Method of producing porous hollow fibrous tubes

A melt spun film or tape of a thermoplastic fibre-forming polymer comprising spaced fibrils of the polymer which are substantially aligned to the longitudinal axis of the film, such aligned, spaced fibrils being interconnted to each other in a random manner.

Films and tapes

A melt spun film or tape of a thermoplastic fibre-forming polymer comprising spaced fibrils fo the polymer which are substantially aligned to the longitudinal axis of the film. Such aligned, spaced fibrils being interconnected to each other in a random manner.

A melt spun fiber or tube having two polymeric fibrous components and containing from 30 to 70 parts by weight of a first component and from 70 to 30 parts by weight of a second component, each component being present in the fiber or wall of the tube as fibrils which are substantially aligned to the axis of the fiber or tube the aligned fibrils being interconnected to each other in a random manner, the interconnections penetrating through the fibrils of the other component such that both components exist in the fiber or tube wall as interpenetrating networks.

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