Bayer Aktiengesellschaft

Hans Wilsing

Alfred Nogaj

Ralf Miessen

Gunter Lorenz

Helmut Miller

Fritz Schultze-Gebhardt

High-shrinkage stretch-broken tows of acrylonitrile polymers are obtained by fixing with saturated steam at maximum temperatures of 140.degree. C. after drawing and before stretch breaking and stretch breaking at a draft of at least 30%.

Process for the production of highly shrinkable split tows of

The invention relates to gloss-stable modacrylic fibres and filaments comprising 50 to 84% of acrylonitrile, 15 to 48% of vinylidene chloride and 2 to 5% of an olefinically unsaturated sulphonic acid or salt thereof, all percentages being by weight, having a shrinkage in boiling water of at most 0.3%, a reduction in density on treatment with boiling water of no more than 0.015 g/cc and a scattered light component after boiling of at most 35 units compared with a BaSO.sub.4 standard of 1000 units, the increase brought about by treatment with boiling water amounting to no more than 30 units as well as to a process for their production.

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Dormagen, Germany

Hans Wilsing