E.i. Dupont De Nemours and Company

Perry H Lin

Sundar M Rao

Peter R Witt

George Arvid Fernstrom

Ketan G Shridharani

Craig A Jackson

Harold H Hebeler

Robert R Moneymaker

Michael T Goodall

Harry Vaughn Samuelson

Yanhui Sun

Frederick S Dickson, Iii

Norvel W Orendorf

Filament having a quadrilobate exterior cross-section and a four-sided void

A synthetic polymer filament is characterized by a trilobal void that extends centrally and axially through the filament. Each apex of the void extends toward the approximate midpoint of one side of the exterior configuration of the filament. The trilobal void has a modification ratio in the range from about 1.4 to about 3.0 and occupies from about five percent (5%) to about thirty percent (30%) of the cross sectional area of the filament. At a given constant void percentage a decrease of modification ratio increases the degree of sparkle. A spinneret plate for producing the thermoplastic synthetic polymer filament has a cluster of three generally arrow-shaped orifices centered about a central point. Each orifice is defined by a first and a second outer leg joined together at a pointed end directed away from a central point of the cluster. Each orifice has a central leg extending from the jointure of the outer legs toward the central point of the cluster. Each outer leg has a free end thereon which is spaced from the free end of an outer leg of an adjacent orifice to define a gap therebetween.

Filament having a trilobal cross-section and a trilobal void

Fine denier filaments having a high elongation at break of a blend polypropylene and polystyrene are made by forming an intimate blend using a twin screw extruder and then spinning the blend.

Process for preparing low denier filaments with high elongation and

Triangular thermoplastic polymer filaments having 3 or 3 pair axially extending voids located along the convex sides of the filament and spinneret plates for producing such filaments.

Filament having a triangular cross-section and 3 or 6 axially extending

This invention relates to an improved process for making colored polyamide fibers. The process involves adding about 0.1 to about 3.0 weight percent polycarbonate to a polyamide melt prior to extruding the melt through a spinneret to make colored fibers. The invention also encompasses the resultant fibers.

Method for preparing colored polyamide fibers which contain

Sheath-core polyamide filaments are disclosed which are resistant to staining by coffee and acid dyes common in food and beverages. The sheath component is comprised of a partially aromatic or high carbon polyamide. The core component may be nylon 66, nylon 6 or copolymers thereof. Textile articles made from these sheath-core filaments are also disclosed.

Polyamide sheath-core filaments with reduced staining by acid dyes and

Polyamide pigment dispersion

Continuous synthetic filaments having a four sided cross-sectional contour and four substantially equispaced continuous voids are disclosed. The voids have a substantially round or nonround shape, and each void is substantially centered on a side of the filament's contour.

Hollow filament cross-sections containing four continuous voids

A yarn bulking jet has a particular arrangement of the yarn passage through the jet and the two fluid conduits for directing fluid to opposite sides of the yarn passing through the passage is capable of providing control for entangling the yarn by increasing or decreating fluid flow in one of the two fluid conduits.

Yarn treating jet

An improved process for melt spinning a pigmented hexamethylene adipamide fiber from a melt blend of a polymer and a colored pigment wherein the polymer is a random interpolyamide or a block polymer having two different difunctional recurring amide-forming moieties other than those which form hexamethylene adipamide is disclosed along with pigmented hexamethylene adipamide polymer fibers having tenacities greater than 7.5 or even 8 grams per denier.

Processing of pigmented nylon fibers using modified polymers

A carpet yarn containing continuous synthetic filaments having a four sided cross-sectional contour and four substantially equispaced continuous voids are disclosed. The voids have a substantially round or nonround shape, and each void is substantially centered on a side of the filament's contour.

Carpet yarn having hollow filament cross-sections containing four

An improved process for melt-spinning a pigmented hexamethylene adipamide fiber from a melt blend of a polymer and a colored pigment wherein the polymer is a random interpolyamide or a block polymer having two different difunctional recurring amide-forming moieties other than those which form hexamethylene adipamide is disclosed along with pigmented hexamethylene adipamide polymer fibers having tenacities greater than 7.5 or even 8 grams per denier.

A process wherein freshly-spun, undrawn, nonconductive filaments are combined with one or more spin-oriented, conductive filaments having a nonconductive component made from a major portion of nonconductive, fiber-forming polymeric material and a minor amount of polystyrene, the combined fibers being drawn and co-bulked to produce an anti-static yarn. The conductive filaments used in this process have higher elongations to break, and carpets tufted from the yarns of the process show improved anti-static properties.

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Seaford, DE, United States of America

Perry H Lin