Crompton & Knowles Corporation

Vincent W Bannigan, Jr

Alexander S Kirjanov

Michel A Herlant

This invention relates to a new process and group of products that are useful in preventing nylon and wool fibers, including carpeting and upholstery, from being permanently stained. Fibers can be permanently stained by food colors contained in foods spilled on the fiber. This new group of sulfonated phenol-formaldehyde or naphthol-formaldehyde and anionic surfactant compounds not only block the stain from the fiber but also minimizes any yellowing or discoloration of the treated fibers during the application and during the subsequent exposure to sunlight or commonly used lightfastness testing equipment.

Food color stain blocking fiber agents

This invention is directed to a method for the lightfastness enhancement of dyed nylon fibers by applying at least 10 ppm copper in the form of an alkyl, aryl, or alkyl-aryl copper sulfonate before, during, or after dyeing the nylon fibers.

Method for improving the lightfasteness of nylon dyeings using copper

The specification is directed to a method for enhancing the light fastness of dyed and undyed nylon textile fibers and to the treated fibers produced thereby. The beneficial effect is obtained by applying at least 3 parts per million colloidal phosphate to the fiber by exhaustion from an aqueous medium; the treatment being effected either before dyeing, simultaneously with or after the dye has been applied to the fiber.

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Concord, NC, United States of America

Vincent W Bannigan, Jr