Milliken + Co

Other

Sage Automotive Interiors, Inc.

Xinggao Fang

Yunzhang Wang

Daniel Taylor McBride

Michelle Purdy

Sidney S Locke, Jr

Dominick Joseph Valenti

William C Kimbrell, Jr

Jason G Chay

Paul A Maclure

Nathan B Emery

Heather Jean Hayes

James Travis Greer

Shannon Williams

Wiliam C Kimbrell, Jr

Kim Sasser

Flame resistant fabrics of suitable strength and comfort level for use in apparel applications. The fabrics incorporate yarns utilizing specific blends of (A) halogen containing fibers, (B) silica embedded cellulosic fibers and (C) strength imparting synthetic fibers.

Flame resistant textile

The present invention relates generally to substrates that exhibit useful, auto adaptable surface energy properties that depend on the environment of the substrate. Such surface energy properties provide relatively high advancing and receding contact angles for liquids when in contact with the target substrate surface. The substrates exhibit low surface energy quantities of at most about 20 millijoules per square meter (mJ/m) at a temperature of about 25 degrees C. and a surface energy greater than about 20 mJ/mat, or with exposure to, a temperature of about 40 degrees C. More specifically, encompassed within the present invention are textile substrates having this highly desirable unique surface energy modification property and which exhibit wash durable oil and water repellency and stain release features. Novel compositions and formulations that impart such surface energy modifications to substrates are also encompassed within this invention, as well as methods for producing such treated substrates.

Wash-durable, liquid repellent, and stain releasing cotton fabric substrates

Certain chemical compositions provide superior repellency, durability, and soil (stain) release properties when applied to a textile or fabric. Compositions may contain a fluorochemical-containing soil release component or a crosslinking component, or both, and also may contain an antimicrobial agent. In some applications, the crosslinking component may be hydrophobic, so as to be generally not compatible with aqueous environments. Compositions having less than about 6 weight percent of a fluorochemical-containing soil release component, based upon the weight of the treating composition, may be employed in some applications.

Treated textiles

Wash-durable, liquid repellent, and stain releasing polyester fabric substrates

Treated textiles and compositions for treating textiles

Certain compositions provide excellent repellency, durability, and soil/stain release properties when applied to a textile or fabric. Such compositions may include: a repellent component, a hydrophilic resin component, a soil release component; and a crosslinking component. A method for applying such compositions to textiles also is disclosed.

Compositions and methods for treating a textile using such compositions

Wash-durable fluorochemical-containing textile and/or fiber treatments that simultaneously impart soil resistance (or soil-release) properties and moisture wicking characteristics to target fabric substrates are provided. Such treatments surprisingly impart these two simultaneous effects to target fabrics and/or fibers because fluorochemicals generally provide moisture repellency rather than moisture wicking capabilities. As prior soil release/moisture wicking treatments do not function properly, or, alternatively, compromise hand or other properties of certain target textiles after treatment application, a new, effective, soil release/moisture wicking formulation for such purposes was needed. The inventive treatment is extremely durable on such fabric substrates; after a substantial number of standard launderings and dryings, the treatment does not wear away in any appreciable amount and thus the substrate retains its soil release/moisture wicking properties. The method of adherence to the target yarn, fiber, and/or fabric may be performed any number of ways, most preferably through the utilization of a jet dyeing system or through a steam-transfer method. The particular methods of adherence, as well as the treated textile fabrics and individual fibers are also encompassed within this invention.

Fluorochemical-containing textile finishes that exhibit wash-durable soil release and moisture wicking properties

Methods for imparting reversibly adaptable surface energy properties to target surfaces

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Duncan, SC, United States of America

Xinggao Fang