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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 04, 1977
Filed:
Jul. 26, 1973
Applicant:
Inventors:
Burnett H Johnson, Baytown, TX (US);
Terrence Huff, Baytown, TX (US);
Assignee:
Exxon Research and Engineering Company, Linden, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D06B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
81155 ; 162146 ; 1621 / ; 264 83 ; 264148 ; 264184 ; 8DIG / ;
Abstract
A nonwoven mat of polyolefin fiber is contacted with a gaseous sulfur dioxide-chlorine mixture to sulfo-chlorinate the surface of the polyolefin fibers to a relatively high sulfur content and then preferably treated with an amine, either after compacting the mat or before compacting the mat to form a structure suitable as a battery separator. The mat can be used for other structures besides battery separators. And it can be separated into individually wettable staple fibers before compaction, i.e. individual separate fibers which are wettable.