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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 1985
Filed:
Jul. 02, 1984
John Y Daniels, Pineville, NC (US);
Springs Industries, Inc., Fort Mill, SC (US);
Abstract
A method of printing textile fabrics, especially precolored fabrics of relatively dark shades, wherein a printing paste containing pigments and a heat curable binder is applied to selected areas of the fabric and the printing paste is thereafter dried and cured, said method being characterized by obtaining washfast, opaque printed areas substantially unaffected by the color of the underlying yarns, and by achieving high chroma, even on relatively dark background shades, said method comprising applying to the fabric an aqueous printing paste having a total solids content of at least 25 percent and comprising an aqueous dispersion containing a curable polymer binder, an opacifier containing at least one opaque pigment with minimal tinctorial value and a refractive index of less than 1.8, and at least one additional pigment for imparting a desired tinctorial value to the printing paste, and wherein the printing paste is applied to the fabric in an amount sufficient to form in the dried and cured fabric a washfast, opaque film-like pigmented coating penetrating each yarn and individually encapsulating and coating exposed fibers present at the surface of the yarns and hiding the underlying color thereof.