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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 1988
Filed:
Jan. 20, 1987
Hiroshi Takayanagi, Ohmuta, JP;
Tadashi Kobayashi, Ohmuta, JP;
Eiji Senoue, Ohmuta, JP;
Masao Imai, Ohmuta, JP;
Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals, Incorporated, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Blue-colored bioabsorbable surgical fibers are obtained by adding and dispersing a bioabsorbable polymer, which is selected from polyglycolic acid, poly(l-lactic acid) and glycolic acid-l-lactic acid copolymers all of which are useful as surgical fibers, and indigo in a non-aqueous organic solvent having low solubility for the polymer and indigo, heating the resultant dispersion at a temperature below 120.degree. C. to distill off the solvent, thereby to obtain a master batch with the indigo incorporated therein at a high concentration, mixing and kneading the master batch with a fresh supply of the polymer, and then spinning the resultant polymer mixture.