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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:
Nov. 17, 1992
Filed:
Oct. 28, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
John L Greak, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
Shell Oil Company, Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
428245 ; 428260 ; 428263 ; 428265 ; 428267 ; 428289 ; 428290 ; 428913 ;
Abstract
A water repellant fabric and a process to produce that fabric is provided. The process comprises; providing a fabric substrate having sites reactive with polymeric functional groups; contacting the fabric substrate with a functional group containing polymer; removing unreacted functional group containing polymer; and recovering a water repellent fabric. The appearance, stiffness and texture of the treated fabric is similar to the untreated fabric and the hand of the treated fabric is excellent.