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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 1994
Filed:
Mar. 20, 1991
Yoshiteru Sando, Wakayama, JP;
Eiichi Nakano, Wakayama, JP;
Hiroshi Ishidoshiro, Wakayama, JP;
Koji Sando, Wakayama, JP;
Sando Iron Works Co., Ltd., Wakayama, JP;
Abstract
A method for bleaching a cloth comprising subjecting a cloth soaked with an aqueous bleaching solution comprising sodium chlorite to wet heat treatment at a temperature nearly to 100.degree. C., particularly subjecting a long cloth soaked with the bleaching solution to wet heat treatment continuously in an ordinary pressure wet heat treating chamber of which atmosphere being acidified to a pH of 3-4 by the use of an activation agent for making the atmosphere containing sodium chlorite acidic comprising an inorganic acid such as sulfuric acid and hydrochloric acid, an organic acid such as formic acid and acetic acid, and a carbonyl compound such as formaldehyde and acetaldehyde so as to form chlorine dioxide active for the bleaching of a cloth by the decomposition of sodium chlorite, and apparatuses for carrying out the method.