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Treatment of cellulosic materials

US3993640A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateDec 9, 1974
Grant dateNov 23, 1976
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Expiry dateDec 9, 1994

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC D)Textiles; Paper
  • CPC primaryD21H17/07
  • WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

The present invention provides compositions for treating cellulosic materials, and in particular for sizing paper or waterproofing textiles with a reactive agent. The reactive agent is a cyclic imide substituted by an aliphatic hydrophobic group and N-substituted by an electron-withdrawing group. Preferably, the composition contains a non-aromatic cyclic imide N-substituted by a long chain acyl group, e.g. N-stearoyl-4-cyclohexene-1,2-dicarboximide. Aqueous emulsions of the imides preferably contain a retention aid such as acrylamides and may be used particularly suitably to size aqueous paper pulp even under mildly alkaline conditions.

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