Carboxymethylated guar galactomannan as a sizing agent

US5612475A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien · DE

Inventors

• Hans P. Miemietz · Rheydt, DE
• Kaspar Schlueter · Solingen, DE
• Siegrid Waltenberger-Scharffetter · Breitscheid, DE
• Bernhard Wuestnienhaus · Erkelenz, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 20, 1995
• Grant date: Mar 18, 1997
• Expiry date: Dec 20, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC D): Textiles; Paper
• CPC primary: D06M2200/40
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A process for sizing natural and synthetic yarns by contacting the yarns with a sizing agent containing alkali metal salts of carboxymethyl guar galactomannan having degrees of substitution below 0.15.