Process for making paper products of improved dry strength
AssigneeCalgon Corporation
InventorsRobert Clayton Slagel, Gloria DiMarco Sinkovitz
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Abstract
Paper products exhibiting markedly improved dry strength properties are produced by adding to the cellulose paper dispersion a chitin-based compound comprising chitosan alone or a graft copolymer of certain acrylic and/or diallylic monomers grafted onto the chitosan as a substrate.
Claims1
An improved process for making paper having dry strength comprising forming an aqueous suspension of papermaking cellulosic fibers, adding to said suspension a dry strength additive, sheeting the fibers to form a web and heating the web until dry to form the paper, wherein the improvement comprises using as the dry strength additive, a graft copolymer comprising from 5 to 99.5 percent by weight of a chitosan substrate and the remainder derived from acrylamide monomer.
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