Sized woven glass fabric
AssigneePPG Industries, Inc.
InventorRoy R. Graham
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Abstract
A sizing composition for textile glass fibers comprising a starch, a textile softener, a lubricant and 100 to 150 percent by weight of combined nonionic wetting agents based upon the weight of said lubricant. The glass fibers sized in accordance with this sizing composition has found utility in forming untwisted yarns which are to be subsequently used for the weft of a textile glass fabric.
Claims2
A sized woven glass fabric having weft and warp portions characterized by the weft portion being composed of fiber glass yarns having thereon the dried residue of an aqueous sizing composition comprising a starch, a lubricant, a textile softener and 100 to 150 percent by weight of a nonionic wetting agent based on the weight of said lubricant, said glass fiber fabric being further characterized by having the fiber glass yarns in the weft portion untwisted.
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