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AssigneeMilliken Research Corporation
InventorsAlonzo M. Burns, Jr., Jeffrey E. Silliman, Woodrow P. Gilbert, William M. Pascoe, Sr.
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A method for sculpturing a pile fabric, e.g., acrylic pile fabric, is provided which comprises contacting selected areas to be sculptured of the pile surface of the fabric with a sufficient amount of a sculpturing composition to provide a sculptured effect, said composition comprising: at least one lower alkylene carbonate, e.g., ethylene carbonate, propylene carbonate, etc., provided in said composition in a concentration sufficient so that said fibers may be subsequently caused to shrink to a lower energy configuration upon application of heat; said sculpturing composition further containing E-caprolactam in an amount sufficient to maintain a relatively soft hand of the shrunken pile fibers; and heating said pile fabric to a temperature sufficient to cause the pile height of said fibers in the selected areas of the pile fabric to be reduced sufficiently to provide a sculptured effect on said pile fabric.
In a process for sculpturing a pile fabric comprising at least about 80 percent by weight acrylic pile fibers with a jet dyeing apparatus including conveying means for transporting the textile, jet orifices for delivering a sculpturing composition to selected area of said pile fabric, said sculpturing composition containing at least one lower alkylene carbonate in a concentration sufficient to partially solvate the fibers of the pile in the selected areas, and control means for supplying data to control the operation of the application of the sculpturing composition by means of the jet dyeing apparatus by applying an aqueous admixture to the pile fabric in an amount sufficient to saturate the pile fabric, applying the sculpturing composition to the areas of the textile fabric to be provided with a sculptured effect, and recovering a resulting sculptured textile fabric, the improvement comprising incorporating E-caprolactam into the sculpturing composition in an amount of at least about 3 weight percent.
In a process for sculpturing a pile fabric comprising at least about 80 percent by weight acrylic pile fibers which includes the steps of applying a sculpturing composition to selected areas of the pile fabric to be sculptured, said sculpturing composition containing at least one lower alkylene carbonate in an amount sufficient to cause said fibers to shrink to a lower energy configuration upon application of heat, heating the textile material to which the sculpturing composition has been applied at a temperature effective to result in shrinking of the pile fibers to which said sculpturing composition has been applied;
A method for sculpturing a pile fabric wherein the pile fibers comprise at least 80 percent by weight acrylic fibers which comprise selectively contacting the pile surface of the pile fabric with a sculpturing composition, said composition containing at least one lower alkylene carbonate in a concentration sufficient so that said fibers may be subsequently caused to shrink to a lower energy configuration upon application of heat;
A method for sculpturing an acrylic pile upholstery fabric which comprises selectively contacting the pile surface of the fabric with a sculpturing composition, said composition comprising at least one lower alkylene carbonate selected from ethylene carbonate, propylene carbonate, and mixtures of ethylene and propylene carbonate in an amount sufficient to cause said fibers to shrink to a lower energy configuration upon application of heat;
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