System for preventing static electricity on laundered textile materials
AssigneeDixie Yarns, Inc.
InventorBarbara T. Claiborne
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Abstract
A system for preventing static cling among textile materials such as clothes in a washer by using in a liquid bath containing the textile materials a static preventing member having a textile substrate or the like reacted with a static preventing material such as N-trisubstituted ammonium 2 hydroxy 3 halopropryl compounds or salts of epoxy propyl ammonium compounds such as glycidyltrimethylammonium chloride. Such static preventing members, and the methods of making and using same are included.
Claims7
A method of preventing accumulation of static electricity on textile materials which have been wetted in a bath and then tumble dried, comprising:
- providing a laundry bath with a plurality of textile materials therein,
- placing in said bath a static electricity preventing member comprising a textile substrate material reacted with a static electricity preventing material, said material comprising a compound from the group consisting of:
- a N-trisubstituted ammonium-2-hydroxy-3-halopropyl compound having the general formula ##STR3## or a salt of epoxy propyl ammonium having the general formula ##STR4## wherein X is a halogen radical, Y is chloride, bromide, sulfate or sulfonate, and the R's are methyl, ethyl, butyl or benzyl groups or an hydroxyl substituted derivative thereof,
- said static preventing member being in said bath during at least the final rinse stage of a laundering procedure,
- and then tumble drying said plurality of textile materials without the static preventing member, whereby said textile materials when thus dried do not exhibit static cling.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.