Bath and method for the simultaneous desizing and bleaching of fabrics
AssigneeAtochem
InventorGerard Tatin
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Abstract
A bath for the simultaneous desizing and bleaching of fabrics comprising hydrogen peroxide, a sequestering agent, an amylase, a surfactant, and a buffer consisting essentially of sodium tetraborate decahydrate. Also, the method for the simultaneous desizing and bleaching a fabric comprising saturating a fabric with the above destarching and bleaching bath, maintaining the saturated fabric for a time and at a temperature sufficient to desize and bleach to the desired degree, and washing the fabric.
Claims9
A bath for the simultaneous desizing and bleaching of fabrics comprising hydrogen peroxide, a sequestering agent, an amylase, a surfactant, and a buffer consisting essentially of sodium tetraborate decahydrate.
A method for the simultaneous desizing and bleaching of a fabric comprising:
- (a) saturating said fabric with a desizing and bleaching bath comprising hydrogen peroxide, a sequestering agent, an amylase, a surfactant, and a buffer consisting essentially of sodium tetraborate decahydrate;
- (b) maintaining said saturated fabric for a time and at a temperature sufficient to desize and bleach the fabric to the degree desired;
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- (c) washing said fabric.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.