Weavable textile glass strand
AssigneePPG Industries, Inc.
InventorMikhail M. Girgis
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AssigneePPG Industries, Inc.
InventorMikhail M. Girgis
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A textile strand weaveable on air jet looms is described which is a unitary bundle of glass fibers having on their surface the dried residue of an aqueous dispersion having at least one wax that is a solid at ambient temperatures and is in a solid-in-water dispersion (emulsion) present in an amount of at least 45 percent and up to around 90 percent of the dispersion, but always as the predominant component of the nonaqueous components of the composition. The dispersion also has on a weight percent basis of the nonaqueous components a cationic lubricant, at least one lubricating material such as high molecular weight polyols, polyalkylene polyols, and glycols wherein each of the lubricating materials are present in an amount less than the amount of the wax. The aqueous dispersion may also have poly(vinylpyrrolidone) and one or more organofunctional alkoxysilane coupling agents or their hydrolysis products.
Wound, weaveable and twisted textile glass fiber strand that is a unitary bundle of a multiplicity of glass fibers having thereon the heat or solvent cleanable, dried residue of an aqueous nonstarch, forming size composition that is an aqueous dispersion at ambient temperatures followed by subsequent drying without the addition of other chemical compounds, wherein on a weight basis the aqueous nonstarch, forming size composition, comprises:
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