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US 5,405,644 AGranted
Process for producing antimicrobial fiber
AssigneeToagosei Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.
InventorsShuichi Ohsumi, Hideki Kato
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Abstract
A process for producing an antimicrobial fiber having a silver-containing inorganic microbicide characterized by using a treating solution for producing said fiber which contains a discoloration inhibitor represented by the following general formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is hydrogen or a lower alkyl group and R.sup.2 is hydrogen or an alkali metal.
Claims8
In a process for producing an antimicrobial fiber incorporating a silver-containing inorganic microbicide, comprising a step of passing said fiber through a liquid treating solution, the improvement wherein
- said liquid treating solution contains a discoloration inhibiting effective amount of a discoloration inhibitor of the formula:
- ##STR4## wherein R.sup.1 is hydrogen or a lower alkyl group and R.sup.2 is hydrogen or an alkali metal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.