Textile surface modification composition

• US 20070130694A1
• Filed: 11/15/2006
• Published: 06/14/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Milliken & Company
• Original Assignee: Milliken & Company
• Inventors: Torres, Eduardo, Valenti, Dominick, Balasca, Diana, Michaels, Emily
• Application Number:
  US11/599,737
• Publication Number:
  US 20070130694A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 8/115.510
• CPC Class Codes: C11D 1/62 Quaternary ammonium compounds
• CPC Class Codes: C11D 3/0015 liquid
• CPC Class Codes: C11D 3/0036 Soil deposition preventing compositions; Antiredeposition agents
• CPC Class Codes: C11D 3/1213 Oxides or hydroxides, e.g. Al2O3, TiO2, CaO or Ca(OH)2
• CPC Class Codes: C11D 3/1246 Silicates, e.g. diatomaceous earth
• CPC Class Codes: C11D 3/128 Aluminium silicates, e.g. zeolites C11D3/1253 takes precedence

Abstract

The invention relates to a textile surface modification composition comprising a fabric conditioner and cubic or layered (platelet) particles having a negative zeta potential, wherein the cubic or layered particles are selected from the group consisting of zeolites, aluminas, and silicas.

Claims

1. A textile surface modification composition comprising a fabric conditioner and cubic or layered platelet particles having a negative zeta potential, wherein the cubic or layered platelet particles are selected from the group consisting of zeolites, aluminas, and silicas.

2. The textile surface modification composition of claim 1, wherein the cubic or layered platelet particles comprise zeolites.

3. The textile surface modification composition of claim 1, wherein the cubic or layered platelet particles have a particle size of between 0.1 and 25 micrometers.

4. The textile surface modification composition of claim 1, wherein the cubic or layered platelet particles have a particle size between 0.1 and 15 micrometers.

5. The textile surface modification composition of claim 4, wherein the cubic or layered platelet particles have a particle size between 0.2 and 10 micrometers.

6. The textile surface modification composition of claim 5, wherein the cubic or layered platelet particles have a particle size between 3 and 10 micrometers.

7. The textile surface modification composition of claim 1, wherein the textile surface modification composition further comprises a soil release polymer selected from the group consisting of carboxyl group polymers, hydroxyl group polymers and oxyethylene group polymers.

8. The textile surface modification composition of claim 1, wherein the textile surface modification composition further comprises a fluorochemical.

9. The textile surface modification composition of claim 8, wherein the fluorochemical is selected from the group consisting of fluorinated acrylates, urethanes, and dendrimers.

10. The textile surface modification composition of claim 1, wherein the cubic or layered platelet particles are between 5 and 80 percent by weight of the textile surface modification composition.

11. The textile surface modification composition of claim 1, wherein the cubic or layered platelet particles are between 1 and 80 percent by weight of the textile surface modification composition.

12. The textile surface modification composition of claim 1, wherein the cubic or layered platelet particles are between 10 and 40 percent by weight of the textile surface modification composition.

13. The textile surface modification composition of claim 1, further comprising an antimicrobial agent.

14. The process of applying a textile surface modification composition comprising:

washing fabric with a detergent and water;

adding the textile surface modification composition of claim 1 to a rinse cycle; and

,

removing the water from the fabric.

15. The process of claim 14, wherein the textile surface modification composition is added in an amount such that the cubic or layered platelet particles are between 0.25 and 4% by weight of the fabric.

16. The process of claim 14, wherein the textile surface modification composition is added in an amount such that the cubic or layered platelet particles are between 0.012 and 4% by weight of the fabric.

17. The process of claim 14, wherein the textile surface modification composition is added in an amount such that the cubic or layered platelet particles are between 0.5 and 2% by weight of the fabric.

18. The process of claim 14, wherein an antimicrobial agent is added during the rinse cycle.

19. The process of claim 14, wherein the textile surface modification composition produces tactile modification of the treated fabric.

20. A fabric treated with the textile surface modification composition of claim 1.