Sized textile and method of fabricating yarn into fabric

Claim 1

A METHOD OF HANDLING A TEXTILE YARN COMPRISING HYDROPHOBIC FILAMENTARY MATERIAL COMPRISING APPLYING THERETO A READILY REMOVABLE SIZING COMPRISING A WATERDISPERSIBLE SALT OF A CATION OF THE CLASS CONSISTING OF AMMONIUM AND ALKALI METALS AND OF AN ANION OF THE CLASS CONSISTING OF COPOLYMERS CONSISTING EXCLUSIVELY OF 5 TO 20 MOLE PERCENT OF AT LEAST ONE ACID SELECTED FROM ACRYLIC AND METHACRYLIC ACIDS WITH 80 TO 95 MOLE PERCENT OF AT LEAST ONE ESTER SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF THE ACRYLATES AND METHACRYLATES OF ALIPHATIC ALCOHOLS HAVING FROM 1 TO 18 CARBON ATOMS, A SUFFICIENT PROPORTION AMOUNTING TO AT LEAST 50 MOLE PERCENT OF THE TOTAL ESTER COMPONENT OF THE COPOLYMER SALT BEING SELECTED FROM ACRYLATES OF PRIMARY AND SECONDARY ACYCLIC ALCOHOLS HAVING FROM 1 TO 18 CARBON ATOMS, METHACRYLATES OF PRIMARY AND SECONDARY ACYCLIC ALCOHOLS HAVING 6 TO 8 CARBON ATOMS, AND MIXTURES THEREOF TO IMPART TO THE COPOLYMER A KNOOP HARDNESS OF NOT OVER 7, SAID SIZING BEING APPLIED BY IMPREGNATING THE YARN WITH AN AQUEOUS DISPERSION CONTAINING ABOUT 1 TO 25% BY WEIGHT OF SAID WATER-DISPERSIBLE SALT, DRYING THE TREATED YARN THEN FABRICATING THE YARN INTO A TEXTILE MATERIAL COMPRISING INTERLOCKED YARNS, AND THEN SCOURING THE TEXTILE MATERIAL TO REMOVE THE SIZING THEREFROM.

Claim 2

A METHOD OF HANDLING A TEXTILE YARN COMPRISING HYDROPHOBIC FILAMENTARY MATERIAL COMPRISING APPLYING THERETO A READILY REMOVABLE SIZING COMPRISING A WATERDISPERSIBLE SALT OF A CATION OF THE CLASS CONSISTING OF AMMONIUM AND ALKALI METALS AND OF AN ANION OF THE CLASS CONSISTING OF COPOLYMERS CONSISTING EXCLUSIVELY OF 5 TO 20 MOLE PERCENT OF AT LEAST ONE ACID SELECTED FROM ACRYLIC AND METHACRYLIC ACIDS WITH 80 TO 95 MOLE PERCENT OF AT LEAST ONE ESTER SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF THE ACRYLATES AND METHACRYLATES OF ALIPHATIC ALCOHOLS HAVING FROM 1 TO 18 CARBON ATOMS, A SUFFICIENT PROPORTION AMOUNTING TO AT LEAST 50 MOLE PERCENT OF THE TOTAL ESTER COMPONENT OF THE COPOLYMER SALT BEING SELECTED FROM ACRYLATES OF PRIMARY AND SECONDARY ACYCLIC ALCOHOLS HAVING FROM 1 TO 18 CARBON ATOMS, METHACRYLATES OF PRIMARY AND SECONDARY ACYCLIC ALCOHOLS HAVING 6 TO 8 CARBON ATOMS, AND MIXTURES THEREOF TO IMPART TO THE COPOLYMER A KNOOP HARDNESS OF NOT OVER 7, SAID SIZING BEING APPLIED BY IMPREGNATING THE YARN WITH AN AQUEOUS DISPERSION CONTAINING ABOUT 1 TO 25% BY WEIGHT OF SAID WATER-DISPERSIBLE SALT, DRYING THE TREATED YARN THEN FABRICATING THE YARN INTO A TEXTILE MATERIAL COMPRISING INTERLOCKED YARNS, AND THEN SCOURING THE TEXTILE MATERIAL TO REMOVE THE SIZING THEREFROM.