Process for coloring glass fabrics

Claim 1

A PROCESS FOR COLORING GLASS FIBER FABRICS HAVING RELATIVELY TIGHTLY AND LOOSELY CONSTRUCTED SURFACES, WHICH COMPRISES FORMING A PADDING BATH CONTAINING AT LEAST 77% BY WEIGHT OF LIQUID, FROM 0.005% TO 5% BY WEIGHT OF A CATIONIC FLOCCULATING AGENT FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF DEACETYLATED C HITIN; POLYALKYL-POLYAMINES; POLYALKYL-POLYAMINE FATTY ACID REACTION PRODUCTS; AMINO ALDEHYDE CONDENSATE DYE-FIXATIVES; METHYLCHLORIDE QUATERNARY OF THE STEARIC ACID AMIDE OF 1-(2-AMINOETHYL) 2-HEPTADECENYL-2-IMIDAZOLINE; FLUID OIL IN WATER TYPE EMULSIONS OF LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT POLYETHYLKENE CHAMNICALLY STABILIZED WITH A CATIONIC AMINE ACETATE DERIVATIVE OF A LONG CHAIN FATTY COMPOUND; DICYANDIAMINE FORMALDEHYDE DYE FIXATIVES; COLLOIDAL CATIONIC THERMO-SETTING RESINOUS REACTION PRODUCTS OF STRAIGHT CHAIN POLY-FUNCTIONAL AMINES AND AN ALDEHYDE; AND A MIXTURE OF SUCH AGENTS, FROM 0.02% TO 5% BY WEIGHT OF ANIONIC PIGMENT PARTICLES AND BINDER FOR SAID PIGMENT PARTICLES, THE AMOUNT OF SAID CATIONIC FLOCCULATING AGENT WITHIN SAID RANGE BEING SUFFICIENT TO EFFECT THE FLOCCULATION OF AT LEST A SUBSTANTIAL PROPORTION OF SAID PIGMENT PARTICLES, MAINTAINING THE SOLID CONSTITUENTS OF SAID BATH INCLUDING THE FLOCCULATED PIGMENT PARTICLES SUSPENDED AND UNIFORMLY DISPERSED THROUGHOUT SAID BATH, PADDING THE GLASS FIBER FABRIC THROUGH SAID BATH TO DEPOSIT THE FLOCCULATED PIGMENT PARTICLES PREFERENTIALLY ON THE LOOSELY CONSTRUCTED SURFACES LEAVING THE TIGHTLY CONSTRUCTED SURFACES SUBSTANTIALLY FREE OF SAID FLOCCULATED PIGMENT PARTICLES, AND THERAFTER HEATING THE FABRIC TO CAUSE THE BINDER TO BOND THE FLOCCULATED PIGMENT PARTICLES TO THE LOOSELY CONSTURCTED SURFACES TO PRODUCE CONTRASTING TONAL EFFECTS ON THE RESPECTIVE TIGHTLY CONSTRUCTED AND LOOSELY CONSTRUCTED SURFACES OF SAID GLASS FIBER FABRIC.