Printing compositions and textiles coated therewith

Claim 1

AN AQUEOUS TEXTILE-PRINTING COMPOSITION CONSISTING OF COLORING MATTER DISPERSED IN A VEHICLE COMPRISING (1) A THICKENED AQUEOUS PHASE THE THICKENING AGENT BEING SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF (A) A WATER-SOLUBLE SALT OF THE COPOLYMER OF 100 PARTS ACRYLIC ACID WITH 1 TO 2 PARTS OF OCTAALLYL SUCROSE AND (B) A WATER-SOLUBLE SALT OF THE PATRIALLY CROSSLINKED COPOLYMERS OF ETHYLENE AND MALEIC ANHYDRIDE HAVING VISCOSITIES OF 40,000-160,000 CENTIPOISES AT 25*C. WHEN MEASURED IN A 1% BY WEIGHT SOLUTION IN DIMETHYL FORMAMIDE, (2) A BUTADIENE-ACRYLONITRILE LATEX BINDER IN WHICH THE POLYMER CONTAINS A SMALL AMOUNT OF CARBOXYLIC ACID GROUPS, (3) AREACTIVE DISPERSANT COMPRISING A METHYLOLATED COPOLYMER OF A MAJOR PROPORTION OF ETHYL ACRYLATE, A LESSER PORTION OF LAURYL METHACRYLATE, A LESSER PORTION OF ACRYLAMIDE, AND A MINOR AMOUNT OF METHACRYLIC ACID, (4) A CROSS-LINKING AGENT SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF TRIS-AZIRINDINYL PHOSPHINE OXIDES AND THE HEXAMETHYL ETHER OF HEXAMETHYLOL MELAMINE, (5) A VISCOSITY CONTROL AGENT SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF AMMONIUM CARBONATE, AMMONIUM BICARBONATE, A MIXTURE OF AN ALKALI METAL CHLORIDE WITH DIAMMONIUM PHOSHATE, A MIXTURE OF AN ALKALI METAL CHLORIDE WITH AMMONIUM NITRATE, A MIXTURE OF AMMONIUM ACETATE WITH AMMONIUM HYDROXIDE, A MIXTURE OF DIAMMONIUM PHOSPHATE WITH AMMONIUMHYDROXIDE, AND A MIXTURE OF AMMONIUM NITRATE WITH AMMONIUM HYDORXIDE, AND (6) A MAJOR PROPORTION OF WATER.