Treatment of fibres

Claim 1

A PROCESS FOR THE TREATMENT OF KERATINOUS FIBRES WHICH COMPRISES APPLYING THERETO FROM 0.1 TO 10% BY WEIGHT, BASED ON THE WEIGHT OF THE FIBERS, OF A COMPOSITION COMPRISING THE PRODUCT OBTAINED BY MIXING (A) A POLYDIORGANOSILOXANE HAVING TERMINAL SILICON-BONDED HYDROXYL RADICALS AND MOLECULAR WEIGHT OF AT LEAST 750, AT LEAST 50 PERCENT OF THE ORGANIC SUBSTITUENTS PRESENT IN THE POLYDIORGANOSILOXANE BEING METHYL RADICALS, ANY OTHER RADICALS BEING MONOVALENT HYDROCARBON RADICALS HAVING FROM 2 TO 30 CARBON ATOMS, ((B) UP TO 50 PARTS BY WEIGHT PER 100 PARTS (A) OF AN ORGANOSILICON COMPOUND SELECTED FROM THE THE GROUP CONSISTING OF ORGANOSILANES OF THE GENERAL FORMULA RSIR''NX3-N WHEREIN R REPRESENTS A MONOVALENT RADICAL OF LESS THAN 21 CARBON ATOMS COMPOSED OF CARBON, HYDROGEN, NITROGEN AND, OPTIONALLY, OXYGEN, WHICH RADICAL CONTAINS AT LEAT TWO AMINE GROUPS AND IS ATTACHED TO SILICON THROUGH A SILICON TO CARBON LINKAGE, R'' REPRESENTS A RADICAL HAVING LESS THAN 19 CARBON ATOMS SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF ALKYL RADICALS AND ARYL RADICALS, EACH X REPRESENTS AN ALKOXY RADICAL HAVING FROM 1 TO 14 INCLUSIVE CARBON ATOMS AND N IS 0 OR 1, AND PARTIAL HYDROLYSATE AND CONDENSATE PRODUCTS OF SAID ORGANOSILANES, AND (C) IN AMOUNT FROM THAT SUFFICIENT TO SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE THE TIME AND TEMPERATURE REQUIRED TO CURE THE COMPOSITION TO 20 PARTS BASED ON THE WEIGHT OF (A) AND (B) OF AN ORGANOSILICON COMPOUND SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF (I) SILANES OF THE GENERAL FORMULA R"MSIZ4-M WHEREIN R" REPRESENTS A SUBSTITUENT SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF HYDROGEN ATOMS, MONOVALENT HYDROCARBON RADICALS HAVING FROM 1 TO 18 CARBON ATOMS AND MONOVALENT HALOGEN HYDROCARBON RADICALS HAVING FROM 1 TO 18 CARBON ATOMS, Z REPRESENTS A RADICAL SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF ALKOXY RADICALS AND ALKOXYALKOXY RADICALS HAVING FROM 1 TO 4 INCLUSIVE CARBON ATOMS AND M IS 0 OR 1, AND (II) PARTIAL HYDROLYSATES AND CONDENSATES OF (I), AND THEREAFTER CURING THE APPLIED COMPOSITION.