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Treated glass fibers and nonwoven sheet-like mat and method
Assignee: PPG Industries Inc
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Filing: 1982-09-24
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Granted: 1984-07-03
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Expires: 2002-09-24
Abstract
Abstract Treated glass fibers are provided that are more dispersible in aqueous media. The glass fibers are treated with a composition having a nonionic surfactant and a cationic quaternary ammonium salt surfactant. The composition may be added simultaneously or sequentially with the chopped glass fibers to the aqueous media in which the glass fibers are to be dispersed. Also, glass fibers can be treated with an aqueous treating composition having the composition and produced into wet or dry chopped glass fibers having a length of about 1/16 of an inch to about 3 inches. The treated glass fibers have good dispersibility in aqueous media with or without the addition of dispersing agents.
Inventors
- 👤 Edward C. Hsu
- 👤 Chester S. Temple
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
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2026-11-01 14:17
CPC Classifications
D; D21; D21H; D21H13/00; D21H13/36; D21H13/38; D21H13/40; C; C03; C03C; C03C25/00; C03C25/10; C03C25/24; C03C25/26; C04; C04B; C04B26/00; C04B26/02; C04B26/10; C04B30/00; C04B30/02
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 15
Claim 1
Independent Claim
114 words
Method of dispersing chopped glass fibers in aqueous media, comprising: (a) adding to the aqueous media in which the glass fibers are to be dispersed about 10 to about 500 parts per million (PPM) of the aqueous media of a blend of a nonionic surfactant and cationic quaternary ammonium salt surfactant where the ratio of the nonionic to cationic surfactant is about 1 to about 99 to about 99 to about 1, and (b) adding sized or unsized chopped glass fibers to the aqueous media in an amount of about 0.001 to about 3 weight percent of the aqueous media, and (c) agitating the mixture to produce a dispersion of glass fibers in water.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
114 words
Method of dispersing chopped glass fibers in aqueous media, comprising: (a) adding to the aqueous media in which the glass fibers are to be dispersed about 10 to about 500 parts per million (PPM) of the aqueous media of a blend of a nonionic surfactant and cationic quaternary ammonium salt surfactant where the ratio of the nonionic to cationic surfactant is about 1 to about 99 to about 99 to about 1, and (b) adding sized or unsized chopped glass fibers to the aqueous media in an amount of about 0.001 to about 3 weight percent of the aqueous media, and (c) agitating the mixture to produce a dispersion of glass fibers in water.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
24 words
Method of claim 1, wherein the nonionic and cationic surfactants are used as a blend in a ratio of about 3:1 to about 1:3.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
85 words
Method of claim 1, wherein the nonionic surfactant is selected from polyoxyalkylene surfactants, alkoxylated alkyl phenols, linear substituted alkyl phenols and branch-chain substituted alkyl phenols, alkoxylated aliphatic alcohols, carboxylic esters, fatty acids esters of mono or di glycerides of fatty acids, fatty acids and/or esters of sorbitan and the polyoxyalkylene derivatives of sorbitan fatty acid esters, glycol esters of fatty acids, anhydrosorbitol esters, and alkoxylated anhydrous sorbitol esters and alkoxylated natural fats, oils and waxes, polyalkylene oxide block copolymers and polysiloxane-polyoxyalkylene copolymers and mixtures thereof.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
23 words
Method of claim 1, wherein the nonionic surfactant is a fatty ester and the cationic surfactant is a fatty metho-sulfate quaternary ammonium salt.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
113 words
Method of claim 1, wherein the cationic quaternary ammonium salt lubricating surfactant is selected from the group consisting of quaternary ammonium salts having the formula ##STR2## where one or more but not all of R, R 1 , R 2 , and R 3 can be selected from the compounds such as stearyl, tallow, cetyl, lauryl, myristyl, alkyl, alkyl with about 8 to about 18 carbon atoms, tetradecyl, dodecyl phenyl, alkyl phenyl, ixohexadecyl, and where R 1 and R 2 are lower alkyls having carbon atoms up to and including 6 or alkyl phenyls and X is an anionic group selected from chloro, fluoro, ido, bromo, hydroxyl, nitrate, sulfate, phosphate and toluene sulfonate.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
19 words
Method of claim 1, wherein the blend is added to the aqueous media before the glass fibers are added.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
17 words
Method of claim 1, wherein the blend and glass fibers are added simultaneously to the aqueous media.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
32 words
Aqueous dispersion of chopped glass fiber strands produced by the method of claim 1, where the chopped glass fibers having a length of about 1/16 of an inch to about 3 inches.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
19 words
Aqueous dispersion of claim 8, which also has dispersing agents present before the addition of the treated glass fibers.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
14 words
Aqueous dispersion of claim 8, wherein the dispersing agent is polyoxy alkylated tallow amine.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
15 words
Aqueous dispersion of claim 8, which also has hydroxy or alkoxy methyl cellulose thickening agents.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
18 words
Aqueous dispersion of claim 8, which also has thickening agents added before the addition of the glass fiber.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
10 words
Nonwoven, sheet-like mat made from the dispersion of claim 8.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
43 words
Nonwoven mat of claim 13, which is impregnated with a polymeric binder selected from the group consisting of phenol formaldehyde, melamine formaldehyde, urea formaldehyde, anionic or cationic modified phenol, melamine or urea formaldehyde, and epichlorohydrin and amino resins that have been cured together.
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