Inventors:
Michael L. McAbee - Cataula GA
Donald H. Shomake - Buford GA
Assignee:
Exxon Chemical Patents, Inc. - Linden NJ
International Classification:
B32B 2300
Abstract:
This invention is to a process for sizing spun cotton yarns, especially dyed spun cotton yarns. The process entails treating a cotton-containing yarn with a solution polyacrylamide polymer. The use of this polymer system with a spun cotton yarn has been discovered both to overcome the previous excessive brittleness which had precluded use of polyacrylamide polymers as a size and to produce a fabric which can be overdyed without prior removal of the size.