EASILY ALKALI SOLUBLE POLYESTER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME

• Main Authors: HUILGOL SANTOSH RAGHAVENDRA, JAIN ASHWIN KUMAR, MEGDE MAKARAND RENUKADAS, KESARWANI SANJAY, NAYAK SHILPA GIRISH, NADKARNI VIKAS MADHUSUDAN
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 22.07.2010
• Subjects: APPARATUS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF CARBONFILAMENTS; CHEMICAL FEATURES IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL FILAMENTS,THREADS, FIBRES, BRISTLES OR RIBBONS; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON; COMPOSITIONS OF MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; CRIMPING OR CURLING FIBRES, FILAMENTS, THREADS, ORYARNS; MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED OTHERWISE THAN BY REACTIONSONLY INVOLVING UNSATURATED CARBON-TO-CARBON BONDS; MECHANICAL FINISHING OF YARNS OR ROPES; MECHANICAL METHODS OR APPARATUS IN THE MANUFACTURE OFARTIFICIAL FILAMENTS, THREADS, FIBRES, BRISTLES ORRIBBONS; METALLURGY; NATURAL OR ARTIFICIAL THREADS OR FIBRES; ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; SPINNING; TEXTILES; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP; WARPING OR BEAMING; YARNS; YARNS OR THREADS

The present invention discloses an easily alkali soluble polyester comprising at least one dicarboxylic acid or monoesters thereof or diesters thereof; at least one diol; at least one carboxylic acid anhydride; at least one sodium or lithium based aromatic co-monomer and at least one hydroxyl terminated polyester polyol. The polyester is produced by esterifying at least one dicarboxylic acid or monoesters thereof or diesters thereof and at least one diol alongwith at least one acid anhydride at a temperature in the range of 250 to 290° C. and pressure in the range of 0 to 5 kg/cm2g; and polycondensing the esterified mixture along with at least one sodium or lithium based aromatic compound and at least one hydroxyl terminated polyether polyol at temperature in the range of 250 to 290° C. and under vacuum of 0.1 to 10 torr. The invention further discloses bicomponent filament yarns or staple fibers comprising the above easily alkali soluble polyester as one polymer component and any filament or fiber forming polymer as a second polymer component and process for producing the same.