FIBRE FROM ACRYLONITRILE COPOLYMERS HAVING REDUCED INFLAMMABILITY,COMPOSITIONS AND PROCESSES FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME

    公开(公告)号:ZA785873B

    公开(公告)日:1979-09-26

    申请号:ZA785873

    申请日:1978-10-18

    Applicant: SNIA VISCOSA

    Abstract: Textile fibers having reduced inflammability and high luster, constituted by copolymers of acrylonitrile, vinylidene chloride and a significantly homopolymerizable sulphonic comonomer are described. Significantly homopolymerizable comonomers are defined as monomers which homopolymerize with a conversion above 30 DEG -40 DEG under standard conditions set forth in the specification. A preferred class of such comonomers are the derivatives of acrylamidoalkanesulphonic acids, e.g. 2-acrylamido-2-methylpropane-sodium sulphonate. The fibers are spun from spinning dopes containing said copolymers in solution in organic solvent miscible with water and less than 4% of water. Said spinning dopes can be obtained by preparing a binary copolymer of acrylonitrile and the sulphonic monomer, in solution in the solvent, mixing the solution with a solution of acrylonitrile and vinylidene monomers in the same solvent, and subjecting the mixture to copolymerization. The copolymers finally obtained contain 50-85% of acrylonitrile, 13.5-46.5% of vinylidene chloride, and 1.5-3.5% of the sulphonic comonomer, the percentages being by weight.

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