PREVENTION OF FABRILLATION OF FIBER AND FIBRILLATION PREVENTING AGENT

摘要

PURPOSE: To obtain a fibrillation prevention method and fibrillation prevention agent capable of easily preventing the fibrillation of animal or vegetable. fiber. CONSTITUTION: A compound 13 having >=2 epoxy groups and potassium hydroxide 14 are fed into hot water 12 stored in a vessel 11. The amounts of the compound 13 and the potassium hydroxide 14 are 100g and 0.5g per 1 liter of the hot water 12, respectively. Yarn 15 made of refined cellulose fiber is immersed in the hot water 12 for 90min while keeping the temperature of the hot water 12 to 80 deg.C. The hydroxyl group of the cellulose of the cellulose fiber is reacted with the epoxy group of the compound 13 by this process to form cross-linking bond between the &cellulose chains. The fibrillation of the treated fiber 15 of a clothing, etc., caused by the peeling of a part of the fiber in washing can be prevented since the cellulose molecules of the fiber are cross-linked with each other by this treatment.