Claims
- 1. A textile composition comprising a textile material suffused with sufficient added salt from a sol or gel composition containing a nonaqueous solvent and said salt in the form of anions, cations and colloidal salt particulates to provide at least 5 percent greater electrical conductivity to said textile composition than that of said textile composition without added salt.
- 2. The composition defined in claim 1 wherein said added salt provides at least 10 percent greater electrical conductivity.
- 3. The composition defined in claim 1 wherein said added salt provides at least 25 percent greater electrical conductivity.
- 4. The composition defined in claim 1 wherein said added salt comprises greater than about 0.1 weight percent.
- 5. The composition defined in claim 1 wherein said added salt comprises greater than 0.3 weight percent.
- 6. The composition defined in claim 1 wherein said textile material comprises a carpet material.
- 7. The composition defined in claim 1 wherein said added salt comprises greater than 0.5 weight percent.
- 8. The composition defined in claim 1 wherein said sol or gel composition has a pH less than about 4.0.
- 9. The composition defined in claim 1 wherein said added salt is dispersed in a latex of a polymer.
- 10. The composition defined in claim 1 further comprising a filler material.
- 11. The composition defined in claim 10 further comprising a frothing agent.
- 12. The composition defined in claim 10 further comprising a plasticizer.
- 13. The composition defined in claim 1 having an electrical conductivity greater than 10.sup.-10 Seimens/cm.
- 14. The composition defined in claim 1 having an electrical conductivity in the range from about 10.sup.-8 to about 10 Seimens/cm.
- 15. The composition defined in claim 1 having an electrical conductivity in the range from about 0.1 to about 10 Seimens/cm.
- 16. A textile composition comprising a textile material and a product admixture composition, said product admixture composition comprising a composition (1) containing a latex of a polymer, and (2) an added salt contained in a sol or gel composition containing at least one nonaqueous solvent, at least one stabilizer and said added salt in the form of anions, cations and colloidal salt particulates, said added salt contained in said product admixture composition in an amount sufficient to provide an antistatic property to said textile composition.
- 17. The composition defined in claim 16 wherein said sol or gel composition has a pH less than about 4.0.
- 18. The composition defined in claim 16 wherein said added salt contained in said product admixture composition is greater than about 0.05 weight percent.
- 19. The composition defined in claim 16 wherein said added salt contained in said product admixture composition is greater than about 0.10 weight percent.
- 20. The composition defined in claim 16 wherein said added salt contained in said product admixture composition is greater than about 0.5 weight percent.
- 21. The composition defined in claim 16 wherein said nonaqueous solvent comprises an ether, ester or alcohol.
- 22. The composition defined in claim 16 wherein said added salt comprises a metallic cation.
- 23. The composition defined in claim 16 wherein said stabilizer comprises a chelator or nonionic surfactant.
- 24. The composition defined in claim 22 wherein said metallic cation is selected from the group consisting of neodymium, aluminum, calcium, copper, dysprosium, lithium, magnesium, sodium, yttrium, ytterbium and zinc.
- 25. The composition defined in claim 16 wherein said added salt comprises a nonmetallic cation selected from the group consisting of ammonium, boron and silicon.
- 26. The composition defined in claim 16 wherein said sol or gel composition further comprises an acid component.
- 27. The composition defined in claim 17 further comprising a filler material.
- 28. The composition defined in claim 17 further comprising a frothing agent.
- 29. The composition defined in claim 17 further comprising a plasticizer.
- 30. The composition defined in claim 17 having an electrical conductivity greater than 10.sup.-10 Seimens/cm.
- 31. The composition defined in claim 17 having an electrical conductivity in the range from about 10.sup.-8 to about 10 Seimens/cm.
- 32. The composition defined in claim 17 having an electrical conductivity in the range from about 0.1 to about 10 Seimens/cm.
- 33. The composition defined in claim 16 wherein said textile material comprises carpet.
- 34. A compound polymer/salt product composition suffused with a textile, said product composition comprising:
- (1) a product admixture containing (a) the components of a sol or gel composition containing a salt in the form of anions, cations and colloidal salt particulates and a nonaqueous solvent (b) a latex of a polymer; and
- (2) a filler material.
- 35. The composition defined in claim 34 containing essentially no water.
- 36. The composition defined in claim 34 further comprising a plasticizer or a frothing agent.
- 37. The composition defined in claim 34 having an electrical conductivity greater than about 10.sup.-8 Seimens/cm.
- 38. The composition defined in claim 34 wherein said filler is contained in an amount of at least about 50 parts by weight per hundred parts by dry weight of said polymer.
- 39. The composition defined in claim 34 having a pH in the range from about 7.0 to about 9.0.
- 40. A textile composition containing a salt suffused therein, said textile composition prepared by a method comprising the step of contacting a textile material with a sol or gel composition containing a salt in the form of anions, cations and colloidal salt particulates and a nonaqueous solvent.
- 41. The textile composition defined in claim 40 wherein said sol or gel composition further comprises a stabilizer comprising a chelator or a nonionic surfactant.
- 42. The textile composition defined in claim 41 wherein said polymer comprises a latex of a polymer.
- 43. The textile composition defined in claim 41 wherein said sol or gel composition further comprises a filler material.
- 44. The textile composition defined in claim 43 wherein said sol or gel composition has a pH less than 4.0 and said filler material has a pH greater than 4.0.
- 45. The textile composition defined in claim 43 wherein said sol or gel composition further comprises a plasticizer.
- 46. The textile composition defined in claim 43 wherein said sol or gel composition further comprises a frothing agent.
- 47. The textile composition defined in claim 40 having an electrical conductivity greater than 10-10 Seimens/cm.
- 48. The textile composition defined in claim 40 having an electrical conductivity in the range from about 0.1 to about 10 Seimens/cm.
- 49. The textile composition defined in claim 40 wherein said method further comprises a subsequent step of drying the textile material contacted with said sol or gel composition.
- 50. A dried compounded polymer/salt product composition containing said colloidal salt particulates suffused in said textile material and prepared by the method of claim 49.
- 51. The composition defined in claim 50 comprising at least about 0.03 weight percent of said salt.
- 52. The composition defined in claim 50 having an electrical conductivity greater than 10.sup.-10 Seimens/cm.
- 53. The composition defined in claim 50 having an electrical conductivity in the range from about 10.sup.-8 to about 10 Seimens/cm.
- 54. The composition defined in claim 50 having an electrical conductivity in the range from about 0.1 to about 10 Seimens/cm.
- 55. A textile composition containing a salt suffused therein, said textile composition prepared by a method comprising the step of contacting a textile material with a product admixture composition comprising (1) a sol or gel composition containing a salt in the form of anions, cations and colloidal salt particulates and and a nonaqueous solvent admixed with (2) a latex of a polymer.
- 56. The textile composition defined in claim 55 wherein said sol or gel composition further comprises a stabilizer comprising a chelator or a nonionic surfactant.
- 57. The textile composition defined in claim 56 wherein said product admixture composition further comprises a filler material.
- 58. The textile composition defined in claim 57 wherein said product admixture composition has a pH less than 4.0 and said filler material has a pH greater than 4.0.
- 59. The textile composition defined in claim 57 wherein said product admixture composition further comprises a plasticizer.
- 60. The textile composition defined in claim 57 wherein said product admixture composition further comprises a frothing agent.
- 61. The textile composition defined in claim 55 having an electrical conductivity in the range from about 10.sup.-8 to about 10 Seimens/cm.
- 62. The textile composition defined in claim 55 having an electrical conductivity in the range from about 0.1 to about 10 Seimens/cm.
- 63. A method for preparing a textile composition, said method comprising contacting a textile material with (1) a sol or gel composition containing a salt in the form of anions, cations and colloidal salt particulates and a nonaqueous solvent, or (2) a product admixture composition containing a sol or gel composition containing a salt in the form of anions, cations and colloidal salt particulates and a nonaqueous solvent admixed with a latex of a polymer, to produce a textile composition containing a salt suffused therein.
- 64. The method defined in claim 63 wherein said is a product admixture composition further comprises a filler material.
- 65. The method defined in claim 63 further comprising drying said textile composition containing said colloidal salt particulates to produce a dried compounded polymer/salt product composition suffused in said textile material.
- 66. The method defined in claim 65 wherein said product admixture has a pH less than 4.0 and said filler material has a pH greater than 4.0.
- 67. The method defined in claim 65 said product admixture composition further comprises a frothing agent or a plasticizer.
- 68. The method defined in claim 65 wherein the amount of said sol or gel composition or said product admixture composition contacting the textile material is sufficient to produce said textile composition having an electrical conductivity of about 10.sup.-8 to about 10 Seimens/cm.
- 69. The method defined in claim 65 wherein the amount of said sol or gel composition or said product admixture composition contacting the textile material is sufficient to produce said textile composition having electrical conductivity greater than 10.sup.-10 Seimens/cm.
- 70. A textile composition comprising a textile material suffused with sufficient added salt in the form of anions, cations and colloidal salt particulates and derived from a sol or gel composition containing a nonaqueous solvent to provide an antistatic property to said composition.
- 71. The composition defined in claim 1 wherein said sol or gel composition comprises greater than 0.001 weight percent of said salt.
- 72. The composition defined in claim 16 wherein said sol or gel comprises greater than 0.001 weight percent of said salt.
- 73. The composition defined in claim 34 wherein said sol or gel composition comprises greater than 0.001 weight percent of said salt.
- 74. The composition defined in claim 40 wherein said sol or gel composition comprises greater than 0.001 weight percent of said salt.
- 75. The composition defined in claim 55 wherein said sol or gel composition comprises greater than 0.001 weight percent of said salt.
- 76. The method defined in claim 63 wherein said sol or gel composition comprises greater than 0.001 weight percent of said salt.
- 77. The composition defined in claim 70 wherein said sol or gel composition comprises greater than 0.001 weight percent of said salt.
- 78. The composition defined in claim 9 wherein said latex of a polymer is in a concentration from about 40 to 70 weight percent.
- 79. The composition defined in claim 38 wherein said latex of polymer is in a concentration from about 40 to 70 weight percent.
- 80. The composition defined in claim 42 wherein said latex of a polymer is in a concentration from about 40 to 70 weight percent.
- 81. The composition defined in claim 57 wherein said latex of a polymer is in a concentration from about 40 to 70 weight percent.
- 82. The method defined in claim 63 wherein said latex polymer is in a concentration from about 40 to 70 weight percent.
- 83. The composition defined in claim 77 wherein said sol or gel composition is admixed with a latex of a polymer in a concentration from about 40 to 70 weight percent.
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This application is a continuation-in-part application of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 305,451 filed Feb. 1, 1989.
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