High speed textile fibre preparations

Abstract

A composition containing a saponin present in an extract of an Argania spinosa plant.

1 . Spin finishes containing 
 (a) esterquats,    (b) fatty acid amidoamines and    (c) ethoxylated nonionic surfactants.    
     
     
         2 . Spin finishes as claimed in  claim 1 , characterized in that they contain as component (a) esterquats corresponding to formula (I):  
       
         
           
           
               
               
           
         
       
       in which R 1 CO is an acyl group containing 6 to 22 carbon atoms, R 2  and R 3  independently of one another represent hydrogen or have the same meaning as R 1 CO, R 4  is an alkyl group containing 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a (CH 2 CH 2 O) q h group, m, n and p together stand for 0 or numbers of 1 to 12, q is a number of 1 to 12 and x is halide, alkyl sulfate or alkyl phosphate.  
     
     
         3 . Spin finishes as claimed in  claim 1 , characterized in that they contain as component (a) esterquats corresponding to formula (II):  
       
         
           
           
               
               
           
         
       
       in which R 1 CO is an acyl group containing 6 to 22 carbon atoms, R 2  is hydrogen or has the same meaning as R 1 CO, R 4  and R 5  independently of one another are alkyl groups containing 1 to 4 carbon atoms, m and n together stand for 0 or numbers of 1 to 12 and X stands for halide, alkyl sulfate or alkyl phosphate.  
     
     
         4 . Spin finishes as claimed in  claim 1 , characterized in that they contain as component (a) esterquats corresponding to formula (III):  
       
         
           
           
               
               
           
         
       
       in which R 1 CO is an acyl group containing 6 to 22 carbon atoms, R 2  is hydrogen or has the same meaning as R 1 CO, R 4 , R 6  and R 7  independently of one another are alkyl groups containing 1 to 4 carbon atoms, m and n together stand for 0 or numbers of 1 to 12 and X stands for halide, alkyl sulfate or alkyl phosphate.  
     
     
         5 . Spin finishes as claimed in  claim 1 , characterized in that they contain as component (a) esterquats corresponding to formula (IV):  
       
         
           
           
               
               
           
         
       
       in which R 1 CO is an acyl group containing 6 to 22 carbon atoms, R 2  is hydrogen or has the same meaning as R 1 CO, R 6  and R 7  independently of one another are alkyl groups containing 1 to 4 carbon atoms and X is halide, alkyl sulfate or alkyl phosphate.  
     
     
         6 . Spin finishes as claimed in  claim 1 , characterized in that they contain as component (a) esterquats corresponding to formula (V):  
       
         
           
           
               
               
           
         
       
       in which R 8 CO is a saturated and/or unsaturated ethoxylated hydroxyacyl group containing 16 to 22 and preferably 18 carbon atoms and 1 to 50 oxyethylene units, A is a linear or branched alkylene group containing 1 to 6 carbon atoms, R 9 , R 10  and R 11  independently of one another represent hydrogen or a C 1-4  alkyl group, R 12  is a C 1-4  alkyl group or a benzyl group and X is halogen, alkyl sulfate or alkyl phosphate.  
     
     
         7 . Spin finishes as claimed in at least one of  claims 1  to  6 , characterized in that the esterquats are derived from C 16-22  fatty acids.  
     
     
         8 . Spin finishes as claimed in at least one of  claims 1  to  7 , characterized in that they contain as component (b) condensation products of C 12-22  fatty acids with ethylenediamine, diethylenetriamine, triethylenetetramine, propylenediamine, dipropylenetriamine and/or tripropylene tetramine.  
     
     
         9 . Spin finishes as claimed in at least one of  claims 1  to  8 , characterized in that they contain behenic acid/diethylenetriamine condensates as component (b).  
     
     
         10 . Spin finishes as claimed in at least one of  claims 1  to  9 , characterized in that they contain products of the addition of on average 20 to 300 mol ethylene oxide onto primary C 8-22  alcohols or triglycerides as component (c).  
     
     
         11 . Spin finishes as claimed in at least one of  claims 1  to  10 , characterized in that they contain products of the addition of on average 50 to 200 mol ethylene oxide onto castor oil as component (c).  
     
     
         12 . Spin finishes as claimed in at least one of  claims 1  to  11 , characterized in that they contain 
 (a) 40 to 65% by weight esterquats,  
 (b) 10 to 20% by weight fatty acid amidoamines and  
 (c) 15 to 50% by weight ethoxylated nonionic surfactants,  
 with the proviso that the quantities shown add up to 100% by weight, optionally together with other auxiliaries and additives.  
 
     
     
         13 . The use of mixtures containing 
 (a) esterquats,    (b) fatty acid amidoamines and    (c) ethoxylated nonionic surfactants    for the production of high-speed spin finishes.