ANTISTATIC AND MELT-PROOFING TREATMENT OF SYNTHETIC FIBER FABRIC

PURPOSE:To provide an antistatic and melt-proofing treatment method capable of giving a permanent antistatic performance and a permanent melt-proofing performance to a synthetic fiber fabric without causing hardening of touch or reduction of color fastness of the fabric. CONSTITUTION:An aqueous solution containing a melamine derivative compound (preferable example: hexamethylol melamine, trimethylol melamine), an inorganic acid catalyst (preferable example: ammonium persulfate), polyethylene glycoldiamine of formula I [m is 1 to 45] and polyethylene glycol diglycidyl ether of formula II [n is 1 to 45] is applied to a synthetic fiber fabric. The melamine derivative compound is allowed to adhere in an amount of 5 to 15wt.% based on the fiber weight thereby. Polyethylene glycolamine and polyethylene glycol diglycidyl ether are allowed to adhere in a molar ratio of 1:1 to 1:5 and in an amount of 1 to 10wt.% in total based on the fiber weight. This fabric is treated with saturated steam without drying it and subsequently washed, thus affording the objective synthetic fiber fabric having antistatic properties and melt-proofing properties respectively excellent in fastness to washing.