Polyester fiber having excellent light-shielding and flame retardant characteristic and textile goods using the same
Disclosed herein is a Polyester Fiber Having Excellent Light-Shielding and Flame Retardant Characteristic. The Polyester Fiber comprises: phosphorus-based flame retardant 0.05˜5% by weight, based on phosphorus atom; and inorganic particles having 0.05˜1 μm average particle size 1-5% by weight, based on fiber weight. Further disclosed is Textile Goods prepared from the Polyester Fiber. The polyester fiber according to the present invention is prepared from polyester polymer having Intrinsic viscosity of 0.55˜0.75 dl/g and the Intrinsic viscosity difference of between the fiber and polymer (IV drop) is within 0.03 dl/g and it exhibits the excellent flame retardant and light shielding characteristic. Therefore, the polyester fiber can be applied to fiber for clothes, light shielding curtain for a car and blackout curtain for a house and theater.
1. A polyester fiber which simultaneously possesses flame retardancy and light-shielding properties, and thereby stability to UV light, said polyester fiber comprising
0.05 to 5% by weight of a phosphorus based flame retardant, based on phosphorus atoms,
1 to 5% by weight of inorganic fine particles relative to the weight of the fiber for providing light-shielding properties in the polyester fiber, said inorganic fine particles having a particle size distribution which satisfy the following inequality (1):
0.05 μm≦ d 50 ≦1 μm, B 90/10 ≦0.5 μm [1]
wherein d 50 is an average particle diameter of inorganic fine particles, and B 90/10 is a difference in the particle diameter between the top 90% of total particle diameters and the bottom 10% of total particle diameters and
manganese phosphate as a UV stabilizer, said manganese phosphate being synthesized, by the in sitsu reaction of manganese acetate and phosphoric acid.
2. The polyester fiber of claim 1 wherein the manganese phosphate is present in an amount of 0.1 to 500 ppm.
3. The polyester fiber of claim 1 , wherein polyester polymers used to prepare the polyester fiber have an intrinsic viscosity of 0.55 to 0.75 dl/g.
4. The polyester fiber of claim 1 , wherein the phosphorus-based flame retardant is a side-chain flame retardant in which the phosphorus atoms are attached to polyester backbones via side chains.