Fiber-Shield® Facts:
Wool carpet treated with Carpet-Shield protector.
Beaded liquids are soy sauce, coffee, and red wine.
Fiber-Shield is an advanced stage liquid fluoropolymeric treatment that protects fabrics and carpeting from water-based and oil-based staining. It also resists abrasion from dry soil particulates.
Fiber-Shield is not a surface coating. It's an example of the latest chemical technology utilizing crosslinking of fluoropolymers to fibers.
Each fiber is impregnated
with millions of fluorochemical "umbrellas" that surround each fiber in a protective
barrier. This protection does not readily break down with use or with cleaning, thus
giving an extremely long-lasting protective affinity to the fiber structure. Fiber-Shield becomes an inherent part of the fibers, and its protection is uniform throughout each
fiber. Fiber-Shield does not change the breathability of the fiber, nor does it affect
color, texture, or flammability.
Fiber-Shield Check List:
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Repels liquids (including alcohol)
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Repels soil (reduces static charge)
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Repels oils (skin and hair oils that bind soil to fabric)
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Extremely abrasion resistant - reduces wear and tear
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Blocks ultraviolet rays that fade textiles
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Drastically improves cleanability
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Extends the time between cleanings
Fiber-Shield provides stronger resistance against soil, oil and spills than any other protector available. Maintenance with Fiber-Shield is a practical, cost-effective approach to getting the most out of any furnishing investment.
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Resistance to Stains:
Fiber-Shield out-performed three other well-known stain repellants for coffee, cola, tomato juice, and mustard. Fiber-Shield repelled oil where the other two silicone products did not. Diotomaceous earth (soil) clung to silicone treated fabrics and carpeting while fabrics and carpeting treated with Fiber-Shield exhibited no such clinging.
Conclusions: Fiber-Shield out-performed the other products and proved to have superior stain resistance. The silicone treated fabrics did not provide any oil or soil repellancy.
Dry Cleaning test:
In this test, several fabrics were treated with Fiber-Shield. After five dry cleanings (using chlorinated solvent), Fiber-Shield showed better stain resistance than the other products under test.
Washing test:
After thirty detergent and water wash cycles in a conventional washing machine, the treated samples were tested to see if they still repelled soil, oil, and water. The fabrics treated with Fiber-Shield exhibited no significant loss of their stain repelling properties.
Abrasion Resistance:
Treated fabrics showed fifteen to twenty-five percent greater wear resistance than the other products under test, and fifty to one hundred percent greater wear resistance than untreated fabrics. (This test consisted of using the Taber Abrader Method.)
Flammability Test:
Two tests were performed. One was to determine whether or not Fiber-Shield changed the flammability rating of the various fabrics that were tested after treatment. The second was to determine if Fiber-Shield had a flash point, making it either flammable or combustible.
Conclusions:
Fabrics that were treated with Fiber-Shield had the same flammability rating as those that were untreated. Fiber-Shield showed no flash point, and therefore posed no fire hazard to the application site.
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