MUMBAI, India, Aug. 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202441005743 A) filed by D. Vikram Krishna, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, on Jan. 29, 2024, for 'a method for decross-linking raw flax fibres or yarn.'
Inventor(s) include Pradipta Banerjee; and Muthukumar S.
The application for the patent was published on Aug. 1, under issue no. 31/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Disclosed is a method (100) for decross-linking raw flax fibres or yarn. The method (100) includes adding (101) a wetting agent to water in a container, adding (103) inorganic polyphosphate, (105) raising the temperature to 60 C-65 C, immersing (106) scutched, heckled, and pre-cut raw flax fibres or yarn hanks for 40-50 minutes, washing (108) and submerging (109) the fibres in water. The method (100) further includes adding (110) acetic acid and sodium acetate to form a buffer, a 1:0.01 mixture of hemicellulase and acid cellulase enzyme and leaving undisturbed for 50-60 minutes followed by draining (116), washing (118) the enzyme-treated fibres in hot water followed by draining, followed by (120) a cold wash, packing (122) wet fibres in an enclosure and subjecting (123) to centrifugation followed by air drying (124) the centrifuged fibres to obtain unopened decross-linked fibres/yarn."
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