1. A composition comprising at least a component A, a component B, a component C and a component D, wherein said component A is a triester of phosphoric acid, wherein said component B is a polyester which does not contain any aromatic radicals in the unit derived from the alcohol and wherein 0% to 10% of the units derived from the acid contain aromatic radicals, wherein said component C is an amine comprising a secondary amine or a polymeric amine, or an ammonium salt wherein the cation of this ammonium salt is of the form NR4\u2295 where at least one of the R radicals is alkyl of 1 to 22 carbon atoms, and wherein said component D is water, wherein every one of said components A, B and C may take the form of a mixture of two or more components A, B and C, respectively, in place of a single component A product, component B product and component C product, respectively.
2. The composition as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that it comprises 88% to 98% by weight of said component D.
3. The composition as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that it comprises from 5 to 20 gl of said component C.
4. The composition as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the weight ratio of said component A to said component B is in the range from 0.8:1 to 1.5:0.4.
5. The composition as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that said component A is a triester constructed from units derived from phosphoric acid and units derived from mono- or dihydric aromatic alcohols, said triester being a compound of formula (I) or of formula (II) or a mixture of these two compounds,
where Ar represents a univalent aromatic radical.
6. The composition as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that said component B is a polyester constructed from an aliphatic \u03b1,\u03c9-dicarboxylic acid and an aliphatic dihydric or polyhydric alcohol.
7. The composition as claimed in claim 6, characterized in that said aliphatic dicarboxylic acid has 4 to 10 carbon atoms.
8. The composition as claimed in claim 6, characterized in that said aliphatic alcohol is selected from ethylene glycol, 1,3-propylene glycol, 1,4-butanediol, diethylene glycol, triethylene glycol, polyethylene glycol, neopentyl glycol and 1,6-hexanediol.
9. The composition as claimed in claim 5, characterized in that said component B is a polyester derived from an \u03c9-hydroxy 1-carboxylic acid or its lactone.
10. The composition as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that said component B has a molecular weight in the range from 200 to 8000.
11. The composition as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that said component C is a polyethyleneimine or triethylenetetramine or diethylenetriamine or a mixture comprising two or three of these amines.
12. The composition as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that said component C is an ammonium salt whose anion is chloride.
13. A process for treating a fiber material, which comprises contacting said fiber material with a composition as claimed in claim 1.
14. The process as claimed in claim 13, characterized in that it is an exhaust process carried out at a temperature in the range from 60\xb0 C. to 100\xb0 C.
15. The process as claimed in claim 13, characterized in that said fiber material consists of polyester to an extent ranging from 80% to 100% by weight.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A pigment comprising a platelet-shaped substrate comprising thereon at least a 5-layer sequence of
(A) a layer of SnO2, having a layer thickness of 0.1-50 nm,
(B) a layer of TiO2 in rutile modification, having a layer thickness of 10-800 nm,
(C) a colorless coating having a refractive index n1.8,. having a layer thickness of 20-800 nm,
(D) a layer of SnO2, having a layer thickness of 0.1-50 nm,
(E) a layer of TiO2 in the rutile modification, having a layer thickness of 10-800 nm
and optionally
(F) an outer protective layer.
2. The five-layered pigment according to claim 1, wherein the platelet-shaped substrate is natural or synthetic mica, glass, or Al2O3, SiO2 or TiO2 platelets.
3. The five-layered pigment according to claim 1, wherein layer (C) is SiO2, Al2O3, AlO(OH), B2O3, MgF2, MgSiO3 or a mixture thereof.
4. The five-layered pigment according to claim 1, having an outer protective layer (F) increasing light, temperature and weather stability.
5. A process for the preparation of a five-layered pigment according to claim 1, comprising coating the substrates by a wet-chemical method with hydrolytic decomposition of metal salts in aqueous medium.
6. In a paint, coating, powder coating, printing ink, security printing ink, plastic, ceramic material, glass, dopants for laser marking of paper or plastic, cosmetic formulation, pigment preparation or dry pigment preparation comprising a luster or effect pigment, the improvement wherein the luster or effect pigment is a five-layered pigment according to claim 1.
7. A pigment preparation comprising at least one binder, and at least one five-layered pigment according to claim 1.
8. A Pigment preparation according to claim 7, which is a dry preparation.
9. The dry preparation according to claim 8, comprising from 0 to 8% by weight of water andor a solvent or solvent mixture.
10. The dry preparation according to claim 9, in the form of pellets, granules, chips or briquettes.
11. A hydrophilic, hydrophobic or lipophilic cosmetic formulation comprising at least one five-layered pigment according to claim 1.