Patents Represented by Attorney Ernest G. Szoke

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  • Liquid formulations containing sulfosuccinic acid diester
    Patent number: 5908582
    Abstract: A liquid composition comprisingA) at least one sulosuccinic acid diester of the formula: ##STR1## in which M is an inorganic or organic cation, R and R' independently of one another represent aliphatic or cycloaliphatic C.sub.3-22 alkyl, C.sub.2-22 alkenyl or optionally C.sub.1-8 alkyl-substituted C.sub.6-22 aryl;B) water as a solvent; andC) a cosolvent consisting essentially of at least one polymer containing alkylene oxide units which is liquid at 10.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1999
    Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien
    Inventors: Dieter Feustel, Uwe Held, Joachim Meyer
  • Process for cleaning vertical or inclined hard surfaces
    Patent number: 5906973
    Abstract: Aqueous detergents that thicken when mixed with water contain a combination of at least one tertiary amine oxide, at least one alkyl polyglycoside, and at least one water-soluble organic solvent. Also disclosed is the use of these detergents for cleaning hard surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1999
    Assignee: Henkel-Ecolab GmbH & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Dimitrios Ouzounis, Wolfgang Nierhaus
  • Cellulase-containing washing agents
    Patent number: 5904736
    Abstract: In washing agents containing tensides and cellulase, the properties of the cellulase which are relevant to the application were to be improved. This was essentially achieved in that use was made of a cellulase mixture in which the first component, with a CMCase activity of 1 U per liter and a protein concentration of a most 3 mg per liter, gives an increase in remission of at least 5 units in the secondary washing test and the second component, with a CMCase activity of 20 U per liter gives an increase in absorption in the cellulose decomposition test of at least 0.075.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1999
    Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Maurer, Albrecht Weiss
  • Cosmetic and/or pharmaceutical formulations
    Patent number: 5902590
    Abstract: A cosmetic or pharmaceutical composition containing an emulsifier comprising an ester of palmitic acid and technical grade triglycerol with the proviso that the monoester content of the ester is from 30% to 50% by weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1999
    Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien
    Inventors: Heike Thomas, Achim Ansmann, Rolf Kawa, Armin Wadle, Reinhard Bunte, Udo Hees, Alfred Westfechtel
  • Filling compound
    Patent number: 5902849
    Abstract: A filling compound for electrical and optical equipment in the form of cables, connectors, plugs etc. and to assemblies thus produced, is provided. Electrical and optical equipment in the form of cables, connectors, plugs etc. have to be protected against harmful influences penetrating from outside, particularly water, and also against mechanical damage during laying or as a result of exposure to heat. The filling compound is based on a stellate substance, i.e. a substance having a branched molecular structure in which, ideally, 3 or more branches, more particularly polymeric chains, radiate from a single branching point. The filling compound is flexible at very low temperatures but, on the other hand, does not run out, even at extremely high temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1999
    Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien
    Inventors: Reimar Heucher, Juergen Wichelhaus, Johannes Andres
  • Process for obtaining carotene from palm oil
    Patent number: 5902890
    Abstract: Carotene is recovered from a native fat or oil in five process steps in an economical industrial process. The native fat or oil is catalytically reacted in known manner with an alkanol containing up to 4 carbon atoms to form fatty acid alkyl ester and glycerol. The ester phase of the reaction mixture is subjected to distillation to remove the fatty acid alkyl ester. The distillation residue obtained in the second process step is saponified, carotene is extracted from the product obtained in the third process step and the extract phase is concentrated by evaporation. A yield of at least about 80% is achieved. At the same time, a fatty acid alkyl ester suitable for further processing to fatty alcohol is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1999
    Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien
    Inventors: Michael Nitsche, Wilhelm Johannisbauer, Volkmar Jordan
  • Tablet containing builders
    Patent number: 5900399
    Abstract: A tablet composition containing 2% to 100% by weight of amorphous crystalline or partly crystalline layer-form sodium silicates corresponding to the formula Na.sub.2 Si.sub.x --O.sub.2x+1.yH.sub.2 O wherein x is a number of 1.9 to 4 and y is a number of 0 to 20, with the proviso that the tablet composition only contains water in a quantity such that the maximum theoretical water-binding capacity of the components of the composition is not exceeded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1999
    Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien
    Inventors: Wolfgang Seiter, Dieter Jung, Otto Koch, Birgit Stevermann
  • Sulfated/sulfonated surfactants
    Patent number: 5900398
    Abstract: A process for making a surfactant product involving the steps of: (1) providing a solid water-free sugar surfactant; (2) providing a co-reactant selected from the group consisting of alpha-olefins, internal olefins, linear alkylbenzene, branched alkylbenzene, fatty alcohol, alkoxylated fatty alcohol, secondary alkanes, N-methylglucamide, tall oil, napthalene, xylene, cumene, toluene, dodecylbenzene and mixtures thereof; (3) dispersing or dissolving the solid water-free sugar surfactant in the co-reactant to form a feed mixture; and (4) sulfating/sulfonating the feed mixture to form a surfactant product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1999
    Assignee: Henkel Corporation
    Inventors: Richard A. Winstanley, Harald P. Wulff
  • Mildly alkaline dishwashing detergents
    Patent number: 5898025
    Abstract: A phosphate-free mildly alkaline, dishwashing detergent composition containing:(a) from 20 to 60% by weight of sodium citrate;(b) from 5 to 50% by weight of alkali metal hydrogen carbonate;(c) from 7 to 12% by weight of alkali metal carbonate;(d) from 2 to 20% by weight of a bleaching agent;(e) from 1 to 8% by weight of a bleaching agent activator; and(f) from 0.2 to 4% by weight of an enzyme, all weights being based on theweight of the composition wherein the composition in the form of a 1% by weight aqueous solution has a pH value of from about 8 to less than 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1999
    Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien
    Inventors: Birgit Burg, Juergen Haerer, Peter Jeschke, Willi Buchmeier, Helmut Blum, Christian Nitsch, Heinz-Juergen Voelkel, Horst-Dieter Speckmann
  • Process for making alkyl ether glycerols
    Patent number: 5898086
    Abstract: A process for making alkyl ether glycerols involving: (a) providing a feedstock component having at least one terminal hydroxyl group selected from the group consisting of glycerides and polyols; (b) providing a heavy metal catalyst; and (c) contacting the feedstock component with the heavy metal catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1999
    Assignee: Henkel Corporation
    Inventor: Eugene G. Harris
  • Process for the production of alkyl and/or alkenyl oligoglycosides
    Patent number: 5898070
    Abstract: The invention relates to an improved process for the production of alkyl and/or alkenyl oligoglycosides corresponding to formula (I):R.sup.1 O-?G!.sub.p (I)in which R.sup.1 is an alkyl and/or alkenyl radical containing 4 to 22 carbon atoms, G is a sugar unit containing 5 or 6 carbon atoms and p is a number of 1 to 10, by acid-catalyzed acetalization of primary alcohols with monomeric carbohydrates, in which the reaction is carried out in a stirred tank reactor surmounted by a vacuum falling-film evaporator through which the mixture is pumped under reaction conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1999
    Assignee: Henkel Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Schulz, deceased, Rainer Eskuchen, Michael Nitsche
  • Process for the production of emulsion polymers
    Patent number: 5891944
    Abstract: A secondary stabilizer for emulsion polymers is disclosed. The secondary stabilizer is a polyester containing diol residues, residues of olefinically unsaturated dicarboxylic acids which carry sulfonate groups and residues of dicarboxylic acids which do not contain olefinic unsaturation or sulfonate groups. The residues of the olefinically unsaturated dicarboxylic acids comprise from 70 mole-% to 99 mole-% of dicarboxylic acid residues in the polyester and from 1 mole-% to 30 mole-% of residues of dicarboxylic acids which do not contain olefinic unsaturation or sulfonate groups. The polyester secondary stabilizer is not a surfactant (does not significantly lower the surface tension of water) and in addition is biodegradable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1999
    Assignee: Henkel Kommaiditgesellschaft auf Aktien
    Inventors: Dieter Feustel, Ulrich Eicken, Thomas Engels
  • Method of compacting anodized metals with lithium and fluoride-containing solutions without using heavy metals
    Patent number: 5891269
    Abstract: A process for sealing anodized metals without using any heavy metals comprises a first step in which the anodized metal is contacted for a period of between 3 and 30 minutes (for an anodized layer thickness of 20 .mu.m) with an aqueous solution which has a temperature from 15.degree. to 35.degree. C. and a pH between 5.0 and 6.5 and contains from 0.1 to 3 g/l of lithium ions and from 0.1 to 5 g/l of fluoride ions and a second step in which the anodized metal is contacted for a period from 5 to 30 minutes (for an anodized layer thickness of 20 .mu.m) with water or an aqueous solution of substances which prevent the formation of a sealing coating, the solution having a pH from 5.5 to 8.5 and a temperature from 80.degree. to 100.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1999
    Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien
    Inventors: Torsten Koerner, Josef Kresse, Juergen Lindener, Wolf-Achim Roland
  • Polymer dyestuffs and their use for dyeing fibres
    Patent number: 5891199
    Abstract: The proposal is for novel polymer dyestuffs obtained by condensing cationic biopolymers, e.g. chitosame, with dyestuffs which have a basic group, preferably a halogen function. The dyestuffs spread as a film on the fibers and can easily be washed out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1999
    Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien (KGaA)
    Inventors: Rolf Wachter, Joerg Kahre, David Rose
  • High coating weight iron phosphating, compositions therefor, and use of the coating formed as a lubricant carrier
    Patent number: 5891268
    Abstract: Iron phosphate conversion coatings that are well adapted to serve as carriers for metal cold working lubricants, particularly such lubricants that contain polyoxyethylene adducts of long chain primary alcohols as a major lubricating component, can be formed on ferriferous surfaces within practical times such as 5 to 10 minutes by contact with an aqueous solution of almost neutralized phosphoric acid that has sufficient Free Acid and/or Total Acid content to form a heavier phosphate conversion coating than do conventional iron phosphating compositions. The phosphate conversion coating forming aqueous liquid composition advantageously also contains an accelerator component such as chlorate or hydroxylamine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1999
    Assignee: Henkel Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth J. Hacias, John M. Kukalis
  • Process for the production of neutralized polysaccharide-based polycarboxylates
    Patent number: 5892027
    Abstract: A process for producing solid polycarboxylic acid salts from polysaccharides with gaseous nitrogen dioxide and dinitrogen tetroxide to at least partially convert the primary alcohol groups of the polysaccharides into carboxyl groups and form a solid polycarboxylic acid and then mixing the polycarboxylic acid with a solid neutralizing agent to at least partially neutralized the carboxylic acid groups of the polycarboxylic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1999
    Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien
    Inventors: Thomas Moeller, Herbert Fischer
  • Aqueous compositions containing polyphenol copolymers and processes for their preparation
    Patent number: 5891952
    Abstract: Processes for the preparation of polyphenol polymers useful as surface coatings wherein the process is carried out in the absence of organic solvents, and the polyphenol polymers are the reaction products of a phenolic polymer or copolymer, an amine, and an aldehyde, ketone, or mixture thereof; and the aqueous solutions resulting therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1999
    Assignee: Henkel Corporation
    Inventors: David R. McCormick, Andreas Lindert, John R. Pierce
  • Process for cleaning factory equipment with integrated prerinse
    Patent number: 5888311
    Abstract: A process for cleaning processing equipment for beverages or foods including the steps of(a) pumping a cleaning solution from its holding tank through the processing equipment in the absence of a pre-rinsing step,(b) collecting a first portion of the cleaning solution returning from the processing equipment into a recycling tank,(c) returning to the holding tank for the cleaning solution the main portion of the cleaning solution flowing through the processing equipment,(d) subjecting the first portion of the cleaning solution collected into the recycling tank to a separation process to provide a soil-rich concentrate and a low soil content regenerate,(e) transferring the regenerate to the holding tank for the cleaning solution, and(f) disposing of the soil-rich concentrate as waste.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Assignee: Henkel-Ecolab GmbH & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Alfred Laufenberg, Dietmar Rossner, Ralf Krack
  • Reinforced channel-shaped structural member
    Patent number: 5888600
    Abstract: A reinforced structural member has a channel-shaped laminate structure of a metal stamping, a channel-shaped foil and an intervening layer of structural foam. The reinforced structural member is formed by pressing a foil/resin preform into a channel and thermally expanding the resin to form a structural foam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Assignee: Henkel Corporation
    Inventor: Joseph S. Wycech
  • Use of microwave energy to form soap bars
    Patent number: 5888953
    Abstract: A process for making a soften or fluid personal cleansing composition comprising: (a) providing a solid personal cleansing stock consisting essentially of an acyl isethionate; (b) heating the solid personal cleansing stock using microwave energy to form a softened or molten stock personal cleansing component; (c) introducing the softened or molten stock personal cleansing into a mixing apparatus; (d) introducing a personal cleansing adjuvant into the mixing apparatus; and (e) mixing the softened or molten personal cleansing stock and adjuvant in the mixing apparatus to form a softened or fluid personal cleansing composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Assignee: Henkel Corporation
    Inventors: Eugene G. Harris, J. Matthew White