With Heavy Metal Containing Catalyst Or Activator (e.g., Containing Mn, Cu, Fe, Etc.) Patents (Class 510/311)
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Publication number: 20100190678Abstract: Laundry or cleaning composition comprising: (a) a catalytically effective amount, preferably from about 1 ppb to about 99.9%, of a transition-metal bleach catalyst which is a complex of a transition-metal and a cross-bridged macropolycyclic ligand; and (b) at least about 0.1% of one or more laundry or cleaning adjunct materials, preferably comprising an oxygen bleaching agent. Preferred compositions are laundry compositions and automatic dishwashing detergents which provide enhanced cleaning/bleaching benefits through the use of such catalysts.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2010Publication date: July 29, 2010Applicant: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Daryle Hadley Busch, Simon Robert Collinson, Timothy Jay Hubin, Christopher Mark Perkins, Regine Labeque, Barbara Kay Williams, James Pyott Johnston, David Johnathan Kitko, James Charles Theophile Roger Burckett-St. Laurent
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Patent number: 7737101Abstract: A detergent and disinfectant in which water-soluble permanganates are used in an alkaline solution in order to initiate the oxidation of organic substances and simultaneously a chemical oxidant, preferably a peroxodisulfate, is used which is capable of producing radical reactions with catalytic support by manganates originating from the supplied permanganate, which reactions produce the oxidation of organic substances. All components are present in powder form and a respective powder mixture can be dissolved rapidly and free from residues in water. It thus represents a universally applicable, highly effective detergent and disinfectant.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2001Date of Patent: June 15, 2010Assignee: Dipl. Ing. Thonhauser GmbHInventors: Manfred Thonhauser, Christian Thonhauser
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Publication number: 20100075888Abstract: Laundry or cleaning composition comprising: (a) a catalytically effective amount, preferably from about 1 ppb to about 99.9%, of a transition-metal bleach catalyst which is a complex of a transition-metal and a cross-bridged macropolycyclic ligand; and (b) at least about 0.1% of one or more laundry or cleaning adjunct materials, preferably comprising an oxygen bleaching agent. Preferred compositions are laundry compositions and automatic dishwashing detergents which provide enhanced cleaning/bleaching benefits through the use of such catalysts.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2009Publication date: March 25, 2010Applicant: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Daryle Hadley Busch, Simon Robert Collinson, Timothy Jay Hubin, Christopher Mark Perkins, Regine Labeque, Barbara Kay Williams, James Pyott Johnston, David Johnathan Kitko, James Charles Theophile Roger Burckett-St. Laurent
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Patent number: 7678753Abstract: A liquid detergent composition containing (a) hydrogen peroxide or a compound for forming hydrogen peroxide in water, (b) a compound selected from boric acid, borax, a boric acid salt in an amount of from 0.05 to 1% by mass as a boron atom, (c) a compound having one or more sites, the site having one hydroxyl group at each of both sides of adjacent carbon atoms, in an amount of from 3 to 35% by mass, (d) a surfactant in an amount of from 4 to 45% by mass, and (e) water, wherein the molar ratio of the component (c)/the component (b) is from 1.5 to 2.7, and wherein the detergent composition has a pH at 20° C. of from 4.6 to 7.0.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2005Date of Patent: March 16, 2010Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Masataka Maki, Hitoshi Ishizuka, Nobuyoshi Yamaguchi, Yuuichirou Tase
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Patent number: 7645302Abstract: The present invention provides a laundry treatment composition comprising a transition metal compound.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2006Date of Patent: January 12, 2010Assignee: The Sun Products CorporationInventors: Dao-Li Deng, Matthew Elliot Helton, Xiao-Hong Wang, Wei Zhao
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Publication number: 20090305936Abstract: Laundry or cleaning composition comprising: (a) a catalytically effective amount, preferably from about 1 ppb to about 99.9%, of a transition-metal bleach catalyst which is a complex of a transition-metal and a cross-bridged macropolycyclic ligand; and (b) at least about 0.1% of one or more laundry or cleaning adjunct materials, preferably comprising an oxygen bleaching agent. Preferred compositions are laundry compositions and automatic dishwashing detergents which provide enhanced cleaning/bleaching benefits through the use of such catalysts.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2009Publication date: December 10, 2009Applicant: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Daryle Hadley Busch, Simon Robert Collinson, Timothy Jay Hubin, Christopher Mark Perkins, Regine Labeque, Barbara Kay Williams, James Pyott Johnston, David Johnathan Kitko, James Charles Theophile Roger Burckett-St. Laurent
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Patent number: 7612010Abstract: Use of metal complex compounds of formula (1) and/or (1?) [LnMemXp]zYq??(1), [L?nMemXp]zYq??(1?), wherein all substituents are as defined in the claims, as catalysts for oxidation reactions, and also novel metal complex compounds and novel ligands.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2007Date of Patent: November 3, 2009Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corp.Inventors: Gunther Schlingloff, Torsten Wieprecht, Uwe Heinz, Albert Schneider, Marie-Josée Dubs, Frank Bachmann, Menno Hazenkamp, Thomas Ehlis, Cornelia Vincenzi, Josef Dannacher
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Publication number: 20090209446Abstract: Laundry or cleaning composition comprising: (a) a catalytically effective amount, preferably from about 1 ppb to about 99.9%, of a transition-metal bleach catalyst which is a complex of a transition-metal and a cross-bridged macropolycyclic ligand; and (b) at least about 0.1% of one or more laundry or cleaning adjunct materials, preferably comprising an oxygen bleaching agent. Preferred compositions are laundry compositions and automatic dishwashing detergents which provide enhanced cleaning/bleaching benefits through the use of such catalysts.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2009Publication date: August 20, 2009Applicant: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Daryle Hadley Busch, Simon Robert Collinson, Timothy Jay Hubin, Christopher Mark Perkins, Regine Labeque, Barbara Kay Williams, James Pyott Johnston, David Johnathan Kitko, James Charles Theophile Roger Burckett-St. Laurent
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Publication number: 20090176681Abstract: A bleach composition containing (a) a peroxide generating hydrogen peroxide by being dissolved in water, (b) a water-insoluble or poorly water-soluble textile powder selected from powder cellulose, silk powder, wool powder, nylon powder and polyurethane powder, and (c) (c-1) a bleaching activating catalyst and/or (c-2) a bleaching activator. A bleaching detergent composition containing (a) a peroxide generating hydrogen peroxide by being dissolved in water, (b) a water-insoluble or poorly water-soluble textile powder selected from powder cellulose, silk powder, wool powder, nylon powder and polyurethane powder, and (c) (c-1) a bleaching activating catalyst or (c-1) a bleaching activating catalyst and (c-2) a bleaching activator, and (d) a surfactant.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2009Publication date: July 9, 2009Inventors: Hideyuki Kaneda, Yoshitaka Miyamae, Satoru Nagata
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Patent number: 7534755Abstract: A liquid detergent composition comprising a liquid matrix having dispersed therein a plurality of visibly distinct beads and wherein the visibly distinct beads comprise a hueing agent.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2007Date of Patent: May 19, 2009Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Jean-Pol Boutique, Frederik Vandenberghe, Johan Smets
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Patent number: 7524804Abstract: A bleach composition containing (a) a peroxide generating hydrogen peroxide by being dissolved in water, (b) a water-insoluble or poorly water-soluble textile powder selected from powder cellulose, silk powder, wool powder, nylon powder, and polyurethane powder, and (c) (c-1) a bleaching activating catalyst and/or (c-2) a bleaching activator. A bleaching detergent composition containing (a) a peroxide generating hydrogen peroxide by being dissolved in water, (b) a water-insoluble or poorly water-soluble textile powder selected from powder cellulose, silk powder, wool powder, nylon powder, and polyurethane powder, and (c) (c-1) a bleaching activating catalyst or (c-1) a bleaching activating catalyst and (c-2) a bleaching activator, and (d) a surfactant.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2003Date of Patent: April 28, 2009Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corp.Inventors: Hideyuki Kaneda, Yoshitaka Miyamae, Satoru Nagata
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Patent number: 7517847Abstract: Bleaching product in the form of a coated substrate comprising a water-soluble film and a coating comprising a bleaching agent.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2006Date of Patent: April 14, 2009Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Vincenzo Catalfamo, Frank William Denome, Dennis Allen Beckholt, Yousef Georges Aouad, James Michael Archbold
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Publication number: 20090054293Abstract: Laundry or cleaning composition comprising: (a) a catalytically effective amount, preferably from about 1 ppb to about 99.9%, of a transition-metal bleach catalyst which is a complex of a transition-metal and a cross-bridged macropolycyclic ligand; and (b) at least about 0.1% of one or more laundry or cleaning adjunct materials, preferably comprising an oxygen bleaching agent. Preferred compositions are laundry compositions and automatic dishwashing detergents which provide enhanced cleaning/bleaching benefits through the use of such catalysts.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2008Publication date: February 26, 2009Inventors: Daryle Hadley Busch, Simon Robert Collinson, Timothy Jay Hubin, Christopher Mark Perkins, Regine Labeque, Barbara Kay Williams, James Pyott Johnston, David Johnathan Kitko, James Charles Theophile Roger Burckett-St. Laurent
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Patent number: 7494964Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of metal complex compounds which have terpyridine ligands and contain at least one quaternized nitrogen atom as oxidation catalysts. The present invention relates also to formulations comprising such metal complex compounds, to novel metal complex compounds and to novel ligands.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2003Date of Patent: February 24, 2009Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corp.Inventors: Gunther Schlingloff, Torsten Wieprecht, Frank Bachmann, Josef Dannacher, Marie-Josée Dubs, Menno Hazenkamp, Uwe Heinz, Markus Frey, Albert Schneider
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Publication number: 20090044345Abstract: The present invention relates to the use, as oxidation catalysts, of metal complex compounds having tetradentate ligands of formula (2) wherein all substitutents have the meanings as defined in Claim 1. The present invention relates also to formulations comprising such metal complex compounds, to novel metal complex compounds and to novel ligands.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2006Publication date: February 19, 2009Inventors: Gunther Schlingloff, Kishor Ramachandra Nivalkar, Torsten Wieprecht, Marie-Josee Dubs, Nicole End
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Publication number: 20080261852Abstract: The performance of peroxide compounds, in particular when associated with bleaches for washing ink stains out of textiles, can be improved by a composition comprising: (i) a peroxygen-containing bleaching agent, (ii) a bleach activator selected from the group consisting of amide bleach activators, sulfonyl phenyl ester bleach activators, quaternary nitrogen substituted acetonitrile bleach activators, and mixtures thereof, and (iii) a compound selected from the group consisting of ligands corresponding to the general formula (I), bleach catalysts corresponding to the general formula (II), and mixtures thereof: wherein Ym? represents an anion, M represent a manganese or iron atom, each X independently represents an inorganic ligand and the mathematical product of m and n equals 2.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2005Publication date: October 23, 2008Applicant: HENKEL KGaAInventors: Heike Schirmer-Ditze, Doris Dahlmann, Birgit Middelhauve
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Publication number: 20080167212Abstract: Laundry or cleaning composition comprising: (a) a catalytically effective amount, preferably from about 1 ppb to about 99.9%, of a transition-metal bleach catalyst which is a complex of a transition-metal and a cross-bridged macropolycyclic ligand; and (b) at least about 0.1% of one or more laundry or cleaning adjunct materials, preferably comprising an oxygen bleaching agent. Preferred compositions are laundry compositions and automatic dishwashing detergents which provide enhanced cleaning/bleaching benefits through the use of such catalysts.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2008Publication date: July 10, 2008Inventors: Daryle Hadley Busch, Simon Robert Collinson, Timothy Jay Hubin, Christopher Mark Perkins, Regine Labeque, Barbara Kay Williams, James Pyott Johnston, David Johnathan Kitko, James Charles Theophile Roger Burckett-St. Laurent
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Publication number: 20080125344Abstract: Laundry or cleaning composition comprising: (a) a catalytically effective amount, preferably from about 1 ppb to about 99.9%, of a transition-metal bleach catalyst which is a complex of a transition-metal and a cross-bridged macropolycyclic ligand; and (b) at least about 0.1% of one or more laundry or cleaning adjunct materials, preferably comprising an oxygen bleaching agent. Preferred compositions are laundry compositions and automatic dishwashing detergents which provide enhanced cleaning/bleaching benefits through the use of such catalysts.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2006Publication date: May 29, 2008Inventors: Daryle Hadley Busch, Simon Robert Collinson, Timothy Jay Hubin, Christopher Mark Perkins, Regine Labeque, Barbara Kay Williams, James Pyott Johnston, David Johnathan Kitko, James Charles Theophile Roger Burckett-St.Laurent
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Patent number: 7357881Abstract: The invention provides a bleaching catalyst and a bleaching composition having a sufficient bleaching effect even at low temperatures and being excellent in an effect of preventing color migration in fibers with less bleach of dyes and less damage to fibers. The invention provides a cyclic amide transition metal complex (1), a bleaching catalyst containing the same, and a bleaching composition containing the bleaching catalyst and a peroxy bleaching agent selected from hydrogen peroxide and a peroxide or an organic peracid generating hydrogen peroxide in an aqueous solution. wherein R1 to R6 represent H, a C1-16 hydrocarbon or perfluoroalkyl group or a halogen atom, R7 represents a C1-18 alkylene or perfluoroalkylene group, A represents a group having 1 to 3 quaternary ammonium groups substituted with an alkyl group or linked with an alkylene group, or a heterocyclic aromatic quaternary cation group, or the like, M represents a transition metal, L represents a ligand, and Q represents a counterion.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2003Date of Patent: April 15, 2008Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Danjo, Hiromoto Mizushima
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Patent number: 7335629Abstract: The present invention relates to support-fixed bleaching catalyst(s)suitable or the catalysis of peroxide compounds, characterized in that the support-fixed bleaching catalyst(s) is/are covalently bonded to a support by means of at least one organic ligand of the bleaching catalyst. The bleaching catalyst(s) form(s) a complex with at least on transition metal. The invention further relates to support-fixed bleaching catalysts for the catalysis of peroxide compounds, where at least one ligand, covalently bonded to a support, is a transition-metal-free ligand, which chelates with transition metal, derived from another source, preferably from the bleaching composition and/or added water and thus forms the complex with a transition metal.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2004Date of Patent: February 26, 2008Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft Auf AktienInventors: Pavel Gentschev, Steve Döring, Jacques Breyer, Antonio Machin
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Patent number: 7323437Abstract: The invention provides a process for producing a bleaching activator composition, which includes removing a solvent and/or water from a mixture of a bleaching activator and a surfactant dispersed in a non-aqueous solvent, a bleaching activator composition produced by the process and a bleaching activator granule obtained by further granulating the bleaching activator composition.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2004Date of Patent: January 29, 2008Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Shigeaki Fujinami, Hiroshi Noro, Masakazu Furukawa, Hiroyuki Yamashita
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Patent number: 7319085Abstract: The present invention relates to methods to treat fabrics with lipophilic fluid, a polar phase and bleach system. The present invention is also directed to compositions containing lipophilic fluid, a polar phase and a bleach system.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2005Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: The PRocter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Gregory Scot Miracle, Cynthia Marie Stark, Michael Eugene Burns, John Christian Haught, William Michael Scheper
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Patent number: 7291584Abstract: Use of metal complex compounds of formula (1) and/or (1?) [LnMemXp]zYq,??(1) [L?nMemXp]zYq,??(1?) wherein all substituents are as defined in the claims, as catalysts for oxidation reactions, and also novel metal complex compounds and novel ligands.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2006Date of Patent: November 6, 2007Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals CorporationInventors: Gunther Schlingloff, Torsten Wieprecht, Uwe Heinz, Albert Schneider, Marie-Josée Dubs, Frank Bachmann, Menno Hazenkamp, Thomas Ehlis, Cornelia Vincenzi, Josef Dannacher
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Publication number: 20070173428Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising: (i) a pre-formed peroxyacid or salt thereof in molecularly encapsulated form; and (ii) a bleach catalyst that is capable of accepting an oxygen atom from a peroxyacid and transferring the oxygen atom to an oxidizeable substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2007Publication date: July 26, 2007Inventors: Doris Appleby, Andrew Paul Nelson, Alan Thomas Brooker
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Patent number: 7241726Abstract: Complete-cycle methods are provided for protecting glassware from corrosion in automatic dishwashing appliances using a through-the-wash detergent composition, especially detergent compositions comprising zinc-containing materials, in combination with a rinse aid composition, especially rinse aid compositions comprising at least one water-soluble metal salt.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2004Date of Patent: July 10, 2007Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Brian Xiaoqing Song, Paul Joseph Drzewiecki, Patricia Sara Berger, James Robert Schwartz, Robert William Corkery
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Patent number: 7205267Abstract: The use is claimed of transition metal complexes of the formula (I) [M(L)Yn]Xm??(I) where M is a metal atom from the group of Mn and Fe, L is a ligand of the general formula (II) or (III) where R1, R2, R3 and R4 are the same or different and are each H, C1–C8-alkyl or C6–C12-alkaryl; X and Y are each an uncharged or anionic ligand from the group of CH3CN, chloride, bromide, nitrate, perchlorate, sulfate, citrate, hexafluorophosphate, trifluoromethanesulfonate, tetrafluoroborate, tetraphenylborate or an anion of organic acids having C1–C22 carbon atoms, n and m are each a number from 0 to 4 as bleach catalysts in laundry detergents and cleaning compositions.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2005Date of Patent: April 17, 2007Assignee: Clariant Produkte (Deutschland) GmbHInventors: Gerd Reinhardt, Ekaterina Jonas
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Patent number: 7138363Abstract: Use of metal complex compounds of formula (1) and/or (1?) [LnMemXp]zYq (1), [L?MemXp]zYq (1?), wherein all substituents are as defined in the claims, as catalysts for oxidation reactions, and also novel metal complex compounds and novel ligands.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2003Date of Patent: November 21, 2006Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals CorporationInventors: Gunther Schlingloff, Torsten Wieprecht, Uwe Heinz, Albert Schneider, Marie-Josée Dubs, Frank Bachmann, Menno Hazenkamp, Thomas Ehlis, Cornelia Vincenzi, Josef Dannacher
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Patent number: 7125832Abstract: Laundry or cleaning composition comprising: (a) a catalytically effective amount, preferably from about 1 ppb to about 99.9%, of a transition-metal bleach catalyst which is a complex of a transition-metal and a cross-bridged macropolycyclic ligand; and (b) at least about 0.1% of one or more laundry or cleaning adjunct materials, preferably comprising an oxygen bleaching agent. Preferred compositions are laundry compositions and automatic dishwashing detergents which provide enhanced cleaning/bleaching benefits through the use of such catalysts.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2003Date of Patent: October 24, 2006Assignee: Procter & Gambel CompanyInventors: Daryle Hadley Busch, Simon Robert Collinson, Timothy Jay Hubin, Christopher Mark Perkins, Regine Labeque, Barbara Kay Williams, James Pyott Johnston, David Johnathan Kitko, James Charles Theophile Roger Burckett-St. Laurent
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Patent number: 7122511Abstract: Process for the preparation of bleach activator granules, which comprises extruding a mixture comprising bleach activator, anionic or nonionic surfactant and polyalkylene glycol at temperatures of from 40 to 120° C. and a pressure of from 5 to 30 bar, and granulating the resultant extrudates at a temperature of from 40 to 120° C. on a spheronizer.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2002Date of Patent: October 17, 2006Assignee: Clariant GmbHInventors: Georg Borchers, Torsten Pilz
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Patent number: 7115549Abstract: The present invention provides a laundry bleaching composition comprising: a) a macrocycilc tetra amido N-donor metal-ligand complex (preferably, 5,6-benzo-3,8,11,13-tetraoxo-2,2,9,9,12,12-hexamethyl-1,4,7,10-tetraaza-cyclo-tridecane), and b) an alkyl benzene sulphonate surfactant, said composition being substantially devoid of any added peroxygen bleach or a peroxy-based or peroxy-generating bleach system.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2002Date of Patent: October 3, 2006Assignee: Carnegie Mellon UniversityInventors: Sarah Dixon, Peter Leslie Gratton, John Oakes
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Patent number: 7109155Abstract: Liquid bleaching composition components are claimed which comprise 1) amphiphilic copolymers which include structural units which are derived from a) acryloyldimethyltauric acid in free, partially neutralized or completely neutralized form with mono- or divalent inorganic or organic cations and b) at least one hydrophobic comonomer based on ethylenically unsaturated polyalkylene alkoxylates and optionally c) further at least monovinylically unsaturated comonomers different from a) and b), and 2) at least one bleach activator, bleach catalyst or oxygen transfer agent.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2003Date of Patent: September 19, 2006Assignee: Clariant GmbHInventors: Gerd Reinhardt, Irina Geiger, Matthias Loeffler, Roman Morschhaeuser
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Patent number: 7105692Abstract: This invention relates to a novel crystal form of the 1:1 manganese (III) complex of N,N?,N?tris[salicylideneaminoethyl]amine, a process for its preparation and the use thereof.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2004Date of Patent: September 12, 2006Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals CorporationInventors: Frank Bachmann, Hanspeter Baier, Christof Dosenbach, Marie-Josée Dubs, Tassilo Habereder, Menno Hazenkamp, Uwe Heinz, Cornelia Makowka
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Patent number: 6992184Abstract: The invention relates to a novel synthetic route for a group of ligands and to an improved catalyst containing the ligand. The invention also provides use of a ligand for inhibiting dye transfer.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2001Date of Patent: January 31, 2006Assignee: Carnegie Mellon UniversityInventors: Riccardo Filippo Carina, Carl Gibson
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Patent number: 6982243Abstract: Water-soluble granules of salen-type manganese complexes that are suitable as catalysts in reactions with peroxy compounds are described. The granules are used especially in washing agents. They are distinguished by retarded dissolution of and improved action of the manganese complexes.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2004Date of Patent: January 3, 2006Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals CorporationInventors: Menno Hazenkamp, Frank Bachmann, Cornelia Makowka, Petr Kvita, Rolf Kuratli, Anita Schmidlin
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Laundry detergent compositions comprising zwitterionic polyamines and mid-chain branched surfactants
Patent number: 6914041Abstract: The present invention relates to laundry detergent compositions which provide enhanced hydrophilic soil cleaning benefits comprising a zwitterionic polyamine, a surfactant system comprising a mid-chain branched surfactant, and carrier and other adjunct ingredients.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2003Date of Patent: July 5, 2005Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Kenneth Nathan Price, Eugene Paul Gosselink -
Patent number: 6903059Abstract: The present invention relates to detergent compositions comprising a polyamine with defined end capping units and a mid-chain branched surfactant and also optionally containing a bleach agent, aluminosilicate, silicate, and/or detersive enzyme.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2003Date of Patent: June 7, 2005Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Kenneth Nathan Price, Eugene Paul Gosselink, Randall Scott Deinhammer
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Patent number: 6897192Abstract: Process for the preparation of bleach activator granules, which comprises extruding a mixture comprising bleach activator, anionic or nonionic surfactant and polyalkylene glycol at temperatures of from 60 to 80° C. and a pressure of from 10 to 30 bar, and granulating the resultant extrudates at a temperature of from 60 to 80° C. on a spheronizer.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2002Date of Patent: May 24, 2005Assignee: Clariant GmbHInventors: Georg Borchers, Torsten Pilz
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Patent number: 6878680Abstract: Detergent compositions comprising bleach catalysts or perfumes are disclosed. In particular, components comprising the bleach catalysts or perfumes are disclosed. In particular, the bleach catalysts are formed into stable particles having low moisture content and low moisture pick-up. Particles are also described having low surface area. Particles containing bleach catalysts or perfumes are also described comprising a protective agent which reacts with water to form non-water reaction products, particularly preferred protective agents being bleach activators.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2003Date of Patent: April 12, 2005Assignee: Procter & GambleInventors: David Johnathan Kitko, Colin Stephenson
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Patent number: 6875734Abstract: The use of compounds of the formula (1) M(L)nXm??(1) where M is a metal atom from the group Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Mo, W, L is a ligand from the group of nitrogen-containing heterocycles, X is chloride, bromide, nitrate, perchlorate, sulfate, ammonia, tetrafluoroborate, hexafluorophosphate or an anion of an organic acid having 1 to 22 carbon atoms, n is a number from 2 to 4 and m is a number from 0 to 4, as catalyst for peroxygen compounds, in particular in washing, bleaching and cleaning compositions is claimed.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2004Date of Patent: April 5, 2005Assignee: Clariant GmbHInventors: Gerd Reinhardt, Ekaterina Jonas, Daniel Kewitz, Aylin Karadag, Hans Prehler
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Patent number: 6861400Abstract: The present invention relates to novel hydrophobic soil dispersants having the formula: wherein A units are arylene units, one of which is phenyl, anthryl, or phenanthryl; each R is independently hydrogen, linear or branched C1-C4 alkyl, —O(R3O)mR4, and mixtures thereof; R3 is C2-C4 linear or branched alkylene, R4 is hydrogen, C1-C4 alkyl, phenyl, phenyl sulphonate, —CH2CH(SO3M)CH2OH, —CH2CH(OH)CH2SO3M, —(CH2)eSO3M, —(CH2)fCO2M, —(CH2)eCH(SO3M)-CH2SO3M, —(CH2)eCH(SO2M)-CH2SO3M, —(CH2)fPO3M, —PO3M, or mixtures thereof; M is hydrogen or a water-soluble cation, the index f is an integer from 1 to 6, the index e is an integer from 0 to 6, m is an integer from 0 to 25; R1 is a sulphonate group; R2 is an amino group; [CAP] is a chain capping unit selected from i) hydrogen; ii) an aryl unit having the formula: iii) an aryl unit having the formula: iv) an aryl unit having the formula: v) an aryl unit having the formula: vi) and mixtures thereof; R5 is hydrogen, —CH2OH, —CH2OSO3M, —CH3, and mixType: GrantFiled: July 31, 2002Date of Patent: March 1, 2005Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Co.Inventors: Daniel Stedman Connor, Rafael Ortiz
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Patent number: 6846791Abstract: The present invention relates to hydrophobically modified polyamines and laundry detergent compositions comprising such polyamines and a surfactant system. In addition to traditional cleaning benefits, such compositions provide enhanced greasy soil removal capabilities.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2000Date of Patent: January 25, 2005Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Jeffrey Scott Dupont, Eugene Paul Gosselink, Kenneth Nathan Price, Robert Henry Rohrbaugh
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Patent number: 6833343Abstract: A bleaching detergent formulation comprising the components of: (A) particles comprising 0.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2002Date of Patent: December 21, 2004Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Muneo Aoyagi, Hiroshi Danjo, Masakazu Furukawa, Kazuyoshi Ozaki
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Patent number: 6828293Abstract: Water-soluble granules of salen-type manganese complexes that are suitable as catalysts in reactions with peroxy compounds are described. The granules are used especially in washing agents. They are distinguished by retarded dissolution and improved action of the manganses complexes.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2002Date of Patent: December 7, 2004Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals CorporationInventors: Menno Hazenkamp, Frank Bachmann, Cornelia Makowka, Petr Kvita, Rolf Kuratli, Anita Schmidlin
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Patent number: 6825162Abstract: Water soluble granules or particles of saldimine-type manganese complexes that are suitable as catalysts in reactions with peroxy compounds are described. The granules are used especially in washing agents. They are distinguished by retarded disssolution of and improved action of the manganese complexes.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2004Date of Patent: November 30, 2004Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals CorporationInventors: Menno Hazenkamp, Bryan David Grey, Kishor Kumar Mistry, Frank Bachmann, Josef Dannacher, Kenneth Charles Symes, Petr Kvita, Susanne Maier
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Patent number: 6812198Abstract: The present invention relates to hydrophobically modified polyamines and laundry detergent compositions which comprise said polyamines, said compositions comprising: A) from about 0.01%, preferably from about 0.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2002Date of Patent: November 2, 2004Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Jeffrey Scott Dupont, Eugene Paul Gosselink, Kenneth Nathan Price, Robert Henry Rohrbaugh
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Patent number: 6806246Abstract: The present invention relates to bleach activator particles that are useful in compositions such as detergent compositions. The present invention also encompasses detergent compositions containing such particles.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2002Date of Patent: October 19, 2004Assignee: Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Karl Matthew Preissner, Angelica Damaris Brown
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Patent number: 6797196Abstract: A bleaching formulation comprising (a) a peroxy bleaching agent selected from hydrogen peroxide and a peroxide or an organic peracid capable of generating hydrogen peroxide in an aqueous solution, (b) an anionic bleaching catalyst containing a metal, and (c) a cationic compound, and a bleaching method comprising using the bleaching formulation wherein pretreatment with component (c) precedes treatment with components (a) and (b), or components (a), (b), and (c) are used simultaneously.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2002Date of Patent: September 28, 2004Assignee: Kao CorporationInventor: Hiroshi Danjo
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Patent number: 6746996Abstract: Transition metal complexes used as bleach catalysts of the formula (1) M(L)nXm (1) where M is a metal atom from the group Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Mo, W, L is a ligand of the formula R1R2C═N—O(H)z R1 is C1-C22-alkyl, C2-C22-alkenyl or C5-C24-aryl, R2 is H, C1-C22-alkyl, C2-C22-alkenyl, C5-C24-aryl or where z=0 or 1, X is a neutral or anion ligand from the group consisting of pyridines, imidazolines, methylimidazoles, picolines, lutidines, chloride, bromide, nitrate, perchlorate, citrate, hexafluorophosphate or anions of organic acids having C1-C22 carbon atoms, n is a number from 2 to 4 and m is a number from 0 to 4.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2002Date of Patent: June 8, 2004Assignee: Clariant GmbHInventors: Gerd Reinhardt, Michael Seebach, Nicole Reichardt, Laszlo I. Simandi, Tatiana M. Simandi, Gabor Besenyei
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Patent number: 6737391Abstract: A process for preventing the redeposition of migrant dyes in a washing liquor by adding to each liter of the washing liquor, which comprises a peroxide-containing detergent, from 0.5 to 150 mg of one or more asymmetric manganese complexes of the salen type.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2002Date of Patent: May 18, 2004Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals CorporationInventors: Frank Bachmann, Josef Dannacher, Cornelia Makowka, Gunther Schlingloff, Peter Weingartner, Grit Richter
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Publication number: 20040077514Abstract: The present invention relates to laundry detergent compositions which provide enhance hydrophilic soil cleaning benefits, said compositions comprising:Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2003Publication date: April 22, 2004Inventors: Kenneth Nathan Price, Eugene Paul Gosselink, Randall Scott Deinhammer