Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Wayne C. Jaeschke
  • Citral acetal ethers of alpha-hydroxy phenyl ketones and radiation curable compositions thereof
    Patent number: 5466721
    Abstract: Provided are compounds having the formula: ##STR1## wherein: R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are independently selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, an aliphatic group, a hetero-aliphatic group, an aromatic group, and a heterocyclic group, provided that R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 may together form a divalent radical selected from the group consisting of an aliphatic radical and hetero-aliphatic group;each R.sup.3 is independently selected from the group consisting of an aliphatic group, a hetero-aliphatic group, an aromatic group, and a heterocyclic group;R.sup.4 is selected from the group consisting of an aliphatic group, a hetero-aliphatic group, an aromatic group, and a heterocyclic group; andn is an integer from 0 to 5.Also provided are polymerizable compositions containing such compounds and a method of coating a substrate which uses such polymerizable compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 14, 1995
    Assignee: Henkel Corporation
    Inventor: Paul E. Share
  • Dispersion-based heat-sealable coating
    Patent number: 5464494
    Abstract: Film-forming reactive systems for the surface-to-surface bonding and/or coating of substrates, more particularly for heat-sealable coatings are provided. The system is based on an aqueous dispersion of at least two epoxy-curable resins (I) and an epoxy compound as the curing component (II). The epoxy-curable resins are a polyurethane polymer containing epoxy-reactive functional groups present as the curable resin (Ia) and an aqueous dispersion of an acrylate and/or methacrylate homopolymer or copolymer containing carboxyl and/or methylol groups present as an additional curable resin (Ib). Also provided is a method for the production of laminates which employs the reactive system to bond substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 7, 1995
    Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien
    Inventors: Gerd Bolte, Guenter Henke, Ulrike Brueninghaus
  • Thermally stable textile lubricants
    Patent number: 5464546
    Abstract: Thermally stable textile lubricants obtained by reaction ofa) polyols withb) fatty acids containing 6 to 22 carbon atoms in the presence of 0.05 to 8% by weight, based on the sum of components a) and b), ofc) esters of thiocarboxylic acids corresponding to general formula (I) and/or (II):R.sup.1 --S--R.sup.2 --COOH (I)HOOC--R.sup.3 --S--R.sup.4 --COOH (II)in which R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 may be the same or different and represent an alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl or alkaryl group containing 1 to 22 carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 7, 1995
    Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien
    Inventors: Norbert Bialas, Raymond Mathis, Richard P. Crews, Elbert H. Mudge, F. Norman Tuller
  • Process for fixing dyes in textile materials
    Patent number: 5464452
    Abstract: A process for fixing dyes impregnated in fine-dimensional synthetic textile substrates in an environmentally safe manner. The process comprises contacting the dyed synthetic substrates with a phenol- and formaldehyde-free dye-fixative composition comprising: (a) polymethacrylic acid, (b) copolymers of methacrylic acid consisting essentially of methacrylic acid and an ethylenically unsaturated comonomer selected from the group consisting of 2-acrylamido-2-methyl-propanesulfonic acid, sodium vinyl sulfonate, sodium styrene sulfonate, alkyl acrylate, and combinations thereof, (c) combinations of (a) and (b), and (d) water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 7, 1995
    Assignee: Henkel Corporation
    Inventors: Arthur H. Cole, Susan C. Glenn, Grannis S. Johnson
  • Fibers containing an antistatic finish and process therefor
    Patent number: 5464678
    Abstract: Process for applying an antistatic finish to synthetic fibers having at least 10 denier per filament comprising of steps of applying to the fibers to be treated a composition comprising at least one salt of a phosphate partial ester containing a C.sub.12 straight chain alkyl group, a lubricant, and an anionic and/or cationic emulsifier; and autoclaving the treated fibers at a temperature in the range of from about 93.degree. to 150.degree. F. The invention also relates to the synthetic fibers so treated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 7, 1995
    Assignee: Henkel Corporation
    Inventors: Elbert H. Mudge, Charles G. DeWitt
  • Process for the production of ether carboxylic acids and salts thereof
    Patent number: 5463114
    Abstract: Ether carboxylic acids of the formula (I):R--(OC.sub.m H.sub.2m).sub.n --O--CH.sub.2 COOM (I)wherein R is an alkyl group having from 1 to about 22 carbon atoms, an aryl group or an aralkyl group; m is 2 or 3; n is a number from 1 to about 200; M is an alkali metal are made by oxidation of an ether alcohol wherein the ether alcohol, oxygen, and an alkali metal hydroxide are continuously added to an aqueous dispersion of a noble metal catalyst under reduced pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1995
    Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien
    Inventors: Wolf-Eckart Noack, Paul Schulz, F. Norman Tuller
  • Reactive systems and/or polymer composition for tissue contact with the living body
    Patent number: 5461124
    Abstract: Described is the use of physiologically compatible tocopherols and especially of vitamin E as an inhibitor against premature polymerization initiation in reactive systems capable of undergoing a free radical-initiated polymerization, which systems before and/or after the polymerization thereof are placed in tissue contact with the living human or animal body and, more specifically, are implanted into the living organism thereby. The reactive systems and the polymers formed therefrom may be degradation resistant. However, a special embodiment relates to compositions or molded bodies which are decomposed by the living organism, and especially so under time-controlled conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1995
    Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien
    Inventors: Wolfgang Ritter, Hans-Dieter Sitz
  • Fluid-drill-hole treatment agents based on carbonic acid diesters
    Patent number: 5461028
    Abstract: Described is the use of oleophilic monomeric and/or oligomeric diesters of carbonic acid with the same or different oil-soluble and ecologically compatible mono-functional and optionally polyfunctional alcohols as a component of oil-based or water-based drilling fluids and other fluid drill-hole treatment agents. The invention in one embodiment comprises oil-based fluids, and particularly inverted fluids of the W/O type, which in the continuous phase at least in part contain oleophilic carbonic acid diesters. In a further important embodiment the invention relates to water-based emulsion fluids which in the dispersed oil phase at least in part contain said oleophilic carbonic acid diesters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1995
    Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien
    Inventors: Heinz Mueller, Claus-Peter Herold, Alfred Westfechtel, Stephan von Tapavicza
  • Aqueous lubricant and surface conditioner for formed metal surfaces
    Patent number: 5458698
    Abstract: A lubricant and surface conditioner for formed metal surfaces, particularly aluminum and tin beverage containers, reduces the coefficient of static friction of said metal surfaces and enables drying said metal surfaces at a lower temperature. The conditioner includes a water-soluble organic material selected from alkoxylated or non-alkoxylated castor oil triglycerides and hydrogenated castor oil derivatives; alkoxylated and nonoalkoxylated amine salts of a fatty acid including mono-, di-, tri-, and poly-acids; alkoxylated and non-alkoxylated amino fatty acids; alkoxylated and non-alkoxylated fatty amine N-oxides, alkoxylated and non-alkoxylated quaternary ammonium salts, oxa-acid esters, and water-soluble alkoxylated and non-alkoxylated polymers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1995
    Assignee: Henkel Corporation
    Inventors: James P. Bershas, Timm L. Kelly, Gary L. Rochfort
  • Process for the production of beta-diketone
    Patent number: 5457236
    Abstract: In a process for preparing betadiketones which comprises an alkaline condensation of an ester and an acetophenone in the presence of an alkaline catalyst in an inert organic solvent, the improvement comprising at least one of the following conditions:(i) adding the acetophenone to the reaction mixture in a time period sufficiently short whereby degradation products in the reaction mixture are minimized;(ii) at the completion of the reaction, adding additional solvent to rapidly decrease the temperature of the reaction product mixture.(iii) mixing the organic solvent phase with the aqueous acid phase in the acidification step for a time period sufficiently long whereby the concentration of alkali metal remaining in the organic solvent phase is substantially zero; and(iv) decreasing the time between the completion of the acetophenone addition step and the initiation of the acidification step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1995
    Assignee: Henkel Corporation
    Inventors: Leroy O. Krbechek, Mary I. Casey
  • Fluid to pasty washing agent containing bleach
    Patent number: 5456850
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fluid to pasty, phosphate-free washing agent, containing, based on the washing agent, (A) a tenside component of 20 to 35% w/w which comprises (A1) 1 to 4% w/w of anionic tensides of the class of sulphonates and soaps, (A2) 16 to 34% w/w non-ionic tensides with a setting point of, at the highest, 10.degree. C., (B) 10 to 35% w/w builder salts which are either complexing or which bind alkaline earth metal ions, (C) 15 to 40% w/w sodium metasilicate, (D) 8 to 25% w/w bleaching per-salts, (E) up to 15% w/w other washing agent ingredients, (F) less than 3% w/w water, with the proviso that the sum of components B+C=30 to 60% w/w.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1995
    Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien
    Inventors: Uwe Trabitzsch, Guenther Amberg, Paul Schulz, Jean-Marie Paillau
  • Process for the preparation of glycosides
    Patent number: 5457190
    Abstract: A process for preparing aliphatic polysaccharides in which a slurry of a hydrous saccharide source in a first portion of aliphatic alcohol is introduced into a second portion of the aliphatic alcohol maintained at an elevated temperature and under a reduced pressure to form a mixture of saccharide source and alcohol with a reduced water content, introducing an acid catalyst into the mixture with the reduced water content and reacting the aliphatic alcohol with the saccharide source to form an aliphatic glycoside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1995
    Assignee: Henkel Corporation
    Inventors: Michael W. Gibson, Patrick M. McCurry, Jr., Carl E. Pickens
  • Process for controlling a fluoride containing conversion coating forming composition during its use for conversion coating aluminum containing metal
    Patent number: 5454882
    Abstract: The invention is a method for the accurate control of the conversion film thickness produced on aluminiferous metal materials by fluorine-containing acidic conversion treatment baths; and a simple method for determining the EFC value (Effective Fluorine Concentration). The EFC value is determined by potentiometric titration of a fluorine-containing acidic conversion treatment bath having pH<4 without prior pH adjustment using a fluorine ion electrode as indicator electrode. The titrant is an aqueous solution containing the Al ion, La ion, Y ion, Zr ion, Ga ion, Ce ion, or Be ion, an inflection point in the potential curve is used as an indication of the activity of the conversion treatment bath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1995
    Assignee: Henkel Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuo Asai, Yuzuru Matsubara, Hitoshi Ishi
  • Apparatus and process for recovering metal from an aqueous solution
    Patent number: 5454917
    Abstract: The invention is an apparatus and process for recovering metal from a solution. This apparatus is a structure having an anode formed from a plurality of reducing metal elements and a cathode formed from a high surface area electrically conductive material such as metal wire. The reducing metal elements of the anode have a more negative standard state reduction potential than the metal to be recovered. This invention is also a process in which a metal is recovered by contacting a solution of a metal to be recovered with the apparatus of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1995
    Assignee: Cognis, Inc.
    Inventors: Phillip L. Mattison, William E. Friestad, John Fast
  • Methods of making and using thermoplastic block copolymers
    Patent number: 5455309
    Abstract: Methods of producing thermoplastic poly(amide-urethane) block copolymers having excellent flexibility at low temperatures are provided. The methods comprise reacting substantially linear polyamides, the polyamides being based on dimerized fatty acids and terminated by carboxyl and/or amino groups and aliphatic or cycloaliphatic polyethers and/or reaction products thereof with 2,3-epoxypropanol. The reaction products contain substantially no free isocyanate groups or epoxide groups. The invention also relates to the use of these products as adhesives and corrosion inhibitors for metallic and/or wooden materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1995
    Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien
    Inventors: Italo Albini, Werner Gruber, Norbert Wiemers, Juergen Wichelhaus, Roberto Leoni, Angela Rossini
  • Process for the production of fatty acid lower alkyl esters
    Patent number: 5455370
    Abstract: Fatty acid glycerides can be transesterified with lower aliphatic alcohols if the reaction is carried out in the presence of fatty acids corresponding to formula (II):R.sup.2 --COOH (II),in which R.sup.2 is an aliphatic hydrocarbon moiety containing 11 to 17 carbon atoms and 0, 1 or 2 double bonds. The products are distinguished by a low content of bound glycerol and a low acid value. Removal or neutralization of the catalyst is unnecessary because, after the transesterification, the fatty acids are also present in the form of their esters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1995
    Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien
    Inventors: Guenther Demmering, Christian Pelzer, Lothar Friesenhagen
  • Water-containing adhesive based on casein
    Patent number: 5455066
    Abstract: An adhesive based on casein, water-soluble extenders, natural or synthetic resin acids, resin alcohols or resin esters, and an alcohol is provided. The adhesive has specific amounts of these ingredients which leads to a viscosity of the adhesive which is temperature dependent to a surprisingly large extent. The adhesive is particularly useful in the labelling of bottles wherein the surface of the bottles is wet and cold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1995
    Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien
    Inventors: Ludwig Broich, Bernhard Herlfterkamp, Hermann Onusseit
  • Precifitation process for exocellular proteins
    Patent number: 5453200
    Abstract: In a process for separating the exocellular proteins from the micro-organisms of a filtered fermentation liquor, the removal of solid is to be improved while retaining the useful substance. This is achieved by, in a first stage, removing substances preventing protein precipitation with the aid of a solid adsorption agent; concentrating the remaining solution to a protein content of about 30 to 40% by weight; and then precipitating and separating the protein, optionally with the addition of precipitants for protein to accelerate the precipitation, at pH values between 6 and 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1995
    Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien
    Inventors: Albrecht Weiss, Wolfgang Berke
  • Temporary coating system
    Patent number: 5453459
    Abstract: The invention is a composition for providing a temporary coating to protect the surface of an article and a solvent free composition for rapidly removing the coating from the article. The invention also includes a method for protecting a surface of an article and a system for carrying out the process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1995
    Assignee: Henkel Corporation
    Inventor: Wilbert J. Roberts
  • Process of preparing a concentrated water-based liquid detergent
    Patent number: 5451336
    Abstract: A process for preparing a storage-stable and free-flowing concentrated water-based liquid detergent containing 15 to 35% by weight of anionic surfactant, 20 to 35% by weight of nonionic surfactant, and from 5 to 20% by weight of alcohol. A dilute sodium hydroxide solution is heated to 70.degree. to 85.degree. C. to which is added a fatty acid and the alcohol. The mixture is stirred at 350 to 500 r.p.m. for 3 to 10 minutes. The anionic surfactant and nonionic surfactant are added to the mixture and stirred at 150 to 350 r.p.m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1995
    Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien
    Inventors: Karl Schwadtke, Eric Sung