Abstract: A method of releasing molded articles from a mold by coating the mold with zero grain soft water prior to insertion of the material to be molded into the mold, zero grain soft water meaning the substantially total absence of divalent ions, such as calcium or magnesium, in the water.

Abstract: A composition which provides both a conditioning and sun-screening effect for hair and skin wherein the active agent comprises a salt of certain long chain cationic bases and certain acidic substances wherein the acidic moiety provides the sun-screening effect and the cationic moiety provides the tissue conditioning effect. The acidic substances have an acidic or pseudoacidic hydrogen or a lactone thereof, whereas the cationic moiety are long-chain quaternary ammonium salts.

Abstract: Radiation-curable vehicles, and compositions containing such vehicles, for use in inks, paints, coatings, or similar compositions, such vehicles being operative without the inclusion of photo-initiators or photo-decomposible materials to accelerate the cure, and comprising condensation products of aldehydes and ketones, and such compositions being substantially free of acrylic or allylic moieties.

Abstract: A surface-active composition consisting essentially of (a) a compound having the structure: ##STR1## wherein A is either coco or tallow, R is either C.sub.2 H.sub.4 or C.sub.3 H.sub.6 and X is either OH or NH.sub.2, and wherein the arrow indicates a semi-polar bond, and (b) another surface-active agent selected from the group consisting of anionic, cationic and non-ionic surface active agents.

Abstract: Microbiocidal quaternary ammonium polymers which are made by condensing a difunctional tertiary amine with an excess of 1,4-dihalo-2-butene, then after removing the unreacted 1,4-dihalo-2-butene, adding to the reaction product a calculated quantity of a heterocyclic monofunctional tertiary amine for the purpose of forming a linear polymer whose termini at both ends are quaternary ammonium moieties.

Abstract: Bactericidal products comprising mixtures of polymeric quaternary ammonium compounds which are the condensation products of 1,4-dihalo-2-butene and a difunctional tertiary amine of the type ##STR1## wherein Z consists of from one to three aliphatic radicals of 2 to 10 carbon atoms, each aliphatic radical containing 0 to 2 double bonds and 0 to 2 hydroxy substituents; and wherein R' and R" may be either the same or different and may be either (a) primary or secondary alkyls having from 1 to 20 carbon atoms with a total sum of no greater than 36 carbon atoms, (b) hydroxy or dihydroxy derivatives of the aforesaid primary or secondary alkyls, (c) benzyl, (d) alkyl-benzyl, or (e) combined with N to form a heterocyclic group of either 5, 6 or 7 atoms.

Abstract: Radiation-curable coating compositions and inks which have as a component a polymerizable monomer or a mixture of polymerizable monomers, said monomer or monomers being represented by the formula: ##STR1## where Z represents a divalent aromatic, aliphatic or cycloaliphatic radical such as the following: ##STR2## and R is substantially an unsaturated monovalent organic radical of a polyfunctional polyethylenecally unsaturated ester.

Abstract: Anti-microbial polymeric quaternary ammonium compounds having linear chains which terminate in quaternary ammonium moieties, such compounds being formed by polymerization which is carried out in such a manner that the linear chains thereof are terminated in random fashion, the reaction resulting in the formation of the compounds being a one-step reaction between 1,4-dihalo-2-butene and a mixture of a difunctional tertiary amine and a monofunctional tertiary amine wherein the molar quantity of the difunctional amine is greater than the molar quantity of the monofunctional amine.

Abstract: Anti-Microbial Quaternary Ammonium Co-Polymers formed by the condensation of at least two di-functional tertiary amines and a molar quantity of 1,4-dihalo-2-butene that is equal to the molar sum of the di-functional tertiary amines in the mixture.

Abstract: Microbiocidally active compounds comprising the condensation products of 1,4-dihalo-2-butene and difunctional tertiary amines of the type: ##STR1## wherein Z is a cyclic or acyclic divalent aliphatic radical of 2 to 10 carbon atoms which may contain 0 to 2 double bonds or 0 to 2 hydroxy substituents; and wherein R' and R" are either the same or different and where they may be either (a) primary or secondary alkyls having 1 to 20 carbon atoms with a total sum of no greater than 36 carbon atoms, (b) hydroxy or dihydroxy derivatives of the aforesaid primary or secondary alkyls, (c) benzyl, or (d) alkyl-benzyl.

Abstract: Anti-Microbial Quaternary Ammonium Co-Polymers formed by the condensation of at least two di-functional tertiary amines and a molar quantity of 1,4-dihalo-2-butene that is equal to the molar sum of the di-functional tertiary amines in the mixture.

Abstract: Microbiocidally active compounds comprising the condensation products of 1,4-dihalo-2-butene and difunctional tertiary amines of the type: ##STR1## wherein Z is a cyclic or acyclic divalent aliphatic radical of 2 to 10 carbon atoms which may contain 0 to 2 double bonds or 0 to 2 hydroxy substituents; and wherein R' and R" are either the same or different and where they may be either (a) primary or secondary alkyls having 1 to 20 carbon atoms with a total sum of no greater than 36 carbon atoms, (b) hydroxy or dihydroxy derivatives of the aforesaid primary or secondary alkyls, (c) benzyl, (d) alkyl-benzyl, or (e) combined with N to form a heterocyclic group.

Abstract: Microbiocidal quaternary ammonium polymers which are made by condensing a difunctional tertiary amine with an excess of 1,4-dihalo-2-butene, then after removing the unreacted 1,4-dihalo-2-butene, adding to the reaction product a calculated quantity of monofunctional tertiary amine for the purpose of forming a linear polymer whose termini at both ends are quaternary ammonium moieties.

Abstract: Pearlescent hair conditioning compositions comprising aqueous emulsions or dispersions of alkyl dimethylamine oxides having from 16-22 carbon atoms in the alkyl chain.

Abstract: Water-in-oil emulsions containing a polymeric quaternary ammonium compound prepared by the condensation of 1,4-dihalo-2-butene and 1,4-bis-dimethylamino-2-butene as a biocidal agent, and wherein the emulsifying agent is an amine oxide.

Abstract: A method of inhibiting the growth of bacteria by applying thereto quaternary ammonium polymers which are made by condensing a difunctional tertiary amine with an excess of 1,4-dihalo-2-butene, then after removing the unreacted 1,4-dihalo-2-butene, adding to the reaction product a calculated quantity of monofunctional tertiary amine for the purpose of forming a linear polymer whose termini at both ends are quaternary ammonium moieties.

Abstract: This invention relates to amphoteric surface-active agents which have extremely powerful inhibitory action against Gram positive bacteria and which are substantially free from metal halide, and, particularly, sodium chloride. These compounds have the general structure: ##EQU1## wherein R is a straight chain alkyl having from 6 to 16 carbon atoms, R' is a lower alkyl, and M is either hydrogen, an alkali metal or an alkylolamine.

Abstract: The compound N-trimethylbenzyl diethylenetriamine and its use in a disinfectant and cleansing composition containing a surfactant selected from the group consisting of anionic, cationic and non-ionic surfactants.

Abstract: This invention relates to amphoteric surface-active agents which have extremely powerful inhibitory action against Gram positive bacteria and which are substantially free from metal halide, and, particularly, sodium chloride. These compounds have the general structure: ##EQU1## wherein R is a straight chain alkyl having from 6 to 16 carbon atoms, R' is a lower alkyl, and M is either hydrogen, an alkali metal or an alkylolamine.