Patents Examined by Dennis L. Albrecht
  • Patent number: 4636330
    Abstract: A material for depositing perfume on a surface comprises particles having a size of 0.1 to 2000 microns, the particles containing a perfume and a matrix material, the matrix material being a cationic component, optionally together with a nonionic component. When the nonionic component is present the cationic to nonionic ratio is at least 5:1. The particles may be incorporated in a solid or liquid fabric washing detergent composition or hard surface cleaner. Suitable cationic materials include quaternary ammonium compounds. Suitable nonionic materials include esters of polyhydric alcohols, fatty alcohols and derivatives thereof. Compared to products containing the same amount of perfume in the free state, the products of the invention give improved deposition and perfume retention on the treated surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1985
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1987
    Assignee: Lever Brothers Company
    Inventor: James B. Melville
  • Patent number: 4632768
    Abstract: Granular laundry detergent compositions containing swellable clays as fabric softener ingredients can clog dispensers in automatic washing machines. By the present invention, the softener clays are formed into agglomerates and coated with a dispensing aid to overcome this problem. Water-soluble quaternary ammonium compounds are preferred dispensing aids; fully-formulated laundry detergents are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 30, 1986
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Neil J. Atkinson
  • Patent number: 4629477
    Abstract: The invention relates to coagulating compositions for coagulating lacquers, waxes and coating compositions, more especially two-component polyurethane lacquers, which contain a mixture of cyanamide and/or dicyanodiamide and/or calcium cyanamide in an amount of from 1% to 80% by weight in conjunction with substances normally present in coagulating compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1986
    Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien
    Inventor: Juergen Geke
  • Patent number: 4622173
    Abstract: A mixture of an acid terminated non-ionic surfactant and a quaternary ammonium salt surfactant provide better detergency than equivalent amounts of either of the surfactant compounds alone. The surfactant mixture is preferably used in conjunction with liquid non-ionic surfactant in heavy duty non-aqueous laundry detergents but can also be used in aqueous liquid detergent compositions and powder detergent compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 11, 1986
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Co.
    Inventors: Guy Broze, Danielle Bastin
  • Patent number: 4620937
    Abstract: A cleaning agent for use as an industrial heavy duty cleaner, as well as being a hand cleaner and an all purpose cleaner. The cleaning agent has citric oil as its basic ingredient, and preferably includes a distilled, stabilized citric oil mixture including distilled D-Limonene, stearic and oleic acids, and a non-ionic detergent. Additionally, Aloe Vera juice and/or vinegar can also be included in the cleaning agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1986
    Inventor: Joseph Dellutri
  • Patent number: 4619710
    Abstract: A composition for cleaning an in-sink garbage disposer unit containing a surfactant, an alkali carbonate and an acid. Each constituent is present in the composition in the range of 5 to 75% by weight. It is preferred that the composition contain 37.5% adipic acid, 37.5% sodium bicarbonate and 25% of a mixture of sodium lauryl sulfate and alpha-olefin sulfonate. Other ingredients may be added to the surfactant-alkali-acid composition to provide desired properties. For example, halogen containing compounds may be employed in the composition to provide germicidal properties, and abrasives may be incorporated for added physical cleaning of the disposer unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1985
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1986
    Assignee: Badger Pharmacal, Inc.
    Inventors: Cary K. Kuenn, Jean M. Young, John A. Wundrock
  • Patent number: 4618443
    Abstract: This device enables an otherwise slippery bar of soap to be able to be gripped much easier than normally when wet or dry. The bar of soap may also be used to scrub dirt from one's body or from under nails etcetera; and if necessary the brush part may be detached. In any event the soap bar may be utilized in its entirety. The soap bar has an insert providing channels on opposite surfaces of the bar in which a scrub brush is releasably engaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1985
    Date of Patent: October 21, 1986
    Inventor: John L. Jude
  • Patent number: 4617251
    Abstract: Disclosed is a stripping composition for effectively removing an organic polymeric material from a substrate. The stripping composition is essentially free of phenol compounds and halogenated hydrocarbon compounds and contains a select amine compound and an organic polar solvent. It has been found that the stripping composition is highly effective, even when the organic polymeric material to be removed from a substrate is a positive resist which has been subjected to high temperature post-baking operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1985
    Date of Patent: October 14, 1986
    Assignee: Olin Hunt Specialty Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Joseph J. Sizensky
  • Patent number: 4614612
    Abstract: An aqueous liquid detergent composition especially adapted for dishwashing, comprising 5-60% by weight of an organic synthetic surfactant system of at least two surfactants, and 5-50% by weight of a citrus juice, said organic synthetic surfactant system consisting of1. from about 30-90 parts by weight of the surfactant system of a Ca-sensitive first surfactant selected from the group consisting of water-soluble C.sub.8-16 alkyl benzene sulphonates; alkane sulphonates having 8-20 carbon atoms; olefin sulphonates having from 8-20 carbon atoms; di-C.sub.8-20 -alkyl sulphosuccinates; di-C.sub.6-12 -alkyl phenol sulphosuccinates; primary and secondary alkyl sulphates having 8-20 carbon atoms; C.sub.8-20 alkyl polyethoxy sulphates having 1-25 ethoxy groups and mixtures thereof, and2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1983
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1986
    Assignee: Lever Brothers Company
    Inventors: John T. Reilly, Roy B. Hobson, Gordon J. Abdey
  • Patent number: 4613448
    Abstract: A non-phosphate and non-NTA containing detergent composition comprising a detergent, especially an anionic or nonionic detergent and as a builder tetrahydroxysuccinic acid, and salts thereof in a weight ratio of 20:1 to 1:20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 23, 1986
    Assignee: The Colgate-Palmolive Co.
    Inventor: Bao-Ding Cheng
  • Patent number: 4612137
    Abstract: A detergent composition containing citric acid or its salt and isocitric acid or its salt as builders is provided. This composition has a remarkable effect of inhibiting yellowing of clothes caused by iron components contained in washing water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1986
    Assignee: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Mutsumi Kuroda, Moriyasu Murata
  • Patent number: 4612058
    Abstract: Liquid, solvent-free, aqueous compositions for the removal of film-forming polymeric protective coatings. The compositions contain a combination of alkanolamines and hydrotropic substances acting as solution promoters. Optionally, pH-regulating acids, thickeners, surfactants, corrosion inhibitors, biocides and/or dyes are added.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1986
    Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien
    Inventors: Juergen Geke, Dieter Meyer
  • Patent number: 4610799
    Abstract: A washing additive consisting of a bag, filled with a detergent composition, of a polyvinyl-alcohol-based film readily soluble in borate-containing aqueous solutions. The detergent composition is a mixture of a nonionic surfactant, a quaternary ammonium compound containing a long-chain radical, which may be completely or partly replaced by a fatty amine ethoxylate or by a .beta.-aminoalkyl propionic acid derivative, an activator for per compound, an antigel agent, and a viscosity regulator, wherein the mixture has a viscosity of from 1000 to 100,000 mPas for a shear gradient of from 5 to 500 s.sup.-1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1986
    Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien
    Inventors: Heinz-Manfred Wilsberg, Rolf Puchta, Klaus Koester, Franz-Josef Carduck
  • Patent number: 4610796
    Abstract: The patent specification discloses a method of softening fabrics by agitating them in an aqueous medium containing(a) a heavy duty spray dried built synthetic detergent composition consisting of 10% sodium linear tridecyl benzene sulfonate, 2% of a nonionic detergent which consists of a C.sub.14 -C.sub.15 fatty alcohol condensed with an average of 11 ethylene oxide groups per molecule, 1% of a mixed sodium coconut/tallow (20:80) fatty acid soap, 33% of pentasodium tripolyphosphate, 7% of sodium silicate wherein the ratio of Na.sub.2 O to SiO.sub.2 is 1:2.35, 0.5% sodium carboxymethyl cellulose, with the balance of the detergent composition being optical brighteners, about 38% sodium sulfate, and about 7% moisture;(b) a softening composition consisting of about 20% of distearyl dimethyl ammonium chloride, about 40% of Type A synthetic sodium molecular sieve zeolite having a mean particle diameter of 5.9 to 6.4 microns and containing about 21% water, and about 40% sodium perborate;wherein about 0.1% to about 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1986
    Assignee: The Colgate-Palmolive Co.
    Inventors: William Chirash, Harold E. Wixon
  • Patent number: 4605509
    Abstract: Detergent compositions containing aluminosilicate ion exchange materials as builders are provided. The aluminosilicate builders are characterized by the speed and efficiency with which they remove hardness ions from water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1974
    Date of Patent: August 12, 1986
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: John M. Corkill, Bryan L. Madison, Michael E. Burns
  • Patent number: 4604224
    Abstract: A phosphorus-free heavy duty synthetic organic detergent composition of improved cleaning power which includes certain proportions of sodium linear higher alkylbenzene sulfonate, molecular sieve zeolite, preferably type 4A molecular sieve zeolite, percompound oxidizing agent which is either an alkali metal perborate tetrahydrate, an alkali metal percarbonate, an alkali metal carbonate peroxide or a mixture thereof, and sodium silicate of Na.sub.2 O:SiO.sub.2 ratio in the range of 1:1 to 1:3.2. Preferably, the product also includes higher fatty alcohol polyethoxylate detergent. The invented product demonstrates good soil removal properties when compared with similar products containing a pentasodium tripolyphosphate builder salt. Methods of laundering fabrics with the invented compositions are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 5, 1986
    Assignee: Colgate Palmolive Co.
    Inventor: Bao-Ding Cheng
  • Patent number: 4601835
    Abstract: Described are the hydroxyalkoxy norbornyl ethers or mixtures of same having the structure: ##STR1## wherein one of R.sub.1 or R.sub.2 is methyl and the other of R.sub.1 or R.sub.2 is hydrogen and wherein one of the dashed lines represents a carbon-carbon bond and the other of the dashed lines represents no bond as well as methods for augmenting or enhancing the aroma of consumable materials including perfumes, colognes and perfumed articles by adding thereto an aroma augmenting or enhancing quantity of at least one of said hydroxyalkoxy norbornyl ethers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 22, 1986
    Assignee: International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.
    Inventors: Futoshi Fujioka, Richard M. Boden, William L. Schreiber
  • Patent number: 4601844
    Abstract: Granular detergent compositions suitable for use in automatic dishwashing machines are disclosed. The compositions contain detergency builder materials, a chlorine bleach component, a low-foaming nonionic surfactant compatible with the bleach and suds control components comprising an alkyl phosphate ester and a source of calcium ions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 22, 1986
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: William A. Cilley
  • Patent number: 4597889
    Abstract: A stable, homogeneous, aqueous detergent slurry is described containing polymeric acrylic stabilizers. The slurry contains about 14 weight percent to about 30 weight percent of a sodium polyphosphate, 0 to about 1 weight percent of sodium carboxymethylcellulose, 0 to about 5 weight percent of a compatible inorganic alkali metal hydroxide or salt as a viscosity modifier, a soluble nonionic surface-active agent in amounts of from about 13 weight percent to about 20 weight percent, a stabilizing amount ranging from about 0.4 to about 2 weight percent of a high molecular weight polymer of an acrylic acid, and wherein said sodium polyphosphate is present in part as insoluble particles having an average diameter of about 1 to about 10 microns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 1, 1986
    Assignee: FMC Corporation
    Inventors: Charles E. Jones, Bette-Jean Brabant
  • Patent number: 4597890
    Abstract: Stable methylchloroform solvent compositions in combination with from about 3 to about 5 volume percent of 2-butanol and from about 1 to about 3 volume percent of 3-methyl-1-butyn-3-ol have been shown to be superior solvents for removing flux from circuit boards. Such compositions have no flash point and maintain excellent distribution of the components in the vapor and liquid sections of the defluxing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 1, 1986
    Assignee: The Dow Chemical Company
    Inventors: Susan M. Dallessandro, Wesley L. Archer, Stephen P. Krupp