Abstract: Disclosed is a device for applying a cleaning solution to a surface and for applying a scrubbing action to such surface. The device comprises a reservoir, a piercable closing means enclosing the reservoir to retain the cleaning solution therein and an abrasive scrubbing pad over the open mouth of the reservoir through which cleaning solution can be extruded onto the soiled surface and which can be used to provide a scrubbing action to the soil.

Abstract: Casein with lowered cholesterol content is produced by dispersing within an aqueous medium containing casein and cholesterol an effective casein-cholesterol bond-reducing emulsifying agent, such as a polyglycerol fatty acid ester, and thereafter isolating the casein from the aqueous medium.

Abstract: Fabrics, such as those in laundry items, are softened and their tendency to accumulate static charges is lessened by application to them of a foam which includes a foaming agent, a fabric conditioner, to improve fabric softness and/or to diminish static, a normally gaseous propellant and water, after which application the laundry is tumbled, preferably in a dryer. The foam thereby becomes spread over the fabric surfaces, conditioning the laundry during a drying operation. In some products a single material may be both foaming agent and conditioner. In other formulations a foam stabilizer will be incorporated to aid the foaming agent in making a more useful foam.In preferred embodiments of the invention, the conditioning composition is a liquid held under its own pressure in a dispensing container and is discharged from it as a stable foam onto the material to be conditioned, which is in a laundry dryer.

Abstract: An apparatus for conditioning fibrous materials includes an automatic laundry dryer, usually of the substantially horizontally rotating tumbling drum type, having a substantially vertical door which closes the drum, which door has fastened to the inside thereof a conditioning article from which conditioning agent is removable on contact with the tumbling fibrous materials and becomes deposited on them. Also disclosed is a method of conditioning fibrous materials in such an apparatus.

Abstract: An article for conditioning fibrous materials includes a dispensing container of liquid fabric conditioning composition which has an opening in the wall thereof through which the conditioning composition is gradually dispensed into contact with fibrous materials to be conditioned. The conditioning composition is usually an aqueous solution of a surface active synthetic organic anionic, nonionic or cationic fabric conditioning agent, which is a softening agent that usually also makes the treated fabrics non-static. The container of conditioning composition usually includes a plurality of small dispensing openings therein and the viscosity of the solution of conditioning agent may be such that dispensing is preventable until the container comes into contact with materials to be treated or is subjected to shocks, as in tumbling of the container in contact with laundry being dried in an automatic laundry dryer.