Abstract: A process for increasing the apparent density of spray-dried detergents comprising spraying the spray-dried detergents with both a liquid nonionic surfactant and an aqueous solution of an alkali metal silicate either simultaneously or in successive steps, and mixing the resultant mixture.

Abstract: A process for the production of pourable foam inhibitor granules comprising forming an aqueous solution of a mixture of an alkali metal carboxymethyl cellulose and a nonionic cellulose ether and maintaining the aqueous solution at slightly elevated temperature until the viscosity is at least 60% of the viscosity obtained by complete swelling of the solution, adding a water insoluble foam inhibitor and a phosphate-free mixture of at least two of an alkali metal silicate, an alkali metal carbonate and an alkali metal sulfate into the aqueous mixture which is then spray-dried to form the pourable foam inhibitor granules.The invention also relates to the pourable foam inhibitor granules produced by the above process.

Abstract: A free-flowing washing powder of low specific gravity (powder density 300 to 500 g/l) and containing large quantities of nonionic surfactants is produced by spray-drying an aqueous suspension containing on the spray-dried basis (A) from 15 to 30% by weight of nonionic tensides, (B) from 8 to 18% by weight of sodium silicate, (C) from 25 to 55% by weight of finely crystalline zeolite, (D) from 0 to 25% by weight of sodium tripolyphosphate, (E) no more than 3% by weight of soap and synthetic anionic tensides, and from 35 to 50% by weight of water. The suspension, which has a temperature of from 75.degree. C. to 90.degree. C., is sprayed through nozzles into a drying zone under a pressure of from 35 to 100 bar. The drying gas flowing in countercurrent has an entry temperature of from 160.degree. C. to 240.degree. C. and an exit temperature of from 80.degree. C. to 95.degree. C. The spray-dried product contains from 9 to 16% by weight of water which is removable at a drying temperature of 130.degree. C.

Abstract: This invention relates to a granular, free-flowing detergent component which dissolves rapidly in water and which has a powder density of from 550 to 900 g/l, consisting of synthetic, essentially nonionic surfactants, inorganic supports, other organic washing aids, and water bound by adsorption and in hydrate form. The detergent component is produced by spray-drying, and more than 50% by weight thereof consists of droplet-like to rodlet-like particles having an average diameter of from about 0.02 to 1.5 mm, an average length of from about 0.1 to 5 mm, and a ratio of average diameter to average length of from about 1:1.2 to 1:10, optionally coated with a finely divided water-soluble or water-dispersible solid material as a fluidity improving agent.

Abstract: A spray-dried, high-sudsing detergent granulate is disclosed having a bulk density of not more than 450 gm/l and a high content of anionic tensides, which is characterized by a granule structure resistant to mechanical and climatic influences. The detergent granulate contains a tenside component of alkylbenzene sulfonates and, possibly, fatty alcohol sulfates, a builder component of sodium tripolyphosphate, finely crystalline sodium aluminosilicate (zeolite NaA) and sodium silicate. For the preparation, an aqueous slurry is sprayed in spray-drying equipment. The obtained spray-dried product has a porous granule structure with a mean granule size of 0.4 to 0.8 mm. The bulk density is preferably in the range from 250 to 400 gm/l.

Abstract: C.sub.8 -C.sub.40 Alcohols, or C.sub.8 -.sub.C 40 alcohol containing one or more hydroxyl groups and onto which up to 20 moles of ethylene oxide and/or propylene oxide can be added per mole of alcohol, when added to aqueous industrial anionic surfactant concentrates, particularly concentrates of .alpha.-sulfofatty acid esters containing at least 50% by weight of the sodium salt of .alpha.-sulfofatty acid ester, significantly improve the rheological behavior thereof. The alcohols are added in quantities of from about 1 to about 15% by weight, based on the quantity of surfactant, whereupon the viscosity of the surfactant concentrate becomes at most 10,000 mPas at 70.degree. C.

Abstract: Process for reducing the viscosity of aqueous concentrates of anionic surfactants by adding thereto a small quantity of a compound containing polyglycol ether groups; and the aqueous concentrates prepared thereby.

Abstract: Aqueous suspensions of water-insoluble, calcium-binding aluminosilicates with an improved stability against settling comprising at least 20% by weight of at least one finely-divided, water-insoluble silicate compound having a calcium-binding power of at least 50 mg CaO/gm of anhydrous active substance and having the formula, combined water not shown(M.sub.2/n O).sub.x . Me.sub.2 O.sub.3.(SiO.sub.2).sub.ywhere M is a cation of the valence n, exchangeable with calcium, x is a number of from 0.7 to 1.5, Me is aluminum or boron, and y is a number from 0.8 to 6, and at least 0.5% by weight of a practically water-insoluble nonionic aliphatic surface-active compound having a turbidity point of a 1% solution in water of below room temperature, and the remainder an aqueous liquor. The said suspensions are pumpable and suitable as stock solution in the preparation of washing agent compositions.

Abstract: In the production of a spray-dried detergent containing a silicone/silica mixture as an antifoaming agent, the aqueous silicone-free detergent slurry (A) is combined in the range of the spray nozzle or in the pressure line leading to the spray nozzle under conditions whereby substantial mixing is avoided in order to avoid loss of the antifoaming action, with an aqueous dispersion (B) which contains the liquid antifoaming silicone agent, which is present in a particle size of from 0.5 to 40 .mu.m, as well as a film-forming, high-molecular-weight polymer which is soluble or swellable in water, and which is suitable for the formation of microcapsules, preferably a cellulose ether. The microcapsules are formed during the combination of the mixture (A) with the dispersion (B) at the time of spraying, or in the dispersion itself, if electrolyte salts were added to the latter before spraying.

Abstract: This invention is directed to a method of preparing block copolymers useful as foam inhibitors, which method comprises the steps of:(1) mixing (a) from 100 parts by weight of a polydimethylsiloxane that is liquid at 20.degree. C., and (b) from about 2 to 20 parts by weight of a spatially cross-linked polysiloxane resin with a molecular weight of from about 1000 to 10,000;(2) heating said mixture in the presence of a catalyst until the viscosity is at least 200 mPa.s, as measured at 20.degree. C., to form a block polymer;(3) mixing said block polymer with (c) from about 0.5 to 15 parts by weight of a silicon dioxide aerogel; and(4) heating the mixture from step (3).

Abstract: The hobbing machine is formed with a work table housing enclosing a work table rotatable about a workpiece axis, and indexing gear system for driving the work table; a stationary stand supports for movement parallel to the work axis a hob carriage, the latter supporting a swivel head and a hob slide movable transversely to the work axis and carrying a hob spindle; a hob driving gear system, a separate feed driving system, a differential and differential change gears are arranged in the hob carriage whereas indexing change gears are arranged in the work table housing and coupled to the differential in the hob carriage.

Abstract: A hobbing machine for manufacturing spur and worm gears comprises a tool support provided with a support carriage movable in the direction of the axis of the blank to be machined and carrying a milling head provided with a separate feed drive which actuates via a branch gearing axial and tangential feed gear element and is connected via differential gears to a gear train for a hob. The branch gearing is arranged in the movable support carriage and includes a switch wheel which is engageable either with a drive wheel of the axial feed gear train or with the drive wheel of the tangential feed gear train and is controlled by a switching lever located on the support carriage.

Abstract: Stable, pumpable, aqueous suspensions of water-insoluble, calcium-binding aluminosilicates suitable as stock suspensions comprising (A) from 20% to 55% by weight of at least one finely-divided, water-insoluble silicate compound having a calcium-binding power of at least 50 mg CaO/gm of anhydrous active substance and having the formula, combined water not shown(M.sub.2/n O).sub.x.Me.sub.2 O.sub.3.(SiO.sub.2).sub.ywhere M is a cation of the valence n, exchangeable with calcium, x is a number of from 0.7 to 1.5, Me is aluminum or boron, and y is a number from 0.8 to 6, (B) from 0.2% to 5% by weight of at least one organic dispersing agent as follows:lower alkylene oxide or glycide adducts of the reaction product of .epsilon.-caprolactam with an N-mono- or di-higher alkyl/alkenyl-alkylenediamine.

Abstract: A pourable agglomerated aluminosilicate builder composition comprising(A) from 20% to 70% by weight of at least one finely-divided, synthetically-produced, water-insoluble aluminosilicate compound containing at least some combined water and having a calcium binding power of at least 50 mg CaO/gm of anhydrous active substance and the formula on the anhydrous basis(M.sub.2/n O).sub.x. Me.sub.2 O.sub.3.(SiO.sub.2).sub.ywhere M is a cation of the valence n, exchangeable with calcium, x is a number from 0.7 to 1.5, Me is aluminum or boron, and y is a number from 0.8 to 6, and(B) from 30% to 80% by weight of at least two water-soluble alkali metal salts containing water of crystallization selected from the group consisting of tripolyphosphates, pyrophosphates, orthophosphates, sulfates, carbonates, metasilicates and borates; as well as the process of production of the same.

Abstract: Stable, pumpable, aqueous suspensions of water-insoluble, calcium-binding aluminosilicates suitable as stock suspensions comprising (A) from 20% to 55% by weight of at least one finely-divided, water-insoluble silicate compound having a calcium-binding power of at least 50 mg CaO/gm of anhydrous active substance and having the formula, combined water not shown(M.sub.2/n O).sub.x . Me.sub.2 O.sub.3 . (SiO.sub.2).sub.ywhere M is a cation of the valence n, exchangeable with calcium, x is a number of from 0.7 to 1.5, Me is aluminum or boron, and y is a number from 0.8 to 6, (B) from 0.2% to 5% by weight of at least one organic dispersing agent as follows:(1) lower alkylene oxide or glycide adducts of an N-higher alkyl/alkenyl-alkylenediamine,(2) lower alkylene oxide or glycide adducts of the reaction product of .epsilon.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of powdery washing agent compositions by spray-drying compositions containing aqueous suspensions of water-insoluble, calcium-binding aluminosilicates with an improved stability against settling comprising at least 20% by weight of at least one finely-divided, water-insoluble silicate compound having a calcium-binding power of at least 50 mg CaO/gm of anhydrous active substance and having the formula, combined water not shown(M.sub.2/n O).sub.x.multidot. Me.sub.2 O.sub.3.multidot. (SiO.sub.2).sub.ywhere M is a cation of the valence n, exchangeable with calcium, x is a number of from 0.7 to 1.5, Me is aluminum or boron, and y is a number from 0.8 to 6, and at least 0.

Abstract: Aqueous suspensions of water-insoluble, calcium-binding aluminosilicates with an improved stability against settling comprising at least 20% by weight of at least one finely-divided, water-insoluble silicate compound having a calcium-binding power of at least 50 mg CaO/gm of anhydrous active substance and having the formula, combined water not shown(M.sub.2/n O).sub.x . Me.sub.2 O.sub.3 . (SiO.sub.2).sub.ywhere M is a cation of the valence n, exchangeable with calcium, x is a number of from 0.7 to 1.5, Me is aluminum or boron, and y is a number from 0.8 to 6, and at least 0.5% by weight of at least one organic dispersing agent as follows:(1) an organic, macromolecular polymer with carboxyl and/or hydroxyl groups,(2) an organic phosphonic acid with at least one additional phosphonic or carboxylic acid group,(3) an alkyl acid phosphate having 3 to 20 carbon atoms in the alkyl(4) a nonionic surface-active compound with a turbidity point in aqueous butoxyethoxyethanol according to DIN 53917 of below 90.degree. C.