Flush Dispensed Patents (Class 510/192)
  • Patent number: 11975090
    Abstract: A solid cleansing product including at least a first surfactant and a second surfactant present in a combined surfactant weight amount, both of the first and second surfactants being free of sulfate-containing materials; at least a first buffering agent and a second buffering agent a present in a combined buffering agent weight amount; where the combined buffering agent weight amount is at least double the combined surfactant weight amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc.
    Inventors: Donald L. Harper, Marcee Martinez, Shailendra Singh
  • Patent number: 11118140
    Abstract: Solid rinse aid compositions, methods of use, and methods of making said composition are disclosed. Rinse aid is provided by a solidification agent, a sheeting agent, a defoamer component, and a polyacrylic acid homopolymer or alkali metal salt thereof forming a solid compositions. Preferred solidification agents include aromatic sulfonates. Preferred sheeting agents include one or more alcohol ethyoxylates. Preferred defoamer components include a polymer compound including one or more ethylene oxide groups. The solid rinse aid compositions are preferably substantially free of sulfate and sulfate-containing compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: ECOLAB USA INC.
    Inventors: Carter M. Silvernail, Erik C. Olson
  • Patent number: 10392583
    Abstract: A composition for treating a hard surface. The composition has: (a) at least one adhesion promoter; (b) at least one surfactant selected from the group consisting of: anionic, non-ionic, cationic, amphoteric, zwitterionic, and combinations thereof; (c) mineral oil; (d) water; (e) optionally, at least one solvent; and wherein the composition is self-adhering upon application to a surface to be treated, and wherein the composition provides a wet film to said surface when water passes over said composition and surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael E. Klinkhammer, Thomas A. Strash, John R. Wietfeldt, Russell B. Wortley
  • Patent number: 9994803
    Abstract: Agent for cleaning and/or deodorizing for use in the sanitary field which is used to adhere to a moistened surface of a sanitary object and gradually to dissolve as it is flushed with water, which agent includes a cleaning block including tensides (10), wherein the surface (12) of the cleaning block is sticky, or becomes sticky in the presence of water, wherein the block (10) has on at least one side of its surface (12) a coating (13) of powder particles (14) to a thickness between 5 ?m and 800 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: BUCK SERVICE GMBH
    Inventors: Joachim Leipold, Edgar Jaeschke
  • Patent number: 9644359
    Abstract: Lavatory treatment devices comprise a lavatory treatment composition which includes: up to 50% wt. of an adhesion promoter constituent based on a fatty alcohol polyglycol ether as may be represented by the following structural formula (I): R—OCH2—CH2—OnH??(I) within which, R is an C12-C24 aliphatic mono- or poly-alkene moiety, and n has a value of from 1 to 50; 0.01-25% wt. of an organic solvent constituent, which is liquid at room temperature (20° C.); 0.1-25% wt. of a detersive surfactant constituent; optionally a co-adhesion promoter constituent, preferably based on one or more oxyalkylenated compounds; further optionally one or more further optional constituents which may impart a further aesthetic or technical benefit to the said lavatory treatment compositions; and, to 100% wt. of water. Preferably the lavatory treatment compositions of the lavatory treatment devices are ringing gels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: RECKITT BENCKISER LLC
    Inventors: Diane Joyce Burt, Priscila Mira Luciano
  • Patent number: 9556407
    Abstract: Compositions, method, and devices are provided for cleaning surfaces, including glass and plastic surfaces. The compositions include white carbon black. The white carbon black can be combined with a binder to form a white carbon black formulation. The white carbon black formulation can be used to clean various glass and plastic surfaces, including transparent surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Inventor: Richard Darrow
  • Patent number: 9399752
    Abstract: A composition for treating a hard surface. The composition has: (a) at least one adhesion promoter; (b) at least one surfactant selected from the group consisting of: anionic, non-ionic, cationic, amphoteric, zwitterionic, and combinations thereof; (c) mineral oil; (d) water; (e) optionally, at least one solvent; and wherein the composition is self-adhering upon application to a surface to be treated, and wherein the composition provides a wet film to said surface when water passes over said composition and surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael E. Klinkhammer, Russell B. Wortley, Thomas A. Strash
  • Patent number: 9296980
    Abstract: A composition for treating a hard surface. The composition has: (a) at least one adhesion promoter; (b) at least one surfactant selected from the group consisting of: anionic, non-ionic, cationic, amphoteric, zwitterionic, and combinations thereof; (c) mineral oil; (d) a blend of linear primary alcohols, wherein each alcohol of said blend includes a carbon chain containing 9 to 17 carbons or an ethoxylated blend thereof; (e) water; (f) optionally, at least one solvent; and wherein the composition is self-adhering upon application to a surface to be treated, and wherein the composition provides a wet film to said surface when water passes over said composition and surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael E. Klinkhammer, Russell B. Wortley, Thomas A. Strash
  • Patent number: 9181515
    Abstract: A composition for treating a hard surface. The composition has: (a) at least one adhesion promoter; (b) at least one surfactant selected from the group consisting of: anionic, non-ionic, cationic, amphoteric, zwitterionic, and combinations thereof; (c) mineral oil; (d) water; (e) optionally, at least one solvent; and wherein the composition is self-adhering upon application to a surface to be treated, and wherein the composition provides a wet film to said surface when water passes over said composition and surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael E. Klinkhammer, Thomas A. Strash, John R. Wietfeldt, Russell B. Wortley
  • Patent number: 9068145
    Abstract: A composition for treating a hard surface. The composition has: (a) at least one adhesion promoter; (b) at least one surfactant selected from the group consisting of: anionic, non-ionic, cationic, amphoteric, zwitterionic, and combinations thereof; (c) mineral oil; (d) a blend of linear primary alcohols, wherein each alcohol of said blend includes a carbon chain containing 9 to 17 carbons or an ethoxylated blend thereof; (e) water; (f) optionally, at least one solvent; and wherein the composition is self-adhering upon application to a surface to be treated, and wherein the composition provides a wet film to said surface when water passes over said composition and surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael E. Klinkhammer, Russell B. Wortley, Thomas A. Strash
  • Patent number: 8993502
    Abstract: A composition for treating a hard surface. The composition has: (a) at least one adhesion promoter; (b) at least one surfactant selected from the group consisting of: anionic, non-ionic, cationic, amphoteric, zwitterionic, and combinations thereof; (c) mineral oil; (d) a blend of linear primary alcohols, wherein each alcohol of said blend includes a carbon chain containing 9 to 17 carbons or an ethoxylated blend thereof; (e) water; (f) optionally, at least one solvent; and wherein the composition is self-adhering upon application to a surface to be treated, and wherein the composition provides a wet film to said surface when water passes over said composition and surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael E. Klinkhammer, Russell B. Wortley, Thomas A. Strash
  • Patent number: 8987182
    Abstract: A toilet cleaner composition containing perfume, at least one non-ionic surfactant, at least one alkylbenzene sulfonate, and at least one olefin sulfonate, is sufficiently malleable that it may be shaped into rotationally symmetrical toilet cleaner blocks, and in particular into spherical blocks, using a rolling machine or a press. The resulting rotationally-symmetrical toilet cleaner block may be part of a toilet cleaning system comprising at least one toilet cleaner block and at least one dispenser device for use in a toilet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Nadine Warkotsch, Brigitte Giesen, Anke Ernst, Sascha Schrecker, Christian Reichert, Ralph Butter-Jentsch, Hans-Georg Muhlhausen, Robert Stephen Cappleman, Michael Horn
  • Patent number: 8980813
    Abstract: A composition for treating a hard surface. The composition has: (a) at least one adhesion promoter; (b) at least one surfactant selected from the group consisting of: anionic, non-ionic, cationic, amphoteric, zwitterionic, and combinations thereof; (c) mineral oil; (d) water; (e) optionally, at least one solvent; and wherein the composition is self-adhering upon application to a surface to be treated, and wherein the composition provides a wet film to said surface when water passes over said composition and surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael E. Klinkhammer, Thomas A. Strash, John R. Wietfeldt, Russell B. Wortley
  • Publication number: 20150020330
    Abstract: A strip-form toilet cleaning product comprising a width (B), a height (H) and a thickness (S), wherein the ratio between width (B), height (H) and thickness (S) is between 1:1:0.01 and 1:0.1:0.2, a first extruded phase and at least one second extruded phase, wherein at least the contour of a contact surface (4, 4a, 4b) along the center axis (8) takes the form of a sine wave which has an amplitude of A1,O, wherein the ratio of amplitude to width (B) A1,O:B amounts to between 1:10 and 1:25 and the periodic length of the sine wave corresponds to 0.1-1 times the width (B) of the toilet cleaning product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: Sabine Hochkugler, Christian Reichert, Robert Stephen Cappleman, Michael Horn, Keiwan Ebrahimzadeh, Petra Plantikow, Marc-Steffen Schiedel
  • Patent number: 8927477
    Abstract: A sanitary agent for treatment of a sanitary appliance includes a solid or semi-solid active body, designed to adhere to a wall of the sanitary appliance and including a treatment compound having at least an active element for treatment of the sanitary appliance. The body has an external surface thereof covered by a water-soluble film. In this way, the sanitary agent can be manipulated by hand for application thereof to a moist ceramic wall of a sanitary appliance to be treated, without the user's hands entering into contact with the components of the sanitary agent itself. Furthermore, any undesired loss of the components of the sanitary agent is avoided; these can be due to deformation of the sanitary agents before use thereof, displacements thereof and/or any dripping. A method for applying the sanitary agent for deterging, disinfecting and/or perfuming the sanitary appliance is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: RE.LE.VI. S.p.A.
    Inventor: Fabio Pagani
  • Publication number: 20140298577
    Abstract: Self-adhesive lavatory treatment compositions comprise an adhesion promoter based on a fatty alcohol polyglycol ether as may be represented by the following structural formula (I): R—O—?CH2—CH2—O?nH??(I) within which, R is an C12-C24 aliphatic mono- or poly-alkene moiety, and n has a value of from 1 to 50, an organic solvent constituent, a surfactant, and water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Inventors: Diane Joyce Burt, Priscila Mira Luciano
  • Patent number: 8835371
    Abstract: An agent for the sanitary sector, which agent can be applied directly on a sanitary object, adheres there and can be flushed away only after a relatively large number of flushing operations. The agent includes fillers from the group of surfactants and also an adhesion promoter. The adhesion promoter is selected from hydrogenated polystyrene derivatives and olefin homopolymers and copolymers of two or more olefins, where the olefin homopolymers and copolymers may also be partially hydrogenated. The viscosity of the agent is at least 30 Pas, measured using a Haake viscometer, plate/plate system, plate diameter 10 mm, at a shear gradient of 2.62 s?1 and 20° C. The agent is so sticky that it can serve to attach bar-shaped agents in the toilet bowl. The concentration of the surfactants in the case of an adhesion promoter from the group of polyalkyleneimines is between 7 and 60% by weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Buck-Chemie GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Leipold, Edgar Jaeschke, Matthias Fritz
  • Patent number: 8669218
    Abstract: An adherent gelled or pasty composition for cleaning and/or scenting a toilet, wherein the composition is applied internally onto the toilet ceramic and is rinsed off only after several flushing operations, the composition comprising: a surfactant selected from the group consisting of alkylpolyglycosides, amphoacetates, amphodiacetates, betaines, fatty alcohol ethercarboxylic acids, fatty acid sarcosinates, cocamidopropylamine oxide, aminopropionates, and biosurfactants; perfume; and water; wherein the composition comprises, as an adhesion promoter, an ester of polyisobutene succinic acid, and wherein the composition is free of further adhesion promoters and surfactants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Marc-Steffen Schiedel, Brigitte Giesen, Petra Plantikow, Luca Bellomi, Karl-Heinz Scheffler
  • Patent number: 8664172
    Abstract: A self-sticking disintegrating cleansing block to be attached directly to a wall of a toilet bowl or urinal, above the water-line and in the stream of flush water, by pressing the cleansing block to the wall. The cleaning block includes 25% to 99% of a solid surfactant, and 1% to 25% of a liquid component. The cleansing block may include a substrate removably attached to a surface of the cleansing block. In use, the substrate is removed from the cleansing block and the exposed surface of the cleansing block is pressed to a surface in a position above any waterline that is contacted by a rinse liquid that disintegrates the cleansing block. Rinse liquid is then allowed to contact the cleansing block such that an amount of the cleansing block is mixed with rinse fluid to clean the surface or a liquid reservoir adjacent the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerome J. Veltman, Michael E. Klinkhammer
  • Publication number: 20140005092
    Abstract: An adherent gelled or pasty composition for cleaning and/or scenting a toilet, wherein the composition is applied internally onto the toilet ceramic and is rinsed off only after several flushing operations, the composition comprising: a surfactant selected from the group consisting of alkylpolyglycosides, amphoacetates, amphodiacetates, betaines, fatty alcohol ethercarboxylic acids, fatty acid sarcosinates, cocamidopropylamine oxide, aminopropionates, and biosurfactants; perfume; and water; wherein the composition comprises, as an adhesion promoter, an ester of polyisobutene succinic acid, and wherein the composition is free of further adhesion promoters and surfactants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Inventors: Marc-Steffen Schiedel, Brigitte Giesen, Petra Plantikow, Luca Bellomi, Karl-Heinz Scheffler
  • Publication number: 20130239313
    Abstract: A toilet cleaning block which comprises perfume, at least one alkylbenzene sulfonate and at least one olefin sulfonate and not more than 2.5% by weight of nonionic surfactants can be shaped in a rolling machine or a press to give a rotationally symmetric body, especially to give a ball, and is employed in a system composed of at least one cleaning block and at least one release device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Marc-Steffen Schiedel, Brigitte Giesen, Anke Ernst, Christian Reichert, Robert Stephen Cappleman, Michael Horn
  • Publication number: 20130171227
    Abstract: A sanitary agent for treatment of a sanitary appliance includes a solid or semi-solid active body, designed to adhere to a wall of the sanitary appliance and including a treatment compound having at least an active element for treatment of the sanitary appliance. The body has an external surface thereof covered by a water-soluble film. In this way, the sanitary agent can be manipulated by hand for application thereof to a moist ceramic wall of a sanitary appliance to be treated, without the user's hands entering into contact with the components of the sanitary agent itself. Furthermore, any undesired loss of the components of the sanitary agent is avoided; these can be due to deformation of the sanitary agents before use thereof, displacements thereof and/or any dripping. A method for applying the sanitary agent for deterging, disinfecting and/or perfuming the sanitary appliance is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Inventor: Fabio Pagani
  • Patent number: 8461093
    Abstract: Agent for sanitary facilities that can be applied directly on the sanitary object, adheres, and is flushable only after a large number of flushes. The agent comprises fillers from the group of surfactants and a bonding agent, wherein the bonding agent is selected from the group of polyalkylene derivatives, hydrogenated polystyrol derivatives, copolymers from the group of monoalkyl esters of poly(methyl vinyl ether/carbonic acid anhydrides, olefin homopolymers, and copolymers of two or more olefins, wherein the olefin homopolymers and copolymers can also be partially hydrogenated, partially oxidized, or further functionalized by graft molecules, and from the group of polyalkyleneimines, including in alkoxylized form, polyetheramines (alkoxylized amines) and polyglycerin polyether alkyl carbonic acids, polymers or derivatives comprising said polymer groups. The viscosity of the agent is at least 30 Pa s, measured using a Haake viscometer, plate/plate system, plate diameter 10 mm, at a shear rate of 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Buck-Chemie GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Leipold, Edgar Jaeschke, Matthias Fritz
  • Publication number: 20130130962
    Abstract: The invention relates to a sanitary composition for cleaning and/or disinfecting and/or for fragrance release, which composition is applicable directly to the sanitary unit, adheres there and can be rinsed off only after a relatively large number of rinse operations, and which composition comprises surfactants and at least one adhesion promoter, said adhesion promoter being an oxo acid of the following formula and R being an alkyl or aryl radical, R? is an alkyl or hydroxyalkyl group, R? is an alkyl, aryl or alkoxyalkyl radical, X a main group element of main groups 5 or 7 from the 3rd period, selenium, tellurium, or a transition group element, m=1 to 50, n=0, 1, 2, q=1, 2, r=0, 1 and p=1, 2, and the viscosity of the composition, measured with a Haake viscometer, plate-cone system, PK 5 1° sensor, shear rate of 25 s?1 and 20° C., is at least 15 000 mPas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicant: BUCK-CHEMIE GMBH
    Inventors: Joachim Leipold, Edgar Jaeschke, Matthias Fritz
  • Patent number: 8444771
    Abstract: Method for cleaning and/or deodorizing a toilet bowl or urinal. In one embodiment, the method involves directly applying an agent to the toilet bowl or urinal. The agent adheres to the toilet bowl or urinal and can be flushed away only after a relatively large number of flushing operations. The agent includes fillers from the group of surfactants and also an adhesion promoter. The viscosity of the agent is at least 30 Pas, measured using a Haake viscometer, plate/plate system, plate diameter 10 mm, at a shear gradient of 2.62 s?1 and 20° C. and the agent is so sticky that it can serve to attach bar-shaped agents to the toilet bowl or urinal, wherein the concentration of the surfactants in the case of an adhesion promoter from the group of polvalkyleneimines is between 7 and 60% by weight. The agent may have associated with it one or more bar-shaped compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Buck-Chemie GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Leipold, Edgar Jaeschke, Matthias Fritz
  • Patent number: 8440600
    Abstract: An array of self-adhesive cleaning products, the array having a first self-adhesive cleaning product, the product being a gel, and a second self-adhesive cleaning product, the second product being a solid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael E. Klinkhammer, Russell B. Wortley, Michelle C. Dauchy
  • Patent number: 8415285
    Abstract: The present invention provides compositions, in particular blocks, tablets and gels, for the prevention or removal of insoluble salt deposits comprising: a) an organic acid with two carboxylic acid functional groups obtainable by fermentation, selected from the list of itaconic acid, itaconic acid anhydride, succinic acid, succinic anhydride and combinations thereof, and b) at least one compound determining the release of said acid from said composition, said compound is selected from a list comprising: i) a hygroscopic compound, ii) a carbonate source, iii) an acid solubility retarding compound, iv) a compound with melting point situated between 60° C.-95° C., and combinations thereof. The invention further provides uses of the compositions for the prevention or removal of insoluble salt deposits. The invention also provides a method of manufacturing such compositions and a method for the prevention or removal of insoluble salt deposits with a product of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Ecover Coordination Center N.V.
    Inventors: Dirk Willem Godfried Develter, Luc Marc Leonie Lauryssen
  • Patent number: 8277715
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the manufacture of a lavatory dispensing device useful for the delivery of at least one treatment composition, preferably a cleaning composition and/or a sanitizing composition to a sanitary appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Reckitt Benckiser LLC
    Inventors: Nevin Arora, Christopher King, Robert Zhong Lu, Tri Nguyen, Dana Pheiff, Steven Wu
  • Patent number: 8256038
    Abstract: A urinal block for use in a conventional water-based urinal where the water has been shut off, the block includes a first block portion that makes up about forty percent to sixty percent of the urinal block and has a first portion composition substantially similar to a conventional, non-paradichlorobenzene block used in water-based urinals for deodorizing during each flush, a second block portion that makes up about forty to sixty percent of the urinal block and has a second portion composition of a blended mixture of a non-paradichlorobenzene block portion, an odor counteractant gel, and a bacterial culture gel, and a liquid-pervious and liquid-insoluble layer covering at least the second block portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Inventor: Jay D. Hunter
  • Patent number: 8197739
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the manufacture of a lavatory dispensing device useful for the delivery of at least one treatment composition, preferably a cleaning composition and/or a sanitizing composition to a sanitary appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Reckitt Benckiser LLC
    Inventor: Robert Zhong Lu
  • Publication number: 20120047640
    Abstract: A toilet cleaner composition containing perfume, at least one non-ionic surfactant, at least one alkylbenzene sulfonate, and at least one olefin sulfonate, is sufficiently malleable that it may be shaped into rotationally symmetrical toilet cleaner blocks, and in particular into spherical blocks, using a rolling machine or a press. The resulting rotationally-symmetrical toilet cleaner block may be part of a toilet cleaning system comprising at least one toilet cleaner block and at least one dispenser device for use in a toilet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Nadine Warkotsch, Brigitte Giesen, Anke Ernst, Sascha Schrecker, Christian Reichert, Ralph Butter-Jentsch, Hans-Georg Mühlhausen
  • Patent number: 8093194
    Abstract: Aqueous, thickened, acidic compositions which exhibit a pH of about 7 or less preferably 5 or less, and comprise an organic acid constituent selected from formic acid, citric acid and oxalic acid, a thickening constituent or constituents based on one or more gums, particularly xanthan gum which form a thickener system in the inventive composition, and at least one detersive surfactant based on glycoside surfactants, water in an amount of at least 85% wt., preferably at least about 90% wt., and one or more further optional constituents, wherein the compositions exclude: (a) surfactant compounds which include a nitrogen atom in the surfactant compound, and (b) inorganic acids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Reckitt Benckiser Inc.
    Inventors: Ross Chapman, Angelina Lorraine Kulbick
  • Patent number: 8076278
    Abstract: The present invention relates to hard surface cleaning compositions, and their use. It is an object of the present invention to provide a hard surface cleaning composition providing hygiene to a hard surface, whilst being easily positioned onto a hard surface; even a wet surface. The present invention provides a hard surface cleaning composition, which is at least partially transparent or translucent, characterized in that it comprises a surfactant system forming a liquid crystalline phase in the presence of water and biocide material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Syed Husain Abbas, Daniele Del Fiol, Andrew Stephen Jamieson, Serena Pezzia, Ivana Trombetta
  • Patent number: 7921479
    Abstract: A system for conserving water in a conventional water-based urinal where the water has been shut off, the block includes a first block portion that makes up about forty percent to sixty percent of the urinal block and has a first portion composition substantially similar to a conventional, non-paradichlorobenzene block used in water-based urinals for deodorizing during each flush, and a second block portion that makes up about forty to sixty percent of the urinal block and has a second portion composition of a blended mixture of a non-paradichlorobenzene block portion, an odor counteractant gel, and a bacterial culture gel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Inventor: Jay D. Hunter
  • Patent number: 7919447
    Abstract: An array of self-adhesive cleaning products, the array having a first self-adhesive cleaning product, the product being a gel, and a second self-adhesive cleaning product, the second product being a solid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: S.C. Johnson, Inc
    Inventors: Michael E. Klinkhammer, Russell B. Wortley, Michelle C. Dauchy
  • Publication number: 20100331227
    Abstract: An environmentally friendly hydrogen peroxide cleaning and sanitizing solution is disclosed that may be used for cleaning, deodorizing, sanitizing and scale inhibiting in toilets and urinals in washroom and toilet areas. The solution also has the added benefit of eliminating odours and reducing corrosion in the washroom plumbing. The present cleaning and sanitizing solution consists of distilled water, hydrogen peroxide, a surfactant, a hydrogen peroxide stabilizer, a chelating agent, and corrosion inhibitors. The pH of the cleaning and sanitizing solution is greater than 6.0, and typically about 6.0 to about 8.0. The present cleaning, sanitizing, deodorizing and scale inhibiting solution is distributed to the washroom fixtures by means of refillable pump systems commonly known in the art.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Inventors: Joanne Papari, Hao Li
  • Publication number: 20100130399
    Abstract: The present invention relates to hard surface cleaning compositions, and their use. It is an object of the present invention to provide a hard surface cleaning composition providing hygiene to a hard surface, whilst being easily positioned onto a hard surface; even a wet surface. The present invention provides a hard surface cleaning composition, which is at least partially transparent or translucent, characterized in that it comprises a surfactant system forming a liquid crystalline phase in the presence of water and biocide material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Inventors: Syed Husain Abbas, Daniele Del Fiol, Andrew Stephen Jamieson, Serena Pezzia, Ivana Trombetta
  • Publication number: 20100130400
    Abstract: The present invention relates to toilet cleaning blocks, and their use, in particular toilet cleaning blocks providing hygiene to a hard surface, wherein such a block is at least partially transparent or translucent appearance, in a solid, semi solid, or gel form. Accordingly the present invention provides a toilet cleaning block, which is at least partially transparent or translucent, and comprising a biocide and a carrier composition comprising soap, humectant and solvent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2008
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Inventors: Syed Husain Abbas, Julie Rosalyn Das, Philip Michael Ryan, Ivan Valcarenghi, David Richard Ward
  • Patent number: 7709433
    Abstract: A self-sticking disintegrating cleansing block to be attached directly to a wall of a toilet bowl or urinal, above the water-line and in the stream of flush water, by pressing the cleansing block to the wall. The cleaning block includes 25% to 99% of a solid surfactant, and 1% to 25% of a liquid component. The cleansing block may include a substrate removably attached to a surface of the cleansing block. In use, the substrate is removed from the cleansing block and the exposed surface of the cleansing block is pressed to a surface in a position above any waterline that is contacted by a rinse liquid that disintegrates the cleansing block. Rinse liquid is then allowed to contact the cleansing block such that an amount of the cleansing block is mixed with rinse fluid to clean the surface or a liquid reservoir adjacent the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerome J. Veltman, Michael E. Klinkhammer
  • Publication number: 20100093586
    Abstract: A composition for treating a hard surface. The composition has: (a) at least one adhesion promoter; (b) at least one surfactant selected from the group consisting of: anionic, non-ionic, cationic, amphoteric, zwitterionic, and combinations thereof; (c) mineral oil; (d) a blend of linear primary alcohols, wherein each alcohol of said blend includes a carbon chain containing 9 to 17 carbons or an ethoxylated blend thereof; (e) water; (f) optionally, at least one solvent; and wherein the composition is self-adhering upon application to a surface to be treated, and wherein the composition provides a wet film to said surface when water passes over said composition and surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael E. Klinkhammer, Russell B. Wortley, Thomas A. Strash
  • Publication number: 20090325839
    Abstract: A composition for use on a hard surface. The composition has: (i) at least 7.5 wt. % of at least one surfactant selected; (ii) a blend of linear primary alcohols, or a blend of ethoxylated linear primary alcohols, wherein each alcohol of the non-ethoxylated blend or ethoxylated blend includes a carbon chain containing 9-17 carbons; (iii) a transport rate factor of less than about 55 seconds; and (iv) an adhesion time of greater than about 8 hours.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
    Inventors: Russell B. Wortley, Michael E. Klinkhammer, John R. Wietfeldt, Francis J. Randall
  • Publication number: 20090215661
    Abstract: A composition for treating a hard surface. The composition has: (a) at least one adhesion promoter; (b) at least one surfactant selected from the group consisting of: anionic, non-ionic, cationic, amphoteric, zwitterionic, and combinations thereof; (c) mineral oil; (d) water; (e) optionally, at least one solvent; and wherein the composition is self-adhering upon application to a surface to be treated, and wherein the composition provides a wet film to said surface when water passes over said composition and surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2009
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Inventors: Michael E. Klinkhammer, Thomas A. Strash, John R. Wietfeldt
  • Patent number: 7563755
    Abstract: A lavatory freshening and/or cleaning system comprises a dispenser for dispensing liquid composition from under the rim of a lavatory bowl. The dispenser is in the form of a reservoir arranged for suspension from the rim of a lavatory bowl, and the reservoir contains the liquid composition. The liquid composition comprises a combination of anionic and non-ionic surfactants having a total concentration equal to substantially 7.6 wt. %, a thickening agent having a concentration of 0.40 wt. % and a perfume having a concentration of 6.00 wt. %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Assignee: S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy I. Moodycliffe, Jerome J. Veltman
  • Patent number: 7511004
    Abstract: Improved treatment blocks useful in the treatment of lavatory appliances, particularly toilets are provided. The improved treatment blocks are solid block compositions which provide an extended service life, particularly when used in an ITB device. Methods of producing the solid block composition and treatment blocks therefrom, as well as methods of use are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: Reckitt Benckiser Inc.
    Inventors: Tak Wai Cheung, Edward Fu, Tri Nguyen, Steven Wu
  • Publication number: 20080269097
    Abstract: Improved treatment blocks useful in the treatment of lavatory appliances, particularly toilets are provided. The improved treatment blocks are solid block compositions which provide an extended service life, particularly when used in an ITB device. Methods of producing the solid block composition and treatment blocks therefrom, as well as methods of use are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2005
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicant: RECKITT BENCKISER INC.
    Inventors: Tak Wai Cheung, Edward Fu, Tri Nguyen, Steven Wu
  • Publication number: 20080190457
    Abstract: A self-sticking disintegrating cleansing block to be attached directly to a wall of a toilet bowl or urinal, above the water-line and in the stream of flush water, by pressing the cleansing block to the wall. The cleaning block includes 25% to 99% of a solid surfactant, and 1% to 25% of a liquid component. The cleansing block may include a substrate removably attached to a surface of the cleansing block. In use, the substrate is removed from the cleansing block and the exposed surface of the cleansing block is pressed to a surface in a position above any waterline that is contacted by a rinse liquid that disintegrates the cleansing block. Rinse liquid is then allowed to contact the cleansing block such that an amount of the cleansing block is mixed with rinse fluid to clean the surface or a liquid reservoir adjacent the surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2007
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Inventors: Jerome J. Veltman, Michael E. Klinkhammer
  • Patent number: 7056873
    Abstract: A lavatory cleansing block has two parts co-extruded together, the first part containing a chlorine releasing bleach and the second part containing component such as a perfume or colorant which need not be bleach resistant. Migration of components is avoided if there is no common hydrophobe in the two parts. The perceived performance of the perfume is enhanced by its juxtaposition with the bleach.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: Jeyes Group Limited
    Inventors: Ian Sidgwick, Steve Balls, Russell Norman, Brian D. Wilson
  • Patent number: 7001875
    Abstract: Dual colorants are disclosed. The colorants of the present invention include at least one compound, which exhibits a first color outside an aqueous environment and a second color after placement into an aqueous environment. In some cases, the colorant includes an oil-soluble dye capable of exhibiting the first color and a water-soluble dye capable of exhibiting the second color. In certain embodiments, such colorants may be used in toilets. In these embodiments, the first color corresponds to a color associated with a fragrance, such as red for rose, while the second color corresponds to a color associated with cleanliness in a toilet, such as blue or green.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2006
    Assignee: S.C.Johnson & Son, Inc.
    Inventor: Luz P. Requejo
  • Patent number: 6965035
    Abstract: This invention provides a method of producing granules. This method comprises roll compaction of a 1,3-dihalo-5,5-dimethylhydantoin/binder blend, followed by feeding the compacted product obtained from the roll compactor into a mechanical device, where the compacted product is broken into granules. The blend comprises (i) at least one powdery or finely-divided 1,3-dihalo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin in which each halogen atom is either chlorine or bromine, in which one of the alkyl groups in the 5-position is a methyl group, in which the other alkyl group in the 5-position has in the range of 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and in which the particle size is larger than about 20 microns, and (ii) a binder quantity of a micronized synthetic polyolefin-based hydrocarbon wax. The binder quantity of wax is in the range of about 0.5 to about 2 wt %, based on the total weight of the 1,3-dihalo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin and the wax.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2005
    Inventors: Jonathan N. Howarth, Bruce C. Peters
  • Patent number: 6815403
    Abstract: A new and improved toilet drain composition and method of using is disclosed for use in disinfecting and decalcifying. The toilet drain composition comprises a phosphoric acid derivative admixed with paradichlorobenzene and a diluent. The phosphoric acid derivative may be at a concentration ranging from 0.0000001 to 25% by weight. The paradichlorobenzene 14 may be at a concentration ranging form 0.0000001 to 25% by weight. The diluent may be at a concentration ranging from 0 to 90% by weight. Optional elements such as, an anionic surfactant, non-ionic surfactant, a dinintegration rate regulator, a complexing agent, a peroxy compound, a filler, a fragment essential oil, a dye, a bleaching agent, and a binder may be added to the toilet drain composition. The phase of the composition may be liquid, solid or semi-solid. One preferred configuration of the semi-solid block shape is that it has a series of nested concentric ridges defining a bull's eye target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Inventor: Kenneth T. Laney