Abstract: A filter pouch cleaner, for cleaning coffee and tea makers, has a top and bottom filter layer made from tea bag paper. The top and bottom filter layers are joined together along and adjacent to their outer edges to form a sealed pouch therebetween. The pouch is filled with a powdered cleaner compound that includes trisodium phosphate, sodium metasillicate and sodium perborate, along with soda ash as a filler. To facilitate the biodegradability and the safety of the cleaner compound, tripolyphosphate and a trace of blue dye powder are included in the cleaner compound. To clean a brewbasket and dispenser of a coffee or tea maker, the filter pouch cleaner is placed in the brewbasket. The brewbasket is then placed above the dispenser and filled with hot water. The hot water soaks through the filter and dissolves the cleaner compound. The hot water and dissolved cleaner flows out of the brewbasket and fills the dispenser.

Abstract: A rinse aid composition for use on plasticware is herein described which requires lower concentration of conventional hydrocarbon surfactants, exhibits adequate sheeting on the plasticware and acceptable drying time which prior rinse aids have failed to provide without special handling. The compositions described contain hydrocarbon surfactants and a polyether or polybetaine polysiloxane copolymer surfactant alone or in combination with a fluorinated hydrocarbon surfactant. The composition may be formulated as a solid or liquid suitable for dilution to form an aqueous rinse used to contact the plasticware in a warewashing machine.

Abstract: A rinse aid composition for use on plasticware is herein described which requires lower concentration of conventional hydrocarbon surfactants, exhibits adequate sheeting on the plasticware and acceptable drying time which prior rinse aids have failed to provide without special handling. The compositions described contain hydrocarbon surfactants and a polyether or polybetaine polysiloxane copolymer surfactant in combination with a fluorinated hydrocarbon surfactant. The composition may be formulated as a solid or liquid suitable for dilution to form an aqueous rinse used to contact the plasticware in a warewashing machine.

Abstract: The present invention discloses an alkaline cleaning composition for cleaning heavily soiled surfaces such as food fryers, baking pans, high temperature pasteurizers, beer kettles and similar equipment that normally requires caustic soda based cleaners to clean. The present invention is also useful in cleaning ceramics such as restaurant grade ceramic china plates and platters. The present invention is particularly useful in cleaning brass and aluminum parts and equipment without causing corrosion damage. Further, since the cleaning composition of the present invention is not based on caustic soda, the composition is not considered hazardous. Further, the cleaning composition of the present invention dissolves readily in water, providing a solution that can be used in mechanical sprayers, soak-tanks and clean-in-place equipment. Also the cleaning composition may be effectively used at lower temperatures than caustic cleaning agents.

Abstract: A detergent composition comprising an alkaline metal hydroxide, an alkaline metal salt of L-aspartic-N,N-diacetic acid, optionally a scale inhibitor and/or an alkaline metal salt of gluconic acid. This detergent composition is used for removing soils, stains and other contaminants adhering to or deposited on the surfaces of glass, plastics, metals, etc., specifically the hard surfaces of, for example, containers for foodstuffs such as drinks and process foods, container boxes, piping of food production equipment, tanks, sterilizing plates, plate heat exchangers, filling machines and the like, by such means as soaking the parts to be cleaned in a cleaning solution, circulating a cleaning solution in the facilities to be cleaned, or spraying a cleaning solution over the surfaces to be cleaned. This detergent composition has excellent cleaning performance and excellent biodegradability.

Abstract: A floor stripper composition is provided, having a pH-value above 9.0, and comprising a soap, water and a glycine-N,N-diacetic acid compound, which is preferably methylglycine diacetic acid (MGDA). The diacetic acid is desirably in the form of a divalent metal complex thereof. A process is also provided for removing a zinc containing acrylate polymer film from a floor surface, wherein a floor stripper composition of the invention is applied. A good floor stripper performance could be obtained with this composition owing to its low foaming behaviour.

Abstract: The present invention discloses an alkaline cleaning composition for cleaning heavily soiled metal surfaces such as food fryers, baking pans, high temperature pasteurizers, and beer kettles, ceramic surfaces such as restaurant grade ceramic china plates and platters, and plastic surfaces. The cleaning composition is noncaustic and includes a peroxygen compound, a chelate, and a metasilicate and/or sesquisilicate. A preferred cleaning composition further includes a surfactant and hydrated builder.

Abstract: Disclosed is the use of glycine-N,N-diacetic acid derivatives as their alkali metal, alkaline earth metal, ammonium and substituted ammonium salts as complexing agents for alkaline earth and heavy metal ions, except with .alpha.-alanine-N,N-diacetic acid, as textile detergent builders in powdered detergent formulations and as calcium sequestering agents in oral hygiene products.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a cleaning compound comprising, by volume:1% to 99% of at least one compound (a) comprising a straight or branched hydrocarbon chain which is saturated or which has at least one unsaturation, and comprising at least two aryl or alkylaryl radicals, the aromatic nucleus of at least two aryl and/or alkylaryl radicals comprising 6 carbon atoms.99% to 1% of at least one polar aprotic compound (b) which is at least partly soluble in water and in compound (a).

Abstract: A rinse aid composition for hard surfaces containinga) mixed ethers corresponding to formula (I) ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 is a linear or branched, aliphatic alkyl or alkenyl radical containing 8 to 18 carbon atoms, R.sup.2 is a linear or branched alkyl radical containing 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a benzyl radical, m1 has a value of 0 or 1 to 2 and n1 has a value of 5 to 15, andb) fatty alcohol polypropylene glycol/polyethylene glycol ethers corresponding to formula (II) ##STR2## in which R.sup.3 is a linear or branched, aliphatic alkyl or alkenyl radical containing 8 to 16 carbon atoms, m2 has a value of 0 or 1 to 3 and n2 has a value of 1 to 5.

Abstract: Hydroxamic acids and hydroxamic acid ethers I and II ##STR1## where Z.sup.1 and Z.sup.2 are --NH --OY, --NR.sup.1 --OY or --OX, where in the case of (I) at least one of Z.sup.1 or Z.sup.2, and in the case of (II) Z.sup.1 is --NH --OY or --NR.sup.1 --OY, andR.sup.1 is C.sub.1 -C.sub.18 -alkyl,X is hydrogen, alkali metal, ammonium or substituted ammonium, andY is hydrogen, alkali metal, ammonium, substituted ammonium or C.sub.1 -C.sub.18 -alkyl, andL is a C.sub.1 -C.sub.100 linker which can also carry oxygen and nitrogen functional groups,with the exception of N,N-bis(carboxymethyl)-2-aminoacetohydroxamic acid.

Abstract: A nonionic detergent mixture containinga) an ether corresponding to formula (I):R.sup.1 O(CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 O).sub.m R.sup.2 (I)in which R.sup.1 is an aliphatic linear alkyl or alkenyl radical containing 12 to 18 carbon atoms, R.sup.2 is an alkyl radical containing 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a benzyl radical and m is a number of 5 to 15, andb1) an ether selected from the group consisting of an ether corresponding to formula (II): ##STR1## in which R.sup.3 is an aliphatic, linear or branched alkyl radical containing 8 to 10 carbon atoms, R.sup.4 is an alkyl radical containing 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a benzyl radical, p is a number of 2 to 3 and q is a number of 8 to 15 andb2) an ether corresponding to formula (III): ##STR2## in which R.sup.5 is an aliphatic, linear alkyl radical containing 12 to 14 carbon atoms, R.sup.6 is an alkyl radical containing 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a benzyl radical, x is a number of 0.5 to 2 and y is a number of 5 to 10.

Abstract: Limescale removing compositions contain a low level of surfactant, i.e., less than about 1% and maleic acid and have a pH of from about 0.1 to about 4.5. The surfactant can be anionic, nonionic, amphoteric, or cationic, but is preferably cationic. The composition can be used neat, or diluted, by applying it to the surface to be treated, leaving it to react, and then rinsing.

Abstract: The present invention discloses an alkaline cleaning composition for cleaning heavily soiled surfaces such as food fryers, baking pans, high temperature pasteurizers, beer kettles and similar equipment that normally requires caustic soda based cleaners to clean. The present invention is also useful in cleaning ceramics such as restaurant grade ceramic china plates and platters. The present invention is particularly useful in cleaning brass and aluminum parts and equipment without causing corrosion damage. Further, since the cleaning composition of the present invention is not based on caustic soda, the composition is not considered hazardous. Further, the cleaning composition of the present invention dissolves readily in water, providing a solution that can be used in mechanical sprayers, soak-tanks and clean-in-place equipment. Also the cleaning composition may be effectively used at lower temperatures than caustic cleaning agents.

Abstract: A filter pouch cleaner for cleaning coffee and tea makers, has a top and bottom filter layer made from tea bag paper. The top and bottom filter layers are joined together along and adjacent to their outer edges to form a sealed pouch therebetween. The pouch is filled with a powdered cleaner compound that includes trisodium phosphate, sodium metasillicate and sodium perborate, along with soda ash as a filler. To facilitate the biodegradability and the safety of the cleaner compound, tripolyphosphate and a trace of blue dye powder are included in the cleaner compound.

Abstract: A shear thickening oven cleaning composition having a viscosity at room temperature at a shear rate of 2 radians/second for 30 seconds of about 1 to about 110 Pa.s and a viscosity at room temperature at a shear rate of 10 radians/second for 30 seconds of about 2 to about 190 Pa.s which comprises by weight percent of about 5 to about 50 of an alkali metal silicate; about 0.1 to about 25 of a cyclic nitrogen containing compound; about 0.01 to about 4.0 of an alkanolamine; about 0 to 15 of at least one surfactant and the balance being water.

Abstract: A mixture suitable for use as a foam-suppressing surfactant additament in cleaning compositions for mechanized cleaning processes comprises at least two mixtures of alkoxylated alcohols IR--O--(C.sub.2 H.sub.4 O).sub.x --(C.sub.3 H.sub.6 O).sub.y --H (I)where x is an average degree of ethoxylation between 1 and 12, y is an average degree of propoxylation between 1 and 15, one alkoxylated alcohol mixture carries straight-chain or branched C.sub.8 -C.sub.18 -alkyl groups as the radical R and one other alkoxylated alcohol mixture carries straight-chain or branched C.sub.10 -C.sub.20 -alkyl groups as the radical R, subject to the proviso that the two radicals R differ by at least 0.5 in the average number of carbon atoms, and the two alkoxylated alcohol mixtures present in a ratio of from 10:90 to 90:10.