Solid, Shaped Article (e.g., Tablet, Briquette, Etc.) Patents (Class 510/298)
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Publication number: 20100273698Abstract: A process for the preparation of a package containing a compacted particulate composition, comprises wrapping a compacted particulate composition to sealing same with at least one film. Thereafter treating the resultant seams of the sealed composition to produce a package that is suitable for handling by a user than known packages.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2008Publication date: October 28, 2010Applicant: Reckitt Benckiser N.V.Inventors: Gunnar Noding, Frederic Moreux
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Patent number: 7816314Abstract: The present invention relates to automatic dishwashing detergent compositions and methods of using compositions comprising halogenated salts, phosphate and/or silicate in conjunction with electrolyzed water in automatic dishwashing appliances comprising an electrochemical cell and/or electrolytic device for treating tableware to improve cleaning, sanitizing and stain removal by controlling hardness, corrosion and dispersancy.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2006Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: William Michael Scheper, Kenneth Nathan Price, Mario Elmen Tremblay, Paul Joseph Drzewiecki
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Publication number: 20100251486Abstract: A laundry article of manufacture is described that may be used to both wash and condition fabrics when used sequentially first in the washer and then carried along with the wet fabrics into the dryer. The laundry article preferably comprises at least one detergent and at least one softener composition each solidified into geographical zones onto a nonwoven substrate. The optimized article comprises a nonwoven substrate with sidedness, and although the softener composition is solidified within the fibers of the lofted side of the substrate, the softener is unexpectedly found to subsequently express out from the flat side of the substrate while in the heated clothes dryer.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2010Publication date: October 7, 2010Applicant: The Dial CorporationInventors: Katherine G. Yu, Cornelius Bessler, Matthew M. Petkus, Lizette M. Bonvin
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Publication number: 20100162491Abstract: The present invention relates to detergent compositions comprising a detergent ingredient and a lipase variant with reduced potential for odor generation obtained by introducing mutations in one or more regions identified in a parent lipase.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2010Publication date: July 1, 2010Inventors: PHILIP FRANK SOUTER, JOHN ALLEN BURDIS, ALLAN SVENDSEN, THOMAS HONGER CALLISEN, JESPER VIND, DEBBIE YAVER, JURGEN CARSTEN FRANZ KNOTZEL, KIM BORCH, MADS ESKELUND BJORNVAD, PETER KAMP HANSEN, MICHAEL LAMSA
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Publication number: 20100144578Abstract: A method for washing an article using a molded detergent composition is provided. The method includes generating an aqueous solution from a solid block molded detergent composition and washing the article with the use solution. The molded detergent composition is a result of mixing and molding a mixture without heating. The molded detergent composition includes a hydrated component, a hydratable component and an enzyme. The hydrated component is provided in a solid state during mixing and molding. The hydratable component includes water, if present at all, at a level of less than about 2 wt. % based on the weight of the hydratable component. The hydratable component is a component which successfully competes with the hydrated component for at least a portion of the water of hydration. The enzyme constitutes between about 0.01 wt. % and about 10 wt. % of the mixture.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2010Publication date: June 10, 2010Applicant: Ecolab Inc.Inventors: Kim R. Smith, Victor Fuk-Pong Man, Wendy Wiseth, Richard Stardig
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Patent number: 7704940Abstract: A granulate for use in a particulate cleaning product, the granulate consisting of granules which comprise: (a) at least 30% by weight of granulation auxiliary selected from water-soluble non-acid organic crystalline solids; and (b) at least 0.1% by weight of functional cleaning material other than an enzyme or an inorganic compound; and (c) optionally, one or more other ingredients. The granulate may instead comprise: (a) at least 20% by weight of granulation auxiliary selected from non-acid water-soluble organic crystalline solids; and (b) at least 0.1% by weight of temperature sensitive functional cleaning material other than an enzyme or an inorganic compound; and (c) optionally, one or more other ingredients.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2005Date of Patent: April 27, 2010Assignee: The Sun Products CorporationInventors: Renee Boerefijn, Reinhard Kohlus, Vidyadhar Sudhir Ranade
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Patent number: 7674763Abstract: A method for manufacturing a molded detergent composition is provided. The method includes mixing a hydrated component and a hydratable component without heating to provide a mixture, molding the mixture to provide a molded detergent composition, and solidifying the molded detergent composition as a result of movement of the water of hydration from the hydrated component to the hydratable component to provide the molded detergent composition as a solid under conditions of room temperature and atmospheric pressure. The hydratable component includes water, if present at all, at a level of less than about 2 wt. % based on the weight of the hydratable component. The hydratable component is a component which successfully competes with the hydrated component for at least a portion of the water of hydration. Solidification of the mixture takes between about 1 minute and about 15 minutes.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2008Date of Patent: March 9, 2010Assignee: Ecolab Inc.Inventors: Kim R. Smith, Victor Fuk-Pong Man, Wendy Wiseth, Richard Stardig
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Publication number: 20090298735Abstract: Laundry detergent and cleaning compositions comprising amphiphilic graft polymers based on water-soluble polyalkylene oxides (A) as a graft base and side chains formed by polymerization of a vinyl ester component (B), said polymers having an average of ?1 graft site per 50 alkylene oxide units and mean molar masses Mw of from 3000 to 100,000.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2007Publication date: December 3, 2009Applicant: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Dieter Boeckh, Liodcay Herrera Taboada, Asimina Kavarnou-Seiler, Gerd Konrad, Birgit Reinhard, Arturo Luis Casado-Dominguuez, Frank Huelskoetter, James Lee Danziger
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Patent number: 7618932Abstract: A process for producing a shaped detergent body having a solid component comprising at least 65 wt % of builders, wherein the process comprises injection molding.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2004Date of Patent: November 17, 2009Assignee: Reckitt Benckiser N.VInventors: Judith Preuschen, Ralf Wiedemann
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Patent number: 7601678Abstract: A washing and cleaning agent shaped body in the form of a granulate, extrudate, agglomerate, or tablet, containing fine microparticles that contain one or more washing or cleaning agent components, wherein the fine microparticles form the shaped body as such or are present within it. The washing or cleaning agent component is selected from surfactants, fragrances, dyes, enzymes, enzyme stabilizers, builders, substances to adjust the pH, bleaches, bleach activators, silver protectants, soil-repelling substances, optical brighteners, antiredeposition agents, disintegration auxiliaries, and mixtures thereof. At least 10% of the fine microparticles, based on the total number of microparticles, have a particle size distribution of ?20 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2003Date of Patent: October 13, 2009Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaAInventors: Henriette Weber, Wilfried Raehse
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Patent number: 7598218Abstract: Material, composition, and manufacturing method alternatives for a solidification matrix that may be used, for example, in solid cleaning compositions, or other technologies. In at least some embodiments, the solidification matrix includes a binding agent that is formed by the use of MGDA, or a salt or derivative thereof, and water to produce a solid binding agent. In some embodiments, the MGDA and water combines and can solidify to act as a binder material or binding agent dispersed throughout a solid composition that may contain other functional ingredients that provide the desired properties and/or functionality to the solid composition.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2008Date of Patent: October 6, 2009Assignee: Ecolab Inc.Inventors: Roger L. Stolte, Ross M. Skadsberg, Scott P. Lyon
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Publication number: 20090197787Abstract: The invention relates to a detergent tablet characterized in that it comprises five layers superimposed on each other, with at least three layers among the five layers having different compositions. The invention also relates to a method for manufacturing such a detergent tablet.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2008Publication date: August 6, 2009Inventors: Valerie Venet, Murielle Moneron, Jacques Brosse, Gilles Rubinstenn
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Publication number: 20090183317Abstract: A dimensionally stable, single-piece detergent or treatment agent portion having a weight of at least 50 g, having a system for controlling the solubility of the detergent or treatment agent. In washing, treating, or rinsing cycles of a washing machine for textiles, a maximum 50 wt % of the detergent or treatment agent portion dissolves or disperses in municipal water (16° d) at a maximum temperature of 20° C. as dissolves or disperses in municipal water (16° d) at a temperature of 50° C., enabling targeted release of the active substances in the portion during the cycles of a washing or treating program using heated water.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2008Publication date: July 23, 2009Applicant: Henkel AG & Co. KGaAInventors: Frank Meier, Matthias Sunder, Hermann-Josef Welling, Dieter Nickel, Heike Schirmer-Ditze
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Publication number: 20090144913Abstract: A laundry article of manufacture is described that may be used to both wash and condition fabrics when used sequentially first in the washer and then carried along with the wet fabrics into the dryer. The laundry article preferably comprises at least one detergent and at least one softener composition each solidified into geographical zones onto a nonwoven substrate. The optimized article comprises a nonwoven substrate with sidedness, and although the softener composition is solidified within the fibers of the lofted side of the substrate, the softener is unexpectedly found to subsequently express out from the flat side of the substrate while in the heated clothes dryer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2007Publication date: June 11, 2009Inventors: Katherine G. Yu, John Billman, Thomas Bautista, Michael Dreja, Dawn Watson
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Publication number: 20090124528Abstract: Laundry detergents and cleaning compositions which provide improved cleaning benefits that comprise a novel polymer system. The polymer system comprises one or more amphiphilic alkoxylated grease cleaning polymers, and either a clay soil cleaning polymer; or a soil suspending polymer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2008Publication date: May 14, 2009Inventors: James Lee Danziger, Frank Hulskotter, Jean-Pol Boutique, Vincent John Becks, Frederik Vandenberghe
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Patent number: 7527880Abstract: A water-soluble substrate, and more particularly a water-soluble substrate that improves resistance to dissolution at neutral pH, and methods of making the same are disclosed. Articles, such as pouches, made from the water-soluble substrate, are also disclosed herein.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2007Date of Patent: May 5, 2009Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventor: Vincenzo Catalfamo
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Patent number: 7517846Abstract: The invention is a solid chemical concentrate system of at least two cooperative shapes. The first shape is an inwardly curved bar having an inner opening. The second shape is an insert which is capable of interlocking with the bar by insertion into the bar inner opening. The solid chemical concentrate provides chemical systems having active constituents which may be the same, different but compatible or functionally and chemically incompatible combined within one matrix to provide at least one substantially continuous surface. The system may also comprise an aqueous soluble or dispersible polymeric film cover.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2005Date of Patent: April 14, 2009Assignee: Ecolab Inc.Inventors: Elizabeth J. Gladfelter, Tina O. Outlaw, James L. Copeland, Rhonda K. Schulz, Daniel K. Boche, Jeff W. Peterson
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Patent number: 7491686Abstract: Triphasic or multiphasic dosage units for washing or cleaning compositions, comprising at least two washing or cleaning composition shaped bodies, each of which has at least one filled cavity, characterized in that the shaped bodies are adhesively bonded to one another such that the dosage unit has at least two differently filled cavities on its surface, are suitable for the combined formulation of solid and liquid or free-flowing washing or cleaning compositions in one dosage unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2007Date of Patent: February 17, 2009Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf AktienInventors: Wolfgang Barthel, Arno Düffels, Salvatore Fileccia, Ulf Arno Timmann
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Publication number: 20090028912Abstract: A controlled release substance containing organosilica sol-gels is provided. The organosilica sol-gels may be further functionalized with amino groups to control the rate of release of encapsulated molecules. The controlled release substance may be utilized as a controlled release fabric care substance, including at least one active fabric care substance in a host matrix comprising an organosilica gel. The fabric care substance may be at least one of a protein, enzyme, fragrance, anti-static agent, fabric softener, dye, or detergent, and may be in bead form, particle form or powder form.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2008Publication date: January 29, 2009Inventor: Bakul C. Dave
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Publication number: 20090023624Abstract: The present invention relates to a detergent composition comprising a new wild-type lipase and variants thereof. In addition a washing method is disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2007Publication date: January 22, 2009Inventors: Xiaomei Niu, Ye Liu, Jurgen Carsten Franz Knotzel, Signe Munk
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Publication number: 20090018042Abstract: A process for the manufacture of a detergent tablet comprises filling a recess in a first pre-formed body with a gel; adding a second body to the gel; and allowing/causing the gel to solidify.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2005Publication date: January 15, 2009Applicant: RECKITT BENCKISER N.V.Inventor: Ralf Wiedemann
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Patent number: 7442679Abstract: Material, composition, and manufacturing method alternatives for a solidification matrix that may be used, for example, in solid cleaning compositions, or other technologies. In at least some embodiments, the solidification matrix includes a binding agent that is formed by the use of MGDA, or a salt or derivative thereof, and water to produce a solid binding agent. In some embodiments, the MGDA and water combines and can solidify to act as a binder material or binding agent dispersed throughout a solid composition that may contain other functional ingredients that provide the desired properties and/or functionality to the solid composition.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2004Date of Patent: October 28, 2008Assignee: Ecolab Inc.Inventors: Roger L. Stolte, Ross Michael Skadsberg, Scott Philip Lyon
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Publication number: 20080255020Abstract: Methods for manufacturing a washing- or cleaning-agent shaped element, encompassing the steps of a) making available a shaped element that comprises a cavity in the form of a recess or a passthrough hole, b) applying a coating agent onto the surface of the shaped element so that the surface coverage of the coated shaped-element surface with the coating agent is between 0.2 and 50 mg/cm2, are suitable for the manufacture of washing- or cleaning-agent shaped elements having excellent hardness and good solubility.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2005Publication date: October 16, 2008Applicant: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien (Henkel KGaA)Inventor: Thomas Holderbaum
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Patent number: 7423005Abstract: Material, composition, and manufacturing method alternatives for a solidification matrix that may be used, for example, in solid cleaning compositions, or other technologies. In at least some embodiments, the solidification matrix includes a binding agent that is formed by the use of hydroxyethylethylenediaminetriacetic acid (HEDTA), or a derivative thereof, and water to produce a solid binding agent. In some embodiments, the HEDTA and water combines and can solidify to act as a binder material or binding agent dispersed throughout a solid composition that may contain other functional ingredients that provide the desired properties and/or functionality to the solid composition.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2003Date of Patent: September 9, 2008Assignee: Ecolab Inc.Inventors: Roger L. Stolte, Michael E. Besse, Terry J. Klos, Kevin R. Bradt, Michael P. Dziuk
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Publication number: 20080214424Abstract: A soluble unit dose of laundry detergent which comprises: a) a thin walled hard capsule, having a wall thickness between 0.07 and 0.3 mm and, c) within the thin walled hard capsule a detergent composition comprising at least 1 g of surfactant, which makes up at least 45% wt of the detergent composition. wherein the solubility of the capsule and the detergent composition is such that it will reach a level of 90% of eventually dissolved electrolytes in stirred demineralised water at 25° C. in less than 35 seconds. By choice of a capsule with this wall thickness the solubility is ensured while pressure caking of the contents is resisted to minimise overall dissolution time.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2005Publication date: September 4, 2008Inventors: Stephen George Barnwell, Paul Chadwick, John George Chambers, Peter Graham, Philip Ronald Moore, David Christopher Thorley
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Patent number: 7417019Abstract: Detergent portions containing at least one detersive formulation wholly or partly contained in a dimensionally stable hollow body having an enclosure that wholly or partly surrounds the detersive formulation, the enclosure being formed of an uncompressed material that can disintegrate under laundering, cleaning, or washing conditions and that gives the hollow body dimensional stability, and optionally, the dimensionally stable hollow body having one or more means forming one or more compartments therein.Type: GrantFiled: July 4, 2001Date of Patent: August 26, 2008Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf AktienInventors: Henriette Weber, Sandra Hoffmann, Wilfried Raehse, Dieter Jung, Frank Meier, Christian Block, Rolf Bayersdoerfer, Markus Semrau, Karl-Martin Faeser, Paul Birnbrich, Dieter Nickel
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Patent number: 7300911Abstract: A process for the preparation of laundry detergent or cleaning product shaped bodies comprises preparing a first noncompressed part (a) which comprises an active substance, preparing a second noncompressed part (b) which comprises an active substance, connecting the two shaped body parts (a) and (b) by joining or intermeshing them to form the shaped body.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2004Date of Patent: November 27, 2007Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf AktienInventors: Matthias Sunder, Rolf Bayersdoerfer, Bernd Richter, Hans-Friedrich Kruse, Markus Semrau, Thomas Holderbaum
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Patent number: 7291276Abstract: Waste in a black or gray water holding tank is treated by an oxygen activated biocide by the addition of tetra acetyl ethylene diamine (TAED) and a peroxygen compound. Hydrogen peroxide and/or peracetic acid are released over a period of time and thus maintained in the wastewater solution. Peracetic acid under controlled release conditions dissipates prior to the wastewater being deposited in a wastewater treatment plant.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2005Date of Patent: November 6, 2007Assignee: Winston Company, Inc.Inventor: Neal Zahn
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Patent number: 7271142Abstract: A particulate composition comprising particles which consist of a shell wall surrounding a hydrophilic core, wherein the shell wall is formed from a polymeric coacervate and wherein the particles comprise a polymeric amphipathic stabiliser. Also claimed is a process of producing a particulate composition comprising particles which consist of a shell wall surrounding a hydrophilic core, comprising the steps of a) forming an aqueous liquid that contains a wall building material that is capable of forming the shell wall by coacervation, b) dispersing the aqueous liquid into a water immiscible liquid, which comprises a stabilising substance to form a dispersion that comprises aqueous droplets dispersed in a continuous phase of water immiscible liquid, c) subjecting the dispersion to coacervation conditions, such that the wall building material coacervates at the surface of the aqueous doplets, characterised in that the stabilising substance comprises a polymeric amphipathic stabiliser.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2002Date of Patent: September 18, 2007Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Water Treatments LtdInventors: Kishor Kumar Mistry, Bryan David Grey
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Patent number: 7262160Abstract: Enhanced UV blocking is provided to clothing by washing the clothing in a composition including a UV blocking dye and at least one additional water-soluble material which serves as a matrix and/or a dispersant for the dye in the washing machine. The dye is initially in the form of a solid tablet or pellet preferably also containing a disintegrant, or inside a water-soluble envelope. When placed in the washing machine with the clothing and the washing water, the pellet or tablet disintegrates and dissolves releasing the UV protectant dye to the clothing.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2004Date of Patent: August 28, 2007Inventor: Robert H. Black
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Patent number: 7256168Abstract: A detergent tablet having at least one phase in the form of a solid foam having gas-filled cells delimited by solid partitions, and the tablet or the at least one phase comprises 40% to 90% by weight of one or more water-soluble polymers. A process for the production of detergent tablets by foaming a solution, melt, emulsion, or suspension comprising at least one active ingredient with a gaseous medium, and solidifying the resulting foam.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2001Date of Patent: August 14, 2007Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf AktienInventors: Wilfried Raehse, Rolf Bayersdoerfer, Paul Birnbrich, Markus Semrau
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Patent number: 7205266Abstract: Laundry or dishwasher detergent tablets comprise at least one cavity, nonionic surfactants in the range from 5 to 25% by weight, based on the tablet and 0.1% to 70% by weight of sulfonated copolymers.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2001Date of Patent: April 17, 2007Assignee: Henkel KGaAInventors: Thomas Holderbaum, Bernd Richter, Christian Nitsch, Rolf Bayersdoerfer
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Patent number: 7199096Abstract: Detergent tablets are disclosed, which are characterized by containing surfactant granules, obtained by granulating and compacting anionic and/or non-ionic surfactants in the presence of dispersing agents.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2000Date of Patent: April 3, 2007Assignee: Cognis Deutschland GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Manfred Weuthen
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Patent number: 7186678Abstract: A process for making a surfactant composition having an improved dissolution rate in cold water involving: (a) providing a hydroxy mixed ether surfactant; (b) providing a disintegrator component; and (c) granulating and compacting the hydroxy mixed ether surfactant in the presence of the disintegrator component.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2005Date of Patent: March 6, 2007Assignee: Cognis Deutschland GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Manfred Weuthen, Ditmar Kischkel, Michael Elsner
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Patent number: 7144851Abstract: A multi-phase detergent tablet comprising: a) a first phase having a planar upper surface, and b) a second phase adhered to and partially covering the upper surface.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2001Date of Patent: December 5, 2006Assignee: Reckitt Benckiser N.V.Inventors: Mike Kosub, Roberto Casonati
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Patent number: 7087570Abstract: Detergent tablets comprising surfactant granules obtained by granulation and compaction of a nonionic surfactant, selected from the group consisting of hydroxy mixed ethers, in the presence of a disintegrant, are described.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2000Date of Patent: August 8, 2006Assignee: Cognis Deutschland GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Manfred Weuthen, Ditmar Kischkel, Michael Elsner
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Patent number: 7084102Abstract: A perfumed detergent tablet comprises a clay mineral compound and a heavy metal ion sequestrant. The clay mineral helps disperse the tablet in aqueous media and acts as a fabric softener for laundered fabrics. The perfume is free of Schiff bases, such as those formed from anthranilates and aldehydes, which can discolor the clay.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2000Date of Patent: August 1, 2006Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: José Arnau, Philip Andrew Cunningham, Michael Green, Allan Campbell McRitchie
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Patent number: 7067469Abstract: A solid-shaped detergent comprising particles for detergent, wherein the particles have a dissolution rate of 90% or more, under conditions where the particles are supplied in water at 5° C.; stirred for 60 seconds under the stirring conditions that 1 g of the particles are supplied to a 1-L beaker having an inner diameter of 105 mm which is charged with 1 L of hard water having 71.2 mg CaCO3/L, wherein a molar ratio of Ca/Mg is 7/3, and stirred with a stirring bar of 35 mm in length and 8 mm in diameter at a rotational speed of 800 rpm; and filtered with a standard sieve having a sieve-opening of 74 ?m as defined by JIS Z 8801, wherein the dissolution rate of the particles is calculated by the Equation (1): Dissolution Rate (%)=[1?(T/S)]×100,??(1) wherein S is a weight (g) of the particles supplied; and T is a dry weight (g) of insoluble remnants of the particles remaining on the sieve when an aqueous solution prepared under the above stirring conditions is filtered with the sieve.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2003Date of Patent: June 27, 2006Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Yuhki Yanagisawa, Nobuyoshi Yamaguchi, Shu Yamaguchi, Hitoshi Takaya, Hiroyuki Yamashita
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Patent number: 7056873Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 18, 1999Date of Patent: June 6, 2006Assignee: Jeyes Group LimitedInventors: Ian Sidgwick, Steve Balls, Russell Norman, Brian D. Wilson
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Patent number: 7041633Abstract: A process far preparing a detergent tablet, comprising the step of contacting a liquid binder to a base powder, wherein the liquid binder comprises a nonionic surfactant and a dissolution aid.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2001Date of Patent: May 9, 2006Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventor: Eric Tcheou
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Patent number: 7033983Abstract: Particulate laundry detergent compositions, especially high bulk density powders and tablets, contain low levels of aloe vera. The aloe vera is preferably present in the form of colored, preferably, green, speckles having a 1% solution pH not exceeding 9. The detergent compositions preferably contain a mild surfactant system.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2003Date of Patent: April 25, 2006Assignee: Unilever Home and Personal Care USA a division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Olaf Cornelis Beers, Rudolfus Johannes Hafkamp
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Patent number: 7033988Abstract: Detergent compositions, preferably tablets, comprise an improved solubility aid wherein the solubility aid contains an organic molecule, which has a first polar group and a second polar group separated from each other by less than 5 aliphatic carbon atoms. The use of the solubility aid provides detergent tablets which are both strong and durable to resist breakage during storage and transportation, but which also disintegrate rapidly upon contact with an aqueous wash solution so that the components of the tablet can provide detersive benefits during the wash process.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2003Date of Patent: April 25, 2006Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Kevin Todd Norwood, Gayle Marie Frankenbach, Rajeev Ashok Modi, Mike Rene Weaver
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Patent number: 7033984Abstract: A particulate detergent composition, which comprises a minor amount of a herbal extract beneficial to human skin, the herbal extract being present in the form of granules comprising an aqueous solution of the herbal extract absorbed into and/or adsorbed onto a granular clay carrier is provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2003Date of Patent: April 25, 2006Assignee: Unilever Home and Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Rudolfus Johannes Hendrikus Hafkamp, Antje Minke Wierenga
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Patent number: 7030077Abstract: Particulate laundry detergent compositions, especially high bulk density powders and tablets, contain low levels of aloe vera or other herbal extract beneficial to the skin. The herbal extract is preferably present in the form of coloured, preferably, green, speckles having a 1% solution pH not exceeding 9. The detergent compositions preferably contain a mild surfactant system.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2003Date of Patent: April 18, 2006Assignee: Unilever Home and Personal Care USA, a division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Olaf Cornelis Beers, Rudolfus Johannes Hafkamp
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Patent number: 7022659Abstract: Packages which comprise a substrate and one or more fabric treatment chemicals, wherein the fabric treatment chemicals are released from the substrate through the action of temperature, friction and/or contact with water. Methods for treating fabrics, the methods comprising the step of opening a package, the package containing at least one unit dose of detergent, and subsequently dissolving and/or dispersing the detergent composition to provide a wash liquor, and wherein the package comprises an insoluble substrate and one or more fabric treatment chemicals, the chemical-containing substrate being used to directly or indirectly apply the fabric treatment chemicals to the fabrics.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2002Date of Patent: April 4, 2006Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Jacky Pierre Duquet, Jose Luis Vega, Jean Wevers
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Patent number: 7008912Abstract: The invention relates to a pressed piece consisting of ingredients in powder and/or granular form, which contains particles made of a material containing cellulose, particularly in compacted form, which act as an explosive agent. TMP and CTMP can be used as the cellulose-containing material.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 1998Date of Patent: March 7, 2006Assignee: Henkel KGaAInventors: Josef Otto Rettenmaier, Hans-Friedrich Kruse, Martin Holl, Harald Schlosser, Armin Ungerer
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Patent number: 6992056Abstract: A process for preparing a detergent tablet having two or more regions comprises the steps of: (a) compressing a particulate composition comprising a detergent active component to form a compressed region of the tablet having a recess; (b) delivering to the recess a solution or melt comprising a mixture of at least one detergent active component and a fusible carrier material; and (c) solidifying the solution or melt.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 1998Date of Patent: January 31, 2006Assignee: Henkel KGAAInventors: Juergen Haerer, Thomas Otto Gassenmeier, Christian Nitsch, Hans-Josef Beaujean, Bernd Richter, Thomas Moeller
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Patent number: 6982245Abstract: The invention relates to portioned cleaning shaped bodies which are comprised of solid cleaning agent and of a water-soluble coating and which are used for producing liquid cleaning agent concentrates. The invention also relates to the use of the cleaning shaped bodies in the area of building cleaning or industrial cleaning services or in the area of household cleaning.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2000Date of Patent: January 3, 2006Assignee: Ecolab GmbH & Co. OHGInventors: Heiko Faubel, Francois Prebin, Gerd Rupietta, Karl-Heinz Rogmann, Heiko Hiltner, Barbara Zupp
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Patent number: 6977239Abstract: A detergent tablet composition containing surfactant granules made by a process involving: (a) providing a surfactant component selected from the group consisting of a surface-active protein, a surface-active protein derivative, and mixtures thereof; (b) providing a disintegrator component; (c) combining the surfactant component and the disintegrator component to form a surfactant mixture; and (d) granulating and compacting the surfactant mixture to form the surfactant granules.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2000Date of Patent: December 20, 2005Assignee: Cognis Deutschland GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Manfred Weuthen, Ditmar Kischkel
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Patent number: RE39139Abstract: A process for making a detergent tablet by forming a disintegrating agent by compacting cellulose or a cellulose derivative, forming disintegrating agent particles comprising the disintegrating agent, dry mixing a washing- or cleaning-active substance and an amount of the disintegrating agent particles effective to rapidly dissolve or disperse the composition in water, and shaping the resulting mixture into a tablet. The disintegrating agent particles have a particle size distribution of less than 10% by weight smaller than about 0.2 mm particle size and no more than 1% by weight of dust-fine particles.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2003Date of Patent: June 20, 2006Assignee: Henkel KGaAInventors: Gerhard Blasey, Dieter Jung, Hans-Friedrich Kruse, Fred Schambill