Layered Or Swelling Inorganic Silicate Containing Component (e.g., Smectite Clay, Bentonite, Etc.) Patents (Class 510/334)
  • Patent number: 11332698
    Abstract: The present invention provides a treatment agent composition for textile products, containing the following component (A) and the following component (B): component (A): an internal olefin sulfonate having 16 or more and 24 or less carbons; and component (B): a softening base for textile products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Morikawa, Mayuko Inoue
  • Patent number: 10314778
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an anhydrous composition comprising: 1) at least particles comprising a core containing at least one beneficial agent and an envelope surrounding the core; said envelope comprising at least one hydrophobically modified polysaccharide and at least one water-soluble carbohydrate and/or water-soluble polyol; said particles simultaneously having a poured powder density ranging from 300.0 g/l to 600.0 g/l and an absolute density of greater than 1.0; and 2) an oily phase. The invention additionally relates to a cosmetic process for caring for and/or for making up a keratin material, which consists in applying to the surface of said human keratin material a consumer product comprising a composition as defined previously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: L'OREAL
    Inventors: Gérard Malle, Tiina Luukas, Isabelle Bara
  • Patent number: 10301579
    Abstract: A packaged particulate composition having a carrier, perfume, and occlusions of gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Robert Richard Dykstra, Lisa Grace Frentzel, Richard Albert Huddleston
  • Patent number: 9540600
    Abstract: A laundry detergent composition having a particle, wherein the particle has: (a) hueing agent, wherein the hueing agent has the following structure: wherein: R1 and R2 are independently selected from the group consisting of: H; alkyl; alkoxy; alkyleneoxy; alkyl capped alkyleneoxy; urea; and amido; R3 is a substituted aryl group; X is a substituted group comprising sulfonamide moiety and optionally an alkyl and/or aryl moiety, and wherein the substituent group comprises at least one alkyleneoxy chain that comprises an average molar distribution of at least four alkyleneoxy moieties; (b) clay; and (c) another detergent ingredient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Patrick Christopher Stenger, Gregory Scot Miracle, Andrew Philip Moon, Michael McDonnell, Gregory Edward Fernandes, Dominick Joseph Valenti
  • Patent number: 9540599
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a laundry detergent composition comprising a particle comprising hueing agent and clay. The particle can be incorporated into laundry detergent products, such as a laundry detergent powder. The particle exhibits an excellent storage stability profile with very little bleeding of the hueing dye from the particle, exhibits excellent fabric deposition of the hueing dye during a laundering process without causing any spot staining of the fabric, and does not impact the visual appearance of a laundry detergent powder when incorporated therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Milliken & Company
    Inventors: Gregory E. Fernandes, Dominick J. Valenti, Patrick C. Stenger, Gregory S. Miracle, Andrew P. Moon, Michael McDonnell
  • Patent number: 8969280
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to visually contrasting aesthetic particles having increased water solubility, particularly useful for combination with granular laundry detergent composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Richard Lock, Michael Pickstock
  • Patent number: 8632790
    Abstract: The invention relates to a skin care pad comprising exfoliating elements (4) which are distributed between at least one first fibrous layer (2) and a second fibrous layer (6), said second layer having a lower basis weight than the first fibrous layer. In this way, the inventive pad can be used daily, in order to exfoliate and massage the skin and to remove make-up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: SCA Tissue France
    Inventors: Philippe Gregoire, Bernard Louis Dit Picard
  • Patent number: 8277688
    Abstract: This invention relates to galvanic aluminum alloy powder-pigments coated with a semi-conducting corrosion inhibiting oxide and the process for preparing said coated powder-pigments in combination with film-forming binders for coating metal substrates to inhibit corrosion. The coated aluminum alloy powder-pigments are electrically active and prevent corrosion of metals which are more cathodic (electropositive) than the aluminum alloy pigments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Craig Matzdorf, William Nickerson
  • Patent number: 8262938
    Abstract: Chromate-free corrosion-inhibiting coating compositions comprising film-forming binders and galvanic aluminum alloy powders prepared in an oxygen (oxidizing), nitrogen (inert) or nitrogen-hydrogen (reducing) atmosphere having particle sizes ranging up to 100 microns. The aluminum alloy powders having the formula: aluminum-zinc-X (AlZnX) wherein X is an element selected from the group consisting of indium, gallium, tin and bismuth. Improvement in corrosion protection is obtained by the addition of chemical inhibitors such as an azole or talcite clay to the coating which further inhibits the self-corrosion of the aluminum alloy and extends the corrosion protection of the metal substrate being protected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy.
    Inventors: Craig Matzdorf, William Nickerson
  • Patent number: 8236746
    Abstract: A detergent composition containing: (a) a nonionic surfactant containing a polyoxyalkylene alkyl ether of which alkylene oxide moiety has an average number of moles of from 4 to 8; (b) an anionic surfactant, excluding a fatty acid and a salt thereof; and (c) a clay mineral represented by the general formula (I): [Si8(MgaAlb)O20(OH)4]X?·MeX+??(I) wherein a, b and x satisfy 0<a?6, 0<b?4, and x=12?2a?3b, and Me is at least one member selected from Na, K, Li, Ca, Mg and NH4, wherein the clay mineral is contained in an amount of 3% by weight or more, wherein a weight ratio of the component (a) to the component (b), (a)/(b), exceeds 1 and is less than 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Yanagisawa, Kuniaki Mitsuyoshi, Wataru Ueno, Isao Yamada, Teruo Kubota
  • Patent number: 7968509
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a softening detergent composition containing a glyceryl monoether represented by formula (I) and (b) a clay mineral: R—O—(C3H6O2)n—H??(I) wherein R represents a hydrocarbon group having 6 to 22 carbon atoms and n represents the degree of condensation of glycerin and denotes a number from 3 to 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Yohei Ozeki, Teruo Kubota, Takanori Kotera, Motomitsu Hasumi
  • Patent number: 7915214
    Abstract: A cleansing or a surface-conditioning composition comprising a mixture of (i) and (ii) in water: i) a surfactant selected from the group consisting of anionic, non-ionic, zwitterionic, cationic, and mixtures thereof, and ii) a hydrophobic benefit agent in a particulate form having a mean particle size in the range of 1-1,000 micron, and a specific gravity of ?1, not encapsulated within a film or a capsule-like enclosure, the particulate hydrophobic benefit agent comprising: a) a physically-modified form of the hydrophobic benefit agent; and b) a deposition-aid material bonded to the surface of the physically-modified benefit agent material, wherein the bonding between the two said materials is achieved prior to addition to i), wherein said deposition-aid material is not a surfactant having a weight average molecular weight of less than 5,000 Dalton.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Amcol International Corporation
    Inventors: Ashoke K. SenGupta, Ilona Lin, Jason St. Onge
  • Patent number: 7888306
    Abstract: A cleansing or a surface-conditioning composition comprising a mixture of (i) and (ii) in water: i) a surfactant selected from the group consisting of anionic, non-ionic, zwitterionic, cationic, and mixtures thereof; and ii) a hydrophobic benefit agent in a particulate form having a mean particle size in the range of 1-1,000 micron, and a specific gravity of ?1, not encapsulated within a film or a capsule-like enclosure, the particulate hydrophobic benefit agent comprising: a) a physically-modified form of the hydrophobic benefit agent; and b) a deposition-aid material bonded to the surface of the physically-modified benefit agent material, wherein the bonding between the two said materials is achieved prior to addition to i), wherein said deposition-aid material is not a surfactant having a weight average molecular weight of less than 5,000 Dalton.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Amcol International Corporation
    Inventors: Ashoke K. SenGupta, Ilona Lin, Jason St. Onge, Melanie J. Hughes
  • Patent number: 7871972
    Abstract: A cleansing or a surface-conditioning composition comprising a mixture of (i) and (ii) in water: i) a surfactant selected from the group consisting of anionic, non-ionic, zwitterionic, cationic, and mixtures thereof; and ii) a hydrophobic benefit agent in a particulate form having a mean particle size in the range of 1-1,000 micron, and a specific gravity of ?1, not encapsulated within a film or a capsule-like enclosure, the particulate hydrophobic benefit agent comprising: a) a physically-modified form of the hydrophobic benefit agent; and b) a deposition-aid material bonded to the surface of the physically-modified benefit agent, wherein the bonding between the benefit agent and the deposition-aid material is achieved prior to addition to i), wherein said deposition-aid material is not a surfactant having a weight average molecular weight of less than 5,000 Dalton.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: AMCOL International Corporation
    Inventor: Ashoke K. SenGupta
  • Patent number: 7855173
    Abstract: A cationic oil-in-water emulsion, for addition to detersive compositions, comprising hydrophilic cationic polymers, a surface-active, anionic polymer that is capable of adsorbing at an air-water interface or an oil-water interface and/or is oil-soluble, and a hydrophobic benefit agent in the oil phase made by adding the benefit agent to a hydrophobic liquid; thickening the oil phase with an organophillic smectite clay reacted at clay platelet surfaces to make the clay platelet surfaces hydrophobic while the edge surfaces of the clay remain hydrophilic, such that the organophillic smectite clay is adsorbed at an oil/water interface in the emulsion, and one of the hydrophilic, cationic polymers has a cationic nitrogen content of at least 6% by weight, that is incompatible with anionic surfactants, being insoluble in anionic-surfactant solutions containing an amount of 3% or higher of an anionic surfactant, and another hydrophilic cationic polymer has a cationic nitrogen content of at least 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: Amcol International Corporation
    Inventors: Ashoke K. SenGupta, Ilona Lin, Jason Harold St. Onge
  • Patent number: 7846268
    Abstract: The present invention relates to cleaning and/or treatment compositions comprising a dye conjugate, and processes of making and using such compositions. Such compositions can provide benefits such as an increase in the whiteness or blackness perception of a situs that is cleaned or treated with such compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Johan Smets, Andre Baeck, Jean-Luc Bettiol, Mark Robert Sivik, Neil Joseph Lant, James Robert Lickiss
  • Publication number: 20100298199
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a softening detergent composition containing a glyceryl monoether represented by formula (I) and (b) a clay mineral: R—O—(C3H6O2)n—H ??(I) wherein R represents a hydrocarbon group having 6 to 22 carbon atoms and n represents the degree of condensation of glycerin and denotes a number from 3 to 5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2007
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Applicant: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Yohei Ozeki, Teruo Kubota, Takanori Kotera, Motomitsu Hasumi
  • Patent number: 7686892
    Abstract: The present invention relates to cleaning and/or treatment compositions comprising a dye conjugate, and processes of making and using such compositions. Such compositions can provide benefits such as an increase in the whiteness or blackness perception of a situs that is cleaned or treated with such compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Johan Smets, Andre Baeck, Jean-Luc Bettiol, Mark Robert Sivik, Neil Joseph Lant, James Robert Lickiss
  • Patent number: 7629004
    Abstract: This invention comprises a composition and the process of using the composition for removing and preventing mold, mildew, and fungal growth. The composition comprises at least one alkali metal perborate, at least one inhibiting compound selected from the group consisting of alkali metal silicates, triazoles and mixtures thereof in any ratio, at least one corrosion inhibitor, and effective amounts of surfactant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: El Sayed S. Arafat, Craig A. Matzdorf, Stephen J. Spadafora, David L. Gauntt, Paul R. Roser, James A. Whitfield
  • Publication number: 20090281011
    Abstract: Solid textile- and/or skin-care compositions encompassing a water-soluble particle and a water-insoluble particle that contains a water-insoluble carrier and a textile- and/or skin-care compound. Also, textile-softening washing detergents or cleaning agents encompassing the textile- and/or skin-care composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2009
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Konstanze Mayer, Karl- Heinz Scheffler, Rene-Andres Artiga Gonzalez, Mario Sturm
  • Publication number: 20090270302
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an auxiliary composition, for use in the laundering or treatment of fabrics, comprising an admix of (i) clay and (ii) a silicone in an emulsified form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Inventors: Kevin Graham Blyth, Andrew Russell Graydon, Colin Stephenson
  • Patent number: 7569533
    Abstract: A cationic oil-in-water emulsion, for addition to detersive compositions, comprising hydrophilic cationic polymers, a surface-active, anionic polymer that is capable of adsorbing at an air-water interface or an oil-water interface and/or is oil-soluble, and a hydrophobic benefit agent in the oil phase made by adding the benefit agent to a hydrophobic liquid; thickening the oil phase with an organophillic smectite clay reacted at clay platelet surfaces to make the clay platelet surfaces hydrophobic while the edge surfaces of the clay remain hydrophilic, such that the organophillic smectite clay is adsorbed at an oil/water interface in the emulsion, and one of the hydrophilic, cationic polymers has a cationic nitrogen content of at least 6% by weight, that is incompatible with anionic surfactants, being insoluble in anionic-surfactant solutions containing an amount of 3% or higher of an anionic surfactant, and another hydrophilic cationic polymer has a cationic nitrogen content of at least 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: Amcol International Corporation
    Inventors: Ashoke K. SenGupta, Ilona Lin, Jason St. Onge
  • Publication number: 20090170746
    Abstract: [Problems] To provide a softening detergent composition capable of washing a fibrous manufactured article having softening ability, and at the same time allowing a clay mineral to be less likely to remain on clothes. [Solving Means] A softening detergent composition containing (a) 1 to 20% by mass of clay granules containing as a main component a smectite clay mineral represented by the following general formula (I), provided that a Na/Ca mass ratio in the granules is less than 1.0: [Si8(MgaAlb)O20(OH)4]X?.X/n [Me]n (I), wherein a, b, and x satisfy the formulas 0<a?6, 0?b?4, 0.2?x=12?2a?3b?1.2; Me is at least one member of Na, K, Li, Ca, Mg and NH4; and n is valency of Me; (b) 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2006
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Teruo Kubota, Yohei Ozeki, Wataru Ueno, Motomitsu Hasumi
  • Patent number: 7524516
    Abstract: The corrosion inhibiting mildew remover kit includes a premeasured amount of sodium perborate, a premeasured amount of a liquid inhibitor and a premeasured amount of a liquid blend. The premeasured amount of sodium perborate, the premeasured amount of liquid inhibitor, the premeasured amount of liquid blend and water combine to form an aqueous solution that can be applied to a mildew infected area. The aqueous solution removes mildew from a mildew infected area and does not cause corrosion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: El Sayed S. Arafat, Raymond D. Rose, Paul R. Roser
  • Publication number: 20090099055
    Abstract: A solid textile-care composition having a matrix of soap and, distributed therein, a textile-care compound and a perfume. Also, textile-softening laundry detergents or cleaning agents containing the textile-care composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2008
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Applicant: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Konstanze Mayer, Karl-Heinz Scheffler
  • Publication number: 20090082244
    Abstract: The invention relates to a solid, textile or skin care composition which comprises a water-soluble carrier, a textile-softening clay and a textile or skin care compound. The invention especially relates to a solid, textile or skin care composition wherein the water-soluble carrier is particulate and is coated with a powder comprising the softening clay and the textile or skin care compound. The invention also relates to textile-softening detergents or cleaning agents which comprise the textile or skin care composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2008
    Publication date: March 26, 2009
    Applicant: Henkel AG & C0. KGaA
    Inventors: Konstanze Mayer, Karl-Heinz Scheffler, Rene-Andres Artiga-Gonzales, Mario Sturm, Tobias Segler
  • Patent number: 7494670
    Abstract: This invention comprises a composition and the process of using the composition for removing and preventing mold, mildew, and fungal growth. The composition comprises at least one alkali metal perborate, at least one inhibiting compound selected from the group consisting of alkali metal silicates, triazoles and mixtures thereof in any ratio, at least one corrosion inhibitor, and effective amounts of surfactant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2009
    Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: El Sayed S. Arafat, Craig A. Matzdorf, Stephen J. Spadafora, David L. Gauntt, Paul R. Roser, James A. Whitfield
  • Patent number: 7309684
    Abstract: An oil-in-water emulsion composition remover is disclosed. The compositions comprise a solvent, water and a surfactant. The removers are useful in removing non-aqueous and aqueous coatings, waxes, greases, and the like, from substrates to which the coatings, waxes, greases, and the like, have been applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2007
    Assignee: The Lubrizol Corporation
    Inventors: Brian B. Filippini, Christopher M. Carter, Harshida C. Dave
  • Patent number: 7105476
    Abstract: This invention relates to fabric treatment compositions comprising a textile compatible carrier and water insoluble particles having a layered structure comprising oxygen atoms and silicon and/or phosphorus atoms and comprising organic functional groups which are bonded to silicon and/or phosphorus atoms by direct covalent bonds between the silicon and/or phosphorus atoms and a carbon atom. A number of the compositions may impart anti-wrinkling ie, reduced crease formation or other benefits to fabrics washed or otherwise treated therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Nicola Whilton
  • Patent number: 7012055
    Abstract: Fabric treatment compositions comprising a textile compatible carrier and particles having a layered structure comprising oxygen atoms and silicon and/or phosphorus atoms and comprising organic functional groups which are bonded to silicon and/or phosphorus atoms by direct covalent bonds between the silicon and/or phosphorus atoms and a carbon atom. The functional groups are selected to impart lubricating properties to the particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2006
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Hugh Findlay, Joseph Edward Hunter, Laxmikant Tiwari, Nicola Whilton
  • Patent number: 6844310
    Abstract: The invention relates to builder compositions obtainable by bringing a) crystalline sheetlike sodium silicate of the formula NaMSixO2x+1.yH2O, where M is sodium or hydrogen, x is a number from 1.9 to 4 and y is a number from 0 to 20. b) water and c) an acidic, H+-releasing component, where the d) molar ratio of the crystalline sheetlike sodium silicate a) to the total amount of the releasable H+ of the acid component c) is 4:1 to 1000:1 and the e) molar ratio of the water b) to the total amount of the releasable H+ of the acidic component c) is 3:1 to 1000:1. into contact with one another. The invention also relates to laundry detergents, cleaners, compounds and water softeners comprising the builder compositions according to the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2005
    Assignee: Clariant GmbH
    Inventors: Harald Bauer, Josef Holz, Günther Schimmel
  • Patent number: 6787516
    Abstract: A fabric care composition comprises (i) an organophilic clay; (ii) a functionalized oil; and (iii) water. The composition may be used to provide fabrics with softness and/or anti-wrinkle and/or other fabric benefits in laundering processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: David Moorfield, Nicola Whilton
  • Patent number: 6784149
    Abstract: The invention relates to laundry detergents and cleaners comprising microdisperse, hydrophilic silicate-containing particles. The particle diameter of the particles is preferably 1 to 500 nm. The addition of the silicate-containing particles leads to improved soil release with a simultaneous reduction in the tendency for resoiling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2004
    Assignee: Clariant GmbH
    Inventors: Harald Bauer, Günther Schimmel
  • Patent number: 6770612
    Abstract: Structured surfactant systems contain a deflocculant and, in addition, an auxiliary stabiliser to inhibit temperature instability. The auxiliary stabiliser comprises a substantially non cross-linked water soluble copolymer having a hydrophulic back-bone and sufficient C2-6 hydrophobic organic side chains to permit entanglement of the polymer chains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Assignee: Huntsman International LLC
    Inventor: Kevan Hatchman
  • Patent number: 6730656
    Abstract: A solid detergent composition comprising a clay system, said clay system comprises a hectorite clay and a dioctahedral smectite clay, wherein the weight ratio of said hectorite clay to said dioctahedral smectite clay is less than 1:1. The two clay types may be present in a solid detergent composition in the form of an agglomerate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Richard Timothy Hartshorn, Alison Lesley Main, Nathalie Sophie Letzelter, Barry Thomas Ingram
  • Patent number: 6723693
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for improving the dispensing of a detergent composition or component thereof, comprising a surfactant and other detergent components, by providing a detergent composition comprising an intimate mixture of the surfactant component or part thereof and a crystalline layered silicate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2004
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Richard Timothy Hartshorn, Francisco Ramon Figueroa, Sylvestre Canceil
  • Patent number: 6713442
    Abstract: A built particulate laundry detergent composition containing anionic sulphonate or sulphate surfactant and conventional ethoxylated alcohol nonionic surfactant also contains a low level of a highly ethoxylated alcohol nonionic surfactant having an average degree of ethoxylation of from 15 to 40, and a low level of a textile softening clay. The composition exhibits increased mildness to the skin without loss of detergency performance, and the softness of washed fabrics is significantly improved despite the low level of softening clay present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2004
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Rudolfus Johannes Hendrikus Hafkamp, Rob Menting, Antje Minke Wierenga
  • Patent number: 6689739
    Abstract: The present invention relates to detergent compositions which comprise low levels of inorganic sulphate filler salts, but instead high levels of carbonate salts and a system to counter balance the carbonate. This system comprises a floculating agent and a clay. Preferably only very low levels of an inorganic sulphate salt are present. Preferably, also other salts or silicates are present, including phosphates and/or zeolites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Robin Gibson Hall
  • Publication number: 20030232731
    Abstract: A unit dose wash cycle fabric softening composition for softening or conditioning fabrics in the wash cycle of an automatic washing machine, said unit dose comprising a compacted granular fabric softener composition in an amount sufficient to form a unit dose capable of providing effective softening or conditioning of fabrics in the wash cycle of said washing machine, and wherein said fabric softener composition comprises (A) a treated montmorillonite-containing clay selected to have initial properties as follows:(i) a montmorillonite content of at least 85%; and (ii) when said clay is activated with sodium ions, dried and ground to particles, said ground particles do not swell more than about 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2002
    Publication date: December 18, 2003
    Inventors: Hoai-Chau Cao, Alain Gourgue, Alain Jacques, Joseph Reul, Juliette Rousselet, Jeffrey T. Epp, Amjad Farooq, Charles J. Schramm
  • Publication number: 20030232735
    Abstract: A unit dose wash cycle fabric softening composition for softening or conditioning fabrics in the wash cycle of an automatic washing machine, said unit dose comprising a compacted granular fabric softener composition formed from granules of softener, which granules are formed from a powder of said clay component wherein the amount of moisture in said clay component is from about 3% to about 10%, by weight, and wherein the total amount of moisture in the compacted fabric softener composition is from about 3% to about 25% by weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2002
    Publication date: December 18, 2003
    Inventors: Hoai-Chau Cao, Alain Gourgue, Alain Jacques, Joseph Reul, Juliette Rousselet, Jeffrey T. Epp, Amjad Farooq, Charles J. Schramm
  • Patent number: 6656901
    Abstract: A fabric care composition comprises (i) an organophilic clay; (ii) a functionalised oil; and (iii) water. The composition may be used to provide fabrics with softness and/or anti-wrinkle and/or other fabric benefits in laundering processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: David Moorfield, Nicola Whilton
  • Patent number: 6627598
    Abstract: The present invention relates to detergent compositions which comprise a flocculating agent and an organophilic smectite clay whereof at least 30%, preferably at least 40% of the exchangeable cations in the clay is replaced by one or more long-chain organic cations, preferably having at least one long carbon chain of at least 10 or even 12 carbon atoms. The compositions provide improved fabric softening and deliver good cleaning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2003
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Barry Thomas Ingram, Stephen Wayne Heinzman, Nathalie Sophie Letzelter, Robin Gibson Hall
  • Patent number: 6620209
    Abstract: A detergent composition comprising: (a) a surfactant selected from the group consisting of an anionic surfactant, a nonionic surfactant, an amphoteric surfactant, a zwitterionic surfactant, and mixtures thereof; (b) a cationic polymer; and (c) a zeolite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2003
    Assignee: Cognis Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ditmar Kischkel, Manfred Weuthen, Jutta Stute
  • Patent number: 6616705
    Abstract: A detergent composition comprising: (a) a surfactant selected from the group consisting of an anionic surfactant, a nonionic surfactant, an amphoteric surfactant, a zwitterionic surfactant, and mixtures thereof; (b) a cationic polymer; and (c) a phosphate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2003
    Assignee: Cognis Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ditmar Kischkel, Manfred Weuthen, Jutta Stute
  • Patent number: 6610644
    Abstract: The invention provides a detergent composition comprising from 0.5 to 60% by weight of an agglomerate comprising from 35 to 68% by weight of the agglomerate of a crystalline layered silicate, from 32 to 55% by weight of the agglomerate of an anionic surfactant and comprising less than 10% by weight of the agglomerate of free moisture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Michael Keith Fenney, David Urquhart
  • Patent number: 6610640
    Abstract: A water soluble container having disposed therein a nonaqueous liquid fabric softener composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: Colgate Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Marianne Zappone, Charles Schramm, Jr., Amjad Farooq, Arthur Wagner, Jeffrey T. Epp, Joseph Reul, Hoai-Chau Cao, Alain Jacques, Alain Gourgue, Juliette Rousselet
  • Patent number: 6608014
    Abstract: A water soluble container having disposed therein a nonaqueous liquid fabric softener composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2003
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Charles Schramm, Jr., Arthur Wagner, Marianne Zappone, Amjad Farooq, Jeffrey T. Epp, Joseph Reul, Hoai-Chau Cao, Alain Jacques, Alain Gourgue, Juliette Rousselet
  • Patent number: 6605582
    Abstract: A water soluble container having disposed therein a granular fabric softener composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2003
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Charles Schramm, Jr., Arthur Wagner, Marianne Zappone, Amjad Farooq, Jeffrey T. Epp, Joseph Reul, Hoai-Chau Cao, Alain Jacques, Alain Gourgue, Juliette Rousselet
  • Patent number: 6605581
    Abstract: A water soluble container having disposed therein a nonaqueous liquid fabric softener composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2003
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Hoai-Chau Cao, Joseph Reul, Juliette Rousselet, Alain Jacques, Alain Gourgue, Charles Schramm, Jr., Amjad Farooq, Jeffrey T. Epp, Marianne Zappone, Arthur Wagner
  • Patent number: 6506722
    Abstract: The invention relates to cogranulates comprising phyllosilicates and disintegrants, in particular cellulose, and to detergents and cleaners which comprise these cogranulates, preferably in tablet form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2003
    Assignee: Clariant GmbH
    Inventors: Harald Bauer, Josef Holz, Guenther Schimmel, Armelle Pelissou