Carbohydrate Patents (Class 510/470)
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Patent number: 6369013Abstract: A liquid detergent composition comprising a cationic ammonium compound, a surfactant, a disinfecting agent, and water.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2000Date of Patent: April 9, 2002Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive CoInventors: Joan Gambogi, Patrick Durbut, Guy Broze, Leonard Zyzyck
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Patent number: 6369014Abstract: This invention is directed to a surfactant comprising a carbohydrate group that results in superior cleaning in a dry cleaning system. The surfactant has a hydrocarbon group that is more solvent-philic than a carbohydrate group, and can result in reverse micelle formation in a densified gas like densified carbon dioxide.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2001Date of Patent: April 9, 2002Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USAInventors: Dennis Stephen Murphy, David Alan Binder
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Patent number: 6369018Abstract: A process for making a transparent/translucent HDL composition capable of suspending relatively large size particles while remaining readily pourable. The composition is stable, even in the presence of relatively large amounts of electrolyte/surfactants.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2000Date of Patent: April 9, 2002Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care, USA, division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Feng-Lung Gordon Hsu, Daniel Joseph Kuzmenka, Dennis Stephen Murphy, Kristina Marie Neuser, Myongsuk Bae-Lee, Kim Garufi, Deborah Coccaro
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Patent number: 6362142Abstract: A surface-active composition useful for cleaning various types of substrates such as articles of clothing, various types of hard surfaces, as well as, human hair and skin, the composition containing: (a) an esterquat; (b) a chitosan and/or chitosan derivative; and (c) a protein hydrolyzate.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2000Date of Patent: March 26, 2002Assignee: Cognis Deutschland GmbHInventors: Peter Weber, Bernd Fabry
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Patent number: 6362149Abstract: A plastics compatible detergent composition is provided by the invention. The plastics compatible detergent composition includes about 0.01 wt. % to about 10 wt. % anionic surfactant; about 0.01 wt. % to about 10 wt. % cationic surfactant; about 0.01 wt. % to about 10 wt. % of at least one of reverse polyoxyalkylene block copolymer surfactant, alcohol alkoxylate surfactant having polyoxypropylene and/or polyoxybutylene end groups, and mixtures thereof; about 0.01 wt. % to about 10 wt. % alkylpolyglycoside surfactant; and about 0.01 wt. % to about 20 wt. % silicone surfactant. A method for washing an article having a plastic surface is provided by the invention. The method includes a step of applying the detergent composition to the plastic surface, and rinsing the detergent composition from the article.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2000Date of Patent: March 26, 2002Assignee: Ecolab Inc.Inventors: Victor F. Man, Karen G. Klaers
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Patent number: 6362156Abstract: A translucent/transparent composition capable of suspending relatively large size particles while remaining readily pourable. The composition is stable, even in presence of readily large amount of electrolyte/surfactant.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 1998Date of Patent: March 26, 2002Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care, USA, division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Feng-Lung Gordon Hsu, Dennis Stephen Murphy, Kristina Marie Neuser, Myongsuk Bae-Lee, Daniel Joseph Kuzmenka, Kim Garufi, Pascale Germaine Lazare, Cornelis Johannes Buytenhek, Pieter Willem Van Reeven, Charles Cornelis Verburg, Frank Theodor Van De Scheur
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Patent number: 6358909Abstract: An oil-in-water suspoemulsion system is provided for the delivery of actives for laundering, cleaning or surface treatment, in which the suspoemulsion includes a major portion of water as a continuous phase, at least one Active, and an encapsulate including an oil, and at least first and second nonionic surfactants, the first and second nonionic surfactants having a HLB of at least about 3, the encapsulate substantially completely coating the active and suspending it within the aqueous phase.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2000Date of Patent: March 19, 2002Assignee: The Clorox CompanyInventors: Maria G. Ochomogo, Malcolm A. Deleo, Hanneliese S. Selbach
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Patent number: 6358910Abstract: A tablet of compacted particulate detergent composition including surfactant and detergency builder, suitable for fabric washing, is sub-divided into a plurality of discrete regions with differing compositions. At least one region of the tablet contains a water-swellable polymer serving to promote disintegration of this region. The polymer is present in this region in a concentration greater than in at least one other region of the tablet so as to cause disintegration of the region at a greater speed than disintegration of another region of the tablet.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 1998Date of Patent: March 19, 2002Assignee: Lever Brothers Company, divison of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Jelles Vincent Boskamp, Cornelis Bernard Donker, Edwin Leo Lempers
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Patent number: 6358911Abstract: Detergent tablets containing a compressed portion and a non-compressed portion comprising a perfume component. The non-compressed portion preferably dissolves at a faster rate than the compressed portion, which preferably contains a bleaching agent. A process for preparing the detergent tablet is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2000Date of Patent: March 19, 2002Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventor: Sabine Ursula Metzger-Groom
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Publication number: 20020028755Abstract: A liquid detergent composition comprisingType: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2001Publication date: March 7, 2002Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Willem Robert Van Dijk, Theresia Maria Olsthoorn, Marja Ouwendijk, Johannes Cornelis Van De Pas
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Patent number: 6353034Abstract: An alkyl polyglycoside and fatty alcohol composition useful as an emulsifier includes: a) 8 to 40% by weight of an alkyl polyglycoside component consisting essentially of: 0 to 20% by weight of at least one alkyl polyglycoside of formula (I): R1O(G1)x1 (I) in which R1 is a linear or branched alkyl radical having 16 or 18 carbon atoms, G1 is a saccharide residue and x1 is between 1 and 5; 0 to 100% by weight of an alkyl polyglycoside of formula (II): R2O(G2)2 (II) in which R2 is a linear or branched alkyl radical having 14 carbon atoms, G2 is a saccharide residue and x2 is between 1 and 5; and 0 to 100% by weight of at least one alkyl polyglycoside of formula (III): R3O(G3)x3 (III) in which R3 is a linear or branched alkyl radical having 20 or 22 carbon atoms, G3 is a saccharide residue and x3 is between 1 and 5; and b) 60 to 92% by weight of a linear or branched aliphatic alcohol having from 14 to 22 carbon atoms.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 1998Date of Patent: March 5, 2002Assignee: Societe d'Exploitation de Produits pour les Industries Chimiques S.E.P.P.I.C.Inventors: Chantal Amalric, Jean-Pierre Boiteux, Alain Milius, Nelly Michel
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Patent number: 6350727Abstract: An aqueous no-scrub, no-wipe cleaning composition containing at least one partial salt of EDTA and a water-soluble amine; at least one alkyl polyglycoside surfactant; at least one alkyl ether carboxylate surfactant; and up to 0.5% by weight of an ethoxylated nonionic surfactant, relative to the total weight of the composition, and a method for cleaning a soiled surface to provide a clean surface which is substantially streak-free by applying the cleaning composition to a soiled surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2000Date of Patent: February 26, 2002Assignee: Amway CorporationInventor: David M. Flower
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Patent number: 6350788Abstract: A low-foam wetting composition which, when mixed with water, enhances the penetration and spread of water on a plant, the composition containing: (a) an alkyl polyglycoside corresponding to formula I R—O—(G)x (I) wherein R is a primary hydrocarbon radical having from 8 to 18 carbon atoms, G is a glycose unit having 5 or 6 carbon atoms, and x is a number from 1 to 10; (b) an olefinically unsaturated alcohol; and (c) a lower water-soluble alcohol.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 1999Date of Patent: February 26, 2002Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf AktienInventors: Claus-Peter Herold, Stephan Von Tapavicza, Heinz Mueller, Heinz Boettcher
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Publication number: 20020022584Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the production of sugar surfactant granules in which water-containing sugar surfactant pastes are subjected to granulation in the presence of selected silicon compounds. In the production of such granules, caking problems are frequently encountered in the production units. A process for the production of sugar surfactant granules in which such problems are avoided has now been found. In this process, water-containing pastes of a) alkyl and/or alkenyl oligoglycosides and/or b) fatty acid-N-alkyl polyhydroxyalkyl amides are subjected to granulation in the presence of zeolites and/or waterglasses and optionally dried in a following process step, the granules being powdered with dusts during granulation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2000Publication date: February 21, 2002Inventors: Georg Assmann, Anke Becker, Olaf Blockwitz, Karl-Heinz Petzold, Achim Peters
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Publication number: 20020013252Abstract: A particulate composite material for the controlled release of an active ingredient is claimed, comprising an active ingredient or an operation which comprises this active ingredient in a mixture with an LCST substance, where the material remains at least partially unchanged upon passing through one or more heat treatments in a liquid medium, and after cooling following the heat treatment the active ingredient is released.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2000Publication date: January 31, 2002Inventors: Peter Schmiedel, Maren Jekel, Thomas Gassenmeier, Wolfgang Von Rybinski, Arnd Kessler
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Publication number: 20020013253Abstract: The present invention provides a defined alkylpolyglucoside having a degree of oligomerization of at least 1.7 to 3 and an alkyl radical comprising 8 carbon atoms, and mixtures of this alkylpolyglucoside with further alkylpolyglucosides, as cleaner concentrate. The present invention also relates to compositions which include the defined alkylpolyglucoside and a concentrated alkali metal hydroxide solution as well as a method of using the composition as a cleaner.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2001Publication date: January 31, 2002Applicant: GOLDSCHMIDT AGInventors: Wolfgang Berkels, Burghard Gruning, Felix Muller, Jorg Peggau
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Publication number: 20020010123Abstract: Claimed are laundry detergents and cleaning products which comprise customary ingredients and, characteristically, further comprise an active substance preparation which has been compounded with an LCST substance. By means of compounding with an LCST substance it is possible to incorporate active substances which, in a washing or cleaning process which passes through one or more temperature stages, are released only after a heat treatment, e.g., only in a rinse cycle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2000Publication date: January 24, 2002Inventors: Peter Schmiedel, Maren Jekel, Thomas Otto Gassenmeier, Wolfgang Von Rybinski, Arnd Kessler, Christian Nitsch, Rolf Bayersdoerfer, Bernd Richter, Matthias Sunder, Thomas Holderbaum
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Patent number: 6340663Abstract: The invention provides an improved cleaning wipe which requires no scrubbing, buffing, polishing or rinsing, with the following components: (a) a wipe which comprises at least one layer of absorbent/adsorbent material; (b) a liquid cleaner which comprises (i) a low residue surfactant; (ii) a hydrophilic polymer; and (iii) the remainder, water.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 1999Date of Patent: January 22, 2002Assignee: The Clorox CompanyInventors: Malcolm A. Deleo, Robert L. Blum, Maria G. Ochomogo, Paul A. Pappalardo, Elizabeth N. Swayne
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Patent number: 6340665Abstract: A process for making neutral sugar surfactant granules involving: (a) providing a water-containing alkaline sugar surfactant selected from the group consisting of an alkyl oligoglycoside, an alkenyl oligoglycoside, a fatty acid-N-alkyl polyhydroxyalkylamide, and mixtures thereof; (b) providing a thin-layer evaporator or dryer having rotating internals; (c) neutralizing the water-containing alkaline sugar surfactant to a pH of from 6.8 to 7.5 to form a neutralized water-containing sugar surfactant; (d) introducing the neutralized water-containing alkaline sugar surfactant into the thin-layer evaporator or dryer; and (e) drying the water-containing alkaline sugar surfactant in the thin-layer evaporator or dryer until it has a residual water content below 2% by weight.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 1999Date of Patent: January 22, 2002Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf AktienInventors: Thomas Lueder, Konstantinos Scholinakis, Bernhard Gutsche, Hermann Hensen, Werner Seipel
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Patent number: 6339057Abstract: Disclosed are aqueous liquid cleaning compositions, the compositions being free of anionic surfactants and comprising: (a) linear alcohol ethoxylate; (b) amine oxide or betaine; and other, optional components, such as a cationic ammonium compound.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 1999Date of Patent: January 15, 2002Assignee: Stepan CompanyInventors: Steven J. Knox, Arshad Malik
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Publication number: 20020004469Abstract: A dilutable, non-rinse hard surface cleaner is provided that includes (i) either (a) a combination of a specific nonionic surfactant and a quaternary ammonium surfactant or (b) a combination of a specific nonionic surfactant and an anionic surfactant, (ii) a water soluble glycol ether, (iii) a builder, (iv) d-limonene, and (v) water. The composition may also include pH modifying agents, buffers, fragrances, thickeners, dyes, pigments, so long as they do not detract from the advantageous performance aspects achieved by the compositions of the present invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2001Publication date: January 10, 2002Applicant: ALTICOR INC.Inventor: Robert D. Faber
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Publication number: 20020004467Abstract: Cosmetic and dermatological detersive preparations comprising:Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 1998Publication date: January 10, 2002Inventors: HEIKE LERG, ROBERT SCHMUCKER
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Patent number: 6336977Abstract: A stable, gel-form, shear-thinning cleaning composition is presented containing (a) 1 to 5 percent by weight of a polysaccharide, (b) 3 to 25 percent by weight of a C8-22 alkyl polyglycoside, and (c) 2 to 15 percent by weight of a perfume. The composition has a viscosity of 30,000 to 150,000 mPas as measured with a Brookfield RVT rotational viscometer with a Helipath spindle and TA spindle at 1 r.p.m. at 23° C. The composition is a visually attractive, translucent or clear pseudoplastic gel and useful in the cleaning flush toilets.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2000Date of Patent: January 8, 2002Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft Auf Aktien (KGaA)Inventors: Ronald Menke, Alexander Ditze, Frank Pessel
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Patent number: 6337352Abstract: A method of improving the solubility of a defoaming non-ionic compound in an alkaline aqueous medium includes adding to the aqueous medium a defoaming compound an effective quantity of a compound having the formula: ROZn in which R represents a 2-ethyl hexyl radical, Z is a sugar residue, and n is between 1.1 and 2.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 1999Date of Patent: January 8, 2002Assignee: Societe d'Exploitation de Produits pour les Industries Chimiques SeppicInventor: Alain Milius
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Publication number: 20010056047Abstract: A low-foaming clear composition for cleaning fruit, vegetables, or meat that can be diluted by the user before use and/or directly sprayed on and that shows high cleaning performance, particularly in dissolving wax, and also high wetting power. The compositions contain C4-9 alkyl polyglycosides.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2001Publication date: December 27, 2001Inventors: Georg Meine, Brigitte Giesen, Kerstin Ziganke
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Patent number: 6333299Abstract: The present invention relates to liquid acidic compositions suitable for removing limescale-containing stains from a hard-surface, comprising an acid, from 0.001% to 20% by weight of the total composition of a polysaccharide polymer and from 0.001% to 20% by weight of the total composition of a vinylpyrrolidone homopolymer or copolymer, said composition being packaged in a spray type-dispenser. Such a composition provides improved shine to the surface treated while exhibiting effective limescale removal performance. The use of a polysaccharide polymer and a vinylpyrrolidone homopolymer or copolymer, in a liquid acidic composition being packaged in a spray-type dispenser, to treat a hard-surface, reduces or even prevents the formation of watermarks and even limescale deposits on said hard-surface after said hard-surface has first been treated with said composition and subsequently comes in contact with water.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2000Date of Patent: December 25, 2001Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Co.Inventors: Luigi Pace, Barbara Delucca
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Patent number: 6331516Abstract: A light duty, liquid comprising: a surfactant, lauryol ethylenediaminetriacetate, and water.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2001Date of Patent: December 18, 2001Assignee: Colgate Palmolive CompanyInventors: Robert D'Ambrogio, Thomas Connors
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Patent number: 6331515Abstract: A liquid cleaning composition comprising: a surfactant, a red dye, sodium bisulfite, and water.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2001Date of Patent: December 18, 2001Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Co.Inventors: Joan Gambogi, Robert Fuller, Jodie Berta
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Publication number: 20010051598Abstract: A process for inhibiting gel formation of a tablet-form detergent composition upon hydration, the process involving: (a) providing an detergent composition containing a surfactant component selected from the group consisting of an anionic surfactant, a nonionic surfactant, and mixtures thereof; (b) providing an anti-gelling agent selected from the group consisting of an alkyl polyglycoside, a polymeric surfactant, an alkyl sulfate, and mixtures thereof; and (c) mixing the surfactant with the anti-gelling prior to introducing the tablet-form detergent composition into water.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2001Publication date: December 13, 2001Inventors: Timothy C. Morris, Robert J. Valesky, Stephen F. Gross, Charles B. Allen
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Patent number: 6329331Abstract: An aqueous detergent composition, which is in the form of a thickened, mobile fluid, comprising foaming detergent and a polymer or polymer mixture which is capable of forming a reversible gel, which polymer or mixture is present in the composition as a multiplicity of individual gel particles.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 1999Date of Patent: December 11, 2001Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Michael Paul Aronson, Charles Rupert Brown, Robert James Chatfield, Peter Fairley, Ian Timothy Norton, Jason Richard Williams
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Patent number: 6326347Abstract: A reddish peach color liquid comprising: a surfactant, a red dye, a preservative, sodium bisulfite and water.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2001Date of Patent: December 4, 2001Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Co.Inventors: Joan Gambogi, Robert Fuller, Jodie Berta
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Patent number: 6313084Abstract: A light duty, liquid comprising: an alkyl benzene sulfonate, an alpha olefin sulfonate, lauryol ethylenediaminetriacetate, and water.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2001Date of Patent: November 6, 2001Assignee: Colgate Palmolive Co.Inventors: Robert D'Ambrogio, Thomas Connors
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Patent number: 6310014Abstract: Personal and household care compositions that deliver an audible crackling or popping sound during use. The sound is created by the release of pressurized carbon dioxide that has been encapsulated in a water-soluble structure. The carbon dioxide gas is released as the encapsulating material dissolves or when it is ruptured by mechanical action. The popping or crackling sound helps create consumer interest by signaling the presence and continued action of the product.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 1999Date of Patent: October 30, 2001Assignee: Phyzz Inc.Inventor: Allen H. Rau
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Publication number: 20010031713Abstract: An improvement is described in a cleaning compositions which are especially effective in disinfecting the surface being cleaned and in the removal of oily and greasy soil without leaving streaks which contains a mixture of at least one nonionic surfactant, a cationic surfactant and an amine oxide surfactant, and water.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2001Publication date: October 18, 2001Applicant: Colgate-Palmolive CompanyInventors: Elizabeth McCandlish, Brian Frank
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Patent number: 6300302Abstract: The present invention relates to a substantially anhydrous effervescent particle, having an average particle size of from 75 microns to 2 cm, comprising an anhydrous particle core, which comprises one or more components of an effervescence system intimately mixed with a substantially anhydrous stabilizing agent.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 1999Date of Patent: October 9, 2001Assignee: The Procter & GambleInventors: Alan Thomas Brooker, Stephen Wayne Heinzman, Barry Thomas Ingram, Gerard Marcel Baillely, Francisco Ramon Figueroa
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Patent number: 6300298Abstract: Composition (A) comprising: a) at least one compound of formula (I): (Z)y—(G)x—O—RA (I); b) at least one compound of formula (II): Z—O—[CH2—CH(R1)—O]n—RB (II); c) optionally one or more compounds of formula (IV): (G)x—O—RA (III), and d) optionally one or more compounds of formula (IV) HO—[CH2—CH(R1)—O]n—RB (IV), wherein the weight ratios of (I) to (II) is 0.1 to 10, (III)/(I) is 0 to 1, and (IV)/(II) is 0 to 1, and in each formula: Z is a —CH(CH3)—O—R2 group, wherein R2 is an aliphatic hydrocarbon radical of 1 to 30 carbons, y is greater than 0 and less than or equal to 3x+1; x is 1 to 5; n is 1 to 30; R1 is a hydrogen or methyl; G is the residue of a saccharide; RA and RB are independently a hydrocarbon radical of 1 to 30 carbons. Composition (A) has application as an antifoam in cleaning compositions.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 1999Date of Patent: October 9, 2001Assignee: Societe d'Exploitation de Produits pour les Industries Chimiques SeppicInventors: Alain Milius, Jean-Pierre Boiteux, Maryse Carrausse
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Patent number: 6300300Abstract: The present invention relates to cleaning and degreasing compositions. It is an aqueous concentrate comprising caustic soda, a metal salt of silica, three surfactants, and a bonding agent. The concentrate can be diluted to provide a reusable, low foaming, non-toxic and biodegradable composition useful for degreasing, cleaning, and disinfecting, and for separating solids, oils, and greases suspended in water. Methods of use are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2001Date of Patent: October 9, 2001Assignee: MWJ, L.L.C.Inventor: Michael J. Sanchez
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Patent number: 6291418Abstract: An improvement is described in thickened all purpose liquid cleaning composition and microemulsion composition which are especially effective in the removal of oily and greasy soil and contains an anionic detergent, an ethoxylated/propoxylated nonionic surfactant, a short chain amphiphile or a water soluble cosurfactant, a polymeric thickener, a hydrocarbon ingredient, and water and optionally, an ethoxylated nonionic surfactant.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2000Date of Patent: September 18, 2001Assignee: Colgate Palmolive CompanyInventors: Baudouin Mertens, Claude Blanvalet, Myriam Mondin
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Patent number: 6291420Abstract: A system in the form of an aqueous dispersion or granules containing at least one liquid, waxy or pasty non-ionic surfactant and an alkali metal silicate. The system is prepared using a concentrated aqueous alkali metal silicate solution as the continuous liquid phase optionally containing glycerol, in which is dispersed at least one liquid, pasty or waxy non-ionic surfactant that is non-miscible or poorly compatible with said concentrated alkali metal silicate solution, and at least one non-ionic or anionic surfactant that is compatible with said concentrated alkali metal silicate solution and capable of causing the dispersion of said liquid, pasty or waxy non-ionic surfactant(s) in said concentrated alkali metal silicate solution. The resulting dispersion is optionally dried to produce a rigid alkali metal silicate shell encapsulating droplets or particles of the liquid, pasty or waxy non-ionic surfactant(s).Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 1998Date of Patent: September 18, 2001Assignee: Rhodia ChimieInventors: Gilles Guerin, Daniel Joubert, Charles Phan, Kenneth Wong
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Patent number: 6291419Abstract: A light duty, liquid comprising: at least one linear alkyl benzene sulfonate, an alkyl polyglucoside surfactant, an ethoxylated alkyl ether sulfate surfactant, a fatty acid monoalkanol amide, an inorganic magnesium salt, lauryol ethylene diamine triacetate, and water.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2001Date of Patent: September 18, 2001Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Co.Inventors: Robert D'Ambrogio, Thomas Connors
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Patent number: 6288022Abstract: A laundry treatment composition comprising a water-soluble or water-dispersible rebuild agent for deposition onto a fabric during a treatment process wherein the material undergoes during the treatment process, a chemical change by which change the affinity of the material for the fabric is increased.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 1999Date of Patent: September 11, 2001Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Judith Mary Clark, Andrew Hopkinson, Christopher Clarkson Jones, Jonathan Frank Warr, Henri Chanzy, Claire David, Etienne Fleury, Daniel Joubert, Christine Lancelon-Pin
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Patent number: 6274546Abstract: High-viscosity liquid detergents which, as a result of using a thickening system, are storage- and viscosity-stable under very diverse climatic conditions, do not undergo phase separation, and have color stability when exposed to light.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2000Date of Patent: August 14, 2001Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf AktienInventors: Dieter Legel, Josef Penninger, Theodor Voelkel
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Patent number: 6271187Abstract: A hand soap concentrate and a hand soap use solution are provided. The hand soap concentrate is provided with a viscosity of less than about 200 cps. The hand soap concentrate can be mixed with an aqueous solution to provide a use solution having a viscosity of greater than about 1,000 cps. A method for modifying a hand soap concentrate to provide a higher viscosity hand soap use solution is provided. The hand soap concentrate includes a surfactant component for removal of soil, and a component for increasing viscosity with mixing with an aqueous solution.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 1999Date of Patent: August 7, 2001Assignee: Ecolab Inc.Inventors: Charles A. Hodge, Christopher J. Uecker
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Patent number: 6268400Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions based on alkyl polyglycosides and fatty alcohols which enable stable fluid emulsions to be produced, and which contain These compositions generally comprise: 5 to 60% by weight of a mixture of alkyl polyglycosides essentially consisting of: 10 to 25% by weight of an alkyl polyglycoside of formula (I) R1O(G1)X1 (I) 10 to 30% by weight of an alkyl polyglycoside of formula (II) R2O(G2)X2 (II) 0 to 10% by weight of a mixture of alkyl polyglycosides of formulae (III) and (IV): R3O(G3)X3 (III) R4O(G4)X4 (IV) 40 to 80% by weight of a mixture of alkyl polyglycosides of formulae (V) and (VI): R5O(G5)X5 (V) R6O(G6)X6 (VI) in which R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 each represent a linear or branched aliphatic radical having 12, 14, 16, 18, 20 and 22 carbon atoms respectively, G1, G2, G3, G4, G5 and G6 each represent a saccharide residue, x1, x2, x3, x4, x5 and x6 each represent a number between 1 and 5;Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 1999Date of Patent: July 31, 2001Assignee: Societe d'Exploitation de Produits pour les Industries Chimiques-SeppicInventors: Chantal Amalric, Guy Tabacchi, Jean-Pierre Boiteux, Nelly Michel, Alain Milius
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Patent number: 6265368Abstract: A thickened, aqueous detergent composition having an aqueous phase containing foaming surfactant, carrageenan and water. Conveniently, the carrageenan is at least half kappa or iota carrageenan, or a mixture of the two.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 1999Date of Patent: July 24, 2001Assignee: Lever Brothers Company, division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Michael Paul Aronson, Charles Rupert Brown, Robert James Chatfield, Edwin Willis
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Patent number: 6258771Abstract: A process for making a transparent/translucent HDL composition capable of suspending relatively large size particles while remaining readily pourable. The composition is stable, even in the presence of relatively large amounts of electrolyte/surfactants.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 1998Date of Patent: July 10, 2001Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care, USA division of ConopcoInventors: Feng-Lung Gordon Hsu, Daniel Joseph Kuzmenka, Dennis Stephen Murphy, Kristina Marie Neuser, Myongsuk Bae-Lee, Kim Garufi, Deborah Coccaro
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Patent number: 6251849Abstract: Cationic polymers comprising at least 40 mole percent monomer units of the formula (I): wherein n is 2 to 4, R1 is hydrogen or methyl, and R2, R3 and R4 independently are hydrogen, C1-4 alkyl or C1-4 alkenyl, and X− is an anion selected from the group consisting of halide anions and monoalkyl anions of sulfuric acid semiester are used as soil-release compounds in hard surface cleaners.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 1998Date of Patent: June 26, 2001Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft Auf AktienInventors: Rainer Jeschke, Ludwig Schieferstein, Katica Bocarac, Paul Birnbrich, Herbert Fischer, Rainer Kade, Eva Kiewert, Dieter Nickel, Horst-Dieter Speckmann, Juan-Carlos Wuhrmann
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Patent number: 6248710Abstract: A water-soluble or water-dispersible material for deposition onto a fabric substrate during a treatment process. The material comprises a &bgr;1-4 -linked polysaccharide structure having at least one substituent benefit agent group and optionally, one or more other substituent groups. The average degree of substitution of all substituent groups is from 0.01 to 1.2, preferably from 0.1 to 1.2, more preferably from 0.4 to 1.2. The polysaccharide structure has one or more regions with at least 3, preferably at least 4 consecutive unsubstituted saccharide rings.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 1999Date of Patent: June 19, 2001Assignee: Unilever Home and Personal Care USA, a division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Henri Bijsterbosch, Deborah Cooke, Neil Jones, Ezat Khoshdel
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Patent number: 6248135Abstract: The present invention relates to an aqueous composition for reducing malodor impression. The composition comprises from about 0.01% to about 1%, by weight of the composition, of perfume wherein the perfume preferably comprises ingredients having a Clog P of 3 or smaller. Optionally, but preferably, the composition comprises from about 0.1% to about 5%, by weight of the composition of, water-soluble cyclodextrin, from about 0.1% to about 10%, by weight of the composition, of water-soluble metallic salt, from about 0% to about 3%, by weight of the composition, of solubilizing aid. The composition is essentially free of any material that would soil or stain fabric and contains less than about 5%, by weight of the composition of low molecular weight monohydric alcohols.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 1999Date of Patent: June 19, 2001Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Toan Trinh, Jerome Paul Cappel, Philip Anthony Geis, Judith Ann Hollingshead, Mark Lee McCarty, Susan Schmaedecke Zwerdling
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Patent number: 6242402Abstract: An improved cleaning composition is provided for shower and tub surfaces which is of the “shower rinsing” type, requiring no scrubbing, wiping, or immediate rinsing. The composition comprises: (a) a glycoside surfactant, the total amount of said surfactant being present in a cleaning effective amount; (b) a chelating agent, said chelating agent present in an amount effective to enhance bathroom soil removal in said composition; and (c) the remainder, water. A solvent such as isopropyl alcohol may also be added. The employment of a glycoside surfactant, especially one having an HLB value of greater than 13, remarkably improves the performance of such a shower rinsing composition both with respect to surface appearance streaking and filming and also bathroom soil and soap scum removing ability.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2000Date of Patent: June 5, 2001Assignee: The Clorox CompanyInventors: Michael H. Robbins, David Peterson, Clement K. Choy, Jana W. Chu, James R. Latham