Abstract: A liquid dispersant concentrate stable against clouding at a temperature of 10.degree. C. to 35.degree. C. containing: (a) from 20% to 50% by weight of the degradation products of polysaccharides containing uronic acid units; and (b) the remainder, water, all weights being based on the weight of the concentrate.

Abstract: Process for the production of fine-particle, essentially amorphous dye or drug preparations by converting a relatively coarse-particle dispersion or a solution into a colloidal dispersion in water, where the colloidal dispersion is generated at a temperature above the melting point of the dye or drug by admixing appropriately hot water (where appropriate under pressure) or an aqueous protective colloid solution so that an emulsion of a melt in aqueous medium is produced and is immediately spray-dried or converted by cooling into a suspension.

Abstract: Dyeings having improved properties are obtained with a dyestuff of the following formula ##STR1## wherein the substituents have the meaning given in the description.

Abstract: Leucoindigo preparations in granule form consisting essentially of leucoindigo and alkali metal hydroxide and production of these preparations and use thereof for dyeing cellulose-containing textile material.

Abstract: By reducing a sulphur dye (S) in aqueous medium with a reducing carbonyl compound in the presence of alkali metal hydroxide and optionally alkali metal (bi)sulphite at temperatures above 60.degree. C. and drying the reaction mixture, there are obtained very stable leuco sulphur dyes (L), which are practically free of sulphides and polysulphides, are readily and completely soluble in water and are usable for the dyeing of substrates dyeable with sulphur dyes, by which a disturbing development of H.sub.2 S or a disturbing inorganic sulphide occurrance in the waste water can be efficiently avoided; by spray-drying in a drying time <4 minutes as described there are obtained sulphide-free, stable leuco sulphur dyes (L) readily soluble in water and particularly suitable for sulphide-free dyeing, in particular for the dyeing of polyamidic fibrous substrates, especially of wool.

Abstract: A color changing pigment composition which changes color reversibly when ted comprising (a) a cyclic aryl lactone dye, (b) a diaminoalkane activator and (c)an ester. The pigment composition can also include a white pigment such as titanium dioxide as an opacifier or a yellow dye such Hansa yellow G. The pigment composition changes from a dark color, e.g. blue, to white when the composition is heated to a specified temperature, e.g. to a temperature of 52.degree. C., and reversibly changes from white back to the blue color when the pigment composition is cooled, e.g. to a temperature below about 25.degree. C.

Abstract: A granular reactive dye composition comprising a water-soluble reactive dye and at least one granulating auxiliary agent selected from the group consisting of compounds of the following formula (3), ##STR1## wherein R is --C.sub.s H.sub.2s+1, in which s is an integer of 5 to 20 and wherein the content of the granulating auxiliary agent is 5 parts by weight or less per 100 parts by weight of the reactive dye.

Abstract: A marine dye composition comprising a water soluble or dispersible dye, particles of a density controlling material having a bulk density and being present in an amount so as to cause said composition to have a relative density of about 1 and to be capable of floating at the surface of a body of water and a water soluble or dispersible binding agent for binding the dye and particles of density controlling material together.

Abstract: The invention provides for the use of alkanediols of from 4 to 8 carbon atoms as dustproofing agents in solid dye preparations. Dye preparations (powders) which contain such alkanediols are extremely low-dusting.

Abstract: A dye strip for tracing liquid flow comprises a water-soluble paper impregnated with tracing dye. The dye-impregnated paper is in a dry form prior to use. A process for preparing the biodegradable dye strip calls for providing a water-soluble paper, communicating the water-soluble paper with liquid dye to absorb said liquid dye into the paper and forming a resulting dye-impregnated paper. The resulting dye-impregnated paper is dried. The product can be placed into a vat containing liquid. Dye diffuses from the paper into the liquid to form dyed liquid. The flow of the dyed liquid is then observed.

Abstract: A granular type reactive dye composition containing a reactive dye, an inorganic salt and water, the water content being from 4.5 through 15% by weight and the inorganic salt content being 20% by weight or less, both based on the weight of the composition, which is excellent in storage stability, compatibility with water and hot water, and reproducibility, when used for dyeing or printing cellulose fibers.

Abstract: To prepare storage-stable, low-dusting dyestuff granules which are readily soluble in plastics, a suspension of the dyestuff containing 0.1-5% by weight of a polyglycol are dried while being granulated.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel pasty or solid dye melts which contain, per 1 part of a sparingly water-soluble or water-insoluble dye whose melting point is higher than 150.degree. C., 2 to less than 5 parts of a nonionic surfactant with a melting point of 25.degree.-100.degree. C. and having an HLB value of 13 to 19 or of a cationic surfactant with a melting point of 25.degree.-100.degree. C., or a mixture of said surfactants, to a process for their preparation and to the use of said melts, preferably for dyeing and printing polyester materials, to give level dyeings having a high degree of exhaustion.

Abstract: Process for dyeing and printing blended fabrics made from polyester and natural fibre materials, characterized in that the dye baths, padding liquors or printing pastes contain compounds of general formula (I). Dye preparations containing one or more compounds of general formula (I).

Abstract: The invention relates to a novel crystallographic modification (.beta.-modification) of the pigment of the formula I ##STR1## The .beta.-modification shows reflections in the Cu-K.sub..alpha. radiation X-ray diffraction spectrum at the following diffraction angles 2.theta. (accuracy .+-.0.2.degree.): at 21.95.degree. a maximum of high intensity, at 5.40.degree., 7.30.degree., 10.85.degree., 14.50.degree. and 27.60.degree. maxima of medium intensity and at 10.05.degree., 12.80.degree., 16.40.degree., 17.95.degree., 24.65.degree. and 25.80.degree. maxima of low intensity.The .beta.

Abstract: Microcapsules which are prepared using coacervation processes and/or which have a complex structure in which there is a large central core of encapsulated material, preferably perfume, and the walls contain small wall inclusion particles of either the core material or some other material that can be activated to disrupt the wall are disclosed. The microcapsules that are prepared by coacervation and contain perfume are especially desirable for inclusion in fabric softener compositions that have a pH of about 7 or less and which contain cationic fabric softener. The encapsulated perfume preferably does not contain large amounts of relatively water-soluble ingredients. Such ingredients are added separately to the fabric softener compositions. Ingredients that have high and low volatilities as compared to, e.g., the desired perfume, can either be added to, or removed from, the perfume to achieve the desired volatility.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the .beta.-modification of the dye of the formula I ##STR1## to a process for its preparation, to its use, and to a dye preparation containing it.

Abstract: The present invention comprises a pressure-sensitive chromogenic copy system comprising a transfer sheet having on at least a portion of at least one surface thereof a coating of microcapsules having encapsulated therein a solution in an oleophilic solvent of the reaction product of at least one leuco chromogenic compound and at least one electron-accepting color developer capable of reacting with said leuco chromogenic compound in an oleophilic solvent; the oleophilic solvent being a solvent for said leuco chromogenic compound, said color developer and said reaction product. The invention also comprises the transfer sheets, microcapsules, and method of making such microcapsules.

Abstract: Process for the preparation of granules by spray-drying of an aqueous suspension having a solids content of greater than/equal to 30% and containing at least one dye, fluorescent brightener or photoactivator and one condensation product from naphthalenesulfonic acid and formaldehyde and, if necessary, further auxiliaries and/or diluents. The spray-drying is carried out at a feed pressure of 50-150 bar, the residual moisture content of the product is less than 4%, and the granules obtained are in particular very pressure resistant and abrasion resistant.

Abstract: A non-dustable granular dye comprising dye particles in granular form coated with a coating agent selected from the group consisting of a water-soluble high-molecular weight substance, a monosaccharide and an oligosaccharide.

Abstract: There are disclosed coated active substances and a process for the preparation thereof, wherein said active substances are dyes, fluorescent whitening agent, photoactivators and/or textile microbicides, if appropriate together with extenders, dispersants, buffers, stabilizers and/or other auxiliaries.

Abstract: A crystalline form of the dye represented by the following formula (1): ##STR1## characterized by an X-ray diffraction pattern having a strong peak at the angle of diffraction (2.theta.) of 23.2.degree. and relatively strong peaks respectively at the angles of diffraction (2.theta.) of 8.3.degree., 12.3.degree., 20.8.degree., 21.9.degree., 25.0.degree., 27.1.degree., 29.2.degree. and 30.8.degree. according to X-ray powder diffractometry through the use of a Cu-K.alpha. line and a process for preparing the same by heat-treating a heat-instable crystalline form of the dye represented by the formula (1) in water, water containing a water-soluble organic solvent, or water containing an anionic or nonionic surfactant at a temperature of 40.degree. C. or above.It withstands dyeing at high temperature, e.g. 130.degree. C. or higher, to provide dyed fibers having excellent fastness properties.

Abstract: In the process for the preparation of the dyestuff of the formula I ##STR1## by diazotization and coupling, the aqueous suspension present when the coupling has ended is heated to temperatures of 50.degree. C. up to the boiling point of the aqueous phase in the presence of a dispersing agent.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of a densely colored pellet for addition to a synthetic resin involves converting a dye into a cyclodextrin clathrate compound thereof, powdering the clathrate compound by drying, mixing the powder with a synthetic resin material in a molten state and pelletizing the mixture. The obtained pellet can be uniformly dispersed in a synthetic resin material to color the resin material without causing bleeding of the dye or fading of the product.

Abstract: Permanently non-dusting pigment and dye preparations, which contain as dedusting agents,(a) a surface-active substance in an amount of from 0.

Abstract: A low-dusting particulate composition comprising (i) a particulate solid, especially a hydrophilic solid, such as a water-soluble dye or surfactant-treated water-insoluble dye, and (ii) an aryl hydroxypolyalkoxylate which is free from long aliphatic substituents.

Abstract: The azo dyestuff of the formula ##STR1## having the interplanar spacings D/.ANG. 3.13, 3.36, 4.85, 9.26 and 13.94 for the five strongest lines having the relative intensity use 98, 89, 82, 100 and 87 is distinguished, compared to known modifications by an increased dye bath stability.

Abstract: Method of producing a by-product of the black liquor residue of a kraft wood pulping process having excellent product stability and exhibiting humectant properties in dyestuff compositions, and the resultant humectant product and dyestuff compositions containing such humectant product. The black liquor, after removal of tall oil fractions, is oxidized and thereafter treated with an aldehyde to methylolate the lignin components therein, the methylolated lignin-containing black liquor is treated with a sulfur-oxygen-containing compound, such as SO.sub.2 gas, under sufficient conditions to sulfomethylate and solubilize the lignin components, and the resultant composition is concentrated to a solids content of from about 50% to up to about 70% at a pH of approximately 7.5 to produce the final humectant product.

Abstract: The invention describes a process for the preparation of granular dye formulations by mixing a (preferably water-soluble) dye, water, and optionally further assistants with a polyethylene glycol that melts in the range from 40.degree. to 150.degree. C., and drying the resultant solution or suspension in a spray drier or fluidized bed drier. The granular formulations so obtained are permanently dust-free, dissolve rapidly in an aqueous dyebath, and do not cause foaming during dyeing.

Abstract: The invention describes a process for the preparation of granular dye formulations by melt granulation, using a polyethylene glycol as melt vehicle. The essential feature of the invention is that a start is made from the dye which contains water, for example from the aqueous filter cake or synthesis solution, and adjusting the moisture content of the granular formulations to 1 to 30% by partial evaporation of water from the dye/polyethylene glycol melt.

Abstract: The invention relates to solid formulations of metal complex dyes, which formulations are obtained by dissolving or suspending at least one metal complex dye in water with the addition of an anionic dispersant or mixture of dispersants, and 1 to 20% by weight, based on the final formulation, of a non-ionic ethylene oxide adduct having a molecular weight of 200 to 5000, and optionally further ingredients, subsequently mixing the components and spray drying the solution or suspension.Such formulations are readily wettable and have a cold water dispersibility of .gtoreq.30 g/l.

Abstract: Nylon coated microcapsules containing hydrophilic solvent-soluble anionic, cationic or quaternary drug salts were prepared by interfacial polycondensation techniques. In a first stage, the drug substance to be encapsulated is dissolved in an aqueous phase. Examples of drugs encapsulated are morphine sulfate, diphenhydramine hydrochloride, and methantheline bromide. Next the aqueous drug solution is dispersed in an organic phase. In a second stage complementary polycondensation reactants each in an organic phase are added separately, either sequentially or simultaneously, to the dispersion prepared in the first stage. Microcapsules of nylon form around the hydrophilic solvent soluble core drug substance.

Abstract: The invention relates to dyestuff granulates which comprise at least one water-insoluble dye, an anionic dispersant and optionally other auxiliaries, which granulates contain as essential component at least one amphoteric surfactant. Such granulates have, inter alia, excellent cold water dispersibility and good wettability. They are used for preparing dyebaths, padding liquors or printing pastes for dyeing and printing textile material.

Abstract: Liquid concentrate of Direct Yellow 11 based on the crown ether complexes of tetrasodium direct yellow 11, are described as well as these novel soluble chelates of insoluble tetrasodium complexes of Direct Yellow 11.

Abstract: Dyestuff-containing microscopic capsule suspension for record materials, containing in microscopic capsules a lactone family dyestuff represented by the general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein a, b, c and d are each a carbon atom or either one or two atoms of said a, b, c and d are nitrogen atoms and the remaining atoms are carbon atoms, said a, b, c and d may have one or two substituent groups, adjacent a-b, b-c or c-d bond may form another ring, X and Y represent individually a benzene, naphthalene or aromatic heterocyclic ring which may include one or more substituent groups, and X and Y may be the same or different and may be coupled together to form a ring; and a metal ion sequestering agent in the capsules or a liquid medium in which the capsules are suspended.

Abstract: The present disclosure is concerned with new modifications of the dyestuff Color Index Acid Blue 324 which have significant advantages over the known form of this dyestuff. In particular, the preferred modification is much easier to isolate from an aqueous medium by filtration and the isolated product has a higher purity. The filtration proceeds much more rapidly and gives a filter residue of a much higher solids content. Furthermore, this new form of the dyestuff imparts a dramatically lower viscosity to aqueous dispersions or slurries prepared from it than are obtained using the old form of this dyestuff. These modifications are obtained by heating an aqueous dispersion or slurry of the known form of Color Index Acid Blue 324 to temperatures in excess of about 97.degree. C. and for the preferred form in the presence of a substance which reduces the surface tension between the dispersed organic dyestuff phase and the aqueous dispersing medium.

Abstract: A dyeing-stable modification (.beta.-modification) of the dyestuff of the formula (I) ##STR1## which has the X-ray diffraction diagram shown in FIG. 1 and having the characteristic reflections at the following glancing angles and relative intensities:______________________________________ [.theta.] 2.74 4.27 4.70 5.50 8.74 11.24 12.44 relative 100 72 40 23 27 32 26 intensity ______________________________________a process for its preparation by heating the dyestuff of said formula (I) of the dyeing-unstable .alpha.-modification, characterized by an X-ray diffraction diagram having the characteristic reflections at the following glancing angles and relative intensities ______________________________________ [.theta.] 3.55 4.15 5.35 9.45 10.41 12.71 13.89 relative 42 100 35 24 34 94 48 intensity ______________________________________at temperatures of 60.degree. to 120.degree. C. in an organic solvent, and its use for dyeing fiber materials made of cellulose esters or synthetic linear polyesters.

Abstract: There is described a novel modification of the dye of the formula ##STR1## which is characterized by the data given in claim 1. This novel modification is suitable in particular for dyeing wound packages of polyester materials under HT conditions, materials dyed in a golden-yellow shade being obtained.

Abstract: The invention relates to solid dye formulations which, in addition to containing at least one anionic dye, at least one anionic dispersant, a non-ionic emulsifier and optionally further ingredients, contains 0.1 to 10% by weight, based on the final formulation, of a quaternary ammonium salt of the formula I ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is a C.sub.8 -C.sub.20 alkyl or C.sub.8 -C.sub.20 alkenyl group, each of R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 independently of one another is a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl group, and An.sup..crclbar. is an anion.Such formulations, which have good cold water solubility, are suitable for dyeing or printing textile material e.g. of wool or polyamide.

Abstract: A process for producing agglomerates of water-soluble dyes by adding a granulating auxiliary to at least one water-soluble dye, which is in pulverulent form, and converting the mixture, while it is being subjected to a tumbling and/or mixing action, by particle enlargement into a granular form, in which process there is used as a granulating auxiliary:(a) at least one compound of the formula IA--(CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 O).sub.n --H (I)in which A is the group R--O-- or ##STR1## R is an aliphatic or alicyclic hydrocarbon radical containing 8 to 22 carbon atoms, R' is an aliphatic hydrocarbon radical containing 8 to 22 carbon atoms, and n is 10 to 200, or(b) a mixture of a compound of the formula II ##STR2## in which m is 50 to 500, and x is 3 to 5, with a compound of the formula IIIR.sub.1 --NH--CO--NH--R.sub.1 (III)in which each R.sub.

Abstract: A process for the production of microcapsules by interfacial polyreaction, which comprises mixing a first reactant with an emulsion of a solution of a material to be encapsulated and a second reactant whereby the first and second reactants react to form a capsule containing the said material and wherein the second reactant dissolved in the disperse phase is a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compound corresponding to one of the formulae I, II or III ##STR1## wherein at least two of the radicals A, B, D and E are halogen atoms, ammonium, hydrazinium, sulfonium, optionally substituted alkyl sulfonyl, aryl sulfonyl, aralkyl sulfonium, azido, aryloxy, thiocyano arylthio and sulfonic acid residues which are reactive under the conditions of the capsule-forming reaction and the remaining radicals A, B, D, E are hydrogen, alkyl, aryl, alkoxy, phenoxy, alkylamino or phenylamino radicals which are not reactive under the conditions of the capsule-forming reaction.

Abstract: A process for producing microcapsules comprising forming capsule membranes of a polymer of melamine and formaldehyde in the presence of a styrene-sulfonic acid polymer.

Abstract: What are disclosed are pressure-resistant microcapsules comprising a polyamide shell having therein a structural mass of a polyurethane-polyurea polymer and an encapsulated water-immiscible liquid phase, and methods for making the same by dispersing a water-immiscible liquid phase in an aqueous phase and subsequently or simultaneously admixing therewith an aqueous solution of a diamine or polyamine, said dispersed phase comprising a polyamide forming acid compound, diisocyanate or polyisocyanate or a prepolymer thereof, and an inert organic aprotic hydrophilizing agent.

Abstract: Solid formulations of organic dyestuffs, or of optical brighteners, characterized in that they contain a mixture of(a) 70-90% by weight of a mineral oil,(b) 0.5-10% by weight of an amide of the formula ##STR1## in which R represents C.sub.10 -C.sub.22 -alkyl or -alkenyl,R.sub.1 represents H or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl, or the two R.sub.1 's together represent a 1,2-ethylene bridge andR.sub.2 represents ##STR2## alkylene, and R.sub.3 represents H, C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 -alkyl or phenyl,(c) 0.5-15% by weight of a non-ionic surface-active agent and(d) 0-8% by weight of a cationic or anionic surface-active agent,and processes for the production of low-dust and low-foam solid dyestuff formulations.

Abstract: Microcapsules having a defined release temperature and being formed of gelatin or a mixture of gelatin with gum arabic, carboxymethylcellulose and/or anionic polymers, the gelatin having been hardened with a natural and/or synthetic tanning agent and with a carbonyl compound, and the process for making said microcapsules.

Abstract: The present invention is concerned with modifying the crystal form of the anthraquinone of the formula ##STR1## so as to render it more suitable for disperse dyeing and to improve its performance in thermosol dyeing. The modification is effected by heating the dyestuff at elevated temperatures, preferably between 90.degree. and 185.degree. C. until the Debye-Scherrer strong intensity spacings appear at 6.5A.degree., 18.1A.degree. and 20.6A.degree.. It is also concerned with disperse and thermosol dyeing processes utilizing this crystal modification and with aqueous dispersions of this crystal modification.

Abstract: A dyestuff useful for dyeing and printing synthetic, hydrophobic fibers or mixtures thereof with cellulose fibers and stable under dyeing conditions is a .beta.-modification of a compound of the formula ##STR1## having an X-ray diffraction pattern under Cu-K.alpha.-radiation with high intensity lines at a diffraction angle in .theta. degrees of 3.75, 6.40 and 12.35;medium intensity lines at a diffraction angle in .theta. degrees of 6.60, 7.30, 7.60, 7.90, 8.10, 8.35, 9.30, 9.70, 9.90, 10.20, 10.50, 12.70 and 13.90;and low intensity lines at a diffraction angle in .theta. degrees of 5.65, 8.75, 11.25, 11.70, 13.35, 15.10 and 15.55; which is prepared by heating at 50.degree.-150.degree. C. the .alpha.-modification of said compound, which is unstable under dyeing conditions.

Abstract: Processes, reagents and test kits for the qualitative and/or quantitative determination of an immunochemically reactive component, in which one or more labelled components are used, that are obtained by direct or indirect coupling of such a component or components to particles of an aqueous dispersion of a hydrophobic dye or pigment, or of polymer nuclei coated with such a dye or pigment.During the reaction or after an adequate reaction time the nature and/or the quantity of the dye is determined in the test medium, or optionally after a separation of the bound and free labelled components in one of the fractions.

Abstract: A powder formulation of the dye of the formula ##STR1## which contains sodium chloride and a condensate of .beta.-naphthalenesulfonic acid with formaldehyde, or a sulfomethylation product which is obtained by condensing phenol, formaldehyde and a sulfite or bisulfite in the presence of sodium hydroxide, using a molar ratio of phenol: formaldehyde: sulfite or bisulfite: sodium hydroxide of 1:1.0-4:0.3-1.6:0.05-0.5.The dye formulation is readily soluble in water and gives speck-free prints and dyeings, with a high color yield.

Abstract: To prepare storage-stable, low-dusting dyestuff granules which are readily soluble in plastics, a suspension of the dyestuff containing 0.1-5% by weight of a polyglycol are dried while being granulated.