EP0103466A1 - Oven cleaner - Google Patents
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- EP0103466A1 EP0103466A1 EP83305244A EP83305244A EP0103466A1 EP 0103466 A1 EP0103466 A1 EP 0103466A1 EP 83305244 A EP83305244 A EP 83305244A EP 83305244 A EP83305244 A EP 83305244A EP 0103466 A1 EP0103466 A1 EP 0103466A1
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- C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
- C11—ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE OILS, FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES OR WAXES; FATTY ACIDS THEREFROM; DETERGENTS; CANDLES
- C11D—DETERGENT COMPOSITIONS; USE OF SINGLE SUBSTANCES AS DETERGENTS; SOAP OR SOAP-MAKING; RESIN SOAPS; RECOVERY OF GLYCEROL
- C11D7/00—Compositions of detergents based essentially on non-surface-active compounds
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- C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
- C11—ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE OILS, FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES OR WAXES; FATTY ACIDS THEREFROM; DETERGENTS; CANDLES
- C11D—DETERGENT COMPOSITIONS; USE OF SINGLE SUBSTANCES AS DETERGENTS; SOAP OR SOAP-MAKING; RESIN SOAPS; RECOVERY OF GLYCEROL
- C11D3/00—Other compounding ingredients of detergent compositions covered in group C11D1/00
- C11D3/0005—Other compounding ingredients characterised by their effect
- C11D3/0057—Oven-cleaning compositions
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- C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
- C11—ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE OILS, FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES OR WAXES; FATTY ACIDS THEREFROM; DETERGENTS; CANDLES
- C11D—DETERGENT COMPOSITIONS; USE OF SINGLE SUBSTANCES AS DETERGENTS; SOAP OR SOAP-MAKING; RESIN SOAPS; RECOVERY OF GLYCEROL
- C11D7/00—Compositions of detergents based essentially on non-surface-active compounds
- C11D7/02—Inorganic compounds
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- C11D7/12—Carbonates bicarbonates
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- C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
- C11—ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE OILS, FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES OR WAXES; FATTY ACIDS THEREFROM; DETERGENTS; CANDLES
- C11D—DETERGENT COMPOSITIONS; USE OF SINGLE SUBSTANCES AS DETERGENTS; SOAP OR SOAP-MAKING; RESIN SOAPS; RECOVERY OF GLYCEROL
- C11D7/00—Compositions of detergents based essentially on non-surface-active compounds
- C11D7/22—Organic compounds
- C11D7/26—Organic compounds containing oxygen
- C11D7/261—Alcohols; Phenols
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- the present invention relates to an improved oven cleaner and to a method for removing baked on fats and greases from cooking surfaces.
- Oven cleaners are compositions of matter used to remove baked on fats and greases from cooking surfaces. Such compositions are commonly used for cleaning ovens as the name implies but may also be used to clean other cooking surfaces on which there has been a build up of baked on fats and greases. Such surfaces include fry pans, kitchenware, barbecue equipment, cooking utensils and the like. These surfaces may be of bare metal, metal coated as with baked enamel, glazed stoneware, porcelain, glass or the like.
- oven cleaners are based on caustic soda. It has generally been considered necessary to use a caustic alkali in order to effectively saponify the fats in the baked on material in order to enable its removal.
- a few oven cleaners have been based on solvents, acetate salts, amines or ammonia.
- the known caustic based systems suffer from the disadvantage of being quite hazardous and/or require the consumer to wear gloves during usage. These known caustic-based systems are required to carry poisons schedule labelling and warning statements.
- the systems based on acetate salts have the disadvantage that they require temperatures of 250°C or above to activate them.
- the present invention consists in an oven cleaner containing as active ingredients an effective amount of an alkali metal bicarbonate, sesquicarbonate or carbonate or a mixture thereof and a polyhydric alcohol which is liquid and substantially non-volatile at the desired cleaning temperature and in which the alkali metal salt is soluble at that temperature.
- the present invention further consists in applying the oven cleaner according to this invention to a cooking surface carrying baked on fats or greases, heating the cooking surface to at least 125°C, and preferably from 125 to 250°C, for a period of at least five minutes and washing and/or wiping the saponified fats or greases from the cooking surface.
- the oven cleaner according to the present invention may have a pH as low as 9 or less which allows its use without rubber gloves and like protective clothing. These oven cleaners also have the advantage that surfaces of stainless steel, aluminium, and some other metals will be left with a shiny surface after cleaning rather than being left with a dull, oxidised, surface as is the case with many of the prior art oven cleaning compositions.
- the non-caustic alkali metal salt is most preferably sodium or potassium bicarbonate.
- Other alkali metal salts which can be advantageously used include sodium or potassium sesquicarbonate, and sodium or potassium carbonate.
- the alkaline salt preferably comprise from 0.5 to 20% by weight of the product and most preferably 2 to 20% by weight.
- the pH of the product is preferably below 11 and more preferably below 10 and most preferably 9 or below.
- the polyhydric alcohol used in the present invention preferably have the general formula:
- the oven cleaner according to this invention preferably includes water.
- the water is preferably present in an amount of at least 35% by weight.
- the oven cleaner is preferably water based and preferably contains a thickener to prevent it running off vertical surfaces.
- Other ingredients may include a surfactant or soap, a fragrance, a pigment marker and a propellant.
- the oven cleaner according to this invention may be applied in any suitable manner. These include an aerosol, a trigger or pump spray, a brush or pad.
- the oven cleaner is preferably applied to a surface to be cleaned and heated to a temperature of from 125°C to 250°C for a time of from 5 minutes to 2 hours.
- oven cleaners according to this invention are effective, despite their limited alkalinity and the evaporation of the water from the cleaner, due to the continued action of the alkaline salt dissolved in the non-volatile polyhydric alcohol.
- the alkaline salt is maintained in a condition in which it is available for reaction with the baked on fats and greases at the required elevated temperature by being dissolved in the polyhydric alcohol. For this reason the polyhydric alcohol is required to be substantially non-volatile at the cleaning temperature.
- Test surfaces were prepared by baking smeared dripping onto white vitreous enamel metal plates for 1 1/2 hours at 250 C. °The baked-on dripping could not be removed at all by washing or wiping without a scourer.
- Cleaners consisting of the formulations given below were applied to the test surfaces to be cleaned from a trigger pack -after shaking well.
- test plates were then heated in an oven for 30 minutes to a final temperature of 150°C.
- test plates were then either rinsed under a fast running tap or wiped with a damp sponge and the percentage removal of baked-on dripping recorded.
- a cleaner consisting of the following formulation was applied to a test surface to be cleaned, prepared as for Examples 1-9, from an aerosol pack after shaking well. The test was then carried out in the same manner as for Examples 1-9.
- a cleaner consisting of the following formulation was brushed onto a test surface to be cleaned, prepared as for Examples 1-9. The test was then carried out in the same manner as for Examples 1-9.
- composition according to Examples for instance, 1 to 5 was equal to that of a molar equivalent active level of caustic soda in the same formulation base.
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Abstract
Description
- The present invention relates to an improved oven cleaner and to a method for removing baked on fats and greases from cooking surfaces.
- Oven cleaners are compositions of matter used to remove baked on fats and greases from cooking surfaces. Such compositions are commonly used for cleaning ovens as the name implies but may also be used to clean other cooking surfaces on which there has been a build up of baked on fats and greases. Such surfaces include fry pans, kitchenware, barbecue equipment, cooking utensils and the like. These surfaces may be of bare metal, metal coated as with baked enamel, glazed stoneware, porcelain, glass or the like.
- Conventional oven cleaners are based on caustic soda. It has generally been considered necessary to use a caustic alkali in order to effectively saponify the fats in the baked on material in order to enable its removal. A few oven cleaners have been based on solvents, acetate salts, amines or ammonia. The known caustic based systems suffer from the disadvantage of being quite hazardous and/or require the consumer to wear gloves during usage. These known caustic-based systems are required to carry poisons schedule labelling and warning statements. The systems based on acetate salts have the disadvantage that they require temperatures of 250°C or above to activate them.
- It has been proposed in the past to individually add organic solvents and inorganic builder salts to oven cleaning compositions based on alkali or nitrogen containing active cleaning ingredients. Such additions are for instance disclosed in U.S. Patent Specifications 3,829,387; 3,813,343; and 3.,658,711. It has also been known to use aqueous solutions of alkali metal salts to form non-stick coatings on ovens; se Patent Specifications 2,019,876 and 1,523,491 and Australian Patent Specification 453,537. It has not previously been proposed, however, to use the two abovementioned types of ingredients together. It has also not been previously recognised that these two types of ingredients, which each has only a mild cleaning action on its own, can be combined together to provide a highly effective oven cleaner while avoiding many of the disadvantages of the known oven cleaners.
- The present invention consists in an oven cleaner containing as active ingredients an effective amount of an alkali metal bicarbonate, sesquicarbonate or carbonate or a mixture thereof and a polyhydric alcohol which is liquid and substantially non-volatile at the desired cleaning temperature and in which the alkali metal salt is soluble at that temperature.
- The present invention further consists in applying the oven cleaner according to this invention to a cooking surface carrying baked on fats or greases, heating the cooking surface to at least 125°C, and preferably from 125 to 250°C, for a period of at least five minutes and washing and/or wiping the saponified fats or greases from the cooking surface.
- The oven cleaner according to the present invention may have a pH as low as 9 or less which allows its use without rubber gloves and like protective clothing. These oven cleaners also have the advantage that surfaces of stainless steel, aluminium, and some other metals will be left with a shiny surface after cleaning rather than being left with a dull, oxidised, surface as is the case with many of the prior art oven cleaning compositions.
- The non-caustic alkali metal salt is most preferably sodium or potassium bicarbonate. Other alkali metal salts which can be advantageously used include sodium or potassium sesquicarbonate, and sodium or potassium carbonate. The alkaline salt preferably comprise from 0.5 to 20% by weight of the product and most preferably 2 to 20% by weight.
- The pH of the product is preferably below 11 and more preferably below 10 and most preferably 9 or below.
- The polyhydric alcohol used in the present invention preferably have the general formula:
- CH20H . (CHOH)n. CH20H where n = 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4. The liquid is most preferably glycerol or includes glycerol. Other compounds in this group which may be used include mannitol, ethylene glycol and sorbitol. When the salt is a potassium salt the polyhydric alcohol may with equal effectiveness be an alcohol falling outside the above general formula. This is believed to be due to the higher solubility of the potassium salts in the polyols as compared with the corresponding sodium salt. Polyhydric alcohols which work efficiently with the potassium salts include various grades of propylene glycol, diethylene glycol, polyethylene glycol, dipropylene glycol, polypropylene glycol, triethylene glycol, ' and 1,2,6 hexanetriol. The polyhydric alcohol preferably comprises from 1 to 50% by weight of the product.
- The oven cleaner according to this invention preferably includes water. The water is preferably present in an amount of at least 35% by weight.
- The oven cleaner is preferably water based and preferably contains a thickener to prevent it running off vertical surfaces. Other ingredients may include a surfactant or soap, a fragrance, a pigment marker and a propellant.
- The oven cleaner according to this invention may be applied in any suitable manner. These include an aerosol, a trigger or pump spray, a brush or pad.
- In carrying out the method according to this invention the oven cleaner is preferably applied to a surface to be cleaned and heated to a temperature of from 125°C to 250°C for a time of from 5 minutes to 2 hours.
- It is believed that oven cleaners according to this invention are effective, despite their limited alkalinity and the evaporation of the water from the cleaner, due to the continued action of the alkaline salt dissolved in the non-volatile polyhydric alcohol. The alkaline salt is maintained in a condition in which it is available for reaction with the baked on fats and greases at the required elevated temperature by being dissolved in the polyhydric alcohol. For this reason the polyhydric alcohol is required to be substantially non-volatile at the cleaning temperature.
- Hereinafter given by way of example are preferred embodiments of the present invention.
- Test surfaces were prepared by baking smeared dripping onto white vitreous enamel metal plates for 1 1/2 hours at 250 C. °The baked-on dripping could not be removed at all by washing or wiping without a scourer.
- Cleaners consisting of the formulations given below were applied to the test surfaces to be cleaned from a trigger pack -after shaking well.
- The test plates were then heated in an oven for 30 minutes to a final temperature of 150°C.
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- Note: Mixture of ethylene glycol and sorbitol matches glycerol with respect to average chain length.
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- The performance of the composition according to Examples, for instance, 1 to 5 was equal to that of a molar equivalent active level of caustic soda in the same formulation base.
- Caustic soda based products on the market when tested under identical conditions removed only 80-95% of the baked-on dripping.
- A synergistic effect between the polyhydric alcohol(s) and the non-caustic alkali metal salt(s) has been demonstrated by testing glycerol and sodium bicarbonate separately alongside a mixture of both on the same prepared test plate.
- Sodium bicarbonate on its own removed only 50% of the baked-on dripping and glycerol on its own removed only 30% of the baked-on dripping whereas the mixture of sodium bicarbonate and glycerol removed 100% of the baked-on dripping.
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Priority Applications (1)
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AT83305244T ATE27716T1 (en) | 1982-09-09 | 1983-09-08 | OVEN CLEANING AGENT. |
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EP0103466A1 true EP0103466A1 (en) | 1984-03-21 |
EP0103466B1 EP0103466B1 (en) | 1987-06-10 |
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EP (1) | EP0103466B1 (en) |
AT (1) | ATE27716T1 (en) |
DE (1) | DE3372000D1 (en) |
ES (1) | ES8507603A1 (en) |
MY (1) | MY102376A (en) |
NZ (1) | NZ205464A (en) |
ZA (1) | ZA836720B (en) |
Cited By (5)
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US5380454A (en) * | 1993-07-09 | 1995-01-10 | Reckitt & Colman Inc. | Low temperature non-caustic oven cleaning composition |
WO1996000769A1 (en) * | 1994-06-30 | 1996-01-11 | Minnesota Mining And Manufacturing Company | Detergent composition |
WO2005023971A1 (en) * | 2003-09-03 | 2005-03-17 | Johnsondiversey, Inc. | Cleaning composition |
US7135446B1 (en) * | 2002-01-28 | 2006-11-14 | Diamondite, L.L.C. | System for cleaning and protecting windshields |
JP2020193307A (en) * | 2019-05-30 | 2020-12-03 | 株式会社ニイタカ | Liquid detergent composition for heating cooker and heating cooker cleaning method |
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GB1478481A (en) * | 1973-07-20 | 1977-06-29 | Church Dwight Inc | Cleaning methods and compositions |
GB1576454A (en) * | 1976-04-22 | 1980-10-08 | Church & Dwight Co Inc | Low temperature cleaner |
DE3124348A1 (en) * | 1980-07-02 | 1982-04-01 | Metallgesellschaft Ag, 6000 Frankfurt | Process for the removal of phosphate and/or reaction lubricant layers |
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- 1983-09-02 NZ NZ205464A patent/NZ205464A/en unknown
- 1983-09-08 AT AT83305244T patent/ATE27716T1/en not_active IP Right Cessation
- 1983-09-08 ES ES525816A patent/ES8507603A1/en not_active Expired
- 1983-09-08 DE DE8383305244T patent/DE3372000D1/en not_active Expired
- 1983-09-08 EP EP83305244A patent/EP0103466B1/en not_active Expired
- 1983-09-09 ZA ZA836720A patent/ZA836720B/en unknown
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GB1478481A (en) * | 1973-07-20 | 1977-06-29 | Church Dwight Inc | Cleaning methods and compositions |
GB1478482A (en) * | 1973-07-20 | 1977-06-29 | Church & Dwight Co Inc | Cleaning compositions |
GB1576454A (en) * | 1976-04-22 | 1980-10-08 | Church & Dwight Co Inc | Low temperature cleaner |
DE3124348A1 (en) * | 1980-07-02 | 1982-04-01 | Metallgesellschaft Ag, 6000 Frankfurt | Process for the removal of phosphate and/or reaction lubricant layers |
Cited By (7)
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US5380454A (en) * | 1993-07-09 | 1995-01-10 | Reckitt & Colman Inc. | Low temperature non-caustic oven cleaning composition |
WO1996000769A1 (en) * | 1994-06-30 | 1996-01-11 | Minnesota Mining And Manufacturing Company | Detergent composition |
US5783538A (en) * | 1994-06-30 | 1998-07-21 | Minnesota Mining And Manufacturing Company | Detergent composition |
CN1100135C (en) * | 1994-06-30 | 2003-01-29 | 美国3M公司 | Detergent composition |
US7135446B1 (en) * | 2002-01-28 | 2006-11-14 | Diamondite, L.L.C. | System for cleaning and protecting windshields |
WO2005023971A1 (en) * | 2003-09-03 | 2005-03-17 | Johnsondiversey, Inc. | Cleaning composition |
JP2020193307A (en) * | 2019-05-30 | 2020-12-03 | 株式会社ニイタカ | Liquid detergent composition for heating cooker and heating cooker cleaning method |
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DE3372000D1 (en) | 1987-07-16 |
ATE27716T1 (en) | 1987-06-15 |
EP0103466B1 (en) | 1987-06-10 |
NZ205464A (en) | 1986-08-08 |
ES525816A0 (en) | 1985-10-01 |
ES8507603A1 (en) | 1985-10-01 |
ZA836720B (en) | 1984-06-27 |
MY102376A (en) | 1992-06-17 |
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