EP0546039A1 - Lavatory cleansing - Google Patents
Lavatory cleansingInfo
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- EP0546039A1 EP0546039A1 EP91915832A EP91915832A EP0546039A1 EP 0546039 A1 EP0546039 A1 EP 0546039A1 EP 91915832 A EP91915832 A EP 91915832A EP 91915832 A EP91915832 A EP 91915832A EP 0546039 A1 EP0546039 A1 EP 0546039A1
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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
- C11D17/00—Detergent materials or soaps characterised by their shape or physical properties
- C11D17/0047—Detergents in the form of bars or tablets
- C11D17/0056—Lavatory cleansing blocks
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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
- C11D3/16—Organic compounds
- C11D3/20—Organic compounds containing oxygen
- C11D3/22—Carbohydrates or derivatives thereof
- C11D3/222—Natural or synthetic polysaccharides, e.g. cellulose, starch, gum, alginic acid or cyclodextrin
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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
- C11D1/00—Detergent compositions based essentially on surface-active compounds; Use of these compounds as a detergent
- C11D1/02—Anionic compounds
- C11D1/12—Sulfonic acids or sulfuric acid esters; Salts thereof
- C11D1/22—Sulfonic acids or sulfuric acid esters; Salts thereof derived from aromatic compounds
Definitions
- This invention is concerned with improvements in and relating to lavatory cleansing blocks.
- the present invention is concerned with so-called "free standing" lavatory cleansing blocks which are immersed in the water cistern of a lavatory or urinal so that cleansing ingredients contained in the block are slowly dissolved in the water of the cistern.
- the water from the cistern, containing dissolved cleansing ingredients is flushed into the lavatory bowl or urinal and serves to cleanse it.
- lavatory cleansing blocks comprise two principal components, namely:
- a surface active or detergent component comprising one or more surface active or detergent agents
- freestanding lavatory cleansing blocks commonly contain one or more of inert fillers, water-softening agents (which may also serve to some extent as fillers), colouring agents (especially water-soluble dyestuffs, commonly of a blue or green colour), perfumes and germicides or preservatives.
- lavatory cleansing blocks When first manufactured on a commercial scale, lavatory cleansing blocks were made by a "melt” process; that is the components for the block were melted
- meltable materials and especially precludes the use, as surfactants, of anionic surfactants; well-known and readily available surfactant materials.
- surfactants may be made by a compression process, e.g. a tabletting process or, especially, an extrusion
- the present invention provides a process for the production of lavatory cleansing blocks by extruding a mixture of appropriate ingredients for the blocks into rod form and subsequently cutting the rod into blocks of the desired size, in which the mixture to be extruded comprises, based on the total weight of the mixture;
- the mixture to be compressed may also suitably contain, as discussed in more detail below, (iii) one or more solubility control agents,
- one or more fillers suitably in an amount of up to 75% by weight, preferably from 15% to 55% by weight.
- the anionic surface active agent used in the blocks of the invention may be, for example, an alkali metal, typically sodium, paraffin sulphonate; alkali metal alkyl sulphate or alkali metal alkyl aryl sulphonate; especially an alkali metal alkyl benzene sulphonate.
- an alkali metal typically sodium, paraffin sulphonate
- alkali metal alkyl sulphate or alkali metal alkyl aryl sulphonate especially an alkali metal alkyl benzene sulphonate.
- sodium dodecyl benzene sulphonate may be mentioned as it is a readily commercially available anionic surface active agent.
- Anionic surfactants as commercially available, commonly contain minor amounts of inert water-soluble filler such as sodium sulphate.
- inert water-soluble filler such as sodium sulphate.
- any filler which may be present contributes to any filler content [component (iv)] of the block.
- other surface active or detergent materials may be present in the block, especially nonionic surface active materials. Such materials should preferably be present in lesser amounts than the anionic surface active agent and thus may, for example, form upto 40%, preferably up to 10%, of the weight of the block.
- nonionic surface active agents which may be employed include polyalkoxylated, usually polyethoxylated, fatty acids, fatty alcohols and alkyl phenols; and ethylene oxide/propylene oxide block ccpolymers.
- the water-solubility of such nonionic surface active agents generally varies depending upon the average amount of ethylene oxide units per mole of surfactant.
- ethoxvlated nonionic surface active agents containing an average of ten or more ethylene oxide units per mole are generally readily water-soluble whereas those containing lower amounts of ethylene oxide, especially those containing from 1 to 5 ethylene oxide units per mole, are less water-soluble and thus may serve both as surface active agents and as solubility control agents.
- the second essential component of the mixture to be extruded is a rheological control agent, that is a material which, when dissolved or dispersed in water, gives a thickening or viscosity building effect.
- the rheological control agent maybe a clay, such as
- bentonite or laponite or a water-soluble or water dispersible organic polymer.
- organic polymers are suitable for use in accordance with the invention.
- Such polymers may be wholly synthetic or may be semi-synthetic polymers derived from natural materials.
- on class of polymers for use in accordance with the invention may be wholly synthetic or may be semi-synthetic polymers derived from natural materials.
- celluloses such as ethyl cellulose, methyl cellulose, sodium carboxymethyl cellulose, hydroxypropyl cellulose, hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose, ethyl hydroxyethyl cellulose, carboxymethyl hydroxyethyl cellulose, and hydroxyethyl cellulose.
- a particularly preferred class of organic polymeric rheological control agents comprises the polysaccharide gums which have been found to assist in the extrusion process as well as being useful constituents of the block.
- a particularly preferred natural polysaccharide gum for use in accordance with the invention is guar gum, but other gums which may be employed include xanthan gum, tragacanth, carragheenan, etc and their
- the gum serves as a cohesion agent and also as a
- solubility control agent and as a lubricant processing aid.
- solubility control agents may be employed in addition to the gum or other rheological control agent.
- solubility control agents examples include organic compounds of lower solubility than the anionic surface active agents and may vary in solubility from virtually completely insoluble to moderately soluble; the more insoluble being preferred for use in the present invention.
- solubility control agents may be employed and examples of preferred, generally insoluble agents include: waxes, such as waxes of natural origin,
- polyethylene waxes and amide waxes polyethylene waxes and amide waxes; long chain (e.g. containing more than 10 carbon atoms) fatty alcohols such as stearyl or behenyl alcohol; long chain, (e. g. containing more than 10 carbon atoms) fatty acids, such as stearic acid, and their salts; esters of long chain fatty alcohols with aliphatic carboxylic acids, such as stearyl acetate; esters of long chain fatty acids with mono or polyhydric alcohols, such as ethyl stearate or glycerol tristearate or mono-, di- or tri- glycerides of natural origin; fatty acid mono- and di- alkanol amides, such as coconut monoethanolamide; ethoxylated products of fatty acid mono- or di- ethanolamide ⁇ containing low amounts, e.g. 2 to 4 units, of ethylene oxide per mole; paradichlorobenzene; or long
- hydrocarbons of natural or synthetic origin hydrocarbons of natural or synthetic origin.
- Other preferred solubility control agents are generally insoluble perfume materials as discussed below.
- solubility control agent present in general, the amount of solubility control agent present will depend upon three principal factors, the intended life of the block, the solubility of the solubility control agent and the amount of theology control agent. As will be appreciated, in order to obtain longer life more solubility control agent should be present and vice versa. Similarly, more of the more soluble solubility control agents will be required to obtain the same life than of the less soluble or wholly insoluble solubility control agents.
- Suitable fillers for use in the blocks of the invention are organic fillers such as urea; and
- inorganic fillers such as sodium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, sodium chloride, sodium sulphate, borax, talc and calcium sulphate.
- the blocks of the invention may contain other ingredients, especially colouring agents, perfumes, preservatives and lime scale-removing agents.
- the filler component may also comprise a
- water-softening agent such as, for example, inorganic water-softening agents, such as sodium hexametaphosphate or other alkali metal polyphosphates, or organic
- the filler component may also comprise salts of polybasic metals, e. g. magnesium sulphate which serve to give improved character to the blocks as noted in our Application Serial No 2169612A
- the block generally contain a dyestuff or other colouring agent, such as a pigment, in order to impart a pleasant colouration to the water and also to indicate to the user when the block has exhausted (i.e. on exhaustion of the block the water becomes colourless).
- the block preferably contains water soluble dyestuff, suitably in an amount of up to 50% by weight, preferably in an amount of from 1 to 30% by weight.
- Suitable dyestuffs include, for example, Acid Blue 9, Acid Blue 1, Acid Blue 7 and Acid Yellow 23.
- the blocks may also contain perfumes to impart an acceptable odour to the flushed water.
- the perfume may be a solid perfume, which term is intended to include micro-encapsulated perfumes (i. e. liquid perfumes contained in a water-soluble microcapsule) or other solid perfume materials such as paradichlorobenzene.
- the perfume may be a liquid and in this case the term liquid perfume is intended to cover not only perfumes per se but solutions or perfumes in solvents therefor.
- the total amount of perfume should not be more than 20% by weight and is preferably from 2 to 10% by weight. It may be noted that the term
- perfume is intended to refer to any material giving an acceptable odour and thus materials giving a
- perfume such as pine oils, terpinolenes or paradichlorobenzene may be employed. It may be further noted that liquid perfumes are frequently substantially water-insoiuble and thus they may serve as a part of the water-solubility control agent. In other words, a single material, such as pine oil, may serve both as perfume and a solubility control agent.
- the blocks in accordance with the invention may also contain germicides.
- Suitable germicides include, for example, formaldehyde release agents, iodophors and chlorinated phenols. These compounds may be present in the blocks in amounts of up to 10% by weight.
- Suitable lime scale-removing agents are acidic compounds such as citric acid, formic acid, sulphuric acid, phosphoric acid and sulphamic acid. These, when present, suitably form up to 10% by weight of the block, especially in the case of solid acidic materials, such as citric acid, which then also serve as a filler.
- the blocks in accordance with the invention are produced by an extrusion process comprising forming a mixture of the components for the block, extruding this mixture into rod or bar form and subsequently dividing the rod or bar into portions or blocks of the desired size.
- the starting mixture contains a liquid component or a solid component capable of being wholly or partially liquefied under processing
- Such a liquid component comprises a perfume component and/or a
- solublity control agent component may serve not only as a perfume and solubility control agent but also as a processing aid.
- the blocks of the invention are suitably from 20 to 150 gms in weight preferably from 30 to 120 gms in weight.
- the invention further provides a method for
- Blocks produced in accordance with the invention may also be used as containerized blocks (i. e. in dispensing
- Lavatory cleansing blocks were prepared by extruding compositions having the formulations given in the Table below and cutting the extruded rod into blocks weighing about 50 gm. The blocks so obtained all had acceptable in-use lives when employed as free-standing lavatory cleaning blocks in lavatory cisterns. Table 1
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Abstract
Selon un procédé de fabrication de blocs nettoyants pour toilettes, et qui consiste à extruder un melange d'ingrédients appropriés pour le bloc, le mélange devant être extrudé comprend, basé sur le poids total du mélange: (i) de 5 à 85 % en poids d'un agent tensio-actif ou plus; et (ii) de 0,5 à 40 % en poids d'un agent de régulation rhéologique ou plus.According to a method of making toilet cleaning blocks, and which comprises extruding a mixture of ingredients suitable for the block, the mixture to be extruded comprises, based on the total weight of the mixture: (i) from 5 to 85% by weight of one or more surfactants; and (ii) from 0.5 to 40% by weight of a rheological control agent or more.
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Applications Claiming Priority (2)
Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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GB9018779 | 1990-08-28 | ||
GB909018779A GB9018779D0 (en) | 1990-08-28 | 1990-08-28 | Lavatory cleansing |
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EP0546039A1 true EP0546039A1 (en) | 1993-06-16 |
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EP91915832A Withdrawn EP0546039A1 (en) | 1990-08-28 | 1991-08-28 | Lavatory cleansing |
Country Status (9)
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EP (1) | EP0546039A1 (en) |
JP (1) | JPH06504298A (en) |
AU (1) | AU663850B2 (en) |
CA (1) | CA2090610A1 (en) |
GB (1) | GB9018779D0 (en) |
MX (1) | MX9100833A (en) |
NZ (1) | NZ239569A (en) |
WO (1) | WO1992003532A1 (en) |
ZA (1) | ZA916782B (en) |
Families Citing this family (23)
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US5543439A (en) * | 1994-06-02 | 1996-08-06 | International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. | Extruded fragrance-containing polyvinyl alcohol and use thereof |
NL1001434C2 (en) * | 1995-02-24 | 1998-02-05 | Int Flavors & Fragrances Inc | Extruded PVA compsn. contg. fragrance, useful for moulded toilet rim block - contains plasticised polyvinyl alcohol or partly hydrolysed polyvinyl acetate extruded with fragrance and opt. foaming agent and hydrophobic silica. |
EP0728804B1 (en) * | 1995-02-24 | 1999-09-08 | INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC. | Extruded fragrance-containing polyvinyl alcohol and use thereof |
JP2855087B2 (en) * | 1995-04-18 | 1999-02-10 | 小林製薬株式会社 | In-tank solid detergent composition for toilet and production method thereof |
GB9512714D0 (en) * | 1995-06-22 | 1995-08-23 | Unilever Plc | Improvements relating to lavatory cleaning blocks |
US5750061A (en) * | 1995-11-07 | 1998-05-12 | Lonza Inc. | Halohydantoin forms produced by melt extrusion and method for making |
GB9524618D0 (en) * | 1995-12-01 | 1996-01-31 | Johnson & Son Inc S C | Cleansing compositions |
US5863876A (en) * | 1997-02-11 | 1999-01-26 | S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc. | In-tank toilet cleansing block having polyacrylic acid/acrylate |
GB2322632B (en) * | 1997-02-20 | 2001-02-21 | Reckitt & Colman Of India Ltd | A toilet block composition |
WO1999040169A1 (en) * | 1998-02-04 | 1999-08-12 | Unilever Plc | Lavatory cleansing composition |
JP4098387B2 (en) * | 1998-02-16 | 2008-06-11 | 小林製薬株式会社 | Molding method of solid detergent for toilet |
JP4605851B2 (en) * | 2000-03-31 | 2011-01-05 | 小林製薬株式会社 | Slowly soluble solid composition |
JP4153820B2 (en) * | 2003-03-31 | 2008-09-24 | 小林製薬株式会社 | Solid cleaning agent for toilet |
US7709433B2 (en) * | 2007-02-12 | 2010-05-04 | S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. | Self-sticking disintegrating block for toilet or urinal |
ITMI20070642A1 (en) * | 2007-03-29 | 2008-09-30 | Bolton Manitoba S P A | SANITIZING ADHESIVE COMPOSITION FOR THE CLEANING AND / OR DISINFECTION AND SANITARY SCENTING |
US8993502B2 (en) | 2008-02-21 | 2015-03-31 | S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc. | Cleaning composition having high self-adhesion to a vertical hard surface and providing residual benefits |
US9481854B2 (en) | 2008-02-21 | 2016-11-01 | S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc. | Cleaning composition that provides residual benefits |
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US4722801A (en) * | 1986-06-20 | 1988-02-02 | Kiwi Brands, Inc. | Toilet bowl cleaner in cake form containing a polyethyleneglycol distearate |
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- 1991-08-28 WO PCT/GB1991/001448 patent/WO1992003532A1/en not_active Application Discontinuation
- 1991-08-28 CA CA002090610A patent/CA2090610A1/en not_active Abandoned
- 1991-08-28 AU AU84993/91A patent/AU663850B2/en not_active Ceased
- 1991-08-28 JP JP3514600A patent/JPH06504298A/en active Pending
- 1991-08-28 NZ NZ239569A patent/NZ239569A/en not_active IP Right Cessation
- 1991-08-28 EP EP91915832A patent/EP0546039A1/en not_active Withdrawn
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CA2090610A1 (en) | 1992-03-01 |
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GB9018779D0 (en) | 1990-10-10 |
ZA916782B (en) | 1992-05-27 |
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