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EP1319059B1
EP1319059B1 EP01970847A EP01970847A EP1319059B1 EP 1319059 B1 EP1319059 B1 EP 1319059B1 EP 01970847 A EP01970847 A EP 01970847A EP 01970847 A EP01970847 A EP 01970847A EP 1319059 B1 EP1319059 B1 EP 1319059B1
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Alison Lesley Main
Nathalie Sophie Letzelter
Barry Thomas Ingram
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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
    • C11D3/37—Polymers
    • C11D3/3746—Macromolecular compounds obtained by reactions only involving carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bonds
    • C11D3/3769—(Co)polymerised monomers containing nitrogen, e.g. carbonamides, nitriles or amines
    • C11D3/3776—Heterocyclic compounds, e.g. lactam
    • 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
    • C11D3/001—Softening compositions
    • 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
    • C11D3/02—Inorganic compounds ; Elemental compounds
    • C11D3/12—Water-insoluble compounds
    • C11D3/124—Silicon containing, e.g. silica, silex, quartz or glass beads
    • C11D3/1246—Silicates, e.g. diatomaceous earth
    • C11D3/1253—Layer silicates, e.g. talcum, kaolin, clay, bentonite, smectite, montmorillonite, hectorite or attapulgite
    • C11D3/126—Layer silicates, e.g. talcum, kaolin, clay, bentonite, smectite, montmorillonite, hectorite or attapulgite in solid compositions

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  • a solid detergent composition which comprises hectorite clay and dioctahedral smectite clay, wherein the weight ratio of said hectorite clay to said dioctahedral smectite clay is less than 1:1, wherein said hectorite clay and said dioctahedral smectite clay are present in said composition in the form of agglomerate particles, and wherein further said hectorite clay and said dioctahedral smectite clay are present in the same agglomerate particle.
  • the "Degree of Substitution” for group R H which is sometimes abbreviated herein “DS RH ", means the number of moles of group R H components that are substituted per anhydrous glucose unit, wherein an anhydrous glucose unit is a six membered ring as shown in the repeating unit of the general structure above.
  • each T is independently selected from the group consisting of H, C 1 -C 12 alkyl, substituted alkyl, C 7 -C 12 alkylaryl, -(CH 2 ) h COOM, -(CH 2 ) h SO 3 M, CH 2 CH(OH)SO 3 M, -(CH 2 ) h OSO 3 M,
  • Anionic sulfate surfactants suitable for use herein include the linear and branched primary and secondary alkyl sulfates, alkyl ethoxysulfates, fatty oleoyl glycerol sulfates, alkyl phenol ethylene oxide ether sulfates, the C 5 -C 17 acyl-N-(C 1 -C 4 alkyl) and -N-(C 1 -C 2 hydroxyalkyl) glucamine sulfates, and sulfates of alkylpolysaccharides such as the sulfates of alkylpolyglucoside (the nonionic nonsulfated compounds described herein).
  • Alkyl ethoxysulfate surfactants are preferably selected from the group consisting of the C 10 -C 18 alkyl sulfates which have been ethoxylated with from 0.5 to 20 moles of ethylene oxide per molecule. More preferably, the alkyl ethoxysulfate surfactant is a C 11 -C 18 , most preferably C 11 -C 15 alkyl sulfate which has been ethoxylated with from 0.5 to 7, preferably from 1 to 5, moles of ethylene oxide per molecule.
  • Suitable soap surfactants include the secondary soap surfactants which contain a carboxyl unit connected to a secondary carbon.
  • Preferred secondary soap surfactants for use herein are water-soluble members selected from the group consisting of the water-soluble salts of 2-methyl-1-undecanoic acid, 2-ethyl-1-decanoic acid, 2-propyl-1-nonanoic acid, 2-butyl-1-octanoic acid and 2-pentyl-1-heptanoic acid. Certain soaps may also be included as suds suppressers.
  • any alkoxylated nonionic surfactants are suitable herein.
  • the ethoxylated and propoxylated nonionic surfactants are preferred.
  • Suitable amphoteric surfactants for use herein include the amine oxide surfactants and the alkyl amphocarboxylic acids.
  • Suitable amine oxides include those compounds having the formula R 3 (OR 4 ) x N 0 (R 5 ) 2 wherein R 3 is selected from an alkyl, hydroxyalkyl, acylamidopropoyl and alkyl phenyl group, or mixtures thereof, containing from 8 to 26 carbon atoms; R 4 is an alkylene or hydroxyalkylene group containing from 2 to 3 carbon atoms, or mixtures thereof; x is from 0 to 5, preferably from 0 to 3; and each R 5 is an alkyl or hydroxyalkyl group containing from 1 to 3, or a polyethylene oxide group containing from 1 to 3 ethylene oxide groups.
  • Preferred are C 10 -C 18 alkyl dimethylamine oxide, and C 10-18 acylamido alkyl dimethylamine oxide.
  • a suitable example of an alkyl aphodicarboxylic acid is Miranol(TM) C2M Conc. manufactured by Miranol, Inc., Dayton, NJ.
  • Particularly preferred ApR 4 groups are ⁇ CH 2 CH 2 OH, ⁇ CH 2 CH 2 CH 2 OH, ⁇ CH 2 CH(CH 3 )OH and -CH(CH 3 )CH 2 OH, with ⁇ CH 2 CH 2 OH being particularly preferred.
  • Preferred R 1 groups are linear alkyl groups. Linear R 1 groups having from 8 to 14 carbon atoms are preferred.
  • Suitable water-soluble builder compounds include the water soluble monomeric polycarboxylates, or their acid forms, homo or copolymeric polycarboxylic acids or their salts in which the polycarboxylic acid comprises at least two carboxylic radicals separated from each other by not more that two carbon atoms, borates, and mixtures of any of the foregoing.
  • the carboxylate or polycarboxylate builder can be monomeric or oligomeric in type although monomeric polycarboxylates are generally preferred for reasons of cost and performance.
  • the zeolite MAP detergent builder has a particle size, expressed as a d 50 value of from 1.0 to 10.0 micrometres, more preferably from 2.0 to 7.0 micrometres, most preferably from 2.5 to 5.0 micrometres.
  • the d 50 value indicates that 50% by weight of the particles have a diameter smaller than that figure.
  • the particle size may, in particular be determined by conventional analytical techniques such as microscopic determination using a scanning electron microscope or by means of a laser granulometer. Other methods of establishing d 50 values are disclosed in EP 384070A.
  • a preferred additional bleaching agent is a perhydrate bleach, such as metal perborates, metal percarbonates, particularly the sodium salts.
  • Perborate can be mono or tetra hydrated.
  • Sodium percarbonate has the formula corresponding to 2Na 2 CO 3 .3H 2 O 2 , and is available commercially as a crystalline solid.
  • Suitable peroxyacid bleach precursor compounds typically contain one or more N- or O-acyl groups, which precursors can be selected from a wide range of classes.
  • Suitable classes include anhydrides, esters, imides, lactams and acylated derivatives of imidazoles and oximes. Examples of useful materials within these classes are disclosed in GB-A-1586789.
  • Suitable esters are disclosed in GB-A-836988, 864798, 1147871, 2143231 and EP-A-0170386.
  • Preferred L groups are selected from the group consisting of: and mixtures thereof, wherein R 1 is an alkyl, aryl, or alkaryl group containing from 1 to 14 carbon atoms, R 3 is an alkyl chain containing from 1 to 8 carbon atoms, R 4 is H or R 3 , and Y is H or a solubilizing group. Any of R 1 , R 3 and R 4 may be substituted by essentially any functional group including, for example alkyl, hydroxy, alkoxy, halogen, amine, nitrosyl, amide and ammonium or alkyl ammonium groups.
  • Preferred alkyl percarboxylic precursor compounds of the imide type include the N-,N,N 1 N 1 tetra acetylated alkylene diamines wherein the alkylene group contains from 1 to 6 carbon atoms, particularly those compounds in which the alkylene group contains 1, 2 and 6 carbon atoms. Tetraacetyl ethylene diamine (TAED) is particularly preferred.
  • TAED Tetraacetyl ethylene diamine
  • Another preferred ingredient useful in the composition herein is one or more additional enzymes.
  • Preferred additional enzymatic materials include the commercially available lipases, cutinases, amylases, neutral and alkaline proteases, cellulases, endolases, esterases, pectinases, lactases and peroxidases conventionally incorporated into the composition herein. Suitable enzymes are discussed in US Patents 3,519,570 and 3,533,139.
  • the lipase may be fungal or bacterial in origin being obtained, for example, from a lipase producing strain of Humicola sp., Thermomyces sp. or Pseudomonas sp. including Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes or Pseudomas fluorescens. Lipase from chemically or genetically modified mutants of these strains are also useful herein.
  • a preferred lipase is derived from Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes , which is described in Granted European Patent, EP-B-0218272.
  • Another preferred lipase herein is obtained by cloning the gene from Humicola lanuginosa and expressing the gene in Aspergillus oryza , as host, as described in European Patent Application, EP-A-0258 068, which is commercially available from Novo Industri A/S, Bagsvaerd, Denmark, under the trade name Lipolase. This lipase is also described in U.S. Patent 4,810,414, Huge-Jensen et al, issued March 7, 1989.
  • antifoam compound any compound or mixtures of compounds which act such as to depress the foaming or sudsing produced by a solution of a detergent composition, particularly in the presence of agitation of that solution.
  • a preferred suds suppressing system comprises:
  • the polymeric dye transfer inhibiting agents are preferably selected from polyamine N-oxide polymers, copolymers of N-vinylpyrrolidone and N-vinylimidazole, polyvinylpyrrolidonepolymers or combinations thereof, whereby these polymers can be cross-linked polymers.
  • composition herein also optionally contain from about 0.005% to 5% by weight of certain types of hydrophilic optical brighteners.
  • the composition herein is a solid detergent composition.
  • the composition herein is in solid form, such as a granular composition or, agglomerate or granule containing composition.
  • the composition herein can be made by methods such as dry-mixing, agglomerating, compaction, spray drying of various ingredients comprised in the composition herein, or a combination thereof.
  • the composition herein preferably has a bulk density of from 300g/litre or even 350g/litre or 450g/litre to preferably 1500g/litre or 1000g/litre or even to 850g/litre.
  • Said preformed particle may comprise additional detergent ingredients such as surfactant, building agent, chelating agent, bleaching agent, filler agent or combination thereof.
  • said preformed particle comprises one or more binding agents.
  • Typical binding agents for use herein include humectant and/or hydrophobic compounds, preferably a wax or oil such as paraffin oil.
  • Preferred binding agents are organic compounds, including propylene glycol, ethylene glycol, dimers or trimers of glycol, most preferably glycerol. Another preferred binding agent is water.
  • the preformed particle comprises a flocculation agent, said flocculation agent is described in more detail herein, said preformed particle is in the form of an agglomerate.
  • said preformed particle is in the form of an agglomerate and comprises a binding agent.
  • 3g hectorite clay powder supplied by Rheox under the trade name Bentone HC and 7g montmorillonite clay powder supplied by CSM under the trade name " AP base” are added to and dry mixed with 125g base detergent powder comprising ester carboxymethyl cellulose, polyethylene oxide, surfactant, sodium carbonate, sodium sulphate, zeolite, enzymes and suds suppressor, to form a solid detergent composition in accord with the present invention.

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  1. Composition détergente solide comprenant une argile hectorite et une argile smectite dioctaédrique, dans laquelle le rapport en poids de ladite argile hectorite à ladite smectite dioctaédrique est inférieur à 1 : 1, dans laquelle ladite argile hectorite et ladite argile smectite dioctaédrique sont présentes dans ladite composition sous forme de particules d'agglomérat, et dans laquelle en outre ladite argile hectorite et ladite argile smectite dioctaédrique sont présentes dans la même particule d'agglomérat.
  2. Composition selon la revendication 1, où ladite argile hectorite a la formule générale [(Mg3-xLix)Si4-yMeIII yO10(OH2-zFz)-(x+y)((x+y)/n)Mn+ dans laquelle y = 0 à 0,4, et où si y=>0, alors MeIII est Al, Fe ou B, de préférence y = 0 ; Mn+ est un ion métallique monovalent (n = 1) ou divalent (n = 2) ; de préférence choisi parmi Na, K, Mg, Ca et Sr ; x est un nombre de 0,1 à 0,5, de préférence de 0,2 à 0,4, plus préférablement de 0,25 à 0,35 ; z est un nombre de 0 à 2, de préférence la valeur de (x + y) est dans la plage de 0,1 à 0,5, de préférence de 0,2 à 0,4 ; plus préférablement de 0,25 à 0,35.
  3. Composition selon les revendications 1 ou 2, où ladite argile smectite dioctaédrique est une argile montmorillonite, ladite argile montmorillonite ayant la formule générale : NaxAl2-xMgxSi4O10(OH)2 ou CaxAl2-xMgxSi4O10(OH)2 où x est un nombre de 0,1 à 0.5. de préférence de 0,2 à 0,4.
  4. Composition selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, où ladite argile hectorite a un rapport d'aspect supérieur à 3 : 1.
  5. Composition selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, où ladite argile hectorite a une taille particulaire moyenne en masse volumique de 5 micromètres à 20 micromètres, et/ou ladite argile dioctaédrique a une taille particulaire moyenne en masse volumique de plus de 20 micromètres.
  6. Composition selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, où ladite composition comprend une quantité (en poids) d'argile non supérieure à 10 %.
  7. Composition selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, où ladite composition comprend (en poids) de 0,01 % à 50 % d'un polymère à base de cellulose modifiée de manière hydrophobe, de préférence un ester de carboxyméthylcellulose, ledit polymère à base de cellulose modifiée de manière hydrophobe ayant une masse moléculaire moyenne en poids de 50 000 à 2 000 000.
  8. Composition selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, où ladite composition comprend un agent de floculation, de préférence ledit agent de floculation comprend un polyoxyde d'éthylène.
  9. Composition selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, où ladite composition comprend un polymère à base d'amine cyclique.
  10. Utilisation d'une composition des revendications 1 - 6 et 8 - 9, pour procurer des avantages d'adoucissement à un textile.
  11. Utilisation d'une composition de la revendication 7, pour procurer des avantages d'adoucissement et des avantages d'anti-froissement à un textile.
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