US2130435A - Mothproofing detergent composition - Google Patents

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Patented Sept. 20, 1938 MOTHPROOFING DETERGENT POSITION Hermann Stiitter, Leverkusen-I. G. Werk, and

Theodor Hermann, Frankfort-on-the-Main- Hochst, Germany, assignors to Winthrop Chemical Company, Inc., New York, N. Y., a corporation of New York No Drawing. Original application May 6, 1931,

Serial No. 535,564. Divided and this application August 13, 1936, Serial No. 95,840. In-

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Germany May 30, 1930 3 Claims.

The present invention relates to new watersoluble soaps, being compositions consisting of neutral or acid soapy washing agents and moth proofing agents having an afilnity for W001, said 5 soaps being suitable for cleaning and rendering Instead of the triphenyl-dichloro-benzyl-phosmoth proof Wool, feathers, hair and the like in phonium chloride also other salts of quaternary one and the same process. phosphonium bases can be used either alone or We mean by neutral washing agents, for inmixed with another one, the quantity depending stance, the neutral alkali salts of palmitic, stearic on the efiicacy of selected compounds. parts 10 and oleic acids as contained in the usual soaps of this special soap dissolved in 1,000 parts of 10 and by acid washing agents, the alkyl esters of water are used for washing woolen material in sulfurized castor oil or of sulfurized oleic acid or the customary manner at about 40 to 50 C. The oleyl-methyl-amino-methane sulfonic acid or material treated in such a manner is cleaned and oleyl-hydroxyethane-suiionic acid (sodium salt) moth-proofed at the same time.

5 or similar washing agents resistant to acid reac- Example 2.To 80 parts of oleyl-methyl-amition. We mean by moth proofing agents having no-ethane-sulfonic acid parts of sodium-silicoafiinity for W001 the salts of quaternary phosfluoride are added, and the whole is intimately phonium bases such as triphenyl-dichloro-benzylmixed- 0 phosphonium chloride, salts of hydrofluoric acid, Instead of sodium-silico-fluoride other acid 20 hydro-silico-fiuoric acid, hydro-fluoro-titanic moth proofingagents such as potassium-hydroacid, boro-fiuoro-acetic acid, selenic acid, selenifluoride, boro-fluoro-acetic acid, acid salts of ous acid or the free acids, aromatic hydroxyselenic acid canbe used. Wool, hair, feathers and carboxylic acids or their halogenated 'substituthe like treated with such a soap in a Solution tion compounds, and aryl-sulfamides, in which of 10 parts of this special soap in 1,000 parts of hydrogen atoms connected to the nitrogen atom water will be cleaned and moth proofed at the of the amino group can be replaced by alkyl or same time. aryl radicals. Example 3.-80 parts of oleyl-hydroxy-ethane- The new compositions are obtainable in a sulfonic acid in the form of its sodium salt and known manner by incorporating into such neu- 20 parts of dichloro-salicylic acid are intimately 3O tral or acid washing agents moth proofing agents mixed.

as above described. Wool treated in a solution of 20 parts of such a The new compositions thus produced are colorsoap in 1,000 parts of water is cleaned and renless or slightly colored-in the dry state, and are dered moth proof in this way.

n, soluble in water. All these soaps, in the iorm Example 4.-20 parts of bis-1.3-dichloro-benof lumps, powders, pastes or solutions, can be zene-4-sulfo-1.3-phenylene-diamide are emulsiused for simultaneously cleaning and moth prooffied in 80 parts of the alkyl ester of sulfurized ing materials liable to attack by moths. The castor oil. specific moth proofing agent incorporated with Wool treated in a solution of 20 parts of such 40 the py o po ent depends on the chemical a soap in 1,000 parts of water at 60 C'. is cleaned 40 be v Of S d s py p nt, which is more and rendered moth proof at the same time. fully described hereafter. Thus, when using as A mixture of diiferent soaps may be applied, m h-pr fi agent the free selenic d or s and the process may be varied within wide limits lenious acid itself or acid or acid salts of hydroaccording to requirements. It will be, of course,

fiuoric acid or hydro-fluo-silicic acid or their solunderstood that when the new process is applied 45 uble salts or suitable mixtures of the above agents, to fur,care must be taken not to attack the skin.

a soapy component resistant to the acid reaction This application is a divisional application of our is required, for example, oleyl-methyl-amino- U, S. application Serial No. 535,564, which is now ethane sulfonic acid, while the salts of quaternary Patent No. 2,082,188, issued June 1, 1937. phosphonium bases may be combined with the We claim:

neutral alkali salts of palmitic, stearic, oleic acid 1. A moth-proofing detergent composition con- 1 and the like. sisting essentially of oleyl-methyl-amino-ethane- The following c'zamples will illustrate our insulfonic acid in preponderating proportion and vention but without limiting it thereto. The sodium silico-fluoride, said composition being at parts are by weight. the most only slightly colored in the dry state, 55

Example 1.--To parts of a neutral or acid soap 20 parts of triphenyl-dichloro-benzyl-phosphonium chloride are added, and the whole is intimately mixed.

being soluble in water, and being adapted for simultaneously cleaning and rendering mothproof wool, feathers, hair and like materials.

2. A moth-proofing detergent composition consisting essentially of the sodium salt of the oleylhydroxyethane sulfonic acid in prepondering proportion and potassium hydrofluoride, said composition being at the most only slightly colored in the dry state, being soluble in water, and being adapted for simultaneously cleaning and rendering moth-proof 'wool, feathers, hair and like materials.

3. A moth-proofing detergent composition consisting essentially of an acid soapy washing agent in'preponderating proportion and of a watersoluble moth-proofing agent having an amnity for W001 selected from the group consisting of acid hydrofluoric acid salts, hydrosilico-fluoric acid, hydrofluoro-titanic acid, boro-fluoro-acetic acid, selenious acid, selenic acid, and salts of the said acids, said composition being at the most only slightly colored in the dry state, being soluble in water, and being adapted for simultaneously cleaning and rendering moth proof wool, 10

feathers, hair and like materials.

HERMANN s'ro'rrm THEODOR HERMANN.