WO2000017305A1 - Detergents et nettoyants sous forme de corps moules a constituants de preparation en gros morceaux - Google Patents

Detergents et nettoyants sous forme de corps moules a constituants de preparation en gros morceaux Download PDF

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WO2000017305A1
WO2000017305A1 PCT/EP1999/006833 EP9906833W WO0017305A1 WO 2000017305 A1 WO2000017305 A1 WO 2000017305A1 EP 9906833 W EP9906833 W EP 9906833W WO 0017305 A1 WO0017305 A1 WO 0017305A1
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    • 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
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  • the present invention is in the field of compact moldings which have washing and cleaning properties.
  • Such detergent tablets comprise, for example, detergent tablets for washing textiles, detergent tablets for machine dishwashing or cleaning hard surfaces, bleach tablets for use in washing machines or dishwashers, water softening tablets or stain remover tablets.
  • the invention relates to detergent tablets which are used for washing textiles in a household washing machine and are briefly referred to as detergent tablets.
  • Detergent tablets are widely described in the prior art and are becoming increasingly popular with consumers because of the simple dosage. Tableted detergents and cleaning agents have a number of advantages over powdered ones: they are easier to dose and handle and, because of their compact structure, have advantages in terms of storage and transport. Detergent tablets are therefore also comprehensively described in the patent literature. A problem that occurs again and again when using shaped articles which are active in washing and cleaning is the insufficient rate of disintegration and dissolution of the shaped articles under conditions of use.
  • the present invention was based on the object of providing foamed bodies which, given a given hardness, are distinguished by short disintegration times and can therefore also be metered via the dispensing chamber of household washing machines. Since the amounts of surfactant in a detergent and cleaning agent in particular are defined within narrow limits, on the other hand the surfactants are often introduced via surfactant granules or compounds with defined surfactant proportions, substances should be found which are added to the premix to be pressed in a mixture with the surfactant granules can be, without changing the tabletting properties of the premix with varying amounts of surfactant granules and the substance to be found. Since auxiliaries and fillers customary in detergents and cleaning agents cannot easily be incorporated into tableting premixes, there was also a need for an incorporation form to find for these auxiliaries and fillers that allow the addition of these substances to tableting mixtures.
  • the invention relates to detergent tablets made from compressed, particulate detergent and cleaning agent, the alkali and / or alkaline earth metal sulfates and / or carbonates and / or phosphates and / or citrates in amounts of 1 to 20% by weight, based on the molded article, wherein at least 60% by weight of the alkali and / or alkaline earth metal sulfates and / or carbonates and / or phosphates and / or citrates have particle sizes above 600 ⁇ m.
  • these coarse-particle alkali or alkaline earth salts in a tablettable premix enables the proportion of certain ingredients, in particular the surfactant granules, to be reduced and replaced by these salts.
  • the salts mentioned are commercially available in a wide variety of qualities, and the grain sizes also vary widely.
  • the amounts in which the salts mentioned are contained in the shaped bodies are, according to the invention, between one and 20% by weight, in each case based on the weight of the shaped body.
  • Preferred detergent tablets in the context of the present invention contain alkali and / or alkaline earth metal sulfates and or carbonates and / or phosphates and / or citrates in amounts of from 2 to 18% by weight, preferably from 3 to 15% by weight. % and in particular from 5 to 10 wt .-%, based on the weight of the shaped body.
  • the alkali and / or alkaline earth metal sulfates and / or carbonates and / or phosphates and / or citrates contained in the moldings according to the invention consist of more than 60% by weight of particles with particle sizes above 600 ⁇ m. Preference is therefore given to detergent tablets in which at least 80% by weight, preferably at least 90% by weight and in particular the total amount of the alkali metal and / or alkaline earth metal sulfates and / or carbonates and / or phosphates and / or citrates Have particle sizes above 600 microns.
  • the particle size range in which the particle sizes of the alkali and / or alkaline earth metal sulfates and / or carbonates and / or phosphates and / or citrates contained in the moldings according to the invention are preferably also limited to an upper limit and is preferably within narrow limits.
  • Detergent tablets are preferred in which at least 60% by weight, preferably at least 65% by weight, particularly preferably at least 70% by weight and in particular at least 75% by weight of the alkali metal and / or alkaline earth metal sulfates and / or carbonates and / or phosphates and / or citrates have particle sizes in the range from 800 ⁇ m to 1200 ⁇ m.
  • the alkali metal and / or alkaline earth metal sulfates and / or carbonates and / or phosphates and / or citrates contained in the moldings according to the invention are the salts of the metals of the first or second main group of the periodic table with sulfuric acid, carbonic acid, phosphoric acid or citric acid .
  • the salts mentioned therefore include the lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, cesium, magnesium, calcium, strontium and barium salts of the acids mentioned.
  • the lithium, rubidium, cesium, strontium and barium salts are of minor importance for economic and ecological reasons.
  • Preferred embodiments of the present invention are detergent tablets which contain the alkali metal salts, in particular the sodium salts, as sulfates and / or carbonates and / or phosphates and / or citrates.
  • sodium sulfate, sodium sulfate decahydrate, sodium carbonate, sodium carbonate monohydrate, sodium carbonate heptahydrate, sodium carbonate decahydrate, trisodium citrate, and the various sodium phosphates (especially sodium tripolyphosphate) there are also potassium sulfate, potassium carbonate and its hydrates, potassium citrate , the potassium phosphates, magnesium sulfate, magnesium sulfate heptahydrate, magnesium citrate and calcium citrate can be used with advantage.
  • detergent tablets are also preferred which contain compounds containing sulfate and / or carbonate and / or phosphate and / or citrate, which contain at least 60% by weight of sulfate (s) and / or carbonate (s). and / or phosphate (s) and / or citrate (s), each based on the weight of the compound, with at least 60% by weight of the compounds having particle sizes below 600 ⁇ m.
  • the moldings contain carbonates, carbon dioxide is released by reaction of the acid with the carbonate, this "effervescent effect" being able to have a disintegration effect.
  • oligomeric ugg carboxylic acids such as succinic acid, maleic acid and in particular citric acid are used in effervescent systems.
  • the detergent tablets are not an "effervescent tablet", ie preferred detergent tablets are free from oligomeric ogocarboxylic acids, especially citric acid.
  • Such coated detergent tablets can be produced by spraying a melt or solution of the coating material onto the molded article or immersing the molded article in the melt or solution. In preferred embodiments of the present invention, however, the detergent tablets are not coated with a coating which covers the entire tablet.
  • detergent tablets can be produced according to the invention, which disintegrate into their constituents extremely quickly in water with high hardness.
  • detergents and cleaning agents are particularly preferred. Shaped bodies that completely disintegrate into their secondary particles in water at 30 ° C in less than 60 seconds, which are so small that they can be washed in via the wash-in chamber of a household washing machine.
  • the detergent tablets contain customary ingredients of detergents and cleaning agents, in particular from the groups of surfactants and / or builders and / or the bleach.
  • Further ingredients that can be used in the detergent tablets according to the invention are, for example, bleach activators, enzymes, dyes and fragrances, optical brighteners, polymers, foam inhibitors, etc.
  • the detergent tablets according to the invention can contain surface-active substances from the group of anionic, nonionic, zwitterionic or cationic surfactants, anionic surfactants being clearly preferred for economic reasons and on the basis of their performance spectrum.
  • Anionic surfactants used are, for example, those of the sulfonate and sulfate type.
  • Suitable surfactants of the sulfonate type are preferably C 9- ⁇ - alkylbenzene sulfonates, olefin sulfonates, ie mixtures of alkene and hydroxyalkane sulfonates, and the disulfonates obtained, for example, from 2- C ⁇ ⁇ 8 -Monoolefmen with terminal or internal double bond by sulfonation with gaseous sulfur trioxide and subsequent alkaline or acidic hydrolysis of the sulfonation products.
  • alkanesulfonates which are for example derived from C 12 ⁇ 8 alkanes by sulfochlorination or sulfoxidation and subsequent hydrolysis or neutralization.
  • the esters of ⁇ -sulfofatty acids (ester sulfonates), for example the ⁇ -sulfonated methyl esters of hydrogenated coconut, palm kernel or tallow fatty acids, are also suitable.
  • Suitable anionic surfactants are sulfonated fatty acid glycerol esters.
  • Fatty acid glycerol esters are to be understood as the mono-, di- and triesters and their mixtures, as in the preparation can be obtained by esterification of a monoglycerol with 1 to 3 moles of fatty acid or in the transesterification of triglycerides with 0.3 to 2 moles of glycerol.
  • Preferred sulfonated fatty acid glycerol esters are the sulfonation products of saturated fatty acids having 6 to 22 carbon atoms, for example caproic acid, caprylic acid, capric acid, myristic acid, lauric acid, palmitic acid, stearic acid or behenic acid.
  • alk (en) yl sulfates the alkali and in particular the sodium salts of the sulfuric acid semiesters of the C 2 -C 8 fatty alcohols, for example from coconut fatty alcohol, tallow fatty alcohol, lauryl, myristyl, cetyl or stearyl alcohol or the C 1 -C 0 oxo alcohols and those half-esters of secondary alcohols of this chain length are preferred.
  • alk (en) yl sulfates of the chain length mentioned which contain a synthetic, straight-chain alkyl radical prepared on a petrochemical basis and which have a degradation behavior analogous to that of the adequate compounds based on oleochemical raw materials.
  • C 12 -C 6 alkyl sulfates and Q - C 15 alkyl sulfates as well as C 14 -C 5 alkyl sulfates are preferred for washing technology reasons.
  • 2,3-alkyl sulfates which are produced for example in accordance with US Patent No. 3,234,258 or 5,075,041 and can be obtained as commercial products from Shell Oil Company under the name DAN ®, are suitable anionic surfactants.
  • the sulfuric acid monoesters of the straight-chain or branched C ethoxylated with 1 to 6 mol of ethylene oxide 21 alcohols, such as 2-methyl-branched C -n alcohols with an average of 3.5 mol of ethylene oxide (EO) or C 12-18 fatty alcohols with 1 to 4 EO, are suitable. Because of their high foaming behavior, they are used in cleaning agents only in relatively small amounts, for example in amounts of 1 to 5% by weight.
  • Suitable anionic surfactants are also the salts of alkylsulfosuccinic acid, which are also referred to as sulfosuccinates or as sulfosuccinic acid esters and which are monoesters and / or diesters of sulfosuccinic acid with alcohols, preferably fatty alcohols and especially ethoxylated fatty alcohols.
  • Preferred sulfosuccinates contain C 8- ⁇ 8 fatty alcohol residues or mixtures thereof.
  • Particularly preferred sulfosuccinates contain a fatty alcohol residue which is derived from ethoxylated fatty alcohols, which in themselves are nonionic surfactants (description see below).
  • alk (en) ylsuccinic acid with preferably 8 to 18 carbon atoms in the alk (en) yl chain or salts thereof.
  • Soaps are particularly suitable as further anionic surfactants.
  • Saturated fatty acid soaps are suitable, such as the salts of lauric acid, myristic acid, palmitic acid, stearic acid, hydrogenated eraacic acid and behenic acid, and in particular from natural fatty acids, e.g. Coconut, palm kernel or tallow fatty acids, derived soap mixtures.
  • the anionic surfactants can be in the form of their sodium, potassium or ammonium salts and also as soluble salts of organic bases, such as mono-, di- or triethanolamine.
  • the anionic surfactants are preferably in the form of their sodium or potassium salts, in particular in the form of the sodium salts.
  • detergent tablets which contain 5 to 50% by weight, preferably 7.5 to 40% by weight and in particular 10 to 20% by weight of anionic surfactant (s), based in each case on the Molded body weight included.
  • preferred detergent tablets have a soap content which exceeds 0.2% by weight, based on the total weight of the tablet.
  • the preferred anionic surfactants are the alkylbenzenesulfonates and fatty alcohol sulfates, preferred detergent tablets 2 to 20% by weight, preferably 2.5 to 15% by weight and in particular 5 to 10% by weight of fatty alcohol sulfate (s) in each case based on the weight of the molded body.
  • the nonionic surfactants used are preferably alkoxylated, advantageously ethoxylated, in particular primary alcohols having preferably 8 to 18 carbon atoms and an average of 1 to 12 moles of ethylene oxide (EO) per mole of alcohol, in which the alcohol Holrest may be linearly branched or preferably methyl-branched in the 2-position or may contain linear and methyl-branched radicals in the mixture, such as are usually present in oxo alcohol residues.
  • alcohol ethoxylates with linear residues of alcohols of native origin with 12 to 18 carbon atoms, for example from coconut, palm, tallow fat or oleyl alcohol, and an average of 2 to 8 EO per mole of alcohol are particularly preferred.
  • Preferred ethoxylated alcohols include, for example, C 12- ⁇ 4 alcohols containing 3 EO or 4 EO, C 9 n-alcohol with 7 EO, C 13- ⁇ 5 alcohols containing 3 EO, 5 EO, 7 EO or 8 EO , C 12- ⁇ 8 alcohols with 3 EO, 5 EO or 7 EO and mixtures of these, such as mixtures of C ⁇ 2- ⁇ 4 alcohol with 3 EO and C 12- ⁇ 8 alcohol with 5 EO.
  • the degrees of ethoxylation given represent statistical averages, which can be an integer or a fraction for a specific product.
  • Preferred alcohol ethoxylates have a narrow homolog distribution (narrow range ethoxylates, NRE).
  • fatty alcohols with more than 12 EO can also be used. Examples of this are tallow fatty alcohol with 14 EO, 25 EO, 30 EO or 40 EO.
  • nonionic surfactants which are used either as the sole nonionic surfactant or in combination with other nonionic surfactants, are alkoxylated, preferably ethoxylated or ethoxylated and propoxylated fatty acid alkyl esters, preferably with 1 to 4 carbon atoms in the alkyl chain, in particular Fatty acid methyl esters as described, for example, in Japanese patent application JP 58/217598 or which are preferably prepared by the process described in international patent application WO-A-90/13533.
  • alkyl polyglycosides Another class of nonionic surfactants that can be used advantageously are the alkyl polyglycosides (APG).
  • Alkypolyglycosides which can be used satisfy the general formula RO (G) 2 , in which R denotes a linear or branched, in particular methyl-branched, saturated or unsaturated, aliphatic radical having 8 to 22, preferably 12 to 18, carbon atoms and G is Is a symbol which stands for a glycose unit with 5 or 6 carbon atoms, preferably for glucose.
  • the degree of glycosidation z is between 1.0 and 4.0, preferably between 1.0 and 2.0 and in particular between 1.1 and 1.4.
  • Linear alkyl polyglucosides, ie alkyl polyglycosides, in which the polyglycosyl radical is a glucose radical and the alkyl radical is an n-alkyl radical are preferably used.
  • the detergent tablets according to the invention can preferably contain alkyl polyglycosides, APG contents of the tablets more than 0.2% by weight, based on the entire tablet, being preferred.
  • Particularly preferred detergent tablets contain APG in amounts of 0.2 to 10% by weight, preferably 0.2 to 5% by weight and in particular 0.5 to 3% by weight.
  • Nonionic surfactants of the amine oxide type for example N-coconut alkyl-N, N-dimethylamine oxide and N-tallow alkyl-N, N-dihydroxyethylamine oxide, and the fatty acid alkanolamides can also be suitable.
  • the amount of these nonionic surfactants is preferably not more than that of the ethoxylated fatty alcohols, in particular not more than half of them.
  • Suitable surfactants are polyhydroxy fatty acid amides of the formula (I),
  • RCO stands for an aliphatic acyl radical with 6 to 22 carbon atoms
  • R for hydrogen, an alkyl or hydroxyalkyl radical with 1 to 4 carbon atoms
  • [Z] for a linear or branched polyhydroxyalkyl radical with 3 to 10 carbon atoms and 3 to 10 hydroxyl groups.
  • the polyhydroxy fatty acid amides are known substances which can usually be obtained by reductive amination of a reducing sugar with ammonia, an alkylamine or an alkanolamine and subsequent acylation with a fatty acid, a fatty acid alkyl ester or a fatty acid chloride.
  • the group of polyhydroxy fatty acid amides also includes compounds of the formula (II) R * -OR 2
  • R represents a linear or branched alkyl or alkenyl radical having 7 to 12 carbon atoms
  • R 1 represents a linear, branched or cyclic alkyl radical or an aryl radical having 2 to 8 carbon atoms
  • R 2 represents a linear, branched or cyclic alkyl radical or is an aryl radical or an oxy-alkyl radical having 1 to 8 carbon atoms, with C 4 alkyl or phenyl radicals being preferred and [Z] being a linear polyhydroxyalkyl radical whose alkyl chain is substituted by at least two hydroxyl groups, or alkoxylated, preferably ethoxylated or propoxylated derivatives of this residue.
  • [Z] is preferably obtained by reductive amination of a reduced sugar, for example glucose, fructose, maltose, lactose, galactose, mannose or xylose.
  • a reduced sugar for example glucose, fructose, maltose, lactose, galactose, mannose or xylose.
  • the N-alkoxy- or N-aryloxy-substituted compounds can then, for example according to the teaching of international application WO-A-95/07331, be converted into the desired polyhydroxy fatty acid amides by reaction with fatty acid methyl esters in the presence of an alkoxide as catalyst.
  • builders are the most important ingredients in detergents and cleaning agents.
  • the detergent tablets according to the invention can contain all of the builders commonly used in detergents, especially zeolites, silicates, carbonates, organic cobuilders and - where there are no ecological prejudices against their use - the phosphates.
  • the builders mentioned can also be used in surfactant-free moldings, so that it is possible according to the invention to produce moldings which can be used for water softening or as bleach tablets.
  • Suitable crystalline, layered sodium silicates have the general formula NaMSi x O 2x + ⁇ 'HO, where M is sodium or hydrogen, x is a number from 1.9 to 4 and y is a number from 0 to 20 and preferred values for x 2, 3 or 4.
  • Such Crystalline layered silicates are described, for example, in European patent application EP-A-0 164 514.
  • Preferred crystalline layered silicates of the formula given are those in which M represents sodium and x assumes the values 2 or 3.
  • both ⁇ - and ⁇ -sodium disilicate Na Si 2 O 5 'yH 2 O are preferred, wherein ⁇ -sodium disilicate can be obtained, for example, by the process described in international patent application WO-A-91/08171.
  • the delay in dissolution compared to conventional amorphous sodium silicates can be caused in various ways, for example by surface treatment, compounding, compacting / compression or by overdrying.
  • the term “amorphous” is also understood to mean “X-ray amorphous”.
  • silicates in X-ray diffraction experiments do not provide sharp X-ray reflections, as are typical for crystalline substances, but at most one or more maxima of the scattered X-rays, which have a width of several degree units of the diffraction angle.
  • it can very well lead to particularly good builder properties if the silicate particles provide washed-out or even sharp diffraction maxima in electron diffraction experiments. This is to be interpreted as meaning that the products have microcrystalline areas of size 10 to a few hundred nm, values up to max. 50 um and in particular up to max. 20 nm are preferred.
  • Such so-called X-ray amorphous silicates which also have a delay in dissolution compared to conventional water glasses, are described, for example, in German patent application DE-A-44 00 024. Compacted / compacted amorphous silicates, compounded amorphous silicates and over-dried X-ray amorphous silicates are particularly preferred.
  • the finely crystalline, synthetic and bound water-containing zeolite used is preferably zeolite A and / or P.
  • zeolite P zeolite MAP® (commercial product from Crosfield) is particularly preferred.
  • zeolite X and mixtures of A, X and / or P are also suitable.
  • Commercially available and can preferably be used in the context of the present invention for example a co-crystallizate of zeolite X is also suitable and zeolite A (approx. 80% by weight zeolite X), which is sold by CONDEA Augusta SpA under the brand name VEGOBOND AX ® and by the formula
  • the zeolite can be used both as a builder in a granular compound and can also be used for a type of "powdering" of the entire mixture to be compressed, usually using both ways of incorporating the zeolite into the premix.
  • Suitable zeolites have an average particle size of less than 10 ⁇ m (volume distribution; measurement method: Coulter Counter) and preferably contain 18 to 22% by weight, in particular 20 to 22% by weight, of bound water.
  • the alkali metal phosphates with particular preference for pentasodium or pentapotassium triphosphate (sodium or potassium tripolyphosphate), have the greatest importance in the detergent and cleaning agent industry.
  • Alkali metal phosphates is the general term for the alkali metal (especially sodium and potassium) salts of the various phosphoric acids, in which one can distinguish between metaphosphoric acids (HPO 3 ) n and orthophosphoric acid H 3 PO 4 in addition to higher molecular weight representatives.
  • the phosphates combine several advantages: They act as alkali carriers, prevent limescale deposits on machine parts and lime incrustations in tissues and also contribute to cleaning performance.
  • Sodium dihydrogen phosphate, NaH 2 PO 4 exists as a dihydrate (density 1.91 like “3 , melting point 60 °) and as a monohydrate (density 2.04 like “ 3 ). Both salts are white, water-soluble powders that lose water of crystallization when heated and at 200 ° C into the weakly acidic diphosphate (sodium hydrogen diphosphate, Na 2 H 2 P 2 O), at higher temperature in sodium trimetaphosphate (Na 3 P 3 O 9 ) and Maddrell's salt (see below).
  • NaH 2 PO 4 is acidic; it occurs when phosphoric acid is adjusted to pH 4.5 with sodium hydroxide solution and the mash is sprayed.
  • Potassium dihydrogen phosphate (primary or monobasic potassium phosphate, potassium biphosphate, KDP), KH 2 PO, is a white salt with a density of 2.33 "3 , has a melting point of 253 ° [decomposition to form potassium polyphosphate (KPO) x ] and is light soluble in water.
  • Disodium hydrogen phosphate (secondary sodium phosphate), Na 2 HPO 4 , is a colorless, very easily water-soluble crystalline salt. It exists anhydrous and with 2 mol. (Density 2.066 gladly '3 , water loss at 95 °), 7 mol. (Density 1.68 gladly "3 , melting point 48 ° with loss of 5 H 2 O) and 12 mol. Water ( Density 1.52 "3 , melting point 35 ° with loss of 5 H 2 O), becomes anhydrous at 100 ° and changes to the diphosphate Na 4 P 2 O when heated more strongly. Disodium hydrogen phosphate is prepared by neutralizing phosphoric acid with soda solution using phenolphthalein as an indicator. Dipotassium hydrogen phosphate (secondary or dibasic potassium phosphate), K 2 HPO 4 , is an amorphous, white salt that is easily soluble in water.
  • Trisodium phosphate, tertiary sodium phosphate, Na PO 4 are colorless crystals which like a dodecahydrate a density of 1.62 "3 and a melting point of 73-76 ° C (decomposition), as a decahydrate (corresponding to 19-20% P 2 O 5 ) have a melting point of 100 ° C and in anhydrous form (corresponding to 39-40% P 2 O 5 ) a density of 2.536 gcm "3 .
  • Trisodium phosphate is readily soluble in water with an alkaline reaction and is produced by evaporating a solution of exactly 1 mol of disodium phosphate and 1 mol of NaOH.
  • Tripotassium phosphate (tertiary or triphase potassium phosphate), K 3 PO 4 , is a white, deliquescent, granular powder with a density of 2.56 gcm " , has a melting point of 1340 ° and is easily soluble in water with an alkaline reaction when heating Thomas slag with coal and potassium sulfate Despite the higher price, the more soluble, therefore highly effective, potassium phosphates are often preferred over corresponding sodium compounds in the cleaning agent industry.
  • Tetrasodium diphosphate (sodium pyrophosphate), Na 4 PO 7 , exists in anhydrous form (density 2.534 like “3 , melting point 988 °, also given 880 °) and as decahydrate (density 1.815-1.836 like " 3 , melting point 94 ° with loss of water).
  • decahydrate density 1.815-1.836 like " 3 , melting point 94 ° with loss of water.
  • Na 4 P 2 O 7 is formed by heating disodium phosphate to> 200 ° or by reacting phosphoric acid with soda in a stoichiometric ratio and dewatering the solution by spraying.
  • the decahydrate complexes heavy metal salts and hardness formers and therefore reduces the hardness of the water.
  • Potassium diphosphate (potassium pyrophosphate), ⁇ O - * -, exists in the form of the trihydrate and is a colorless, hygroscopic powder with a density of 2.33 "3 , which is soluble in water, the pH of the 1% solution at 25 ° is 10.4.
  • Sodium and potassium phosphates in which one can differentiate cyclic representatives, the sodium or potassium metaphosphates and chain-like types, the sodium or potassium polyphosphates. A large number of terms are used in particular for the latter: melt or glow phosphates, Graham's salt, Kurrol's and Maddrell's salt. All higher sodium and potassium phosphates are collectively referred to as condensed phosphates.
  • pentasodium triphosphate Na 5 P 3 Oj 0 (sodium tripolyphosphate)
  • sodium tripolyphosphate sodium tripolyphosphate
  • n 3
  • Approx. 17 g of the salt free from water of crystallization dissolve in 100 g of water at room temperature, approx. 20 g at 60 ° and 32 g at 100 °; After heating the solution at 100 ° for two hours, hydrolysis produces about 8% orthophosphate and 15% diphosphate.
  • pentasodium triphosphate In the production of pentasodium triphosphate, phosphoric acid is reacted with sodium carbonate solution or sodium hydroxide solution in a stoichiometric ratio and the solution is dewatered by spraying. Similar to Graham's salt and sodium diphosphate, pentasodium triphosphate dissolves many insoluble metal compounds (including lime soaps, etc.). Pentapotassium triphosphate, K 5 P- 5 O 10 (potassium tripolyphosphate), is commercially available, for example, in the form of a 50% strength by weight solution (>23%> P 2 O 5 , 25%> K 2 O). The potassium polyphosphates are widely used in the detergent and cleaning agent industry.
  • sodium potassium tripolyphosphates which can also be used in the context of the present invention. These occur, for example, when hydrolyzing sodium trimetaphosphate with KOH: (NaPO 3 ) 3 + 2 KOH - Na 3 K 2 P 3 O 10 + H 2 O
  • these can be used just like sodium tripolyphosphate, potassium tripolyphosphate or mixtures of these two; Mixtures of sodium tripolyphosphate and sodium potassium tripolyphosphate or mixtures of potassium tripolyphosphate and sodium potassium tripolyphosphate or mixtures of sodium tripolyphosphate and potassium tripolyphosphate and sodium potassium tripolyphosphate can also be used according to the invention.
  • the particle size criteria within the scope of the present invention must be observed, i.e. at least 60% by weight of the phosphates used in the moldings must have particle sizes above 600 ⁇ m.
  • Organic cobuilders which can be used in the detergent tablets according to the invention are, in particular, polycarboxylates / polycarboxylic acids, polymeric polycarboxylates, aspartic acid, polyacetals, dextrins, other organic cobuilders (see below) and phosphonates. These classes of substances are described below.
  • Usable organic builders are, for example, the polycarboxylic acids which can be used in the form of their sodium salts, polycarboxylic acids being understood to mean those carboxylic acids which carry more than one acid function.
  • these are citric acid, adipic acid, succinic acid, glutaric acid, malic acid, tartaric acid, maleic acid, fumaric acid, sugar acids, aminocarboxylic acids, nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA), as long as such use is not objectionable for ecological reasons, and mixtures of these.
  • Preferred salts are the salts of polycarboxylic acids such as citric acid, adipic acid, succinic acid, glutaric acid, tartaric acid, sugar acids and mixtures of these.
  • the acids themselves can also be used.
  • the acids typically also have the property of an acidifying component and serve thus also for setting a lower and milder pH value of detergents or cleaning agents.
  • Citric acid, succinic acid, glutaric acid, adipic acid, gluconic acid and any mixtures thereof can be mentioned in particular.
  • Polymeric polycarboxylates are also suitable as builders, for example the alkali metal salts of polyacrylic acid or polymethacrylic acid, for example those with a relative molecular weight of 500 to 70,000 g / mol.
  • the molecular weights given for polymeric polycarboxylates are weight-average molecular weights M w of the particular acid form, which were determined in principle by means of gel permeation chromatography (GPC), a UV detector being used.
  • the measurement was carried out against an external polyacrylic acid standard, which provides realistic molecular weight values due to its structural relationship with the investigated polymers. This information differs significantly from the molecular weight information for which polystyrene sulfonic acids are used as standard.
  • the molecular weights measured against polystyrene sulfonic acids are generally significantly higher than the molecular weights given in this document.
  • Suitable polymers are, in particular, polyacrylates, which preferably have a molecular weight of 2,000 to 20,000 g / mol. Because of their superior solubility, the short-chain polyacrylates which have molar masses from 2000 to 10000 g / mol, and particularly preferably from 3000 to 5000 g / mol, can in turn be preferred from this group.
  • copolymeric polycarboxylates in particular those of acrylic acid with methacrylic acid and of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid with maleic acid.
  • Copolymers of acrylic acid with maleic acid which contain 50 to 90% by weight> acrylic acid and 50 to 10% by weight> maleic acid have proven to be particularly suitable.
  • Their relative molecular weight, based on free acids, is generally 2,000 to 70,000 g / mol, preferably 20,000 to 50,000 g / mol and in particular 30,000 to 40,000 g / mol.
  • the (co) polymeric polycarboxylates can be used either as a powder or as an aqueous solution.
  • the content of (co) polymeric polycarboxylates in the agents is preferably 0.5 to 20% by weight, in particular 3 to 10% by weight.
  • the polymers can also contain allylsulfonic acids, such as, for example, allyloxybenzenesulfonic acid and methallylsulfonic acid, as monomers.
  • allylsulfonic acids such as, for example, allyloxybenzenesulfonic acid and methallylsulfonic acid, as monomers.
  • biodegradable polymers composed of more than two different monomer units, for example those which contain salts of acrylic acid and maleic acid as well as vinyl alcohol or vinyl alcohol derivatives as monomers or those which contain salts of acrylic acid and 2-alkylallylsulfonic acid and sugar derivatives as monomers .
  • copolymers are those which are described in German patent applications DE-A-43 03 320 and DE-A-44 17 734 and which preferably contain acrolein and acrylic acid / acrylic acid salts or acrolein and vinyl acetate as monomers.
  • polymeric aminodicarboxylic acids their salts or their precursor substances.
  • Particularly preferred are polyaspartic acids or their salts and derivatives, of which it is disclosed in German patent application DE-A-195 40 086 that, in addition to cobuilder properties, they also have a bleach-stabilizing effect.
  • polyacetals which can be obtained by reacting dialdehydes with polyolcarboxylic acids which have 5 to 7 carbon atoms and at least 3 hydroxyl groups.
  • Preferred polyacetals are obtained from dialdehydes such as glyoxal, glutaraldehyde, terephthalaldehyde and their mixtures and from polyol carboxylic acids such as gluconic acid and / or glucoheptonic acid.
  • Suitable organic builder substances are dextrins, for example oligomers or polymers of carbohydrates, which can be obtained by partial hydrolysis of starches.
  • the hydrolysis can be carried out according to customary, for example acid or enzyme lysed procedures are carried out. They are preferably hydrolysis products with average molar masses in the range from 400 to 500,000 g / mol.
  • DE dextrose equivalent
  • the oxidized derivatives of such dextrins are their reaction products with oxidizing agents which are capable of oxidizing at least one alcohol function of the saccharide ring to the carboxylic acid function.
  • oxidizing agents capable of oxidizing at least one alcohol function of the saccharide ring to the carboxylic acid function.
  • Such oxidized dextrins and processes for their preparation are known, for example, from European patent applications EP-A-0 232 202, EP-A-0427 349, EP-A-0472 042 and EP-A-0 542 496 and international patent applications WO 92/18542 , WO 93/08251, WO 93/16110, WO 94/28030, WO 95/07303, WO 95/12619 and WO 95/20608.
  • An oxidized oligosaccharide according to German patent application DE-A-196 00 018 is also suitable.
  • a product oxidized at C 6 of the saccharide ring can be particularly advantageous.
  • Ethylene diamine N, N'-disuccinate (EDDS) is preferably used in the form of its sodium or magnesium salts.
  • Glycerol disuccinates and glycerol trisuccinates are also preferred in this context. Suitable amounts are 3 to 15% by weight in formulations containing zeolite and / or silicate.
  • organic cobuilders are, for example, acetylated hydroxycarboxylic acids or their salts, which may optionally also be in lactone form and which contain at least 4 carbon atoms and at least one hydroxyl group and a maximum of two acid groups.
  • cobuilders are described, for example, in international patent application WO 95/20029.
  • Another class of substances with cobuilder properties are the phosphonates. These are, in particular, hydroxyalkane or aminoalkane phosphonates. Among the hydroxyalkane phosphonates, 1-hydroxyethane-1J-diphosphonate (HEDP) is of particular importance as a cobuilder.
  • HEDP 1-hydroxyethane-1J-diphosphonate
  • Preferred aminoalkane phosphonates are ethylenediaminetetramethylenephosphonate (EDTMP), diethylenetriaminepentamethylenephosphonate (DTPMP) and their higher homologs. They are preferably in the form of the neutral sodium salts, e.g. B. as the hexasodium salt of EDTMP or as the hepta and octa sodium salt of DTPMP.
  • HEDP is preferably used as the builder from the class of the phosphonates.
  • the aminoalkanephosphonates also have a pronounced ability to bind heavy metals. Accordingly, it may be preferred, particularly if the agents also contain bleach, to use aminoalkanephosphonates, in particular DTPMP, or to use mixtures of the phosphonates mentioned.
  • the amount of builder is usually between 10 and 70% by weight, preferably between 15 and 60% by weight and in particular between 20 and 50% by weight.
  • the amount of builders used depends on the intended use, so that bleach tablets can have higher amounts of builders (for example between 20 and 70% by weight, preferably between 25 and 65% by weight and in particular between 30 and 55% by weight. ), for example detergent tablets (usually 10 to 50% by weight>, preferably 12.5 to 45% by weight and in particular between 17.5 and 37.5% by weight).
  • disintegration aids so-called tablet disintegrants
  • tablet disintegrants or disintegration accelerators are understood as auxiliary substances which are suitable for the rapid Disintegration of tablets in water or gastric juice and release of the pharmaceuticals in an absorbable form.
  • Preferred detergent tablets contain 0.5 to 10% by weight>, preferably 3 to 7% by weight> and in particular 4 to 6% by weight of a disintegration aid, in each case based on the weight of the tablet.
  • Disintegrants based on cellulose are used as preferred disintegrants in the context of the present invention, so that preferred detergent tablets have such a disintegrant based on cellulose in amounts of 0.5 to 10% by weight, preferably 3 to 7% by weight and in particular 4 up to 6% by weight>.
  • Pure cellulose has the formal gross composition (C 6 H 10 O 5 ) n and, formally speaking, represents a ß-1,4-polyacetal of cellobiose, which in turn is made up of two molecules of glucose.
  • Suitable celluloses consist of approximately 500 to 5000 glucose units and consequently have average molecular weights of 50,000 to 500,000.
  • Cellulose-based disintegrants which can be used in the context of the present invention are also cellulose derivatives which can be obtained from cellulose by polymer-analogous reactions.
  • Such chemically modified celluloses include, for example, products from esterifications or etherifications in which hydroxyl hydrogen atoms have been substituted.
  • celluloses in which the hydroxyl groups have been replaced by functional groups which are not bound via an oxygen atom can also be used as cellulose derivatives.
  • cellulose Derivatives are, for example, alkali celluloses, carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC), cellulose esters and ethers and aminocelluloses.
  • the cellulose derivatives mentioned are preferably not used alone as a cellulose-based disintegrant, but are used in a mixture with cellulose.
  • the content of cellulose derivatives in these mixtures is preferably below 50% by weight, particularly preferably below 20% by weight, based on the cellulose-based disintegrant.
  • Pure cellulose which is free of cellulose derivatives is particularly preferably used as the cellulose-based disintegrant.
  • the cellulose used as disintegration aid is preferably not used in finely divided form, but is converted into a coarser form, for example granulated or compacted, before being added to the premixes to be compressed.
  • Detergent tablets which contain disintegrants in granular or optionally cogranulated form are described in German patent application DE 197 10 254 (Henkel). Such moldings are preferred in the context of the present invention.
  • Microcrystalline cellulose can be used as a further cellulose-based disintegrant or as a component of this component.
  • This microcrystalline cellulose is obtained by partial hydrolysis of celluloses under conditions which only attack and completely dissolve the amorphous areas (approx. 30%> of the total cellulose mass) of the celluloses, but leave the crystalline areas (approx. 70%>) undamaged .
  • a subsequent disaggregation of the microfine celluloses resulting from the hydrolysis provides the microcrystalline celluloses, which have primary particle sizes of approximately 5 ⁇ m and can be compacted, for example, to granules with an average particle size of 200 ⁇ m.
  • washable and cleaning-active molded articles is carried out by applying pressure to a mixture to be pressed, which is located in the cavity of a press.
  • a mixture to be tabletted is pressed directly, ie without prior granulation.
  • the advantages of this so-called direct tableting are its simple and inexpensive use, since there are no further process steps and consequently no further systems are required.
  • these advantages are offset by disadvantages.
  • a powder mixture that is to be tabletted directly must have sufficient plastic deformability and have good flow properties; furthermore, it must not show any tendency to segregate during storage, transport and filling of the die.
  • detergent tablets are extremely difficult to master with many substance mixtures, so that direct tableting is not often used, particularly in the production of detergent tablets.
  • the usual way of producing detergent tablets is therefore based on powdery components (“primary particles”), which are agglomerated or granulated by suitable processes to form secondary particles with a larger particle diameter. These granules or mixtures of different granules are then mixed with individual powdery additives and fed to the tableting.
  • the present invention therefore also relates to a process for the production of detergent tablets by compression molding a particulate premix, the alkali and / or alkaline earth metal sulfates and / or carbonates and / or phosphates and / or citrates in amounts of Contains 1 to 20 wt .-%, based on the premix, wherein at least 60 wt .-% of the alkali and / or alkaline earth metal sulfates and / or carbonates and / or phosphates and / or citrates have particle sizes above 600 microns.
  • the use of the alkali metal and / or alkaline earth metal salts mentioned is preferred in a particle size distribution in which more than 60% by weight of the alkali metal and / or alkaline earth metal salts have particle sizes above 600 ⁇ m.
  • Processes which are preferred according to the invention are characterized in that the premix alkali and / or alkaline earth metal sulfates and / or carbonates and / or phosphates and / or citrates in amounts of 2 to 18% by weight, preferably 3 to 15% by weight.
  • %> and in particular from 5 to 10% by weight> and contains at least 80% by weight>, preferably at least 90% by weight and in particular the total amount of the alkali and / or alkaline earth metal sulfates and / or carbonates and / or - phosphates and / or citrates have particle sizes above 600 ⁇ m, preferably at least 60% by weight, preferably at least 65% by weight, particularly preferably at least 70% by weight and in particular at least 75% by weight of the alkali and / or alkaline earth metal sulfates and / or carbonates and / or phosphates and / or citrates have particle sizes in the range from 800 ⁇ m to 1200 ⁇ m. .
  • Preferred detergent tablets in the context of the present invention are obtained by pressing a particulate premix comprising at least one surfactant-containing granulate and at least one subsequently admixed powdery component.
  • the granules containing surfactant can be produced by conventional industrial granulation processes such as compacting, extrusion, mixer granulation, pelletization or fluidized bed granulation. It is advantageous for the later detergent tablets if the premix to be pressed has a bulk density that comes close to that of conventional compact detergents. In particular, it is preferred that the premix to be pressed has a bulk density of at least 500 g / 1, preferably at least 600 g / 1 and in particular above 700 g / 1.
  • the surfactant-containing granules also meet certain particle size criteria.
  • Methods according to the invention are preferred in which the surfactant-containing granules have particle sizes between 100 and 2000 ⁇ m, preferably between 200 and 1800 ⁇ m, particularly preferably between 400 and 1600 ⁇ m and in particular between 600 and 1400 ⁇ m.
  • the surfactant granules preferably also contain carriers which particularly preferably originate from the group of builders. Particularly advantageous processes are characterized in that the surfactant-containing granules contain anionic and / or nonionic surfactants and builders and have total surfactant contents of at least 10% by weight, preferably at least 20% by weight and in particular at least 25% by weight.
  • the premix Before the particulate premix is pressed into detergent tablets, the premix can be "powdered” with finely divided surface treatment agents. This can be advantageous for the nature and physical properties of both the premix (storage, pressing) and the finished detergent tablets. Finely divided powdering agents are well known in the art, mostly zeolites, silicates or other inorganic salts being used. However, the premix is preferably “powdered” with finely divided zeolite, zeolites of the faujasite type being preferred. In the context of the present invention, the term “faujasite-type zeolite” denotes all three zeolites which form the faujasite subgroup of the zeolite structure group 4 (compare Donald W.
  • Mixtures or cocrystallizates of zeolites of the faujasite type with other zeolites which do not necessarily have to belong to the zeolite structural group 4 can also be used as powdering agents, it being advantageous if at least 50% by weight of the powdering agent is used a zeolite of the faujasite type.
  • detergent tablets consist of a particulate premix which contains granular components and subsequently admixed powdery substances, the or one of the subsequently admixed powdery components being a zeolite of the faujasite type with particle sizes below 100 ⁇ m, preferably below 10 ⁇ m and in particular is below 5 ⁇ m and makes up at least 0.2% by weight, preferably at least 0.5% by weight and in particular more than 1% by weight of the premix to be pressed.
  • the premixes to be pressed and thus the detergent tablets according to the invention can contain further ingredients from the group of bleaching agents, bleach activators, disintegration aids, enzymes, pH adjusting agents which are customary in detergents and cleaning agents , Fragrances, perfume carriers, fluorescent agents, dyes, foam inhibitors, silicone oils, anti-redeposition agents, optical brighteners, graying inhibitors, color transfer inhibitors and corrosion inhibitors.
  • bleaching agents that serve as bleaching agents and supply H 2 O 2 in water
  • sodium perborate tetrahydrate and sodium perborate monohydrate are of particular importance.
  • Further bleaching agents that can be used are, for example, sodium percarbonate, peroxypyrophosphates, citrate perhydrates and H 2 O 2 -producing peracid salts or peracids, such as perbenzoates, peroxophthalates, diperazelaic acid, phthaloiminoperacid or diperdodecanedioic acid.
  • Even when using the bleaching agents it is possible to dispense with the use of surfactants and / or builders, so that pure bleach tablets can be produced.
  • bleaching agents from the group of organic bleaching agents can also be used.
  • Typical organic bleaching agents are the diacyl peroxides, such as dibenzoyl peroxide.
  • Other typical organic bleaching agents are peroxy acids, examples of which include alkyl peroxy acids and aryl peroxy acids.
  • Preferred representatives are (a) peroxybenzoic acid and its ring-substituted derivatives, such as alkylperoxybenzoic acids, but also peroxy- ⁇ -naphthoic acid and magnesium monoperphthalate, (b) the aliphatic or substituted aliphatic peroxyacids, such as peroxylauric acid, peroxystearic acid, ⁇ -phthalimidopercapacid [Phthaloiminoperoxyhexanoic acid (PAP)], o-carboxybenzamidoperoxycaproic acid, N-nonenylamidoperadipic acid and N-nonenylamidopersuccinate, and (c) aliphatic and araliphatic peroxydicarboxylic acids, such as 1,12-diperoxycarboxylic acid, 1,9-diperoxyazelaic acid, diperocysebacic acid, diperoxybrassyl acid, the diperoxyphthalic acids, 2-decyl
  • Chlorine or bromine-releasing substances can also be used as bleaching agents in moldings for automatic dishwashing.
  • Suitable materials which release chlorine or bromine include, for example, heterocyclic N-bromo- and N-chloramides, for example trichloroisocyanuric acid, tribromoisocyanuric acid,
  • DICA dichloroisocyanuric acid
  • Hydantoin compounds such as 1,3-dichloro-5,5-dimethylhydanthoin are also suitable.
  • bleach activators can be incorporated into the detergent tablets according to the invention.
  • Bleach activators which can be used are compounds which, under perhydrolysis conditions, give aliphatic peroxocarboxylic acids having preferably 1 to 10 C atoms, in particular 2 to 4 C atoms, and / or optionally substituted perbenzoic acid.
  • Suitable substances are those which carry O- and / or N-acyl groups of the number of carbon atoms mentioned and / or optionally substituted benzoyl groups.
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  • bleach catalysts can also be incorporated into the polymeric body.
  • These substances are bleach-enhancing transition metal salts or transition metal complexes such as Mn, Fe, Co, Ru or Mo salt complexes or carbonyl complexes.
  • Mn, Fe, Co, Ru, Mo, Ti, V and Cu complexes with N-containing tripod ligands as well as Co, Fe, Cu and Ru amine complexes can also be used as bleaching catalysts.
  • Particularly suitable enzymes are those from the classes of hydrolases such as proteases, esterases, lipases or lipolytically active enzymes, amylases, cellulases or other glycosyl hydrolases and mixtures of the enzymes mentioned. All these hydrolases help to remove stains such as protein, fat or starchy stains and graying in the laundry. Cellulases and other glycosyl hydrolases can also help to retain color and increase the softness of the textile by removing pilling and microfibrils. Oxidoreductases can also be used for bleaching or for inhibiting color transfer.
  • hydrolases such as proteases, esterases, lipases or lipolytically active enzymes, amylases, cellulases or other glycosyl hydrolases and mixtures of the enzymes mentioned. All these hydrolases help to remove stains such as protein, fat or starchy stains and graying in the laundry. Cellulases and other glycosyl hydrolases can also help to retain color and increase
  • Bacillus subtilis Bacillus licheniformis
  • Streptomyceus griseus Streptomyceus griseus
  • Coprinus Cinereus and Humicola insolens
  • enzyme-derived active ingredients obtained from their genetically modified variants.
  • Proteases of the subtilisin type and in particular proteases which are obtained from Bacillus lentus are preferably used.
  • Enzyme mixtures for example, from protease and amylase or protease and lipase or lipolytically active enzymes or protease and cellulase or from cellulase and lipase or lipolytically active enzymes or from protease, amylase and lipase or lipolytically active enzymes or protease, lipase or lipolytically active enzymes and cellulase, but in particular protease and / or lipase-containing mixtures or mixtures with lipolytically active enzymes of particular interest.
  • Known cutinases are examples of such lipolytically active enzymes.
  • Peroxidases or oxidases have also proven to be suitable in some cases.
  • Suitable amylases include in particular alpha-amylases, iso-amylases, pullulanases and pectinases.
  • Cellobiohydrolases, endoglucanases and glucosidases, which are also called cellobiases, or mixtures thereof, are preferably used as cellulases. Since different cellulase types differ in their CMCase and avicelase activities, the desired activities can be set by targeted mixtures of the cellulases.
  • the enzymes can be adsorbed on carriers or embedded in coating substances to protect them against premature decomposition.
  • the proportion of the enzymes, enzyme mixtures or enzyme granules can be, for example, about 0J to 5% by weight, preferably 0.5 to about 4.5% by weight.
  • laundry detergent and cleaning product tablets may also contain components which have a positive influence on the oil and fat washability from textiles (so-called soil repellents). This effect becomes particularly clear when a textile is soiled that has already been washed several times beforehand with a detergent according to the invention which contains this oil and fat-dissolving component.
  • the preferred oil and fat-dissolving components include, for example, nonionic cellulose ethers such as methyl cellulose and methyl hydroxypropyl cellulose with a proportion of methoxyl groups from 15 to 30% by weight and of hydroxypropoxyl groups from 1 to 15% by weight, in each case based on the nonionic cellulose ether and the polymers of phthalic acid and / or terephthalic acid or their derivatives known from the prior art, in particular polymers of ethylene terephthalates and / or polyethylene glycol terephthalates or anionically and / or nonionically modified derivatives thereof. Of these, the sulfonated derivatives of phthalic acid and terephthalic acid polymers are particularly preferred.
  • the moldings can contain, as optical brighteners, derivatives of diammostilbenedisulfonic acid or its alkali metal salts. Suitable are, for example, salts of 4,4'-bis (2-anilino-4-mo ⁇ holino-l, 3,5-triazinyl-6-amino) stilbene-2,2'-disulfonic acid or compounds of similar structure which instead of the morpholino- Group carry a diethanolamino group, a methylamino group, an anilino group or a 2-methoxyethylamino group.
  • Brighteners of the substituted diphenylstyryl type may also be present, for example the alkali salts of 4,4'-bis (2-sulfostyryl) diphenyl, 4,4'-bis (4-chloro-3-sulfostyryl) diphenyl, or 4- (4-chlorostyryl) -4 '- (2-sulfostyryl) diphenyl. Mixtures of the aforementioned brighteners can also be used. Dyes and fragrances are added to the detergent tablets according to the invention in order to improve the aesthetic impression of the products and to provide the consumer with a visually and sensorially "typical and distinctive" product in addition to performance.
  • fragrance compounds for example the synthetic products of the ester, ether, aldehyde, ketone, alcohol and hydrocarbon type, can be used as perfume oils or fragrances.
  • Fragrance compounds of the ester type are, for example, benzyl acetate, phenoxyethyl isobutyrate, p-tert.-butylcyclohexyl acetate, linalyl acetate, dimethylbenzylcarbyl acetate, phenylethyl acetate, linalyl benzoate, benzyl formate, ethyl methylphenyl glycinate, allylcyclohexyl benzylatepylpropionate, and
  • the ethers include, for example, benzylethyl ether, the aldehydes, for example, the linear alkanals with 8-18 C atoms, citral, citronellal, citronellyloxyacetaldehyde, cyclamenaldeh
  • Perfume oils of this type can also contain natural fragrance mixtures such as are obtainable from plant sources, for example pine, citrus, jasmine, patchouly, rose or ylang-ylang oil. Also suitable are muscatel, sage oil, chamomile oil, clove oil, lemon balm oil, mint oil, cinnamon leaf oil, linden blossom oil, juniper berry oil, vetiver oil, olibanum oil, galbanum oil and labdanum oil as well as orange blossom oil, neroliol, orange peel oil and sandalwood oil.
  • the dye content of the detergent tablets according to the invention is usually less than 0.01% by weight, while fragrances can make up up to 2% by weight of the total formulation.
  • the fragrances can be incorporated directly into the agents according to the invention, but it can also be advantageous to apply the fragrances to carriers which increase the adhesion of the perfume to the laundry and ensure a long-lasting fragrance of the textiles by slower fragrance release.
  • carrier materials for example, cyclodextrins have proven themselves, the cyclodextrin-perfume complexes additionally being able to be coated with further auxiliaries.
  • the agents according to the invention can be colored with suitable dyes.
  • Preferred dyes the selection of which is not difficult for the person skilled in the art, have a high storage stability and insensitivity to the other ingredients of the compositions and to light, and no pronounced substantivity to textile fibers, in order not to dye them.
  • the molded articles according to the invention are first produced by dry mixing the constituents, which can be wholly or partially pregranulated, and then providing information, in particular feeding them into tablets, whereby conventional methods can be used.
  • the premix is compacted in a so-called die between two punches to form a solid compact. This process, which is briefly referred to as tableting in the following, is divided into four sections: metering, compression (elastic deformation), plastic deformation and ejection.
  • the premix is introduced into the die, the filling quantity and thus the weight and the shape of the molded body being formed being determined by the position of the lower punch and the shape of the pressing tool.
  • the constant dosing, even at high mold throughputs, is preferably achieved by volumetric dosing of the premix.
  • the upper punch touches the premix and lowers further in the direction of the lower punch.
  • the particles of the premix are pressed closer together, the void volume within the filling between the punches continuously decreasing. From a certain position of the upper punch (and thus from a certain pressure on the premix), the plastic deformation begins, in which the particles flow together and the molded body is formed.
  • the premix particles are also crushed and sintering of the premix occurs at even higher pressures.
  • the phase of the elastic see deformation shortened ever further, so that the resulting molded body may have more or less large cavities.
  • the finished molded body is pressed out of the die by the lower punch and transported away by subsequent transport devices. At this point in time, only the weight of the molded body is finally determined, since the compacts can still change their shape and size due to physical processes (stretching, crystallographic effects, cooling, etc.).
  • Tableting takes place in commercially available tablet presses, which can in principle be equipped with single or double punches. In the latter case, not only is the upper stamp used to build up pressure, the lower stamp also moves towards the upper stamp during the pressing process, while the upper stamp presses down.
  • eccentric tablet presses are preferably used, in which the punch or stamps are fastened to an eccentric disc, which in turn is mounted on an axis with a certain rotational speed. The movement of these rams is comparable to that of a conventional four-stroke engine.
  • the pressing can take place with one upper and one lower punch, but several punches can also be attached to one eccentric disk, the number of die holes being correspondingly increased.
  • the throughputs of eccentric presses vary depending on the type from a few hundred to a maximum of 3000 tablets per hour.
  • rotary tablet presses are selected in which a larger number of dies is arranged in a circle on a so-called die table.
  • the number of matrices varies between 6 and 55 depending on the model, although larger matrices are also commercially available.
  • Each die on the die table is assigned an upper and lower punch, and again the pressure can be built up actively only by the upper or lower punch, but also by both stamps.
  • the die table and the stamps move about a common vertical axis, the stamps being brought into the positions for filling, compaction, plastic deformation and ejection by means of rail-like cam tracks during the rotation.
  • these cam tracks are before supporting low-pressure pieces, low-tension rails and lifting tracks.
  • the die is filled via a rigidly arranged feed device, the so-called filling shoe, which is connected to a storage container for the premix.
  • the pressing pressure on the premix can be individually adjusted via the pressing paths for the upper and lower punches, the pressure being built up by rolling the punch shaft heads past adjustable pressure rollers.
  • Rotary presses can also be provided with two filling shoes to increase the throughput, with only a semicircle having to be run through to produce a tablet.
  • several filling shoes are arranged one behind the other without the slightly pressed first layer being ejected before further filling.
  • jacket and dot tablets can also be produced in this way, which have an onion-shell-like structure, the top side of the core or the core layers not being covered in the case of the dot tablets and thus remaining visible.
  • Rotary tablet presses can also be equipped with single or multiple tools, so that, for example, an outer circle with 50 and an inner circle with 35 holes can be used simultaneously for pressing.
  • the throughputs of modern rotary tablet presses are over one million molded articles per hour.
  • Tableting machines suitable in the context of the present invention are available, for example, from the companies Apparatebau Holzwarth GbR, Asperg, Wilhelm Fette GmbH, Schwarzenbek, Hofer GmbH, Weil, Hörn & Noack Pharmatechnik GmbH, Worms, LMA Ve ⁇ ackungssysteme GmbH Viersen, KILIAN, Cologne, KOMAGE, Kell am See, KORSCH Pressen AG, Berlin, and Romaco GmbH, Worms.
  • Other providers include Dr. Herbert Pete, Vienna (AU), Mapag Maschinenbau AG, Bern (CH), BWI Manesty, Liveeool (GB), I. Holand Ltd., Nottingham (GB), Courtoy NV, Halle (BE / LU) and Me- diopharm Kamnik (SI).
  • the hydraulic double-pressure press HPF 630 from LAEIS is particularly suitable.
  • D. Tableting tools are, for example, from Adams Tablettierwerkmaschinen, Dresden, Wilhelm Fett GmbH, Schwarzenbek, Klaus Hammer, Solingen, Herber%> Söhne GmbH, Hamburg, Hofer GmbH, Weil, Hörn & Noack, Pharmatechnik GmbH, Worms, Ritter Pharamatechnik GmbH, Hamburg, Romaco, GmbH, Worms and Notter negligencebau, Tamm available.
  • Other providers are e.g. Senss AG, Reinach (CH) and Medicopharm, Kamnik (SI).
  • the molded body can be manufactured in a predetermined spatial shape and a predetermined size. Practically all sensibly manageable configurations come into consideration as the spatial form, for example the design as a blackboard, the bars or bars shape, cubes, cuboids and corresponding room elements with flat side surfaces and in particular cylindrical configurations with a circular or oval cross section. This last embodiment covers the presentation form from the tablet to compact cylinder pieces with a ratio of height to diameter above 1.
  • the portioned compacts can each be designed as separate individual elements that correspond to the predetermined dosage of the detergents and / or cleaning agents. It is also possible, however, to form compacts which connect a plurality of such mass units in one compact, the portioned smaller units being easy to separate, in particular by predetermined predetermined breaking points.
  • the portioned compacts as tablets, in cylinder or cuboid form can be expedient, with a diameter / height ratio in the range from about 0.5: 2 to 2: 0.5 is preferred.
  • Commercial hydraulic presses, eccentric presses or rotary presses are suitable devices, in particular for the production of such pressed articles.
  • the spatial shape of another embodiment of the molded body is adapted in its dimensions to the detergent dispenser of commercially available household washing machines, so that the molded body can be metered directly into the dispenser without metering aid, where it dissolves during the dispensing process.
  • the detergent tablets without problems using a metering aid and is preferred in the context of the present invention.
  • Another preferred molded body that can be produced has a plate-like or plate-like structure with alternating thick long and thin short segments, so that individual segments of this "bolt" at the predetermined breaking points, which represent the short thin segments, broken off and into the Machine can be entered.
  • This principle of the "bar-shaped" shaped body detergent can also be realized in other geometric shapes, for example vertically standing triangles, which are connected to one another only on one of their sides along the side.
  • the various components are not pressed into a uniform tablet, but that shaped bodies are obtained which have several layers, that is to say at least two layers. It is also possible that these different layers have different dissolving speeds. This can result in advantageous application properties of the molded body.
  • the layer structure of the molded body can take place in a stack-like manner, with the inner layer (s) already loosening at the edges of the molded body when the outer layers have not yet been completely removed, but it is also possible for the inner layer (s) to be completely encased ) can be achieved by the layer (s) lying further outwards, which leads to the premature dissolution of components of the inner layer (s).
  • a molded body consists of at least three layers, i.e. two outer and at least one inner layer, at least one peroxy bleaching agent being contained in at least one of the inner layers, while in the case of the stacked molded body the two outer layers and in the shell-shaped molded body the outermost layers, however, are free of peroxy bleach. Furthermore, it is also possible to spatially separate peroxy bleaching agents and any bleach activators and / or enzymes that may be present in a molded body.
  • Such multilayer molded bodies have the advantage that they can be used not only via a dispensing chamber or via a metering device which is added to the washing liquor; rather, in such cases it is also possible to put the molded body into direct contact with the textiles in the machine without the risk of bleaching from bleaching agents and the like. Similar effects can also be achieved by coating individual constituents of the detergent and cleaning agent composition to be treated or the entire molded article.
  • the bodies to be coated can be coated, for example, with aqueous solutions or emulsions be sprinkled, or get a coating via the process of melt coating.
  • colored particles can also be incorporated into the molded body as optical differentiation.
  • a white molded body can be colored homogeneously with colored, for example blue, red, green, yellow, etc., speckles.
  • the amount of colored speckles and their particle size should be adapted to the rest of the premix which forms the shaped body matrix from which the speckles emerge optically.
  • a tableting mixture has a particle size range of 200 to 1800 ⁇ m
  • speckles that move in the same or coarser particle size range only achieve a homogeneous distribution above a threshold value of> 6% by weight, based on the tablet composition. Smaller quantities then lead to an optically unsightly accumulation of speckles in some shaped body areas, while other areas remain almost unspotted.
  • a homogeneous distribution of the speckles is achieved with 2 to 3% by weight of colored speckle particles if these particle sizes have between 200 and 800 ⁇ m.
  • a homogeneous speckling which can be achieved in the manner described above by adapting the speckle particle size and quantity to the premix, also makes it possible to visualize a layer structure of the shaped bodies.
  • two- or multi-layer molded bodies can be produced, one layer of which is undyed, while a second layer is highlighted by sprinkles.
  • This concept can also be applied, for example, to three-layer tablets in which one layer is undyed, the second is speckled and the third is colored through.
  • cores or other sub-areas can also be colored or sprinkled into core-coated tablets, ring-core tablets or point tablets become. The person skilled in the art has hardly any limits when varying these implementation options for optical differentiation.
  • the breaking strength of cylindrical shaped bodies can be determined via the measured variable of the diametrical breaking load. This can be determined according to
  • ⁇ stands for the diametral fracture stress (DFS) in Pa
  • P is the force in N, which leads to the pressure exerted on the molded body, which causes the molded body to break
  • D is the molded body diameter in meters and t the height of the molded body.
  • Granulation in a 50-liter ploughshare mixer from Lödige produced granules containing tensides (for composition, see Table 1), which was used as the basis for a particulate premix. Following the granulation, the granules were dried in a fluidized bed apparatus from Glatt at a supply air temperature of 60 ° C. over a period of 30 minutes. After drying, fine particles ⁇ 0.4 mm and coarse particles> 1.6 mm were screened off.
  • This premix was prepared by mixing the surfactant-containing granules with bleach, bleach activator and other processing components.
  • Sodium sulfate (EI / VI), sodium citrate (E2 / V2), sodium tripolyphosphate (E3 / V3), sodium carbonate (E4 / V4) and a 50:50 mixture of sodium sulfate and sodium carbonate (E5 / V5) were each once according to the invention as further processing components mixed in a coarse form and for comparison in a finer form.
  • the sodium salts were compacted into a slipper on an Alexanderwerk compacting roller. Then the slugs were ground on a sieve granulator. The ground scoop was sieved at 0.6 mm. Fine and coarse fractions were each added to the pre-mix to be ve ⁇ ress 10%, after which the pre-mixes to tablets (diameter: 44 mm, height: 22 mm, weight: 37.5 g) were carried out in a Korsch eccentric press. The compression pressure was adjusted so that three series of molded bodies were obtained (El, El ', El "to E5, E5', E5" or VI, VI ', VI "to V5, V5', V5"), that differ in their hardness.
  • composition of the premixes to be treated (and thus the shaped body) is shown in Table 2, the particle size distribution of the sodium salts added is given in Table 3 (according to the invention) and Table 4 (comparative examples), and the particle size distribution of the other treatment components is shown in Table 5.
  • Table 1 Composition of the surfactant granules [% by weight]
  • the hardness of the tablets was measured by deforming the tablet until it broke, the force acting on the side surfaces of the tablet and the maximum force which the tablet withstood being determined.
  • the tablet was placed in a beaker with water (600 ml of water, temperature 30 ° C.) and the time until the tablet disintegrated completely.

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L'invention concerne des détergents et nettoyants sous forme de corps moulés, qui contiennent comme constituants de préparation des substances du groupe des sulfates alcalins et/ou alcalino-terreux et/ou des carbonates alcalins et/ou alcalino-terreux et/ou des phosphates alcalins et/ou alcalino-terreux et/ou des citrates alcalins et/ou alcalino-terreux. Ces corps moulés présentent des propriétés avantageuses en termes d'application technique, si au moins 60 % en poids des sels alcalins et/ou alcalino-terreux cités présentent une dimension particulaire supérieure à 600 νm.
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