IP Library Granted Patent US 12673813
Granted Patent B2
US 12673813 · App. 18/280,237 · Granted Jul 7, 2026

Washing agent presentation form

Inventors: Mareile Job (Leverkusen, DE); Matthias Sunder (Düsseldorf, DE); Marouane Jaafour (Willich, DE); Arno Düffels (Düsseldorf, DE); Steffen Ristau (Düsseldorf, DE)
Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
B65D85/54C11D17/0039C11D17/04
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 12673813
App. No.
18/280,237
Granted
Jul 7, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

A washing agent presentation form includes a cardboard outer packaging having a bottom surface, a top surface, and side walls located between the bottom surface and the top surface, and cuboidal washing agent shaped bodies. The outer packaging has a fill level of from 85 vol. % to 99 vol. % and at least one of the side walls of the outer packaging has a cavity with a volume that is at least 10 vol. % of the volume of the side wall.

Claims (23)

1 . A washing agent presentation form, comprising:

an outer packaging made of cardboard and having a bottom surface, a top surface, and side walls located between the bottom surface and the top surface; and

cuboidal washing agent shaped bodies in a sorted arrangement within the outer packaging, wherein:

the outer packaging has a fill level of 85 vol % to 99 vol %,

the cuboidal washing agent shaped bodies have a volume expansion of from 8 vol. % to 18 vol. %, at 2 weeks, 35° C., and 80% relative humidity, and

at least one of the side walls of the outer packaging defines at least one cavity having a volume that is at least 10 vol % of the volume of the at least one of the side walls.

2 . The washing agent presentation form of claim 1 , wherein the fill level of the outer packaging is 88 vol % to 99 vol %.

3 . The washing agent presentation form of claim 1 , wherein the cardboard is corrugated cardboard, and the at least one cavity is at least one corrugation.

4 . The washing agent presentation form of claim 1 , wherein each of at least two of the side walls of the outer packaging defines at least one cavity having a volume that is at least 10 vol % of the volume of the respective side wall.

5 . The washing agent presentation form of claim 4 , wherein each of the side walls of the outer packaging defines at least one cavity having a volume that is at least 10 vol % of the volume of the respective side wall.

6 . The washing agent presentation form of claim 1 , wherein the volume of the at least one cavity is at least 20 vol % of the volume of the at least one of the side walls.

7 . The washing agent presentation form of claim 1 , wherein the cuboidal washing agent shaped bodies have a water absorption of over 20 mg/g at 2 weeks, 35° C., and 80% relative humidity.

8 . The washing agent presentation form of claim 7 , wherein the cuboidal washing agent shaped bodies have a water absorption of over 30 mg/g at 2 weeks, 35° C., and 80% relative humidity.

9 . The washing agent presentation form of claim 1 , wherein each of the cuboidal washing agent shaped bodies is covered by a film.

10 . The washing agent presentation form of claim 9 , wherein the film comprises a polyvinyl alcohol or a copolymer of polyvinyl alcohol.

11 . The washing agent presentation form of claim 1 , wherein the cuboidal washing agent shaped bodies are not covered by a film.

12 . The washing agent presentation form of claim 2 , wherein the fill level of the outer packaging is 92 vol % to 99 vol %.

13 . The washing agent presentation form of claim 6 , wherein the volume of the at least one cavity is at least 40 vol % of the volume of the at least one of the side walls.

14 . The washing agent presentation form of claim 1 , wherein:

each of the cuboidal washing agent shaped bodies has a lower face, an upper face, and a lateral face connecting the lower face and the upper face,

a diagonal of the lower face is more than twice a height of the lateral face, and

the lower face of each of the cuboidal washing agent shaped bodies rests directly on and plane-parallel to the bottom surface of the outer packaging.

15 . The washing agent presentation form of claim 14 , wherein the diagonal of the lower face is more than four times the height of the lateral face.