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Granted Patent B2
US 10,138,445 · App. 15/192,057 · Granted Nov 27, 2018

Cleaning product

Inventors: Wesley Yvonne Pieter Boers (Antwerp, BE); Peter Vancampenhout (Berg, BE); Denis Alfred Gonzales (Brussels, BE); Aicha Dkidak (Brussels, BE); Jean-Luc Philippe Bettiol (Etterbeek, BE)
Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
C11D17/0043B08B3/003B08B3/08C11D1/22C11D1/29C11D1/75C11D1/825C11D1/83C11D1/94C11D3/10C11D3/2068C11D3/222C11D3/43C11D11/0023C11D17/041C11D1/72
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Patent No.
US 10,138,445
App. No.
15/192,057
Granted
Nov 27, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

A cleaning product having a spray dispenser and a cleaning composition suitable for spraying, the composition housed in the spray dispenser wherein the composition includes: i. 5% to 15% by weight of the composition of a specific surfactant system; and ii. a specific glycol ether solvent.

Claims (36)

1. A cleaning product comprising a spray dispenser and a cleaning composition suitable for spraying, the composition housed in the spray dispenser wherein the composition comprises:

i. about 5% to about 15% by weight of the composition of a surfactant system comprising:

ii. about 40% to about 90% by weight of the surfactant system of a non-ionic surfactant;

iii. about 10 to about 60% by weight of the surfactant system of a co-surfactant selected from anionic, amphoteric, zwitteronic and mixtures thereof;

iv. a glycol ether solvent selected from the group consisting of glycol ethers of Formula I: R 1O(R2O)nR3, Formula II: R4O(R5O)nR6 and mixtures thereof

wherein

R1 is a linear or branched C4, C5 or C6 alkyl or phenyl, R2 is ethyl or isopropyl,

R3 is hydrogen or methyl and n is 1, 2 or 3

R4 is n-propyl or isopropyl, R5 is isopropyl, R6 is hydrogen or methyl and n is 1, 2 or 3;

v. an alkanol amine; and

vi. bicarbonate.

2. A product according to claim 1 wherein the non-ionic surfactant is an alkyl ethoxylated surfactant, comprising from about 9 to about 15 carbon atoms in its alkyl chain and from about 5 to about 12 units of ethylene oxide per mole of alcohol.

3. A product according to claim 1 wherein the co-surfactant comprises an amphoteric surfactant and the amphoteric surfactant is an amine oxide surfactant.

4. A product according to claim 1 wherein the co-surfactant comprises an anionic surfactant and wherein the anionic surfactant comprises an alkyl benzene sulfonate.

5. A product according to claim 1 wherein the amphoteric surfactant and the anionic surfactant are in a weight ratio of from about 2:1 to about 1:2.

6. A product according to claim 1 wherein the non-ionic surfactant and the co-surfactant are present in a weight ratio of about 4:1 to about 1:1.

7. A product according to claim 1 wherein the composition comprises from about 1% to about 7% by weight of the composition of the glycol ether solvent.

8. A product according to claim 1 wherein the glycol ether solvent is selected from the group consisting of comprises dipropylene glycol n-butyl ether, propyleneglycol n-butyl ether and mixtures thereof.

9. A product according to claim 1 wherein the composition has a pH from about 9.5 to about 11.5 as measured at 10% solution in distilled water at 20° C. and a reserve alkalinity of from about 0.1 to about 1 expressed as g NAOH/100 m1 of composition at a pH of 10.

10. A product according to claim 1 wherein the composition has a reserve alkalinity of from about 0.1 to about 0.5 expressed as g NAOH/100 m1 of composition at a pH of 10.

11. A product according claim 1 wherein the surfactant system and the solvent are in a weight ratio of from about 4:1 to about 1:1.

12. A product according to claim 1 wherein the composition comprises:

i) about 4 to about 10% by weight of the composition of an non-ionic surfactant;

ii) about 1 to about 5% by weight of the composition of a mixture of amine oxide surfactant and alkyl benzene sulfonate; and

iii) about 3% to about 8% by weight of the composition of dipropylene glycol n-butyl ether.

13. A product according to claim 1 wherein the composition further comprises a chelant.

14. A product according to claim 1 wherein the composition further comprises a further solvent selected from the group consisting of C2-C4 alcohols, C2-C4 polyols, poly alkylene glycol and mixtures thereof.

15. A product according to claim 1 wherein the composition has a high shear viscosity (at 10,000 s-1) of from about 1 to about 20 mPa s at 20° C. as measured using the viscosity test method defined herein.

16. A product according to claim 1 wherein the composition has a low shear (100 s-1) to high shear viscosity ratio of from about 10:1 to about 1.5:1 at 20° C. as measured using the viscosity test method defined herein.

17. A product according to claim 1 wherein the composition comprises xanthan gum.

18. A method of cleaning soiled dishware using the product according to claim 1 comprising the steps of:

a) optionally pre-wetting the soiled dishware;

b) spraying the cleaning composition onto the soiled dishware;

c) optionally adding water to the soiled dishware during a period of time;

d) optionally scrubbing the dishware; and

e) rinsing the dishware.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 21, 2016
From: BOERS, WESLEY YVONNE PIETER; VANCAMPENHOUT, PETER; GONZALES, DENIS ALFRED; DKIDAK, AICHA; BETTIOL, JEAN-LUC PHILIPPE
To: THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY
Reel/Frame 040393/0094 →
Priority Claims (1)
EP 15176533 · Jul 13, 2015 · regional
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20170015960A1 · Jan 19, 2017