Kao Corporation

Kouichi Hatano

Hiroyuki Yamashita

Mutsumi Kuroda

Hidenori Shirai

Hiroyuki Kondo

Mikio Sakaguchi

Fumio Sai

Kouji Toyoda

Hiroshi Inada

Junichi Ishikawa

Masaaki Suzuki

Katsuo Takahashi

Katsunori Nakano

Takashi Senzaki

Hiroshi Ohtsuka

An article conveying devicein which a floor surfaceof each of a plurality of fixed floorsis arranged so as to form a descending slope towards a downstream side in a conveying direction with respect to each other, each of a plurality of moving floorsis adjacently arranged on a side in the conveying direction with respect to each fixed floor, and a raising/lowering operation of simultaneously positioning the respective floor surfaceof each moving floorat a high position and a low position with respect to the floor surfaceof the adjacent fixed flooris repeated to arrange the floor surfaceof each moving floorpositioned at the high position so as to form a descending slope towards the downstream side in the conveying direction with respect to each other.

Article conveying device

There is provided an article alignment apparatusincluding an article alignment device for aligning orientations of articles by arranging two alignershaving cylindrical surfaces, rotating each of the alignerswhile keeping it at a predetermined inclination with respect to a horizontal direction, placing the articles on cylindrical outer surfaces of the two aligners, and carrying the articles from one side to the other side, in which protrusionsare provided on the surfaces of the aligners

Article alignment apparatus

To provide a nonionic powdery detergent free from oozing of a liquid nonionic surfactant at ambient temperature and having excellent powder fluidity and non-caking properties and a solubility which is not deteriorated with time. The nonionic powdery detergent composition comprises (a) 12 to 35% by weight of a nonionic surfactant having a melting point of not higher than 40.degree. C. and an HLB in the range of 9.0 to 16.0, (b) 10 to 60% by weight of a crystalline aluminosilicate and (c) 5 to 20% by weight of an amorphous oil-absorbing carrier containing at least 30% by weight of silicon (in terms of SiO.sub.2) versus the weight of said carrier in an anhydrous state and having an oil-absorbing capacity of at least 80 ml/100 g, said carrier giving a dispersion with a pH of at least 9 or being soluble in a 2% aqueous NaOH solution in an amount of 0.5 g or below.

Nonionic powdery detergent composition containing an aluminosilicate

A process for producing nonionic detergent granules having a bulk density of from 0.6 to 1.2 g/ml is disclosed, which comprises the following steps (1) to (3): (1) mixing a detergent material comprising a nonionic surfactant; (2) granulating a mixture obtained in said step (1) by agitating in an agitating mixer provided at the center position thereof with a rotation shaft having an agitation impeller with a clearance between the agitation impeller and an inner wall of the mixer, wherein the agitation impeller agitates the mixture to form an adhesion layer of said mixture on said inner wall of said mixer so as to increase a bulk density of granules of the mixture; and (3) mixing the granules obtained in said step (2) with fine particles to thereby coat the surface of the granules with the fine particles. The nonionic detergent granules containing a nonionic surfactant in a high content and having high bulk density and excellent powder fluidity and non-caking property can be produced in the process of the present invention with less suffering from restriction in the composition.

Process for producing nonionic detergent granules

A stable sodium percarbonate particle that at least the inside of the particle is penetrated and coated with a borate and a process for preparing the same are disclosed. The sodium percarbonate particle of the invention is preparesd by subjecting a dried sodium percarbonate particle and an aqueous solution of a borate to solid-liquid mixing and then drying the mixture.

Stable sodium percarbonate particle and process for preparing same

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Wakayama, Japan

Kouichi Hatano