The Procter Gamble Company

The Proctor 'gamble Company

Robert H Callicott

Stephen H Iding

Michael August Brunsman

William Cornelisse, Jr

A process for making improved synthetic surfactant flakes from a water-wet paste which is dried on a heated roll drum dryer. Hot surfactant flakes are made from drum drying a water-wet paste containing sodium alkyl sulfate (AS), sodium alkyl benzene sulfonate (LAS), and water-soluble inorganic salts, preferably sodium chloride and magnesium chloride blends. The hot flakes are cooled in a low moisture environment having a dewpoint of up to 10.degree. C., e.g., under a dry nitrogen or dry air blanket. The low moisture environment prevents undesirable, insidious hydration and stabilizes the AS/LAS flakes. The stable AS/LAS surfactant flakes can be used to make more economical, more processable, firmer improved surfactant cakes. One advantage is that cakes made with the flakes of this invention can contain larger amounts of perfume than cakes made with comparable AS/LAS flakes cooled above said dewpoint.

Synthetic surfactant flakes and process for making them

Composition to inhibit the staining of water-contacting surfaces, such as those in a toilet bowl, which is caused by manganese present in household water in the presence of an oxidizing material. Manganese staining is inhibited by supplying to the water 0.1 to 10 ppm of a substance selected from sodium polyacrylates and ethylene-maleic anhydride copolymers.

Composition to inhibit staining of porcelain surfaces by manganese

Solid cake compositions comprising three essential components: polyethylene oxide resin, a nonsolvent resin coating liquid, preferably a perfume, and a surfactant. The components are mixed to form an extrudable mass and the mass is extruded into a log. The log is then cut or sliced into individual cakes. The compositions have reduced gelling characteristics, which reduce the tendency of the resin to form a gel when the cake is contacted with water. The cakes are useful in dispensers which are employed in the flush tank of a toilet to automatically dispense chemicals to the flush water. The polyethylene oxide resin dispensed into the wastewater minimizes aerosolization of the wastewater which occurs when the toilet is flushed.

Polyethylene oxide cake with reduced gelling for flush toilet wastewater

Method and composition to inhibit the staining of water-contacting surfaces, such as those in a toilet bowl, which is caused by manganese present in household water in the presence of an oxidizing material. Manganese staining is inhibited by supplying to the water 0.1 to 10 ppm of a substance selected from sodium polyacrylates and ethylenemaleic anhydride copolymers. Compositions are also described in the context of an automatic toilet tank dispenser which provides sufficient quantities of the above materials in solution to inhibit manganese staining of toilet bowl surfaces.

Method and composition to inhibit staining of porcelain surfaces by

A passive dosing dispenser for issuing, for example, a volume of a toilet tank additive solution into a toilet tank as the water is draining therefrom while the toilet is flushing. A preferred dispenser comprises a product chamber for containing a quantity of a solid type product which can be dissolved in water to form a toilet tank additive product solution, a solution reservoir for containing a quantity of said solution in fluid communication with said product chamber, an inlet/discharge conduit having its lowermost end in fluid communication with said solution reservoir and its uppermost end in fluid communication with a syphon tube, a first air trap disposed adjacent said inlet/discharge conduit for trapping an air bubble that is used for isolating said product solution from the toilet tank water in the syphon tube during quiescent periods, a second air trap disposed adjacent the syphon tube for retaining the air bubble while the water is draining from the toilet tank during flushing, a discharge reservoir disposed at the outlet end of the syphon tube to retard the discharge of the toilet tank additive product solution so that the discharge requires a predetermined period of time, and an air vent in fluid communication with the solution reservoir and the product chamber.

Passive dosing dispenser employing captive air bubble to provide product

Method and composition to inhibit the staining of water-contacting surfaces, such as those in a toilet bowl, which is caused by manganese present in household water in the presence of an oxidizing material. Manganese staining is inhibited by supplying to the water 0.1 to 10 ppm of a partially hydrolyzed polyacrylamide material. Compositions are also described in the context of an automatic toilet tank dispenser which provides sufficient quantities of the above materials in solution to inhibit manganese staining of toilet bowl surfaces.

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West Chester, OH, United States of America

Robert H Callicott