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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 1978
Filed:
Jun. 01, 1976
John R Powers, Mount Pleasant, SC (US);
Frances C Miller, Charleston, SC (US);
Westvaco Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are alkaline baths for scouring textiles containing as a cleaning composition at least 0.05% of a mixture of a nonionic surfactant and a polycarboxylic acid or salt thereof of the formula ##STR1## wherein x and y are integers from 3 to 9, x and y together equal 12, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and COOM with at least one of R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 being COOM, and wherein M is a member of the group consisting of hydrogen, sodium, potassium, lithium and ammonium, the proportion of nonionic surfactant to polycarboxylic acid or salt thereof being between about 1:0.4 and about 1:3.