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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 1985
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1982
Applicant:
Inventors:
Claude Eckhardt, Riedisheim, FR;
Gerd Holzle, Liestal, CH;
Assignee:
Ciba-Geigy Corporation, Ardsley, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C09B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
2602422 ; 2602451 ; 26024573 ; 26024576 ; 26024579 ; 2602458 ;
Abstract
The invention discloses fabric conditioning compositions which contain, as bleach photoactivator, an aluminium or zinc phthalocyanine which is substituted by cationic water-solubilizing groups, and also cationic fabric conditioners such as cationic surfactants, softeners, antistatic agents, fluorescent whitening agents and/or microbicides. The invention also provides a method of washing, rinsing and bleaching fabrics utilizing the compositions of the invention, as well as novel aluminium and zinc phthalocyanines which contain quaternary ammonium groups and ternary sulfonium groups as substituents.