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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 19, 2000
Neil James Gordon, Strombeek-Bever, BE;
Marc François Theophile Evers, Strombeek-Bever, BE;
The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Abstract
A fabric softening product which is a composition or an article for application to fibrous materials so that a fabric softening component thereof is deposited on the fibrous materials and softens the same, the fabric softening component comprising at least one higher aliphatic acid ester selected from the group consisting of: I) an ester having formula (a) wherein R , R , R and R may be the same or different and are H, —(—CH ) OR or —(—CH ) CH ; R is H, —OCR , -|-(—CH —)— O-|- H or -|-(—CH —)— O-|- OCR and —OCR is a higher fatty acid acyl group having 8 to 24 carbon atoms; x is an integer from 0 to 3, y is an integer from 0 to 4, m is an integer from 1 to 3, and n is an integer from 1 to 10; with the proviso (1) that only two of R , R , R and R may be H or —(—CH ) CH and (2) that there be at least 2 higher fatty acid acyl groups; II) an oligomer of I); and III) an ester having the formula: R —O-|-(—CH —)— O-|- R wherein R and R may be the same or different and are H or —OCR , a is an integer from 1 to 3, b is an integer from 1 to 20 and —OCR has the meaning ascribed above; with the proviso that only one of R and R may be H; and a dispersing agent therefor.