WASHING AND CLEANSING COMPOSITION

• Main Authors: BADER E,DT, HASCHKE H,DT, KERSCHNER E,DT, KUZEL P,DT, HUFNAGEL A,DT, KRUGER H,DT
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 10.12.1974
• Subjects: ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE OILS, FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES AND WAXES; ARRANGEMENTS OR ADAPTATIONS OF HEATING, COOLING, VENTILATING,OR OTHER AIR-TREATING DEVICES SPECIALLY FOR PASSENGER OR GOODSSPACES OF VEHICLES; CANDLES; CHEMISTRY; DETERGENT COMPOSITIONS; DETERGENTS; FATTY ACIDS THEREFROM; METALLURGY; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; RECOVERY OF GLYCEROL; RESIN SOAPS; SOAP OR SOAP-MAKING; TRANSPORTING; USE OF SINGLE SUBSTANCES AS DETERGENTS; VEHICLES IN GENERAL

The builder compound in a washing composition or detergent consists at least in part of linear or cross-linked polymer or salt thereof which polymer in the main chain has predominantly carbon-to-carbon bonds and wherein the units predominantly have the formulae AND WHEREIN A MINOR AMOUNT, RELATIVE TO THE AMOUNT OF UNITS (I) and (II), of units of the type MAY BE PRESENT AND WHEREIN R and R1 are the same or different and are alkyl having 1 to 6 carbon atoms or hydrogen and wherein R1 may also be chlorine and wherein A is hydrogen or one valence of a monovalent or polyvalent metal or is ammonium, the said units I, II and IV being arranged in random sequence and the average frequency of the units being such as to provide for a ratio of carboxyl or carboxylate groups to hydroxyl groups between 1.1 and 16 and the minimum degree of polymerization being 3, the said polymers being obtained by oxidative polymerization of acrolein or oxidative copolymerization of (a) acrolein with (b) acrylic acid, an alkyl acrylic acid, a halogenoacrylic acid or an unsaturated polycarboxylic acid.