Water-soluble automatic dishwashing detergent pouch
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsLinsey Sarah Fuller, Lindsay Suzanne Bewick, Neil Joseph Lant, Robert William John Sterry
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Abstract
A water-soluble automatic dishwashing detergent pouch includes an automatic dishwashing detergent composition that is enclosed by a water-soluble film. The automatic dishwashing detergent composition includes from about 1.0 g to about 20 g dipicolinic acid and/or salt thereof; and from about 0.1 g to about 5.0 g polyepoxy succinic acid polymer. A method of washing dishware in an automatic dishwashing machine includes contacting the pouch with dirty dishware in an automatic dishwashing machine in the presence of water.
Claims14
A water-soluble automatic dishwashing detergent pouch, wherein the pouch comprises an automatic dishwashing detergent composition that is enclosed by a water-soluble film, wherein the automatic dishwashing detergent composition comprises:
- (a) from about 1.0 g to about 20 g of dipicolinic acid and/or salt thereof;
- and
- (b) from about 0.1 g to about 5.0 g of polyepoxy succinic acid polymer, wherein the polyepoxy succinic acid polymer has the structure:
- wherein:
- R1 and R2 are independently selected from H, C1-C6 alkyl, —OH, —COOM,
- M is selected from H, Na, K, NH4, or substituted ammonium,
- Y is selected from —OH, —OR′, —NH2, —NHR′, —NR′2, in which R′ is selected from C1-C6 alkyl, and
- n is from about 2 to about 20.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.