Multi-Application Insect Repellent Additive
OwnerStanley Bak Hang Poon, Michael Tsang Ming Choiinventors
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Abstract
A method of adding a multi-application insect repellent additive (hereafter, “the additive”) includes the steps of: providing the additive, immersing a textile in a fluid medium including the additive within a laundry-cleaning apparatus, disseminating the additive throughout the fluid medium and the textile, partially removing the fluid medium from the textile and drying the textile. After completing these steps, the additive is retained by the textile. In the disclosed embodiment, the additive may be formed of permethrin, encapsulated natural extracts, and or other disclosed formulations.
Claims15
A method of adding insect repellent to a textile comprising:
- providing an insect repelling additive;
- immersing a textile in a fluid medium including the insect repelling additive;
- disseminating the insect repelling additive throughout the fluid medium;
- partially removing the fluid medium from the textile;
- drying the textile,
- wherein the insect repelling additive is retained by the textile.
A method of producing an insect repellent composition, comprising steps:
- (a) adding substantially 0.05× of benzisothiazolinone to substantially 45.00× of polyethylene glycol (PEG) 200 with stirring;
- (b) adding substantially 20.00× of PEG400 and substantially 5.00× of PEG600 with stirring;
- (c) adding substantially 20.00× of permethrin;
- (d) adding substantially 10.00× of TO5, and
- wherein X is a unit of weight and steps (a), (b), (c) and (d) are combined to form a homogeneous mixture.
A method of repelling insects comprising:
- providing an insect repelling additive formed of substantially 0.50× of permethrin, 2.00× of TO5, 40.00× of ethanol, 40.00× of PEG200, 2.50× of plant extracts, 15.00× of deionized water;
- applying the additive to an object or a person, and
- wherein X is a unit of weight.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.