N-substituted short chain carboxamides as antistatic agents for laundered fabrics
AssigneeColgate-Palmolive Company
InventorRobert A. Bauman
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Abstract
Short chain acyl derivatives of long chain aliphatic amines useful as non-yellowing antistatic agents for laundered fabrics, detergent compositions containing an effective antistatic amount of said amide and a method of protecting fabrics against acquiring static electricity by contacting fabrics with said composition during laundering. These compounds provide antistatic protection without reducing optical brightener performance of the detergent composition.
Claims12
An antistatic composition for laundering fabrics comprising about 2-25% by weight of a carboxamide antistatic agent substituted on the nitrogen atom and having the formula:
- RNHCOR'
- wherein R is a secondary aliphatic hydrocarbon chain containing at least 8 carbons and R' is a hydrogen or an alkyl group containing 1-3 carbons, and a detergent selected from the group consisting of anionic, nonionic, cationic, ampholytic and zwitterionic detergent materials.
An antistatic composition for laundering fabrics comprising about 2-25% by weight of the amide antistatic agent defined in claim 7, and a nonionic detergent.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.