Cake-like detergent and method of manufacture
AssigneeWinbro Group, Ltd.
InventorsHubert A. Perry, Jr., Kenneth E. Perry
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Abstract
A method of making a solid cake-like detergent for ware and hard surface washing, which cake-like detergent is the product of hydration and sequestration reactions, which includes: blending an alkali metal hydroxide and a hardness sequestering agent to form a dry powdered detergent mixture; flowing the mixture to form a particulate stream; moistening the particulate stream to form moistened particulates; depositing the moistened particulates in a receptacle; and forming the solid cake-like detergent in said receptacle.
Claims32
A method of making a solid cake-like detergent for ware and hard surface washing, which cake-like detergent is the product of hydration and sequestration reactions, which includes:
- blending an alkali metal hydroxide and a hardness sequestering agent to form a dry powdered detergent mixture;
- flowing the mixture to form a particulate stream;
- moistening the particulate stream to form moistened particulates;
- depositing the moistened particulates in a receptacle;
- and
- forming the solid cake-like detergent in said receptacle.
A detergent composition which comprises:
- a three-dimensional, uniform, solid, cake-like alkaline warewashing detergent which includes:
- an alkali metal hydroxide;
- an effective amount of a hardness sequestering agent;
- and
- a chlorine additive substantially uniformly dispersed throughout said cake-like detergent.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.