US 5,397,506 A · Solid cleaner

Abstract

Improved cleaners for hard surfaces, cooking utensils, laundry and other substrates that can accumulate fatty soils can be cleaned using an aqueous cleaner made from a cast solid cleaning system. The cast solid system contains a carefully balanced formulation of cleaning ingredients that provide surprising animal or vegetable fat removing properties. The cleaning system can be manufactured in the form of a large bulk cast block. Such blocks are dispensed by spraying a dispensing spray of water onto the surface of the block creating an aqueous concentrate that can be directed to a cleaning site. The solid composition contains a unique blend of a specific amine oxide combined with anionic sulfonates in a solvent containing mass. These unique components cooperate to provide a substantial level of animal or vegetable fat removal in preferred cleaning protocols.

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Dependent claims

A solid cast cleaning composition consisting essentially of:

(a) an amine oxide surfactant of the formula:
##STR3## wherein R is a C.sub.1-4 alkyl and R.sup.1 comprises a C.sub.12-16 alkyl;
(b) an anionic surfactant system comprising a blend of an alkyl sulfate or an alkyl ether sulfate of the formula:
R.sup.2 --O--SO.sub.3 X.sup.+
and an anionic sulfonate surfactant of the formula:
R.sup.3 --SO.sub.3.sup.- X.sup.+ ;
wherein R.sup.2 is a C.sub.6-24 alkyl group, a group of the formula:
C.sub.6-24 alkyl--(OCH.sub.2 CH.sub.2).sub.n --
R.sup.3 is R.sup.2 or a C.sub.1 C.sub.24 alkyl substituted benzene group, n is 1 to 10, and X.sup.+ is an alkali metal cation or ammonium;
(c) a fatty amide composition of the formula:
##STR4## wherein R.sup.4 is a C.sub.6-24 alkyl, R.sup.5 is a C.sub.2-6 alkylene;
and (d) a casting agent comprising a polyalkylene glycol compound.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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