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US 5,858,960 AGranted
Fabric softening composition
AssigneeLever Brothers Company, Division of Conopco, Inc.
InventorsJames Patrick Conroy, Stephen Graham Hales, Abid Nadim Khan-Lodhi
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Abstract
A fabric softening composition comprising a compound of formula I ##STR1## in which R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are independently selected from C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl groups or C.sub.2 -C.sub.4 alkenyl groups, a is from 1 to 4, x.sup.- is a compatible anion and R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 are independently selected from C.sub.12 -C.sub.22 alkyl or alkenyl groups, the sum of the chain lengths or R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 preferably being at least 30.
Claims12
A fabric softening composition comprising a compound of formula 1:
- ##STR3## in which R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are independently selected from C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl groups or C.sub.2 -C.sub.4 alkenyl groups, a is from 1 to 4, x.sup.- is a compatible anion and R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 are independently selected from C.sub.12 -C.sub.22 alkyl or alkenyl groups.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.