Detergent tablet
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsJeffrey Donald Painter, Lynda Anne Speed, Xiaoqing Song, Peter Robert Foley, Sabine Ursula Metzger-Groom
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Abstract
A detergent tablet comprising (a) a compressed solid body portion having at least one mold in said compressed solid body portion; (b) a non-compressed, gelatinous portion mounted in said at least one mold of said compressed solid body portion, said gelatinous portion comprising a thickening system and at least one detergent active; and wherein said non-compressed, gelatinous portion has either a yield strength of from about 5 to about 80 Pa, or has an average viscosity of from about 100 to about 12000 cP before said non-compressed, gelatinous portion is mounted in said at least one mold.
Claims17
A detergent tablet comprising:
- i) a compressed solid body portion having at least one mold in said compressed solid body portion;
- ii) a non-compressed, gelatinous portion mounted in said at least one mold of said compressed solid body portion, said gelatinous portion comprising a thickening system and at least one detergent active;
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- wherein said at least one mold is filled with said non-compressed, gelatinous portion;
- wherein said non-compressed, gelatinous portion has a yield strength of from about 5 to about 80 Pa before said non-compressed, gelatinous portion is mounted in said at least one mold;
- wherein said gelatinous portion is formulated so that at least about 90% of said detergent active is delivered to the wash within the first 3 minutes of a domestic wash process;
- and wherein said gelatinous portion comprises a structure modifying agent.
A detergent tablet comprising:
- i) a compressed solid body portion having at least one mold in said compressed solid body portion;
- ii) a non-compressed, gelatinous portion mounted in said at least one mold of said compressed solid body portion, said gelatinous portion comprising a thickening system and at least one detergent active;
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- wherein said at least one mold is filed with said non-compressed, gelatinous portion;
- wherein said non-compressed, gelatinous portion has an average viscosity of from about 100 to about 12000 cP before said non-compressed, gelatinous portion is mounted in said at least one mold;
- wherein said gelatinous portion is formulated so that at least about 90% of said detergent active is delivered to the wash within the first 3 minutes of a domestic wash process;
- and wherein said gelatinous portion comprises a structure modifying agent.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.