US 8,940,676 B2Granted

Detergent products, methods and manufacture

AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company

InventorsTanguy Marie Louis Alexandre Catlin, Rachid Ben Moussa, Timothy Bernard William Kroese, Charles Rupert Gillham, James Iain Kinloch, David John Smith, Alison Lesley Main, Helen Varley

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Abstract

A water-soluble pouch suitable for use in machine dishwashing and which comprises a plurality of compartments in generally superposed or superposable relationship, each containing one or more detergent active or auxiliary components, and wherein the pouch has a volume of from about 5 to about 70 ml and a longitudinal/transverse aspect ratio in the range from about 2:1 to about 1:8, preferably from about 1:1 to about 1:4. The water-soluble pouch allows for optimum delivery of dishwashing detergent. A process for the manufacture of multi-compartment pouches and a pack to contain the pouches are also disclosed.

Claims18

Dependent claims

A unit dose automatic dishwashing product comprising:

(a) a pouch comprising a water-soluble film and at least one compartment;
and
(b) a multi-phase composition comprising a non-ionic surfactant, where each phase is independently selected from the group consisting of a powder phase, a liquid phase, a gel phase, and mixtures thereof;
wherein each phase of said multi-phase cleaning composition has a different color from the other respective phase(s) of said multi-phase cleaning composition, and wherein said multi-phase composition is contained in said compartment, and wherein said composition is substantially free of zwitterionic, anionic, and amphoteric surfactants,
wherein the multi-phase composition comprises water, wherein the water content in the multi-phase composition is similar to the water content in the water-soluble film.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/411,895Filed 5 Mar 2012 · continuation
Priority: GB 0028821.727 Nov 2000
Published: US 2012/0159718 A128 Jun 2012
Granted: 27 Jan 2015
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

C11D 17/045
Water soluble or water disintegrable containers or substrates containing cleaning compositions or additives for cleaning compositions:…
B65D 65/46
Packaging materials of special type or form: applications of disintegrable, dissolvable or edible materials
B65D 81/3261
For packaging two or more different materials which must be maintained separate prior to use in admixture: flexible containers having several…
D06F 39/024
Devices for adding soap or other washing agents: mounted on the agitator or the rotating drum; Free body dispensers

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Application60/265,462Us provisional application · filed 31 Jan 2001
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