Germicidal detergent compositions

Claim 1

A GERMICIDAL DETERGENT COMPOSITION CONSISTING ESSENTIALLY OF 70 TO 99.5 PARTS BY WEIGHT OF AN ORGANIC ANIONIC DETERGENT OF THE GROUP CONSISTING OF WATER-SOLUBLE ALKALI METAL SALTS OF AN ORGANIC SULFURIC REACTION PRODUCT HAVING IN ITS MOLECULAR STRUCTURE A HIGHER MOLECULAR ALKYL RADICAL OF FROM 8 TO 18 CARBON ATOMS AND A RADICAL SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF SULFONIC ACID AND SULFURIC ACID ESTER RADICALS AND 0.5 TO 30 PARTS BY WEIGHT OF A QUATERNARY AMMONIUM GERMICIDE HALOGEN COMPLEX CONSISTING OF FROM ABOUT 0.01 TO 1.0 MOLS OF PHYSICALLYBOUND ELEMENTAL IODINE PER MOL OF QUATERNARY AMMONIUM GERMICIDE WHICH ARE DETERMINABLE BY THIOSULFATE TITRATION, AND A QUATERNARY AMMONIUM GERMICIDE OF THE GROUP CONSISTING OF LONG-CHAIN ALKYL DIMETHLY BENZYL QUATERNARY AMMONIUM HALIDES, LONG-CHAIN ALKYL PHENOXY ALKOXY ALKYL DIMETHYL BENZYL QUATERNARY AMMONIUM HALIDES, LONGCHAIN ALKYL PYRIDINIUM HALIDES, LONG-CHAIN ALKYL TRIMETHYL QUATERNARY AMMONIUM HALIDES, LONG-CHAIN ALKYL BENZYL DI-ETHYL ETHANOL AMMONIUM HALIDES AND LONG-CHAIN ALKYL BENZYL TRIMETHYL AMMONIUM HALIDES, SAID COMPLEX BEING SUBSTANTIALLY FREE OF UNBOUND HALOGEN AS DEMONSTRATED BY ITS FAILURE TO FORM HALOGEN AMINES WHEN EXPOSED TO AMMONIA VAPORS.