Aerosol germicidal compositions

Claim 1

A TWO PHASE, PRESSURIZED SURFACE DISINFECTENT-AIR SANITIZING COMPOSITION COMPRISING A GASEOUS PHASE AND A STABLE HOMOGENEOUS LIQUID PHASE WHEREIN AND LIQUID PHASE CONTAINS: (A) AT LEAST ABOUT 10% BY WEIGHT WATER, (B) AT LEAST ABOUT 15% BY WEIGHT OF A NORMALLY GASEOUS HALOGENATED HYDROCARBON PROPELLANT, (C) ETHANOL IN A CONCENTRATION SUFFICIENT TO FORM A HOMOGENEOUS SOLUTION WITH SAID WATER AND PROPELLANT, (D) AT LEAST ABOUT 0.050% BY WEIGHT OF A MIXTURE OF QUATERNARIES COMPRISING: (1) COMPOUND REPRESENTED BY THE STRUCTURAL FORMULA: PHENYL-CH2-N(+)(-CH3)2-R1 CL(-) WHEREIN R1 REPRESENTS A MIXTURE OF N-ALKYL GROUPS COMPRISING FROM ABOUT 55% TO ABOUT 65% C14, FROM ABOUT 25% TO ABOUT 35% C16, FROM ABOUT 2% TO ABOUT 8% C12, AND FROM ABOUT 2% TO ABOUT 8% C18, AND (2) COMPOUNDS REPRESENTED BY THE STRUCTURAL FORMULA: ((CH3-CH2-)PHENYL)-CH2-N(+)(-CH3)2-R2 CL(-) WHEREIN R2 REPRESENTS A MIXTURE OF N-ALKYL GROUPS COMPRISING FROM ABOUT 45% TO ABOUT 55% C12, FROM ABOUT 25% TO ABOUT 35% C14, FROM ABOUT 12% TO ABOUT 22% C16, AND FROM ABOUT 1% TO ABOUT 8% C18 ALKYL GROUPS, AND (E) AN AMPHOTERIC SURFACTANT IN A CONCENTRATION FROM ABOUT 0.05% TO ABOUT 1.0% BY WEIGHT, REPRESENTED BY THE STRUCTURAL FORMULA: 1-(M-OOC-R4-),1-(M-O-R4-),2-R3-2-IMIDAZOLIN-1-IUM HO(-) WHEREIN R3 REPRESENTS A HYDROCARBON RADICAL HAVING FROM ABOUT 4 TO ABOUT 18 CARBON ATOMS, R4 IS SELECTED FROM THE GROUP OF ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBON AND OXYGENATED ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBON GROUPS CONSISTING OF: (1) ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBON GROUPS HAVING FROM 1 TO 4 CARBON ATOMS, (2) HYDROXY SUBSTITUTED HYDROCARBON GROUPS HAVING FROM 1 TO 4 CARBON ATOMS, (3) ALIPHATIC ETHER GROUPS, HAVING FROM 2 TO 4 CARBON ATOMS WITH EACH OF SAID GROUPS HAVING A SINGLE ETHER LINKAGE THEREIN, (4) ALIPHATIC HYDROXY SUBSTITUTED ETHER GROUPS HAVING FROM 2 TO 4 CARBON ATOMS, (5) ALIPHATIC KETO GROUPS CONTANING FROM 2 TO 4 CARBON ATOMSS, AND (6) ALIPHATIC HYDROXYL SUBSTITUTED KETO GROUPS HAVING FROM 2 TO 4 CARBON ATOMS, AND M IS SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF POTASSIUM, SODIUM, AND HYDROGEN.