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Method for dyeing human hair with cationic polymeric dyes
Assignee: Gillette Co LLC
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Filing: 1977-01-31
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Granted: 1980-01-08
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Expires: 1997-01-31
Abstract
Abstract A new class of water soluble cationic dyes especially useful in the rapid dyeing of hair prepared by the covalent reaction of visibly colored optical chromophores with selected polymeric backbones containing at least one primary, secondary, or tertiary amino group per repeating unit.
Inventors
- 👤 Phillip E. Sokol
- 👤 Hu-Chu Tsai
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
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2026-11-02 01:53
CPC Classifications
C; C09; C09B; C09B69/00; C09B69/10; A; A61; A61K; A61K8/00; A61K8/18; A61K8/30; A61K8/33; A61K8/35; A61K8/355; A61K8/72; A61K8/84; A61Q; A61Q5/00; A61Q5/06; A61Q5/065; A61K2800/00; A61K2800/40; A61K2800/57
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 8
Claim 1
Independent Claim
202 words
A method of dyeing human hair which comprises applying to said hair an effective amount of a composition comprising an aqueous medium containing up to 5.0% by weight of a cationic polymeric dye comprising the reaction product of a dye and a cationic polymer selected from the group consisting of polyethylenimine having a molecular weight of 300 to 200,000, polydiallylamine having a molecular weight of 10,000 to 2,000,000, and the reaction products obtained by the condensation of alkylene polyamines having 3 or more primary, secondary or tertiary amino groups separated by alkylene groups having 2 to 5 carbon atoms and having a molecular weight of 60 to 400 with difunctional compounds selected from the class consisting of dibasic acids having 2 to 54 carbon atoms, alpha-omega aliphatic dihalides having 2 to 10 carbon atoms, epihalohydrins and diepoxides having 4 to 18 carbon atoms, said reaction products having a molecular weight of 1,000 to 100,000, said polymer having condensed on a portion up to 25% of the primary and secondary amino groups thereof, a dye selected from the group consisting of azo, anthraquinone, nitro, nitroso, stilbene, diphenylmethane, triarylmethane, xanthene, acridene, quinoline, methine, thiazole, indamine, indophenol, azine, thiazine, lactone, aminoketone, hydroxyketone, indigoid and phthalocyanine.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
202 words
A method of dyeing human hair which comprises applying to said hair an effective amount of a composition comprising an aqueous medium containing up to 5.0% by weight of a cationic polymeric dye comprising the reaction product of a dye and a cationic polymer selected from the group consisting of polyethylenimine having a molecular weight of 300 to 200,000, polydiallylamine having a molecular weight of 10,000 to 2,000,000, and the reaction products obtained by the condensation of alkylene polyamines having 3 or more primary, secondary or tertiary amino groups separated by alkylene groups having 2 to 5 carbon atoms and having a molecular weight of 60 to 400 with difunctional compounds selected from the class consisting of dibasic acids having 2 to 54 carbon atoms, alpha-omega aliphatic dihalides having 2 to 10 carbon atoms, epihalohydrins and diepoxides having 4 to 18 carbon atoms, said reaction products having a molecular weight of 1,000 to 100,000, said polymer having condensed on a portion up to 25% of the primary and secondary amino groups thereof, a dye selected from the group consisting of azo, anthraquinone, nitro, nitroso, stilbene, diphenylmethane, triarylmethane, xanthene, acridene, quinoline, methine, thiazole, indamine, indophenol, azine, thiazine, lactone, aminoketone, hydroxyketone, indigoid and phthalocyanine.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
47 words
A method of dyeing human hair as described in claim 1, in which up to 75% of the primary and secondary amino groups of said cationic polymer are reacted with alkylating or acylating agents having alkyl groups of 1 to 18 carbon atoms or with ethylene oxide.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
24 words
A method of dyeing human hair as described in claim 1, in which the reacted amino groups are directly bonded to the dye molecule.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
53 words
A method of dyeing human hair as described in claim 1, in which the reacted amino groups are bonded to the dye molecule through a reactive group introduced by reaction of said dye with a compound selected from the group consisting of vinyl sulfone, acylating agents, cyanuric halides, sulfonylating agents, and phosphorylating agents.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
22 words
A method of dyeing human hair as described in claim 1, in which the polymer is condensed with two or more dyes.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
30 words
A method of dyeing human hair as described in claim 1, in which said composition includes in addition a water soluble surfactant, said composition having a pH greater than 9.0.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
39 words
A method of dyeing human hair as described in claim 1, in which the polymer is polyethylenimine having a molecular weight of 600 to 1800 and in which 0.1 to 10.0% of the amino groups are condensed with dye.
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