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Readily dispersible dye preparations

Assignee: Novartis Corp
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Filing: 1981-06-09
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Granted: 1983-05-31
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Expires: 2001-06-09
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Abstract

Abstract The readily dispersible dye preparations contain water, one or more dyes insoluble or difficultly soluble in water, a nonionic dispersing agent and optionally further additives, and as anionic dispersing agent: (a) a dialkylsulfosuccinate, the alkyl groups of which each contain 3-7 carbon atoms, or (b) a sulfated or sulfonated fatty acid or fatty acid ester of a fatty acid having in each case 10 to 22 carbon atoms, or (c) a fatty amine-oxalkylation product of the formula ##STR1## wherein Q is an aliphatic hydrocarbon radical having 12-22 carbon atoms, M is hydrogen, an alkali metal cation, ammonium cation or amine salt cation, and m and n are integers, the sum of m+n being at least 2 and at most 50. These preparations are suitable for use in aqueous and also organic printing inks. There are also described aqueous printing pastes which contain lignosulfonate, in addition to the anionic dispersing agents listed under (a), (b) and (c).

Inventors

  • 👤 Nitya G. Podder

Bibliographic Details

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CPC Classifications
C; C09; C09D; C09D11/00; C09D11/02; C09D11/03; C09B; C09B67/00; C09B67/0071; C09B67/0084; D; D06; D06L; D06L4/00; D06L4/60; D06L4/664; Y; Y10; Y10S; Y10S8/00; Y10S8/904

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 18
Claim 1
Independent Claim 117 words
A readily-dispersible, storage-stable, concentrated, dye composition, substantially devoid of hydrotropic agents and containing water, one or more dyes insoluble or difficulty soluble in water, a nonionic dispersing agent and an anionic dispersing agent selected from the group consisting of (a) dialkylsulfosuccinates, the alkyl groups of which each contain 3-7 carbon aoms, (b) sulfated or sulfonated fatty acids and esters thereof of 10 to 22 carbon atoms, and (c) fatty amine-oxalkylation products of the formula ##STR14## wherein Q is an aliphatic hydrocarbon radical having 12-22 carbon atoms, M is hydrogen, an alkali metal cation, ammonium cation or amine salt cation, and m and n are integers, the sum of m+n being at least 2 and at most 50.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 117 words
A readily-dispersible, storage-stable, concentrated, dye composition, substantially devoid of hydrotropic agents and containing water, one or more dyes insoluble or difficulty soluble in water, a nonionic dispersing agent and an anionic dispersing agent selected from the group consisting of (a) dialkylsulfosuccinates, the alkyl groups of which each contain 3-7 carbon aoms, (b) sulfated or sulfonated fatty acids and esters thereof of 10 to 22 carbon atoms, and (c) fatty amine-oxalkylation products of the formula ##STR14## wherein Q is an aliphatic hydrocarbon radical having 12-22 carbon atoms, M is hydrogen, an alkali metal cation, ammonium cation or amine salt cation, and m and n are integers, the sum of m+n being at least 2 and at most 50.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 30 words
A dye composition of claim 1, which contains the anionic dispersing agent in an amount of 0.5 to 5 percent by weight relative to the total weight of the preparation.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim 30 words
A dye composition of claim 1, which contains the anionic dispersing agent in an amount of 1 to 3 percent by weight relative to the total weight of the preparation.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim 54 words
A dye composition of claim 1, wherein the dialkylsulfosuccinates have alkyl groups of 4-6 carbon atoms; the sulfated or sulfonated fatty acids and esters have 12 to 18 carbon atoms; and in the fatty amine-oxalkylation products Q has 14-22 carbon atoms, and the sum of m+n is at least 4 and at most 12.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim 15 words
A dye composition of claim 4, wherein the anionic dispersing agent is di-hexylsulfosuccinate or di-amylsulfosuccinate.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim 28 words
A dye composition of claim 1, which contains the nonionic dispersing agent in an amount of 0.5-4 percent by weight relative to the total weight of the preparation.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim 30 words
A dye composition of claim 1, which contains the nonionic dispersing agent in an amount of 1 to 3 percent by weight relative to the total weight of the preparation.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim 30 words
A dye composition of claim 1, wherein the nonionic dispersing agent is fatty alcohol polyglycol ether having 20-100 mols of ethylene oxide, polyethylene oxide condensate or polyethylene oxide/propylene oxide condensate.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim 52 words
A dye composition of claim 8, wherein the nonionic dispersing agent is cetyl-stearyl alcohol etherified with 20-30 mols of ethylene oxide or ethylene oxide/propylene oxide of the formula ##STR15## wherein the sum of a and c is a number between 200 and 400, and b is a number between 30 and 80.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim 44 words
A dye composition of claim 1 containing at least 20 percent by weight of water, 25-60 percent by weight of the finely dispersed disperse dye, 1-3 percent by weight of the anionic dispersing agent and 1-3 percent by weight of the nonionic dispersing agent.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim 16 words
A dye composition of claim 10, wherein the disperse dye content is 35-50 percent by weight.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim 26 words
A dye composition of claim 1, further containing a moisture-retaining agent, an antifreeze agent, an antimicrobial, a fungicides, an antifoam agent or an agent improving viscosity.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim 50 words
A process for producing an aqueous dye composition of claim 1, which process comprises grinding the dye in water with at least one of the anionic dispersing agent or the nonionic dispersing agent, until the dye has a particle size of less than 10 μm. particularly smaller that 2 μm.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim 19 words
A process of claim 13, wherein the dye is ground to a particle size of less than 2 μm.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim 21 words
A method of making a printing ink, comprising the step of mixing a composition of claim 1 with a thickening agent.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim 14 words
A method of claim 15 wherein the thickening agent contains carboxymethylcellulose or cellulose acetopropionate.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim 13 words
A printing ink produced by the method of claim 15 or claim 16.

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