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Method for wax encapsulating particles
Assignee: Lever Brothers Co
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Filing: 1991-04-24
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Granted: 1993-04-06
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Expires: 2011-04-24
Abstract
Abstract Solid core particles encapsulated in a single coat of paraffin wax, the wax having a melting point of about 40° to about 50° C. and a solids content of from 100 to about 35% at 40° C. and from 0 to about 15% at 50° C. The paraffin coat may comprise 20 to 90% by weight of the particle and may be from 100 to 1,500 microns thick. The coat prolongs the time in which particles encapsulated therewith may remain active in aqueous environments. The encapsulated particle is made by spraying molten wax onto the particles in a fluidized bed. Liquid or powder cleaning compositions, particularly automatic dishwashing liquid detergents, may incorporate 0.01 to 20% by weight of the composition of the coated wax-encapsulated particles.
Inventors
- 👤 David J. Lang
- 👤 Ahmed A. Kamel
- 👤 Paul A. Hanna
- 👤 Robert Gabriel
- 👤 Richard Theiler
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-26 19:25
CPC Classifications
C; C11; C11D; C11D17/00; C11D17/0039; C11D3/00; C11D3/39; C11D3/395; Y; Y10; Y10T; Y10T428/00; Y10T428/29; Y10T428/2982; Y10T428/2989; Y10T428/2991
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 28
Claim 1
Independent Claim
265 words
A method for forming a coherent, continuous coating around a core material in the form of a core particle or an aggregate of particles to form encapsulated particles which are suitable for use in liquid cleaning compositions, the method comprising: (a) providing a core material in the form of core particles or an aggregate of core particles which is a nonfriable, water soluble or water dispersible solid material which dissolves, disperses or melts in a temperature range of from about 40° to about 50° C.; (b) suspending the particles or the aggregate of the particles in a fluidized bed to form suspended particles; (c) providing one or more paraffin waxes to the coating around the suspended particles to form a batch of encapsulated particles which is stable in an aqueous alkaline environment, the one or more paraffin waxes having a melting point between about 40° C. and about 50° C., and a solids content of 100 to about 35% at 40° C. and a solids content of 0 to about 15% at 50° C.; (d) heating the one or more paraffin waxes to a temperature above its melting temperature sufficiently to melt all the wax to form a molten wax; (d) fluidizing the bed by passing air through the particles, so as to maintain a bed temperature no higher than melting point of the wax; and (f) spraying the molten paraffin wax onto the fluidized bed at a rate and for time sufficient to apply a continuous coherent paraffin wax coating of from about 100 to about 1,500 microns thick around each of the particles.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
265 words
A method for forming a coherent, continuous coating around a core material in the form of a core particle or an aggregate of particles to form encapsulated particles which are suitable for use in liquid cleaning compositions, the method comprising: (a) providing a core material in the form of core particles or an aggregate of core particles which is a nonfriable, water soluble or water dispersible solid material which dissolves, disperses or melts in a temperature range of from about 40° to about 50° C.; (b) suspending the particles or the aggregate of the particles in a fluidized bed to form suspended particles; (c) providing one or more paraffin waxes to the coating around the suspended particles to form a batch of encapsulated particles which is stable in an aqueous alkaline environment, the one or more paraffin waxes having a melting point between about 40° C. and about 50° C., and a solids content of 100 to about 35% at 40° C. and a solids content of 0 to about 15% at 50° C.; (d) heating the one or more paraffin waxes to a temperature above its melting temperature sufficiently to melt all the wax to form a molten wax; (d) fluidizing the bed by passing air through the particles, so as to maintain a bed temperature no higher than melting point of the wax; and (f) spraying the molten paraffin wax onto the fluidized bed at a rate and for time sufficient to apply a continuous coherent paraffin wax coating of from about 100 to about 1,500 microns thick around each of the particles.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
71 words
The method according to claim 1, wherein the paraffin wax is sprayed into the fluid bed cocurrently with the flow of air by a method comprising the steps of: suspending the particles in an upwardly flowing air stream entering a bottom of the fluidized bed to impart a cyclic movement to the particles with a portion of the bed flowing upwardly and then spraying the paraffin wax onto the suspended particles.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
59 words
The method according to claim 1, further comprising annealing the encapsulated particles at a temperature of from 5° to 15° C. greater than the bed temperature during coating, and from 3° to 15° C. less than the melting point of the wax coating for from 10 to 45 minutes after the forming of the batch of the encapsulated particles.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
20 words
The method according to claim 1 wherein the core particles have an average diameter ranging from 100 to 2,500 microns.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
19 words
The method of claim 4 wherein the core particles have an average diameter of from 500 to 1,500 microns.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
17 words
The method of claim 1 wherein the fluidized bed temperature is at least 20° to 35° C.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
32 words
The method of claim 1 wherein the melted paraffin wax is sprayed on to the fluidized bed at a rate of about 10 to about 40 g/min per kilogram of core particles.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
20 words
The method of claim 1 wherein the core particles have a wax coating of from 200 to 750 microns thick.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
31 words
The method of claim 1 wherein the wax coated particles comprise 10 to 80% by weight of the solid core material and 20 to 90% by weight of the wax coating.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
24 words
The method of claim 9 wherein the wax coated particles comprise 40-60% by weight of the solid core and 40-60% of the wax coating.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
31 words
The method according to claim 1, wherein the core material is selected from a group consisting of an oxidative bleach, a percompound activator, an enzyme, a bleach catalyst and a surfactant.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
13 words
The method of claim 11 wherein the core material is the oxidative bleach.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
13 words
The method of claim 11 wherein the bleach is a hypochlorite generating agent.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
13 words
The method of claim 12 wherein a peroxygen compound is the bleach material.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
21 words
The method of claim 14 wherein the peroxygen compound is selected from the group consisting of organic peroxyacids and inorganic peroxyacids.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
50 words
The method according to claim 14, wherein the step further comprises providing a hydrogen peroxide generating compound as the peroxygen compound for a first core material and providing the percompound activator as a second core material to form two different types of encapsulated particles for use in the cleaning composition.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
38 words
The method according to claim 14 wherein the providing step (a) further comprises: providing a hydrogen peroxide generating compound as the peroxygen compound of a first core material and providing the bleach catalyst as a second core material.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
12 words
The method of claim 11 wherein the core material as an enzyme.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
19 words
The method of claim 18 wherein the the enzyme is a protease, a lipase, an amylase or an oxidase.
Claim 21
Dependent Claim
13 words
The method of claim 11 wherein the core material is a bleach catalyst.
Claim 22
Dependent Claim
17 words
The method according to claim 11 wherein a percompound activator or a diacylperoxide is the core material.
Claim 23
Dependent Claim
12 words
The method of claim 11 wherein a surfactant is the core material.
Claim 24
Dependent Claim
12 words
The method of claim 22 wherein the surfactant is a nonionic surfactant.
Claim 25
Dependent Claim
42 words
The method according to claim 23 wherein the nonionic surfactant is a compound of formula R.sup.3 --(CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 O).sub.q H II wherein R 3 is a C 6 -C 24 linear alkyl hydrocarbon and q is a number from 2 to 50.
Claim 26
Dependent Claim
149 words
The method according to claim 23 wherein the nonionic surfactant is selected from the group consisting of polyoxyethylene and polyoxypropylene condensates of aliphatic carboxylic acids, and polyoxyethylene and polyoxypropylene condensates of aliphatic alcohols having a formula ##STR3## wherein R is a linear alkyl hydrocarbon having an average of 6 to 18 carbon atoms, R 1 and R 2 are each linear alkyl hydrocarbons of about 1 to about 4 carbon atoms, x is an integer of from 1 to 6, y is an integer of from 4 to 20 and z is an integer from 4 to 25 and polyoxyethylene--polyoxypropylene block copolymers having the formulae HO(CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 O).sub.a (CH(CH.sub.3)CH.sub.2 O).sub.b (CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 O).sub.c H or HO(CH(CH.sub.3)CH.sub.2 O).sub.d (CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 O).sub.e (CH(CH.sub.3)CH.sub.2 O).sub.f wherein a, b, c, d, e and f are integers of from 1 to 250 and the molecular weight is between 1,000 and 10,000, and mixtures thereof.
Claim 27
Dependent Claim
38 words
The method according to claim 25 wherein R is C 6 to C 10 linear alkyl hydrocarbon, R 1 and R 2 are each methyl, x is about 3, y averages about 12 and z is about 16.
Claim 28
Dependent Claim
88 words
The method according to claim 22 wherein the surfactant is an alkyl glycoside compound of formula R.sup.4 O(R.sup.5 O).sub.n (Z.sup.1).sub.p V whereni R 4 is a C 6 -C 30 linear alkyl mixture, R 5 is an alkyl moiety containing from 2 to about 4 carbon atoms, n is a number having an average value of 0 to about 12, Z 1 represents a moiety derived from a reducing saccharide containing 5 or 6 carbon atoms, p is number having an average value from 0.5 to about 10.
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