Method for controlling the plasticization of a water soluble film

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9624457-B2
Application number	US-201113325656-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 14, 2011
Priority date	Jan 12, 2011
Publication date	Apr 18, 2017
Grant date	Apr 18, 2017

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for controlling the plasticization of a water soluble film comprising preparing a detergent composition comprising anionic surfactant and solvent system comprising at least one primary solvent having Hansen solubility (δ) of less than 30 and encapsulating said composition in a water soluble film to form a pouch unitized dose product.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for controlling the plasticization of a water soluble film comprising
i) preparing a liquid detergent composition comprising
a) anionic surfactant, wherein the an anionic surfactant selected from the group consisting of sodium, potassium, and ammonium alkyl polyethoxylate sulfates in which the alkyl group contains from 10 to 22 carbon atoms and wherein the polyethoxylate chain contains from 1 to 15 ethoxylate moieties; sodium and potassium linear alkylbenzene sulfonates in which the alkyl group contains from about 9 to about 15 carbon atoms; and mixtures thereof is present at a level of from about 10% to about 40% by weight of the composition, and
b) solvent system comprising at least one primary solvent having Hansen Solubility (δ) of less than about 30, and wherein said solvent system further comprises a secondary solvent,
wherein the primary solvent has a cLog P of greater than about −1.0, and
wherein the primary solvent has a Hydrogen Bonding Component of less than about 20.5, wherein the primary solvent is selected from the group consisting of polyethylene glycol (PEG) polymer having molecular weight between about 400 and about 600, dipropylene glycol (DPG), nbutoxy propoxy propanol (nBPP) and mixtures thereof,
wherein the secondary solvent is glycerol,
wherein the primary solvent is present at a level of from about 1 to about 25%,
and wherein the weight ratio of primary solvent to secondary solvent is from about 7:1 to about 1:5;

ii) encapsulating said liquid detergent composition in a water soluble film to form a pouch unitized dose product, wherein said pouch unitized dose product is a multi-compartment pouch, wherein each compartment contains a different liquid composition.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the water soluble film comprises a copolymer of vinyl alcohol and a monomer comprising a sulphonate group.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the primary solvent is polyethylene glycol (PEG) polymer having molecular weight between about 400 and about 600.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the primary solvent is present at a level of from about 2.5 to about 20%.

5. A method for controlling the plasticization of a water soluble film comprising
i) preparing a liquid detergent composition comprising
a) an anionic surfactant selected from the group consisting of sodium, potassium, and ammonium alkyl polyethoxylate sulfates in which the alkyl group contains from 10 to 22 carbon atoms and wherein the polyethoxylate chain contains from 1 to 15 ethoxylate moieties; sodium and potassium linear alkylbenzene sulfonates in which the alkyl group contains from about 9 to about 15 carbon atoms; and mixtures thereof, wherein the anionic surfactant is present at a level of from about 10% to about 40% by weight of the composition, and
b) solvent system comprising at least one primary solvent having Hansen Solubility (δ) of less than about 30, wherein the primary solvent is selected from the group consisting of polyethylene glycol (PEG) polymer having molecular weight between about 400 and about 600, dipropylene glycol (DPG), nbutoxy propoxy propanol (nBPP) and mixtures thereof, wherein the primary solvent is present at a level of from about 1 to about 25%;

ii) encapsulating said liquid detergent composition in a water soluble film to form a pouch unitized dose product, wherein said pouch unitized dose product is a multi-compartment pouch, wherein each compartment contains a different liquid composition,
wherein the solvent system additionally comprises a secondary solvent which is glycerol, wherein glycerol is present at a level of less than about 5%,
and wherein the weight ratio of primary solvent to glycerol is from about 7:1 to about 1:5.

6. The method according to claim 5 , wherein the secondary solvent glycerol is present at a level of less than about 4%.

7. The method according to claim 5 , wherein the solvent system further comprises water, wherein the water is present at a level of less than about 20%.

8. The method according to claim 5 , wherein the weight ratio of primary solvent to glycerol is from about 6.5:1 to about 1:3.

9. The method according to claim 5 , wherein the weight ratio of primary solvent to glycerol is from about 3:1 to about 1:1.

10. The method according to claim 5 , wherein glycerol is present at a level of less than about 3% by weight of the composition.

11. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the water is present at a level of less than about 15%.

12. The method according to claim 5 , wherein the film comprises bulky monomeric units, wherein the bulky monomeric units comprise monomers selected from the group consisting of sulphonate; 2-acrylamido-2-methylpropane sulfonic acid; 2 methacrylamido-2-methyl propane sulfonic acid; and mixtures thereof.

13. The method according to claim 5 , wherein the water soluble film comprises a copolymer of vinyl alcohol and a monomer comprising a sulphonate group.

14. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the multi-compartment pouch includes a first compartment, and a second compartment superposed on the first compartment.

15. The method according to claim 14 , wherein the multi-compartment pouch further comprises a third compartment superposed on the first compartment.

16. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the primary solvent is dipropylene glycol (DPG).

17. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the primary solvent is nbutoxy propoxy propanol (nBPP).

Assignees

• Labeque Régine
• Pietrala Matthijs
• Rosmaninho Roxane
• Procter & Gamble

Inventors

• Labeque Régine
• Pietrala Matthijs
• Rosmaninho Roxane

Classifications

• C11D3/2065

  Polyhydric alcohols · CPC title

• C11D3/2068

  Ethers · CPC title

• C11D3/43

  Solvents · CPC title

• C11D1/02

  Anionic compounds {(C11D1/002, C11D1/004, C11D1/008 take precedence)} · CPC title

• C11D17/043 Primary

  Liquid or thixotropic (gel) compositions · CPC title