Cleaning products

• US 20020123444A1
• Filed: 11/14/2001
• Published: 09/05/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 11/17/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
• Original Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
• Inventors: Fisher, Wayne Robert, Gressel, Gregory Martin
• Application Number:
  US09/992,358
• Publication Number:
  US 20020123444A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 510/297
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 77/04 Articles or materials enclosed in two or more containers disposed one within another
• CPC Class Codes: C11D 17/041 Compositions releasably affixed on a substrate or incorporated into a dispensing means
• CPC Class Codes: C11D 17/042 Water soluble or water disintegrable containers or substrates containing cleaning compositions or additives for cleaning compositions

Abstract

The present invention relates to a container comprising one or more sheets of pouches which are water-soluble, typically the sheet as a whole being water-soluble, the pouches comprising compositions to be delivered to water, typically cleaning compositions and/or fabric enhancing compositions. This provides an easy, efficient and cheap way to pack the pouches in orderly manner and moreover, by immobilizing the pouches in this manner, the pouches are protected against physical forces, without the need of expensive, complex packaging to protect the pouches.

Claims

1. A container comprising one or more sheets of water-soluble pouches, the pouches comprising a composition to be delivered to water.

2. A container comprising one or more sheets of pouches according to claim 1 whereby the composition in the pouches is a cleaning composition or fabric care composition.

3. A container comprising one or more sheets of pouches according to claim 1 whereby said sheet or sheets of pouches is obtainable by a process comprising the steps of:

forming from a water-soluble film, a series of open pouches, filling the pouches with a composition and closing the pouches, placing said film over a series of mold, shaping the film into a series of open pouches in said molds, filling the pouches with the composition and closing the open pouches.

4. A container comprising one or more sheets of pouches according to claim 1 whereby the sheet or sheets comprises visible lines of weakness around the pouches or part thereof.

5. A container comprising a sheet of pouches according to claim 1 whereby the sheet is water-soluble, and/or whereby the sheet and pouches are made of a film of a water-soluble polymer comprising polyvinyl alcohol or derivative thereof.

6. A container comprising a sheet of pouches according to claim 1 whereby at least a part of each pouch has a thickness of less than 80 microns.

7. A container comprising one or more sheets of pouches according to claim 1 whereby the pouches have at least a compartment comprising a liquid composition.

8. A container comprising one or more sheet of pouches according to claim 1 whereby the pouches have at least a compartment made of a water-soluble film having an area of weakness.

9. A container comprising one or more sheets of pouches according to claim 1 whereby the pouches are made of a stretched film material.

10. A container as in claim 1 being rigid.

11. A container according to claim 10 whereby the rigid container comprises inside the container a bag, the sheet or sheets of pouches being inside said bag.

12. A container according to claim 1 having a reclosable sealing means.

13. A process for obtaining a container according to claim 1 comprising the step of making one or more sheets of pouches and making visible lines, of weakness around the pouches or part thereof, and then placing one or more of the sheets in a container.

14. A process for obtaining a container according to claim 1 comprising the steps of placing a film over a series of mold, shaping the film into a series of open pouches in said molds, filling the pouches with the composition, closing the open pouches, applying visible lines of weakness around the pouches or part thereof and placing one or more of the obtained sheet in a container.

15. Method of packing water-soluble pouches in a container by providing the pouches in the form of a sheet comprising said pouches, the sheet and the pouches being of the same material, the sheet having visible lines of weakness around one or more of the pouches.