Unit dose products

• US 20030114332A1
• Filed: 12/10/2002
• Published: 06/19/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Unilever Bestfoods North America (Unilever PLC)
• Original Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA (Unilever PLC)
• Inventors: Salazar, Zaida M., Van Der Weg, Pieter Broer, Ramcharan, Sachindew Manodjkoemar
• Application Number:
  US10/315,867
• Publication Number:
  US 20030114332A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 510/296
• CPC Class Codes: C11D 17/0004 Non aqueous liquid compositions comprising insoluble particles
• CPC Class Codes: C11D 17/0013 Liquid compositions with insoluble particles in suspension C11D17/0021, C11D17/0026, C11D17/003 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: C11D 17/0017 Multi-phase liquid compositions
• CPC Class Codes: C11D 17/043 Liquid or thixotropic (gel) compositions

Abstract

A unit dose detergent product comprising a liquid detergent composition contained in a pouch formed of a water soluble polymer film, at least one solid member being immersed in said composition, the rate of dissolution of the solid member in the composition at a storage temperature being greater than the rate of dissolution of the polymer film in the composition at the storage temperature.

Claims

1. A unit dose detergent product comprising a liquid detergent composition contained in a pouch formed of a water soluble polymer film, at least one solid member being immersed in said composition, the rate of dissolution of the solid member in the composition at a storage temperature being greater than the rate of dissolution of the polymer film of the pouch in the composition at the storage temperature.

2. A product according to claim 1, wherein the solid member is comprised of a polymer film of substantially the same material as the polymer film which forms the pouch and has thickness the same as or less than that of the film of the pouch.

3. A product according to claim 1, wherein the solid member is comprised of a material having a greater solubility than the polymer film of the pouch.

4. A product according to claim 3, wherein the material is a polymer material.

5. A product according to claim 1, wherein said composition is a substantially non-aqueous liquid detergent composition.

6. A product according to claim 1, wherein said composition is a first liquid phase, separate from a second liquid phase also contained within the pouch.

7. A product according to claim 6, wherein the solid member has a density more than the density of the first phase and less than the density of the second phase.

8. A composition according to claim 1, wherein the solid member is coloured and/or reflective.

9. A composition according to claim 1, wherein said storage temperature is in the range from 10°

C. to 37°

C.

10. A unit dose detergent product comprising at least a first liquid phase and a second liquid phase, separate liquid phases, at least one of which liquid phases is a liquid detergent composition, the liquid phases being contained in a pouch formed of a water soluble polymer film, at least one solid member being immersed in at least one of the liquid phases.