Fabric color restoration composition, article, and method

• US 20090178212A1
• Filed: 01/11/2008
• Published: 07/16/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/11/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
• Original Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
• Inventors: Watkins, Michele Ann, Heist, Brent Michael, Frankenbach, Gayle Marie, Brown, Jodi Lee, Wahl, Errol Hoffman
• Application Number:
  US12/008,504
• Publication Number:
  US 20090178212A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 8/441
• CPC Class Codes: D06M 15/03 Polysaccharides or derivatives thereof
• CPC Class Codes: D06M 15/643 containing silicon in the main chain
• CPC Class Codes: D06M 15/6436 containing amino groups
• CPC Class Codes: D06M 15/647 containing polyether sequences
• CPC Class Codes: D06M 2200/35 Abrasion, pilling or fibrillation resistance
• CPC Class Codes: D06M 2200/50 Modified hand or grip properties; Softening compositions
• CPC Class Codes: D06M 23/02 Processes in which the treating agent is releasably affixed or incorporated into a dispensing means
• CPC Class Codes: D06M 23/06 Processes in which the treating agent is dispersed in a gas, e.g. aerosols aerosol compositions C09K3/30
• CPC Class Codes: D06P 1/0036 Dyeing and sizing in one process
• CPC Class Codes: D06P 1/5292 containing Si-atoms
• CPC Class Codes: D06P 5/08 macromolecular

Abstract

The present invention relates to a stable, preferably well dispersed, more preferably translucent, and even more preferably clear, aqueous fabric color-restoring composition, fabric color-restoring methods, and articles of manufacture that use such fabric color-restoring composition. The fabric color-restoring composition comprises an effective amount of a silicone polymer fabric color-restoring agent, typically the minimum levels of fabric color-storing agent included in the composition are at least about 1.75%, preferably at least about 2.0%, more preferably at least about 2.5%, even more preferably at least about 3.0% and typically maximum levels of fabric color-restoring agent are less than about 10.0%, preferably less than about 7.0%, particularly in the range of about 3.0% to about 6.0%; and optionally, but preferably, an effective amount to increase the coefficient of static friction, of a static friction-increasing agent.

Claims

1. A method of restoring color in a colored and faded fabric, the method comprising spraying said fabric with a composition comprising a silicone polymer active and water, organic solvent, or mixtures thereof, wherein the sprayed composition provides an improvement in appearance benefit measured by the Fabric Appearance Test method of a percent change of delta L value of at least −

2;

wherein the silicone polymer is a dimethyl, methylhydroxypropyl, ethoxylated propoxylated siloxane.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the silicone polymer active is present in said composition in an amount of about 1.75 wt % to about 10 wt %, based on the total weight of the composition.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the silicone polymer active is present in said composition in an amount of about 3 wt % to about 7 wt %, based on the total weight of the composition.

4. The method of claim 2 wherein the composition further comprises a perfume microcapsule.

5. The method of claim 4 1, wherein the composition further comprise a copolymer of ethyl acrylate and methacrylic acid.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the solvent is selected from the group consisting of ethanol, n-propanol, isopropanol, butanol, tert-butyl alcohol, acetone, and mixtures thereof.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the composition further comprises from a silicone polymer surfactant derived from polydimethyl siloxane to which ethylene oxide is attached and methyl end capped.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the composition further comprises an anti-slip agent or mixture of anti-slip agents in an amount sufficient to provide the sprayed composition, when dried, with a static coefficient of friction of at least about 0.4 using the COF test method.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein the anti-slip agents are selected from the group consisting of polysaccharides, polymers, natural gums, surfactants, silicas, clays, and mixtures thereof.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the anti-slip agents are starch or starch derivatives, sugar or sugar derivatives, cyclodextrins, polyacrylates, and mixtures thereof.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein the median particle size of the spray is from about 30 microns to about 100 microns.

12. The method of claim 11 wherein the spraying mechanism is a trigger sprayer.

13. The method of claim 11 wherein the composition is delivered to the fabric as an aerosol spray.

14. The method of claim 13 wherein the container includes nitrogen or carbon dioxide or mixtures as the spray propellant.

15. The method of claim 11 wherein the composition is delivered at a spray rate of about 0.1 grams per second to about 2 grams per second.

16. The method of claim 15 wherein the spray rate is about 0.5 grams per second to about 1.5 grams per second.

17. The method of claim 1 wherein the article is sprayed to deliver about 2 grams of the composition per square foot of fabric and produces a drying time for the fabric from about 5 minutes to about 15 minutes.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein the amount of composition sprayed onto the fabric is from about 1 gram to about 4 grams of the composition per square foot of fabric.

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