PACKAGED COMPOSITION

• US 20160122693A1
• Filed: 11/04/2014
• Published: 05/05/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/04/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
• Original Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
• Inventors: SODD, Vincent
• Granted Patent: US 10,000,727 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: C11D 17/041 Compositions releasably affixed on a substrate or incorporated into a dispensing means
• CPC Class Codes: C11D 17/06 Powder; Flakes; Free-flowing mixtures; Sheets
• CPC Class Codes: C11D 3/3707 Polyethers, e.g. polyalkyleneoxides
• CPC Class Codes: C11D 3/50 Perfumes
• CPC Class Codes: C11D 3/505 encapsulated or adsorbed on a carrier, e.g. zeolite or clay

Abstract

A packaged composition including a plurality of particles in a package, wherein the particles include: more than about 40% by weight of the particles of polyethylene glycol, wherein the polyethylene glycol has a weight average molecular weight from about 5000 to about 11000; and from about 0.1% to about 20% by weight of the particles of perfume; wherein substantially all of the particles in the package have a substantially flat base and a height measured orthogonal to the base and together the particles have a distribution of heights, wherein the distribution of heights has a mean height between about 1 mm and about 5 mm and a height standard deviation less than about 0.3.

Claims

1. A packaged composition comprising a plurality of particles in a package, wherein said particles comprise:

more than about 40% by weight of said particles of polyethylene glycol, wherein said polyethylene glycol has a weight average molecular weight from about 5000 to about 11000; and

from about 0.1% to about 20% by weight of said particles of perfume;

wherein substantially all of said particles in said package have a substantially flat base and a height measured orthogonal to said base and together said particles have a distribution of heights, wherein said distribution of heights has a mean height between about 1 mm and about 5 mm and a height standard deviation less than about 0.3.

2. The packaged composition according to claim 1, wherein substantially all of said particles in said package have a substantially flat base and a maximum base dimension and said particles together have a distribution of maximum base dimensions wherein said distribution of maximum base dimensions has a mean maximum base dimension between about 2 mm and about 7 mm and a maximum base dimension standard deviation less than about 0.5.

3. The packaged composition according to claim 2, wherein substantially all of said particles in said package have a substantially flat base and have a major axis in line with said maximum base dimension and a maximum minor base dimension measured orthogonal to said major axis and in plane with said base and together said particles have a distribution of maximum minor base dimensions wherein said distribution of maximum minor base dimensions has a mean maximum minor base dimension between about 2 mm and about 7 mm and a maximum minor base dimension standard deviation less than about 0.5.

4. The package composition according to claim 1, wherein said perfume comprises encapsulated perfume.

5. The packaged composition according to claim 4, wherein said particles comprises between about 0.1% and about 20% by weight encapsulated perfume.

6. The packaged composition according to claim 1, wherein said perfume comprises encapsulated perfume and unencapsulated perfume.

7. The packaged composition according to claim 1, wherein said particles have an individual mass between about 0.1 mg to about 5 g.

8. The packaged composition according to claim 1, wherein more than about 90% of said particles in said package have a substantially flat base and a height measured orthogonal to said base and together said particles have a distribution of heights, wherein said distribution of heights has a mean height between about 1 mm and about 5 mm and a height standard deviation less than about 0.3.

9. The packaged composition according to claim 1, wherein more than about 90% of said particles in said package have a substantially flat base and a height measured orthogonal to said base and together said particles have a distribution of heights, wherein said distribution of heights has a mean height between about 1 mm and about 5 mm and a height standard deviation less than about 0.2.

10. The packaged composition according to claim 9, wherein said particles have an individual mass between about 0.1 mg to about 5 g.

11. The package composition according to claim 10, wherein said perfume comprises encapsulated perfume.

12. The packaged composition according to claim 11, wherein said particles comprises between about 0.1% and about 20% by weight encapsulated perfume.

13. The packaged composition according to claim 12, wherein said perfume comprises encapsulated perfume and unencapsulated perfume.

14. The packaged composition according to claim 1, wherein more than about 90% of said particles in said package have a substantially flat base and a height measured orthogonal to said base and together said particles have a distribution of heights, wherein said distribution of heights has a mean height between about 1 mm and about 5 mm and a height standard deviation less than about 0.15.

15. The packaged composition according to claim 14, wherein said particles comprises between about 0.1% and about 20% by weight encapsulated perfume.

16. The packaged composition according to claim 1, wherein more than about 95% of said particles in said package have a substantially flat base and a height measured orthogonal to said base and together said particles have a distribution of heights, wherein said distribution of heights has a mean height between about 1 mm and about 5 mm and a height standard deviation less than about 0.3.

17. The packaged composition according to claim 16, wherein said particles have an individual mass between about 0.1 mg to about 5 g.

18. The packaged composition according to claim 17, wherein said perfume comprises encapsulated perfume.

19. The packaged composition according to claim 1, wherein more than about 99% of said particles in said package have a substantially flat base and a height measured orthogonal to said base and together said particles have a distribution of heights, wherein said distribution of heights has a mean height between about 1 mm and about 5 mm and a height standard deviation less than about 0.3.

20. The packaged composition according to claim 19, wherein said particles comprises between about 0.1% and about 20% by weight encapsulated perfume.