Floor cleaning and waxing composition

• US 4,565,644 A
• Filed: 05/30/1985
• Issued: 01/21/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 01/04/1985
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Creative Products Resource, Inc. (Henkel AG & Co KGaA)
• Original Assignee: Creative Products Resource Associates, Ltd.
• Inventors: Smith, James A., Murphy, Betty J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Foelak, Morton
• Application Number:
  US06/739,129
• Time in Patent Office: 236 Days
• Field of Search: 252/153, 252/155, 252/174.15, 252/174.25, 252/DIG. 1, 252/DIG. 2, 106/10, 134/40, 521/110, 521/111, 521/112
• US Class Current: 15/104.93
• CPC Class Codes: C08J 2375/04 Polyurethanes
• CPC Class Codes: C08J 2491/00 Characterised by the use of oils, fats or waxes; Derivatives thereof
• CPC Class Codes: C08J 9/0061 characterized by the use of several polymeric components
• CPC Class Codes: C09G 1/02 containing abrasives or grinding agents abrasives as such C09K3/14; polishing of semi-conductors H01L
• CPC Class Codes: C09G 1/10 based on mixtures of wax and natural or synthetic resin

Abstract

An absorbent floor cleaning and waxing composition is disclosed comprising shreds of a hydrophilic, open-celled, solids-loaded polyurethane foam having an aqueous wax emulsion releasably incorporated therein. The composition is effective to replace soiled coatings of floor wax with fresh floor wax.

Claims

1. A composition for cleaning flooring of soiled wax deposits and depositing a fresh coating of wax thereupon comprising moist shreds of a hydrophilic polyurethane foam comprising an open-celled highly reticulated matrix, wherein said matrix incorporates an interior aqueous phase and an effective scouring amount of abrasive particles silane coupled within said matrix, and wherein said shreds incorporate a wax which is partially released from said shreds as an aqueous emulsion when the shreds are contacted with the flooring under conditions of pressure.

2. The composition of claim 1 wherein the wax is emulsified in the interior aqueous phase.

3. The composition of claim 1 wherein the wax is emulsified in an exterior aqueous phase which is absorbed into the cells of the foam shreds.

4. The compositions of claims 2 and 3 wherein the wax comprises polyethylene.

5. The composition of claim 3 wherein the weight ratio of exterior aqueous phase-wax emulsion comprises from about 20-40% by weight of said foam shreds.

6. The composition of claim 1 wherein said interior aqueous phase comprises a nonionic surfactant and a silicone oil.

7. The composition of claim 6 wherein the nonionic surfactant comprises the condensation product of a polyoxypropylene ether and a polyoxyethylene ether wherein the polyoxypropylene ether has a molecular weight of about 1500-3000 and the polyoxypropylene content is about 35-55% by weight of the surfactant molecule.

8. The composition of claim 6 wherein the silicone oil comprises a polydimethylsiloxane.

9. The composition of claim 1 wherein the interior aqueous phase further comprises an organic solvent.

10. A method of removing soiled wax from flooring and applying a fresh coating of wax thereto, comprising contacting the flooring with an effective amount of the composition of claim 1.