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Preparation of biliquid foam compositions

Patent 4486333 Issued on December 4, 1984. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject March 23, 2002. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

Patent References

3900420

Inventor

Application

No. 06/361058 filed on 03/23/1982

US Classes:

516/14, The agent contains organic compound containing sulfoxy*510/158, Cream, paste, or gel510/403, Gel or malleable composition (e.g., plastic-like, etc.)510/404, Cream or paste510/438, Heterogeneous arrangement (e.g., mixture of macroscopic particles differing in physical or chemical composition, etc.; liquid component encapsulated in or sorbed on solid material, etc.)516/13, The agent contains organic compound containing phosphorus or silicon516/15, The agent contains organic compound containing nitrogen, except if present solely as NH4+516/18, The agent contains organic compound containing oxygen516/19The compound contains -C(=O)OH group or salt thereof

Examiners

Primary: Lovering, Richard D.
Assistant: Brookes, Anne

International Classes

C11D 17/00 (20060101)
C10L 1/32 (20060101)
B01J 13/00 (20060101)

Foreign Application Priority Data

1981-04-10 ZA

Abstract

A biliquid foam composition is prepared by agitating a hydrogen bonded liquid containing a soluble surfactant to produce a gas foam and intermittently adding to the gas foam a non-polar liquid which is immiscible with the hydrogen bonded liquid, the surfactant-containing hydrogen bonded liquid and non-polar liquid being selected to provide a spreading coefficient equal to or greater than zero. The resulting mixture is agitated after each addition so as to cause the non-polar liquid to initially spread on the foam surfaces and thereafter form non-coalescing globules of non-polar liquid dispersed in a continuous phase of the hydrogen bonded liquid and each encapsulated in a double surfaced surfactant-stabilized film of the hydrogen bonded liquid containing the soluble surfactant. The quantity of non-polar liquid added at each addition is such that the hydrogen bonded liquid remains the environment of any encapsulated globules of non-polar liquid formed, the total phase volume ratio (PVR) of the non-polar liquid to the hydrogen bonded liquid being up to about 50. The biliquid foams prepared in accordance with the invention have several noteworthy applications. For example, biliquid foams made of hydrocarbons and water are exceptionally good cleaning agents since they comprise both a finely dispersed hydrocarbon which can remove greases and water combined with detergent which can remove water soluble soils.

Other References

  • Hackh's, Chemical Dictionary, 4th Ed., McGraw-Hill Book Co., N.Y., (1969), p. 275
  • Sebba, "Biliquid Foams", J. of Colloid & Interface Science, vol. 40, No. 3, Sep. 1972, pp. 468-474
  • Sebba, "The Behaviour of Minute Oil Droplets Encapsulated in a Water Film", Colloid & Polymer Sci., 257, (1979), pp. 392-396
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