United States Patent (19) 11 Patent Number: 4,732,612 Steer Et Al
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United States Patent (19) 11 Patent Number: 4,732,612 Steer et al. (45) Date of Patent: Mar. 22, 1988 54 POLISHEMULSION COMPOSITIONS FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS 75 Inventors: Frank J. Steer; John A. Ferguson, 104686 10/1978 Canada . both of Cincinnati, Ohio 3106866 9/1982 Fed. Rep. of Germany . 73 Assignee: The Drackett Company, Cincinnati, Ohio OTHER PUBLICATIONS Industrial Waxes, vol. I, Natural & Synthetic Waxes, H. (21) Appl. No.: 528,832 Bennett, pp. 117-121 (Chemical Publishing Co., 1963). 22 Filed: Sep. 2, 1983 Product Data-Hoechst Waxes, American Hoechst 51) Int. Cl."................................................ C09G 1/08 Corp. Ind. Chem. Div. (Apr. 1979) (4 pages). 52 U.S. Cl. ........................................ 106/10; 106/11; Product Data-Hoechst Waxes in Furniture Polishes, 106/271; 106/287.13 American Hoechst Corp. Ind. Chem. Div. (Sep. 1978) 58 Field of Search ............... 106/10, 11, 271, 287.13 (6 pages). Product Data-Hoechst Wax S, American Hoechst 56) References Cited Corp. Ind. Chem. Div. (Aug. 1981) (1 page). U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS Carbowax Polyethylene Glycols, Union Carbide Corp. (5 pages). 2,085,706 6/1937 Schoeller et al. ................... 260/404 2,586,780 2/1952 Breuer et al. ......................... 106/10 The Pluronic Grid, 5th ed., Wyandotte Chemicals, (4 2,646,436 7/1953 Breuer et al. ....... 260/410.6 pages). 2,782,124 2/1957 Rosenberg et al. ................... 106/10 Primary Examiner-Amelia Burgess Yarbrough 2,907,664 10/1959 Schoenholz et al. ... ... 106/10 2,925,349 2/1960 Koenig et al. ........................ 106/10 Attorney, Agent, or Firm-Charles Zeller 2,963,379 12/1960 Kaupp et al. ....... ... 106/268 57 ABSTRACT 3,053,681 9/1962 Kaupp et al. ....... ... 106/268 3,060,046 10/1962 Kaupp et al. ....... ... 106/270 A furniture polish composition characterized by an 3,062,671 11/1962 Kaupp et al. ....... ... 106/268 internal aqueous phase and an external oil phase, the 3,143,431 8/1964 Kaupp et al. ........... ... 106/8 composition containing an ethoxylated montan acid 3,300,321 1/1967 Rosenberg et al...... ... 106/6 wax in an amount of from 0.5 to 5% by weight, which 3,393,078 7/1968 Lockhart et al. ....... ... 106/8 constituent functions both as an emulsifier and as the 3,395,028 7/1968 Mackles .................. ... 106A8 3,437,496 4/1969 Rosenberg et al. ... 106/10 wax. Also included in the composition is from 10 to 3,745,033 7/1973 Hutchison ........... 106/270 50% hydrocarbon solvent; from 0 to 15% polysiloxane, 3,836,371 9/1974 Kokoszka ........ ... 106/10 and water. A coemulsifier may be included at low lev 3,847,622 11/1974 Brandl et al. ....... ... 106/10 els, less than 0.5% by weight, the weight ratio of the 3,929,492 12/1975 Chapman et al. ... ... 106/3 ester to the emulsifier being greater than 1:1. 4,013,475 3/1977 Liebowitz et al. .. ... 106/10 4,265,663 5/1981 Gilcinski et al. ...................... 106/10 30 Claims, No Drawings 4,732,612 2 wax, and the like. The emulsifier in the Mackles compo POLISHEMUSON COMPOSITIONS sition may be sorbitan sesquioleate, tall oil alkanola mides, polyglycerol oleate, etc., usually present in the FIELD OF INVENTION amount of 0.25 to 5.0% by weight of the total composi The present invention relates to furniture polish com 5 tion. positions characterized by being water-in-oil emulsions, U.S. Pat. No. 3,393,078 to Lockhart, et al, discloses a the composition being in nonaerosol liquid or paste, or wax-containing metal polish composition, the composi aerosol form. More specifically, the compositions tion containing 1 to 10% microcrystalline wax and 1 to herein relate to the incorporation as the emulsion-form 15% montan wax having an acid value of 90 to 160. The ing agent a component that is an ester of a long chain 10 emulsifiers suitable for incorporation into the Lockhart, paraffinic hydrocarbon, having both lipophilic and hy et al, composition are those mentioned by Brandl, U.S. drophilic moieties, the hydrophilic moiety being a po Pat. No. 3,847,622, above. However, in Lockhart at lyalkoxy group. Most specifically, the emulsion-form least part of the montan wax constituent is in the form of ing agent is an ethoxylated montan wax ester obtained, an oxidized montan wax-containing morpholine monta for example, as the reaction product of montanic acid 15 nate groups resulting from the in situ reaction product and polyethylene glycol. of at least a part of the acid groups obtained by oxida tion of the montan wax with morpholine or other BACKGROUND OF INVENTION amine, which constituent contributes to the emulsifica Water-in-oil polishes containing a wax constituent in tion of the composition. combination with an emulsifier are well known in the 20 A self-spraying wax composition is disclosed in U.S. art. In U.S. Pat. No. 3,847,622 to Brandl, which con Pat. No. 2,907,664 to Schoenholz, et al, which is an tains a wax component in addition to a solvent, an emul oil-in-water emulsion-type polish, and may contain as sifier, a lubricant, and water, the wax component com prises from 0.1 to 3.0% by weight of the composition, an example of a wax Gersthofen OP, a wax derived and is a montan or lignite wax having an acid value of 25 from montan wax, described as a mixture of the butyl 90 to 160, preferably 100 to 130. The emulsifier may be ene glycol ester of montanic acid and calcium monta sorbitan sesquioleate, tall oil alkanolamides, poly nate. Amine soap, borax, sorbitan fatty esters, etc., are glyceroleate, or the reaction product of morpholine-2- the designated emulsifiers. amino-2- methyl-1-propanol or methoxypropylamine Also of interest as disclosing wax-containing polish and a fatty acid such as oleic or stearic acid, or montanic 30 compositions are U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,013,475 to Liebowitz, acid, the emulsifier being present in an effective amount, et al., 4,265,663 to Gilcinski, et al, and 3,836,371 to Ko e.g., from 0.25 to 3.0% by weight of the composition. koszka. An organopolysiloxane, e.g., a dimethyl polysiloxane, In all of the above wax-containing compositions, the in the amount of from 0.5 to 9% by weight, having a wax must be dissolved/dispersed in one or both of the viscosity of from 20 to 15,000 cs. at 25 C. is included to 35 liquid phases. Also, in all of the above compositions, enhance the polishing character of the composition, and emulsifiers are used to couple the water and oil phases. to provide lubricity. Preferably, the polysiloxane is a The emulsifier is not typically an active polishing aid, mixture of two polysiloxanes, one having a viscosity of but rather detracts from the desired polishing end bene 50 to 550 cs. and the other having a viscosity of 950 to fit because the emulsifier is codeposited onto the surface 15,000 cs. The organic solvent has an aniline point of 40 during use along with the wax. It is known that as the from -22 to 185 F., and may be a hydrocarbon, pref. concentration of conventional emulsifiers increases, erably an isoparaffinic hydrocarbon, or a chloro-sub polish performance with respect to gloss and resistance stituted hydrocarbon. to smears decreases. Hence, the elimination or the sub Another example of a wax-containing polish compo stantial reduction in the level of these conventional sition is illustrated in U.S. Pat. No. 3,929,492 to Chap 45 emulsifiers included in the polish composition or by man, said composition containing from 0.1 to 5% wax, utilizing a material that functions as both an active pol 0.5 to 10% organic polysiloxane, water and propellant. ishing ingredient and an emulsifier is desirable. The wax constituent is any predominantly hydrocarbon Some of the patented compositions referred to above aliphatic material of high molecular weight, including teach the modification of certain natural waxes, for natural and synthetic waxes, ester-type waxes, for ex 50 example, montan wax, to provide such derivative with ample, candelilla wax, carnauba wax, microcrystalline emulsifiers properties. For example, U.S. Pat. Nos. wax, petroleum wax, and synthetic resinous materials 3,847,622 to Brandl and 3,393,078 to Lockhart, et al, such as polyethylene and polypropylene. Emulsifiers disclose reaction products of an amine and oxidized are preferably incorporated into the Chapman composi montanic wax. tion, for example, longchain, fatty acid esters of polyhy 55 U.S. Pat. Nos. 2,782,124, 3,300,321, and 3,437,496, droxylic compounds, such as the glycol, glycerol and each to Rosenberg, et al., 2,925,349 to Koenig, et al, and sorbitol esters of oleic, stearic palmitic and lauric acids, 3,143,431, 2,963,379, 3,062,671, 3,053,681 and 3,060,046, ethoxylated fatty acids and amides, e.g., sorbitan mono each to Kaupp, et al, disclose the esterification of mon oleate. Also includable are nonionic emulsifiers such as tan waxes so as to modify the hardness and performance polyethylene oxide adducts. in dry-bright polish compositions. Thus, Rosenberg, et U.S. Pat. No. 3,395,028 to Mackles discloses an aero al, discloses in the '124 patent the after-esterified oxida sol wax and silicone oil furniture polish which is a dou tion product of crude montan wax in combination with ble emulsion consisting of a water-in-oil emulsion in Saturated and unsaturated fatty alcohols of long carbon which the outer oil phase contains the organic solvent chain lengths, such as monooleates or palmitates or and wax, and the inner-water phase has emulsified polyoxysorbitan.