Patent ID: 6503077
Filing Date: 2003-01-07
Classification: C08G

Abstract:
A candle comprising a wick and a gel phase, the gel phase comprising a gellant and a liquid that is gelled by the gellant, the gellant comprising a tertiary amide-terminated polyamide resin of the formula (1): wherein, n designates a number of repeating units such that terminal amide groups constitute from 10% to 50% of the total amide groups; R1 at each occurrence is independently selected from a C1-22 hydrocarbon group; R2 at each occurrence is independently selected from a C2-42 hydrocarbon group; R3 at each occurrence is independently selected from an organic group containing at least two carbon atoms in addition to hydrogen atoms, and optionally containing one or more oxygen and nitrogen atoms; and R3a at each occurrence is independently selected from hydrogen, C1-10 alkyl and a direct bond to R3 or another R3a such that the N atom to which R3 and R3a are both bonded is part of a heterocyclic structure defined in part by R3a Nâ€”R3.