Patent GB-425680-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the manufacture and production of washing, wetting, dressing and thelike agents
Filed: 1933-08-14
Abstract: Preparations suitable as wetting, washing, dressing and softening agents in the textile, leather and paper industries are obtained by mixing the products obtainable according to Specifications 380,431 and 380,851 containing the group (--CH2.CH2O--)xH, wherein x is a whole number above 3, with aliphatic alcohols containing at least 6 carbon atoms, aliphatic amines containing at least 6 carbon atoms, aromatic amines containing an aliphatic radicle having at least 6 carbon atoms or aliphatic carboxylic amides derived from aliphatic or aromatic amines containing an aliphatic radicle having at least 6 carbon atoms.  Soaps, turkey red oils, higher alcohol sulphuric esters, sulphite cellulose waste, water-glass, alkali phosphates and perborates, organic solvents, glue, dextrine and sulphonic acids such as condensation products of fatty acids with hydroxy or aminoalkylsulphonic acids may also be present.  In examples: (1) dodecylethanolamine is mixed with condensation products of p ethyleneoxide and oleyl alcohol, or with coco-nut fatty acid ethanolamide; the mixture may be used in washing wool and cotton; (2) hydroxyethyldodecyl alcohol, obtained from ethylenebromhydrin and sodium dodecylate, is mixed with a product derived from ethyleneoxide and oleyl alcohol; (3) acid amides derived from coco-nut oil fatty acids or the oil itself and ethylenediamine or triethylenetetramine are mixed with an oleylalcohol-ethyleneoxide condensation product; the mixture disperses calcium soaps; (4) a softening agent for viscose or acetate artificial silk is obtained by mixing an octodecyl alcohol-ethyleneoxide condensation product with an acid amide derived from stearic acid or beef tallow and triethylenetetramine; (5) a castor oil-ethylene-oxide condensation product is mixed with a higher alcohol obtained as a by-product in the synthesis of methanol; (6) a dodecylamine-ethyleneoxide condensation product is mixed with a product obtained from coco-nut oil and monoethanolamine and with polymerized ethyleneoxide; the mixture may be used as a dispersing agent in dyeing with basic dyes; the polymerized ethyleneoxide may be replaced by dextrine, albumin degradation products or polymerized vinylalcohol or acrylic acid sodium salt; ortho or meta sodium phosphates may be present.  The following higher alcohols, amines and acid amides are also mentioned: alcohols derived from stearic, ricinoleic, palmitic and montanic acids, linseed oil and train oil fatty acids and acids obtained by the oxidation of paraffin, octodecylamine, cetylaniline, octodecyl - p - toluidine, hydroxyethyldodecylaniline, acid amides derived from fatty acids and ethylamine, aniline, p-toluidine, cyclohexylamine, naphthylamine, phenylenediamine, naphthylenediamine and aminocarboxylic acids. Specifications 404,931 and 415,718 also are referred to.ALSO:A preparation stated to be useful as a dispersing agent is obtained by mixing a product obtained from coconut oil and monoethanolamine with a dodecylamine-ethyleneoxide condensation product and polymerized ethyleneoxide.  A mixture of an oleylalcoholethyleneoxide condensation product with an acid amide derived from coconut fatty acids and triethylenetetramine may be used for dispersing calcium soaps.