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(12) PATENT APPLICATION PUBLICATION
(19) INDIA (21)
(22) Date of filing of Application: 22/01/2004 (43)
Application No: 00061/MUMNP/2004 A
Publication Date: 24/06/2005
(54) Title of the invention: FABRIC CONDITIONING COMPOSITIONS
(51) International Classification : C11D3/00; C11D17/00 (71)
(31) Priority Document No. : 0118347.4
(32) Priority Date : 27/07/2001
(33) Name of priority country : UNITED KINGDOM
(86) International Application
No.
: PCT/EP02/08064
Filing Date : 19/07/2002
(87) International Publication
No.
: WO 03/012019 A1
(61) Patent of addition to
Application No.
: NIL
Filed on : N.A.
(62)
(57) Abstract:
Divisional to Application
No.
: NIL
Filed on : N.A.
(72)
Name of the Applicant:
HINDUSTAN LEVER LIMITED
Address of the Applicant:
HINDUSTAN LEVER HOUSE,
165-166 BACKBAY RECLAMATION,
MUMBAI – 400 020,
MAHARASHTRA, INDIA.
Name of the Inventors:
1. ELLSON KAREN JANE
2. HUBBARD JOHN FRANCIS
Filed U/S 5(2) before the
Patents (Amendment)
Ordinance, 2004: NO
An aqueous, liquid fabric conditioning composition and a method for making such a composition are provided
where the composition comprises a quaternary ammonium cationic softening compound and a non-ionic
surfactant, where the composition comprises an emulsion in which 80% or more by weight of the droplets in the
emulsion have a mean diameter of from 0.4 to 60 microns, as measured using a Malvern particle size analyser
with a 45mm lens for D[0,1] measurements and both a 45mm and a 1000mm lens for D[0,9] measurements. Use
of a nonionic surfactant to improve the dispersibility in water of an aqueous, liquid fabric conditioning
composition is also provided.
(FIG.: NIL)
Total Pages: 37.
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