Detergent processes

Claim 1

A PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING A LIQUID DETERGENT COMPOSITION, WHICH PROCESS COMPRISES (1) PREPARING AN AQUEOUS EMULSION OF (A) A WATER-SOLUBLE DETERGENT ACTIVE MATERIAL CONTAINING A POLYOXYALKYLENE CHAIN IN INTIMATE CONTACT WITH (B) AN ACIDIC COPOLYMER OF AMLEIC ANHYDRIDE AND A LOWER MOLECULAR WEIGHT OF OLEFINICALLY UNSATURATED COMPOUND CONTAINING FROM 2 TO 4 CARBON ATOMS AND HAVING A MOLECULAR WEIGHT BETWEEN ABOUT 26 AND ABOUT 100; THE AQUEOUS PHASE OF SAID EMULSION BEING A CONCENTRATED SALT SOLUTION IN WHICH SAID DETERGENT ACTIVE MATERIAL IS SUBSTANTIALLY INSOLUBLE AND CONTAIING, DISSOLVED THEREIN, AT LEAST ABOUT 3 WEIGHT PERCENT OF AN INORGANIC ALKALI METAL CHAIN PHOSPHATE SALT; SAID DETERGENT ACTIVE MATERIAL BEING AN ALKOXYLATED DETERGENT HAVING FROM ABOUT 5 TO ABOUT 50 ALKYLENE OXIDE UNITS IN ITS POLYOXYALKYLATED CHAIN AND BEING SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF REACTION PRODUCTS OF A LOWER ALKYLENE OXIDE WITH AN ALKYLPHENOL HAVING AN ALKYL CHAIN CONTAINING FROM ABOUT 6 TO ABOUT 20 CARBON ATOMS, A MONOHYDRIC ALCOHOL CONTAINING FROM ABOUT 10 TO ABOUT 18 CARBON ATOMS, A FATTY ACID CONTAINING FROM ABOUT 10 TO ABOUT 18 CARBON ATOMS AND SULFATES THEREOF, AND SAID ACIDIC COPOLYMER HAVING AMOLECULAR WEIGHT BETWEEN 1000 AND ABOUT 100,000; (2) SUBSEQUENTLY CONVERTING SAID ACIDIC COPOLYMER TO THE ALKALINE SALT FORM WHILE SAID DETERGENT ACTIVE MATERIAL IS IN THE EMULSIFIED STATE.