Transparent Gel Candle Base Using Dual Glutamide Gelling Agents
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing transparent candle bases lack sufficient transparency and hardness, often requiring external support, and can exhibit undesirable characteristics such as shifting, darkening, or cracking during burning, while also failing to meet stringent requirements for safe and pleasant burning.
Innovation Solution
A transparent gel candle base composition using a combination of dibutyl lauroyl glutamide and dibutyl ethylhexanoyl glutamide as gelling agents, along with a hydrocarbon oil and optional additives, which improves transparency and hardness, and ensures stable burning properties.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Illumination intensity
If conventional transparent candle bases are used, then transparency is achieved, but hardness and rigidity are insufficient requiring external support
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses a composite gel system combining multiple gelling agents (dibutyl lauroyl glutamide and dibutyl ethylhexanoyl glutamide) with hydrocarbon oils to create a material that simultaneously achieves high transparency and sufficient hardness for self-supporting candles
2Illumination intensity
If conventional transparent candle bases are used, then transparency is achieved, but structural integrity deteriorates causing cracking and fracturing
Solution Approach 1:
The composite gel formulation with specific gelling agents creates a more uniform and resilient structure that maintains transparency while preventing cracking and fracturing during burning
Solution Approach 2:
The patent optimizes the concentration and type of gelling agents to change the physical parameters of the gel, achieving a balance between transparency and structural strength that prevents cracking
3Ease of operation
If candle body material melts at low temperature, then ease of burning is improved, but harmful effects increase due to dripping and pool ignition
Solution Approach 1:
The gel formulation is designed to melt at an optimized temperature range that allows easy burning while maintaining sufficient viscosity to prevent excessive dripping and pool formation
4Object-generated harmful factors
If candle body material has high melting temperature, then dripping is reduced, but ease of operation deteriorates due to flame starvation
Solution Approach 1:
The gel composition is engineered with specific melting point characteristics that ensure the material melts sufficiently for capillary action to fuel the flame while maintaining enough structure to prevent dripping
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The solution achieves a transmittance of at least 80% and enhanced hardness, preventing exudation and excessive sooting, while maintaining structural integrity and aesthetic appeal, with candles that are self-supporting and do not crack or split during burning.
Implementation Method 1
a gelling agent comprising dibutyl lauroyl glutamide and dibutyl ethylhexanoyl glutamide
Implementation Method 2
This molten material is then drawn up through and along the wick by capillary action to fuel the flame
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AI summary
The present invention relates to transparent gel candle bases that may be used as a base material of transparent candles, to the transparent candles made therefrom, and to methods of making such candle bases and candles. The transparent gel candle bases of the present invention include a hydrocarbon oil and a gelling agent comprising dibutyl lauroyl glutamide and dibutyl ethylhexanoyl glutamide.