Patents Represented by Attorney Gary J. Foose
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Patent number: 7696144Abstract: The present invention relates to a particulate textile treatment composition comprising silicone, clay and anionic surfactant, wherein the composition comprises at least three particulate components: wherein the first particulate component comprises silicone, clay and a first anionic surfactant; wherein the second particulate component comprises a second anionic surfactant; and wherein the third particulate component comprises a third anionic surfactant; wherein the concentration of the second anionic surfactant in the second particulate component is greater than the concentration of the third anionic surfactant in the third particulate component.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2006Date of Patent: April 13, 2010Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Co.Inventor: Malcolm McClaren Dodd
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Patent number: 7648752Abstract: A composite web adapted for use as a component in a disposable absorbent article is disclosed. The composite web comprises a first fibrous layer and a second layer, the first and second layers each comprising a body-facing side and a garment-facing side and are disposed in a face to face relationship to form a laminate. The first fibrous layer comprises a fibrous web of randomly oriented fibers with respect to an X-Y plane, and a plurality of discrete regions of fiber reorientation at least on the body-facing side thereof, and a plurality of fibers having portions reoriented in a direction substantially orthogonal to the X-Y plane and extending toward the garment-facing side.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2003Date of Patent: January 19, 2010Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Jody Lynn Hoying, Luigi Marinelli, Nicola D'Alessio, Pietro Febo
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Patent number: 7605116Abstract: A solid laundry detergent composition comprising: (a) from 0.1 wt % to 10 wt % of an alkoxylated anionic detersive surfactant; (b) from 1 wt % to 25 wt % of an non-alkoxylated anionic detersive surfactant; (c) from 0 wt % to 4 wt % zeolite builder; (d) from 0 wt % to 4 wt % phosphate builder; and (e) from 0 wt % to 10 wt % silicate salt.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2005Date of Patent: October 20, 2009Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Alan Thomas Brooker, Kevin Lee Kott, Nicola Ethel Davidson, Lindsey Heathcote, John Peter Eric Muller, Mark Allen Smerznak, Nigel Patrick Sommerville-Roberts, Kenji Shindo, Emmanuel Pantelis Fakoukakis, Jason Christopher King
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Patent number: 7553532Abstract: Disclosed is a fibrous web comprising a first region and at least one discrete integral second region, the second region having at least one portion being a discontinuity exhibiting a linear orientation and defining a longitudinal axis, and at least another portion being a deformation comprising a plurality of tufted fibers integral with but extending from the first region.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2003Date of Patent: June 30, 2009Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Robert Haines Turner, John Joseph Curro, Jody Lynn Hoying, Susan Nicole Lloyd, John Lee Hammons
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Patent number: 7553146Abstract: An apparatus for forming air-laid fibrous articles. The apparatus can have a core pocket. The core pocket can have a shield. The core pocket can further have a central opening defined by a void in the shield. The core pocket can further have a central forming chamber in air-flow communication with the central opening and having a central forming chamber periphery. The core pocket can further have a central foraminous forming surface in air-flow communication with the central forming chamber. The core pocket can further have a pair of edge openings extending along the shield. The core pocket can further have an edge forming chamber disposed about the central forming chamber periphery and in air-flow communication with the edge openings. The core pocket can further have an edge foraminous forming surface in air-flow communication with the edge forming chamber.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2006Date of Patent: June 30, 2009Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Curtis Hunter Van Valkenburgh, Claudio Antonio Matos, Karen Juliana Fegelman
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Patent number: 7549853Abstract: An apparatus for forming air-laid fibrous articles. The apparatus can have a core pocket operatively related with an air-distribution manifold that can apply different air pressures to different portions of the core pocket. The core pocket can have a shield and a central opening defined by a void in the shield. The core pocket can have a central forming chamber in air-flow communication with the central opening and have a central forming chamber periphery. The core pocket can have a central foraminous forming surface in air-flow communication with the central forming chamber. The core pocket can have a pair of edge openings extending along the shield. The core pocket can have an edge forming chamber disposed about the central forming chamber periphery and in air-flow communication with the edge openings. The core pocket can have an edge foraminous forming surface in air-flow communication with the edge forming chamber.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2006Date of Patent: June 23, 2009Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Karen Juliana Fegelman, Claudio Antonio Matos, Curtis Hunter Van Valkenburgh
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Patent number: 7521588Abstract: A polymeric web exhibiting a soft and silky tactile impression on at least one side thereof is disclosed. The silky feeling side of the web exhibits a pattern of discrete hair-like fibrils, each of the hair-like fibrils being a protruded extension of the web surface and having a side wall defining an open proximal portion and a closed distal portion. The hair-like fibrils exhibit a maximum lateral cross-sectional diameter of between 2 and 5 mils, and an aspect ratio from 1 to 3. Methods and apparatus for making the polymeric web utilize a three-dimensional forming structure having a plurality of protrusions being generally columnar forms having an average aspect ratio of at least about 1.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2005Date of Patent: April 21, 2009Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Keith Joseph Stone, Brian Francis Gray, Norman Scott Broyles, Dimitris Ioannis Collias, Yann-Per Lee
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Patent number: 7507459Abstract: A sanitary napkin comprising a topsheet comprising a plurality of discrete tufts of fibrous material, wherein the topsheet has a density of less than 0.027 g/cc under a load of 0.004 psi, and a density of less than 0.068 at a load of 0.23 psi.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2005Date of Patent: March 24, 2009Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Robert Haines Turner, John Joseph Curro, Jody Lynn Hoying, Susan Nicole Lloyd, John Lee Hammons
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Patent number: 7500941Abstract: A folding system is provided for folding at least one wing extending from a central chassis of each of a plurality of absorbent articles formed from a continuous moving web moving in a longitudinal direction. The folding system has a wing-folding conveyor and at least one elongated, folding plow, which has an entrance end, an exit end and an inner edge that define a twist axis. The folding plow has a contoured surface having a configuration defined by a twist angle that increases along the twist axis from zero degrees near the entrance end to 180 degrees near the exit end. The wing-folding conveyor moves the central chassis along the inner edge of the folding plow and the wing slides against the contoured surface from the entrance end to the exit end, such that the wing folds around the central chassis near the inner edge.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2006Date of Patent: March 10, 2009Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Richard George Coe, Claudio Antonio Matos, Kazuya Ogawa, Michael Joseph Page, Richard William Hamm
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Patent number: 7462755Abstract: The present invention relates to absorbent articles, typically for feminine protection, comprising a topsheet, a backsheet, an absorbent element positioned between the topsheet and the backsheet, and at least a fluid acquisition/distribution layer. The absorbent article also comprises edge barrier elements for intercepting fluids. The edge barrier elements comprise a liquid absorbent thermoplastic composition comprising a polymeric base material having particles of water-insoluble water-swellable absorbent material dispersed therein, and are comprised between the absorbent core and the at least one fluid acquisition/distribution layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2005Date of Patent: December 9, 2008Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Carlo Toro, Enzo Pompei, Giovanni Carlucci, Marco Digiacomantonio, Fiorello Salone
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Patent number: 7410683Abstract: A laminate web comprising a first and second precursor webs, at least the first precursor web being a nonwoven web, the laminate web having a first side, the first side comprising the second precursor web and at least one discrete tuft, each of the discrete tufts having a linear orientation defining a longitudinal axis and comprising a plurality of tufted fibers being integral extensions of the first precursor web and extending through the second precursor web; and a second side, the second side comprising the first precursor web.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2003Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: John Joseph Curro, Robert Haines Turner, Jody Lynn Hoying, Susan Nicole Lloyd, John Lee Hammons
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Patent number: 7404810Abstract: The present invention relates to absorbent articles, typically for feminine protection, comprising a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent element positioned between the topsheet and the backsheet. The absorbent article also comprises edge barrier elements for intercepting fluids. The edge barrier elements comprise a liquid absorbent thermoplastic composition comprising a polymeric base material having particles of water-insoluble water-swellable absorbent material dispersed therein, and are provided with a basis weight gradient along their respective width or length in the liquid absorbing thermoplastic composition and/or in the particles of water-insoluble water-swellable absorbent material dispersed therein.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2005Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Carlo Toro, Enzo Pompei, Pancrazio Veronese
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Patent number: 7402723Abstract: A polymeric web exhibiting a soft and silky tactile impression on at least one side thereof is disclosed. The silky feeling side of the web exhibits a pattern of discrete hair-like fibrils, each of the hair-like fibrils being a protruded extension of the web surface and having a side wall defining an open proximal portion and a closed distal portion. The hair-like fibrils exhibit a maximum lateral cross-sectional diameter of between 2 and 5 mils, and an aspect ratio from 1 to 3. Methods and apparatus for making the polymeric web utilize a three-dimensional forming structure having a plurality of protrusions being generally columnar forms having an average aspect ratio of at least about 1.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2002Date of Patent: July 22, 2008Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Keith Joseph Stone, Brian Francis Gray, Norman Scott Broyles, Dimitris Ioannis Collias, Yann-Per Lee
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Patent number: 7402722Abstract: An absorbent article has an absorbent material and an outer surface including an inhibitor which is partially bound to the absorbent material and substantially inhibits the colonization of bacteria within the absorbent article. An absorbent article has an absorbent material. The absorbent material has an outer surface. The absorbent article includes a pre-toxin limiting agent which is partially bound to the absorbent material and substantially retards the production of bacteria-produced toxins by the bacteria residing within the absorbent article. An absorbent article has an absorbent material. The absorbent material has an outer surface. The absorbent article includes a toxin enclosing agent. The toxin enclosing agent substantially inhibits the migration of toxin outwardly from within the absorbent article towards the outer surface of the absorbent article.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2007Date of Patent: July 22, 2008Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Donna Rene Hill, Thomas Ward Osborn, III, Catherine Cornick Davis
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Patent number: 7321007Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid absorbent thermoplastic composition, which contains particles of a superabsorbent material having angle-lacking shapes. The composition is particularly suitable to be used in absorbent articles for personal hygiene, specifically in disposable absorbent articles, which have one or more transparent regions.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2003Date of Patent: January 22, 2008Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Ivano Gagliardi, Giovanni Carlucci, Roberto D'Addario, Paolo Veglio
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Patent number: 7303861Abstract: A method for making a forming structure having columnar protrusions extending therefrom comprising the steps of exposing a liquid photosensitive resin to light having an activating wavelength thereby inducing partial curing of the photosensitive resin to form a monolithic slab of partially-cured photosensitive resin; and, including the step of inducing partial curing of a plurality of protrusions on the monolithic slab such that they are joined to and integral with the monolithic slab. The method can further comprise the step of laser etching a plurality of apertures through the forming structure.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2003Date of Patent: December 4, 2007Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Brian Francis Gray, Keith Joseph Stone, Sarah Beth Gross, Julie Ann O'Neil, Timothy Paul Fiedeldey
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Patent number: D554500Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2006Date of Patent: November 6, 2007Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Elizabeth Ann Bone, Emily Michelle Mason
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Patent number: D566545Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2007Date of Patent: April 15, 2008Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Elizabeth Ann Bone, Emily Michelle Mason
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Patent number: D567080Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2007Date of Patent: April 22, 2008Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Elizabeth Ann Bone, Emily Michelle Mason
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Patent number: D601415Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2007Date of Patent: October 6, 2009Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Susie Marie Seum, Marilyn Gale Perkins-Stanaford, Tom Patrick Collins, Ida Abdalkhani