Abstract: An automatic dishwashing composition in unit dose form for delivery into the main-wash cycle of an automatic dishwashing machine, the composition comprising a phosphate or non-phosphate detergency builder and a sulfonated anti-scaling polymer.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 15, 2005
Date of Patent:
October 16, 2007
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Neha Kapur, Anju Deepali Massey Brooker, James Iain Kinloch, Alison Lesley Main
Abstract: A method of preventing corrosion of metals such as stainless steel, carbon steel and chrome plated flatware in automatic dishwashers through the use of a corrosion inhibitor in an automatic dishwashing detergent composition.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 3, 2006
Date of Patent:
July 17, 2007
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Patricia Sara Berger, Patti Jean Kellett
Abstract: Process of making alkyl-capped alkoxylated esters. More specifically, a process of making alkyl-capped alkoxylated esters that are comprised substantially of triethylene alkoxy ester and substantially free from ethylene glycol monoalkoxy monoester and diethylene glycol monoalkoxy monoester.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 17, 2004
Date of Patent:
July 25, 2006
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Lon Montgomery Gray, Jeffrey John Scheibel, Phillip Kyle Vinson, Christopher James Binski
Abstract: Materials for coating, coating compositions, methods and articles of manufacture comprising a nanoparticle system or employing the same to impart surface modifying benefits for all types of hard surfaces are disclosed. In some embodiments, dispersement of nanoparticles in a suitable carrier medium allows for the creation of coating compositions, methods and articles of manufacture that create multi-use benefits to modified hard surfaces. In some embodiments, actively curing the coating composition on the hard surfaces, including, but not limited to by radiative heating the air surrounding the hard surface with the coating thereon can be used to increase the durability of the hard surface coating.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 13, 2001
Date of Patent:
June 27, 2006
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Robert Henry Rohrbaugh, Michael Ray McDonald, John David Carter, Eugene Paul Gosselink, Chanchal Kumar Ghosh, Helen Frances O'Connor, Heather Anne Liddle, Marc Francois Evers, Morgan Thomas Leahy, Alan Scott Goldstein, Brian Joseph Loughnane
Abstract: Automatic dishwashing detergent compositions comprising a builder; a surfactant selected from: the formula R1(EO)a(PO)b(BO)c, wherein R1 is a linear or branched C6 to C30 alkyl, a is from 2 to 30; b is from 0 to 30; c is from 1 to 30; and the surfactant has an X/Y number less than 1.90; the formula R1O[CH2CH(R3)O]4R2, wherein R1 is a hydrocarbon radical having from 1 to 30 carbon atoms; R2 is a hydrocarbon radical having 1 to 30 carbon atoms: R3 is H, or a linear aliphatic hydrocarbon-radical having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms; e is an integer having an average value from 1 to 40, a bleaching agent and d) adjunct materials.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 10, 2000
Date of Patent:
March 14, 2006
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Bernard William Kluesener, William Michael Scheper, Mark Robert Sivik, Glenn Thomas Jordan, IV, Donna Jean Haeggberg
Abstract: Materials for coating, coating compositions, methods and articles of manufacture comprising a nanoparticle system or employing the same to impart surface modifying benefits for all types of inanimate hard surfaces are disclosed. In some embodiments, dispersement of nanoparticles in a suitable carrier medium allows for the creation of coating compositions, methods and articles of manufacture that create multi-use benefits to modified hard surfaces. These surface modifications can produce long lasting or semi-permanent multi-use benefits that include at least one of the following improved surface properties: wetting and sheeting, quick drying, uniform drying, soil removal, self-cleaning, anti-spotting, anti-soil deposition, cleaner appearance, enhanced gloss, enhanced color, minor surface defect repair, smoothness, anti-hazing, modification of surface friction, release of actives and transparency, relative to hard surfaces unmodified with such nanoparticle systems.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 11, 2003
Date of Patent:
October 18, 2005
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Robert Henry Rohrbaugh, Alan Scott Goldstein, Michael Ray McDonald, Helen Frances O'Connor, Heather Anne Liddle, John Michael Jensen, Nabil Yaqub Sakkab
Abstract: Polyaspartate derivatives, especially hydrophobically modified and/or hydrophilically modified polyaspartate derivatives, most especially polyaspartate derivatives that are both hydrophilically and hydrophobically modified, for use in detergent compositions, specifically laundry detergent compositions for providing cleaning, dispersancy, especially soil dispersion, builder properties and/or improved whitening of fabrics contacted by such detergent compositions; and methods for making such polyaspartate derivatives, and methods and articles employing such detergent compositions, are provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 31, 2002
Date of Patent:
August 23, 2005
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Glenn Thomas Jordan, IV, Eugene Paul Gosselink
Abstract: The present invention relates to laundry detergent compositions which provide enhanced hydrophilic soil cleaning benefits comprising a zwitterionic polyamine, a surfactant system comprising a mid-chain branched surfactant, and carrier and other adjunct ingredients.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 6, 2003
Date of Patent:
July 5, 2005
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Kenneth Nathan Price, Eugene Paul Gosselink
Abstract: A surfactant composition comprising: alkylarylsulfonate surfactant system comprising at least two isomers of the alkylarylsulfonate surfactant of the formula: wherein: L is an acyclic aliphatic hydrocarbyl of from 6 to 18 carbon atoms in total; M is a cation or cation mixture and q is the valence thereof; a and b are numbers selected such that said composition is electroneutral; R? is selected from H and C1 to C3 alkyl; R? is selected from H and C1 to C3 alkyl; R?? is selected from H and C1 to C3 alkyl; any of R? and R? is nonterminally attached to L and at least one of R? and R? is C1 to C3 alkyl; and A is aryl; and wherein: said alkylarylsulfonate surfactant system comprises two or more isomers with respect to positions of attachment of R?, R? and A to L; in at least about 60% of said composition, A is attached to L in the position which is selected from positions alpha- and beta- to either of the two terminal carbon atoms thereof; and wherein further said alkylarylsulfonate surfactant system has
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 22, 2001
Date of Patent:
June 21, 2005
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Kevin Lee Kott, Jeffrey John Scheibel, Thomas Anthony Cripe, Daniel Stedman Connor, Phillip Kyle Vinson
Abstract: The present invention relates to detergent compositions comprising a polyamine with defined end capping units and a mid-chain branched surfactant and also optionally containing a bleach agent, aluminosilicate, silicate, and/or detersive enzyme.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 14, 2003
Date of Patent:
June 7, 2005
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Kenneth Nathan Price, Eugene Paul Gosselink, Randall Scott Deinhammer
Abstract: Novel clean fuels comprising selected nonlinear long chain saturated primary monohydric/dihydric alcohols and mixtures thereof, novel diols; and processes for making clean synthetic jet fuels and/or clean synthetic diesel fuels as well as processes for making clean synthetic jet fuels and/or clean synthetic diesel fuels concurrently with making nonlinear alcohols for use by the detergent industry.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 2, 2001
Date of Patent:
May 24, 2005
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Daniel Stedman Connor, James Charles Theophil Roger Burckett-St. Laurent, Thomas Anthony Cripe
Abstract: Novel fatty acids and derivatives thereof such as salts, new surfactant systems comprising one or more of these compounds, consumer products such as laundry products, personal care products, pharmaceutical compositions, industrial cleaners, and the like comprising said compounds or surfactant systems.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 24, 2003
Date of Patent:
May 10, 2005
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Daniel Stedman Connor, Jeffrey John Scheibel, Deborah Jean Back, Toan Trinh, Phillip Kyle Vinson, Roland George Severson, Thomas Anthony Cripe, James Charles Theophile Roger Burckett-St. Laurent, Mark Robert Sivik, Errol Hoffman Wahl, Gayle Marie Frankenbach, Marc Johan Declercq, Hugo Jean Marie Demeyere
Abstract: Coating compositions, methods and articles of manufacture comprising a nanoparticle system employing same to impart surface modifying benefits for all types of soft surfaces, and in some cases, hard surfaces, are disclosed. In some embodiments, dispersement of nanoparticles in a suitable carrier medium allows for the creation of coating compositions, methods and articles of manufacture that create multi-use benefits to the modified surfaces. These surface modifications can produce long lasting or semi-permanent multi-use benefits that, in some embodiments, may include at least one of the following improved surface properties: cleaning, wettability, liquid strike-through, comfort, stain resistance, soil removal, malodor control, modification of surface friction, reduced damage to abrasion and color enhancement, relative to the surfaces unmodified with such nanoparticle systems.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 30, 2002
Date of Patent:
March 29, 2005
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Michael Ray McDonald, Heather Anne Liddle, John David Carter, Robert Henry Rohrbaugh
Abstract: The present invention relates to novel hydrophobic soil dispersants having the formula: wherein A units are arylene units, one of which is phenyl, anthryl, or phenanthryl; each R is independently hydrogen, linear or branched C1-C4 alkyl, —O(R3O)mR4, and mixtures thereof; R3 is C2-C4 linear or branched alkylene, R4 is hydrogen, C1-C4 alkyl, phenyl, phenyl sulphonate, —CH2CH(SO3M)CH2OH, —CH2CH(OH)CH2SO3M, —(CH2)eSO3M, —(CH2)fCO2M, —(CH2)eCH(SO3M)-CH2SO3M, —(CH2)eCH(SO2M)-CH2SO3M, —(CH2)fPO3M, —PO3M, or mixtures thereof; M is hydrogen or a water-soluble cation, the index f is an integer from 1 to 6, the index e is an integer from 0 to 6, m is an integer from 0 to 25; R1 is a sulphonate group; R2 is an amino group; [CAP] is a chain capping unit selected from i) hydrogen; ii) an aryl unit having the formula: iii) an aryl unit having the formula: iv) an aryl unit having the formula: v) an aryl unit having the formula: vi) and mixtures thereof; R5 is hydrogen, —CH2OH, —CH2OSO3M, —CH3, and mix
Abstract: Process of making alkyl-capped alkoxylated esters. More specifically, a process of making alkyl-capped alkoxylated esters that are comprised substantially of triethylene alkoxy ester and substantially free from ethylene glycol monoalkoxy monoester and diethylene glycol monoalkoxy monoester.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 16, 2002
Date of Patent:
February 1, 2005
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Lon Montgomery Gray, Jeffrey John Scheibel, Phillip Kyle Vinson, Christopher James Binski
Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method for cleaning and/or treating a surface, preferably surfaces such as ceramic, steel, plastic, glass and/or painted surfaces such as the exterior surface of a vehicle. In one embodiment, the method forms a transparent, hydrophilic coating on the surface of a vehicle. This embodiment of the method includes the steps of: (a) providing a vehicle having at least some surfaces that are at least one of the following: cured painted surfaces, cured clearcoat surfaces, and glass surfaces; (b) applying a non-photoactive nanoparticle coating composition to such surfaces; and (c) allowing the coating composition to dry on such surfaces before the surfaces are contacted by water.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 11, 2001
Date of Patent:
January 25, 2005
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Robert Henry Rohrbaugh, Alan Scott Goldstein, Michael Ray McDonald, Helen Frances O'Connor, Morgan Thomas Leahy
Abstract: Ether-capped poly(oxyalkylated) alcohol surfactants having superior grease cleaning abilities and improved spotting/filming benefits are provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 12, 2000
Date of Patent:
January 18, 2005
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Mark Robert Sivik, Glenn Thomas Jordan, IV, Bernard William Kluesener, William Michael Scheper, Donna Jean Haeggberg, Kristen Lynne McKenzie