Patents Assigned to Procter & Gamble Company, The
  • Unitary fibrous structure comprising randomly distributed cellulosic and non-randomly distributed synthetic fibers
    Patent number: 7396436
    Abstract: A process for making a unitary fibrous structure comprises steps of: providing a fibrous web comprising a plurality of cellulosic fibers randomly distributed throughout the fibrous web and a plurality of synthetic fibers randomly distributed throughout the fibrous web; and causing co-joining of at least a portion of the synthetic fibers with the cellulosic fibers and the synthetic fibers, wherein the co-joining occurs in areas having a non-random and repeating pattern. A unitary fibrous structure comprises a plurality of cellulosic fibers randomly distributed throughout the fibrous structure, and a plurality of synthetic fibers distributed throughout the fibrous structure in a non-random repeating pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Paul Dennis Trokhan, Dean Van Phan, Osman Polat
  • Portable packaging device and method for forming individually packaged articles
    Patent number: 7395646
    Abstract: An article packaging device for packaging articles within a tubular sheet. The article to be packaged is inserted into and enclosed within a length of tubular sheet, and separated from the remaining length of tubular sheet and the device to form the closed individually packaged article. The packaging device is designed to be portable, convenient, lightweight and easily maintained. A thermoplastic, vapor-impermeable tubular sheet having adhesive on one surface can provide an airtight seal that is especially effective when the device is used to package waste-containing disposable adsorbent articles, such as soiled diapers, for disposal. An apparatus for forming the tubular sheet into a layered pack of pleats having an adhesive material positioned on at least one surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignee: The Procters & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Nabil Enrique Salman, Stefano Michele Sinigaglia, Robert Paul Cassoni, Pablo Ibarra, Jose Mauricio Berrizbeitia
  • Absorbent article comprising coated water-swellable material
    Patent number: 7396585
    Abstract: This invention is directed to an absorbent structure comprising a solid, typically particulate, water-swellable material that comprises coated water-swellable, preferably hydrogel-forming polymers, which are coated with a coating agent, which is such that it does not rupture when the polymers swell in a liquid, e.g., water or saline water. Hereto, the coating agent is extensible in wet state and comprises thereto a wet-extensible material that has a wet-elongation of at least 400% or even at least 500%, and preferably a tensile stress at break in the wet state of at least 1 MPa. Typically, the coating agent comprises thereto an elastomeric polymeric material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Mattias Schmidt, Axel Meyer, Renae Dianna Fossum, Stephen Allen Goldman, Edward Joseph Urankar, Bruno Johannes Ehrnsperger
  • Compositions comprising protein and fatty acid
    Patent number: 7393552
    Abstract: Described herein are compositions comprising defined protein and lipid components. In particular, the compositions comprise: (a) a protein component including a protein selected from whey, casein, and mixtures thereof; and (b) a lipid component including a fatty acid material selected from fatty acids, non-glyceryl esters thereof, and mixtures thereof, wherein the lipid component has a median particle size of less than about 1 micron.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Leonard Edwin Small, Haile Mehansho, Shalayna Antoinette Woodly, Raul Victorino Nunes, Roger William Krummen
  • Method for curing high internal phase emulsions
    Patent number: 7393878
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method for reducing monomer loss during curing of a high internal phase emulsion. The method has the steps of: forming a water-in-oil emulsion, curing the monomer component in the emulsion in a saturated steam environment, and forming a saturated polymeric foam material. The water-in-oil emulsion has an aqueous phase and an oil phase comprising a monomer component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Thomas Allen Desmarais, Mark Lewis Agerton, Paul Martin Lipic, Daniel Joseph Valerio
  • Method for unwinding rolls of web material
    Patent number: 7392960
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for unwinding a vertically oriented roll of web material is disclosed. The roll comprises a lower surface, an upper surface and a circumferential surface. The apparatus comprises: at least one drive element adapted to rotate the vertically oriented roll, a sensor adapted to measure a tension of the web, and a controller adapted to adjust a speed of the web according to the tension of the web. The method comprises steps of rotating the roll, determining a desired web tension, and adjusting the speed of the roll according to the desired web tension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kevin Benson McNeil, Thomas Timothy Byrne
  • Process and kit-of-parts for improved hair conditioning after coloring bleaching or perming
    Patent number: 7393365
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of hair care. More specifically, the present invention relates to the conditioning of hair after it has been oxidised in a coloring, bleaching or perming treatment. Superior conditioning is obtained by providing a cationic polymer to the hair while it is subjected to the oxidising treatment, and then the oxidised hair is subjected to a conditioning treatment with a composition comprising a functionalized silicone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Andrei Sergeevich Bureiko, Simon Paul Godfrey, Olivier Charles Raineau
  • Hybrid winder
    Patent number: 7392961
    Abstract: A winder for winding continuous webs or interleaved web segments into rolls is disclosed. The winder comprises first and second rollers, each having a generally mutually parallel longitudinal axis. The winder also has a continuous belt. The continuous web is disposed upon at least a portion of the continuous belt. A rotatably driven winding spindle is adapted to receive the continuous web or interleaved web segments when the spindle is proximate to the continuous web or interleaved web segments disposed upon the continuous belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kevin Benson McNeil, Michael James Gworek, Jeffrey Moss Vaughn
  • Fabric article treating method using electrically charged liquid in a clothes drying appliance
    Patent number: 7392600
    Abstract: A dispensing device for use in combination with a clothes dryer wherein the device is designed to uniformly treat fabric. The invention further relates to a method for treating a fabric article in need of treatment that combines a clothes dryer and liquid dispensing system designed to uniformly treat fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter and Gamble Company
    Inventors: Christian Gerhard Friedrich Gerlach, Bradford Scott Barron, Dean Larry DuVal, Eugene Joseph Pancheri, Mary Jane Combs, Paul Eugene Rienzo
  • Agents for coloring keratin fibers
    Patent number: 7393366
    Abstract: The present invention relates to agents for coloring keratin fibers which comprise at least one zwitterionic azo dye of the general formula (I) where R1 is an alkylsulfonate radical of the formula (II),
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Cécile Pasquier, Eric Tinguely, Otto Göttel, Hans-Jürgen Braun
  • Customer specific web order management system and method which provides real time “quality order” validation
    Patent number: 7392207
    Abstract: A real time, customer specific Web Order Management (WOM) system is disclosed in which a trade customer (buyer) can order products from a large manufacturer or distributor via a computer network such as the public internet. A “firewall” may be provided to keep the system secure. The WOM provides validation to the buyer that the order received from the buyer is a “quality order,” which as an example may mean that an entire truckload (in most countries) is being ordered from a single location, such as a distributor or a warehouse. The WOM system may have a global reach and the access for the trade customer is fairly simple, by means of a standard web browser and an Internet Service Provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Patrice Petong
  • Bottle
    Patent number: D571666
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Jill Marie Shurtleff
  • Body wrap
    Patent number: D571922
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Mary Elaine Freeland
  • Foam cleaning implement
    Patent number: D571967
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Iris Bogaerts, Denis Alfred Gonzales, Anthony Reynolds, Muriel Leila Gisele Cordier
  • Body wrap
    Patent number: D572367
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Mary Elaine Freeland
  • Substrate with printed pattern
    Patent number: D572489
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Ada Ko, Gregory Churchill Ames
  • Body wrap
    Patent number: D572825
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Mary Elaine Freeland
  • Body wrap
    Patent number: D572826
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Mary Elaine Freeland
  • Therapeutic device
    Patent number: D572829
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Angela Marie Reed, Jason Alan Born
  • Closure
    Patent number: D573018
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter and Gamble Company
    Inventors: Ian Andrew Carnduff, Joel James Kashuba, Ian Josiah Swanson