Patents Represented by Attorney Alan A. Bornstein
  • Patent number: 6664217
    Abstract: Mild toilet bar compositions are described that contain synthetic surfactants, moisturizers and exfoliant particles where 25% or more of the particles have a major axis length of between 100 and 600 microns. The combination of the mild surfactants, moisturizers, and exfoliants provide the user with simultaneous moisturization and exfoliation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care, USA division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Sudhakar Puvvada, Albert Joseph Post, Krishna Kumar Subramanyan, Anthony William Johnson, Craig Stephen Slavtcheff, Adolf Peter Barth, Petra Meinschien
  • Patent number: 6660699
    Abstract: Mild toilet bar compositions are described that contain harsh to the skin cleansing components, such as soap, and a latent acidifier. The latent acidifier reduces the pH of the toilet bar when used for cleansing but does not substantially affect the hardness of the toilet bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA
    Inventors: Kevin Michael Finucane, Bruce Casbarro, Sudhakar Puvvada, Joseph J. Podgorsky
  • Patent number: 6656901
    Abstract: A fabric care composition comprises (i) an organophilic clay; (ii) a functionalised oil; and (iii) water. The composition may be used to provide fabrics with softness and/or anti-wrinkle and/or other fabric benefits in laundering processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: David Moorfield, Nicola Whilton
  • Patent number: 6638527
    Abstract: A disposable, single-use, substantially dry cleansing article is disclosed having wet flexibility, and a lathering surfactant in one embodiment and having an apertured fabric and a specific lather volume coefficient in a second embodiment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Edward Gott, Filomena Augusta Gomes, Craig Stephen Slavtcheff, Walter Joseph Lunsmann
  • Patent number: 6634037
    Abstract: A personal cleansing system for substantially dry wiping articles is described suitable for use in a shower environment, utilizing a shell enclosing the wiping articles having a dispensing slot formed along the shell, a closure means, and a support device secured to the shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Home and Personal Care, USA division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: James Lynn Turbett, Natalie Charambura
  • Patent number: 6627591
    Abstract: A composition comprising a dye fixing agent, a N-heterocyclic polymer, and a nonionic surfactant is described which provides improved fabric color care upon laundry treatment. A method of use is also described in conjunction with a detergent or in a presoak.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Joseph Kuzmenka, Diane Wolf, Barbara Helen Bory, Wakeelah Nai'Mah Muhammad
  • Patent number: 6624131
    Abstract: A laundry detergent composition and method of laundering clothes is disclosed which relates to the inclusion of one or more wrinkle reducing ingredients in a laundry detergent product. The benefits are delivered to the laundered item during the cleaning step and, therefore, reduces the need for further wrinkle reducing steps when the items are taken from the dryer or after hang drying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Dennis Stephen Murphy, Michael Orchowski
  • Patent number: 6613244
    Abstract: This invention relates to an ironing aid composition which is suitable for pouring directly into the water reservoir chamber of a steam iron.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Alan John Fry
  • Patent number: 6612482
    Abstract: A sleeve is provided which in assembled form slides over an openable carton with a protuberance to maintain the carton in its closed position. The sleeve may be assembled prior to production and stored flat or in a roll to minimize storage space and save production costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Edward Ross
  • Patent number: 6602847
    Abstract: In order to protect a fabric rebuild polymer which undergoes, during a laundry treatment process, a chemical change by which the affinity of the rebuild agent for the fabric is increased, from hydrolysis on storage, the fabric rebuild agent is in the form of a granule comprising fabric rebuild agent, acidic binder, neutral filler and optionally acidic filler. The granule can be post-dosed to a powder detergent composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care, USA division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: William Derek Emery, Christopher Clarkson Jones
  • Patent number: 6598627
    Abstract: An apparatus is described for providing a customized, personal care product to a consumer at a location, typically the point of sale, that is remote from a second location in which a personal care product base composition is prepared. A selection of customizing agents of different classes with a common vehicle is made available to the consumer for custom formulation of a personal care product with the desired attributes. The apparatus typically includes a plurality of product base dispensers, a plurality of fragrance dispensers, and a plurality of customizing agent dispensers that may contain benefit agents, botanical extracts, active ingredients for skin and hair, and the like. A blank vehicle is substituted if insufficient customizing agents are selected. Efficient mixing mechanisms are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, a division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth Paul Manzari, Walter Anthony Biercevicz, Walter Stoeckman, Peter Anthony Divone, Sr., Christy A. Bridges, Kevin Keating, Robert Avena
  • Patent number: 6596034
    Abstract: The treatment of fabric by coating with from 0.01 to 2% by weight on weight of fabric of a polymer composition comprising a thermoplastic elastomer improves the crease recovery properties and/or elasticity and/or tensile strength of a fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Home and Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert John Crawford, David Duncan, Dax Kukulj, Philip John Sams
  • Patent number: 6585130
    Abstract: A dispenser for the wipes is described suitable for use in a shower environment, utilizing a shell having opposed top and bottom ends and, in a preferred embodiment, a support device connected to the shell for securing the dispenser to an outside surface. In another embodiment, the dispenser prevents water spray from the shower from contaminating the wipes contained therein. The bottom end has a dispensing slot with a length dimension greater than a width dimension and a finger-access opening to enable the user to urge wipes in the direction of the dispensing slot. The inventive wipe dispenser also is conveniently refilled with disposable wipes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care, USA division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: James Lynn Turbett, Natalie Charambura, Michael Edward Ross
  • Patent number: 6582476
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to durable wrinkle reduction products that have improved softness. In a preferred embodiment, silicone containing compounds are incorporated into the cross-linked matrix of cellulosic fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: David Alan Binder, Dennis Stephen Murphy
  • Patent number: 6569823
    Abstract: A fabric care composition comprises a perfume and a compound which is obtainable by the reaction of epichlorohydrin with an amine. The amine is a derivative of a polyamine in which at least one but not all of the amino groups bear long chain acyl groups. The compound or the composition may be used to soften and/or condition fabric during a laundering process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: William Mooney
  • Patent number: 6562771
    Abstract: A laundry treatment composition comprising a water-soluble or water-dispersible rebuild agent for deposition onto a fabric during a treatment process wherein the material undergoes during the treatment process, a chemical change by which change the affinity of the material for the fabric is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, a division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy David Finch, Andrew Hopkinson
  • Patent number: 6555509
    Abstract: A multi-phase solid toilet article whose phases are separated by a membrane, and processes for making the article are described. Each phase is reproducibly fabricated to form an article allowing the user to sequentially or simultaneously derive benefits from the different materials contained in the article's layers. The membrane is either at least partially water soluble or dispersible in the case of a product used with water, or shearable in the case of a cosmetic product which is applied directly to or rubbed on the skin. The membrane material is selected to dissolve or disintegrate with product use, so as to accomplish its intended function of separating the different cosmetic materials until they are consumed. The flowable toilet or cosmetic formulations are simultaneously or separately transferred into the mold, simultaneously or separately allowed to harden, where the membrane divider is not removed and becomes a part of the finished product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Syed Husain Abbas, Ray Hui, Laurie Ann Coyle
  • Patent number: 6555516
    Abstract: Product adapted for use in a fabric laundering process which is in the form of a self-supporting aqueous gel and which comprises one or more fabric treatment agents, a gelling agent and one or more surfactants comprising a polypeptide or polysaccharide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco,
    Inventors: Dawn Brook, Robert John Crawford, Paul Ferguson, Philip John Sams
  • Patent number: 6536685
    Abstract: A foam dispenser utilizes a deformable reservoir, a foamable fluid and air or other gas; a discharge device and an arrangement for producing foam that includes a plurality of mesh screens. When the dispenser is operated, air from inside the dispenser is mixed with the fluid to produce foam. The dispenser employs a shaped and resilient deformable seal for use in quickly recharging the container with air used in the creation of foam. The dispenser also advantageously employs an integrally molded swirl manifold to create a foam of excellent quality and consistency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Home and Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Alfred Bennett
  • Patent number: D473026
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, a division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Shickle, Paul Robert Sherratt