Patents Represented by Attorney C. Brant Cook

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  • Temporary wet strength resins
    Patent number: 7125469
    Abstract: Temporary wet strength resins, more particularly, temporary wet strength resins comprising a polymer backbone, wherein the polymer backbone comprises a co-crosslinking monomeric unit, preferably a reversible co-crosslinking monomeric unit, especially in the presence of water, a homo-crosslinking monomeric units and a cationic monomeric unit, fibrous structures comprising such temporary wet strength resins, sanitary tissue products comprising such fibrous structures and processes for making such fibrous structures and/or such sanitary tissue product. Such fibrous structures and sanitary tissue products exhibit high initial wet tensile strength and improved flushability properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2006
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Robert Lee Barcus, Khosrow Parviz Mohammadi, Angela Marie Leimbach, Stephen Robert Kelly
  • Process for making unitary fibrous structure comprising randomly distributed cellulosic fibers and non-randomly distributed synthetic fibers
    Patent number: 7067038
    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: February 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Paul Dennis Trokhan, Dean Van Phan, Osman Polat
  • Fabric article treating method and apparatus
    Patent number: 7059065
    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 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Christian Gerhard Friedrich Gerlach, Bradford Scott Barron, Dean Larry DuVal, Eugene Joseph Pancheri, Mary Jane Combs, Paul Eugene Rienzo
  • Unitary fibrous structure comprising cellulosic and synthetic fibers
    Patent number: 7052580
    Abstract: 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. A process for making the unitary fibrous structure comprises the steps of providing an embryonic 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 redistribution of at least a portion of the synthetic fibers in the embryonic web to form the unitary fibrous structure in which a substantial portion of the plurality of synthetic fibers is distributed throughout the fibrous structure in a non-random repeating pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Paul Dennis Trokhan, Dean Van Phan, Osman Polat
  • Process for making a fibrous structure comprising cellulosic and synthetic fibers
    Patent number: 7045026
    Abstract: A fibrous structure and method for making the fibrous structure, wherein the method includes the steps of: providing a plurality of synthetic fibers onto a forming member having a pattern of channels such that at least some of the synthetic fibers are disposed in the channels; providing a plurality of cellulosic fibers onto the synthetic fibers such that the cellulosic fibers are disposed adjacent to the synthetic fibers; and forming a unitary fibrous structure including the synthetic fibers and the cellulosic fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Timothy Jude Lorenz, Osman Polat, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Dean Phan
  • Process for making a fibrous structure comprising cellulosic and synthetic fibers
    Patent number: 7041196
    Abstract: A fibrous structure and method for making the fibrous structure, wherein the method includes the steps of: providing a plurality of cellulosic fibers onto a forming member having a pattern of channels such that at least some of the cellulosic fibers are disposed in the channels; providing a plurality of synthetic fibers onto the cellulosic fibers such that the synthetic fibers are disposed adjacent to the cellulosic fibers; and forming the unitary fibrous structure from the synthetic fibers and the cellulosic fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2006
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Timothy Jude Lorenz, Osman Polat, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Dean Phan
  • Electro-spinning process for making starch filaments for flexible structure
    Patent number: 7029620
    Abstract: A flexible structure includes a plurality of starch filaments. The structure includes at least a first region and a second region, each of the first and second regions having at least one common intensive property selected from the group consisting of density, basis weight, elevation, opacity, crepe frequency, and any combination thereof. The common intensive property of the first region differs in value from the common intensive property of the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Gregory Charles Gordon, David William Cabell, Larry Neil Mackey, John Gerhard Michael, Paul Dennis Trokhan
  • Non-thermoplastic starch fibers and starch composition for making same
    Patent number: 7025821
    Abstract: Non-thermoplastic starch fibers having no melting point and having apparent peak wet tensile stress greater than about 0.2 MegaPascals (MPa). The fibers can be manufactured from a composition comprising a modified starch and a cross-linking agent. The composition can have a shear viscosity from about 1 Pascal·Seconds to about 80 Pascal·Seconds and an apparent extensional viscosity in the range of from about 150 Pascal·Seconds to about 13,000 Pascal·Seconds. The composition can comprise from about 50% to about 75% by weight of a modified starch; from about 0.1% to about 10% by weight of an aldehyde cross-linking agent; and from about 25% to about 50% by weight of water. Prior to cross-linking, the modified starch can have a weight average molecular weight greater than about 100,000 g/mol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2006
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Larry Neil Mackey, Gregory Charles Gordon, Lora Lee Buchanan, Stephen Wayne Heinzman, Paul Arlen Forshey
  • Polymeric structures and method for making same
    Patent number: 6977116
    Abstract: Polymeric structures, methods for making same, fibrous structures comprising same and fibrous product incorporating same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2005
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: David William Cabell, David Loebker, Larry Neil Mackey, Gregory Charles Gordon, Mark Ryan Richards, Fred J. Keck
  • Detergent compositions comprising a mannanase and a soil release polymer
    Patent number: 6964943
    Abstract: Laundry detergent compositions comprising a mannanase and a cotton soil release polymer for superior cleaning and soil release performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2005
    Inventors: Jean-Luc Philippe Bettiol, Christiaan Arthur Jacques Kamiel Thoen
  • Sensor device and methods for using same
    Patent number: 6958693
    Abstract: A sensor device and method of employment is provided. More specifically, a sensor device adapted to detect, identify and/or measure a chemical and/or physical characteristic upon placement of the device into an environment, especially a liquid medium for which monitoring is sought is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2005
    Assignees: Procter & Gamble Company, Sandia Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy Michael Rothgeb, Kristina Marie Rohal Gansle, Jonathan Livingston Joyce, James Madison Jordan, Tedd Addison Rohwer, Randal Ray Lockhart, Christopher Lawrence Smith, Toan Trinh, Mark Gary Cipollone
  • Polymeric structures and method for making same
    Patent number: 6955850
    Abstract: Polymeric structures, methods for making same, fibrous structures comprising same and product incorporating same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: David William Cabell, Paul Dennis Trokhan, David Warren Loebker
  • Water unstable foam compositions
    Patent number: 6943200
    Abstract: The present invention relates to foam components comprising polymeric material and an active ingredient, such as detergent ingredients, which are to be delivered to aqueous environment. Highly preferred active ingredients include enzymes. The foam component is stable upon contact with air but dissolves, disintegrates or disperses in water. The invention also relates to compositions containing the foam components and methods for making the foam components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2005
    Assignee: Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Didier Marcel Corrand, David William York, Nigel Somerville-Roberts
  • Surface pattern for a paper product
    Patent number: D507116
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2005
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Edna Isabel Seguinot
  • Surface pattern for a paper product
    Patent number: D507413
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Tarek Farahat
  • Surface pattern of a paper product
    Patent number: D508613
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Thorsten Knobloch, Luis Bernardo De La Rosa, Gregg Thomas Weaver
  • Surface pattern for an embossed paper product
    Patent number: D510665
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Bradley Michael Watts, Edna Isabel Seguinot, Dea Michelle Pastwa
  • Surface pattern of a paper product
    Patent number: D512840
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2005
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Siegfried Kurt Martin Hustedt, Anja Werth, Kenneth Douglas Vinson, John Allen Manifold, Jonathan Andrew Ficke, Yanping Zhang
  • Surface pattern of a paper product
    Patent number: D521250
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Thorsten Knobloch, Luis Bernardo De La Rosa, Gregg Thomas Weaver, Jennifer Hope Dolan
  • Surface pattern of a paper product
    Patent number: D523644
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Thorsten Knobloch, Luis Bernardo De La Rosa, Gregg Thomas Weaver