Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Jacobus C. Rasser
  • Patent number: 6033703
    Abstract: A beta stable plastic shortening exhibiting reduced levels of saturates and trans fatty acids and a unique process is disclosed. The shortening is particularly useful in confectionary, baking, and frying applications. The plastic shortening of the present invention contains from about 6% to about 25% by volume, of an inert gas and from about 75% to about 94% by volume of a fat made of a) from about 74% to about 90% by weight of a base oil having less than 10% by weight of trans fatty acids, b) from about 10% to about 20% by weight of a hardstock blend, having a beta stable crystalline phase consisting essentially of i) from about 20% to about 80% by weight, of a beta phase tending hardstock component having an iodine value of less than 10, and ii) from about 20% to about 80% by weight, of a beta prime phase tending hardstock component having an iodine value of less than about 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2000
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Bruce Alan Roberts, Timothy Alan Scavone, Steven Philip Riedell
  • Patent number: 6034044
    Abstract: Automatic dishwashing detergent compositions comprising a mixed nonionic surfactant system comprising low cloud point and high cloud point nonionic surfactants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2000
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: William Michael Scheper, Laura Lee Turner, Kuntal Chatterjee, Lynda Anne Speed, Graeme Duncan Cruickshank
  • Patent number: 6030690
    Abstract: A process for high pressure embossing a single ply of paper and the paper produced thereby. The embossing process requires two rolls, a pattern roll 30 and an anvil roll 32. The rolls are loaded together at a pressure of at least 1000 psi at the nip. A single ply of paper is embossed in the nip. The embossments of the paper do not extend outwardly beyond the thickness of the paper to have any out-of-plane deformation. The embossments are typically glassined. The resulting paper has an aesthetically pleasing appearance, without undue loss of tensile strength from the embossing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 29, 2000
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kevin Benson McNeil, Linda Rae Scherzinger, Thomas Anthony Hensler, Rebecca Ann Miller, Barbara Ann Ludwig
  • Patent number: 6030372
    Abstract: Absorbent article such as disposable diapers, incontinent briefs, diaper holders and the like, that have a unique elastic waist feature that improves the dynamic fit of the elasticized waistband as well as the containment characteristics of the absorbent article. The elastic waist feature preferably comprises an interconnecting panel zone, a first flexural hinge zone joining the interconnecting panel zone with the containment assembly, an elasticized waistband, and a second flexural hinge zone joining the elasticized waistband with the interconnecting panel zone. The elasticized waistband comprises a shaping panel zone; a waistline panel zone; and a predisposed, resilient, waistband flexural hinge zone joining the shaping panel zone and the waistline panel zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 29, 2000
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kenneth Barclay Buell, Sandra H. Clear, Danielia T. Falcone
  • Patent number: 6027483
    Abstract: A web material which exhibits an elastic-like behavior along at least one axis when subjected to an applied and subsequently released elongation. The web material includes a strainable network having at least two visually distinct regions of the same material composition. The first region undergoes a molecular-level deformation and the second region initially undergoes a substantially geometric deformation when the web material is subjected to an applied elongation in a direction substantially parallel to the axis of elongation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2000
    Inventors: Charles W. Chappell, Eugene R. Sorensen, Kenneth B. Buell, John J. Curro, Michele A. Mansfield
  • Patent number: 6025319
    Abstract: A laundry additive particle having multiple coatings and compositions employing the particle are provided. The laundry additive particle comprises a porous carrier core material; a first encapsulating material coated on the core material to form an intermediate layer, the first encapsulating material comprising a glassy material derived from one or more at least partially water-soluble hydroxylic compounds having an anhydrous, nonplasticized, glass transition temperature, T.sub.g, of at least about 0.degree. C.; and a second encapsulating material coated on the intermediate layer to form an outer layer, the second encapsulating material comprising a carbohydrate material having an anhydrous, nonplasticized, glass transition temperature, T.sub.g, of at least about 130.degree.0 C.; and the laundry additive particle has a hygroscopicity value of less than about 80%. Preferably, a laundry or cleaning agent such as a perfume is supported on or contained in the porous carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2000
    Assignee: Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Athanasios Surutzidis, Michael J. LeBlanc
  • Patent number: 6025377
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition that inhibits the growth of tumors and cancers in mammals that comprises a material is disclosed. The particular material used is a 1H-1,2,4-triazole derivative. These compounds can also be used to treat viral infections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2000
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: James Berger Camden
  • Patent number: 6020300
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a cleaning composition which is an oil-in-water or water-in-oil emulsion, or a solution comprising non-aqueous hydrophobic solvent; and anionic or nonionic surfactant. The cleaning composition further comprises a bleach activator. The invention also relates to a method for treating a spot or stain on a textile fabric using the cleaning composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2000
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Eric Tcheou, Jose Luis Vega
  • Patent number: 6020294
    Abstract: Automatic dishwashing detergent compositions comprising certain cobalt catalysts are provided. More specifically, the invention relates to automatic dishwashing detergents which provide enhanced cleaning/bleaching benefits (especially tea stain removal) through the selection of cobalt chelated catalysts having the formula:[Co.sub.n L.sub.m X.sub.p ].sup.z Y.sub.z.Preferred automatic dishwashing compositions comprise amylase and/or protease enzymes. Included are methods for washing tableware in domestic automatic dishwashing appliances using the cobalt catalysts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2000
    Assignee: Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Edward Eugene Getty, William Michael Scheper, Alan Scott Goldstein
  • Patent number: 6019797
    Abstract: Stains are removed from fabrics by means of metallo-hydroperoxides during an otherwise conventional laundering process. Hydroperoxides based on silicon, tin and antimony are used to effect stain removal without reducing the tensile strength of said fabrics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2000
    Assignee: Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Valerio Del Duca, Stefano Scialla, Giulia Ottavia Bianchetti
  • Patent number: 6018093
    Abstract: An absorbent article adapted to receive feces having a first waist region, a second waist region opposed to the first waist region and the second waist region. The absorbent article includes a liquid pervious topsheet, a liquid impervious backsheet joined to at least a portion of the topsheet, an absorbent core disposed between at least a portion of the topsheet and the backsheet and an effective amount of a calcium-bases feces modifying agent disposed in the article such that the feces modifying agent is available to contact at least a portion of the feces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2000
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Donald C. Roe, Nicholas A. Ahr, Konstantin N. Gavrilenko, Dmitry N. Logatchev, Sergey Y. Pavlov, Lev G. Burov, Aleksandra P. Novozhilova
  • Patent number: 6017874
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a liquid detergent composition comprising a surfactant system which is free of linear alkyl benzene sulfonate. The detergent composition comprises a selected quaternary ammonium surfactant, and an anionic surfactant selected from the group consisting of alkyl alkoxy sulfates and alkyl sulfates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2000
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Dimitris Lappas, Rajan Keshav Panandiker, Thomas Wilhelm Horner
  • Patent number: 6015912
    Abstract: The invention provides compounds of formula ##STR1## as described in the claims, or an optical isomer, diastereomer or enantiomer thereof, or a pharmaceutically-acceptable salt, or biohydrolyzable amide, ester, or imide thereof are useful as inhibitors of metalloproteases.Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treating diseases, disorders and conditions characterized by metalloprotease activity using these compounds or the pharmaceutical compositions containing them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2000
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Zhe Wang, Neil Gregory Almstead, Rimma Sandler Bradley, Michael George Natchus, Biswanath De, Stanislaw Pikul, Yetunde Olabisi Taiwo
  • Patent number: 6013294
    Abstract: Shelf-stable complete pre-mixes, separated into two or more components. The components are chemically and microbially stable. At least one component is a high-water-activity liquid component. The components, when combined, provide all ingredients necessary to form uncooked mixes or food and beverage products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2000
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Paul Ralph Bunke, Athula Ekanayake, Kenneth Thomas Smith
  • Patent number: 6013589
    Abstract: Disclosed are materials capable of distributing and releasing aqueous fluids, e.g., urine, to a storage material, and absorbent articles comprising such fluid distribution materials. These fluid distribution materials have A) a ratio of capillary desorption height (i.e., height at 50% capacity) to capillary absorption height (i.e., height at 50% capacity) of not more than about 1.8:1; B) a capillary desorption height of not more than about 50 cm; C) the ability to wick synthetic urine at 31.degree. C. to a height of 15 cm in not more than about 25 minutes; and D) a vertical wicking capacity at 15 cm of at least about 6 g/g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2000
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Thomas Allen DesMarais, John Collins Dyer, Gianfranco Palumbo, Bruno Johannes Ehrnsperger
  • Patent number: 6013618
    Abstract: The present invention relates to perfume or fine fragrance compositions inter alia perfumes, colognes, eau de toilettes, and after shave lotions, comprising pro-accord compounds which release their fragrance raw material components on a delayed basis therefore providing sustained fragrance levels to the user. Typically the pro-accords are comprised of orthoesters, ketals, acetals, orthocarbonates which release two or more fragrance raw materials upon hydrolysis. The present invention also relates to an article of manufacture comprising a first pro-accord containing reservoir and a second fragrance raw material reservoir and a means for admixing and applying the perfume material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2000
    Assignee: Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Joseph Paul Morelli, Scott William Waite, Stacy Renee Hertenstein, Mark Robert Sivik, Gregory Scot Miracle, Kenneth Nathan Price, Lon Montgomery Gray
  • Patent number: 6013063
    Abstract: An absorbent article comprising a liquid pervious topsheet, a liquid pervious backsheet joined to at least a portion of the topsheet, an absorbent core disposed between at least a portion of the topsheet and the backsheet, and a waste management element disposed in at least a portion of the crotch region. The waste management element preferably has an Acceptance Under Pressure value of greater than about 0.50 grams of a viscous fluid bodily waste per square inch of the waste management element per milliJoule of energy input. The waste management element preferably also has a Storage Under Pressure value of at least about 0.70 grams of the viscous fluid bodily waste per square inch of the waste management element. The waste management element may also have an Immobilization Under Compressed Inversion value of greater than about 70% of the viscous fluid bodily waste accepted by the waste management element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2000
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Donald C. Roe, Oliver E. C. Mason
  • Patent number: 6010001
    Abstract: Individual packages to assist the hygienic insertion of an absorbent device into the interlabial space of a female user are disclosed. The individual package comprises a wrapper for packaging the absorbent device. The wrapper comprises a flexible sheet which is wrapped around the absorbent device. The flexible sheet has an absorbent inside surface adjacent to the absorbent interlabial device, which when the wrapper is opened, provides the user with a sanitary wiping device to wipe the labia while inserting said absorbent interlabial device into the interlabial space. In one embodiment, the wrapper is folded about the absorbent device relative to the longitudinal axis of the lower portion of the absorbent interlabial device forming a longitudinal fold, an opposing open end, and transverse side edges. The opposing open end and transverse side edges are sealed to form the individual package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2000
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Thomas Ward Osborn, III
  • Patent number: 6010490
    Abstract: A disposable absorbent article having a transverse partition. The transverse partition is upstanding from the topsheet and presents an abrupt discontinuity out of the plane of the disposable absorbent article and obstructs fecal material deposited in the rear portion of the disposable absorbent article from migrating to the front portion of the disposable absorbent article. This obstruction minimizes soiling of the genitalia of the wearer. The disposable absorbent article may have upstanding barrier leg cuffs. The transverse partition may connect the barrier leg cuffs to form an H-shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2000
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Mary Elaine Freeland, Jerry Layne Dragoo, Patrick Jay Allen
  • Patent number: D421384
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2000
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Lutz Herrmann