Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Jeffrey V. Bamber
  • Patent number: 6821042
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions for treating shoes, especially leather-containing shoes, such as athletic shoes, and methods and articles of manufacture employing same to treat the shoes prior to and/or during and/or after washing the shoes. More particularly, the present invention relates to compositions applied to one or more shoes in need of treatment prior to and/or during and/or after washing the shoes for imparting a desired benefit to the shoes such as cleaning and/or conditioning and/or disinfecting and/or deodorizing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Keith Homer Baker, Michael Peter Siklosi, Henry Cheng Na, Janine Morgens Strang, Donna Jean Haeggberg, William Michael Scheper, Connie Lynn Sheets, Fernando Ray Tolléns, Michael Glen Murray, Michael Timothy Creedon, Errol Hoffman Wahl, Toan Trinh, Eugene Steven Sadlowski, Vincent John Becks
  • Patent number: 6811100
    Abstract: The invention is an extendible liquid-applying spray arm for use with a liquid source, such as an electrical sprayer. It includes one handle and at least two tubular members which are telescopingly engaged with and slideable along one another. Sliding the tubular members extends/retracts the spray arm respectively for treating/storage or to meet particular work needs which require that said extendible spray arm has a short length. When the spray arm is collapsed, the telescopic members are at least partially arranged within the handle, so that the global length of the spray arm is less than the additional lengths of the handle and the telescopic portion. The spray arm further comprises a spray member for spraying the liquid. A flexible tube extends around the tubular members and connects to the nozzle member, which is preferably coiled around the tubular members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2004
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Francois d' Assise Marie Santiago Bardinet, Jelle Dankert Vuijk, John Russell Lawson
  • Patent number: 6785924
    Abstract: A method of orienting shoes in a washing machine, and devices for aligning shoes in a washing machine are disclosed. The method of orienting shoes in a washing machine, and devices for aligning shoes in a washing machine reduce the time for drying the shoes after the washing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Steven Barrett Rogers, Kathleen Anne Perry
  • Patent number: 6785989
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to devices, methods and product for removing wrinkles and smoothing fabric, especially articles of clothing, linen and drapery, using ultrasonic energy and an ultrasonic transmission fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Paul Eugene Rienzo, Michael Joseph Orr, Brian Daniel Guzzi, Dean Larry DuVal, Jacqueline Nicole Ouellette
  • Patent number: 6773737
    Abstract: Basic cleaning compositions using toxicologically-acceptable ingredients for treating food such as produce, e.g., fruits and vegetables, and edible animal proteins are provided. Liquid formulations comprising anionic and/or nonionic detergent surfactant, such as potassium alkyl sulfate, that does not affect palatability, electrolyte to provide at least about 0.04 molarity of cations and basic buffer to provide a pH of at least 8.5 are applied to food products immediately before consumption and can significantly reduce microorganism contamination in less than about one minute. The food can be consumed without rinsing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Brian Joseph Roselle, Thomas Edward Ward, David Kent Rollins
  • Patent number: 6750188
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions for treating shoes, especially leather-containing shoes, such as athletic shoes, and methods and articles of manufacture employing same to treat the shoes prior to and/or during and/or after washing the shoes. More particularly, the present invention relates to compositions applied to one or more shoes in need of treatment prior to and/or during and/or after washing the shoes for imparting a desired benefit to the shoes such as cleaning and/or conditioning and/or disinfecting and/or deodorizing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Keith Homer Baker, Michael Peter Siklosi, Henry Cheng Na, Janine Morgens Strang, Donna Jean Haeggberg, William Michael Scheper, Connie Lynn Sheets, Fernando Ray Tolléns, Michael Glen Murray, Michael Timothy Creedon, Errol Hoffman Wahl, Toan Trinh, Eugene Steven Sadlowski, Vincent John Becks
  • Patent number: 6730253
    Abstract: A process of forming a shrink-sleeved bottle with a handle is disclosed. In one embodiment, the process forms a bottle in which the handle is substantially exposed outside the bottle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Patrick Jean-François Etesse
  • Patent number: 6726362
    Abstract: The present invention relates to shoe bags useful in laundering processes, especially for laundering of shoes, particularly leather-containing shoes, such as athletic shoes. The shoe bags of the present invention are preferably used in combination with compositions for treating one or more shoes in need of treatment, and methods and articles of manufacture employing same to treat the shoes prior to and/or during and/or after washing the shoes for imparting a desired benefit to the shoes such as cleaning and/or conditioning and/or disinfecting and/or deodorizing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jerome Edward Frisch, Thomas Charles Hortel, Yana Milligan Nicks
  • Patent number: 6702693
    Abstract: Improved perimeter weighted golf clubs are disclosed. The perimeter weighted golf clubs of the present invention are provided with improved structures for distributing the weight at the perimeter of the club head. In one embodiment, the club is an iron-type golf club having a club head that includes a weighted perimeter portion and at least two spaced apart ribs on the back surface of the club head that extend from an upper portion of the club head toward at least a part of the weighted perimeter portion of the club head and the ribs are oriented generally perpendicular to the upper edge portion of the club head. In one version of this embodiment, the ribs have at least one thinned region therebetween that is in the form of a channel on the back surface of the club head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignee: Pelican Golf, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey Vincent Bamber
  • Patent number: 6683036
    Abstract: A hard surface cleaning composition for removing cooked-, baked- or burnt-on soils from cookware and tableware, the composition comprising an organoamine solvent and wherein the composition has a liquid surface tension of less than about 24.5 mN/m and a pH, as measured in a 10% solution in distilled water, or least than 10.5. The composition can be used as pre-treatment prior to the dishwashing process. The composition provides excellent removal of polymerized grease from metal and glass substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2004
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Peter Robert Foley, Howard David Hutton, III, Carl-Eric Kaiser, Yong Zhu, Lucio Pieroni, Brian Xiaqing Song
  • Patent number: 6682694
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a stable, aqueous odor-absorbing solution, for use on inanimate surfaces. The solution comprises from about 0.1% to about 5%, by weight of the solution, of solubilized, water-soluble, uncomplexed cyclodextrin, an effective amount of a solubilized, water-soluble, antimicrobial preservative having a water-solubility of greater than about 0.3%, optional perfume, and an aqueous carrier. The solution is essentially free of any material that would soil or stain fabric and has a pH of greater than about 3. The solution can be incorporated into a spray dispenser to create an article of commerce that can facilitate treatment of articles and/or surfaces with uncomplexed cyclodextrin solutions of a level that is effective yet is not discernible when dried on the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2004
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Toan Trinh, Jerome Paul Cappel, Philip Anthony Geis, Mark Lee McCarty, David Pilosof, Susan Schmaedecke Zwerdling
  • Patent number: 6680289
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of removing malodor from fabrics; stable, aqueous odor-counteractant composition, preferably for use in the laundry; and articles comprising said composition and instructions for the method and/or benefits to be derived. The composition comprises malodor counteractants such as cyclodextrin, said cyclodextrin being protected from interaction with any other materials that might be present in said composition so as to maintain the cyclodextrin in uncomplexed form and/or, optionally, zeolites, clay, odor blockers, odor reactant such as class I and/or class II aldehydes, essential oil comprising flavanoid, metallic salt, water soluble anionic polymer, etc. to help control odor. Optionally, the composition can also contain low molecular weight polyols, chelating agents, etc. The composition is preferably essentially free of any material that would soil or stain fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2004
    Assignee: The Proctor & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Ricky Ah-Man Woo, Dean Larry DuVal, Daniel Scott Cobb, Robert William Kiblinger, Hirotaka Uchiyama, Toan Trinh
  • Patent number: 6670314
    Abstract: A method of washing dishware/tableware in an automatic dishwashing machine having a single or multi-compartment product dispenser which is normally closed and sealed after charging the machine and prior to delivery of the dishwashing product into the wash liquor and wherein the dishwashing product comprises one or more dishwashing compositions in a unit dose form having a degree of deformability greater than about 10% and a shape and size such that the dishwashing product occupies more than about 60%, preferably more than about 85% of the volume of the corresponding compartment of the product dispenser in its closed state. The method allows for optimum delivery of active components across different washing machine types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: David John Smith, Sanjeev Sharma, James Iain Kinloch, Simon John Greener
  • Patent number: 6662813
    Abstract: Acidic and basic cleaning compositions using toxicologically-acceptable ingredients for cleaning fruits and vegetables are provided. Clear liquid formulations comprising oleate, alcohol ethoxylates and buffers are sprayed onto apples, lettuce and the like to remove soil and unwanted deposits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Bruce Prentiss Murch, Brian Joseph Roselle, Kyle David Jones
  • Patent number: 6656923
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a stable, aqueous odor-absorbing and wrinkle controlling composition, preferably for use on inanimate surfaces, especially fabrics. The composition comprises from about 0.1% to about 20%, by weight of the composition, of solubilized, water-soluble, uncomplexed cyclodextrin and an effective amount of at least one ingredient to improve the performance of the composition selected from the group consisting of: (1) cyclodextrin compatible surfactant; (2) cyclodextrin compatible antimicrobial active; and (3) mixtures thereof. The composition also comprises a wrinkle control agent which is fabric lubricant, shape retention polymer, hydrophilic plasticizer, lithium salt, or mixtures thereof. Hydrophilic perfume improves acceptance. Optionally, the composition can contain low molecular weight polyols; metallic salts to help control odor; a humectant, etc. The composition is essentially free of any material that would soil or stain fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2003
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Toan Trinh, Raymond Edward Bolich, Jr., Helen Bernardo Tordil, Robert Mermelstein, Marjorie Mossman Peffly, Ricky Ah-Man Woo, Daniel Scott Cobb, Eva Schneiderman, Ann Margaret Wolff, Erin Lynn Rosenbalm, Thomas Edward Ward, Alex Haejoon Chung, Anthony James Burns, William Tucker Campbell, Alen David Streutker
  • Patent number: D485402
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Thomas Leonard Cotton, Felix James Scarlett
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    Patent number: D486731
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Shane Edwin Meeker, Julie Jane Baker, Molly Eileen Stocker, Leslie Virgil Hall, Jimmy Joseph Hanko
  • Patent number: D487223
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Hayato Arai, Makoto Isono, Hiroo Noguchi, Ryoichi Tomishima, Mari Yanagida
  • Patent number: D491071
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2004
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Raf Gustaaf Alfons Degeyter, Anne-Gaelle Leray, Line Josefina Leurentop, Terence Graham Curtis, Christophe Andre Antoine Archaimbault
  • Patent number: D498679
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Shane Edwin Meeker, Peter Brian Clarke, Donald Joseph Dimuzio, Richard Emil Hildebrand, James Edward McCay