Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Marianne Dressman
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Patent number: 8006336Abstract: An in-home method for treating a fabric article in need of treatment and a new to the world, in-home, self-contained, stand alone fabric article treating apparatus, such as a “cabinet”-type of apparatus, useful in such method is provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2003Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Christian Gerhard Friedrich Gerlach, Bradford Scott Barron, Dean Larry DuVal, Chandrika Kasturi, John Habib Nackhla, Robert Henry Rohrbaugh
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Patent number: 7971455Abstract: The present invention relates to a dosing and dispensing device (1) comprising a double wall structure having an inner wall (10) and an outer wall (20), wherein the inner wall (10) defines a dosing chamber (12) with an opening (14) for filling and dispensing, and the outer wall (20) circumscribes the inner wall (10) at a line of intersection (30) so that an upper part of the dosing chamber lies on one side of the line of intersection (30), within the outer wall (20), and a lower part of the dosing chamber lies on the other side of the line of intersection (30), outside of the outer wall (20).Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2008Date of Patent: July 5, 2011Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Ann De Wree, Filip Dominique Hubert Vangeel
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Patent number: 7820612Abstract: Laundry detergent compositions containing from about 6% to about 35% of a surfactant component; wherein the surfactant component comprises: from about 0.5 to about 15%, by weight of the composition, of an MES blend having an average level of disalt of from about 8% to about 50%, wherein said MES blend comprises C16 MES; and wherein a ratio of C16 MES to surfactant component is less than about 0.3.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2007Date of Patent: October 26, 2010Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Jack Wesley English, III, Eva Schneiderman, Shari Joy Soper, Jared John Schaefer
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Patent number: 7479618Abstract: Device (1) for the heat treatment of scalp hair (2) of a person (3), consisting of one first and one second heat radiator (11, 12), which are formed and arranged facing each other as a left side radiator (4) and as a right side radiator (5) to provide heat (6) to the side scalp hair (7), wherein the left side radiator (4) has one first ring-shaped infrared radiator (21) with one first shell ring reflector (22) and the right side radiator (5) has one second ring-shaped infrared radiator (21.1) with one second shell ring reflector (22.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2006Date of Patent: January 20, 2009Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Martin Liebeck, Stefan Uhl
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Patent number: 7357137Abstract: A hand-held device (2) for applying a barrier material (4, 6) to a lock of hair to be treated with a highlighting composition (32) is disclosed. The device may comprise one or two rolls (8, 10) of a tape of barrier material (4, 6) that is dispensed to the lock of hair as the same time as the roll or rolls (8, 10) are unrolled. The device may also contain the highlighting composition (32), either applied on the rolled tape or via a reservoir contained in the body.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2004Date of Patent: April 15, 2008Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Peter Antony Husband, Paul Leslie Barrass, Paul Laurence Brennan, Jonathan Norman Robert Hodges, Delyth Angharad James
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Patent number: 7229480Abstract: Bicyclic 5-5 heteroaromatic compounds having a ring junction nitrogen and incorporating thia or oxa heteroatoms heteroatoms. Compositions for the oxidative dyeing of keratin fibers, comprising a medium suitable for dyeing and one or more bicyclic 5-5 heteroaromatic compounds having a ring junction nitrogen and incorporating thia or oxa heteroatoms heteroatoms. A method for oxidative dyeing of keratin fibers, comprising applying such compositions in the presence of an oxidizing agent, for a period sufficient to develop the desired coloration.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2005Date of Patent: June 12, 2007Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Robert Wayne Glenn, Jr., Mu'Ill Lim, Charles Wayne Rees, Oleg Alekseevich Rakitin, William David Laidig, John David Shaffer, John Michael Gardlik, Bryan Patrick Murphy
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Patent number: 7204861Abstract: The present invention relates to hair colouring and bleaching compositions comprising i) at least one source of peroxymonocarbonate ions, ii) at least one alkalizing agent, preferably a source of ammonium ions, and iii) at least one radical scavenger, wherein said composition has a pH of up to 9.5, which provide a high level of lift and lightening and the required dye deposition and grey coverage whilst reducing the concentration of peroxide, the ammonia odour and reducing the hair fibre damage.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2004Date of Patent: April 17, 2007Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Jennifer Mary Marsh, Colin John Clarke
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Patent number: 7087221Abstract: The compositions of the present invention relate to improved shampoo compositions having from about from about 5 to about 50 weight percent of a detersive surfactant, at least about 0.05 weight percent of a polyalkylene oxide alkyl ether selected from the group consisting of polyethylene glycol alkyl ethers, polypropylene glycol alkyl ethers, polyethylene glycol polypropylene glycol alkyl ethers, and combinations thereof, and at least about 20.0 weight percent of an aqueous carrier; wherein the polyalkylene oxide alkyl ether has an HLB of less than 10.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2002Date of Patent: August 8, 2006Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Douglas Allan Royce, Robert Lee Wells
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Patent number: 6930078Abstract: The compositions of the present invention relate to improved shampoo compositions having from about from about 5 to about 50 weight percent of a detersive surfactant, at least about 0.05 weight percent of a cationic polymer least about 0.05 weight percent of a cationic guar derivative having a molecular weight from about 10,000 to about 10,000,000 and a charge density from about 1.25 meq/g to about 7 meq/g, and at least about 20.0 weight percent of an aqueous carrier.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2003Date of Patent: August 16, 2005Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Robert Lee Wells, Eric Scott Johnson
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Patent number: 6887524Abstract: A method for manufacturing a laundry additive article wherein a polymerizable or crosslinkable dye or particulate soil absorber is applied to one face of a substrate web and a cross-linker is separately applied to the coating of the dye or particulate soil absorber to cross-link the dye or particulate soil absorber on the substrate such that the dye or particulate soil absorber does not dissolve in the wash water. In accordance with one embodiment, the dye or particulate soil absorber and the cross-linker are applied as aqueous based solutions. Other laundry additives may be applied to the substrate using other coating techniques and particularly as a waxy or hot melt composition.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2002Date of Patent: May 3, 2005Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Yousef Georges Aouad, Rajan Keshav Panandiker, Shannon Dale Wagers
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Patent number: 6887280Abstract: Novel compositions for use in oxidative hair coloring compositions are provided. The compositions comprise one or more oxidative hair coloring N-aryl-m-phenyldiamine derivatives as couplers and one or more diaminopyrazole primary intermediates in combination.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2002Date of Patent: May 3, 2005Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Mu-Ill Lim, Yuh-Guo Pan, Sabina Burdzovic
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Patent number: 6846794Abstract: A process for making a non-phosphate, zeolite-built detergent tablet, the process comprising a first step of providing a detergent composition, a second step of forming a particulate material comprising the detergent composition, and a third step of compressing the particulate material in a tablet form, the process being characterized in that it further comprises a step of cooling the detergent composition below ambient temperature between the first and the third step.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2000Date of Patent: January 25, 2005Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: David William Ingram, Ingrid Maria Elisabeth Hendrika Willems
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Patent number: 6846795Abstract: The present invention relates to a shaped detergent composition, said composition comprising: (a) a surfactant; and (b) a plurality of discrete particles comprising benefit agent, said particles having a average particle size of at least 1.2 mm, preferably from 1.5 mm to 10 mm, more preferably from 2.0 mm to 5 mm, even more preferably from 2.3 mm to 4 mm. The compositions of the present invention can be effectively dosed via the dispensing drawer of standard washing machines without being caught up in the mechanism of the.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2001Date of Patent: January 25, 2005Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Neil Joseph Lant, Serge Eric Salager, Johan Hans Eshuis, Angelina Pena-Romero
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Patent number: 6835213Abstract: Hair-coloring compositions comprise at least one self-coupling compound of Formula (1) wherein R is a moiety selected from H, C1-3 alkyl and C1-3 hydroxyalkyl; R1 is a C1-3 alkylene radical and R2 is selected from H and C1-3 alkyl radicals.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2002Date of Patent: December 28, 2004Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Mu-Ill Lim, Margaret Popp
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Patent number: 6833336Abstract: A laundry additive article comprising an insoluble polymeric amine dye absorber physically adhered to an insoluble substrate is disclosed. The insoluble polymeric amine dye absorber is dye-selective, preferentially binding fugitive dyes in a wash solution, rather than detergent components or fabrics. The laundry additive article may comprise additional components including a dye transfer inhibitor and a signal to visually indicate that fugitive dyes have been scavenged.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2001Date of Patent: December 21, 2004Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Rajan Keshav Panandiker, Yousef Georges Aouad, Sherri Lynn Randall, William Conrad Wertz
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Patent number: D546668Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2005Date of Patent: July 17, 2007Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: John Edward Sheppard, William John Davis, Tosh Thomas Hall
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Patent number: D546669Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2005Date of Patent: July 17, 2007Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: John Edward Sheppard, Laurel Jane Aldridge, William John Davis, Tosh Thomas Hall
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Patent number: D575166Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2007Date of Patent: August 19, 2008Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Douglas Scott Miller, Ian Swanson, Ian Carnduff
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Patent number: D605953Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2009Date of Patent: December 15, 2009Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Janelle Yurong Wang Treadway, Stuart Allan Karten, Christopher Lee Clark, Eric William Olson, Donald Carpenter Stiff, Dennis Lynn Schroeder
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Patent number: D620807Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2009Date of Patent: August 3, 2010Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Janelle Yurong Wang Treadway, Stuart Allan Karten, Christopher Lee Clark, Eric William Olson, Donald Carpenter Stiff, Dennis Lynn Schroeder