Patents Assigned to division
  • Publication number: 20030132247
    Abstract: A container for dispensing a flowable fluid which has a first liquid and a second liquid disposed within a single chamber and which are separated and positioned one above the other. The container includes a bottle base, a bottle body which extends upward from the bottle base to a bottle finish, a fitment having a pouring spout and is arranged on the bottle body at an end opposite the base. The fitment has a first pouring opening from which a first liquid is dispensed and a second opening from which a second liquid is dispensed. A diptube is connected to one of the pouring openings projects downward from toward the bottle base. The diptube conveys the liquid on the bottom to a pouring spout while the liquid on top is conveyed to the pouring spout by the other pouring opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2002
    Publication date: July 17, 2003
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Feng-Lung Gordon Hsu, Richard Thomas Chalmers, Philip A. Tarrant, John Michael Paulovich, Edward John Giblin
  • Publication number: 20030134762
    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: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2001
    Publication date: July 17, 2003
    Applicant: Unilever Home and Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Michael Finucane, Bruce Casbarro, Sudhakar Puvvada, Joseph J. Podgorsky
  • Publication number: 20030134028
    Abstract: The invention concers a fat based food product comprising natural fat components which have a blood cholesterol lowering effect in amounts sufficient to obtain a blood cholesterol lowering effect if the food product is used accroding to the common needs and customs of the consumer, wherein at least one of toctrienol, oryzanol and phytosterol is present, and preferably at least two and in a further preferred embodiment at least 0.1 wt % of tocotrienol, 0.1 wt % of oryzanol and 0.4 wt % of phytosterol. In a further preferred embodiment the fat in the product comprises at least 30 wt %, preferably at least 45 wt % of pufa-triglycerides. By the regular consumption of the now found fat based food products a positive contribution to health in general, and in particular to the lowering of the blood cholesterol level can be found.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2003
    Publication date: July 17, 2003
    Applicant: Lipton, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Lourus Cornelis Lievense
  • Publication number: 20030134024
    Abstract: Frozen aerated confection having an overrun of above 80% and below 250%, and containing less than 0.5% w/w glycerol, freezing point depressants in an amount of between 25% and 37% w/w, and between 2 and 12% fat, wherein the freezing point depressants have a number average molecular weight <M>n of less than 300 have a soft structure when eaten at −18° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2002
    Publication date: July 17, 2003
    Applicant: Good Humor-Breyers Ice Cream, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Emmett Malone, Jeffrey Underdown, Loyd Wix
  • Publication number: 20030134771
    Abstract: An aqueous fabric conditioning composition comprises a solid particulate material, perfume and an oil. Preferably the composition is in the form of an emulsion. A method of treating fabrics comprising contacting the fabric conditioning composition with fabrics during a laundry treatment process. The solid particulate material and the perfume in the fabric conditioning composition are used to stabilise the oil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2003
    Publication date: July 17, 2003
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Karen Jane Ellson, Stephane Ugazio
  • Publication number: 20030133899
    Abstract: A cleansing and conditioning cosmetic composition containing a mixture of anionic, nonionic or amphoteric surfactants or mixtures thereof, with a cosurfactant that is alkoxylated nonionic surfactant, a water insoluble component as defined herein and a cationic conditioning polymer. The composition provides excellent cleansing and conditioning for hair/ skin and produces a copious, creamy lather.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2002
    Publication date: July 17, 2003
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Shimei Fan, Teresa Jolanta Dowell, Tirucherai Varahan Vasudevan
  • Publication number: 20030134029
    Abstract: Liquid margarines and other pourable dispersions which contain a hardstock fat derived from plant waxes. The fat consists of a mixture of triglycerides, which fat is non-hydrogenated and contains less than 10 wt. % of fatty acid residues with a chain length of 6-10 carbon atoms, of which less than 50 wt. % of the triglycerides consist of monoacyl triglycerides and which fat is characterized in that its content of fatty acid residues which are saturated and contain at least 20 carbon atoms is at least 30 wt. %, preferably at least 40 wt. % and more preferably at least 50 wt. % calculated on total fatty acid residues.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2002
    Publication date: July 17, 2003
    Applicant: Unilever Bestfoods North America, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Gude, Johannes Arie Laan, Eckhard Floter
  • Patent number: 6592856
    Abstract: Hair conditioning shampoo compositions are provided which contain a combination of conditioning agents including emulsified silicones, cationic polymers and certain fatty acid polyesters of polyols. Suitable fatty acid polyesters are sucrose pentalaurate, sucrose tetraoleate, sucrose pentaerucate, sucrose tetraerucate, sucrose tetrastearate, sucrose pentaoleate, sucrose octaoleate, sucrose pentatallowate, sucrose trirapeate, sucrose tetrarapeate, sucrose pentarapeate, sucrose tristearate and sucrose pentastearate, and mixtures thereof. The compositions give improved hair conditioning benefits, especially to hair which has been damaged, e.g. through environmental exposure or harsh mechanical or chemical treatments such as heat styling, perming or bleaching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Colin Christopher David Giles, Frances Ann Ellis, Andrew Malcolm Murray, Matthew Leslie Pearce, Pamela Eileen Red
  • Patent number: 6592852
    Abstract: An anti-tartar oral product is provided which includes from about 0.001 to about 20% of beads which include a zinc salt and a gum held in a water matrix, the zinc salt and gum being present in a relative weight ratio from about 10,000:1 to about 10:1, and a dental base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Christine Watson Ryles, David Robert Williams, Alexander George Ziemkiewicz, Jesus Antonio Urbaez
  • Patent number: 6593547
    Abstract: A deicer for an air gap between the rotor and stator of a rotating machine having a rotor and stator combination includes a heating assembly preferably disposed in the stator adjacent the air gap to heat the air in the air gap. Heating assembly includes an electrically powered resistive heating element wound through armature slots of the stator. The disclosed device and method have principal applications in emergency-type devices like Ram Air Turbines (RAT) and other power conversion devices such as Hydraulic Motor Generators (HMG) and Electric Motor Pumps (EMP).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2003
    Assignee: Pacific Scientific Electro Kinetics Division
    Inventor: Bernard A. Raad
  • Patent number: 6591968
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for conditioning conveyor chains in commercial ovens of the type having a continuous conveyor chain supported in a track for transporting bakery products through the oven. A portion of the conveyor chain and supporting track transits outside the heated baking area of the oven and an automatic chain lubricator is positioned along the portion of the track transiting outside the baking area of the oven. A fan for creating a flow of cooling air and at least one air duct are located outside the baking area. The duct receives one end cooling air from the fan and directs the cooling air on to the conveyor chain along the portion thereof located outside the heated baking area of the oven and upstream from the lubricator. Also, an air knife is disposed upstream of the lubricator and directed onto the chain to remove undesired debris, etc., therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2003
    Assignee: APV Baker, Inc. A division of APV North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard E. Snell, Robert Floyd Lanham
  • Publication number: 20030130158
    Abstract: A granular detergent component comprising a high level of surfactant, for example, cationic surfactant, and an inorganic carrier material is prepared by a process involving spraying an aqueous solution of the surfactant onto moving granules of the inorganic carrier material in the presence of a drying gas, preferably air, at a temperature within the range of from 65 to 200° C. The process is preferably carried out in a fluidised bed. Preferred inorganic carrier materials are sodium carbonate and zeolite MAP.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2002
    Publication date: July 10, 2003
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin Peter Astley, William Derek Emery
  • Publication number: 20030130156
    Abstract: A particulate laundry detergent composition which comprises, as separate particulate components:
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2002
    Publication date: July 10, 2003
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Prasanna Rao Dontula, Alyn James Parry, Catherine Maria Powell, Karen Robinson, Wiebe Schokker, Gilbert Martin Verschelling, Pieter Broer van der Weg
  • Publication number: 20030130157
    Abstract: A particulate laundry detergent composition which comprises a detergent base powder comprising surfactant and builder and, as separate particulate components:
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2002
    Publication date: July 10, 2003
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Prasanna Rao Dontula, Alyn James Parry, Catherine Maria Powell, Karen Robinson, Wiebe Schokker, Gilbert Martin Verschelling, Pieter Broer van der Weg
  • Publication number: 20030130160
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of polymers comprising a block copolymer containing at least one group A and at least one group B in which each group A is a polymeric block built up from an ethylenically unsaturated polymerisable monomer and each group B is a polymeric block built up from an alkylene oxide, alkylene glycol or cyclic ether monomer or a mixture thereof for promoting soil release during laundering of a textile fabric and processes for their preparation. Laundry cleaning compositions comprising such polymers, a method of promoting soil release during laundering of a textile fabric and the use of such polymers in the manufacture of a laundry cleaning composition for effecting soil release from a laundry item form other aspects of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2002
    Publication date: July 10, 2003
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Douglas Eason, Ezat Khoshdel, Susanne Henning Rogers, Michael Stephen White
  • Publication number: 20030130151
    Abstract: A dishwashing composition with hydrophobically modified polycarboxylic acids and water soluble entities that reduce phosphate scale formation is described. The dishwashing composition displays excellent cleaning benefits and glass appearance, even in the absence of NaCl additives and conventional rinse aid compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2002
    Publication date: July 10, 2003
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Naresh Dhirajlal Ghatlia, Yu-Min Catherine Chiou
  • Publication number: 20030130154
    Abstract: A water soluble package formed from a water soluble film containing a substantially non-aqueous liquid composition comprising at least one surfactant selected from those of formula (I): 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2002
    Publication date: July 10, 2003
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Philippus Cornelis Van Der Hoeven, Harriet Frederique Hommes
  • Publication number: 20030130592
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of monitoring the menstrual cycle and/or the first half of pregnancy in a female by assessing the adhesion of lymphocytes from the female to uterine or lymphoid histological tissues from a pregnant animal or an animal that has been treated with gestational hormones. The method can be used to determine the ability of the lymphocyte donor's immune system to recognize and respond to an environment suitable for sustaining a pregnancy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2002
    Publication date: July 10, 2003
    Applicant: Heath Research, Inc. Roswell Park Division
    Inventors: Barbara Anne Croy, Sharon S. Evans
  • Patent number: D476894
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Bestfoods, North America, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Vincent Michael Masotta, James Lindsay Clark
  • Patent number: PP13939
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Balcebstar’ characterized by its upright, rounded and uniform plant habit; light pink and red bi-colored flowers that are positioned above and beyond the leaves; and very dark green-colored leaves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: Ball FloraPlant, a division of Ball Horticultural Co.
    Inventor: Kerry Strope