Patents Assigned to division
  • Treatment of dandruff
    Publication number: 20020168327
    Abstract: Dandruff and symptoms of dandruff can be treated using lipophilic agents or lipid precursor and/or promoters to strengthen the scalp. The lipophilic agents or lipid precursor and/or promoters are preferably used in conjunction with an antifungal agent which has activity against Malassezia spp, particularly Malassezia furfur. Suitable antifungal agents include those conventionally used for the treatment of dandruff including, for example, zinc pyrithrone (ZnPTO), octopirox and azole antifungal agents such as climbazole and ketocanazole. The antifungal agents may be used singularly or as a mixture of one or more antifungal agents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2002
    Publication date: November 14, 2002
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Lawrence Bailey, Clive Roderick Harding, Christopher John Little
  • Hair colouring compositions
    Publication number: 20020166182
    Abstract: A coloring system for hair and/or skin comprises at least three separately packaged components:
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2002
    Publication date: November 14, 2002
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Krithivasan Bhagyalakshmi, Indu Mani, Govindarajan Raman
  • Bleaching composition for dry cleaning containing transition metal bleach catalyst
    Patent number: 6479447
    Abstract: A bleaching composition is provided for effective bleaching with a bleach catalyst at low temperatures. The bleaching composition comprises of a) from 0.05 microM to 50 mM of an organic substance which forms a complex with a transition metal; b) a source of active oxygen corresponding to 0.05 to 100 mM of active oxygen; and c) an effective amount of liquid carbon dioxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2002
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Dirk Johannes Bijl, Ronald Hage, Jan Kevelam, Jean Hypolites Koek, Dennis Stephen Murphy, Irene Erica Smit, Johannes J. Verhagen, Pieter van der Vlist
  • Sliding shoe sorter and methods of using sliding shoe sorter
    Patent number: 6478144
    Abstract: The present invention relates to sliding shoe sorters and methods of using those sorters. One or more pluralities of the shoes are interposed between the conveyors lateral edges and can be orderly advanced in lines. Controllers activate or deactivate the diverters which direct the sliding shoes toward one or more receivers, and the diversion of the shoes can result in the egressing of an item away from the conveyer. The receivers can be provided with rediverters to redirect the shoes toward the interposed sliding shoes. Items advanced by the conveyor may have a code placed about them, and after a code has been placed about the item to be sorted, a paradigm or paradigms responsive to the code can be created to orchestrate activation or deactivation of the diverters and/or the rediverters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2002
    Assignee: FKI Industries, Inc.'s, FKI Logistex Automation Division
    Inventor: Eric Sweazy
  • Liquid detergent composition
    Patent number: 6479448
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a concentrated liquid detergent composition with a pigment. The composition is color stable and the pigment remains stabily dispersed for at least 4 weeks at 37° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2002
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: James Dawson Cropper, Nikki Sullivan, Jenny Wiggans
  • Towelette dispensing article
    Publication number: 20020162765
    Abstract: A dispensing article, particularly for dispensing towelettes, is provided and includes a container body for storing the towelettes and a lid hingedly attached to the body. The container is formed from a floor panel, left and right side panels, front and rear panels. A button flap unitarily formed with the front wall includes a button projecting outwardly from a surface thereof. The lid includes a latch flap unitarily formed therewith and projecting downward toward the container body. An aperture is formed in the latch flap shaped to receive the button. Latch and button flaps are more flexible than other sections of the lid and container body panels. This flexibility allows for an easy to use, relatively inexpensive locking mechanism and provides good sealing characteristics. A refill canister can be placed within the container body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2001
    Publication date: November 7, 2002
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Scott Okin, Raymond Michael Flaig
  • Detergent compositions comprising novel phenol oxidizing enzymes
    Publication number: 20020165113
    Abstract: The present invention provides detergent compositions comprising variants of precursor phenol oxidizing enzymes, said precursor being derived from a Stachybotrys species. The precursor enzymes can be, for example, naturally-occurring or recombinant phenol oxidizing enzymes. The variant enzymes, in general, are obtained by modification of a precursor DNA sequence encoding the naturally-occurring or recombinant phenol oxidizing enzyme to generate the substitution of one or more amino acids in the encoded amino acid sequence. Variant enzymes are disclosed having properties which differ from those of their respective precursor enzymes, e.g., altered pH optima and/or phenol oxidizing activity and/or altered stability. The variant enzymes of the present invention are especially useful in detergent formulations, for example, to modify (bleach) the color associated with colored compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2001
    Publication date: November 7, 2002
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Wolfgang Aehle, Daniel Convents, Monique Doornink, Franciscus Van Gastel, Ana Milena Rodriguez, Amr Toppozada, Cornelis Hendrikus De Vries, Huaming Wang
  • PERSONAL CLEANSING COMPOSITIONS PROVIDING RINSABILITY AND DRAGGY WET SKIN FEEL
    Publication number: 20020165103
    Abstract: The invention provides personal wash compositions with soap like rinsability. The composition contains a lathering surfactant system and a specifically defined polymer/oil blend.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2001
    Publication date: November 7, 2002
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Liang Sheng Tsaur, Michael Paul Aronson
  • Water-soluble package and preparation thereof
    Publication number: 20020165109
    Abstract: A water-soluble package comprises a composition such as a liquid detergent composition enclosed within a water-soluble film. The film, or at least a substantial portion thereof, is dusted with a powder such as talc, starch, calcium stearate or zinc stearate by passing the package through a cloud or fluidised bed of the particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2001
    Publication date: November 7, 2002
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: James Dawson Cropper, Richard Harbour
  • Method for flavoring an olive oil
    Publication number: 20020164413
    Abstract: A process for the manufacture of a flavoured olive oil, comprising the steps of:
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2001
    Publication date: November 7, 2002
    Applicant: Lipton, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Stella Sophia Van Boom, Rob Van der Brugghen, Reinout Maitland
  • Non-contact method for measuring amount of skin sebum or oil in real time using fiber optic probe
    Patent number: 6475144
    Abstract: The invention provides a non-contact process for measuring amount of sebum or oil on skin or other substrate. Process is preferably done in vivo because of ability to measure formation of sebum/oil on skin in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Archana K Sah, Leonard Van Gorkom, Zhenhe Zhu, Thomas Hancewicz
  • Water soluble sachet with a dishwasher composition
    Patent number: 6475977
    Abstract: This invention is directed to a water soluble sachet comprising a detergent composition having an encapsulated bleach. The water soluble sachet unexpectedly results in excellent cleaning properties and minimizes spot and film formation on items being cleaned in a dishwasher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Natasha Pfeiffer, Naresh Dhirajlal Ghatlia, Isaac Israel Secemski
  • Carbohydrate containing cleaning surfactant and method for using the same
    Patent number: 6475968
    Abstract: This invention is directed to a surfactant comprising a carbohydrate group that results in superior cleaning in a dry cleaning system. The surfactant has a hydrocarbon group that is more solvent-philic than a carbohydrate group, and can result in reverse micelle formation in a densified gas like densified carbon dioxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Dennis Stephen Murphy, David Alan Binder
  • Treatment for fabrics
    Patent number: 6475980
    Abstract: A water-soluble or water-dispersible material for deposition onto a fabric substrate during a treatment process. The material comprises a &bgr;1-4-linked polysaccharide structure having at least one substituent benefit agent group and optionally, one or more other substituent groups. The average degree of substitution of all substituent groups is from 0.01 to 1.2, preferably from 0.1 to 1.2, more preferably from 0.4 to 1.2. The polysaccharide structure has one or more regions with at least 3, preferably at least 4 consecutive unsubstituted saccharide rings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco
    Inventors: Henri Bijsterbosch, Deborah Cooke, Neil Jones, Ezat Khoshdel
  • Oral bleaching composition
    Patent number: 6475472
    Abstract: The present invention relates to oral care compositions with an improved teeth whitening effect. This effect is achieved by inclusion in the oral care compositions of certain organic peroxy acids as teeth whitening/bleaching agents, particularly peroxyamidophthalamides together with hydrogen peroxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Joiner, Philip Christopher Waterfield
  • Method of making water-softening and detergent compositions
    Patent number: 6475978
    Abstract: The speed of disintegration of tablets containing a water-softening agent, especially water-insoluble, water-softening agent intended as detergency builder for fabric washing is enhanced by incorporating granules containing acetate (sodium acetate and/or potassium acetate) along with at least one other ingredient. Such tablets are provided, as are, methods of making the granules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA a division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Willem Appel, Roger Joseph Janssen
  • Preparation of a blend of triglycerides
    Patent number: 6475548
    Abstract: Triglyceride fat comprising a stearin fraction of a high stearic, high oleic sunflower oil and a margarine fat phase comprising said stearin in admixture with a liquid vegetable oil in a weight ratio of 20:80 to 80:20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: Lipton, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Johannes Robert Bons, Eckhard Floeter, Cornelis Sjouke Stellema
  • Antirrhinum plant named ‘Balumyell’
    Patent number: PP13163
    Abstract: A new and distinct Antirrhinum plant named Balumyell is provided. This new cultivar is characterized by its trailing habit and bright yellow flowers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: Ball FloraPlant, a division of Ball Horticultural Corporation
    Inventor: Scott C. Trees
  • New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Balcebsafo’
    Patent number: PP13180
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of New Guinea impatiens plant named Balcebsafo, characterized by its large light salmon flowers, dark green foliage, compact upright and mounded habit and excellent basal branching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: Ball FloraPlant, a division of Ball Horticultural corporation
    Inventor: Kerry M. Strope
  • Parts bin
    Patent number: D465332
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2002
    Assignee: Akro-Mils, division of Myers Industries Company
    Inventor: Jerrold G. Brown