Abstract: The present application relates to the inclusion of one or more wrinkle reducing ingredients in a laundry detergent product. The benefits are delivered to the laundered item during the cleaning step and, therefore, reduces the need for further wrinkle reducing steps when the items are taken from the dryer or after hang drying.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 16, 1999
Date of Patent:
June 11, 2002
Assignee:
Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco,
Inc.
Abstract: A coupling mechanism for coupling adjacent cavities which includes a window having side walls joining two cavities and a coupling member extending into said window between said side walls. The coupling member is movable between said side walls to adjust the coupling.
Abstract: A system for enhancing the display of World Wide Web pages combined with television video signals on a TV screen includes enhanced display modes. In a first embodiment, the viewer controls the transparency of a Picture-In-Picture image (PIP). A PIP image that normally covers up a part of the background image is made transparent so that the user can view the background image through the PIP image. Using transparency control, two same size images are simultaneously viewed whereby a full size background image and a full size foreground image simultaneously occupy the full television video screen. In a second embodiment of enhanced display of television video and World Wide Web graphics, a television video Picture-In-Graphics (PIG) image is imbedded as an object in an HTML Web page. When the HTML Web page is displayed as a background image and scrolled (or panned), the television video PIG image scrolls along with the HTML Web page background image.
Type:
Application
Filed:
December 6, 2000
Publication date:
June 6, 2002
Applicant:
Liberate Technologies, MoreCom Division, Inc.
Abstract: Edible compositions containing a fat phase and vegetable matter from members of the botanical genus of Allium, such as onions, garlic, chives, leek or mixtures thereof. Said composition is suitable for food preparation processes, such as frying or simmering.
Abstract: Blends of quercetin and isoflavones from the group consisting of genestein, daidzein and glycetin display synergistic effects when applied as anti-inflammatory agent or as skin agent in particular for anti ageing purposes.
Type:
Application
Filed:
August 15, 2001
Publication date:
June 6, 2002
Applicant:
Lipton, Division of Conopco, Inc.
Inventors:
Martin Richard Green, Anne Hailes, Maria Catherine Tasker, Paula Rachel Yates
Abstract: A fitment and the combination of fitment and bottle and/or closure, particularly for dispensing household products such as heavy duty liquid detergents and fabric softeners. The fitment of the invention comprises an outer circumferential wall which extends upwardly, a connecting web extending inwardly, a downwardly extending inner circumferential wall, a floor extending inwardly from the bottom of the inner circumferential wall, and a pour spout extending upwardly from an inner end of the floor. The inner circumferential wall includes internal fasteners suitable for securing a closure to the fitment. The fitment may be secured to the container finish by complementary fasteners such as internal threads on the fitment and external threads on the finish.
The fitment finds particular utility in containers wherein the bottle body is translucent or transparent.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 30, 1998
Date of Patent:
June 4, 2002
Assignee:
Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco,
Inc.
Inventors:
Edward John Giblin, Gregory Alan Lathrop
Abstract: The invention provides the use of a hair benefit agent as an ingredient in a topical hair treatment composition for the purpose of targeting an active endogenous hair fiber enzyme when the composition is applied to the hair, thereby delivering a hair benefit via the interaction of the hair benefit agent with the enzyme.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 11, 2001
Date of Patent:
June 4, 2002
Assignee:
Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco,
Inc.
Inventors:
Margaret Ann Blount, Michael Arthur Davis, Kelly Jackson, Nathalie Noel, Matthew Leslie Pearce, Paul Slusarewicz
Abstract: The plant for continuously regenerating foundry sand comprises a combustion chamber, in which a combustible gas is added to the sand, and a cooling chamber, in which the sand coming from the combustion chamber is cooled, both chambers being provided with systems for maintain the sand in a fluidized state. The chambers are also in direct communication with one another in the manner of communicating vessels in such a way that, during normal operation in equilibrium, the free surface of the sand may be at the same level in the two chambers.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 11, 1999
Date of Patent:
June 4, 2002
Assignee:
Fata Aluminium Division of Fata Group SPA
Abstract: In the present invention, an actuating mechanism for a hand held canister is provided in which a slider is moveable by finger pressure from a valve-disengaged position into a valve-engagable position and a concealed spring returns the slider to a valve-disengaged position when finger pressure is removed. The spring is preferably molded with the slider, projects through a slit in the over-cap of the canister and acts in a vertical plane against a stop depending from the over-cap. It is energised when the slider is moved into the valve engagable position. The slider is preferably releasably locked in the valve disengaged position.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 14, 2001
Date of Patent:
June 4, 2002
Assignee:
Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco,
Inc.
Inventors:
Norman Clark, Andrew Claughton, Karen Michelle Dickinson, Adalberto Geier, Nigel Laurence Jackson, Gunter Walter Kolanus, Richard Paul McNabb, Ian Stuart Midgley
Abstract: The present invention teaches liquid sunscreen compositions in which level of surfactant is higher than level at which the sunscreen component(s) are still soluble in the surfactant in which they are used; and which comprise minimal levels of cationic polymer. Combination of cationic polymer (especially preferred surfactants and at minimum levels) and minimal levels of sunscreen lead to compositions with minimal levels of deposition and minimal SPF. Further, the compositions also maintain good lather.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 10, 2000
Date of Patent:
June 4, 2002
Assignee:
Unilever Home & Personal Care USA a division of Conopco,
Inc.
Inventors:
Leslie Jo Morgan, Sudhakar Puvvada, Liang Sheng Tsaur, Michael Paul Aronson, Andrew Lam, Shiji Shen, Ernest Weatherley Macaulay
Abstract: The invention concerns the achievement of a deodorancy benefit upon the human body or upon articles worn in close proximity thereto and involves the application of an anti-microbial product comprising a transition metal chelator and a phenolic or enolic compound that is (a) a transferrin dissociation promoter that operates by aiding the reduction of iron(III) bound to transferrin to iron(II) and/or (b) an anti-oxidant comprising a tert-butylphenol group.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 9, 2001
Publication date:
May 30, 2002
Applicant:
Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
Inventors:
Paula Ann Johnson, Andrew Sjaak Landa, Stephen Anthony Makin, Victoria Anne McKay
Abstract: Food composition suitable as a dressing or marinade which can be manufactured and offered to the consumer as a two-phase system, having separate oil and water layers. Upon shaking by hand, an emulsion is produced which remains stable for a limited amount of time, whereafter the composition reverts to a system of two separate phases; an oil layer and an aqueous layer.
Abstract: A refrigerated display apparatus comprising a product display unit and a refrigeration unit, the product display unit including a housing defining a chamber arranged to receive therewithin one or more products, a base adapted to overlie a counter top, and a projecting portion projecting beyond the base, wherein the refrigeration unit depends from the projecting portion, whereby the refrigeration unit is arrangeable below the level of the counter top.
Type:
Application
Filed:
November 28, 2001
Publication date:
May 30, 2002
Applicant:
Good Humor-Breyers Ice Cream, Division of Conopco, Inc.
Abstract: A process for the production of detergent particles, comprises feeding an acid precursor of an anionic surfactant and a neutralising agent into a horizontal thin-film evaporator/drier comprising a mixing region, a drying region and a cooling region. The resultant detergent particles are graded to separate an oversize granule fraction in which at least 70 wt % of the particles have a minimum diameter of 1000 &mgr;m. This fraction is fed back into the process.
Type:
Application
Filed:
September 20, 2001
Publication date:
May 30, 2002
Applicant:
Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
Inventors:
William Derek Emery, Andreas Theodorus Groot
Abstract: A sleeve is provided which in assembled form slides over an openable carton with a protuberance to maintain the carton in its closed position. The sleeve may be assembled prior to production and stored flat or in a roll to minimize storage space and save production costs.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 2, 2001
Date of Patent:
May 28, 2002
Assignee:
Unilever Home & PersonalCare USA division of Conopco,
Inc.
Inventors:
Michael Edward Ross, Josephine Telesca, Dean R. Rainey