Patents Assigned to division
  • SOAP BAR COMPOSITION
    Publication number: 20010056050
    Abstract: A composition for a soap bar comprises:
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 1999
    Publication date: December 27, 2001
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: MARCIA DE FERRAN, ADOLFO GUTMANN, SERGIO ROBERTO LEOPOLDINO
  • Ambient stable beverage
    Publication number: 20010055644
    Abstract: A method for preparing an ambient-stable beverage that is suitable for cold filing. The method involves adding to a beverage at least one pasteurization adjunct that has no appreciable fungicidal activity at a temperature between 0 and 40 degrees C but exhibits fungicidal activity when heated to a temperature between 40 and 65 degrees C, and raising the temperature of the beverage to a temperature between 40 and 65 degrees C in order to activate the fungicidal activity of the pasteurisation adjunct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2001
    Publication date: December 27, 2001
    Applicant: Lipton, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Roy Michael Kirby, Hazel Steels, Malcolm Stratford
  • Hair treatment compositions
    Publication number: 20010055579
    Abstract: Hair treatment compositions comprising a surfactant, PTFE particles, and a cationic polymer. The invention also provides for use of a cationic polymer as a deposition aid for PTFE particles dispersed in an aqueous hair treatment composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2001
    Publication date: December 27, 2001
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Richard Avery, Andrew Anthony Barnes, Andrew Malcolm Murray, Malika Punyagupta
  • Preparation of antiperspirant gels which obviates the use of simple glycols
    Publication number: 20010055575
    Abstract: A clear emulsion and gel-type composition, which is an antiperspirant or deodorant composition which is a water-in-oil emulsion which comprises:
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2001
    Publication date: December 27, 2001
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhuning Ma, David Allen Brewster, Anthony Aloysius Scafidi
  • Ambient stable beverage
    Publication number: 20010055646
    Abstract: A beverage that contains a preservative system that contains 1 to 175 ppm cinnamic acid, 10 to 200 ppm sorbic acid or benzoic acid, and at least one essential oil other than cinnamic acid. Minimizing the concentration of sorbic and benzoic acid in this way enables one to prepare an ambient-stable beverage whilst avoiding the adverse effects that sorbic and benzoic acid can have on taste.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2001
    Publication date: December 27, 2001
    Applicant: Lipton, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Marian Blyth, Aminata Yanda Kanu, Roy Micheal Kirby, Malcolm Stratford
  • Water soluble package of liquid cleaning composition
    Publication number: 20010053754
    Abstract: A water soluble package in the form of a horizontal form-fill-seal envelope formed from a plastics film, the package containing a substantially non-aqueous liquid detergent composition having a viscosity of from 25 to 10,000 mPaS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2001
    Publication date: December 20, 2001
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Malcolm Hewitt, Hannah Mansfield, Neeraj Gupta, James Dawson Cropper
  • Toothbrush
    Patent number: 6330730
    Abstract: A toothbrush incorporating an indicator comprising a pressure indicating material which provides an optical signal without the provision of a power supply. Preferably, the pressure sensitive material is a piezochromic material, such as a liquid crystal cholesterol ester.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2001
    Assignee: Chesebrough-Pond's USA Co., division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Huw Davies, Derek Guy Savill, Paul Jones
  • Preparation of antiperspirant gels which obviates the use of simple glycols
    Publication number: 20010051138
    Abstract: A clear emulsion and gel-type cosmetic composition, and in particular to an antiperspirant and/or deodorant composition which comprises a water-in-oil emulsion comprising:
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2001
    Publication date: December 13, 2001
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Aloysius Scafidi, Zhuning Ma, David Allen Brewster
  • Automatic mechanism for wheelchair lift passenger access door
    Publication number: 20010049908
    Abstract: An automatic door reciprocating system (20) is disclosed. The automatic reciprocating system is adapted for use with a wheelchair lift (152) designed to be stowed in a lower compartment of a vehicle (24). The vehicle includes a floor and a sliding door (22) where the sliding door is slidable between open and closed positions. The wheelchair lift includes a platform that is movable between an upper position, where the platform is substantially coplanar with the floor, and a lower position. The automatic door reciprocating system includes a reciprocating assembly (26) for automatically reciprocating the sliding door between the opened and closed positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2001
    Publication date: December 13, 2001
    Applicant: Lift-U, Division of Hogan Mfg., Inc.
    Inventors: Alan R. Cohn, Curtis J. Simon
  • Balanced fluid pressure regulator
    Patent number: 6328054
    Abstract: A balanced fluid pressure regulator of the disclosed embodiment comprises a balancing bellows inside a sensing bellows to minimize the supply pressure effect for improved performance while reducing the size and weight of the regulator in comparison to a conventional regulator. A sensing duct communicates the enclosed space between the bellows with the fluid passage of the regulator downstream from a poppet valve. The cross-sectional area of the fluid passage is reduced in the vicinity of the sensing duct for decreasing the pressure in the enclosed space at high gas flow rates. The valve seat in the regulator is supported so it is free to move during assembly of the regulator to self-align the seat with the poppet valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Assignee: Parker-Hannifin Corporation-Veriflo division
    Inventors: Richard L. Martin, Louis A. Ollivier
  • Detergent compositions
    Patent number: 6329331
    Abstract: An aqueous detergent composition, which is in the form of a thickened, mobile fluid, comprising foaming detergent and a polymer or polymer mixture which is capable of forming a reversible gel, which polymer or mixture is present in the composition as a multiplicity of individual gel particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Paul Aronson, Charles Rupert Brown, Robert James Chatfield, Peter Fairley, Ian Timothy Norton, Jason Richard Williams
  • Liner and carton
    Patent number: 6328202
    Abstract: A new liner which includes one or more medial panels and two end panels, one on each end. Preferably there are at least three medial panels. The length of the end panels are each no more than 50% the length of any of the medial panels. The invention also pertains to a carton or shipping case including the liner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Edward John Giblin
  • Vehicle flip-out ramp
    Publication number: 20010048870
    Abstract: A wheelchair ramp assembly (20) is disclosed. The wheelchair ramp assembly includes a frame attachable to a vehicle having a floor, a platform coupled to a portion of the frame, a ramp having a weight, and a reciprocating mechanism disposed between the ramp and the platform coupled to a portion of the frame, a ramp having a weight, and a reciprocating mechanism disposed between the ramp and the platform for reciprocating the ramp between a deployed position and a stowed position in response to a force. The reciprocating mechanism counterbalancing the weight of the ramp during actuation of the ramp between the deployed and stowed positions to reduce the force required to reciprocate the ramp between the deployed and stowed positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2000
    Publication date: December 6, 2001
    Applicant: Lift-U, Division of Hogan Mfg., Inc.
    Inventors: Cleatus Lewis, Alan R. Cohn, Donald Morris
  • Black tea manufacture
    Publication number: 20010048956
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing black leaf tea that looks and feels like orthodox processed tea but has the liquor characteristics of a fuller fermented CTC processed tea. The process involves withering a first supply of freshly plucked tea leaves, macerating the withered leaves, allowing the macerated withered leaves to ferment to produce macerated dhool, withering a second supply of freshly plucked tea leaves, mixing the macerated dhool obtained from the first supply of leaves with the withered leaves obtained from the second supply of leaves, rolling the mixture, allowing the rolled mixture to ferment, and drying the fermented mixture to yield black leaf tea.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2001
    Publication date: December 6, 2001
    Applicant: Lipton, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Ruth Louisa Blair, Robert Ong?apos;Ondi Mayaka, Andrew David Parry, Peter Joseph Stabler
  • Shifter with park lock and neutral lock device
    Patent number: 6325196
    Abstract: A shifter is provided for shifting a vehicle transmission between an automatic shifting mode that includes the automatically shifting gear positions of park, reverse, neutral, drive, and low drive, and a manual-shifting mode including upshift and downshift gear positions. The shifter includes a base, a lever carrier pivoted to the base for movement along a center shift path and side shift paths, and a shift lever pivoted to the lever carrier for movement between the different shift paths. The lever carrier has notches corresponding to the gear positions, and the shift lever has a pawl operably engaging the notches to control movement of the shift lever between the automatically shifting gear positions on the center shift path. The pawl is disengaged when the shift lever is moved into the side-located shift paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Assignee: Grand Haven Stamped Products, division of JSJ Corporation
    Inventors: Dale A. Beattie, Robert D. Brock, Robert A. DeJonge
  • Vent closure
    Patent number: D451393
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Douglas Gerhart, Edward John Giblin, Eugene Francis Haffner, George Richard Trepina, Carlton Roy Mousseau
  • Container body
    Patent number: D451397
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, a division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Douglas Gerhart, Harry Hamilton Haubert, III, Robert Charles Blanc, Edward John Giblin, Gerald Ross Robinson, Anthony Jason Scott, James Earl Hiltner
  • Sachet for cleaning machines
    Patent number: D451795
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Naresh Dhirajlal Ghatlia, Natasha Pfeiffer, Isaac Israel Secemski
  • Dishwashing machine sachet
    Patent number: D452143
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2001
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Naresh Dhirajlal Ghatlia, Natasha Pfeiffer, Isaac Israel Secemski
  • Car slipper
    Patent number: D452604
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2002
    Assignee: Footgear Inc., a division of Wiesner Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Blanco