Patents Assigned to division
  • Laundry treatment granule and detergent composition containing laundry treatment granule
    Publication number: 20010039249
    Abstract: In order to protect a fabric rebuild polymer which undergoes, during a laundry treatment process, a chemical change by which the affinity of the rebuild agent for the fabric is increased, from hydrolysis on storage, the fabric rebuild agent is in the form of a granule comprising fabric rebuild agent, acidic binder, neutral filler and optionally acidic filler. The granule can be post-dosed to a powder detergent composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2001
    Publication date: November 8, 2001
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Willam Derek Emery, Christopher Clarkson Jones
  • Stable peroxide dental compositions
    Publication number: 20010038828
    Abstract: An oral composition is provided containing stabilized peroxide ingredients. Stabilization is achieved by combination of a triphenyl methane dye and potassium nitrate. Particularly useful as the dye are FD&C Blue 1 and FD&C Green 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2001
    Publication date: November 8, 2001
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Christine Watson Ryles, David Robert Williams
  • Heterocyclic dry-cleaning surfactant and method for using the same
    Patent number: 6313079
    Abstract: This invention is directed to a surfactant comprising a heterocyclic group that results in superior cleaning in a dry cleaning system. The surfactant can have one or more heteroatom and can result in reverse micelle formation in a densified gas like densified carbon dioxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2001
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco
    Inventor: Dennis Stephen Murphy
  • Detergent compositions
    Patent number: 6313080
    Abstract: A detergent tablet for fabric washing is compacted from particulate detergent composition(s) with a fabric conditioning agent present in one zone (20,26,36,40) of the tablet at a greater concentration than in another zone (22,24,28,30,42). The conditioning agent may be a softening agent in a zone or region which disintegrates later than another zone or region of the tablet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2001
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care, USA division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Jelles Vincent Boskamp, Atze Jan van der Goot, Ronaldus Wilhelmus Westerhout
  • Laundry treatment for fabrics
    Publication number: 20010036907
    Abstract: A laundry treatment composition comprising a water-soluble or water-dispersible rebuild agent for deposition onto a fabric during a treatment process wherein the material undergoes during the treatment process, a chemical change by which change the affinity of the material for the fabric is increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2001
    Publication date: November 1, 2001
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy David Finch, Andrew Hopkinson
  • Laundry treatment for fabrics
    Publication number: 20010036908
    Abstract: A laundry treatment composition comprising peroxygen bleach and a water-soluble or water dispersible rebuild agent for redeposition onto a fabric during the laundry process, wherein the fabric rebuild agent undergoes during the laundry process, a chemical change by which change the affinity of the material for the fabric is increased. The peroxygen bleach was found to increase the deposition of the fabric rebuild agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2001
    Publication date: November 1, 2001
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Hopkinson, Christopher Clarkson Jones, David Richard Mealing
  • Carotenoid containing product
    Publication number: 20010036501
    Abstract: A tomato juice product of which the lycopene level is 5 to 25 mg per 100 g, and wherein the product is provided in closed containers comprising from 50 to 150 ml of said product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2001
    Publication date: November 1, 2001
    Applicant: Lipton, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Sheila Ann Wiseman
  • Cleaning composition and method for using the same
    Patent number: 6309425
    Abstract: A novel cleaning composition for dry cleaning applications is described. The cleaning composition utilizes a stain removal composition having a stain removal surfactant and a stain removal solvent, and the dry cleaning applications use a solvent which is a gas at standard temperature and pressure, a biodegradable functionalized hydrocarbon or a silicone comprising solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care, USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Dennis Stephen Murphy
  • Machine dish wash compositions
    Patent number: 6310023
    Abstract: A detergent composition comprising sodium citrate and an organo monophosphonic acid or a salt thereof of formula I where n is an integer from 0 to 6 and X1, X2, X3 are independently selected from an alkyl, alkenyl, aryl or carboxy group with the proviso that at least one of X1, X2, X3 is a carboxy group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco
    Inventors: Wilma Kornaat, Deborah Sue Rick, Alan Digby Tomlinson
  • Detergent bar composition and manufacturing process comprising colloidal aluminum hydroxide phosphate complex
    Patent number: 6310016
    Abstract: A low total fatty matter detergent bar composition comprising 15-70% total fatty matter, 0.5-40% colloidal aluminium hydroxide-phosphate complex, and 10-50% water. The invention also comprises a process for making a bar of this composition comprising the steps of reacting a mixture of one or more fats or fatty acids with phosphoric acid and an alkaline aluminium-containing material to obtain an aluminium hydroxide-phosphate complex and soap at a temperature of 25-95° C.; adding water to the complex and soap mixture; and converting the product of (b) into bars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Vidur Behal, Atul Bhatia, Gurpreet Singh Kohli, Mahesh Lakshminarayanan, Vineet Mital
  • Sunscreen composition
    Patent number: 6309626
    Abstract: A process for preparing a sunscreen composition is provided which includes the steps of (i) dissolving an ultraviolet radiation absorbing sunscreen in an oil phase; (ii) neutralizing stearic acid in a water phase; and (iii) homogenising the dissolved sunscreen with the neutralised stearic acid in a cosmetically acceptable vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Govindarajan Raman
  • Water-softening and detergent compositions containing partially hydrated Na acetate
    Patent number: 6310028
    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 partially hydrated sodium acetate alone or jointly with sodium citrate dihydrate and/or crystallised sodium acetate trihydrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care, USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Roger Joseph Anna Janssen
  • Cosmetic compositions
    Publication number: 20010033851
    Abstract: A cosmetic composition preferably an antiperspirant composition, in solid or soft-solid form has a continuous phase which contains a water-immiscible liquid carrier and also contains a structurant which is partially or fully esterified cellobiose of the formula 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2001
    Publication date: October 25, 2001
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Ronald Franklin, Adam Jan Kowalski, David Terence Parrott, Kathryn Elizabeth Rowe, Michael Stephen White
  • Cold water soluble tea
    Publication number: 20010033880
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing a black leaf tea that is infusible in hot or cold water. The process involves macerating freshly plucked tea leaves, allowing them to ferment, firing the leaves to arrest fermentation and then drying them to yield black leaf tea, wherein the tea leaves are treated with a solubilising compound selected ascorbic acid, dehydroascorbic acid, 1-scorbamic acid, 5-phenyl-3,4-diketo-gamma-butyrolactone (4-phenyl-2,3-diketo-gamma-butyrolactone) or their salts and mixtures thereof in an amount that is sufficient for the black leaf tea to be soluble in water at 5 to 100° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2001
    Publication date: October 25, 2001
    Applicant: Lipton, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Velu Ganesan, Shovan Ganguli, Kush Garg, Mushtaq Patel, Vilas Pandurang Sinkar, Narayasaswami Subramanian
  • Fabric care composition
    Publication number: 20010034316
    Abstract: Fabric care compositions for application to a fabric comprise a fabric softening and/or conditioning compound and a polymer, which is capable of self cross-linking and/or reacting with cellulose. The polymer is present in the composition in an amount of from 0.002% to 0.45%, preferably from 0.005% to 0.010% by weight based on the weight of the fabric. The polymers and the compositions may be used to enhance the delivery of perfume to a fabric from a fabric care composition, which comprises a perfume, and/or to enhance the softening of fabric by a fabric care composition, which comprises a fabric softening and/or conditioning compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2001
    Publication date: October 25, 2001
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert John Carswell, Adelle Louise Killey, Sarah Elizabeth Senior
  • Water-in-oil spread with water base fruit composition
    Patent number: 6306449
    Abstract: A heterogeneous edible spread having a water-in-oil composition and a varigate composition is disclosed. The water-in-oil composition and the varigate composition have humectant concentrations that result in each of the compositions having substantially the same water activity, resulting in a spread having superior appearance, taste and texture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2001
    Assignee: Lipton, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Podutoori Ravinder Reddy, Thomas John Wajda, Jr., Michael Charles Cirigliano, Andreas Markus Keller
  • Cosmetic strip with an agent for inducing a temperature change
    Patent number: 6306412
    Abstract: An adhesive cosmetic strip is provided which includes a flexible water-insoluble substrate, an adhesive composition deposited onto the substrate and an agent interactive with water present in a sufficient quantity to induce a change of temperature of the strip. When applied to the skin, the strip is warmed by a reaction between water and an exothermic or endothermic agent held within the strip. Moisture within the skin or externally applied water penetrates the strip and will react with the agent to cause an increase or decrease in temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2001
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Andrew Crotty, Craig Stephen Slavtcheff, Alexander Paul Znaiden
  • Dual chamber cleansing system comprising water-in-oil emulsion as benefit stripe
    Patent number: 6306806
    Abstract: The invention provides an at least dual compartment container containing at least one surfactant stripe and at least one water-in-oil emulsion stripe. By dispensing a water-in-oil emulsion stripe, greater deposition, particularly deposition of water soluble benefit agent (e.g., glycolic acid) is achieved than believed possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2001
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc
    Inventors: Dale St. Lewis, Helen Elizabeth Knaggs
  • Process for preparing fluid detergent compositions
    Publication number: 20010031718
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of fluid detergent product comprising an anionic surfactant in which the acid precursor of the anionic surfactant is fed through at least two mixing devices, sufficient neutralizing agent to neutralize 25-75 wt % of the acid precursor being fed to the first mixing device, and sufficient neutralizing agent to complete neutralization being added to the mixture from the first mixing device to substantially complete neutralization by the time the process stream exits the final mixing device, wherein the initial liquid component and the process stream are kept at pumpable temperature at all times during the process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2001
    Publication date: October 18, 2001
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Andre Kaess
  • Bottle
    Patent number: D449533
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2001
    Assignee: Lipton, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: David Helps, Philip Bordet-Stead