Patents Assigned to division
  • Soap wrappers
    Patent number: 6242397
    Abstract: A bar of soap having, wrapped laterally of the bar, around at least a longitudinal extent of the bar, a stiffening member comprising a stiff sheet material having at least respective outer surfaces thereof each provided by a plastics material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2001
    Assignee: Lever Brothers Co., division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald John Milio, John Duncan Wagner
  • Personal liquid cleansing composition comprising high levels of polyethylene glycol
    Patent number: 6242412
    Abstract: Liquid personal wash composition comprises a synthetic anionic surfactant and an amphoteric surfactant in range of 4:1 to 0.1:1. Use of levels of at least 10% of a specified PEG provides both enhanced lather and enhanced mildness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2001
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: John George Chambers, Izumi Kutsuwa, David Serridge
  • Detergent compositions
    Patent number: 6242403
    Abstract: A detergent tablet of compressed particulate composition, and a process of making such a tablet, wherein the tablet or a region thereof comprises organic detergent and detergency builder and the tablet or region thereof is compacted from a composition which contains: (A) particles containing at least 60% by weight of non-soap anionic detergent (B) particles containing at least 80% of their own weight of one or more water-soluble materials selected from compounds with a water-solubility exceeding 50 grams per 100 grams water at 20° C.; and sodium tripolyphosphate containing at least 50% of its own weight of the phase I anhydrous form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2001
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Rene Lammers, Seeng Djiang Liem, Alastair Richard Sanderson, Bart Slenderbroek, Harmannus Tammes, Arie Vermaas, Gilbert Martin Verschelling, Ronaldus Wilhelmus Johannes Westerhout
  • Process for the production of a detergent composition
    Patent number: 6238612
    Abstract: A process for forming detergent bars comprising applying pressure to a detergent composition contained within a mould cavity. The detergent composition in the mould is in a substantially fluid or semi-solid state and the mould is substantially full before the pressure is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Assignee: Lever Brothers Company, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Stewart Allan, John Martin Cordell, Graeme Neil Irving, Suresh Murigeppa Nadakatti, Vijay Mukund Naik, Christine Ann Overton, Frederick Edmund Stocker, Karnik Tarverdi
  • Edible fat spread
    Patent number: 6238723
    Abstract: A fat is provided hich is substantially free of trans saturated fatty acid residues and suitable for use in the preparation of a spread, which consists of an interesterified mixture of 30-90% of high lauric rapeseed oil, and 10-70% of an oil A comprising at least 40% of saturated fatty acid residues of which saturated fatty acid residues at least 80% are C16-C18 fatty acid residues and at most 60% are C16 fatty acid residues. The fat is used for preparing margarine fats and spreads. It provides low-trans and trans-free spreads with improved properties, while problems caused by slow crystallization are avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Assignee: Van den Bergh Foodś Co., division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Cornelis Laurentius Sassen, Leendert Hendrik Wesdorp
  • Machine dishwashing compositions with a polymer having cationic monomer units
    Patent number: 6239091
    Abstract: A detergent or rinse aid composition which reduces spotting and filming on glassware cleaned in an automatic dishwashing machine is described. The composition contains an effective amount of a water soluble cationic or amphoteric polymer having at least one monomer unit having a cationic charge over a portion of the pH range of about 2 to about 11 in the wash or rinse cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Assignee: Lever Brothers Company, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Alla Tartakovsky, Joseph Oreste Carnali, John Robert Winters
  • Ramp assembly with locking mechanisms
    Patent number: 6238168
    Abstract: A ramp assembly is provided. The ramp assembly includes a frame, a ramp platform, and first and second locking mechanisms. The ramp platform is mounted in the frame defining forward and trailing ends, and is extendible and retractable along a length of the frame between a stowed and a deployed position. The ramp platform is arranged such that when deployed the forward end extends down towards the ground. The first locking mechanism locks the ramp platform into a fully deployed position, and the second lock mechanism locks the ramp platform into a fully stowed position. The ramp assembly also includes a manual release mechanism, the actuation of which releases the first locking mechanism when the ramp assembly is in the fully deployed position. The actuation of the manual release mechanism also releases the second locking mechanism when the ramp platform is in the fully stowed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Assignee: Lift-U, division of Hogan Mfg.
    Inventors: Alan R. Cohn, Cleatus A. Lewis, Curtis J. Simon
  • Method to change the viewing angle in a fixed liquid crystal display by changing the pre-tilt angle in the liquid crystal layer with a bias voltage
    Patent number: 6236384
    Abstract: The invention describes a method for electronically adjusting the viewing angle of a liquid crystal display within a panel fixed in location by the structure within which it is located, such as an electronic flight indicator unit. The adjustment in viewing angle is achieved by changing the bias voltage to alter the pre-tilt angle of the liquid crystal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2001
    Assignees: Universal Avionics Systems Corporation-Instrument division and L-3, Communications Corporation
    Inventors: David E. Didier, Joseph W. Goode, III, James E. Strickling, III, William R. Dunn
  • Combined nozzle set and lift tool for a pop-up sprinkler
    Patent number: 6234411
    Abstract: A combined nozzle set and lift tool is provided for use with a pop-up sprinkler, wherein the lift tool comprises a tool body in the form of an injection molded runner formed integrally with a plurality of individual nozzle inserts. An elongated tool stem projects outwardly from the tool body and has protruding tabs at a tip end thereof for reception into an undercut recess formed in a pop-up sprinkler spray head to permit lifting of the spray head from a normal position spring-retracted substantially within a sprinkler housing or case, to an elevated position for facilitated access to the spray head. A selected one of the plurality of nozzle inserts can be separated from the lift tool as by snap-off detachment, whereupon the selected nozzle insert can be mounted on the elevated spray head to individually tailor the characteristics of a water stream projected therefrom during normal sprinkler operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2001
    Assignee: Anthony Manufacturing Corporation, Residential Products Division
    Inventors: Samuel C. Walker, David Robertson
  • Water-in-oil hair conditioner with lamellar dispersion in water phase
    Patent number: 6235275
    Abstract: The invention relates to opaque hair conditioner compositions that have a lamellar dispersion in the internal aqueous phase and which are water in oil emulsions that comprise: a) about 40 to 95% aqueous phase comprising (i) water and (ii) a cationic surfactant, capable of forming lamellar dispersion, present at about 0.1 to about 10% of the aqueous phase; b) about 0.5 to about 30% oil, comprising a volatile silicone compound, a nonvolatile silicone compound, a volatile hydrocarbon compound, a nonvolatile hydrocarbon compound, or a mixture thereof; c) about 0.1 to about 20% silicone surfactant; and d) optionally di-long chain alkyl amines having C10 to C22 carbon chains, long chain fatty alcohols having C10 to C22 carbon chains, or ethoxylated fatty alcohols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2001
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, a division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Liang Bin Chen, Wei-Mei Sun
  • Surfactant blends, processes for preparing them and particulate detergent compositions containing them
    Patent number: 6235703
    Abstract: Surfactant blends, processes for preparing them and particulate detergent compositions containing them. Mobile liquid surfactant blends consisting essentially of alkyl polyglycosides and ethoxylated nonionic surfactant are provided, the surfactant blend having a viscosity at 65° C. measured at 50s−1 not exceeding 1 Pas, the weight ratio of alkyl polyglycoside to ethoxylated nonionic surfactant being within the range of from 35.65 to 65.35, there being from 2-25% of water. Various processes for the preparation of such blends are provided. The mobile surfactant blends can be used in the preparation of particulate detergent compositions or components by mixing the blend with a particulate carrier material without requiring a drying step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2001
    Assignee: Lever Brothers, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Willem Appel, Huig Euser, Hendricus Anthonius Rebers, Cornelis Gerhard van Kralingen
  • Method and apparatus for preserving food products
    Patent number: 6231908
    Abstract: In a method of preserving a food product by applying high pressure, the food product (1) is forced through a treatment system (2) having an entrance (3) and an exit (4) while a pressure difference of at least 10 MPa is substantially maintained between the entrance and the exit. The product (1) is subjected to a varying electric and/or magnetic field. A treatment system with a plurality of treatment chambers is used, wherein the treatment chambers are electrically connected to reduce impedance variations of the treatment system during the preserving of the food product. For the food product flow the treatment chambers are series connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2001
    Assignee: Lipton, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Hubertus Leonardus Lelieveld, Alexandru Volanschi
  • Stanol comprising compositions
    Patent number: 6231915
    Abstract: The invention regards a process for the preparation of a mixture of stanol and stanol fatty acid esters by esterification of phytosterols with a source for fatty acid moieties, in such a way that the degree of esterification of the phytosterols is in the range of 40-85%, and subsequent hardening of the so obtained sterol/sterol fatty acid mixture, the process can be carried out without the use of any solvent, and wherein preferably the fatty acid groups of the stanol fatty acid esters are substantially saturated fatty acid esters. Also claimed are food products comprising mixtures of stanol and stanol fatty acid esters, in particular fat based food products such as yellow fat spreads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2001
    Assignee: Lipton, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Marnix P. van Amerongen, Lourus Cornelis Lievense
  • Confection
    Patent number: D442349
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2001
    Assignee: Good Humor-Breyers Ice Cream, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Naghi Habib
  • Combined bottle and cap
    Patent number: D442488
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2001
    Assignee: Elizabeth Arden Company, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Cecile LePage
  • Combined bottle and cap
    Patent number: D442489
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2001
    Assignee: Elizabeth ArdenCompany, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Cecile LePage
  • Combined bottle and cap
    Patent number: D442490
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2001
    Assignee: Elizabeth Arden Company, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Cecile LePage
  • Combined bottle and cap
    Patent number: D442491
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2001
    Assignee: Elizabeth Arden Company, a division of Conopco, Inc
    Inventor: Cecile LePage
  • Ice confection
    Patent number: D442763
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Assignee: Good Humor-Breyers Ice Cream, a division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Kirke Ryder, Patricia Mary Seidl
  • Rippled pasta
    Patent number: D443128
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2001
    Assignee: Lipton, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Lily Lam