Patents Assigned to division
  • Adjustable riser for an irrigation sprinkler
    Patent number: 6050500
    Abstract: An adjustable riser is provided for coupling an irrigation sprinkler to a water supply line, wherein the riser is adapted for quick and easy longitudinal adjustment to variably select the elevational position of the sprinkler relative to ground level. The adjustable riser comprises a pair of telescopically interfitting inner and outer riser tubes coupled respectively to the sprinkler and to the water supply line. The inner riser tube has a keyway formed on the exterior surface thereof, and the outer riser tube carries at least one key protruding into and engaged with the keyway. In the preferred form, the keyway comprises at least one recessed channel defined by an axially spaced succession of part-circumferential segments interconnected at opposite ends by axial segments extending in opposite directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2000
    Assignee: Anthony Manufacturing Corp. Industrial Products Division
    Inventor: Mark M. Ensworth
  • Soap wrappers
    Patent number: 6048829
    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: July 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2000
    Assignee: Lever Brothers Company, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald John Milio, John Duncan Wagner
  • Retail apparel display and storage stand
    Patent number: 6044987
    Abstract: A retail display and inventory storage stand for shirts and similar apparel includes a plurality of removable swinging display panels each including one or two internal torso frames over which a shirt or garment may pulled or fastened for displaying expression/designs appearing on the front and back of the garment, each internal torso frame being pivotally secured at its base to the bottom of the display panel for limited rotation within and perpendicularly relative to the plane of the display panel and having a top necked section extending upward adapted for capture by and fastening to the top of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2000
    Assignee: Presentation Systems a division of C.G.S.G., Inc.
    Inventors: Cory B. Marcus, Francisco Mejia
  • Stamp-and-bend double-tuned radiating elements and antennas
    Patent number: 6046704
    Abstract: Double-tuned radiating elements 10 for cellular antennas are configured to enable stamping in one piece from flat sheet metal. Unitary construction incorporates a radiating section 22, an exciter section 14 and a balun section 12 in each radiating element. After the element is formed in one flat piece, a 90 degree bend is made along bend line BL to position radiating section 22 normal to the exciter and balun sections. When mounted in an antenna with the exciter and balun sections 14 and 12 parallel to a conductive ground plane surface, radiating section 22 extends forward normal to the ground plane surface. Radiating section 22 and exciter section 14 are fed by direct coupling to balun section 12, via shared current paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2000
    Assignee: Marconi Aerospace Systems Inc. Advanced Systems Division
    Inventor: Alfred R. Lopez
  • Fat continuous spread and process for making the same
    Patent number: 6045853
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing good quality low fat spreads (20-60%) more preferably in the range of 20-45% or 20-40% fat. This is achieved by the use of non gelling hydrocolloids to provide higher viscosity to the aqueous phase, however at a concentration which results in a water continuous emulsion. The emulsifier levels and types are chosen to result in a water continuous emulsion in the tank, while resulting in a fat continuous spread once hot inverted prior to cooling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2000
    Assignee: Lipton, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Podutoori Ravinder Reddy
  • System comprising synthetic detergent bar and pouf for holding bar
    Patent number: 6042288
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cleansing system comprising a synthetic detergent bar and a pouf/sponge for holding the bar. By inserting bar inside the pouf, it has been found that lather can be enhanced, even in compositions comprising lather depressing emollients. The bar holder and bar system also help decrease perception of mush.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignee: Lever Brothers Company, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Gail Beth Rattinger, Peter Boettcher, Laurie Ann Coyle, William Narath
  • Bleaching compositions comprising hypochlorite and delivery systems therefor
    Patent number: 6042744
    Abstract: The invention provides a bleaching composition of pH 8-14 which comprises an oxygen transfer agent and hypochlorite or a source thereof and a method for bleaching a stained substrate which comprises the step of treating the substrate with a bleaching composition of pH 8-14 which bleaching composition comprises an oxygen transfer agent and hypochlorite or a source thereof. Particularly preferred oxygen transfer agents are imine quaternary ammonium salts such as N-methyl-3,4-dihydroisoquinolinium salts. Where these salts are used, suitable counter-ions include halides, sulphate, methosulphate, sulphonate, p-toluene sulphonate and phosphate. Oxygen transfer agents which comprise a quaternary nitrogen atom are preferred. In the alternative, the oxygen transfer agent can be a sulphonimine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignee: Lever Brothers Company, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Jayne Elisabeth Nation, Katherine Mary Thompson, David William Thornthwaite
  • Dosing apparatus and method
    Patent number: 6041980
    Abstract: A valve (16) reciprocates with a constant stroke in the former tube (2) of a form-fill apparatus to dispense doses of filling material from the tube by ejecting the material through an outlet nozzle (8). The size of the doses is adjustable, in one form of the invention, by feeding the material is fed through an adjustable dosing opening immediately adjacent the valve. In another form of the invention, the valve (16) is adjustably positionable relative to the former tube (2) to vary the mean position of reciprocation of the valve relative to the tube. In a further form of the invention, an adjustably controllable head of material is maintained in the former tube to determine the rate at which it is fed to the valve (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignee: Lipton, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: James Goodwin, James Robert Stembridge
  • Adjustable continuous casting mold
    Patent number: 6041848
    Abstract: A continuous casting mold assembly has four mold walls in the form of discrete plates. The mold walls are arranged with an edge face of each wall abutting a major face of an adjacent mold wall. To permit changes in taper, each of the mold walls is mounted for pivotal movement on two orthogonal axes. The mold walls are held together by springs which can be hydraulically relieved when the mold walls are to be adjusted. The mold walls tend to move away from one another following hydraulic relief of the springs, and such movements are limited by screws associated with the respective mold walls. The screws contact abutments when the mold walls have moved apart by distances large enough to allow pivoting of the walls but not large enough to permit molten material to leak between the walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignee: SMS Concast Division of SMS-Schloemann Siemag Inc.
    Inventor: Carl Langner
  • Cosmetic method of treating skin
    Patent number: 6042841
    Abstract: A cosmetic method for treating aged, wrinkled and/or photodamaged skin is provided through topical application of a composition which comprises petroselinic acid and/or derivatives thereof. The method also reduces skin irritation and also lightens the color of skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Simon Alaluf, Karen Elizabeth Barrett, Martin Richard Green, Karen Angela Ottey, Anthony Vincent Rawlings
  • Method and apparatus for utilizing the available bit rate in a constrained variable bit rate channel
    Patent number: 6044396
    Abstract: A system for utilizing the available bit rate in a constrained variable bit rate channel is described. The system receives one or more encoded information streams, each having a variable bit rate. Rate control circuitry controls the rate of transmission of the encoded information streams so that the variable bit rate of the streams is transformed into a constrained variable bit rate, in which the variable bit rate is limited to a predetermined maximum value. A multiplexer multiplexes the encoded information streams for transmission over a channel. The channel may comprise a 6 MHz television channel. The multiplexer also multiplexes the encoded information streams with a secondary information stream for transmission over the channel. For purposes of multiplexer selection of information streams, the secondary information stream is assigned a lower priority than the encoded information streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignee: Time Warner Cable, a division of Time Warner Entertainment Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Michael B. Adams
  • Preservative and flavoring system
    Patent number: 6042861
    Abstract: A preservative and flavoring system for tea based beverages. The system contains a tea extract, an antimicrobially active amount of cinnamic acid or an acidic derivative thereof and an acidulant in an amount that maintains the pH of the beverage below pH 4.5. The system preferably includes an additional preservative such as a weak acid preservative. It can be used to prepare an ambient-stable tea based beverage and is suitable for cold filling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignee: Lipton, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Patricia Ann Anslow, Malcolm Stratford
  • Radially expandable tubular polytetrafluoroethylene grafts and method of making same
    Patent number: 6039755
    Abstract: Tubular ePTFE materials which are capable of being radially expanded under the influence of a radially outward force applied from the lumen of the ePTFE tubular material to substantially uniformly radially deform the ePTFE material. The ePTFE material is radially expandable to a diameter 700% its unexpanded diameter under the influence of pressures less than 6 atm while retaining the structural integrity of the ePTFE microstructure. Conservation of the structural integrity of the ePTFE material is determined by conservation of the ePTFE microstructure structural integrity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2000
    Assignee: Impra, Inc., a Division of C.R. Bard, Inc.
    Inventors: Tarun J. Edwin, Fariba Hurry, Christopher E. Banas
  • Sunscreen compositions
    Patent number: 6039935
    Abstract: A cosmetic sunscreen composition is provided which includes at least one organic sunscreen, a crosslinked non-emulsifying siloxane elastomer, a volatile siloxane and water. The composition is an oil-in-water emulsion to provide an aesthetically pleasing light skinfeel and rich viscosity, even in the presence of greater than 25% sunscreen oils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2000
    Assignee: Elizabeth Arden Company, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Fatemeh Mohammadi
  • Wheelchair lift with improved outer, inner, and side barriers
    Patent number: 6039528
    Abstract: A platform-type wheelchair lift for mounting in the stairwell of a vehicle, such as a bus or train. The wheelchair lift includes a platform frame that is movable from a retracted position in which it is stowed underneath the vehicle to an extended position in which it extends out from the side or back of the vehicle. A wheelchair platform is movably coupled to the platform frame by a parallelogram linkage that allows the wheelchair platform to move between a lowered and a raised position. The wheelchair platform includes foldable outer, side, and inner wheelchair barriers that prevent a wheelchair from moving off of the wheelchair platform during operation of the wheelchair lift. The outer and inner wheelchair barriers are capable of absorbing part of the energy of an impact between a wheelchair and the barriers and in ways cause barriers to fold out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2000
    Assignee: Lift-U, Division of Hogan Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventor: Alan Cohn
  • Cinnamic acid for use in tea containing beverages
    Patent number: 6036986
    Abstract: An aqueous based tea solids containing beverage is taught which also contains a sufficient amount of cinnamic acid its salts and esters as a flavoring/antimicrobial compound and employs a hurdle approach with selected levels of water hardness, polyphosphate, sequestrants, pH adjustment, benzoic acid and sorbic acid to prevent microbiological outgrowth while simultaneously contributing to the pleasant flavor of the beverage thus making the beverage acceptable both organoleptically and microbiologically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2000
    Assignee: Lipton, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Charles Cirigliano, William Conrad Franke, Meghan Mary Kemly, Raymond Thomas McKenna, Paul John Rothenberg
  • Enzymatically extracted tea concentrate with xanthan gum which is stable at ambient temperature
    Patent number: 6036982
    Abstract: Stable tea concentrates containing xanthan gum are shown. The concentrates are prepared by the use of selected cell wall lysis enzymes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2000
    Assignee: Thomas J. Lipton Co., Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregg Lance Lehmberg, Sheng Xue Ma
  • Manufacture of spreadable low-fat cheese
    Patent number: 6036979
    Abstract: Method of manufacturing spreadable low fat fresh cheese devoid of non-dairy binding or structuring agents or added whey protein having a dry matter content of over 25% wt., a fat content of 0-10 and preferably 0-7% wt. on dry matter and a Stevens value in excess of 200 at 10.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2000
    Assignee: Van den Bergh Foods Co., Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Angela Hedwig Hormann, Klaus Mayer, Helmuth Barthlomaus Kaindl
  • Spark switch having coaxial electrodes with increased electrode surface area exposure
    Patent number: 6037715
    Abstract: A geometry for a spark switch includes an inner electrode surrounded by an outer electrode. The placement of the inner electrode within the outer electrode substantially increases the exposed overlapping surface area of the electrodes. The increase in surface area of the electrodes results in a proportional increase in the operational life of the switch. The design of the spark switch also causes the outer electrode to shield a surrounding insulation layer against debris that would otherwise contaminate an insulation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2000
    Assignee: Maxwell Technologies Systems Division, Inc.
    Inventors: H. George Hammon, III, Michael Wright Ingram, David Vincent Drury, John Tom Naff, Ronald Stanley Shaw
  • Cap
    Patent number: D421906
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignee: Elizabeth Arden Co., Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Christian Jauffret