Patents Assigned to division
  • Patent number: 5556653
    Abstract: Ice confection and couverture are co-extruded with the ice confection from a first volume and supercooled couverture extruded from a second volume thermally separated from the central volume to contact a surface of the ice confection. Preferably the extrusion volumes have cylindrical geometry to provide a layer of couverture enveloping the ice confection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1996
    Assignee: Good Humor-Breyers Ice Cream, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Gary N. Binley
  • Patent number: 5554366
    Abstract: A composition for topical application to the skin for alleviation or prevention of dry flaky skin condition, dandruff or acne comprising stratum corneum chymotrypsin-like enzyme.The composition may additionally comprise a second enzyme selected from glycosidases, other proteases, lipases and mixtures thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1996
    Assignee: Elizabeth Arden Co., Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony V. Rawlings, Allan Watkinson
  • Patent number: 5554358
    Abstract: A dental product is provided in a dual-compartment dispenser that includes a first and second composition in respective compartments thereof. The first composition includes a zinc salt while the second composition includes a bicarbonate salt. Preferably the first composition also contains a peroxygen compound or a C.sub.2 -C.sub.20 carboxylic acid. The zinc salt in combination with the bicarbonate salt achieves an enhanced antitartar effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1996
    Assignee: Chesebrough-Pond's USA Co., Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: David R. Williams, Christine W. Ryles, Stephen R. Barrow
  • Patent number: 5554588
    Abstract: A perfume composition contains at least 50% by weight of materials which fall into five categories defined by structure, and molecular weight. Amounts of material within each category fall within specified ranges of percentage of the whole composition. Two categories, ethers and salicylates, must be present. At least two of the remaining three categories, which are alcohols, acetate/propionate esters and methyl aryl ketones, must also be present.The compositions enable good levels of deodorant activity to be achieved along with consumer-acceptable fragrance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1996
    Assignee: Lever Brothers Company, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: John M. Behan, Christopher F. Clements, David C. Hooper, John R. Martin, James B. Melville, Keith D. Perring
  • Patent number: 5553924
    Abstract: A vehicle safety seat system includes a contoured vehicle seat bottom and a foam layer disposed over the supporting vehicle seat bottom and supported by the supporting vehicle seat bottom. The foam layer has a rate sensitive compression characteristic. The rate sensitive compression characteristic is a compressive response to a slow application and a rigid response to a rapid application of force. To adapt an existing seat bucket to the desired configuration, a rigid foam layer may be molded within the supporting vehicle seat bottom. This rigid foam layer is contoured and disposed at an angle with respect to the horizontal. Seat belts having a pretensioner device are also provided. The pretensioner device is controlled according to both a frontal crash sensor and a vehicle-off ground control system to couple occupant to the seat bottom prior to a wheels first landing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1996
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama for its division, The University of Alabama at Birmingham
    Inventors: Alan E. Cantor, William H. Muzzy, III, Donald K. Eisentraut, Louis A. D'Aulerio, Gary R. Whitman
  • Patent number: 5554407
    Abstract: A process for preparing a very low fat water-in-oil spread and a spread made by the process. The process entails a cold mixing procedure wherein an at least partially pre-gelled aqueous phase is mixed with an at least partially pre-solidified fat continuous emulsion of fat and water. Emulsions of less than 30% fat and even 20% or less fat may be prepared.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1996
    Assignee: Van den Bergh Foods Co., Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Janos Bodor, Matthew Patrick, Thomas Wajda, Jr., Leendert H. Wesdorp
  • Patent number: 5554522
    Abstract: This invention relates to dihydrodipicolinate reductase crystals and to methods of growing said crystals. This invention is further directed to the utilization of said crystals to determine the three dimensional structure of dihydrodipicolinate reductase. Compounds which inhibit the activity of dihydrodipicolinate reductase in bacteria and in plants can be developed utilizing the three dimensional structure of dihydrodipicolinate reductase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1996
    Assignee: Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, a Division of Yeshiva University
    Inventors: James Sacchettini, John Blanchard
  • Patent number: 5552148
    Abstract: A cosmetic composition is provided that includes an inositol phosphate dispersed within petroleum jelly through aid of a lipid system. The lipid system may include such components as a phosphatide, a sterol, a C.sub.10 -C.sub.22 fatty acid and combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1996
    Assignee: Chesebrough-Pond's USA Co., Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander P. Znaiden, Brian Crotty, Anthony Johnson
  • Patent number: 5552147
    Abstract: A cosmetic composition is provided that includes a C.sub.2 -C.sub.22 .alpha.-hydroxy carboxylic acid or salt thereof dispersed within petroleum jelly with the aid of a phosphatide. Additional components may include a sterol and a C.sub.10 -C.sub.22 fatty acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1996
    Assignee: Chesebrough-Pond's USA Co., Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander P. Znaiden, Michael C. Cheney, Walter Rose
  • Patent number: 5552165
    Abstract: A package for containing a flowable infusible material comprising a closed bag made from a porous material. The bag has a first side, a second side that opposes the first side and two other sides. The package also has a drawstring that passes out of the interior of the package via a first exit point located adjacent one end of the first side and a second exit point located adjacent the other end of the first side. Means are provided to constrain the drawstring against adjacent the ends of the second side and at some intermediate point along each of said other sides (preferably near the midpoint). The arrangement being such that pulling the ends of the drawstring in substantially opposite directions causes the drawstring to move relative to the sides it engages and thus enable the package to collapse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1996
    Assignee: Thomas J. Lipton Co., Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert H. A. Haak, Jan J. Kuipers, Craig S. McLean
  • Patent number: 5552066
    Abstract: Biodegradable compounds which are effective fabric conditioning molecules are described as having Formula I ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is a C.sub.1-4 alkyl or alkenyl, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are each independently a C.sub.7 -C.sub.30 straight or branched alkyl or alkenyl, R.sub.4 is a C.sub.1-4 alkyl or alkenyl or hydroxyalkyl and X is a water soluble anion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1996
    Assignee: Lever Brothers Company, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Mohammad A. Rahman, Anthony Hung, Shang-Ren Wu
  • Patent number: 5552164
    Abstract: A package containing a flowable infusible material which has a drawstring that passes out of the interior of the package via a first exit point and a second exit point and means which constrains said drawstring adjacent at least two sides. The arrangement is such that pulling the ends of the drawstring in substantially opposite directions causes the drawstring to move relative to the sides it engages thus allowing the package to collapse. Preferred embodiments of the package are rectangular, square or circular in shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1996
    Assignee: Thomas J. Lipton, Co., Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Jan Kuipers, Craig S. McLean
  • Patent number: 5551507
    Abstract: Leaks in tube bundles for a heat exchanger are eliminated or minimized by tube interrelated techniques. A floating tube bundle is constructed with separate support elements also secured to the heat dissipating fins and extending through and supported by the support plates. Thin-walled copper tubing similar to that used for the fluid-carrying tubes is used as support tubes, and steel rods are inserted into these support tubes to provide the necessary strength. To minimize leakage in the area where the tube bundle is joined to a header, connector tubes are provided that have one end joined to the header and the other end extending into one of the tubes of the tube bundle sufficiently far that the end of the connector tube passes through the support plate and at least one fin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1996
    Assignee: Russell a Division of Ardco, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth E. Vogel
  • Patent number: 5551516
    Abstract: Viscoelastic surfactant based aqueous fluid systems are described that are useful in fracturing subterranean formations penetrated by a wellbore. The preferred thickening agents are quaternary ammonium halide salts derived from certain waxes, fats and oils. The thickening agent is used in conjunction with an inorganic water soluble salt such as ammonium chloride or potassium chloride, and an organic stabilizing additive selected from the group of organic salts such as sodium salicylate. The resulting fluids are stable to a fluid temperature of about 225.degree. F.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1996
    Assignee: Dowell, a division of Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: William D. Norman, Raymond J. Jasinski, Erik B. Nelson
  • Patent number: 5551990
    Abstract: A dishwashing or rinsing composition comprising a surfactant and an enzyme, characterized in that the enzyme is a lipase selected from lipases produced by rDNA technique and derived ultimately from the lipase gene from Humicola lanuginosa (syn. Thermomyces lanuginosus), and incorporated in the composition in an amount in the range of about 0.005 to 100 LU/mg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1996
    Assignee: Lever Brothers Company, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Willem R. Van Dijk
  • Patent number: D373404
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1996
    Assignee: Zebco Division of Brunswick Corporation
    Inventors: Randy L. Atherton, Kent L. Zwayer, Perry A. Freeman
  • Patent number: D373451
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1996
    Assignee: Good Humor-Breyers Ice Cream, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Peter M. Schwarz
  • Patent number: D373533
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1996
    Assignee: Lever Brothers Company, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory A. Lathrop, Mark D. Gerhart, David F. Gnadt, Arnold Brown, Frank E. Gonda, Harry H. Haubert
  • Patent number: D373534
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1996
    Assignee: Lever Bothers Company, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory A. Lathrop, Mark D. Gerhart, David F. Gnadt, Arnold Brown, Frank E. Gonda, Harry H. Haubert
  • Patent number: D373535
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1996
    Assignee: Lever Brothers Company, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory A. Lathrop, Mark D. Gerhart, David F. Gnadt, Arnold Brown, Frank E. Gonda, Harry H. Haubert