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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.