Abstract: An article of manufacture making system for making an article of manufacture containing a plurality of dry solid additives, such as fibers, that utilizes a dry solid additive delivery system including one or more dry solid additive inlets, one or more dry solid additive outlets and one or more prime movers.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 3, 2021
Date of Patent:
January 9, 2024
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Christopher Michael Young, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Fei Wang
Abstract: Fabric care compositions that include perfume encapsulates and a quaternary ammonium ester compound, where the shell of the encapsulates include an acrylate or methacrylate material. Related methods of using and making such compositions.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 22, 2020
Date of Patent:
January 9, 2024
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Conny Erna Alice Joos, Johan Smets, Marc Johan Declercq, Pierre Daniel Verstraete, Linsheng Feng, Fadi Selim Chakar, Robert Stanley Bobnock
Abstract: A hotmelt composition comprises at least three co-polymers defined by their chemistry and molecular weight. The hotmelt composition may be without tackifiers. The hotmelt can be used in absorbent articles such as diapers comprising two substrates at least partially attached by the hotmelt composition. The hotmelt provides especially good nonwoven-nonwoven bond and nonwoven-film bond.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 21, 2020
Date of Patent:
January 9, 2024
Assignee:
The Procter and Gamble Company
Inventors:
Robert Haines Turner, Torsten Lindner, William L. Bunnelle
Abstract: An absorbent has longitudinal and lateral centerlines, first, second, and target regions, the target region being disposed between the first second regions. Each of the first, second target regions extend laterally across the disposable absorbent article. The disposable absorbent article also has a topsheet; a backsheet; an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and backsheet; a fluid management layer disposed between the topsheet and absorbent core; and a target zone disposed in the target region. The target zone has a first plurality of conforming features in at least the absorbent core or a combination of the absorbent core and at least one of the topsheet or fluid management layer. The absorbent article also has a long fiber network.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 18, 2022
Date of Patent:
January 9, 2024
Assignee:
The Procter and Gamble Company
Inventors:
Christopher Philip Bewick-Sonntag, Shirdish Poondru, John Lee Hammons, Kelyn Anne Arora
Abstract: A method for assembling elastic laminates includes the steps of stretching an elastic film at a spreader mechanism in the cross direction to a first elongation; advancing the elastic film from the spreader mechanism to an anvil, wherein the anvil comprises an active vacuum zone having a maximum width in the cross direction of Wv. The maximum width is divided into a first portion and a second portion, wherein the first portion is disposed in overlapping relationship with the engagement portion and inboard of the engagement portion in the cross direction and the first portion has a width in the cross direction of VZi and wherein the second portion has a width in the cross direction of VZo, and wherein a ratio of VZi is greater than to VZo is greater than 1.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 25, 2021
Date of Patent:
January 9, 2024
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Tanner Laurie Williams, Urmish Popatlal Dalal, Todd Douglas Lenser, Jeffry Rosiak, Miguel Angel Caballero, Uwe Schneider
Abstract: The present invention is directed to a personal care composition comprising from about 12% to about 25% of one or more surfactants; from about 0.01% to 10% of one or more soluble scalp health active; from about 0.1% to about 4% of a thickening polymer wherein the thickening polymer is selected from the group consisting of homopolymers based on acrylic acid, methacrylic acid or other related derivatives, alkali swellable and hydrophobically-modified alkali swellable acrylic copolymers or methacrylate copolymers, soluble crosslinked acrylic polymers, associative polymeric thickeners and mixtures thereof; from 0.01% to 0.8% of a cationic polymer; wherein the personal care composition has a pH of about 4.5 to about 6 and wherein the personal care composition has a Haze value less than or equal to 25.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 18, 2020
Date of Patent:
January 9, 2024
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Kelly Rose Kroger Lyons, Eric Scott Johnson
Abstract: A laundry treatment machine including: a cabinet; a tub within the cabinet; a horizontal axis fluid pervious drum within the tub rotatable about a horizontal axis, wherein the drum has a diameter orthogonal to the horizontal axis and an average width in line with the horizontal axis and a ratio of diameter to average width from 1.5:1 to 3.25:1; a circumferential entry section into the tub that spans at least across an intermediate range of from 30 degrees to 60 degrees above and rotationally about the horizontal axis and is bounded within a front position of more than 2 degrees above and rotationally about the horizontal axis and a top position less than 90 degrees above and rotationally about the horizontal axis; and a door in the cabinet, the door sealingly engaged with the entry section.
Abstract: An aqueous cleaning composition comprising: (a) from 0.01 to 0.5% by weight of the composition of a grease loosening system comprising: i) 50% or more by weight of the system of a low emulsifying surfactant wherein the low emulsifying surfactant is a nonionic ethoxylate having an HLB value of from about 13 to about 20; and ii) 50% or less by weight of the system of a high emulsifying material wherein the high emulsifying material is selected from the group consisting of nonionic surfactant having an HLB value of less than 13, a surfactant other than nonionic surfactants; antimicrobial quats and mixtures thereof; (b) a shine polymer comprising at least one monomer comprising a substantially planar 5-7 membered ring, said monomer preferably being selected from the group consisting of vinylpyrrolidone, vinylimidazoline, maleimide, styrene sulfonate and vinylcaprolactam; and (c) optionally a non-quaternary ammonium compound antimicrobial agent.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 17, 2020
Date of Patent:
January 9, 2024
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Alan Edward Sherry, Nicola John Policicchio
Abstract: Articles, such as sanitary tissue products, including fibrous structures, and more particularly articles including fibrous structures having a plurality of fibrous elements wherein the article exhibits differential cellulose content throughout the thickness of the article and methods for making same are provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 24, 2022
Date of Patent:
January 2, 2024
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Christopher Michael Young, Michael Gomer Stelljes, Michael Donald Suer, Timothy James Klawitter, James Roy Denbow, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, Paul Dennis Trokhan
Abstract: An absorbent article may have a Product Hip-to-Side Silhouette from 0.5 to about 1.8 and a Relaxed Product Side Length that is greater than about 65% of the Relaxed Product Length. An array of absorbent articles may have an Array Average Product Hip-to-Side Silhouette from about 0.5 to about 1.8.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 9, 2022
Date of Patent:
January 2, 2024
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Gary Dean Lavon, Bret Darren Seitz, Masaharu Nishikawa, Sarah M. Wade, Franz-Josef Hermes
Abstract: An inflation feature for a shipping package, an inflation rig assembly for inflating a shipping package, and a method of inflating a shipping package. The method includes providing an inflation feature and an inflation rig assembly with corresponding alignment features, positioning the inflation feature of a shipping package, in an uninflated state, on to the inflation rig assembly in a first position, moving the inflation rig assembly to a second position, such that the shipping package is in fluid communication with an expansion material source, and inflating the shipping package to an inflated state.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 13, 2021
Date of Patent:
January 2, 2024
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Susana E Borrero, Joseph Craig Lester, Kevin Joseph Wood, Benjamin G Hesford, Anthony Ogg, Nathan William Valentine
Abstract: A hard surface cleaning composition, methods of cleaning a hard surface with a low hysteresis composition and disposable premoistened pads for cleaning hard surfaces are provided. The hard surface cleaning composition includes from 0.01 wt. % to 7 wt. % of a solvent selected from the group consisting of a propylene glycol phenyl ether, a dipropylene glycol phenyl ethers and mixtures thereof and at least 92% water. The cleaning composition has a pH from about 3.5 to 9.5 and is free of anionic surfactant and alkanolamine.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 3, 2020
Date of Patent:
January 2, 2024
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Fernando Ray Tollens, Pauline Cuc Vu, Brian Christopher Groendyke, William Alexander Cynecki, Daniel Ross Mayfield, Anthony Schutz
Abstract: A dispensing package for a floor treatment composition. The dispensing package includes a coupling shell and a container. The coupling shell is provided with a dispensing opening and at least one front aperture. The container includes a membrane seal engaged with a sealing surface of the container. The coupling shell can provide for a connection between a container and a dispensing system.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 24, 2022
Date of Patent:
January 2, 2024
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Richard Christopher Hagee, William Michael Cannon, John Charles Van Rens, Kerry Lloyd Weaver
Abstract: A method for manufacturing a deflection member is disclosed. The method may include the steps of providing an additive manufacturing apparatus that includes at least one radiation source and a vat containing a photopolymer resin, providing a reinforcing member, contacting a surface of the reinforcing member with the photopolymer resin, and directing radiation from the at least one radiation source towards a surface of the reinforcing member to at least partially cure photopolymer resin in contact with the surface of the reinforcing member to create at least a portion of a lock-on layer.
Abstract: Dispensing package for controlled delivery of a viscous composition on a target surface, the package having a dispensing head with a front surface having a front surface centroid and an opposing rear surface having a rear surface centroid, and a plurality of dispensing orifices extending therethrough, the dispensing orifices including a front open end having a front centroid on the front surface, a rear open end having a back centroid on the rear surface, and a dispensing orifice axis extending through the front and back centroids. A first dispensing orifice of the plurality of dispensing orifices has a first dispensing orifice axis inclined at a first orifice acute angle ?1 (degrees) relative to the a plane extending along a center axis, so as to intersect the plane at a first point above the front surface.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 1, 2021
Date of Patent:
January 2, 2024
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Billy Gonzales Abergas, Mariane Ballerini Fernandes, Vinayak Masanaiah
Abstract: A disposable absorbent article is described herein. The disposable absorbent article includes a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent system disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet. At least a portion of the has a plurality of conforming features such that the absorbent article has a blot residual value of less than 30 mg and a bending stiffness of less than 12.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 6, 2018
Date of Patent:
January 2, 2024
Assignee:
The Procter and Gamble Company
Inventors:
Christopher Philip Bewick-Sonntag, Shirdish Poondru, John Lee Hammons, Kelyn Anne Arora