Abstract: A motorized cleaning implement is provided for cleaning surfaces with a cleaning substrate. The motorized cleaning implement includes a bumper pad that is connected to a motor capable of providing a reciprocating motion to the bumper pad. A cleaning substrate which includes a pocket is attached to the bumper pad.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 2, 2005
Date of Patent:
April 14, 2009
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
A. Bryon Stackpole, Jr., Thomas George Crowe, Matthew Lloyd Newman, Ramona Zenkich, Tracey Ann Wurzelbacher, Eric Young Park, Ildefonso Mendoza Resuello, Jr., David John Sayler
Abstract: This invention relates to an absorbent structure that comprises water-swellable material, which comprises water-swellable polymers that are coated with a coating agent said coating agent comprising a phase-separating elastomeric material, which allows swelling of the water-swellable polymers, without breakage of the coating.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 5, 2004
Date of Patent:
April 14, 2009
Assignee:
Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Renae Dianna Fossum, Mattias Schmidt, Axel Meyer
Abstract: Methods of removing cooked-, baked-, or burnt-on food soil from cookware and tableware comprising washing the cookware/tableware in an automatic dishwashing machine in the presence of a wash liquor comprising nanoparticles is disclosed herein.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 20, 2007
Publication date:
April 9, 2009
Applicants:
THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY, ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Inventors:
Anju D. Massey Brooker, Nigel Patrick Somerville Roberts, David W. York, Yulong Ding, Darsh T. Wasan, Alex D. Nikolov
Abstract: A process for making a corrugated stretch laminate comprising the steps of delivering a first elastomeric composition to a print device so as to form an elastic member; removing an elastic member from the print device; elongating the elastic member in a first direction; joining the elastic member to a first substrate; and allowing the elastic member to recovery to form said corrugated stretch laminate.
Abstract: A method for the reduction of acrylamide in food products, food products having reduced levels of acrylamide, and an article of commerce. In one aspect, the method comprises reducing the level of asparagine in a food material before final heating (e.g., cooking). In another aspect, the method comprises adding to a food material an enzyme capable of hydrolyzing the amide group of free asparagine. In yet another aspect, an article of commerce communicates to the consumer that a food product has reduced or low levels of acrylamide or asparagine.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 24, 2005
Date of Patent:
April 7, 2009
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
David Vincent Zyzak, Robert Alan Sanders, Marko Stojanovic, David Cammiade Gruber, Peter Yau Tak Lin, Maria Dolores Martinez-Sema Villagran, John Keeney Howie, Richard Gerald Schafermeyer
Abstract: The present invention relates to agents for coloring keratin fibers which comprise at least one zwitterionic azomethine dye of the general formula (I), (II), or (III) in which z is a heterocycle of the formula in which R8 is an alkyl sulfonate radical of the formula (XIII);
Abstract: According to the present invention there is provided a pearlescent liquid treatment composition suitable for use as a laundry or hard surface cleaning composition comprising a pearlescent agent, said pearlescent agent having D0.99 volume particle size of less than 50 ?m and is present in composition at a level of from 0.02% to 2.0% by weight of the composition.
Type:
Application
Filed:
September 19, 2008
Publication date:
April 2, 2009
Applicant:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Rajan Keshav Panandiker, Kerry Andrew Vetter, David Scott Dunlop, Karl Ghislain Braeckman, Karel Jozef Maria Depoot, Tim Roger Michel Vanpachtenbeke