Patents Assigned to Procter & Gamble
  • Fibers of Polymer-Wax Compositions
    Publication number: 20140087941
    Abstract: Disposable article that include fibers formed from compositions comprising thermoplastic polymers and waxes are disclosed, where the wax is dispersed throughout the thermoplastic polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY
    Inventors: William Maxwell ALLEN, JR., Eric Bryan BOND, Isao NODA, Ronald Thomas GORLEY, Olaf Erik Alexander ISELE
  • Methods and Apparatuses for Applying Eyelash Extensions
    Publication number: 20140083447
    Abstract: An applicator for use with an eyelash extension system that has a backbone and a backbone surface configured to be joined with a closure surface. A plurality of eyelash extensions are attached to the backbone. The applicator includes a frame having a first end and a second end spaced laterally from the first end, a rail attached to the frame and extending laterally between the first and second ends, and a cam. The cam has a cam surface configured to contact the backbone of the eyelash extension system to urge the backbone to come into contact with the closure as the cam is moved laterally along the rail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Thomas Elliot RABE, Peter Jonathan WYATT, Keri Marsh ARINSMIER, Matthew Clair EHRMAN, Nancy Taylor DEMPSEY, Megan Mai MORYS, Robert Scadding MOIR, Peter Paul BEENTJE, Kate (NMN) REEVES
  • LIQUID-ACTIVATED FORMULATION WITH SURFACTANT
    Publication number: 20140088532
    Abstract: A liquid-activated formulation is provided, comprising a liquid-activated colorant, a hydrochromic ionic compound, an opacifier, a binding matrix, and a surfactant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Laveeta Joseph, Thomas James Klofta, Sebastian V. Kanakkanatt, Santosh B. Kanakkanatt, William Winfield Cheeseman, JR.
  • LIQUID-ACTIVATED COLOR CHANGE INK AND METHODS OF USE
    Publication number: 20140088534
    Abstract: Liquid activated ink formulations comprising a liquid activated dye, a hydrochromic ionic compound, an opacifier, and a solvent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Sebastian V. Kanakkanatt, Santosh B. Kanakkanatt
  • LAUNDRY CARE COMPOSITIONS WITH THIAZOLIUM DYE
    Publication number: 20140082851
    Abstract: The present invention relates to thiazolium dyes, laundry care compositions comprising one or more thiazolium dyes, processes of making such dyes and laundry care compositions and methods of using same. The dyes, compositions and methods of the present invention are advantageous in providing improved hueing of fabric, including whitening of white fabric, while avoiding significant build up of bluing dyes on the fabric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Mark Robert SIVIK, Eugene Steven Sadlowski, Muill Lim, Manuela Javet, Cecile Pasquier, Brian Joseph Loughnane, Michael David Cummings, Donna D'Angelo Morrall, Kevin Lee Kott, Keith Homer Baker, Eduardo Torres, Laurent D. Keiken, Patrick D. Moore, Dominick J. Valenti, Robert L. Mahaffey
  • LIQUID-ACTIVATED FORMULATION WITH PERMANENT COLORANT
    Publication number: 20140088533
    Abstract: A liquid-activated formulation is provided, comprising a solvent-soluble or liquid-activated colorant, a permanent colorant, a hydrochromic ionic compound, an opacifier, and a binding matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Laveeta Joseph, Thomas James Kolfta, Sebastian V. Kanakkanatt, Santosh B. Kanakkanatt, William Winfield Cheeseman, JR.
  • Wicket Bag Dispenser and Method for Dispensing Wicket Bags
    Publication number: 20140083054
    Abstract: A wicket bag dispenser for holding flexible bags is suitable for transferring flexible bags into the loading station of a bag filling machine. An apparatus includes an interacting wicket bag dispenser and a holder pin of a loading station. A method includes transferring flexible bags from a wicket bag dispenser to the loading station of a bag filling machine. The wicket bag dispenser comprises a stack of flexible bags, each bag having at least one aperture, and at least one wicket spool positioned through the apertures, wherein the wicket spool has an free end, the free end comprising a spool head, so that each flexible bag from the stack of flexible bags is conveyed along the spool in order to transfer to the loading station. The spool head is free to move in an axial direction relative to the wicket spool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Barthelemy Piat, Ulrich Pfeifer, Winfried Schmelzer, Edward Schink, Kais Hamza, Gerald Goerich
  • METHODS FOR INDIVIDUALIZING TRICHOMES
    Publication number: 20140083637
    Abstract: A method for individualizing a trichome from an epidermis of a non-seed portion of a trichome-bearing plant in the Stachys genus to form a fibrous structure is provided. The method comprises contacting the plant with a device to separate the trichome from the epidermis and incorporating the separated trichome into a fibrous structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kenneth Douglas VINSON, Teresa Jean FRANKLIN
  • Personal Care Composition Foaming Product and Foaming Dispenser
    Publication number: 20140084029
    Abstract: A manually-actuable, non-aerosol dispenser to be used with a personal care composition having a relatively higher viscosity that gives a desired foamed composition generated from a manually-actuable, non-aerosol dispenser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: George Scott KERR, Robert Drennan LEWIS, Mark Thomas LUND, Dimitris Ioannis COLLIAS, Christopher Gerald DONNER
  • LIQUID-ACTIVATED FORMULATION WITH SOLVENT-BASED BINDING MATRIX
    Publication number: 20140088530
    Abstract: A liquid-activated formulation is provided, comprising a liquid-activated colorant, a hydrochromic ionic compound, an opacifier, and a solvent-based binding matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Thomas James Klofta, Laveeta Joseph, Sebastian V. Kanakkanatt, Santosh B. Kanakkanatt, William Winfield Cheeseman, JR.
  • Article With Soft Nonwoven Layer
    Publication number: 20140088535
    Abstract: An article having as a component a nonwoven material, which includes a layer of spunbond fibers. The fibers of the nonwoven material are made of a composition that includes a first polyolefin, a second polyolefin that is a propylene copolymer and is different from the first polyolefin and a softness enhancer additive. The layer of fibers also includes a plurality of calendering bonds with an aspect ratio of at least 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Han Xu, Antonius Lambertus De Beer, Frantisek Klaska, Jiri Kummer, Zdenek Mecl, Pavlina Kasparkova, Jitka Pokorna, Jaroslav Kohut
  • LIQUID-ACTIVATED FORMULATION WITH HOT MELT BINDING MATRIX
    Publication number: 20140087181
    Abstract: A liquid-activated formulation is provided, comprising a liquid-activated colorant, a hydrochromic ionic compound, an opacifier, and a hot melt binding matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Thomas James Klofta, Laveeta Joseph, Sebastian V. Kanakkanatt, Santosh B. Kanakkanatt, William Winfield Cheeseman, JR.
  • Spray Drying Microcapsules
    Publication number: 20140086965
    Abstract: Spray drying microcapsules with particulates, the microcapsules that result from such spray drying, and compositions and methods of making said compositions including the spray-dried microcapsules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jiten Odhavji DIHORA, Jonathan Robert CETTI, Steven Edward WITT, Jianjun Justin LI
  • Brush head for use on a container for dispensing a composition
    Patent number: 8678693
    Abstract: A brush for providing a composition to a surface. The brush includes a base and a plurality of bristles. The plurality of bristles have a distal end and a proximal end. The distal end is functionally attached to the base and the distal end has a greater bristle density than the proximal end. The plurality of bristles forms at least one flow path from the distal end towards the proximal end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Thomas Arthur Sturgis, Ali Abdelaziz Alwattari, David Matthew Groh, Theresa Louise Johnson, Edward John Popiel
  • Substrate coated with a hydrophilic elastomer
    Patent number: 8680362
    Abstract: Substrates, coated with a block copolymer comprising at least four blocks being at least two hard blocks, one soft block and one hydrophilic block, wherein a the soft block is sandwiched between the hard blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Robin Lynn McKiernan, Steve Daryl Smith, Kemal Vatansever Catalan
  • Mobile display
    Patent number: 8681072
    Abstract: A mobile, multi-room display environment. The display environment has a first room, the first room having a first set of sensory cues, and a second room, the second room having a second set of sensory cues substantially different from the first set of sensory cues. The first and second rooms are designed for temporary use and can be easily disassembled for transport from one location to another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: The Procter and Gamble Company
    Inventors: Judd Warren Weis, Gilles Bariguian
  • Method and apparatus for making an apertured web
    Patent number: 8679391
    Abstract: A method for making apertures in a web comprising providing a precursor web material; providing a pair of counter-rotating, intermeshing rollers, wherein a first roller comprises circumferentially-extending ridges and grooves, and a second roller comprises teeth being tapered from a base and a tip, the teeth being joined to the second roller at the base, the base of the tooth having a cross-sectional length dimension greater than a cross-sectional width dimension; and moving the web material through a nip of the counter-rotating, intermeshing rollers; wherein apertures are formed in the precursor web material as the teeth on one of the rollers intermesh with grooves on the other of the rollers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Hugh Joseph O'Donnell, Robert Haines Turner, Vincent Sean Breidenbach, Douglas Herrin Benson, Timothy Ian Mullane, Karen Denise McAffry, John Lee Hammons, Kelyn Anne Arora
  • Package for an article to be worn
    Patent number: 8678251
    Abstract: A hanger for storing and/or displaying an article to be worn, such as an article of clothing. The hanger may be adapted to be joined to a fastener on the article of clothing. A method for displaying an article to be worn may include providing an article having a fastener, providing a hanger having a complementary fastener, and joining the article to the hanger by the fastener.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Joshua James Norman, Debra Gay Gehring, Donald Carroll Roe
  • Liquid cleaning composition comprising color-stable polyurethane abrasive particles
    Patent number: 8680036
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid, cleaning and/or cleansing composition comprising abrasive cleaning particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Denis Alfred Gonzales, Aicha Dkidak
  • Measurement method
    Patent number: 8681334
    Abstract: A method for quantifying the soil dispersion capacity of a cleaning product or component thereof where the method comprises the following steps: a) making a solution comprising the cleaning product or component thereof; b) adding the soil to the cleaning product or component thereof solution to form a mixture; and c) measuring the light blocked by the mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Paul Lapham, Eric San Jose Robles