Patents Assigned to Procter & Gamble
  • Potato flakes
    Patent number: 6777020
    Abstract: Disclosed are a potato flakes and the method for making the same. The potato flakes can be used to produce food products such as mashed potatoes, potato patties, potato pancakes, and potato snacks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Co.
    Inventors: Maria Dolores Martinez-Serna Villagran, Eileen Marie Boyle, Jianjun Li, Marko Stojanovic, David Kee Yang, Donald Ray Patton, Helena Aino Soini
  • Process for making detergent compositions with additives
    Patent number: 6777381
    Abstract: Process incorporating an organic solvent and being composed of detergent components present together within specific ranges have now been found so as to produce a non-aqueous liquid detergent composition without the attendant drawbacks of non-aqueous liquids. In particular, this process produces a liquid detergent composition which is easy to handle in bulk, has excellent long-term stability and is readily soluble in a wash liquor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Yousef Georges Aouad, Rudolfo Delgado, Andrew Peter Bakken
  • Cleaning sheets, implements, and articles useful for removing allergens from surfaces and methods of promoting the sale thereof
    Patent number: 6777064
    Abstract: An article of manufacture useful for removing allergens from surfaces comprises (a) a package; (b) cleaning sheet capable of removing allergens from surfaces; and (c) information to communicate the allergen removal ability of the cleaning sheet to consumers. A method of promoting the sale of cleaning sheets useful for removing allergens from surfaces comprises a variety of steps to inform a consumer of the allergen removal ability of the present cleaning sheets, implements, and articles and encourage the consumer to use them to remove allergens from a surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Laura Krebs Brown, Jennifer Lee Counts, David Charles Bernens, Paul Joseph Russo
  • Method for making a fibrous structure comprising cellulosic and synthetic fibers
    Publication number: 20040154763
    Abstract: A method for making a fibrous structure, the method comprising the steps of: providing a mixture of synthetic fibers and short cellulosic fibers onto a forming member so as to form one or more layers including the mixture of synthetic fibers and short cellulosic fibers; providing a plurality of long cellulosic fibers onto the mixture of synthetic fibers and short cellulosic fibers so as to form one or more layers including predominantly long cellulosic fibers; and forming a unitary fibrous structure including the one or more layers including the mixture of synthetic fibers and short cellulosic fibers and one or more layers including predominantly long cellulosic fibers
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Osman Polat, Timothy Jude Lorenz, Dean Phan, Paul Dennis Trokhan
  • Change aids for external articles
    Publication number: 20040158218
    Abstract: An external change aid having engaging means which can engage with a landing member on an absorbent article and having a specific peel force and/or shear force when engaged with such an absorbent article. Also provided are combinations of such external change aids and absorbent articles and methods for applying an absorbent article by use of the external change aid. Also provided are external change aids having specifically designed engaging means structures and absorbent articles with specifically designed engaging means structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2004
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Joerg Mueller, Mattias Schmidt, Lars Westerheide, Mark James Kline
  • Disposable absorbent article comprising a durable hydrophilic core wrap
    Publication number: 20040158212
    Abstract: A disposable absorbent article comprising an absorbent core, the absorbent core comprising:
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2004
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Ekaterina Anatolyevna Ponomarenko, John David Carter, Ronald Dean Cramer, Mattias Schmidt
  • Composition containing a cationic polymer with a high charge density and a conditioning agent
    Publication number: 20040157754
    Abstract: The compositions of the present invention relate to improved shampoo compositions having from about 5 to about 50 weight percent of a detersive surfactant, at least about 0.05 weight percent of a cationic polymer having a molecular weight of from about 10,000 to about 10,000,000 and a charge density of from about 1.4 meq/gm to about 7.0 meq/gm, at least 0.05 weight percent of a conditioning agent material, and at least about 20.0 weight percent of an aqueous carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Nicholas William Geary, Eric Scott Johnson
  • Disposable absorbent article comprising a durable hydrophilic topsheet
    Publication number: 20040158214
    Abstract: A disposable absorbent article comprising a durable, hydrophilic substantially liquid pervious topsheet, the substantially liquid pervious topsheet comprising:
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2004
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Ekaterina Anatolyevna Ponomarenko, John David Carter, Ronald Dean Cramer, Mattias Schmidt
  • Process for making a fibrous structure comprising cellulosic and synthetic fibers
    Publication number: 20040154769
    Abstract: A fibrous structure and method for making the fibrous structure, wherein the method includes the steps of: providing a plurality of cellulosic fibers onto a forming member having a pattern of channels such that at least some of the cellulosic fibers are disposed in the channels; providing a plurality of synthetic fibers onto the cellulosic fibers such that the synthetic fibers are disposed adjacent to the cellulosic fibers; and forming the unitary fibrous structure from the synthetic fibers and the cellulosic fibers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Timothy Jude Lorenz, Osman Polat, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Dean Phan
  • Process for making a fibrous structure comprising cellulosic and synthetic fibers
    Publication number: 20040157515
    Abstract: A fibrous structure and method for making the fibrous structure, wherein the method includes the steps of: providing a plurality of synthetic fibers onto a forming member having a pattern of channels such that at least some of the synthetic fibers are disposed in the channels; providing a plurality of cellulosic fibers onto the synthetic fibers such that the cellulosic fibers are disposed adjacent to the synthetic fibers; and forming a unitary fibrous structure including the synthetic fibers and the cellulosic fibers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Timothy Jude Lorenz, Osman Polat, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Dean Phan
  • Process for making unitary fibrous structure comprising randomly distributed cellulosic fibers and non-randomly distributed synthetic fibers and unitary fibrous structure made thereby
    Publication number: 20040154767
    Abstract: A process for making a unitary fibrous structure comprises steps of: providing a fibrous web comprising a plurality of cellulosic fibers randomly distributed throughout the fibrous web and a plurality of synthetic fibers randomly distributed throughout the fibrous web; and causing co-joining of at least a portion of the synthetic fibers with the cellulosic fibers and the synthetic fibers, wherein the co-joining occurs in areas having a non-random and repeating pattern. A unitary fibrous structure comprises a plurality of cellulosic fibers randomly distributed throughout the fibrous structure, and a plurality of synthetic fibers distributed throughout the fibrous structure in a non-random repeating pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Paul Dennis Trokhan, Dean Van Phan, Osman Polat
  • Unitary fibrous structure comprising cellulosic and synthetic fibers and process for making same
    Publication number: 20040154768
    Abstract: A unitary fibrous structure comprises a plurality of cellulosic fibers randomly distributed throughout the fibrous structure, and a plurality of synthetic fibers distributed throughout the fibrous structure in a non-random repeating pattern. A process for making the unitary fibrous structure comprises the steps of providing an embryonic fibrous web comprising a-plurality of cellulosic fibers randomly distributed throughout the fibrous web and a plurality of synthetic fibers randomly distributed throughout the fibrous web and causing redistribution of at least a portion of the synthetic fibers in the embryonic web to form the unitary fibrous structure in which a substantial portion of the plurality of synthetic fibers is distributed throughout the fibrous structure in a non-random repeating pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Paul Dennis Trokhan, Dean Van Phan, Osman Polat
  • Fibrous structure comprising cellulosic and synthetic fibers
    Publication number: 20040157524
    Abstract: A unitary fibrous structure having at least two layers wherein at least one of the layers of the structure includes long cellulosic fibers and at least one of the layers includes a mixture of short cellulosic fibers and synthetic fibers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Osman Polat, Timothy Jude Lorenz, Dean Phan, Paul Dennis Trokhan
  • Disposable absorbent article comprising a durable hydrophilic acquisition layer
    Publication number: 20040158213
    Abstract: A disposable absorbent article comprising an absorbent core, the absorbent core comprising a durable, hydrophilic fluid pervious acquisition layer, the acquisition layer comprising:
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2004
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Ekaterina Anatolyevna Ponomarenko, John David Carter, Ronald Dean Cramer, Mattias Schmidt
  • Cleaning composition
    Publication number: 20040157763
    Abstract: A hard surface cleaning composition for removing cooked-, baked- or burnt-on soils from cookware and tableware, the composition comprising an organoamine solvent and wherein the composition has a liquid surface tension of less than about 24.5 mN/m and a pH, as measured in a 10% solution in distilled water, or least than 10.5. The composition can be used as pre-treatment prior to the dishwashing process. The composition provides excellent removal of polymerised grease from metal and glass substrates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2004
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Peter Robert Foley, Howard David Hutton, Carl-Eric Kaiser, Yong Zhu, Lucio Pieroni, Brian Xiaqing Song
  • Low fat creamer compositions
    Publication number: 20040156979
    Abstract: A non-fat creamer composition that contains from about 10% to about 90%, of a microparticulated protein component and from about 10% to about 90%, of a insoluble microcrystalline cellulose component. In the hydrated state the microparticulated protein component particles have a mean diameter particle size distribution ranging from about 0.1 microns to about 10.0 microns, and preferably less than about 5 percent of the total number of particles exceed about 10.0 microns in diameter. Further, the creamer composition contains less than about 2% of fat and oil. These non-fat creamer compositions can be powdered and liquid, dairy and non-dairy, and can be prepared in both concentrated and ready-to-use forms. The powdered creamer compositions are well suited for use in instant and/or dry food and beverage compositions that require the addition of water or other suitable fluids prior to use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Co.
    Inventors: Francisco Valentino Villagran, John Michael Baughman
  • Primary intermediates for oxidative coloration of hair
    Patent number: 6774244
    Abstract: Primary intermediates for hair coloring compositions for oxidative dyeing of hair are compounds of the formula (1): wherein R is selected from C1 to C5 alkyl or hydroxyalkyl, a C3 to C6 cyclic ring containing hetero atoms selected from O, S and N atoms, and —CH2—Ar where Ar is an aromatic ring wherein the aromatic ring may be substituted with one or two hydroxy C1 to C3 alkoxy, or amino groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Mu-Ill Lim, Yuh-Guo Pan
  • High speed embossing and adhesive printing process and apparatus
    Patent number: 6773647
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a high speed embossing and adhesive printing process, said process comprising the steps of (a) applying an adhesive to a conformable heated glue application roll; (b) applying said adhesive to a first patterned embossing roll, having an outer surface, which is engaged with a second patterned embossing roll having a complementary pattern to said first embossing roll; (c) passing a web of sheet material between said first and second embossing rolls at a tangential line speed to simultaneously emboss said web and apply said adhesive to said web, such that said adhesive forms an adhesive pattern between embossments; and (d) applying a renewable release agent to the outer surface of the first patterned embossing roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Stephan Gary Bush
  • Dishwashing detergent compositions containing mixtures or crystallinity-disrupted surfactants
    Patent number: 6774099
    Abstract: A hand dishwashing compositions comprising; a) about 0.1% to about 99.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jeffrey John Scheibel, Thomas Anthony Cripe, Kevin Lee Kott, Daniel Stedman Connor, James Charles Theophile Roger Burckett-St. Laurent, Phillip Kyle Vinson, William Michael Scheper, Chandrika Kasturi
  • Cosmetic container
    Patent number: D494467
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Midori Ohno