Patents Assigned to Reckitt Benckiser (UK) Limited
  • Cleaning Composition and Method
    Publication number: 20080171685
    Abstract: A cleaning composition comprising from 80 to 98% by weight of water, from 1 to 25% percent by weight of an amphiphilic solvent, from 0.1 to 10 percent by weight of a volatile hydrocarbon and from 0.1 to 1% by weight of cationic surfactant exhibits good cleaning performance and a visual indication of activity. The composition is on or adjacent to a phase boundary of its phase diagram and exhibits self-induced surface motility of the Marangoni type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2006
    Publication date: July 17, 2008
    Applicant: RECKITT BENCKISER (UK) LIMITED
    Inventors: Victoria Heather Cobb, Mark Coke, James Young
  • Spray Device
    Publication number: 20080156896
    Abstract: The invention relates to a spraying device (10) comprising a material container (16), a control circuitry (24) and an outlet section (22), wherein the control circuitry (24) includes an electromagnetic switch (26) that is operable to allow the control circuitry (24) to control the outlet section (22) only in the presence of a magnet (28) associated with the material container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2006
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Applicant: RECKITT BENCKISER (UK) LIMITED
    Inventors: James Anderson, Wu Jin, Simon Woolley, Ivan Ye
  • Device and Method
    Publication number: 20080156350
    Abstract: A device for treating a surface to give a cleaning benefit comprises a container (302) containing a cleaning liquid. The liquid can be delivered to an outlet zone (306). By virtue of the outlet zone and a separate defining means (322) which may be provided the cleaning liquid is accurately discharged onto the desired area of the surface. Suitably the cleaning liquid forms a gel patch, which can be peeled away, to remove a stain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2006
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Applicant: Reckitt Benckiser (UK) Limited
    Inventors: Louise Margaret Barlow, Victoria H. Cobb, Coreen Iliffe, Jonathan Mark Law
  • Product and Method of Treatment
    Publication number: 20080149146
    Abstract: A method and related packaged product for forming a surface treatment liquid involves contacting two solids to form a liquid, particularly an ionic liquid under ambient conditions at the locus of use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2006
    Publication date: June 26, 2008
    Applicant: RECKITT BENCKISER (UK) LIMITED
    Inventors: Neil Atkin, Diane Kelly, Malcolm Tom McKechnie, James Young
  • Cleaning Tablets or Water-Softening Tablets and their Manufacture
    Publication number: 20080136055
    Abstract: A method of making cleaning or water-softening tablets involves making a premix of cleaning or water-softening particulates and a lubricant, for example a sucrose ester or sorbitan ester; feeding the premix into a feed port of an extruder; feeding a binder, for example polyethylene glycol, into the extruder at or downstream of the feed port, the binder being a solid at room temperature but being mixed with the cleaning or water-softening particles as a liquid or becoming a liquid inside the extruder; and extruding the resulting mixture into strands which are separated into tablets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2004
    Publication date: June 12, 2008
    Applicant: Reckitt Benckiser (UK) Limited
    Inventors: Steven Kenneth Cook, Paul John Duffield, Kerry Anne Hough, Carl Richard Smith
  • Device and Method for Removing a Composition From the Skin
    Publication number: 20080132914
    Abstract: A device for removing a depilatory or other composition from the skin comprises: a non-shaving head (2) which in use is moved over the skin to effect removal of the composition; a handle (4); and a joint (6) between the head and the handle, permitting the head to articulate about the handle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2004
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Applicant: Reckitt Benckiser (UK) Limited
    Inventors: Isabelle Bossard, Carl Dibnah, Andrew Robert McLeish, Tracey Thompson, Barbara Jenman
  • Dilutable cleaning compositions and their uses
    Patent number: 7378380
    Abstract: A dilutable cleaning composition comprises a pH-elevating component and a pH-lowering component, the composition being such that when it is mixed with water the pH-elevating component dissolves or disperses in the water thereby elevating the pH of the water to at least 8.5 and subsequently the pH-lowering component dissolves or disperses in the water, thereby lowering the pH of the water from at least 8.5 to not more than 4. When the water is at the raised pH, the cleaning composition is effective in removing proteinaceous or fatty soiling, and when the composition is at the lowered pH, the composition is effective at removing alkaline waste materials such as limescale. The cleaning composition is particularly suitable for use as a lavatory or hard surface cleaner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: Reckitt Benckiser (UK) Limited
    Inventors: Adrian Blagg, Angus Lang, Malcolm Tom McKechnie
  • Epilatory Compositions
    Publication number: 20080118457
    Abstract: An epilatory composition of the adhesive type comprises: a from 50 to 90 percent by weight of a rosinous material or hydrocarbon resin; b. from 0.5 to 20 percent by weight of water, and c. an emulsifier and/or surfactant. The composition is particularly suitable for heating, prior to application to the skin, in a domestic microwave oven.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2005
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Applicant: Reckitt Benckiser (UK) Limited
    Inventors: David Acher, Marielle De La Torre
  • Seal Assembly for a Pressurised Container
    Publication number: 20080099483
    Abstract: A seal assembly for a pressurised container 2 comprising a first seal portion 16 and a second seal portion 18. The first seal portion 16 is adapted to form a seal with an output section 14 of the pressurised container 2 and an end face 26 thereof, and the second seal portion 18 is adapted to form a seal with a side wall 28 of the output section 14.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2006
    Publication date: May 1, 2008
    Applicant: RECKITT BENCKISER (UK) LIMITED
    Inventors: James Anderson, Wu Jin, Simon Woolley, Ivan Ye
  • Surface cleaner
    Patent number: 7351294
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of use for photocatalytic cleaning compositions and photocatalytic cleaning compositions effective to degrade soils deposited on a surface, to reduce the accumulation of soils on a surface, and to act as an antimicrobial agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: Reckitt Benckiser (UK) Limited
    Inventors: Barry Anthony Murrer, Robert J. Potter, Virginie Ogrodnik
  • Depilatory device
    Patent number: D565792
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: Reckitt Benckiser (UK) Limited
    Inventor: Bruno Lablaine
  • Cap
    Patent number: D566549
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: Reckitt Benckiser (UK) Limited
    Inventors: Rachel Russell, Odile Beranger, Aurèle Hurtis, Francis Lovell, Sandra Michaud
  • Air freshener device
    Patent number: D567920
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: Reckitt Benckiser (UK) Limited
    Inventors: Alex Cantoni, Mario Alexander Turchi
  • Air freshener device
    Patent number: D567921
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: Reckitt Benckiser (UK) Limited
    Inventors: Steven Bellofatto, Mario Alexander Turchi
  • Air freshener device
    Patent number: D567922
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: Reckitt Benckiser (UK) Limited
    Inventors: Mario Alexander Turchi, Scott Douglas Salmon
  • Air freshener device
    Patent number: D567923
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: Reckitt Benckiser (UK) Limited
    Inventors: Mario Alexander Turchi, Alex Cantoni
  • Air freshener device
    Patent number: D567924
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: Reckitt Benckiser (UK) Limited
    Inventors: Mario Alexander Turchi, Scott Douglas Salmon
  • Air freshener device
    Patent number: D568454
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2008
    Assignee: Reckitt Benckiser (UK) Limited
    Inventors: Steven Bellofatto, Mario Alexander Turchi
  • Air freshener device
    Patent number: D568978
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
    Assignee: Reckitt Benckiser (UK) Limited
    Inventors: David Kennedy, Paul Newton, William Smith
  • Electric evaporator device
    Patent number: RE40392
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Assignee: Reckitt Benckiser (UK) Limited
    Inventors: Shaun Patrick Rymer, Barbara Jenman, Ruben Garcia, Andrew Robert McLeish