Abstract: A stretch laminate includes a first layer including an elastomer film, the first layer having a surface, and a second layer including a nonwoven material, the second layer having a surface that is attached to the surface of the first layer. The tensile behavior in the transverse direction of the stretch laminate is within about 2.5 N/cm of the tensile behavior in the transverse direction of the film at an engineering strain of about 1.5, and exists independent of mechanical activation. A method of making the stretch laminate and an absorbent article having at least one region defined by the stretch laminate are also provided.
Abstract: An automatic dishwashing detergent composition having a pH as measured in 1% weight aqueous solution at 25° C. of from about 5 to about 7.5, the composition includes a surface-modification surface-substantive polymer.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 12, 2017
Date of Patent:
August 20, 2019
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Lindsay Suzanne Bewick, Alan Thomas Brooker, James Elliot Goodwin, Stefano Scialla, Philip Frank Souter, Glenn Steven Ward
Abstract: A process for manufacturing a web material is disclosed. The process generally provides the steps of: a. providing a pulp material comprising fibers and vessels; b. separating said vessels from said fibers in said pulp material to form a slurry having at least about 7 percent less vessels per meter than said pulp material; and c. processing said slurry to form said web material.
Abstract: A unitary deflection member. The unitary deflection member can have a backside defining an X-Y plane and a thickness in a Z-direction. The unitary deflection member can also have a reinforcing member and a plurality of protuberances positioned on the reinforcing member. Each protuberance can have a three-dimensional shape such that any cross-sectional area of the protuberance parallel to the X-Y plane can have an equal or greater area than any cross-sectional area of the protuberance being a greater distance from the X-Y plane in the Z-direction.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 2, 2018
Date of Patent:
August 20, 2019
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
John Allen Manifold, John Leslie Brent, Jr., James Michael Singer
Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a hygiene device including an applicator housing a tampon. The tampon can include a primary absorbent member having a leading end, a trailing end opposite the leading end, and an intermediate region. The primary absorbent member can include a first tampon color. The tampon can also include a secondary absorbent member which is mechanically tied to the primary absorbent member. The secondary absorbent member can include a second tampon color. The tampon can further include a withdrawal member disposed on at least one of the secondary absorbent member and the primary absorbent member. The withdrawal member can include a third tampon color. The applicator can include an insertion portion that includes an opaque region and a plunger operatively engaged with the insertion portion. The plunger can have a transparent region such that at least one of the secondary absorbent member and the withdrawal member is visually perceptible through the applicator.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 10, 2016
Date of Patent:
August 20, 2019
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Widalys Luz De Soto-Burt, Nanda Christine Almond
Abstract: Methods relating to making product compositions that include encapsulates, borate compounds, and a cationic polysaccharide, where the encapsulates include polyvinyl alcohol polymer. Compositions made from such methods. Encapsulate slurries.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 16, 2017
Date of Patent:
August 20, 2019
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Xinbei Song, Johan Smets, Pascale Claire Annick Vansteenwinckel, Jeffrey John Scheibel
Abstract: A liquid laundry detergent composition comprising; an anionic surfactant, wherein the anionic surfactant comprises linear alkylbenzene sulphonate; an ethoxylated alcohol non-ionic surfactant; greater than 5.5% by weight of the composition of water; wherein the weight ratio of total anionic surfactant:non-ionic surfactant is between 5:1 and 23:1; and wherein the weight ratio of linear alkylbenzene sulphonate:non-ionic surfactant is between 5:1 and 10:1; and wherein the weight ratio of total surfactant to water is between 3:1 to 20:1.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 18, 2017
Date of Patent:
August 20, 2019
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Jef Annie Alfons Maes, Johan Maurice Theo De Poortere, Jean-Francois Bodet, Bruno Jean-Pierre Matthys, Alice Michele Boutoille, Lucia Fernandezmartinez
Abstract: The present invention provides a method of treating a tooth surface to provide smooth tooth feel benefits, comprising the steps: (a) contacting the tooth surface with a first composition comprising a water-insoluble calcium phosphate; and thereafter (b) contacting the tooth surface with a second composition comprising an organophosphate.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 20, 2016
Date of Patent:
August 20, 2019
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Ross Strand, Alastair Robert Edward MacGregor, Claire Goodall
Abstract: A laundry care composition including (i) from 2 to 70 wt % of a surfactant; and (ii) from 0.0001 to 20.0 wt % of a leuco polymer including an alkoxylated polyethyleneimine covalently bound to a leuco moiety. At least a first portion of nitrogen atoms of the alkoxylated polyethyleneimine have covalently bound thereto a leuco moiety. At least a second portion of nitrogen atoms of the alkoxylated polyethyleneimine have covalently bound thereto a moiety selected from the group consisting of oxyalkylene moieties, polyoxyalkylene moieties, and mixtures thereof; and at least a third portion of nitrogen atoms of the alkoxylated polyethyleneimine have covalently bound thereto a moiety selected from the group consisting of an alkylene chain, an alkylene chain having covalently bound thereto a phenyl or naphthyl group, and mixtures thereof. Methods of making the leuco polymer and methods of treating textiles with such laundry care compositions.
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:
October 17, 2017
Date of Patent:
August 20, 2019
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Christopher Michael Young, Michael Gomer Stelljes, Michael Donald Suer, Timothy James Klawitter, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, Paul Dennis Trokhan
Abstract: A wearable article comprising: a main body comprising an outer cover layer and a backsheet attached to the skin-facing surface of the outer cover layer; and a ring-like elastic belt comprising a front belt and a back belt; the backsheet comprising a printed main artwork observable from the garment-facing side of the article. The main artwork exists in the vicinity of the proximal edge of the central panel of at least one of the front and back belts, extends from at least one of the front and back central panels into the crotch panel; and comprises a belt area artwork displayed on the central panel and a crotch area artwork displayed on the crotch panel. The relationship of the opacity of the outer cover layer to the opacity of the central panel overlayed on the garment facing side of the backsheet is defined herein.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 26, 2015
Date of Patent:
August 20, 2019
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Koichi Morimoto, Ling Tong, Chunmin Cheng, Hui Liu
Abstract: Methods relating to making product compositions that include encapsulates and borate compounds, where the encapsulates include polyvinyl alcohol polymer. Compositions made from such methods.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 16, 2017
Date of Patent:
August 20, 2019
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Xinbei Song, Douglas James Wildemuth, Corey James Kenneally, Pierre Verstraete, Oliver Fasbender
Abstract: An article of manufacture making system for making an article of manufacture containing a plurality of dry solid additives that utilizes a dry solid additive delivery system having at least one dry solid additive inlet and outlet such that the dry solid additives are conveyed through the dry solid additive delivery system facilitated by one or more prime movers such that the dry solid additives form an article of manufacture.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 3, 2016
Date of Patent:
August 13, 2019
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Christopher Michael Young, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Pei Wang
Abstract: A low-bulk disposable absorbent pant for a child is disclosed. The pant may have a belt structure formed of a stretch laminate of a pre-strained elastic film between two nonwoven layers. The belt may have a relaxed lateral size and a stretched lateral size that is at least 150% of the relaxed lateral size, the relaxed lateral size being no more than 400 mm. The pant may include one or more of waistband, leg band and supplemental elastic members.
Abstract: The present invention is directed to methods for deforming a web comprising the steps of supplying a precursor web; weakening the precursor web at a plurality of locations to create a plurality of weakened, melt-stabilized locations in precursor web; and forming a plurality of first features and a plurality of second features throughout the first and second layers of the web in the z-direction, wherein the plurality of first and second features are formed simultaneously.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 13, 2016
Date of Patent:
August 13, 2019
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Richard George Coe, Kevin Gerard Muhs, Robert Karl Isburgh, Rong Deng, Amit Kumar Kaushik, Mathias Johannes Hilpert
Abstract: A method of obtaining a laundry care composition, the method comprising the steps of (a) reacting a reactive leuco compound with a polymer to form a leuco polymer and (b) mixing the leuco polymer with at least one laundry care ingredient. The reactive leuco compound comprises at least one leuco moiety and at least one nucleophilic group. The polymer comprises at least one group capable of reacting with said nucleophilic group. The leuco moiety has a maximum molar extinction coefficient at a wavelength in the range 400 to 750 nm of less than 1000 M?1 cm?1.
Abstract: A disposable absorbent pant having a belt structure that encircles the wearer's waist, with front and rear belt portions, and a longitudinally channeled absorbent core structure, is disclosed. The channels are extended so as to underlie at least one of the front and rear belt portions, thereby providing added structural support to restrain the absorbent core and reduce the likelihood of undesirable bulging in the front and/or rear of the pant while it is worn, after the core has absorbed liquid and stiffened longitudinally as a result of the channeled structure.
Abstract: A method and apparatus for calculating a composition for a preparation for treating hair fibers. The method comprises: obtaining (330) a target specification, wherein the target specification comprises one or more numerical parameters defining a desired appearance of the hair fibers; providing (340) a first computational model that relates a composition of a preparation to a predicted appearance of the hair fibers when treated by that preparation; and calculating (350), using the first computational model and the target specification, a composition for the preparation that is predicted to produce, if the hair fibers are treated with the preparation, an appearance similar or identical to the desired appearance.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 14, 2017
Date of Patent:
August 13, 2019
Assignee:
The Procter and Gamble Company
Inventors:
Simon Paul Godfrey, Viktoriya Senduyreva, Gabriela Schaefer
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 comprising one or more dry solid additive inlets and one or more dry solid additive outlets wherein the dry solid additive delivery system exhibits a non-circular cross-section between at least one of the prime movers and at least one of the dry solid additive outlets such that the Stokes Number for the dry solid additives is less than 2000 is provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 3, 2016
Date of Patent:
August 13, 2019
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Christopher Michael Young, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Fei Wang
Abstract: A composition including a plurality of particles, the particles including about 25% to about 94% by weight a water soluble carrier; about 5% to about 45% by weight a quaternary ammonium compound; about 1% to about 40% by weight a fatty acid; and about 0.5% to about 10% by weight a cationic polymer; wherein each of the particles has a mass from about 1 mg to about 1 g.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 1, 2017
Date of Patent:
August 13, 2019
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Jaden S. Zerhusen, Lenae V. Johnson, Alessandro Corona, III, Rajan K. Panandiker, Michael P. Fontaine, Charles L. Schmitt