Patents Assigned to The Procter & Gamble Company
  • Patent number: 10004648
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for rotating and transferring a discrete article. The rotation apparatus may include a rib portion defining a longitudinal rib axis. A head assembly may be positioned adjacent to the rib portion. The head assembly may include a transfer member. The transfer member may define a longitudinal transfer axis. A support member extending from the transfer member toward the rib portion may rotate about the longitudinal transfer axis. A first follower and a second follower may be operatively engaged with the support member. The first follower may include a first follower outer surface defining a first longitudinal follower axis and the second follower may include a second follower outer surface defining a second longitudinal follower axis. The first follower and the second follower may be positioned such that the first longitudinal follower axis and the second longitudinal follower axis intersect the longitudinal rib axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Michael Devin Long, David Carlton Ordway, Uwe Schneider
  • Patent number: 10005989
    Abstract: The present application relates to perfume raw materials, perfumes, perfume delivery systems and consumer products comprising such perfume raw materials, perfumes and/or such perfume delivery systems, as well as processes for making and/or using such perfume raw materials, perfume delivery systems and consumer products. Such perfume raw materials, perfumes, perfume delivery systems and consumer products can reduce the impact of certain harsh odours.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Philip Andrew Cunningham
  • Patent number: 10005266
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a drum that rotates about an axis and rotating an anvil roll that rotates about an axis of rotation. The drum includes a fluid nozzle and a press member, the press member having an outer surface. The anvil roll includes a compliant outer circumferential surface. First and second substrates are advanced in a machine direction onto the drum. The fluid nozzle moves radially outward and a jet of heated fluid may be directed onto the substrates. The fluid nozzle retracts radially inward and the press member may be shifted radially outward. The substrates may be compressed between the press member and the anvil roll such that the press member deforms the compliant outer circumferential surface of the anvil roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: David Carlton Ordway, Jillian Marie Franke, Gene Xiaoqing Huang, Uwe Schneider, Michael Devin Long
  • Patent number: 10005261
    Abstract: Non-durable self-supporting flexible containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Scott Kendyl Stanley, Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Lee Mathew Arent, Jun You
  • Patent number: 10004647
    Abstract: An apparatus for transferring, at high speed and in a very effective and accurate manner, particulate material from a feeder into reservoirs of a moving endless surface, e.g. a drum, by use of a pressure means, e.g. a specific three-dimensional plate, for applying pressure onto said particulate material present between said plate and said moving endless surface, and then transferring the particulate material with said moving endless surface with reservoirs to a substrate; the apparatus and method being particularly useful for the production of absorbent structures for absorbent articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Hans Adolf Jackels, Harald Hermann Hundorf, Siegfried Link
  • Patent number: 10005197
    Abstract: A web includes a curvilinear line of weakness. The curvilinear line of weakness includes a plurality of perforations. Each of the plurality of perforations is separated by a bond area. Each of the plurality of perforations has a perforation length and each bond area has a non-perforation length. In one embodiment, at least two of the perforations lengths are substantially equal. In an alternate embodiment, at least two of the non-perforations lengths are substantially equal. In yet another embodiment, at least two of the non-perforations lengths are substantially unequal and at least two of the perforation lengths are substantially unequal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kathryn Christian Kien, Deborah Sue Slovut, Jeffrey Moss Vaughn
  • Patent number: 10005992
    Abstract: The present invention relates to gels comprising lamellar phase compositions and water-soluble unit dose articles comprising said gels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Mauro Vaccaro, Anju Deepali Massey Brooker, Nigel Patrick Somerville-Roberts, Alan Thomas Brooker, Eric San Jose Robles, Melissa Cuthbertson, Lynn Donlon
  • Patent number: 10004322
    Abstract: A head for an oral care implement comprises a mounting surface and at least one tuft extending from the mounting surface. The tuft comprises a first group of filaments and at least a second group of filaments. The first group of filaments is surrounded by the second group of filaments. The filaments of the first group have a first length and the filaments of the second group have a second length, the first length being different from the second length. The difference in length between the first length and the second length is about 1.1 mm to about 1.9 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Uwe Jungnickel, Marlis Hubner, Kathi Ballmaier, Soeren Wasow, Fiona Harrington
  • Patent number: 9999549
    Abstract: Aspects of the methods according to the present disclosure relate to the fabrication of refastenable pant diapers wherein discrete chassis are advanced in a machine direction such that the lateral axis is parallel with the machine direction. First side panels are then refastenably connected with the first waist region, and second side panels are permanently connected the second waist regions of the discrete chassis. The methods disclosed herein connect chassis with discrete lengths of side panel material and/or connection zone material, and forms a continuous web of articles formed by intermittently spaced chassis and intermittently spaced side panels bridging the gap between the intermittently spaced chassis. The chassis are then folded in the cross direction parallel to a lateral centerline and the first and second side panels are subsequently bonded together. The article is then subjected to knife cut adjacent the bonded regions to create discrete, pre-fastened refastenable pant diapers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Gary Dean LaVon, Joseph Hung Lam, Kazuaki Tameishi, Koichi Morimoto, Yoichiro Yamamoto, Norman Gorospe Juguilon
  • Patent number: 9999552
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for sensing distortions in patterns of reflected light to create profiles representing surface topographies of absorbent structures during the manufacture of absorbent articles. Inspection systems may include sensors arranged adjacent an advancing absorbent structure on a converting line. In turn, a controller may monitor and affect various operations on the converting line. The inspection systems herein may also include a radiation source that illuminates a surface of an absorbent structure with a predetermined pattern of light extending in the cross direction CD. The sensor senses distortions in patterns of light reflected from the illuminated surface of the absorbent structure and triangulates changes in elevation of the illuminated surface of the absorbent structure relative to the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Stephen Michael Varga, Walter Pieter Hendrik Laurentius Van der Klugt, Rene Gaber
  • Patent number: 9999579
    Abstract: A method of forming dual melamine/acrylic walled microcapsules having improved physical properties and release control as well as the microcapsules formed by the process wherein the capsule wall is formed by the use of select (meth)acrylate monomers and/or oligomers and/or select self-condensing melamine resins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Linsheng Feng, Robert Stanley Bobnock
  • Patent number: 10000727
    Abstract: A packaged composition including a plurality of particles in a package, wherein the particles include: more than about 40% by weight of the particles of polyethylene glycol, wherein the polyethylene glycol has a weight average molecular weight from about 5000 to about 11000; and from about 0.1% to about 20% by weight of the particles of perfume; wherein substantially all of the particles in the package have a substantially flat base and a height measured orthogonal to the base and together the particles have a distribution of heights, wherein the distribution of heights has a mean height between about 1 mm and about 5 mm and a height standard deviation less than about 0.3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Vincent Sodd
  • Patent number: 9999551
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a method of transferring discrete articles from or to a moving carrier member using a transfer assembly. The transfer assembly comprises a frame defining a rotation axis and a transfer member comprising a transfer surface configured to receive one of the discrete articles. The method comprises rotating the transfer member about the rotation axis and maintaining the transfer surface at a substantially constant minimum distance away from the moving carrier member at the point of discrete article transfer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Clifford Theodore Papsdorf, Uwe Schneider
  • Patent number: 9993418
    Abstract: Consumer product compositions providing enhanced hydrophobic benefit agent deposition. The benefit agent is provided as a benefit agent/deposition aid emulsion, where the benefit agent is physically adsorbed to the deposition aid before the emulsion is added to the balance of ingredients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Yonas Gizaw, Steven Daryl Smith, Roy Jerome Harrington
  • Patent number: D820110
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Lee Burrowes, Caroline Stoney Simons Lemen, Sarah Meghan Rose Dowell, Christopher Luke Leonard, Angela Rachelle Clark, Amber Michelle Metze
  • Patent number: D820676
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Diane Danheiser Powers, Tara Hush, Brandon Wells
  • Patent number: D820975
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Nicholas Edward Gressle
  • Patent number: D821199
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kristen Tanya Boston, Michelle Kratt Sorg, Jennifer Sarran Talbot, Shelley Renee Scheer, Jean Martin Campbell, Kari Jean Young
  • Patent number: D821217
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Alejandro Javier Bonilla, Stephanie Laura Tacconelli, Brenda Marie Mahan
  • Patent number: D821645
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Machiel J. Nelemans, Bruno Matthys