Patents Assigned to The Procter & Gamble
  • Densified fibrous structures and methods for making same
    Patent number: 7943814
    Abstract: Differentially densified fibrous structures, methods for making same, and processes for treating fibers used in the fibrous structures are provided. More particularly, fibrous structures comprising two or more regions, at least one of which exhibits a density that is at least 1.6 times greater than another region within the fibrous structure, methods for making such fibrous structures and non-naturally occurring fibers useful in such fibrous structures are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Robert Stanley Ampulski, Dale Gary Kavalew
  • Flexible bag having a drawtape closure
    Patent number: 7942577
    Abstract: A flexible bag comprises flexible sheet material assembled to form a semi-enclosed container having an opening. The bag has a drawtape closure for sealing the opening. The sheet material of the drawtape closure exhibits elastic-like behavior along at least one axis. The sheet material of the drawtape closure comprises a first region and a second region. The first region and said second region are comprised of the same material composition and each has an untensioned projected pathlength. The first region undergoes a substantially molecular-level deformation and the second region initially undergoes a substantially geometric deformation when the sheet material is subjected to an applied elongation in a direction substantially parallel to an axis in response to an externally-applied force upon the sheet material of the drawtape closure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Robert W. Fraser, Charles B. Snoreck
  • Method for converting a multi-ply paper product
    Patent number: 7942995
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing a multi-ply web material is disclosed. The process has the steps of: providing an embossing roll having first, second, and third nips disposed about a periphery thereof; providing a first web material; embossing the first web material in the first nip to produce an embossed first web material having embossed portions associated therewith; applying an adhesive to at least some of the embossed portions of the embossed first web material; joining the embossed first web material to a second web material in a face-to-face relationship in the second nip so that the embossed portions of the embossed first web material are contactingly engaged with corresponding portions of the second web material; and, embossing both the embossed first web material and the second web material in the third nip to produce the embossed multi-ply web material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: David George Evans, Jr., George Vincent Wegele
  • Fibrous structures
    Patent number: 7939168
    Abstract: Fibrous structures that exhibit a cross machine direction total energy absorption (CDTEA) of greater than 8 cm-g/cm2 as measured according to the TEA Test Method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: John Allen Manifold, Charles Chidozie Ekenga, Douglas Jay Barkey, Kathleen Diane Sands, Thorsten Knobloch
  • Fiber comprising unmodified and/or modified starch and a crosslinking agent
    Patent number: 7938908
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a fiber including unmodified and/or modified starch and a crosslinking agent, and a web employing such a fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Valerie Ann Bailey, Larry Neil Mackey, Paul Dennis Trokhan
  • Benefit agent delivery system comprising ionic liquid
    Patent number: 7939485
    Abstract: A benefit agent delivery system comprises a benefit agent, wherein the benefit agent is protected or stabilized by an ionic liquid and wherein the benefit agent is releasable from the system to provide the benefit. For example, the ionic liquid may be physically associated with the benefit agent, such as by coating, encapsulation, or co-crystallization, or may be chemically associated with the benefit agent, such as by chemical reaction. The benefit agent delivery system may be in the form of a concentrate, in a product formulation, or on or associated with a substrate or package. Detergent compositions may include the benefit agent delivery system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kenneth Nathan Price, Stacie Ellen Hecht, Glenn Thomas Jordan, IV, Corey James Kenneally, Yousef Georges Aouad, Michael Stanford Showell, Gregory Scot Miracle
  • Method for forming fibers
    Patent number: 7939010
    Abstract: An improved method for creating fibers from a material dissolved in a solvent. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of feeding a fiber making material dissolved in a solvent through a die including at least two rows of nozzles to form fiber strands. An attenuation medium is provided about the fiber strands. The attenuation medium is provided in a direction that is generally parallel to the fiber strands such that the attenuation medium elongates the fiber strands. The attenuation medium has a relative solvent-vapor content of at least about 50 percent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Michael David James, Stanford Royce Jackson, Savas Aydore, Hasan Eroglu, Donald Eugene Ensign, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Edwin Arthur Stewart
  • Apparatus for producing a web substrate having indicia disposed thereon and elastic-like behavior imparted thereto
    Patent number: 7938635
    Abstract: An apparatus for providing a printed and textured web substrate is disclosed. The apparatus has a printing apparatus and an apparatus for imparting elastic-like behavior. The printing apparatus has at least one rotatable ink roller for transferring an ink to the web substrate. The apparatus for imparting elastic-like behavior has a pair of intermeshing rollers capable of providing at least a portion of the web substrate with an elastic-like behavior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Laura Lynn Heilman, Jill Marlene Orr
  • Paper product
    Patent number: D637406
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Paul Joseph Coffaro, Matthew Shane Pierson
  • Paper product
    Patent number: D637407
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Paul Joseph Coffaro, Matthew Shane Pierson
  • Paper product
    Patent number: D637410
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Paul Joseph Coffaro
  • Paper product
    Patent number: D637411
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Paul Joseph Coffaro, Matthew Shane Pierson, Rebecca Howland Spitzer, Ward William Ostendorf, Angela Michelle Roberts
  • Paper product
    Patent number: D637412
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Paul Joseph Coffaro, Matthew Shane Pierson
  • Packaging container having surface ornamentation
    Patent number: D637486
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Nancy W. Andrew
  • Connector for a faucet mounted water filter
    Patent number: D637690
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Richard Paul Riedel
  • Connector for a faucet mounted water filter
    Patent number: D637691
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Richard Paul Riedel
  • Connector for a faucet mounted water filter
    Patent number: D637692
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Richard Paul Riedel
  • Connector for a faucet mounted water filter
    Patent number: D637693
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Richard Paul Riedel
  • Bottle
    Patent number: D637911
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Frank Delmar Macaulay, Jason C. Campbell, Erica Heidi Hollmann, Karl A. Bakker
  • Container
    Patent number: D637912
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Chris Van Den Wouwer, Andrew Peter Heidel, Gian DeBelder, Gil Palmon, Christopher Robert Kopulos