Patents Assigned to The Procters & Gamble Company
  • Absorbent article comprising coated water-swellable material
    Patent number: 7396585
    Abstract: This invention is directed to an absorbent structure comprising a solid, typically particulate, water-swellable material that comprises coated water-swellable, preferably hydrogel-forming polymers, which are coated with a coating agent, which is such that it does not rupture when the polymers swell in a liquid, e.g., water or saline water. Hereto, the coating agent is extensible in wet state and comprises thereto a wet-extensible material that has a wet-elongation of at least 400% or even at least 500%, and preferably a tensile stress at break in the wet state of at least 1 MPa. Typically, the coating agent comprises thereto an elastomeric polymeric material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Mattias Schmidt, Axel Meyer, Renae Dianna Fossum, Stephen Allen Goldman, Edward Joseph Urankar, Bruno Johannes Ehrnsperger
  • Process and kit-of-parts for improved hair conditioning after coloring bleaching or perming
    Patent number: 7393365
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of hair care. More specifically, the present invention relates to the conditioning of hair after it has been oxidised in a coloring, bleaching or perming treatment. Superior conditioning is obtained by providing a cationic polymer to the hair while it is subjected to the oxidising treatment, and then the oxidised hair is subjected to a conditioning treatment with a composition comprising a functionalized silicone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Andrei Sergeevich Bureiko, Simon Paul Godfrey, Olivier Charles Raineau
  • Fabric article treating method using electrically charged liquid in a clothes drying appliance
    Patent number: 7392600
    Abstract: A dispensing device for use in combination with a clothes dryer wherein the device is designed to uniformly treat fabric. The invention further relates to a method for treating a fabric article in need of treatment that combines a clothes dryer and liquid dispensing system designed to uniformly treat fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter and Gamble Company
    Inventors: Christian Gerhard Friedrich Gerlach, Bradford Scott Barron, Dean Larry DuVal, Eugene Joseph Pancheri, Mary Jane Combs, Paul Eugene Rienzo
  • Method for unwinding rolls of web material
    Patent number: 7392960
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for unwinding a vertically oriented roll of web material is disclosed. The roll comprises a lower surface, an upper surface and a circumferential surface. The apparatus comprises: at least one drive element adapted to rotate the vertically oriented roll, a sensor adapted to measure a tension of the web, and a controller adapted to adjust a speed of the web according to the tension of the web. The method comprises steps of rotating the roll, determining a desired web tension, and adjusting the speed of the roll according to the desired web tension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kevin Benson McNeil, Thomas Timothy Byrne
  • Agents for coloring keratin fibers
    Patent number: 7393366
    Abstract: The present invention relates to agents for coloring keratin fibers which comprise at least one zwitterionic azo dye of the general formula (I) where R1 is an alkylsulfonate radical of the formula (II),
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Cécile Pasquier, Eric Tinguely, Otto Göttel, Hans-Jürgen Braun
  • Compositions comprising protein and fatty acid
    Patent number: 7393552
    Abstract: Described herein are compositions comprising defined protein and lipid components. In particular, the compositions comprise: (a) a protein component including a protein selected from whey, casein, and mixtures thereof; and (b) a lipid component including a fatty acid material selected from fatty acids, non-glyceryl esters thereof, and mixtures thereof, wherein the lipid component has a median particle size of less than about 1 micron.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Leonard Edwin Small, Haile Mehansho, Shalayna Antoinette Woodly, Raul Victorino Nunes, Roger William Krummen
  • Hybrid winder
    Patent number: 7392961
    Abstract: A winder for winding continuous webs or interleaved web segments into rolls is disclosed. The winder comprises first and second rollers, each having a generally mutually parallel longitudinal axis. The winder also has a continuous belt. The continuous web is disposed upon at least a portion of the continuous belt. A rotatably driven winding spindle is adapted to receive the continuous web or interleaved web segments when the spindle is proximate to the continuous web or interleaved web segments disposed upon the continuous belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kevin Benson McNeil, Michael James Gworek, Jeffrey Moss Vaughn
  • Method for curing high internal phase emulsions
    Patent number: 7393878
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method for reducing monomer loss during curing of a high internal phase emulsion. The method has the steps of: forming a water-in-oil emulsion, curing the monomer component in the emulsion in a saturated steam environment, and forming a saturated polymeric foam material. The water-in-oil emulsion has an aqueous phase and an oil phase comprising a monomer component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Thomas Allen Desmarais, Mark Lewis Agerton, Paul Martin Lipic, Daniel Joseph Valerio
  • Method for measuring acute stress in a mammal
    Patent number: 7389777
    Abstract: A method is provided to quantify and/or qualify psychological and physiological components of stress in mammals, in which a stimulus can be applied to the test subject's environment during the test. The method involves the steps of measuring one or more physiological and/or psychological characteristics before and after the administration of a stimulus to a test subject. The stimulus may consist of any product, task, aroma or the like that elicits a stress-related response upon administration. By analyzing the resulting measurements, and optionally comparing physiological and psychological characteristics where both are measured, an overall level of stress may be determined. The method of stress measurement may further be used in product development and/or testing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Magda El-Nokaly, Michael Lee Hilton, Daniel Raymond Schaiper, Fernando Benvegnu
  • Method for recommending disposable absorbent incontinence articles
    Patent number: 7392200
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method for recommending a disposable absorbent incontinence article to be used by an incontinent person. The method includes the steps of: (a) receiving information, from a user, about incontinence devices which are currently used by the incontinent person; (b) receiving information about the situation which is experienced by the user; and (c) selecting at least one article, based on the information received, among predetermined disposable absorbent incontinence articles. By this method, an appropriate disposable absorbent incontinence article(s) to be used are recommended depending on the user's situation. The present invention is also directed a method for evaluating the quality of life of a caregiver who takes care of an incontinent person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Yukio Heki, Tsutomu Kato
  • Customer specific web order management system and method which provides real time “quality order” validation
    Patent number: 7392207
    Abstract: A real time, customer specific Web Order Management (WOM) system is disclosed in which a trade customer (buyer) can order products from a large manufacturer or distributor via a computer network such as the public internet. A “firewall” may be provided to keep the system secure. The WOM provides validation to the buyer that the order received from the buyer is a “quality order,” which as an example may mean that an entire truckload (in most countries) is being ordered from a single location, such as a distributor or a warehouse. The WOM system may have a global reach and the access for the trade customer is fairly simple, by means of a standard web browser and an Internet Service Provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Patrice Petong
  • Cleaning compositions that reduce shrinkage of fabrics
    Patent number: 7390778
    Abstract: A composition for treating fabrics, comprising: a) a fabric shrinkage reducing composition selected from the group consisting of ethylene glycol, all isomers of propanediol, butanediol, pentanediol, hexanediol and mixtures thereof; b) a liquid cleaning/refreshment composition. The fabric shrinkage reducing composition and the liquid cleaning/refreshment composition are releasably absorbed in a substrate in a weight ratio of from about 1:2 to about 1:5. The fabric shrinkage reducing composition helps to reduce shrinkage of the fabrics treated in an in-home, non-immersion cleaning and refreshing process which is conducted in a clothes dryer, or the like apparatus. Also provided are non-immersion cleaning/refreshment processes using this composition, a kit containing the necessary items to conduct the processes of this invention and a sheet for releasably absorbing the compositions of this invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Janine Morgens Strang, Michael Peter Siklosi
  • Apparatus for producing elastomeric nonwoven laminates
    Patent number: 7389804
    Abstract: An apparatus for producing an elastomeric nonwoven laminate including a plurality of elastomeric strands joined to a nonwoven web in a controlled distribution is provided. The apparatus includes an extruder for extruding a plurality of elastomeric strands onto a cooled surface of a rotating drum, which transports the strands in parallel alignment to a nip formed between two rollers rotating about parallel axis. The drum transfers the plurality of strands to the nip in a controlled distribution where it is bonded with the nonwoven. The apparatus also includes elements which automate the apparatus for creating the elastomeric nonwoven laminate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Uwe Schneider, Randall Allen Myers, Christoph Johann Schmitz, Martin Geoffrey Scaife
  • Detergent products, methods and manufacture
    Patent number: 7386971
    Abstract: A water-soluble pouch suitable for use in machine dishwashing and which comprises a plurality of compartments in generally superposed or superposable relationship, each containing one or more detergent active or auxiliary components, and wherein the pouch has a volume of from about 5 to about 70 ml and a longitudinal/transverse aspect ratio in the range from about 2:1 to about 1:8, preferably from about 1:1 to about 1:4. The water-soluble pouch allows for optimum delivery of dishwashing detergent. A process for the manufacture of multi-compartment pouches and a pack to contain the pouches are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Tanguy Marie Louis Alexandre Catlin, Rachid Ben Moussa, Timothy Bernard William Kroese, Charles Rupert Gillham, James Iain Kinloch, David John Smith, Alison Lesley Main, Helen Varley
  • Bottle
    Patent number: D571217
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter and Gamble Company
    Inventors: Christopher Eugene Bates, Susie Marie Seum
  • Wipes dispensing system
    Patent number: D571226
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Stefano Bartolucci, Jesse Qian Feng, Gregory De Swarte, Yashodhan H. Dhuru, Kurt Alfred Karussi, David Daniel Lake, Rached Menif, Johannes Lambertus Maria Mensink
  • Bottle
    Patent number: D571666
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Jill Marie Shurtleff
  • Body wrap
    Patent number: D571922
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Mary Elaine Freeland
  • Foam cleaning implement
    Patent number: D571967
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Iris Bogaerts, Denis Alfred Gonzales, Anthony Reynolds, Muriel Leila Gisele Cordier
  • Body wrap
    Patent number: D572367
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Mary Elaine Freeland