Patents Examined by John M. Petruncio
  • Patent number: 6387321
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for controlling toilet odors by use of compositions comprising a hypochlorite compound and a hydrogen peroxide compound. The compositions are useful for preventing, reducing and/or eliminating the odor emitting capacity of human or animal excrement in an aqueous solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Inventor: Eric McGill
  • Patent number: 6384006
    Abstract: A system for forming and releasing an aqueous peracid solution is disclosed. The system includes a container and a peracid forming composition provided within the container. The container is permeable to the passage of water and aqueous peracid solution. The peracid forming composition includes a peracid precursor and a peroxygen source. Preferably, the peracid forming composition includes a chemical heater capable of releasing heat upon hydration. When placed in water, water enters the container and interacts with the peracid forming composition provided within the container. The water combines with the peracid precursor and peroxygen source to provide an aqueous peracid composition. The presence of a chemical heater within the container provides for the generation of heat within the container which enhances the rate of peracid formation. The peracid solution leaves the container and forms an effective sanitizing amount of sanitizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2002
    Assignee: Ecolab Inc.
    Inventors: G. Jason Wei, David D. McSherry
  • Patent number: 6384005
    Abstract: A conditioning composition for garments to be used before or after conventional washing and drying operations is disclosed. The compositions are suitable for conditioning dry clean only garments. The composition is an aqueous mixture containing a garment conditioning agent wherein the mixture has a fluid viscosity of from about 1 cps to about 100 cps and a fluid surface tension of from about 20 dynes/cm to about 55 dynes/cm. The conditioning composition is in fog form to improve composition deposition on the garments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2002
    Assignee: Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Ricky Ah-man Woo, Donald Scott Adams, Bruce Albert Yeazell, Daniel Scott Cobb, Jacqueline Marie Duderstadt, Stephen Gary Bush
  • Patent number: 6376437
    Abstract: A skin cleansing composition suitable for removing ink and other stains from the hands and arms of a user includes an effective amount of a low molecular weight alcohol having from one to twelve carbon atoms and an effective amount of a peroxide releasing agent, e.g., a perborate salt, preferably sodium perborate, such that together, the alcohol and perborate salt provide a synergistic reaction that effectively removes ink from the skin of the user. Other additives such as fillers, abrasives, and detergents may be employed to provide further cleansing action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignee: Gojo Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: John Viscovitz, Michael J. Dolan
  • Patent number: 6376438
    Abstract: The invention relates to hydrous liquid paste or cream-like hand cleansing agents without organic solvents, especially a course hand cleanser with a rubbing agent. Said cleansing agents are characterized by a content of 10 to 30 wt. % of at least one vegetable oil from the group of triglycerides, saturated and/or unsaturated fatty acids, of 10 to 30 wt % of a tenside comprised of a fatty alcohol ethoxylate, at least one fatty alcohol ether sulfate and/or a salt of a sulfonated fatty acid, 10 to 65 wt. % water, each referring to the composition of the cleansing agent, and optionally 1 to 30 wt. % of at least one abrasive. In addition, the hand cleanser optionally contains at least one viscosity building agent and optional additional cosmetic auxiliary, accessory and/or active agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignee: Stockhausen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Volker Rosenberger, Andreas Klotz, Marcel Veeger, Beatrice Bruecher
  • Patent number: 6369022
    Abstract: The foam control efficiency of a silicone antifoam in liquid or powder detergent formulations is improved by the use as an additive of an olefinically unsaturated alcohol, for example oleyl alcohol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2002
    Assignees: Dow Corning, S.A., Dow Corning Corporation
    Inventors: Jan Hoogland, George Sawicki
  • Patent number: 6362150
    Abstract: This invention concerns a detergent composition in solid form containing surfactant and a peroxide bleaching agent. In another preferred composition, encapsulated or non-encapsulated enzymes may be present, improving performance during washing. Other conventional additives may also optionally be present. The composition is suitable for hand washing and soaking of clothing. The process for the form relation of this composition is furthermore fundamental in order to ensure the stability of the peroxide bleaching agent and the enzyme. For this reason, low moisture materials and hydrating salts are used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2002
    Assignee: Corporation Cressida
    Inventor: Judas Omar Riera Lunati
  • Patent number: 6362152
    Abstract: A color stable aqueous solution containing a relatively high concentration of sodium o-phenylphenate is described where stabilizing components include an oxygen scavenger and a free radical scavenger. The aqueous solutions of NaOPP prepared according to the present invention exhibit an absorbance at 400 nanometers of at most one-half the absorbance exhibited by untreated solutions after incubation for 72 hours at 44° C. and 4 hours under ultraviolet light. The aqueous solution is useful as a concentrate that can be diluted to a desirable antimicrobial concentration level prior to application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2002
    Assignee: The Dow Chemical Company
    Inventors: Tracy L. Young, Charles D. Gartner, Dawn L. Carsten, Richard W. Walter, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6362147
    Abstract: Thickened liquid detergent compositions containing low molecular weight organic diamines. More particularly, thickened detergent compositions for hand dishwashing that have improved grease removal performance, benefits in sudsing, improved low temperature stability properties and dissolution properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2002
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Artemio Castro, Joanna Margaret Clarke, Morven Margaret Davies, Garry Kenneth Embleton, Christopher Lamb
  • Patent number: 6358903
    Abstract: A laundry treatment composition comprising peroxygen bleach and a water-soluble or water dispersible rebuild agent for redeposition onto a fabric during the laundry process, wherein the fabric rebuild agent undergoes during the laundry process, a chemical change by which change the affinity of the material for the fabric is increased. The peroxygen bleach was found to increase the deposition of the fabric rebuild agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2002
    Assignee: Unilever Home and Personal Care, USA division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Hopkinson, Christopher Clarkson Jones, David Richard Mealing
  • Patent number: 6348441
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of laundering soiled fabrics comprising the steps of contacting said fabric in an aqueous laundering solution with a nonaqueous liquid detergent composition containing from about 40% to about 99% by weight of the composition of a surfactant-containing non-aqueous liquid phase and from about 1% to about 50% by weight of the composition of particulate material which is substantially insoluble in said liquid phase and which is selected from peroxygen bleaching agents, bleach activators, organic detergent builders, inorganic alkalinity sources and combinations thereof. A dye transfer inhibitor and suds suppressors are essential components in one aspect of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2002
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: John Davis Aiken, III, Murali Sampath, Ronald Allen Swift, II
  • Patent number: 6348439
    Abstract: The invention provides compositions for providing body, fullness and texture to otherwise fine or very fine keratinous fibers, particularly human hair. The compositions of the present invention have a high pH, e.g., about 8 to about 10 when the compositions contain cationic polymer, and a pH of about 8 to about 14, preferably about 8.5 to about 13, and more preferably, about 8.5 to about 10 when the compositions contain no cationic polymer. The compositions include one or more nonionic and/or cationic polymers, which, in combination with the high pH of the composition, lift the hair cuticle and allow the deposition of polymer, thus resulting in increased fullness and texture to the hair. The compositions of the present invention may be in the form of known hair care products such as, for example, shampoos, rinses and conditioners. In addition, the compositions can be formulated, for example, as lotions or creams, and the like, for consumer use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2002
    Assignee: Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
    Inventors: Peter J. Rousso, Paul S. Wallace
  • Patent number: 6346507
    Abstract: In order to provide a liquid crystal composition and a cosmetic preparation, which is favorable in adaptation to skin and gives smooth feeling in case of using as a skin care product, and which is favorable in adaptation to makeup and has high makeup removing effect in case of using as a make-up remover, and which is favorable in adaptation to hair and has favorable feeling of use to provide glossiness to hair in case of using as a hair care product, a cosmetic preparation of the present invention comprises (A) 10 to 60 wt % of a nonionic surfactant, (B) 1 to 50 wt % in all of one or more of a water-soluble substance having a hydroxyl group, (C) 1 to 70 wt % of a silicone oil, and (D) 10 to 60 wt % of water and has a liquid crystal phase and/or an isotropic surfactant continuous phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2002
    Assignee: Shiseido Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kei Watanabe, Fumiaki Matsuzaki, Toshio Yanaki, Kazuyoshi Nakamura, Natsuko Fujii
  • Patent number: 6346509
    Abstract: A higher secondary alcohol alkoxylate compound composition represented by the general formula (1): [wherein R1 and R2 represent an alkyl group provided that the total number of carbon atoms of R1 and R2 is in the range of 7 to 29 and the number of carbon atom of R2 is not less than that of R1 (the number of carbon atom of R1<the number of carbon atom of R2), A represents a lower alkylene group, n represents a numeral in the range of 1 to 50 on the average; providing that when n is not less than 2, the number of species of oxyalkylene group represented by AO may be either one or two or more, and that when the oxyalkyl groups have two or more species, all the oxyalkylene groups are present in the average of n, and B represents a hydrogen atom or SO3M (wherein M represents an alkali metal atom, an alkaline earth metal atom, an ammonium group or a substituted ammonium group)], wherein the composition comprises 30 to 90 mol % of the higher secondary alcohol alkoxylate compound (X) ha
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2002
    Assignee: Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Kadono, Kunihiko Kimata, Kenji Rakutani, Yoshiyuki Onda
  • Patent number: 6342475
    Abstract: All purpose cleaning or microemulsion compositions contains an anionic surfactant, a foam control agent, and water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2002
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Patrick Durbut, Guy Broze
  • Patent number: 6340661
    Abstract: A bleaching composition for laundry fabrics is provided, comprising: a bleach catalyst comprising a ligand which forms a complex with a transition metal, the complex catalysing bleaching of stains in the absence of peroxygen bleach or a peroxy-based or -generating bleach system; and a dye transfer inhibition agent, and wherein the composition is substantially devoid of peroxygen bleach or a peroxy-based or -generating bleach system. The bleaching composition provides effective bleaching performance on fabric stains without unacceptable transfer of dyes between fabrics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2002
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Maria Petra van Deurzen, Ronald Hage, Simon Marinus Veerman
  • Patent number: 6339055
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a photo bleaching compositions comprising: A) from 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2002
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Alan Thomas Brooker, Stephen Wayne Heinzman, Francisco Ramon Figueroa
  • Patent number: 6331192
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the bleaching of chemical pulp, wherein the pulp is delignified and/or bleached with chlorine dioxide or with a combination of chlorine dioxide and a per-compound, and additionally the pulp is chelated in order to bind heavy metals, such as Fe, Mn and/or Cu, to a chelate complex. The chelate complex is selected from the group made up of N-bis-[(1,2-dicarboxylethoxy)-ethyl]-amine, N-bis[(1,2-dicarboxylethoxy)-ethyl]-aspartic acid and N-tris-[(1,2-dicarboxylethoxy)-ethyl]-amine, and the alkali metal and earth-alkali metal salts of these, and the chelating treatments are carried out simultaneously by combining the chelating chemical with the pulp in the same bleaching stage as chlorine dioxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2001
    Assignee: Kemira Chemicals Oy
    Inventors: Jukka Jäkärä, Reijo Aksela, Aarto Parén, Ilkka Renvall
  • Patent number: 6331512
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to compositions for use in machine dishwashers to facilitate the cleaning of dishes and the like. More particularly, the present invention relates to compositions, which reduce the dissolution of ions from glass surfaces on articles cleaned in machine dishwashers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2001
    Assignee: Amway Corporation
    Inventors: Michael R. Foote, Ernie Brumbaugh
  • Patent number: 6326340
    Abstract: Biofilm and debris can be removed from the interior and exterior surfaces of small bore tubing by passing an aqueous cleaning solution of water, one or more surfactants and preferably a source of hydrogen peroxide, optionally including small inert solid particles, together with a gas under pressure, to create a turbulent flow within the tubing that loosens the biofilm and debris so that they can be flushed from the tubing. When the exterior surfaces of tubing are to be cleaned, the tubing is inserted in a sleeve fitted with an adaptor that provides a pressure-tight seal between the tubing and the sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Inventors: Mohamed Emam Labib, Ching-Yue Lai