Patents by Inventor Christian Gerhard Friedrich Gerlach

Christian Gerhard Friedrich Gerlach has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7146749
    Abstract: A fabric article treating apparatus for dispensing a benefit composition through a nozzle that directs the benefit composition as droplets or particles into the chamber of the fabric article drying appliance. The droplets or particles provide benefits to the fabric articles within the drying appliance. The treating apparatus includes one or more safety features, and/or it includes beneficial control concepts that enhance the effects of the benefit composition being dispensed through the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Bradford Scott Barron, Mary Jane Combs, Dean Larry DuVal, Keith David Fanta, Paul Amaat Raymond Gerard France, Christian Gerhard Friedrich Gerlach, Laura Lynn Heilman, Eugene Joseph Pancheri, Paul Joseph Russo, Christopher Lawrence Smith, Pedro Vincent Vandecappelle
  • Patent number: 7059065
    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 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Christian Gerhard Friedrich Gerlach, Bradford Scott Barron, Dean Larry DuVal, Eugene Joseph Pancheri, Mary Jane Combs, Paul Eugene Rienzo
  • Publication number: 20040143994
    Abstract: A fabric article treating apparatus for dispensing a benefit composition through a nozzle that directs the benefit composition as droplets or particles into the chamber of the fabric article drying appliance. The droplets or particles provide benefits to the fabric articles within the drying appliance. The treating apparatus includes one or more safety features, and/or it includes beneficial control concepts that enhance the effects of the benefit composition being dispensed through the nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2003
    Publication date: July 29, 2004
    Applicant: The Proctor & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Bradford Scott Baron, Mary Jane Combs, Dean Larry DuVal, Keith David Fanta, Paul Amaat Raymond Gerard France, Christian Gerhard Friedrich Gerlach, Laura Lynn Heilman, Eugene Joseph Pancheri, Paul Joseph Russo, Christopher Lawrence Smith, Pedro Vincent Vandecappelle
  • Publication number: 20040025368
    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: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2003
    Publication date: February 12, 2004
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Christian Gerhard Friedrich Gerlach, Bradford Scott Barron, Dean Larry DuVal, Eugene Joseph Pancheri, Mary Jane Combs, Paul Eugene Rienzo
  • Publication number: 20030205631
    Abstract: A method and equipment for applying a liquid product onto a household article or plant for purpose of cleaning, wetting, coating, polishing, fabric treatment, plant watering and the like, the method comprising discharging the liquid through a spray nozzle in the form of an upwardly or downwardly directed spray of droplets having an average droplet size of at least about 40 &mgr;m and preferably in the range from about 75 to about 500 &mgr;m and at a proximal distance of from about 0.1 to about 1 m from the household article or plant, the liquid being discharged through the spray nozzle at an exit velocity in the range from about 3 to about 80 m/s, preferably from about 3 to about 20 m/s (when the spray droplets are upwardly directed) and from about 0 to about 2 m/s (when the spray droplets are downwardly directed) and at an applied potential in the range from about 0.2 to about 50 kV, whereby the overspray is less than about 40%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2002
    Publication date: November 6, 2003
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Bradford Scott Barron, Joseph Fernand Deflander, Pedro Vincent Vandecappelle, Nadejda Balandina, Christian Gerhard Friedrich Gerlach, Kris Frans Gabriel Van Bosstraeten, Chris Van den Wouwer, Neil Archibald MacGilp
  • Publication number: 20030126691
    Abstract: An in-home method for treating a fabric article in need of treatment and a new to the world, in-home, self-contained, stand alone fabric article treating apparatus, such as a “cabinet”-type of apparatus, useful in such method is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2002
    Publication date: July 10, 2003
    Inventors: Christian Gerhard Friedrich Gerlach, Bradford Scott Barron, Dean Larry DuVal
  • Publication number: 20030066138
    Abstract: A fabric article treating system, and more particularly to a fabric article treating system comprising at least a fabric article active delivery stage and a fabric article transporter capable of passing a fabric article in need of treatment through the fabric article active delivery stage such that a fabric article active is delivered to the fabric article is provided. Methods of treating fabric articles, especially with the fabric article treating system is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2002
    Publication date: April 10, 2003
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Paul Amaat Raymond Gerald France, Uday Narenda Sheth, Bradford Scott Barron, Arseni Valerevich Radomyselski, Christian Gerhard Friedrich Gerlach