Patents by Inventor Christopher Eugene Bates
Christopher Eugene Bates 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).
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Patent number: 10517373Abstract: A dispensing package for a consumer care product is provided having a product chamber with an inner surface, a major axis and a minor axis. The dispensing package has a movable elevator platform having a coupling sleeve with a non-threaded section and a threaded section along an inner surface. The dispensing package also has a screw assembly with a spindle that supports threads; a seal extending around the circumference of the spindle; a threaded first portion coupled to the threaded section along the inner surface of the moveable elevator platform; and a non-threaded second portion. The seal frictionally engages with the non-threaded section of the coupling sleeve and the movable elevator platform advances along an axis from a first fill volume position to a second fill volume position.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2015Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Justin Alan Ellsworth, Kerry Lloyd Weaver, Christopher Eugene Bates, Christopher Lawrence Smith, Richard Lawrence Horstman, Julie OiLun Lim, Ricky V. Retherford, John Joseph Rego, Timothy David Reichling
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Patent number: 9795206Abstract: A dispensing package for a consumer care product is provided, having a product chamber and an outer jacket. The product chamber has an upper dispensing end; an inner surface; an outer surface; a top ridged opening at the upper dispending end of the product chamber on the outer surface; a major axis and a minor axis. At least a portion of the project chamber has a thickness âtâ from about 0.45 mm to about 1.2 mm. The outer jacket has an inside surface; an outside surface; an upper end, a major axis and a minor axis. At least a portion of the outer jacket has a thickness âTâ from about 0.45 mm to about 1.2 mm. The outer jacket at least partially surrounds the product chamber and attaches to the product chamber. A consumer care composition may be disposed in the product chamber.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2015Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Justin Alan Ellsworth, Kerry Lloyd Weaver, Christopher Eugene Bates, Christopher Lawrence Smith, Richard Lawrence Horstman, Julie OiLun Lim, Ricky V. Retherford, John Joseph Rego, Timothy David Reichling
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Patent number: 9265327Abstract: A container is configured for selectively dispensing a personal care product. The container includes a body, a drive apparatus, and an elevator. The body at least partially defines a product chamber and a distal opening. The elevator is disposed within the product chamber. Rotation of the drive apparatus results in axial movement of the elevator within the product chamber.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2013Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Nathaniel David Thulin, Christopher Eugene Bates, David Andrew Dalton
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Publication number: 20130017123Abstract: Air freshener products and methods for freshening air are disclosed. In some embodiments, the air freshening product may include a container for storing an air freshening composition that may contain compressed gas such as compressed air, nitrogen, nitrous oxide, inert gases, or carbon dioxide. When the container is completely filled with propellant and air freshening composition, the air freshening composition may be released from the container at a flow rate of from about 0.8 grams/second to about 1.5 grams/second, wherein the mean particle size of the released spray droplets is from about 10 microns to about 100 microns. The method of freshening air, in certain embodiments, provides improved delivery of an air freshening composition using a non-hydrocarbon propellant. If malodor counteractants are used, the method may also provide a reduction in malodors.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2012Publication date: January 17, 2013Inventors: Hirotaka UCHIYAMA, Christopher Eugene Bates, Eric Laurence Wagnon, Cynthia Jean McCann, Carl-Eric Kaiser, Steven Louis Diersing
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Patent number: 8277725Abstract: Air freshener products and methods for freshening air are disclosed. In some embodiments, the air freshening product may include a container for storing an air freshening composition that may contain compressed gas such as compressed air, nitrogen, nitrous oxide, inert gases, or carbon dioxide. When the container is completely filled with propellant and air freshening composition, the air freshening composition may be released from the container at a flow rate of from about 0.8 grams/second to about 1.5 grams/second, wherein the mean particle size of the released spray droplets is from about 10 microns to about 100 microns. The method of freshening air, in certain embodiments, provides improved delivery of an air freshening composition using a non-hydrocarbon propellant. If malodor counteractants are used, the method may also provide a reduction in malodors.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2011Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Hirotaka Uchiyama, Christopher Eugene Bates, Eric Laurence Wagnon, Cynthia Jean McCann, Carl-Eric Kaiser, Steven Louis Diersing
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Publication number: 20120087828Abstract: Air freshener products and methods for freshening air are disclosed. In some embodiments, the air freshening product may include a container for storing an air freshening composition that may contain compressed gas such as compressed air, nitrogen, nitrous oxide, inert gases, or carbon dioxide. When the container is completely filled with propellant and air freshening composition, the air freshening composition may be released from the container at a flow rate of from about 0.8 grams/second to about 1.5 grams/second, wherein the mean particle size of the released spray droplets is from about 10 microns to about 100 microns. The method of freshening air, in certain embodiments, provides improved delivery of an air freshening composition using a non-hydrocarbon propellant. If malodor counteractants are used, the method may also provide a reduction in malodors.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2011Publication date: April 12, 2012Inventors: Hirotaka N.M.N. UCHIYAMA, Christopher Eugene Bates, Eric Laurence Wagnon, Cynthia Jean McCann, Carl-Eric Kaiser, Steven Louis Diersing
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Patent number: 8101124Abstract: Air freshener products and methods for freshening air are disclosed. In some embodiments, the air freshening product may include a container for storing an air freshening composition that may contain compressed gas such as compressed air, nitrogen, nitrous oxide, inert gases, or carbon dioxide. When the container is completely filled with propellant and air freshening composition, the air freshening composition may be released from the container at a flow rate of from about 0.8 grams/second to about 1.5 grams/second, wherein the mean particle size of the released spray droplets is from about 10 microns to about 100 microns. The method of freshening air, in certain embodiments, provides improved delivery of an air freshening composition using a non-hydrocarbon propellant. If malodor counteractants are used, the method may also provide a reduction in malodors.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2011Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Hirotaka Uchiyama, Christopher Eugene Bates, Eric Laurence Wagnon, Cynthia Jean McCann, Carl-Eric Kaiser, Steven Louis Diersing
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Publication number: 20110318222Abstract: Air freshener products and methods for freshening air are disclosed. In some embodiments, the air freshening product may include a container for storing an air freshening composition that may contain compressed gas such as compressed air, nitrogen, nitrous oxide, inert gases, or carbon dioxide. When the container is completely filled with propellant and air freshening composition, the air freshening composition may be released from the container at a flow rate of from about 0.8 grams/second to about 1.5 grams/second, wherein the mean particle size of the released spray droplets is from about 10 microns to about 100 microns. The method of freshening air, in certain embodiments, provides improved delivery of an air freshening composition using a non-hydrocarbon propellant. If malodor counteractants are used, the method may also provide a reduction in malodors.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2011Publication date: December 29, 2011Inventors: Hirotaka Uchiyama, Christopher Eugene Bates, Eric Laurence Wagnon, Cynthia Jean McCann, Carl-Eric Kaiser, Steven Louis Diersing
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Patent number: 7998403Abstract: Air freshener products and methods for freshening air are disclosed. In some embodiments, the air freshening product may include a container for storing an air freshening composition that may contain compressed gas such as compressed air, nitrogen, nitrous oxide, inert gases, or carbon dioxide. When the container is completely filled with propellant and air freshening composition, the air freshening composition may be released from the container at a flow rate of from about 0.0001 grams/second to about 1.2 grams/second. The method of freshening air, in certain embodiments, provides improved delivery of an air freshening composition using a non-hydrocarbon propellant. If malodor counteractants are used, the method may also provide a reduction in malodors.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2004Date of Patent: August 16, 2011Assignee: The Proctor & Gamble CompanyInventors: Hirotaka Uchiyama, Christopher Eugene Bates, Eric Laurence Wagnon, Cynthia Jean McCann, Carl-Eric Kaiser, Steven Louis Diersing
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Patent number: 7784650Abstract: A sprayer actuator, a sprayer, and a method of making the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, the sprayer includes an ergonomic sprayer actuator with a housing having an upper portion, a lower portion for fitting over a can, and a narrowed waist portion between the upper portion and the lower portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2006Date of Patent: August 31, 2010Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Christopher Eugene Bates, Chow-chi Huang, Stephen Henry Iding, Naomi Ruth Nelson, Ricky Ah-Man Woo
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Patent number: D555482Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2006Date of Patent: November 20, 2007Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Christopher Eugene Bates, Susie Marie Seum
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Patent number: D555485Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2006Date of Patent: November 20, 2007Assignee: The Procter and Gamble CompanyInventors: Christopher Eugene Bates, Susie Marie Seum
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Patent number: D559107Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2006Date of Patent: January 8, 2008Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Christopher Eugene Bates, Susie Marie Seum
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Patent number: D559116Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2006Date of Patent: January 8, 2008Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Christopher Eugene Bates, Susie Marie Seum
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Patent number: D562141Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2006Date of Patent: February 19, 2008Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Christopher Eugene Bates, Susie Marie Seum
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Patent number: D565414Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2006Date of Patent: April 1, 2008Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Christopher Eugene Bates, Susie Marie Seum
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Patent number: D571217Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2006Date of Patent: June 17, 2008Assignee: The Procter and Gamble CompanyInventors: Christopher Eugene Bates, Susie Marie Seum
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Patent number: D595137Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2006Date of Patent: June 30, 2009Assignee: The Procter and Gamble CompanyInventors: Christopher Eugene Bates, Susie Marie Seum
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Patent number: D810568Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2016Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Justin Alan Ellsworth, Timothy David Reichling, Sheena Marie Mahrle, Christopher Eugene Bates
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Patent number: D886636Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2018Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Jusitn Alan Ellsworth, Timothy David Reichling, Sheena Marie Mahrle, Christopher Eugene Bates