Patents by Inventor Mary Combs

Mary Combs 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).

  • Fabric article treating apparatus with safety device and controller
    Publication number: 20070094888
    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: November 3, 2006
    Publication date: May 3, 2007
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Bradford Barron, Mary Combs, Dean DuVal, Keith Fanta, Paul Amaat France, Christian Gerhard Gerlach, Laura Heilman, Eugene Pancheri, Paul Russo, Christopher Smith, Pedro Vandecappelle
  • Fabric article treating method and apparatus
    Publication number: 20060191157
    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 20, 2006
    Publication date: August 31, 2006
    Inventors: Christian Gerhard Gerlach, Bradford Barron, Dean DuVal, Eugene Pancheri, Mary Combs, Paul Rienzo
  • Uniform delivery of compositions
    Publication number: 20050251924
    Abstract: A system for uniformly delivering treatment compositions to fabrics in a fabric article drying appliance. The system also provides for efficient delivery of treatment compositions to fabrics in a fabric article drying appliance. A method is also provided for the uniform and efficient delivery of treatment compositions to fabrics in fabric article drying appliances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2005
    Publication date: November 17, 2005
    Inventors: Dean Du Val, Laura Heilman, Kofi Ofosu-Asante, Mary Combs, Antony Nguyen, Eugene Pancheri, Janine Strang, Janet Littig
  • Fabric article treating device and system
    Publication number: 20050120584
    Abstract: A fabric article treating device having an interior dispenser adapted for location inside of a fabric article drying appliance and a reservoir. The interior dispenser and reservoir are adapted for fluid communication with one another. The reservoir contains a benefit composition and is configured to maintain to minimize contamination within the reservoir during dispensing of the benefit composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2004
    Publication date: June 9, 2005
    Inventors: Dean DuVal, Kofi Ofosu-Asante, Trace Trajano, Cynthia Bedell, Thomas Ward, Laura Heilman, Mary Combs, Michael Orr, David Knaub