Patents by Inventor Nigel Peter Bird

Nigel Peter Bird 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).

  • Publication number: 20220033734
    Abstract: A fabric conditioner composition comprising: a. fabric softening active; b. a short chain (C1 to C6), unsaturated, organic acid or salt thereof having at least two carboxyl groups; and c. perfume composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Nigel Peter BIRD, Thomas Richard POINTON
  • Publication number: 20090036346
    Abstract: An aqueous conditioning composition comprising: (i) a water-insoluble, non-ester, quaternary ammonium fabric conditioning agent having at least 2 alkyl and/or alkenyl groups of at least 12 carbon atoms, or an alkyl or alkenyl group having a chain length of at least 20 carbon atoms. (ii) a water-soluble quaternary ammonium cationic surfactant and (iii) perfume, at least a portion of which is encapsulated. The composition is made by a specific process which comprises adding the encapsulated perfume to water prior to the addition of the water-insoluble quaternary ammonium fabric conditioning agent and adding the water-soluble quaternary ammonium cationic surfactant after the addition of the water-insoluble quaternary ammonium fabric conditioning agent and any free perfume and at a temperature below the phase transition temperature of the composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2006
    Publication date: February 5, 2009
    Inventors: Nigel Peter Bird, Lisa Emma Fildes, David Andrew Ross Jones, Srinivasa Rao Kandala, Neil Fletcher Taylor
  • Publication number: 20040014627
    Abstract: An aqueous, liquid fabric conditioning composition and a method for making such a composition where the composition comprises a quaternary ammonium cationic softening compound, a perfume having a ClogP of 2 or more and an oily perfume carrier for the perfume, the carrier having a ClogP of 3.5 or more where the composition comprises an emulsion in which 80% or more by weight of the droplets in the emulsion have a mean diameter of from 0.4 to 60 microns, as measured using a Malvern particle size analyser with a 45 mm lens for D[0,1] measurements and both a 45 mm and a 1000 mm lens for D[0,9] measurements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2003
    Publication date: January 22, 2004
    Inventors: Amanda Jane Adams, Nigel Peter Bird, David Machin
  • Publication number: 20010011068
    Abstract: Use of a light colored crystalline clay mineral as a component of a composition for laundering of textile fabrics to assist removal of soil from the fabrics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2000
    Publication date: August 2, 2001
    Inventors: Nigel Peter Bird, Abigail Marr, John William Yorke
  • Patent number: 5919751
    Abstract: A rinse conditioner giving excellent deposition of a fabric treatment agent onto fabric. The rinse conditioner comprising a fabric softening compound, a water insoluble oil and from 0.1% to 10% by weight of the total composition of a Fabric Treatment Agent, wherein the Fabric Treatment Agent has a c.logP of 3.0 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 6, 1999
    Assignee: Lever Brothers Company
    Inventors: Nigel Peter Bird, Timothy David Finch, Stuart Bernard Fraser, Christopher Maddison, Christopher Whaley