Patents by Inventor Peter William Appel
Peter William Appel 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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Publication number: 20040009888Abstract: A cleaning tablet which has a plurality of discrete regions with differing compositions, characterised in that at least one first region of the tablet is a smooth region and at least one second region of the tablet is a solid region and wherein the concentration of surfactants in said first region is at least 5 times the concentration of surfactants in said second region.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2003Publication date: January 15, 2004Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Peter William Appel, Aliaksei Kalbasenka, Lammert Nauta, Peter Iwan Stuut
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Publication number: 20030116177Abstract: The invention provides a non-intrusive automatic dosing system for use with existing fabric- and dishwashing machines. The system contains a container house with one ore more containers which can contain a fabric- or dishwashing product or ingredient, said container(s) being connected with a pump, said pump being connected with the water inlet conduit of the machine. The container house also contains means for receiving and transmitting signals. Signals are received from at least one sensor, capable of reading at least one parameter of the washing process or machine when in operation, and cause the transmission of a signal to activate the pump to cause the delivery of the product or ingredient to the water inlet conduit of the machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2002Publication date: June 26, 2003Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Peter William Appel, Paul Johan Birker, Ian Charles Callaghan, Roy Van Heesen, Cornelis Gerhard Van Kralingen, Rahul Dominic Vas-Bhat, Marinus Maria Warmoeskerken
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Publication number: 20030069162Abstract: Detergent compositions in the form of tablets used in fabric washing which incorporate most of the surfactants in particles which constitute a substantial part but not all the composition of the tablet. The organic surfactant in this particles provides a substantial part but not all of the weight of the particles. The mixture of anionic and nonionic detergent surfactants is employed wherein anionic is clearly in the majority. The balance of the composition contains a substantial proportion of material other than organic surfactant which is water-soluble.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2002Publication date: April 10, 2003Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Peter William Appel, Edwin Leo Lempers, Henning Wagner
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Patent number: 6472362Abstract: Detergent compositions in the form of tablets used in fabric washing which incorporate most of the surfactants in particles which constitute a substantial part but not all the composition of the tablet. The organic surfactant in this particles provides a substantial part but not all of the weight of the particles. The mixture of anionic and nonionic detergent surfactants is employed wherein anionic is clearly in the majority. The balance of the composition contains a substantial proportion of material other than organic surfactant which is water-soluble.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2000Date of Patent: October 29, 2002Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Peter William Appel, Edwin Leo Lempers, Henning Wagner
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Publication number: 20020028759Abstract: A detergent tablet of compacted particulate composition which has a pair of opposite faces spaced apart from each other and joined by a peripheral surface of the tablet, wherein the tablet has a first region which provides a first part of a said face and a second region which provides an adjoining part of the face with a discontinuity at the junction of the said parts of the face; and apparatus adapted to make such a tablet.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2001Publication date: March 7, 2002Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Peter William Appel, Jelles Vincent Boskamp, Christophe Michel Joyeux, Marcel van der Kraan, Henning Wagner
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Publication number: 20020025914Abstract: A detergent tablet of compacted particulate composition which has a pair of opposite faces spaced apart from each other and joined by a peripheral surface of the tablet, wherein the tablet has a first region which provides a first part of a said face and a second region which provides an adjoining part of the face with a discontinuity at the junction of the said parts of the face; and apparatus adapted to make such a tablet.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2001Publication date: February 28, 2002Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA,Inventors: Peter William Appel, Jelles Vincent Boskamp, Christophe Michel Joyeux, Marcel van der Kraan, Henning Wagner
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Patent number: 6339059Abstract: A detergent tablet having at least two discrete regions each compacted from particulate composition, wherein a first said region consists of a compacted particulate composition containing swelling disintegrant such that the region increases in volume on contact with water, and in at least one direction through said region is flanked on both sides by one or more other regions which swell to a lesser extent on contact with water than said first region.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2000Date of Patent: January 15, 2002Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care, division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Peter William Appel, Jelles Vincent Boskamp, Anshu Mali Gupta, Christophe Michel Joueux, Marcel van der Kraan, Henning Wagner
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Patent number: 6306814Abstract: A detergent tablet of compacted particulate composition which has a pair of opposite faces spaced apart from each other and joined by a peripheral surface of the tablet, wherein the tablet has a first region which provides a first part of a said face and a second region which provides an adjoining part of the face with a discontinuity at the junction of the said parts of the face; and apparatus adapted to make such a tablet.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2000Date of Patent: October 23, 2001Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care, USAInventors: Peter William Appel, Jelles Vincent Boskamp, Christophe Michel Joyeux, Marcel van der Kraan, Henning Wagner