Patents by Inventor Richard A. Bartsch

Richard A. Bartsch 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: 6834847
    Abstract: A dispensing device for dispensing scents into the environment is disclosed. In one embodiment, the dispensing device is used in conjunction with an article of manufacture which contains one or more scents or aromatic materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2004
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Eric Richard Bartsch, Stephan Gary Bush, Brice Daniel Westring, Grover David Owens, Frank Andrej Kvietok, Michael Sean Farrell, Christophe Laudamiel-Pellet, Pedro Antonio Rodriguez, Toan Trinh, Kevin George Goodall, Carl Eric Kaiser
  • Publication number: 20030175148
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and articles for controlling the release of volatile materials are disclosed, including, but not limited to scented materials. The method can be applied to a wide variety of different types of emitting devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2002
    Publication date: September 18, 2003
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Frank Andrej Kvietok, Charles Michael Hardy, Brice Daniel Westring, Rachel T. Murdell, Eric Richard Bartsch
  • Publication number: 20030168751
    Abstract: A dispensing device for dispensing scents into the environment is disclosed. In one embodiment, the dispensing device is used in conjunction with an article of manufacture which contains one or more scents or aromatic materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2003
    Publication date: September 11, 2003
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Eric Richard Bartsch, Stephan Gary Bush, Brice Daniel Westring, Grover David Owens, Frank Andrej Kvietok, Michael Sean Farrell, Christophe Laudamiel-Pellet, Pedro Antonio Rodriguez, Toan Trinh, Kevin George Goodall, Carl Eric Kaiser
  • Patent number: 6581915
    Abstract: A dispensing device for dispensing scents into the environment is disclosed. In one embodiment, the dispensing device is used in conjunction with an article of manufacture which contains one or more scents or aromatic materials. In such an embodiment, the dispensing device can include a housing and a removable, reusable/replayable, closed, multiple scent-containing article of manufacture which is removably inserted into or onto said housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2003
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Eric Richard Bartsch, Stephan Gary Bush, Brice Daniel Westring, Grover David Owens, Frank Andrej Kvietok, Michael Sean Farrell, Christophe Laudemiel-Pellet, Pedro Antonio Rodriguez, Toan Trinh, Kevin George Goodall, Carl-Eric Kaiser
  • Publication number: 20020185420
    Abstract: A sprayer, which in one embodiment, is a hand held ergonomic sprayer is disclosed herein. The sprayer may include: a housing through which water flows; a handle for gripping by a user, which is joined to the housing; at least one spray nozzle operatively connected to the housing; and, a connection for a hose, the connection being joined to the housing. In one non-limiting embodiment, when the sprayer has one end of a water-filled hose connected thereto, the combination of the sprayer and suspended portion of the hose has a combined center of gravity that passes through the axis of the sprayer handle. The sprayers described herein may also have other features, and provide other benefits that do not require the sprayers to have an ergonomic design.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2001
    Publication date: December 12, 2002
    Inventors: Richard Lawrence Horstman, Eric Richard Bartsch, John Allen Wooton, Jonathan George Denham, John Edward Sheppard, Richard John Stevens, Ronald Howard Wanless
  • Patent number: 6459955
    Abstract: An autonomously movable cleaning robot comprising a platform and motive force to autonomously move the robot on a substantially horizontal surface having boundaries. The robot further has a computer processing unit for storing, receiving and transmitting data, and a cleaning implement operatively associated with the robot. The robot receives input data from an external source. The external source may be physical manipulation of the robot, remote control, or by triangulation from at least three external transmitters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Eric Richard Bartsch, Charles William Fisher, Paul Amaat France, James Frederick Kirkpatrick, Gary Gordon Heaton, Thomas Charles Hortel, Arseni Velerevich Radomyselski, James Randy Stigall
  • Publication number: 20020090317
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for deodorizing and/or freshening the air are disclosed. In one non-limiting embodiment, the apparatus includes one or more passive members and an air moving member. The passive member can be detachable from the air moving member and used separately as a passive filter member, if it contains a deodorizing substance, or as a passive emitting member, if it contains a substance to be emitted into the air. Numerous combinations of passive filter members and passive emitting members can be used with the air moving member, or as stand-alone members in the described methods. In other non-limiting embodiments, devices can be provided that both deodorize and emit substances into the air. Kits are also provided. The substances to be emitted may be arranged in various ways to improve the amount of exposed surface area of the substance to be emitted. Intensity controlling mechanisms are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2001
    Publication date: July 11, 2002
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Charles Michael Hardy, Kevin George Goodall, Jeffrey Donald Painter, Frank Andrej Kvietok, Eric Richard Bartsch
  • Publication number: 20020066967
    Abstract: A dispensing device for dispensing scents into the environment is disclosed. In one embodiment, the dispensing device is used in conjunction with an article of manufacture which contains one or more scents or aromatic materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2000
    Publication date: June 6, 2002
    Inventors: Eric Richard Bartsch, Stephan Gary Bush, Brice Daniel Westring, Grover David Owens, Frank Andrej Kvietok, Michael Sean Farrell, Christophe Laudemiel, Pedro Antonio Rodriguez, Toan Trinh, Kevin George Goodall, Carl Eric Kaiser
  • Publication number: 20020068010
    Abstract: Articles, systems and methods for dispensing multiple volatile materials into the environment, including but not limited to scents, are disclosed. Methods for providing volatile material-containing articles of manufacture are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2001
    Publication date: June 6, 2002
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Christophe Laudamiel-Pellet, Grover David Owens, Pedro Antonio Rodriguez, Frank Andrej Kvietok, Eric Richard Bartsch, Stephan Gary Bush, Brice Daniel Westring, Toan Trinh, Kevin George Goodall, Stephen Joseph Paljieg, Carl Eric Kaiser
  • Publication number: 20020068009
    Abstract: A system and methods for dispensing multiple scents into the environment, and for providing scent-containing articles of manufacture are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2000
    Publication date: June 6, 2002
    Inventors: Christophe Laudamiel-Pellet, Grover David Owens, Pedro Antonio Rodriguez, Frank Andrej Kvietok, Eric Richard Bartsch, Toan Trinh, Kevin George Goodall, Stephen Joseph Paljieg
  • Publication number: 20020066798
    Abstract: A multiple scent-containing article of manufacture for dispensing multiple scents into the environment wherein a number of the scents in the article are related to each other is disclosed. In one variation, the scents are selected from a group of different types of scents. In another variation, certain of the scents, or all of the scents, can be related to each other in that they share a common theme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2000
    Publication date: June 6, 2002
    Inventors: Christophe Laudamiel-Pellet, Grover David Owens, Pedro Antonio Rodriguez, Frank Andrej Kvietok, Eric Richard Bartsch, Toan Trinh, Kevin George Goodall
  • Publication number: 20020046969
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a spraying device suitable for spraying cleaning compositions and rinse water onto hard surfaces. More particularly the spraying device may be attached to a hose, for example a conventional garden hose, so that the cleaning composition and rinse water can be applied to outside surfaces, such as vehicles or the outside surface of windows. The spraying device comprises a purifier located inside the cavity of a container and a spray head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2001
    Publication date: April 25, 2002
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Eric Richard Bartsch, Henry Cheng Na, John Allen Wooton
  • Patent number: 5888398
    Abstract: A crown ether cesium ion extractant is disclosed as is its synthesis. The crown ether cesium ion extractant is useful for the selective purification of cesium ions from aqueous acidic media, and more particularly useful for the isolation of radioactive cesium-137 from nuclear waste streams. Processes for isolating cesium ions from aqueous acidic media using the crown ether cesium extractant are disclosed as are processes for recycling the crown ether cesium extractant and processes for recovering cesium from a crown ether cesium extractant solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Assignee: ARCH Development Corp.
    Inventors: Mark L. Dietz, E. Philip Horwitz, Richard A. Bartsch, Richard E. Barrans, Jr., David Rausch
  • Patent number: 5863439
    Abstract: A process for preconcentrating and separating radium from a contaminated solution containing at least water and radium includes the steps of adding a quantity of a water-soluble macrocyclic polyether to the contaminated solution to form a combined solution. An acid is added to the combined solution to form an acidic combined solution having an ?H.sup.+ ! concentration of about 0.5M. The acidic combined solution is contacted with a sulfonic acid-based strong acid cation exchange medium or a organophilic sulfonic acid medium having a plurality of binding sites thereon to bind the radium thereto and to form a radium-depleted solution. The radium-depleted solution is separated from the strong acid cation exchange medium or organophilic sulfonic acid medium. The radium remaining bound to the exchange medium or organophilic reagent is then stripped from the exchange medium or organophilic medium and the activity of the radium is measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1999
    Assignee: Arch Development Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Dietz, E. Philip Horwitz, Renato Chiarizia, Richard A. Bartsch
  • Patent number: 5670550
    Abstract: Anion exchange resins including at least two positively charged sites and a ell-defined spacing between the positive sites are provided together with a process of removing anions or anionic metal complexes from aqueous solutions by use of such resins. The resins can be substituted poly(vinylpyridine) and substituted polystyrene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 23, 1997
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California Office of Technology Transfer
    Inventors: Gordon D. Jarvinen, S. Fredric Marsh, Richard A. Bartsch
  • Patent number: 5478953
    Abstract: A process for preparing 4,4'(5')-[di-t-butyldicyclohexano]-18-crown-6 containing an enhanced amount of an isomer that extracts strontium ions from aqueous solution is disclosed. According to the process, an anhydrous reaction mixture is prepared containing 4,4'(5')-[di-t-butyldibenzo]-18-crown-6 as substrate dissolved in a C.sub.2 -C.sub.6 alcohol-containing solvent that can also contain benzene, toluene or xylene, a C.sub.2 -C.sub.6 carboxylic acid or anhydride and a 5 percent of rhodium on alumina particle catalyst. The resulting reaction medium is hydrogenated at about 200-1000 psi, at a temperature of about 35.degree.-120.degree. C. for a time period sufficient to reduce at least 90 percent of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 26, 1995
    Assignee: Eichrom Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael J. Gula, Richard A. Bartsch
  • Patent number: 4421923
    Abstract: There is provided a new class of crown ethers characterized by an --OH functional group attached to a carbon atom in the heterocyclic ether ring portion and derivatives thereof. A novel process for making such crown ethers is also provided which is characterized by reacting a bisphenol ether with an epihalohydrin to effect ring closure and provide the appendant --OH group.These products are especially useful as complexing agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1983
    Assignee: PCR Research Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard A. Bartsch
  • Patent number: D459950
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2002
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Stephan Gary Bush, Michael Sean Farrell, Brice Daniel Westring, Eric Richard Bartsch
  • Patent number: D427140
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2000
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Michael Hung-Tai Luh, Eric Richard Bartsch, Chow-Chi Huang, Naomi Ruth Nelson
  • Patent number: D428385
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2000
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Michael Hung-Tai Luh, Eric Richard Bartsch, Chow-Chi Huang, Naomi Ruth Nelson