Patents by Inventor Steven Kenneth Cook

Steven Kenneth Cook 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).

  • Cleaning Tablets or Water-Softening Tablets and their Manufacture
    Publication number: 20080136055
    Abstract: A method of making cleaning or water-softening tablets involves making a premix of cleaning or water-softening particulates and a lubricant, for example a sucrose ester or sorbitan ester; feeding the premix into a feed port of an extruder; feeding a binder, for example polyethylene glycol, into the extruder at or downstream of the feed port, the binder being a solid at room temperature but being mixed with the cleaning or water-softening particles as a liquid or becoming a liquid inside the extruder; and extruding the resulting mixture into strands which are separated into tablets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2004
    Publication date: June 12, 2008
    Applicant: Reckitt Benckiser (UK) Limited
    Inventors: Steven Kenneth Cook, Paul John Duffield, Kerry Anne Hough, Carl Richard Smith