Patents by Inventor Timothy Woodrow Coffindaffer
Timothy Woodrow Coffindaffer 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: 20070225193Abstract: An aerosol product comprises a foaming concentrate composition that comprises a surfactant and particulate material having a particle size of at least about 100 ?m. The foaming concentrate composition and propellant are contained in a package comprising a container and a powder valve comprising an orifice having an orifice diameter of at least about 660 ?m. Preferably, a ratio of the maximum particle size of the particulate material to the orifice diameter of the orifice is less than about 0.75.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2007Publication date: September 27, 2007Inventors: Dennis Eugene Kuhlman, Timothy Woodrow Coffindaffer
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Patent number: 7005410Abstract: The present invention relates to fabric care methods for restoring and/or rejuvenating color of worn, faded fabric, by applying to said fabric a fabric color care composition which comprises: water soluble and/or water dispersible polymers; surfactant capable of forming a bilayer structure; and mixtures thereof. Optionally, the composition can contain other ingredients to provide additionally fabric care benefits, and/or to improve performance and formulatability. The composition is preferably applied as small particle size droplets, especially from spray container that preferably are in association with a set of instructions for use.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2004Date of Patent: February 28, 2006Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Toan Trinh, Mary Vijayarani Barnabas, Eugene Paul Gosselink, John William Smith, Helen Bernardo Tordil, Robb Richard Gardner, Timothy Woodrow Coffindaffer
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Patent number: 6849584Abstract: The compositions of the present invention relate to personal cleansing compositions having from about 4% to about 50%, by weight, of a surfactant selected from the group consisting of an anionic, cationic, nonionic, amphoteric, and zwitterionic surfactants and mixtures thereof; from about 0.05% to about 10% by weight of a dispersed, water insoluble solid particles or solid, temperature stable particles; from about 0.025% to about 5% by weight of an organic, non crosslinked, cationic homopolymer or copolymer having a cationic charge density of from about 2 meq/gm to about 10 meq/gm and an average molecular weight of from about 1,000 to about 5,000,000; from about 0.1% to about 10%, by weight, of a phase separation initiator selected from the group consisting of electrolytes, amphiphiles and mixtures thereof; and from about 50% to about 95%, by weight, of water.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2002Date of Patent: February 1, 2005Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Nicholas William Geary, Timothy Woodrow Coffindaffer, Mark Anthony Brown, Magda El-Nokaly
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Publication number: 20040221397Abstract: The present invention relates to fabric care methods for restoring and/or rejuvenating color of worn, faded fabric, by applying to said fabric a fabric color care composition which comprises: water soluble and/or water dispersible polymers; surfactant capable of forming a bilayer structure; and mixtures thereof. Optionally, the composition can contain other ingredients to provide additionally fabric care benefits, and/or to improve performance and formulatability. The composition is preferably applied as small particle size droplets, especially from spray container that preferably are in association with a set of instructions for use.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2004Publication date: November 11, 2004Inventors: Toan Trinh, Mary Vijayarani Barnabas, Eugene Paul Gosselink, John William Smith, Helen Bernardo Tordil, Robb Richard Gardner, Timothy Woodrow Coffindaffer
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Patent number: 6790819Abstract: The present invention relates to fabric care methods for restoring and/or rejuvenating color of worn, faded fabric, by applying to said fabric a fabric color care composition which comprises: water soluble and/or water dispersible polymers; surfactant capable of forming a bilayer structure; and mixtures thereof. Optionally, the composition can contain other ingredients to provide additionally fabric care benefits, and/or to improve performance and formulability. The composition is preferably applied as small particle size droplets, especially from spray container that preferably are in association with a set of instructions for use.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2001Date of Patent: September 14, 2004Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Toan Trinh, Mary Vijayarani Barnabas, Eugene Paul Gosselink, John William Smith, Helen Bernardo Tordil, Robb Richard Gardner, Timothy Woodrow Coffindaffer
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Publication number: 20030223951Abstract: Disclosed are aqueous conditioning shampoo compositions which comprise an anionic detersive surfactant component; from about 0.025% to about 5% by weight of an water soluble or dispersible, cationic, non crosslinked, deposition or conditioning polymer; the conditioning shampoo may additionally comprise dispersed, liquid, droplets of a water insoluble, hair conditioning agent having a volume average particle diameter of from about 5 microns to about 125 microns. A homopolymer has a cationic charge density from about from about 2 meq/gm to about 4 meq/gm or a cationic charge density of from about 5 meq/gm to about 10 meq/gm; or an average molecular weight of at least 500,000. A copolymer is formed from one or more cationic monomer units and one or more nonionic monomer units or monomer units bearing a negative charge wherein the subsequent charge of the copolymer is positive.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2003Publication date: December 4, 2003Applicant: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Nicholas William Geary, Kendrick Jon Hughes, Mark Anthony Brown, Timothy Woodrow Coffindaffer, Afua Asiedua Asante, Robert Lee Wells
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Patent number: 6627184Abstract: Disclose are aqueous conditioning shampoo compositions comprising from about 5% to about 50% by weight of an anionic detersive surfactant component selected from the group consisting of anionic surfactants, zwitterionic or amphoteric surfactants having an attached group that is anionic at the pH of the composition, and combinations thereof, from about 0.025% to about 3% by weight of an organic, cationic, hair conditioning polymer, from about 0.05% to about 3% by weight of an organic, water-insoluble, polyalphaolefin conditioning polymer derived from 1-alkene monomers having from about 4 to about 16 carbon atoms, wherein the polyalphaolefin polymer has a viscosity of from about 1 to about 300 centipoise as measured at 40° C.; and from about 20% to about 94% by weight of water. The select polyalphaolefin polymers provide the shampoo composition with improved conditioning performance.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2003Date of Patent: September 30, 2003Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Timothy Woodrow Coffindaffer, Everett Junior Inman
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Publication number: 20030133894Abstract: Disclose are aqueous conditioning shampoo compositions comprising from about 5% to about 50% by weight of an anionic detersive surfactant component selected from the group consisting of anionic surfactants, zwitterionic or amphoteric surfactants having an attached group that is anionic at the pH of the composition, and combinations thereof; from about 0.025% to about 3% by weight of an organic, cationic, hair conditioning polymer, from about 0.05% to about 3% by weight of an organic, water-insoluble, polyalphaolefin conditioning polymer derived from 1-alkene monomers having from about 4 to about 16 carbon atoms, wherein the polyalphaolefin polymer has a viscosity of from about 1 to about 300 centipoise as measured at 40° C.; and from about 20% to about 94% by weight of water. The select polyalphaolefin polymers provide the shampoo composition with improved conditioning performance.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2003Publication date: July 17, 2003Inventors: Timothy Woodrow Coffindaffer, Everett Junior Inman
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Publication number: 20030134759Abstract: The compositions of the present invention relate to personal cleansing compositions having from about 4% to about 50%, by weight, of a surfactant selected from the group consisting of an anionic, cationic, nonionic, amphoteric, and zwitterionic surfactants and mixtures thereof; from about 0.05% to about 10% by weight of a dispersed, water insoluble solid particles or solid, temperature stable particles; from about 0.025% to about 5% by weight of an organic, non crosslinked, cationic homopolymer or copolymer having a cationic charge density of from about 2 meq/gm to about 10 meq/gm and an average molecular weight of from about 1,000 to about 5,000,000; from about 0.1% to about 10%, by weight, of a phase separation initiator selected from the group consisting of electrolytes, amphiphiles and mixtures thereof; and from about 50% to about 95%, by weight, of water.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2002Publication date: July 17, 2003Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Co.Inventors: Nicholas William Geary, Timothy Woodrow Coffindaffer, Mark Anthony Brown
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Patent number: 6472355Abstract: A rinse-off liquid personal cleansing composition comprises water, from about 1% to about 60% by weight of a watersoluble surfactant, and a water-insoluble oil corresponding to the formula: wherein R1 is H or C1-C20 alkyl, R4 is C1-C20 alkyl, R2 is H or C1-C20 alkyl, and R3 is C5-C20 alkyl, n is an integer from 0 to 3, and m is an integer from 1 to 1000, and having a number average molecular weight of from about 1,000 to about 25,000. The personal cleansing compositions of the invention provide excellent rinse feel and are exceptionally mild to the skin.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2000Date of Patent: October 29, 2002Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Russell Philip Elliott, Nicola Jacqueline Phipps, Timothy Woodrow Coffindaffer
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Publication number: 20020128162Abstract: A rinse off liquid personal cleansing composition comprising water from about 1 % to about 60% by weight of a water-soluble surfactant and a water-insoluble oil selected from (a) highly branched polyalphaolefins having formula (I), wherein R 1 is H or C 1 -C 20 alkyl, R 4 is C 1 -C 20 alkyl R 2 is H or C 1 -C 20 , and R 3 is C 5 -C 20, n is an integer from 0 to 3 and m is an integer of from 1 to 1000 and having a number average molecular weight of from about 1000 to about 25,000. The personal cleansing compositions of the invention provide excellent rinse feel and skin mildness.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2000Publication date: September 12, 2002Inventors: RUSSELL PHILIP ELLIOTT, NICOLA JACQUELINE PHIPPS, TIMOTHY WOODROW COFFINDAFFER
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Patent number: 6444629Abstract: A rinse-off liquid personal cleansing composition comprising surfactant and water wherein the composition comprises less than 8% of a first surfactant selected from a crystallizing anionic surfactant and greater than 3% of a second surfactant selected from non-crystalizing anionic surfactants, amphoteric surfactants, nonionic surfactants, zwitterionic surfactants, and mixtures thereof, and wherein the composition has a Mean Rinse Feel Value of 3.5 or less as measured by the Rinse Feel Panel Test. The personal cleansing compositions of the invention provide excellent rinse feels and skin mildness.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2000Date of Patent: September 3, 2002Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Russell Philip Elliott, Nicola Jacqueline Phipps, Timothy Woodrow Coffindaffer
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Publication number: 20020112293Abstract: The present invention relates to fabric care methods for restoring and/or rejuvenating color of worn, faded fabric, by applying to said fabric a fabric color care composition which comprises: water soluble and/or water dispersible polymers; surfactant capable of forming a bilayer structure; and mixtures thereof. Optionally, the composition can contain other ingredients to provide additionally fabric care benefits, and/or to improve performance and formulatability. The composition is preferably applied as small particle size droplets, especially from spray container that preferably are in association with a set of instructions for use.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2001Publication date: August 22, 2002Applicant: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Toan Trinh, Mary Vijayarani Barnabas, Eugene Paul Gosselink, John William Smith, Helen Bernardo Tordil, Robb Richard Gardner, Timothy Woodrow Coffindaffer
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Patent number: 6335312Abstract: This invention relates to personal cleansing products which include mid-chain branched surfactants.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2000Date of Patent: January 1, 2002Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Timothy Woodrow Coffindaffer, Phillip Kyle Vinson, Thomas Anthony Cripe, Anthony Charles Lanzalaco, Robert Emerson Stidham, Daniel Stedman Connor
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Patent number: 6221817Abstract: Disclosed are aqueous hair conditioning shampoo compositions comprising a specific surfactant component comprising an ethoxylated alkyl sulfate surfactant having from about 1 to about 8 moles of ethoxylation and an amphoteric surfactant in a shampoo with insoluble, dispersed conditioning agent, a low viscosity organic conditioning oil and a select soluble cellulosic cationic organic polymer hair conditioning agent.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 1996Date of Patent: April 24, 2001Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Susan Marie Guskey, Timothy Woodrow Coffindaffer, Elizabeth Murphy Schrader, Robert Lee Wells, John Thomas Baravetto
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Patent number: 6200554Abstract: Disclosed are conditioning shampoo compositions which provide improved hair or skin conditioning performance. These compositions comprise a detersive surfactant, select ethoxylated fatty alcohols having a fatty alcohol moiety containing from about 6 to about 30 carbon atoms and an ethoxylate chain containing from about 5 to about 150 moles of ethoxylation, a nonvolatile conditioning agent, preferably a nonvolatile silicone conditioning agent, having an average particle size of from about 5 um to about 2000 um, and water. The select ethoxylated fatty alcohols provide improved hair or skin conditioning by improving silicone deposition of large particle conditioning agents onto the hair or skin.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 1996Date of Patent: March 13, 2001Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Thean Yeow Yeoh, Timothy Woodrow Coffindaffer, Hirotaka Uchiyama, John Gregory Schroeder, Yoshinari Okuyama
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Patent number: 6174522Abstract: Disclosed are aqueous conditioning shampoo compositions containing a surfactant component in a shampoo with a particulate insoluble, dispersed, nonvolatile conditioning agent having a dual particle size range, suspending agent and a deposition polymer.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 1999Date of Patent: January 16, 2001Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: John Thomas Baravetto, Elizabeth Murphy Schrader, Timothy Woodrow Coffindaffer, Susan Marie Guskey
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Patent number: 6007802Abstract: Disclosed are aqueous hair conditioning shampoo compositions comprising a specific surfactant component comprising an ethoxylated alkyl sulfate surfactant having from about 1 to about 8 moles of ethoxylation and an amphoteric surfactant in a shampoo with insoluble, dispersed conditioning agent, select esters and a select soluble cellulosic cationic organic polymer hair conditioning agent.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 1996Date of Patent: December 28, 1999Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Co.Inventors: Timothy Woodrow Coffindaffer, Everett Junior Inman, Susan Marie Guskey, Elizabeth Murphy Schrader, Robert Lee Wells, John Thomas Baravetto
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Patent number: 6004544Abstract: Disclosed are aqueous conditioning shampoo compositions containing a surfactant component in a shampoo with a particulate insoluble, dispersed, non-volatile conditioning agent having a particle size range of less than about 0.15 microns, crystalline agent and a deposition polymer.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 1996Date of Patent: December 21, 1999Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Co.Inventors: Elizabeth Murphy Schrader, Timothy Woodrow Coffindaffer, Bruce Homan Caldwell
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Patent number: 5980877Abstract: Disclosed are aqueous conditioning shampoo compositions containing a surfactant component in a shampoo with a particulate insoluble, dispersed, non-volatile conditioning agent having a dual particle size range, suspending agent and a deposition polymer.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 1996Date of Patent: November 9, 1999Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: John Thomas Baravetto, Elizabeth Murphy Schrader, Timothy Woodrow Coffindaffer, Susan Marie Guskey