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).

  • Publication number: 20070225193
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Publication date: September 27, 2007
    Inventors: Dennis Eugene Kuhlman, Timothy Woodrow Coffindaffer
  • Patent number: 7005410
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Toan Trinh, Mary Vijayarani Barnabas, Eugene Paul Gosselink, John William Smith, Helen Bernardo Tordil, Robb Richard Gardner, Timothy Woodrow Coffindaffer
  • Patent number: 6849584
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2005
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Nicholas William Geary, Timothy Woodrow Coffindaffer, Mark Anthony Brown, Magda El-Nokaly
  • Publication number: 20040221397
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2004
    Publication date: November 11, 2004
    Inventors: Toan Trinh, Mary Vijayarani Barnabas, Eugene Paul Gosselink, John William Smith, Helen Bernardo Tordil, Robb Richard Gardner, Timothy Woodrow Coffindaffer
  • Patent number: 6790819
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2004
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Toan Trinh, Mary Vijayarani Barnabas, Eugene Paul Gosselink, John William Smith, Helen Bernardo Tordil, Robb Richard Gardner, Timothy Woodrow Coffindaffer
  • Publication number: 20030223951
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2003
    Publication date: December 4, 2003
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Nicholas William Geary, Kendrick Jon Hughes, Mark Anthony Brown, Timothy Woodrow Coffindaffer, Afua Asiedua Asante, Robert Lee Wells
  • Patent number: 6627184
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2003
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Timothy Woodrow Coffindaffer, Everett Junior Inman
  • Publication number: 20030133894
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2003
    Publication date: July 17, 2003
    Inventors: Timothy Woodrow Coffindaffer, Everett Junior Inman
  • Publication number: 20030134759
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2002
    Publication date: July 17, 2003
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Co.
    Inventors: Nicholas William Geary, Timothy Woodrow Coffindaffer, Mark Anthony Brown
  • Patent number: 6472355
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2002
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Russell Philip Elliott, Nicola Jacqueline Phipps, Timothy Woodrow Coffindaffer
  • Publication number: 20020128162
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2000
    Publication date: September 12, 2002
    Inventors: RUSSELL PHILIP ELLIOTT, NICOLA JACQUELINE PHIPPS, TIMOTHY WOODROW COFFINDAFFER
  • Patent number: 6444629
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Russell Philip Elliott, Nicola Jacqueline Phipps, Timothy Woodrow Coffindaffer
  • Publication number: 20020112293
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2001
    Publication date: August 22, 2002
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Toan Trinh, Mary Vijayarani Barnabas, Eugene Paul Gosselink, John William Smith, Helen Bernardo Tordil, Robb Richard Gardner, Timothy Woodrow Coffindaffer
  • Patent number: 6335312
    Abstract: This invention relates to personal cleansing products which include mid-chain branched surfactants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2002
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Timothy Woodrow Coffindaffer, Phillip Kyle Vinson, Thomas Anthony Cripe, Anthony Charles Lanzalaco, Robert Emerson Stidham, Daniel Stedman Connor
  • Patent number: 6221817
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Susan Marie Guskey, Timothy Woodrow Coffindaffer, Elizabeth Murphy Schrader, Robert Lee Wells, John Thomas Baravetto
  • Patent number: 6200554
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2001
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Thean Yeow Yeoh, Timothy Woodrow Coffindaffer, Hirotaka Uchiyama, John Gregory Schroeder, Yoshinari Okuyama
  • Patent number: 6174522
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2001
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: John Thomas Baravetto, Elizabeth Murphy Schrader, Timothy Woodrow Coffindaffer, Susan Marie Guskey
  • Patent number: 6007802
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1999
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Co.
    Inventors: Timothy Woodrow Coffindaffer, Everett Junior Inman, Susan Marie Guskey, Elizabeth Murphy Schrader, Robert Lee Wells, John Thomas Baravetto
  • Patent number: 6004544
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1999
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Co.
    Inventors: Elizabeth Murphy Schrader, Timothy Woodrow Coffindaffer, Bruce Homan Caldwell
  • Patent number: 5980877
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: John Thomas Baravetto, Elizabeth Murphy Schrader, Timothy Woodrow Coffindaffer, Susan Marie Guskey