Having Discrete Indentation Or Protuberance Patents (Class 510/449)
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Patent number: 8906839Abstract: Solid block alkaline detergent compositions are disclosed comprising a source of alkalinity, and other detergent additives including sequestrants. The solid block detergents of the invention used a mixed inorganic and organic sequestrant composition that successfully softens service water used in manufacturing aqueous detergents from the composition, but also obtains substantially improved organic soil removal on dishware or flatware. The solid block detergents of the invention comprise large masses of the chemical ingredients having a weight of greater than about 500 grams in a solid block product format that is typically dispensed using a spray on water dispenser that creates an aqueous concentrate that is used in a washing machine.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2010Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.Inventors: Steven E. Lentsch, Keith E. Olson
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Publication number: 20140105946Abstract: An article that is a porous, dissolvable solid structure that dissolves easily due to the shape, product orientation and/or method of manufacturing the porous, dissolvable solid structure. The process of making the Article involves preparing a pre-mixture, aerating the pre-mixture, dosing the pre-mixture into individual cavities in molds, and drying the pre-mixture to an Article having an open celled foam with a % open cell of from about 80% to about 100%.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2013Publication date: April 17, 2014Applicant: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Robert Wayne Glenn, JR., Eric Paul Granberg, Lynn Kristin Stechschuite, Matthew Steven Ritter, Jason Donald McCarty, Michael Edward Thomas, Todd Ryan Thompson, Jay Ryan Tenkman, Emily Ragland Muszynski, Dale Francis Bittner, Nathan Alan Gill
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Publication number: 20120071387Abstract: A soap saver comprises an original soap bar and a soap fragment. The original soap bar comprises a cavity. The cavity comprises a predetermined shape, a cavity wall, and a cavity bottom surface. The cavity wall will be a continuous wall and will be connected to the cavity bottom surface. The cavity wall will have a smooth surface around the wall. The cavity bottom surface will not be a smooth surface. The soap fragment will be inserted into the cavity so the soap fragment can be reused with the original soap bar. Water will combined both the soap fragment and the original soap bar together.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2011Publication date: March 22, 2012Inventor: Harold Walter AESCH, JR.
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Publication number: 20090192070Abstract: A cleansing bar includes a surfactant-containing body, which includes a top surface, a bottom surface that is substantially opposite to the top surface, first and second ends, and first and second sides extending horizontally and meeting at the first and second ends to together define a perimeter around the cleansing bar between the top and bottom surfaces. A first horizontally-extending groove is formed in at least the first side surface. According to one embodiment, the first horizontally-extending groove extends only partially between the first and second ends. A second horizontally-extending groove is formed in the second side surface, and also extends only partially between the first and second ends. According to another embodiment, the first horizontally-extending groove is further formed around the first and second ends and in the second side surface to encircle the cleansing bar.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2008Publication date: July 30, 2009Inventors: Feng Feng, David Kusch, Jonathan Sundy, Marc Hunter, Bryce Rutter, Robert Dail
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Publication number: 20080214430Abstract: An extruded and stamped personal washing bar comprising an artisan crafted appearance having top and bottom stamped faces bounded by a parting line or edge band and a horizontal plane intersecting the parting line or edge band, said bar further comprising an outer surfactant phase and a substantially contiguous inner vein comprising a thermoplastic mass, wherein said inner vein is located between the top and bottom stamped faces of the bar and wherein a projection of the inner vein onto the horizontal plane intersecting the parting line or edge band has a maximum width that is at least 20% of a maximum width of the bar in said horizontal plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2007Publication date: September 4, 2008Inventors: Pedro Marques da Silva, Katia Cristina Baquete
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Patent number: 6737390Abstract: Laundry detergent or cleaning product shaped bodies which comprise two or more noncompressed parts.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2001Date of Patent: May 18, 2004Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf AktienInventors: Matthias Sunder, Rolf Bayersdoerfer, Bernd Richter, Hans-Friedrich Kruse, Markus Semrau, Thomas Holderbaum
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Patent number: 6730642Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for making a multiphase personal wash bar having artisan crafted appearance. The bars are made by combining the second solid mass phase to a first continuous phase wherein the hardness of the second phase is at least twice the hardness of noodles forming the continuous phase.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2003Date of Patent: May 4, 2004Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, a division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Michael Paul Aronson, Badreddine Ahtchi-Ali, Sergio Roberto Leopoldino, Gregory Jay Mc Fann, Mariangela Gomes de Oliveira Sichmann
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Patent number: 6727211Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of cleansing and moisturizing skin using multiphase extruded soap bar achieving hardness of a discontinuous phase is at least two times the hardness of a continuous phase in which it is found.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2003Date of Patent: April 27, 2004Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Michael Paul Aronson, Badreddine Ahtchi-Ali, Sergio Roberto Leopoldino, Gregory Jay McFann, Mariangela Gomes De Oliveira Sichmann
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Patent number: 6723690Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for making a multiphase personal wash bar having artisan crafted appearance. The bars are made by combining the second solid mass phase to a first continuous phase wherein the hardness of the second phase is at least twice the hardness of noodles forming the continuous phase.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2003Date of Patent: April 20, 2004Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Michael Paul Aronson, Badreddine Ahtchi-Ali, Sergio Roberto Leopoldino, Gregory Jay Mc Fann, Mariangela Gomes De Oliveira Sichmann
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Patent number: 6503876Abstract: This invention relates to laundry detergent products, such as heavy duty aqueous and/or non-aqueous and/or gelled liquid laundry detergents and granular and/or powder laundry detergents, which include one or more low density particles and one or more particulate solids, such as enzymes, bleaching agents, builders, chelants, alkalinity sources, anti-redeposition agents, catalysts, surfactants, and other detergent ingredients, and optionally one or more conventional cleaning adjunct materials.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2001Date of Patent: January 7, 2003Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventor: Walter August Maria Broeckx
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Publication number: 20020147125Abstract: A method is provided for producing a tablet, especially a detergent tablet, which includes at least one first and one second layer. The method comprises the following steps: (a) introducing a first metered quantity of a first particulate composition into a molding cavity of a tablet press; (b) compacting the first metered quantity with a first mold pressure by means of a molding punch that has at least one convexity on its pressing surface, to produce a first compacted layer that has one or more respective indentations in its upper surface that corresponds to a convexity/convexities on the molding punch; (c) introducing a second metered quantity of a second particulate composition into the molding cavity of the tablet press on top of the first compacted layer; and (d) compacting the second metered quantity with a second mold pressure by means of a molding punch, to produce a second compacted layer with one or more respective indentations in its upper surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2001Publication date: October 10, 2002Applicant: Reckitt Benckiser N.V.Inventors: Wilfried Hoflinger, Laurence Geret, Brigitte Sandmann, Ralf Wiedemann
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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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Publication number: 20010009892Abstract: Washing tablets of compacted particulate washing composition are marked with indicia on their surfaces, the indicia preferably being of a contrasting color. Processes for applying the markings are also described, as is a combination of the marked tablets with a packaging system.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2000Publication date: July 26, 2001Inventor: Judith Maria Bonsall
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Patent number: 6248704Abstract: A composition for the cleaning of residues from substrates from about 0.01 percent by weight to about 5 percent by weight of one or more fluoride compounds, from about 20 percent by weight to about 50 percent by weight water, from about 20 percent by weight to about 80 percent by weight of an organic amide solvent and from 0 to about 50 weight percent of an organic sulfoxide solvent. The composition has a pH between about 7 and about 10. Additionally, the composition optionally contains corrosion inhibitors, chelating agents, surfactants, acids and bases. In use of the composition, a substrate is contacted with the composition for a time and at a temperature that permits cleaning of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 1999Date of Patent: June 19, 2001Assignee: EKC Technology, Inc.Inventors: Robert J. Small, Jun Cheng, Taishih Maw
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Patent number: 5965501Abstract: The present invention relates to bar compositions in which an emollient composition comprising thickened entrapped emollient is added to a base bar composition at or during time of extrusion to form macroscopic, concentrated domains of emollient droplets. Addition of entrapped droplets allows far greater deposition than if the non-trapped emollients had been mixed in directly to form chips which are then extruded to form final bar.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 1997Date of Patent: October 12, 1999Assignee: Lever Brothers Company, Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Gail Beth Rattinger, Georgia Shafer, James Dalton, Michael Massaro, Harry Crookham, Michael Aronson, Terence Farrell
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Patent number: 5536433Abstract: A cake of soap (10) provided with a cavity (12) for receiving a remnant of soap, the cavity (12) extends into the interior region of the cake of soap (10).Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 1994Date of Patent: July 16, 1996Inventor: Emmanuel J. De Gaye