Joseph M Gaines

US Patent:

8641311, Feb 4, 2014

Filed:

Oct 11, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/901804

Inventors:

Kerry Andrew Vetter - Cincinnati OH, US
Hirotaka Uchiyama - Loveland OH, US
Glenn Allen Bradbury - Mason OH, US
Adam Robert-George Shafer - Cincinnati OH, US
Joseph Michael Gaines - Cincinnati OH, US
Gregory Clegg Spooner - Hong Kong, CN

Assignee:

The Procter & Gamble Company - Cincinnati OH

International Classification:

B05C 21/00
B43K 5/00

US Classification:

401196, 1510493, 1510494

Abstract:

A unit dose for cleaning an unsanitary surface, such as a toilet bowl. The unit dose comprises a water dispersible shell containing granules defining a core. The granules obviate the need for sheet material in the unit dose and provide cleaning efficacy when submerged.

US Patent:

20090088519, Apr 2, 2009

Filed:

Oct 1, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/906240

Inventors:

Janese Christine O'Brien Stickney - Wyoming OH, US
Jeffrey Lee Butterbaugh - Cincinnati OH, US
Steven Baldwin McGowan - Cincinnati OH, US
Joseph Michael Gaines - Cincinnati OH, US

International Classification:

C08L 31/02

US Classification:

524556

Abstract:

An easily spreadable furniture polish composition that provides dusting benefits and imparts shine with minimal residue to a surface to be treated. The furniture polish composition includes a film former, an aqueous carrier, an anionic associative polymer free of acrylates/C10-C30 alkyl acrylate crosspolymers, and is substantially free of organic solvents. In one embodiment, the anionic associative polymer is a hydrophobically-modified alkali-soluble emulsion polymer.

US Patent:

20120246850, Oct 4, 2012

Filed:

Mar 28, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/073274

Inventors:

Joseph Michael Gaines - Cincinnati OH, US
Hirotaka Uchiyama - Loveland OH, US

International Classification:

A47L 13/17
A47L 13/10
B08B 1/00

US Classification:

1510493, 152444

Abstract:

A head for cleaning a target surface, such as a toilet bowl. The head has a longitudinal axis and comprises a starch based material. The material may be provided as a sheet, and formed to make a generally round head or a head of laminae. The head may optionally contain granules, which optionally define a core and improve the stiffness of the head. The starch based material may be extruded to have a machine direction oriented in the longitudinal direction of the cleaning device.

US Patent:

20120246853, Oct 4, 2012

Filed:

Mar 28, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/073308

Inventors:

Hirotaka Uchiyama - Loveland OH, US
Joseph Michael Gaines - Cincinnati OH, US
Kerry Andrew Vetter - Cincinnati OH, US
Glenn Allen Bradbury - Mason OH, US

International Classification:

A47L 25/00

US Classification:

1510494, 1510493

Abstract:

A head for cleaning a target surface, such as a toilet bowl. The head has a longitudinal axis and comprises a starch based material. The material may be provided as a sheet, and formed to make a generally round head or a head of laminae. The head may optionally contain granules, which optionally define a core and improve the stiffness of the head. The starch based material may be extruded to have a machine direction oriented in the longitudinal direction of the cleaning device.

US Patent:

20120246854, Oct 4, 2012

Filed:

Mar 28, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/073346

Inventors:

Hirotaka Uchiyama - Loveland OH, US
Joseph Michael Gaines - Cincinnati OH, US
Kerry Andrew Vetter - Cincinnati OH, US
Glenn Allen Bradbury - Mason OH, US

International Classification:

A47L 25/00

US Classification:

1510494, 1510493

Abstract:

A head for cleaning a target surface, such as a toilet bowl. The head has a longitudinal axis and comprises a starch based material. The material may be provided as a sheet, and formed to make a generally round head or a head of laminae. The head may optionally contain granules, which optionally define a core and improve the stiffness of the head. The starch based material may be extruded to have a machine direction oriented in the longitudinal direction of the cleaning device.

US Patent:

20230092174, Mar 23, 2023

Filed:

Aug 2, 2022

Appl. No.:

17/878947

Inventors:

- Cincinnati OH, US
Paul Martin LIPIC - West Chester OH, US
Klaus Juergen VOLLMER - Cincinnati OH, US
Joseph Michael GAINES - Cincinnati OH, US
Rajesh Kant MISHRA - Mason OH, US

International Classification:

A61K 8/02
A61Q 9/02
A61K 8/41

Abstract:

Active agent-containing fibrous elements and/or articles, and more particularly to water-insoluble fibrous elements and/or water-insoluble articles, for example consumable, single use water-insoluble articles such as shave prep articles including one or more active agents, for example one or more fatty amphiphiles and one or more cationic surfactants, and one or more auxiliary ingredients, for example structurants, fibrous elements containing such active agents and auxiliary ingredients, methods for making such articles and fibrous elements, and methods of using such articles are provided.

US Patent:

20140290694, Oct 2, 2014

Filed:

Mar 21, 2014

Appl. No.:

14/221307

Inventors:

- Cincinnati OH, US
Joseph Michael GAINES - Cincinnati OH, US
Mimi Gizaw DANIEL - Cincinnati OH, US
Roberto Manuel MATOS - Cincinnati OH, US

Assignee:

The Procter & Gamble Company - Cincinnati OH

International Classification:

C11D 3/22
C11D 1/12

US Classification:

134 6, 510470, 510493, 510495

Abstract:

Cleaning compositions for cleaning debris from a hard surface are described herein, the cleaning compositions include from about 0.001% to about 1% by weight of the composition of a thickener and from about 0.1% to about 50% by weight of the composition of an alkyl sulfate detergent surfactant that contains about 8 carbon atoms on the average, with substantially all of the alkyl groups having within two carbon atoms of the 8 average carbon atoms. They are high sudsing, have excellent soap scum removal and hard water deposit removal properties and are easy to rinse. A sprayer, methods of use and kits are also disclosed.