The Procter Gamble Company

Ke-ming Quan

Robert Wayne Glenn, Jr

Raul Victorino Nunes

Francesc Corominas

Alessandro Corona, Iii

Yonas Gizaw

Matthew Lawrence Lynch

Marc Johan Declercq

Hugo Jean Marie Demeyere

Aleksey Mikhailovich Pinyayev

Alice Marie Ward

Vesselin N Shanov

Eric Shawn Goudy

Todd Ryan Thompson

Eric Paul Granberg

Ivan Maurice Alfons Jan Herbots

Paul Alfred Cimiluca

John Philip Hecht

Yunpeng Yang

Lowen Robert Morrison

Jason Donald McCarty

Erich William Gansmuller

Andreas Leopold

Kenny Peers

Vesselin Nikolov Shanov

A fluid filling apparatus for filling containers with a fluid is provided. An ultrasonic frequency is used to vibrate a filling nozzle between successive container filling cycles. The vibrations break a liquid string filament formed at a discharge end of the filling nozzle at the end of each filling cycle. Methods and a fluid filling nozzle for filling containers with a fluid are also provided.

Fluid filling nozzle, apparatus, and method of filling a container with a fluid

The present invention is to process of making a liquid fabric softening composition using shear, turbulence and/or cavitation, but which requires lower operating pressures than conventional shear, turbulence and/or cavitation processes.

Method of producing a fabric softening composition

An apparatus and method for mixing by producing shear and/or cavitation, and components for the apparatus are disclosed. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a mixing and/or cavitation chamber with an element such as an orifice component that is located adjacent the entrance of the cavitation chamber. The apparatus may further include a blade, such as a knife-like blade, disposed inside the mixing and/or cavitation chamber opposite the orifice component. In one version of such an embodiment, at least some of the portions of the orifice component surrounding the orifice and/or the blade are made of a material or materials that have a Vickers hardness of greater than or equal to about 20 GPa. A process for mixing by producing shear and/or cavitation in a fluid is also contemplated herein.

Apparatus and method for mixing by producing shear and/or cavitation, and components for apparatus

An apparatus and method for mixing by producing shear and/or cavitation, and components for the apparatus are disclosed. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a mixing and/or cavitation chamber with an element such as an orifice component that is located adjacent the entrance of the cavitation chamber. The apparatus may further include a blade, such as a knife-like blade, disposed inside the mixing and/or cavitation chamber opposite the orifice component. In one version of such an embodiment, the apparatus is configured to be cleaned in place. The apparatus may, be provided with at least one drain in liquid communication with the mixing chamber. If the apparatus comprises a blade, the apparatus may further include a blade holder that is movable so that the distance between the tip of the blade and the discharge of the orifice can be varied. In this or other embodiments, the apparatus is configured to be scalable. In this, or other embodiments, the apparatus is provided with an injector that is movable so that the distance between the discharge end of the injector and the orifice can be adjusted. A process for mixing by producing shear and/or cavitation in a fluid is also contemplated herein.

A fabric enhancer comprising: at least one fabric softening active, wherein said at least one fabric softening active comprises a plurality of particles comprising an intensity weighted particle size distribution wherein greater than about 95% of said plurality of particles have a size below about 170 nm.

Clear and/or translucent fabric enhancers comprising nano-sized particles

A fabric enhancing composition comprising: at least one fabric softening active, wherein said fabric softening active comprises a plurality of particles comprising a intensity weighted particle size distribution wherein at least about 50% said particles have a particle size below about 170 nm.

Fabric enhancing compositions comprising nano-sized particles and anionic detergent carry over tolerance

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West Chester, OH, United States of America

Ke-ming Quan