The Procter Gamble Company

Unicharm Corporation

The Proctor 'Gamble Company

The Procter & Gamble

The Prcoter & Gamble Company

Bissell Homecare, Inc.

Bissell Inc.

The Procter & Gamble Company

Yoshinori Tanaka

Nicola John Policicchio

Andrea Pfarr Switzer

Akemi Tsuchiya

Alan Edward Sherry

Saeed Fereshtehkhou

Paul Joseph Russo

Kenneth William Willman

Wilbur Cecil Strickland, Jr

Rhonda Jean Jackson

William Michael Cannon

Toan Trinh

Ann Margaret Wolff

Larry Leroy Huston

Mary Vijayarani Barnabas

Joseph Paul Morelli

Stefano Scialla

Steven Daryl Smith

Hugh Joseph O'Donnell

David John Pung

Yonas Gizaw

Richard Christopher Hagee

Mark John Steinhardt

Vincent Sean Breidenbach

David John Hoying

Matthew Scott Wagner

Peter Herbert Koenig

Faiz Feisal Sherman

Dana Paul Gruenbacher

Phillip Kyle Vinson

David William Schuller

Philip Andrew Sawin

Diana W Juratovac

Gayle Marie Frankenbach

Stephan Gary Bush

Thomas Elliot Rabe

Yousef Georges Aouad

Kerry Lloyd Weaver

Richard Lee Lane

Ryan Robert Berger

Brian David Andres

Gregory Clegg Spooner

Robert Allen Godfroid

Hailing Bao

Preston James Rhamy

Michael William Dusing

Brian Lee Keith

Jeffrey Lawrence Flora

Cynthia Elaine Cella

Kuang-kai Liu

Paul John Edward Vernon

Terra Louise Dent

Nayda Liz Ramos Medina

Steven Allen Holt

Widalys Luz De Soto-Burt

Roy Jerome Harrington

Jeffrey Len Osborne

Agnes Elaine Wells

Patricia R Soll

Edward Philip Allie

Edward Phillip Allie

Fernando Ray Tollens

Adrian Benton James

Christopher Miles Miller

Glenn Allen Bradbury

John Charles Van Rens

Rafael Ortiz

Neil John Rogers

Ronald Anthony Masters

Michael Stephen Maile

Kenton Ray Lynde

Samuel Njoroge

Jamesina Anne Fitzgerald

Christopher Todd Morrissey

Jonathan Joseph Powell

Todd Michael Wernicke

Antonius Lambertus De Beer

Francis Cornelio Ford

Victoria Jung

Kevin Rodgers

Daniel Wayne Michael

Melinda Phyllis Steffey

Christine Marie Kurjan

David Keith Dycher

Benjamin Patrick Hale

Massimo Morini

Jeremy Michael Carter

Louise Gail Scott

Peter Rosalia Geboes

Ranier Bernhard Teufel

Leonard Lik-Hang Tse

Ted De Castro

Kenneth Lee Morand

Jason Michael Knight

Philip S Johnson

Vincent Reniers

Bengt Ivar Anders Ivarsson

William Fraser Gwynfor Jones

Molly Pelon Bohlen

David Calvert Rucker

A cleaning article. The cleaning article has a laminate construction. The cleaning article comprises a sheet and a hydrophilic gather strip element joined together at an elongate bond. The gather strip element has plural layers folded upon one another, providing strips extending outwardly from the bond. The folded layers provide a construction which allows the strips to advantageously present a dynamically changing area to the target surface during cleaning, under normal usage conditions. By changing the surface area, more liquids, and associated debris, can be cleaned from the target surface.

Cleaning article having multi-layer gather strip element

A cleaning apparatus is described. The cleaning apparatus includes a support member and a cleaning head. The support member includes a first portion having a length, a first end, an opposing second end and a handle disposed at the first end; a second portion having a first transition at the second end of the first portion and a second transition spaced from the first transition; a first support and a second support joining the first and the second transitions; and a liquid management system disposed, at least in part, between the first and second transitions. The liquid management system comprises a reservoir receiver. The cleaning head is moveably attached to the second transition. The support member exhibits a longitudinal angle of six degrees or less with respect to a horizontal plane. The cleaning apparatus exhibits a vertical height of less than 110 mm.

Cleaning apparatus

A cleaning article defining an XY plane and a Z direction perpendicular to the plane. The cleaning article has discrete tufts of tow fibers disposed on a carrier sheet. The discrete tufts have bond lines external to the tufts. The bond lines interrupt the Z-direction thickness of the tufts, to provide channels for improved collection and retention of debris from a target surface.

Cleaning article with double bonded tow tufts

A process for packaging a product including the steps of providing a cleaning wipe that includes nonwoven strips and moving the cleaning wipe in a direction aligned with the longitudinal axis of the cleaning wipe. A gas is moved from positions on opposite sides of the longitudinal axis and beyond the longitudinal edges of the cleaning wipe to bend the free ends of the nonwoven strips out of plane relative to the fixed ends of the strips.

Process for packaging a cleaning wipe

A cleaning article defining an XY plane and a Z direction perpendicular to the plane. The cleaning article has discrete tufts of tow fibers bonded to a carrier sheet by primary bonds. The discrete tufts have secondary bond lines external to the tufts. The secondary bond lines interrupt the Z-direction thickness of the tufts, to provide channels for improved collection and retention of debris from a target surface. The tufts are created by slits between the primary bonds and secondary bonds, which yield plural tuft sizes. The slits may be transversely unequally spaced between adjacent bonds.

Cleaning article with differential sized tow tufts

Floor cleaning wipe

Cleaning wipe

Cleaning article with irregularly spaced tow tufts

A cleaning article. The cleaning article has a laminate construction. The cleaning article comprises a sheet and a hydrophilic gather strip element joined together at plural bonds. The gather strip element has plural layers superimposed upon one another, providing strips extending outwardly from the bonds. Different layers are differentially bonded, to provide a construction which allows the strips to advantageously present a dynamically changing area to the target surface during cleaning, under normal usage conditions. By changing the surface area, more liquids, and associated debris, can be cleaned from the target surface.

Floor cleaning article having strips with differential bond pattern

A cleaning article. The cleaning article has tufts of tow fibers. At least some of the tufts are unequally spaced from adjacent tufts, to provide improved collection and retention of debris from a target surface. The tufts may be disposed in rows, which are unequally spaced from adjacent rows. The cleaning article may be made by cutting out spaces between tufts from a precursor sheet and attaching the precursor sheet to a carrier sheet. The cleaning article may be made by cutting a precursor sheet having tufts into discrete portions. The discrete portions are bonded to a carrier sheet.

An aqueous cleaning composition comprising: a) from 0.01 to 0.5% by weight of the composition of a controlled-emulsification system having a turbidity of less than 500, as measured in a homogenized aqueous solution comprising 0.003% by weight of the solution of canola oil and 0.5% by weight of the solution of the controlled-emulsification system; b) a shine polymer comprising at least one monomer comprising a substantially planar 5-7 membered ring, said monomer preferably being selected from the group consisting of vinylpyrrolidone, vinylimidazoline, maleimide, styrene sulfonate and vinylcaprolactam; and c) optionally an antimicrobial agent.

Cleaning composition

An aqueous cleaning composition comprising: (a) from 0.01 to 0.5% by weight of the composition of a grease loosening system comprising: i) 50% or more by weight of the system of a low emulsifying surfactant wherein the low emulsifying surfactant is a nonionic ethoxylate having an HLB value of from about 13 to about 20; and ii) 50% or less by weight of the system of a high emulsifying material wherein the high emulsifying material is selected from the group consisting of nonionic surfactant having an HLB value of less than 13, a surfactant other than nonionic surfactants; antimicrobial quats and mixtures thereof; (b) a shine polymer comprising at least one monomer comprising a substantially planar 5-7 membered ring, said monomer preferably being selected from the group consisting of vinylpyrrolidone, vinylimidazoline, maleimide, styrene sulfonate and vinylcaprolactam; and (c) optionally a non-quaternary ammonium compound antimicrobial agent.

A device and method for applying a material to a hard surface. The device has a sensor and one or more applicator nozzles. The device further includes a reservoir for containing a material to be deposited, and a CPU. The method includes providing information from the sensor about the surface to the CPU, which uses the information to identify where the material is to be deposited and/or how much to deposit.

Device and methods for depositing materials on hard surfaces

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Mason, OH, United States of America

Nicola John Policicchio