The Procter Gamble Company

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Rachid Ben Moussa

Timothy Bernard William Kroese

James Iain Kinloch

David John Smith

Alison Lesley Main

Helen Varley

Charles Rupert Gillham

Tanguy Marie Louis Alexandre Catlin

Timothy Bernard Kroese

Tanguy Marie Louise Alexandre Catlin

Tanguy Marie Catlin

Gregory Martin Gressel

Louis John Viltro

Kenneth L Ruehl

Carl A Noble

Timothy Berhard William Kroese

Ray Kaercher

Tanguy M Catlin

Allison L Main

Kenneth Leonard Ruehl

Carl Noble

A water-soluble pouch suitable for use in machine dishwashing and which comprises a plurality of compartments in generally superposed or superposable relationship, each containing one or more detergent active or auxiliary components, and wherein the pouch has a volume of from about 5 to about 70 ml and a longitudinal/transverse aspect ratio in the range from about 2:1 to about 1:8, preferably from about 1:1 to about 1:4. The water-soluble pouch allows for optimum delivery of dishwashing detergent. A process for the manufacture of multi-compartment pouches and a pack to contain the pouches are also disclosed.

Detergent products, methods and manufacture

A process for forming filled sealed pouches, comprising: supplying a thermoformable film to an upper surface of a conveyer which includes a plurality of recessed vacuum molds in its upper surface and is mounted to slide over an elongated conveyor support through holding, forming, filling and sealing stations; holding the film on the conveyer at the holding station; forming the film to form pouches at the forming station by supplying a forming under-pressure at the forming station into the mold recesses wherein the forming under-pressure is supplied through vacuum apertures leading from a vacuum supply apparatus and discharging through the conveyer support through vacuum orifices extending through the conveyer into the vacuum molds wherein under-pressure is supplied to the mold recesses at one or more subsequent processing stations through the vacuum apertures and vacuum orifices, and wherein the under pressure at the forming station is greater than the under-pressure at one or more of the subsequent processing stations; filling the pouches at the filling station; and sealing the pouches with a sealing film at the sealing station.

Method and apparatus for forming films

The present invention relates to a continuous, horizontal process for making water-reactive pouches, involving the steps of: The products introduced in the pouch are preferably cleaning compositions or fabric care compositions, in particular laundry or dish washing compositions.

Process for making pouches

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