Dryer-added fabric softening articles and methods

US7071157B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The Procter & Gamble Company · US

Inventors

• Bienvenido Santos · Cincinnati, US
• Rhonda Jean Jackson · Cincinnati, US
• George Kavin Morgan, III · Hamilton, US
• Gregory Charles Maier · Cincinnati, US
• David Dahlinger · Mason, US
• Ronald Edward Pegoli · Batavia, US
• Jiten Odhavji Dihora · Hamilton, US
• Zaiyou Liu · Sharonville, US
• Kristin Marie Finley · Cincinnati, US
• Toan Trinh · Maineville, US
• Errol Hoffman Wahl · Cincinnati, US
• Stanley James Welling · Monroe, US
• Barbara Kay Williams · Sharonville, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 30, 2004
• Grant date: Jul 4, 2006
• Expiry date: Jul 30, 2024

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C11D17/041
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A fabric conditioning article for use in a clothes dryer. The fabric conditioning article having a flexible sheet and a fabric conditioning composition deposited on the sheet. The fabric conditioning composition includes a fabric conditioning agent, perfumed particles and minor components. The perfume particles are a perfume composition incorporated into a porous mineral carrier such as clay and/or zeolite. Optionally, the perfume composition comprises low levels of unstable perfume components. Alternatively, the perfumed particles have a coating material encapsulating at least a portion of the particles. Optionally, the articles are packaged in a container having a moisture barrier to prevent premature release of the perfume therefrom.