CN1097161C - Pump actuation means - Google Patents

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CN1097161C
CN1097161C CN98115660A CN98115660A CN1097161C CN 1097161 C CN1097161 C CN 1097161C CN 98115660 A CN98115660 A CN 98115660A CN 98115660 A CN98115660 A CN 98115660A CN 1097161 C CN1097161 C CN 1097161C
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G·布拉茨海姆
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05BSPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
    • B05B11/00Single-unit hand-held apparatus in which flow of contents is produced by the muscular force of the operator at the moment of use
    • B05B11/01Single-unit hand-held apparatus in which flow of contents is produced by the muscular force of the operator at the moment of use characterised by the means producing the flow
    • B05B11/10Pump arrangements for transferring the contents from the container to a pump chamber by a sucking effect and forcing the contents out through the dispensing nozzle
    • B05B11/1042Components or details
    • B05B11/1052Actuation means
    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A45HAND OR TRAVELLING ARTICLES
    • A45DHAIRDRESSING OR SHAVING EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT FOR COSMETICS OR COSMETIC TREATMENTS, e.g. FOR MANICURING OR PEDICURING
    • A45D34/00Containers or accessories specially adapted for handling liquid toiletry or cosmetic substances, e.g. perfumes
    • A45D34/04Appliances specially adapted for applying liquid, e.g. using roller or ball
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05BSPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
    • B05B11/00Single-unit hand-held apparatus in which flow of contents is produced by the muscular force of the operator at the moment of use
    • B05B11/0005Components or details
    • B05B11/0037Containers
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05BSPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
    • B05B15/00Details of spraying plant or spraying apparatus not otherwise provided for; Accessories

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  • Reciprocating Pumps (AREA)
  • Infusion, Injection, And Reservoir Apparatuses (AREA)
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Abstract

A pump actuator especially used for manual metering pump, it is disposed on a dropping bottle and used to measuring and feeding amount of liquid medicine. The actuator unit on the pump head has a pump actuating surface, which is considerably larger than the main pump body in order to help and make the operation convenient. The pump actuator can be formed as a single body integrally with the pump head, or is a removable appending part attached to the pump head.

Description

Pump actuation means
Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of pump actuation means that is installed in the manually-actuated metering pump on the container, it has the sort of pump matrix that for example is arranged on the drop bottle, and it preferably is used for metering and carries certain amount of fluid medicine and lotion.
Background technique
For the drop bottle that has metering pump, shown the operating difficulties that may occur in pump actuating aspect, particularly for old man or handicapped people, if they, for example, the medicine of preferably liquid that makes equivalent from bottle for example each the metering stroke by metering pump take out and medication because for example deformity or disease can not activate the actuator of the metering pump with less actuation surfaces.But, on the other hand, can be easy to collect and metering pump can be finished the function of its expectation and also be very important without any restriction by the amount of being carried of metering pump metering.
Summary of the invention
Therefore, the objective of the invention is when overcoming above-mentioned difficulties, to provide a kind of pump actuation means that starts the sort of metering pump of being mentioned especially for this paper, it is allowed with as far as possible little effort and simply activates, and keeps the metering pump reliable operation simultaneously.
Particularly specific purposes provide a kind of actuator, it design make metering pump to be restricted by the activity of its hand and finger those people activate and operate.
According to the present invention, a kind of pump actuation means that is installed in the metering pump on the container that has the pump matrix is set, it has one significantly greater than the pump actuation surfaces of pump matrix in pump head one side.Preferably, the diameter of pump actuation surfaces for example is 2-6 a times of pump matrix diameter, preferably roughly is its 4 times.
Therefore, in the structure of pump actuation means of the present invention, in pump head one side or towards user's one side, big as far as possible actuation surfaces is provided, so that convenient or help operation, and need not to make very big effort and have no difficulty, particularly can not activate those applications on less surface on the habitual metering pump pump owing to disease or deformity for the user.Therefore, even the present invention also can be activated metering pump reliably by those people that the activity of old man or its finger and hand is restricted.Simultaneously, it is constant that the structure of pump actuation means of the present invention can keep the basic structure of metering pump.
In order to prevent inclination or the bending of metering pump in its bootup process, make 2-6 that the diameter of pump actuation surfaces is roughly pump matrix diameter for example doubly, preferably roughly be its 4 times and proved feasible.For these dimension scales, can guarantee that the danger of the leverage of the actuation surfaces that produces owing to the actuation surfaces of amplifying can not cause the mode of operation of metering pump is produced adverse influence.For these dimension scales, can prevent inclination or the bending of metering pump in its bootup process.Therefore, the reliable usability of metering pump can be owing to the amplification pump actuation surfaces is adversely affected.
Particularly, making the pump actuation surfaces is the shape that meets ergonomics.In addition, its profile does not preferably have sharp-pointed edge and wedge angle, so that prevent issuable injury between the pump period of energization.The design that meets ergonomics can make operation simplify more.
According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the pump actuation surfaces is a umbrella shape, has a surface that is arch slightly.For this configuration, the user can for example utilize deuce and arm to activate metering pump.
According to another preferred embodiment of the present invention, the pump actuation surfaces surrounds a pump head that may be provided with, and makes simultaneously in its gamut of an outlet of pump to come out.This configuration that has enclosed construction can make the user can for example its whole hand be centered around pump actuation means around and move up and down actuated pump by hand.
According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, can make actuator is the interpolation parts on the pump head that is removably mounted on metering pump.Therefore according to this scheme, actuator of the present invention is measured annex if desired with can be used as and is offered the user in addition, and need not metering pump has any variation with regard to the basic structure of its head.The container that has metering pump that can buy on so in addition market can easily be retrofited if desired.
Perhaps actuator can be made an integral body with pump head.In this embodiment, of the present inventionly be combined into pump structure with dirty and messy pump actuation means in the pump actuation surfaces, therefore, for example the pump head of design can generate according to the present invention, and it for example can integrally be installed on the container then.Preferably pump actuation means is installed on the drop bottle, so that metering dispense liquid medicine or lotion.Like this, for taking the old man or the handicapped people of liquid medicine or for example need the people of skin lotion to make things convenient for and to simplify the operation with metering.Particularly the attendant can lighten one's labor like this, and patient can independently take medicine voluntarily.
Quite general situation is that pump actuation means of the present invention can also be as for example soap solution, the operation annex of the distributor of disinfector etc.
Actuator of the present invention can be by plastics, metallic material, and light metal material preferably, its composite etc. is made.Preferably the selection of the actuator material material that will be complementary and constitute metering pump with the purposes of actuator is complementary.Particularly, the foundry goods that actuator can be made by corresponding material, injection moulding module or draw piece.The corresponding mode of production will be complementary with applied material on the one hand, will obtain economic as far as possible production process on the other hand.
Certainly, the structure that causes device for pump of the present invention can also have other modification and modification; Yet, in all structures, importantly have one to be easy to approaching and big as far as possible easy operating and durable actuation surfaces.
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Utilize preferred embodiment to describe the present invention as an example in detail below.In the accompanying drawings, identical or similar part adopts identical label.
Fig. 1 a-Fig. 1 c shows side and the front partial sectional view and the planimetric map of first preferred embodiment of the pump actuation means of the present invention on the distribution bottle of standard respectively;
Fig. 2 a-Fig. 2 c respectively shows side and the front partial sectional view and the planimetric map of second preferred embodiment of actuator of the present invention successively.
Embodiment
In the accompanying drawings, as an application example, show a kind of like this drop bottle 1, it for example is used for metering and carries liquid medicine (being equivalent to the medicine that some number drips).In the accompanying drawings, only show the upper end head zone of drop bottle 1.
In the upper shed zone of drop bottle 1, a metering pump shown in the above label 2 of integral body is arranged.By this metering pump, can measure at each and from drop bottle 1, transfer out a certain amount of for example liquid medicine in the stroke, calculate the number that drips that will carry and need not the user.Metering pump 2 has a pump head 3 and the pump discharge 5 in its pump neck 4 zones, and by this outlet 5, the certain amount of fluid that each metering stroke of metering pump 2 is carried can be discharged from, and is collected in after for example being used in a little spoon or other container.For the configuration of pump discharge 5, several possibilities can be arranged, the present invention is not limited to the embodiment of pump discharge shown in the drawings certainly.
Metering pump 2 has a pump actuation means, and it is whole with label 10 expressions in the embodiment shown in the accompanying drawing 1a-1c, and in the embodiment shown in the accompanying drawing 2a-2c with label 10 ' expression.
Pump actuation means 10, shown in Fig. 1 a-1c, be umbrella shape and have one slightly with the actuation surfaces 11 of arch, this actuation surfaces 11 is more much bigger than the size of the pump matrix 12 of metering pump 2.Preferably, the diameter of pump actuation surfaces 11 is such, it be roughly metering pump 2 pump matrix 12 diameters 2-6 doubly, preferably its 4 times.These dimension scales relation has proved feasible, on the one hand can be by handicapped people or patient's simple operations, on the other hand, for example can prevent because its inclination or crooked and the function of metering pump 2 is produced adverse influence.
As shown in the figure, make actuation surfaces 11 meet ergonomics and for example be to be arch slightly, between period of energization, skid so that prevent.Particularly, the selection of the configuration of actuation surfaces 11 will be avoided outstanding sharp-pointed edge or wedge angle, so that prevent injured danger is arranged between period of energization.Risk of injury when this particularly can prevent to activate metering pump 2.
In second preferred embodiment shown in the accompanying drawing 2a-2c, similar to above-mentioned first preferred embodiment of the present invention, there is one relatively to put much bigger actuation surfaces 11 with pump matrix 12, but different is, there is one relatively to put much bigger actuation surfaces 11 with pump matrix 12, but different is, makes actuator 10 ' surround metering pump 2 and pump head 3 fully, and only pump neck 4 and its pump discharge 5 are exposed.Utilize among the embodiment shown in the accompanying drawing 2a-2c at this, user or operator can for example he or she hand be placed on actuator 10 ' around, activate metering pump 2 by moving up and down hand then.
Preferred embodiment shown in above-mentioned is preferably made like this, makes to have the actuator 10,10 that amplifies actuation surfaces 11 ' be made into an interpolation part, and this part can be urged on pump head 3 if necessary.But, have the pump actuation means 10 that amplifies a lot of actuation surfaces 11,10 ' also can directly integrate with in the configuration of pump head 3, for example as the annular extension flange of its integral body, therefore, have the single-piece part that the pump actuation means that amplifies a lot of actuation surfaces 11 can form an integral body with pump head 4.According to desirable purposes, can according to needs adopt a kind of pump actuation means 10,10 of or other structure '.
Pump actuation means can be by plastics, and metallic material or composite material are made.Particularly, in metallic material, light metal is reasonable.Select according to the material that is used for actuator, they can be by mold pressing, and preferably injection-molding is made, and perhaps they can be drawn by base material and form.Considering material composition and at random considering to select corresponding production method under the situation of economical production.
Though utilize the accompanying drawing of preferred embodiment to explain the present invention, the present invention is not limited thereto certainly, but many changes and improvements can be arranged, these changes and improvements all are conspicuous for the person of ordinary skill of the art.Particularly, the invention is not restricted to these specific embodiments, perhaps specifically be applied to drop bottle, on the contrary, actuator of the present invention can also be used for for example being used for liquid, fluid, on other container that soap solution particularly, the distributor of the common employing of disinfector etc. activate by for example metering pump.

Claims (6)

1. drop dispenser, it comprises a metering pump in order to the dispense liquid medicine, described metering pump comprises a pump actuation means and a pump matrix, it is characterized in that: described actuator (10,10 ') comprise that one facilitates and pump actuation surfaces (11) simple operations, on the end of the pump head (3) of described pump for old and disabled user, the diameter of described pump actuation surfaces is roughly greater than 2 to 6 times of the diameter of described pump matrix (12), described pump actuation surfaces (11) structure is the shape of the umbrella of tool arcuate surface slightly, and described pump activates.
2. pump actuation means as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that: the diameter of the area of described pump actuation surfaces (11) is 4 times of diameter of described pump matrix (12).
3. pump actuation means as claimed in claim 1 or 2 is characterized in that: described pump actuation surfaces (11) does not have sharp-pointed edge and wedge angle.
4. pump actuation means as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that: pump actuation surfaces (11) surrounds described pump head (3), and the outlet nozzle (5) on described pump head is come out.
5. as the described pump actuation means of 1 claim, it is characterized in that: described actuator (10,10 ') is the interpolation parts on the pump head (3) that is removably mounted on metering pump (2).
6. pump actuation means as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that: be that actuator (10,10 ') is made a single piece body with described pump head (3).
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