DE8335219U1 - Dispenser - Google Patents

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Patent application HENKEL KGaA

Henkel Str. 67 ZR * FE / patents

AOOO Düsseldorf, December 6, 1983 Bor / C

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"Doei Dispenser"

The invention relates to a dispenser for compacts, such as tablets, pills, capsules and granules, with a compact storage device and a pivotable storage device do one axis assigned, several compact data recordings - / \ me dosing soheibe containing compartments.

Sin dispenser for tablet-shaped products of the above Art is described in DE-OS 51 43 953 · The known device has a refill unit or! Storage container serving and a locking adapter assigned to the storage container as well as a slide bearing with a movable metering slide valve comprising component · The device consists accordingly from a tablet storage container in different cross-sectional shapes, a so-called metering slide and an integrated base element with slide rail and locking adapter · The familiar O device is universal, can also be used in the household sector, however, special precautions are taken for a certain proportioned multicomponent dosage not provided.

There are multi-component products whose components are partly incompatible with one another or when they are common Losing effect on storage time «Furthermore, certain active ingredients of such multi-component products can be made more economical and more efficiently manufacture and store in tablet, pill or capsule form, while others Product components cheaper in pourable or

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exist in liquid form.

The invention is based on the object of creating a metering dispenser for two or more components of a multi-component product ssu that are to be stored separately from one another and that have different spatial shapes and / or states of aggregation, that is sufficiently reliable when metering the individual components J and convenient to use, especially in the household The solution according to the invention is for the dosing dispenser of the type mentioned at the outset with a compact material storage unit and a compact material receiving compartment assigned to the storage device - or compact material compartment for short - containing a substantially cylindrical structure and the relative rotatability of the storage medium and the dosing disk around the cylinder axis.

The dosing dispenser according to the invention can be used as a separate dosing device or as a dosing attachment instead of the

Q loan closure to be fitted to the one of k to be metered com- '20 components containing reservoir. The connection can, for example, by a screw thread,

\ a snap lock or the like, in usual

Way to be formed. A dosing cup is expediently used for dosing the substance contained in the storage container intended. This can be molded onto the dispenser so that it is placed on the storage container enters its opening. Alternatively, however, it is also advantageous to use the dosing cup as a slip-on lid, in particular Screw cap, of the dispenser or its storage to train. The metering disc should be in the latter pail and the feeder of the dispenser has a - e.g.

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Passage opening running coaxially to the cylinder axis as an outlet channel for the component contained in the storage container ". Through this channel the product to be dosed can be filled from the storage container into the dosing cup.

Dosing dispensers or dosing attachments according to the invention are to produce with relatively little effort, because they consist of only two to three individual parts, which after filling be plugged together with the respective product and - possibly permanently - remain connected to one another. If the dosing dispenser is designed as a closure of a storage container containing one component, After coupling the closure and storage container, a multi-component packaging is created

In contrast to the dosing dispenser according to DE-OS 31 43, the axis of rotation of the dosing disc according to the invention coincides with the cylinder axis of the associated compactate storage device Pivoting position of the metering disc assigned and open to the corresponding compactate compartment towards compactate ejection opening, in particular as an ejection chute. So if a compact reaches the bottom of the ejection opening by turning the metering disc further, the product can be fed to the intended place of use by tilting or on the top of the metering dispenser. It is noteworthy that it is not necessary to touch the dispensed item with your hand for this .

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In a first alternative, the outwardly essentially cylindrical reservoir can contain, in addition to the discharge chute or the like, one or more storage chutes for receiving compacts, such that the bottom of the respective storage chute in at least one pivoting position of the metering disc with one of the other » Compactate receiving compartments comes to cover. For example, the discharge chute and three storage chutes ζ) offset from one another by 90 ° can be distributed on a circular path * that coincides with the circular path of the compact compartments. In addition to the cylindrical structure and the relative rotatability of the reservoir and metering disc and the cylinder axis, this alternative of the subject matter of the invention is preferably characterized by the combination with a metering cup for liquid or pourable product.

In another alternative, the memory according to the invention comprises apart from that for the discharge chute or the ejection opening required a total of one space Essentially undivided cavity to accommodate compacts to be dosed. These individual bodies can rest on the open metering disc at the bottom of the storage tank and gradually turn the metering disc to the storage-side entrance of the discharge chute c-der It goes without saying that this alternative can also be combined with a dosing cup advantageous for liquid or pourable product.

The memory is expediently designed according to the shape of the most compact to be dosed. For example let calibrated cylindrical compacts the assigned grain

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Palctate receiving compartments of the dosing disc better feed, if these tablets are already being fed in orderly in compactate compartments. On the other hand are pills, capsules, granules etc. to dose with a rounded shape is an orderly feed to the individual compactate receiving compartments, which can then have a dome shape, for example, not required, so that the memory aids, like storage shafts, does not need to contain

The discharge chute should have at least a cross-section such that the respective compacted material can fall out without any problems, even if it is tilted - about the same cross-section as the discharge opening or the discharge chute should have the respective compacted material receptacle in the metering disc. According to a further invention, the ejection chacnt can also cover approximately two compact material receiving compartments so that the user can overlook which compact material is to be dosed next or whether a compact material is already waiting for the next dose. Here, the bottom of the discharge chute can (will 'and have, moreover, a gap opening to check the adjacent Kompaktataufnahmefachs with a passage for only provided a compact.

For the handling of the dosing dispenser, it is also advantageous if the memory is attached to the dosing disk facing away from the upper edge over the adjacent upper edge of a cylinder molded onto the metering disc overlapping edge, in particular with a snap-in clutch. This creates a closed container created for the compacts located in the memory, the tilting in the overhead position and back for dosing is.

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The turning of the metering disc required for introducing compacts into the discharge opening of the storage unit is simplified if the relative positions of the metering disc and storage unit, in which a compacted material receptacle is aligned with an ejection opening, are made recognizable by a tangible and / or audible click when turned relative. to achieve this, the n can anil O mutually adjacent edges of storage and metering disk are provided in the respective angularly spaced lateral grooves and steps & ·

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Patent registration HENKEL KGaA ZR-FE / Pateflte

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Details of the invention are explained on the basis of the schematic representation of exemplary embodiments. Ss
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Pig. 1 a longitudinal section, partly in the aneicht, a dispenser;

Pig * 2 shows a section along the line H-II of

Pig. U
r j pig. 3 shows an enlarged section through

the top of the memory; ^

Pig. 4 shows an enlarged side view |

by Pig. 3, partially cut; |

Pig. 5 shows a longitudinal section, partly in the beginning

sees 'a second embodiment'

a dispenser; : '

Pig. 6 a longitudinal section, partially in the an |

sees, a third embodiment |

of a dispenser for use as a |

Pill or capsule dispensers; |

Pig. 7 a section of the base plate of the dosing

slice after Pig. 6 with inserted capsule;

O Pig. 8 shows a plan view of the dosing dispenser according to

Pig. 6;
Pig. 9 shows the cross section along the line IX-IX of

Pig. 6;
Pig. 10 shows a development in the side view longitudinally

of the line XX from Pig. 9; and
Pig. 11 shows a longitudinal section along the line XI-XI
by Pig. 9 in side view.

The metering dispenser, denoted as a whole by 1, according to FIG. 1
"to 4 consists of one containing a dosing cup

Lower part 2 and an upper part 3 which forms a memory.

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The longitudinal or cylinder axes A of lower part 2 and upper part 3 are identical.

The lower part 2 is divided by a recess formed as a metering intermediate wall 4 in two cylindrical, with the opposite ends open towards the chambers and is indeed in a sub-chamber 5 and in an upper chamber 6. The cylindrical wall 7 of the upper chamber 6 schehwänd via the intermediate () 4 also extended circumferentially at a distance around the cylinder wall of the lower rim 5 by a cylindrical extension 8 with internal thread 9, which is used to attach the dosing dispenser 1 to the neck or other opening of a storage container, not shown. Any other type of coupling between the metering dispenser 1 and the storage container can also be provided.

When the dosing dispenser 1 is screwed onto a storage container in the exemplary embodiment, the downwardly open cylindrical lower chamber 5 plunges into the container opening . _> Fende end face 10 is sealed in the throat between the cylindrical extension 8 and the cylinder wall of the lower chamber 5. The dispenser 1 detached from the container according to FIG. 1 is turned upside down when used as a dosing vessel for the substance contained in the product container, so that the lower chamber 5 directly forms the dosing cup. It is therefore expedient to equip the lower chamber 5, in particular its inner wall, with a metering mark 11.

On the bottom of the cylindrical upper chamber 6 of the lower part 2, i.e. on the partition 4, four ring-shaped, webs 12 offset from one another by 90 ° are integrally formed.

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The inner diameter of the webs 12 should be slightly larger than the outer diameter of the compacts to be introduced The height of the webs 12 should also be the thickness of the compacts exceed slightly.

The upper part 3 of the dosing ponder 1 has a cylinder wall 13 with a top plate 14 and one over the 2ylinderwand 7 of the lower part 2 gripping, circumferential hand strips 15. On the head plate 14 and the cylinder wall 13 are three cylindrical storage shafts 16 for Receipt of tablets or the like and an ejection chute 17 integrally formed. The inner diameter of the tubular Yorratsschächte 16 is given slightly larger than the outer diameter of the tablets. The inside diameter of the ejection chute 17 is made so large that even a tilted tablet falling without jamming can pass the tubular shaft 17 in the overhead position. The discharge chute 17 is in the head plate 14 a corresponding to the inner diameter of the discharge chute 17 Opening 18 assigned. The lower end faces 19 of the shafts 16 and 17 end when they are joined together Lower part 2 and upper part 3 just above the annular webs 12 of the lower part 2, while the cylinder wall 13 overlaps the annular webs 12.

Details of the mode of operation of the device described are explained with reference to FIGS. 1 to 4. To pulling the storage shafts 16, the lower part 2 slipped over the upper part 3. For example, an annular bead 20 snaps onto the outside of the cylinder wall 7 into an annular groove 21 on the inside of the edge strip 5.

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On the circumferential end face or upper edge 22 of the cylinder wall 7 of the lower part 2, advantageously under Offset by 90 °, four roof-shaped cams 23 corresponding to the number of shafts 16 and 17 are provided, while in FIG the circumferential throat or face 24 of the upper part 3 between the cylinder wall 13 and the edge strip 15 four the nooks 23 corresponding roof-shaped grooves 25 in the through the cylinder axis and the respective shaft axis ·% Tensioned plane and offset by 90 ° to each other. If more or less than four slots 16 and 17 are provided, of course, changes the angle by which the cams or grooves 23 and 25 relative to one another are to be offset on the cylinder circumference.

When the lower part 2 and upper part 3 rotate relative to the cylinder or longitudinal axis A, the cams and grooves lock 23, 25 noticeably or audibly. The relative displacement required for this in the direction of the cylinder axis A from Upper part 3 and lower part 2 are made possible by a matched clearance 26 between the annular bead 20 and the annular groove 21.

At the positions where the upper part 3 and the lower (.) Part 2 engage in the cams and grooves 23, 25 when rotated relative to one another, the center lines of the shafts are located 16 and 17 of the upper part 3 exactly over the centers of the compacts formed by the annular webs 12 or depressions 27 (cf. Pig. 1).

After the dosing dispenser 1 has been screwed onto a container _n, a tablet falls under its own weight from each tablet slot 16 into the compact compartment 27 below

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The top of the head of the dispenser 1 has been tipped out.

An alternative embodiment of the metering dispenser 1 according to Pig. 1 is used in Pig. 5 shown schematically. the With regard to tablet intake and delivery in the puncture, it has an unchanged version instead of the lower chamber 5 a measuring cup closure 28 to be placed on top, which has a thread on a centrally located pouring 1,

(' tube-shaped connector 29 is to be screwed on. The channel |

In the exemplary embodiment, nal 29 protrudes through the intermediate *:

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Ejection chutes 16 or 17.

The embodiment of the metering dispenser 1 according to Pig. 5 allows after unscrewing the serving as a dosing cap Measuring cup closure 28 possibly even a simultaneous one Dosing of liquid components as well as tablet components or the like into the dosing cap, without the dosage dispenser having to be unscrewed.

V Look the Pig. 6 to 11 v / a total of 30 is loaded

Illustrated pill or capsule dispenser, which is alternatively similar in Pig. 1 as a dosing attachment with molded Subchamber 5 made or similar to Pig. 5 with a separate measuring cup closure serving as a dosing cap 28 and associated pouring channel 29 can be provided.

The dosing dispenser 30 according to Pig. 6 to 11 beds from one Lower part 31 and an upper part 32 with a common longitudinal or cylinder axis A «The lower part 31 includes a cylinder tube 33 »the lower end of which by a metering

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Disk-shaped bottom plate 34 is closed. The base plate 34 has dome-shaped depressions or compact compartments located on an outer circular arc 35 36, which have a cross section corresponding to the half profile of the pills or capsules to be dosed. In the middle of the base plate 34 - in the absence of a pouring channel 29 - a cylindrical, after inwardly protruding, projection 37 with a slightly conical end face 38 is provided. From the bottom of the Approach 37 from a circumferential, outwardly sloping slope 39 continues, which up to - with respect to the Cylinder axis A - inner edge of the dome-shaped compartments 36 is enough.

The upper part 32 of the dispenser 30 consists of a

^y '5 cylinder piece 40 with a head plate 41 and an edge 42 that extends over the cylinder tube 33 of the lower part 31 Rare walls 45 which are formed on the wall of the cylinder piece 40 and taper towards the cylinder axis, as well as the cylinder piece which ends at the shoulder 46 within the side wall 45. The wall parts or projections 44a and 45a that continue beyond the shoulder 46 overlap in the lower area the projection 37 protruding from the base plate 34. The shoulder 46 forms the shortened lower end of the cylinder wall in the area between the side walls 45 prevent pills from falling out of compartment 36; without the shortening, a construction that is slightly larger in diameter would be required.

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You cylindrical inner wall 44 and that in the radial direction extending side walls 45 or their lower port sets 44a and 45a are profiled on the bath with the help of a Connect and stabilize base plate 47. The base plate 47 consists of a large section 47a and a narrow section 47b. The large-area part 47a is designed in such a way that it is removed from the discharge chute forth an insight into the underlying cav 7 lotten-shaped compartment 36 allows, while the narrow section 47b of the base plate 47 serves only to stabilize the adjacent vertical walls 44 »45 and at the same time a tablet lying in the upstream dome-shaped compartment 36 can be tilted out.

The discharge chute according to FIGS. 6 to 6 preferably has 11 clearly shows the diameter of the pills to be dosed exceeding cross-section. There are two main reasons for this: On the one hand, a smaller shaft would be used cause manufacturing difficulties because such a shaft is not in the corresponding molding tool (λ 20 could be cooled sufficiently quickly and thus for Extension of manufacturing cycles resulted. On the other hand, a cross section covers two compartments Ejection chute and by attaching the profiled base plate 47 an improved torsional rigidity achieved compared to the relative rotation and created the possibility with the help of the section 47a to the next Dosage intended pill positioned ready and held while swiveling the pill in front the donor is dispensed; if the section 47a were not present in the exemplary embodiment, the Swivel two pills taken at the same time "

Patent application HENKEL KGaA ZR-FE / Paterrte

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The distance 48 between the lower edge or side of the base plate 47 and the upper edge, i.e. the highest elevations, the bottom plate 34- of the lower part 31 is slightly selected smaller than the pill half height 49 protruding over the dome-shaped compartment 36 in order to at Helative rotation from upper part 32 to lower part 31 has a starting point of the lower edge corner that is as low as possible of the base plate 47 to lie over the ones in the compartments S'o, "\ the pills or capsules to get what a jam 10 prevented. The on the large-area section 47a of the base plate 47 adjoining radial side wall 45 receives on

its underside a recess adapted to the protruding pill profile, not shown, while the horny opposite side wall 45 in one of the base plate

«15 of the lower part 31 approximately the following profile - Fig. 11 i; expires.

The dosing dispenser 30 according to FIG. 6 is filled in bulk in the overhead upper part 32 After filling, the lower part 31 is slipped over the upper part 32 and - e.g. similar to the dosing dispenser 1 - afterwards () Fig. 1 - locked. After swiveling the feeder into the In the "top / top" position, the filled pills or capsules fall into the exposed card-shaped compartments 36 of the base plate 34. By relative rotation of the upper part 32 to the lower part 31 - in the embodiment opposite clockwise - by tilting the dosing dispenser 30 in the overhead division one can by two spherical segments Pill or capsule to be taken. With each further turn around a spherical segment and again upside down another pill or capsule is released at a time. In this example, the no further swiveling of the second pill (from the

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or in the overhead position) but only a further rotation around the cylinder axis A is required *

The metering dispenser 30 can of course be used as shown in FIG to 11 are equipped with similar locking mechanisms for the relative rotation of the upper and lower part as the dispenser 1 after tig. 1 · When using transparent or translucent material for the base Cj 31 is the same for the user in this version example possible, the complete emptying of residues by Observe the last compacted material and ensure that it is refilled in good time.

Patent application Dosing dispenser (Pig. 1) 31 » HENKELKGaA Lower part 32 - ZR'FE / patents D 6896 Top 33 * Partition 34 - Lower chamber (2) 35 = Lower part List of reference symbols Upper Chamber (2) 36 a Top 1 a Cylinder wall 37 = Cylinder tube 2 a approach 38 - Base plate 3 a inner thread 39 - Circular arc 4 β Face 40 = subject 5 - Dosage mark 41 a approach 6 a web 42 = Face 7 - Cylinder wall 43 = Slope 8 a Headstock 44 = Cylinder piece 9 a Edge strips 44a = Headstock 10 * Discharge chute 45 a edge 11 a Stock slot 46 = Breakthrough 12 a Breakthrough 47 = Inner wall 13 = End face (16, 17) 47a = Continuation of 44 14 = Ring bulge 47b = Side wall 15 = Ring groove 48 - unit volume 16 « Top edge 49 a Base plate 17 « cam 50 = larger section of 4 18 = Face narrow section of 47 19 = cap distance 20 « game Pill height 21 « subject Bottom edge profile of 45 22 = Measuring cup (Fig. 5) 23 = channel 24 » Dosing dispenser (Fig. 6) 25 * 26 * 27 · 28 m 29 - 30 -

Claims (17)

Annex to the submission dated 24, 9 · 1984 HENKELKGaA ZR-FE / Patents D 6896 a 15 protection claims 1. Dosing dispenser (1, 30) for compacts, such as tablets, pills, capsules and granules, with a compacted storage (3, 32) and one of the storage compartments pivotably assigned to an axis (A) (27, 36) containing metering disc (4, 34), characterized by an essentially cylindrical structure and He-CO Relative rotation of the memory (3, 32) and the metering disc (4, 34) around the cylinder axis (A). 2. Dosing dispenser according to claim 1, characterized by the construction with a Dosiexbecher (5, 28) for liquid or pourable product. 3. Dosing apeader according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the dosing disc (4) has a coupling, in particular a screw thread (9), for placing on the opening of a storage container (Pig. 1 and i>) ₀ ,,. 4 · A dosing dispenser (1) according to one or more of Ansprüehe 1 to 3, characterized in that a dosing cup (5) "is einzusetzend particularly in the opening of the storage container, integrally formed on the metering disc (4) and to the memory (3) (Pig. 1) » 5. Dosing dispenser according to one or more of the claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the dosing cup is designed as a slip lid (28), in particular a screw lid, of the reservoir (3) (Pig. 5). 6 «Dosing dispenser according to claim 5» characterized in that that metering disc (4) and memory (3) one, in particular t * * t tilt IWl • I I t I I I # HENKELKGaA ZR'FE / patents D 6896 a, coaxially to the cylinder axis (A) _{9 have a} continuous channel (29) as a pouring pipe for liquid or pourable product from a storage container (Pig 5) 7 · The dispenser according to one or more of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that the Kompaktataufnahmefächer (27, 36) of the metering disc (4 _f 34) are distributed on a circular path (35) with the cylinder axis (A) as the center and that the Storage (3, 32) contains a compactate discharge opening (17, 4-3), in particular in the form of an discharge chute (16), assigned to a pivoting position of the metering disc and open to the corresponding compactate receiving compartment Mti, 8. Dosing dispenser (1) according to claim 7, characterized in that that the outwardly substantially cylindrical Speieher (3) at least one Torrats shaft (16) for receiving Ton compact at en has such that the bottom of the storage shaft in at least one pivot position of the metering disc (4) with one of their Kompaktataufnähmefächern (27) comes into congruence 9 · Dosing dispenser (1) according to claim 7 or 8, characterized in that that the discharge chute (17) and three storage chutes (16) offset from one another by 90 ° on a circular path defined by the compactate receiving compartments (27) are distributed around the cylinder axis (A) " 10 · Dosing dispenser (1) according to one or more of Claims 1 to 9, characterized in that the compactate receiving compartments (27) have the shape of flat cylinders (Pig. 1). i « t 11 ·· · I t · · »· * Iitll It t « I. HENKELKGaA ZR-FE / patents D 6896a, 11 · Dosing dispenser (30) according to one or more of the claims 1 to 8, characterized in that the Kompäktataufnahmefächer (36) have dome shape (Fig. 6) 12 · Dosing dispenser according to one or more of Claims 1 to 111, characterized in that the discharge chute (17) has essentially the same cross-section as that "Kompaktattaxifnahmefäeher (27) owns" 13 · Dosing dispenser (30) according to one or more of Claims 1 to 11, characterized in that the discharge chute about two Eompaktataufnahmefächer (34) of the metering disc (34) covers and that its bottom one Passage (47b) for only one compact and one gap opening (47a), for example to check the neighboring compactate receptacles (36), has (Fig. 9) · 14 · Dosing dispenser (40) according to claim 13 »characterized! that the interior of the reservoir (32) outside the ejection chute ^{adjoining an outlet opening (43) is designed as a compactate reservoir} open to the metering disc (34) Mri (Pig · 6). 15 · dispenser (30) according to claim 13 or 14, characterized in that the surface of the metering disc (34) is designed to 4en Konrpaktataufnahmefächern (36) toward sloping (38, 39) (Pig. 6, 7), 16. Dosing dispenser according to one or more of the claims 1 to 15, characterized in that on the metering disc (4, 34) a cylinder (7, 33) encompassing the cylindrical reservoir (3, 32) is integrally formed. nt «it ···· * HENKEL KGaA ZR-FE / patents D 68964 * 17. Dosing dispenser according to Anspruoh 16, characterized in that the memory (3, 32) on its upper edge (24) facing away from the dosing disc (4 »34) has an over the adjacent upper edge (22) of the cylinder (7) molded onto the dosing disc overlapping edge (15), in particular with a snap-in coupling (20, 21) (I ¹ Ig. 3 and 4) • · · ■■ ·· ■ #