Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
  • B65D83/00—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents
  • B65D83/04—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents for dispensing annular, disc-shaped, or spherical or like small articles, e.g. tablets or pills
  • B65D83/049—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents for dispensing annular, disc-shaped, or spherical or like small articles, e.g. tablets or pills the dispensing means forming a part of a removable closure, e.g. gripping teeth, cavity
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
  • B65D2583/00—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents
  • B65D2583/04—For dispensing annular, disc-shaped or spherical or like small articles or tablets
  • B65D2583/0404—Indications, e.g. directions for use
  • B65D2583/0422—Indications, e.g. directions for use of variable doses of the same articles

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a manual metering-dispensing tank for grain products, in particular for homeopathic granules.
• the Figure 1-a represents my idea of departure, a physical law, that "If a vertical tube, closed from below, crosses a flexible valve which closes the entry of a tank and draws from it the maximum quantity of elements that 'it can contain, when it comes out, the valve closes behind the last absorbed element and just in front of the next element. -The invention is conceived after this idea.
• FIG. 1 attached shows schematically, in partial section, a homeopathic granule distribution tube
• This tube essentially comprises a main body (l) which receives the granules and a cap (2) which fits onto this body by narrow axial coiling
• a main body (l) which receives the granules
• a cap (2) which fits onto this body by narrow axial coiling
• you must remove the cap and carefully extract the granules from the tube! We can easily understand that it is very difficult with this kind of dispenser to quickly achieve a correct dosage. necessary effect that these granules do not touch the patient's hand and that they are poured directly under the tongue. In addition, it very often happens that granules fall to the ground and are lost to the patient.
• Another drawback of these known devices is that in order to facilitate extraction and dosing, they comprise a 3-th piece, a so-called "dosing cap" often salivated ...
• the invention overcomes these drawbacks. It relates for this purpose to a manual metering-dispensing tank for seed products which has only two parts for the patient: a main body which contains the granules and an axial cap for closing the main body.
• the main body has a mouth in the form of an internal bottleneck and this mouth is closed by a flexible split olapet.
• the axial cap has, inside, an axial longitudinal tube with an internal diameter greater than that of the granules, this tube being open at its free end close to the ex free end of the cap and closed at its end close to the bottom of the cap, -here. The mouth of this tube is located below that of the cap .
• - Figure 2 is a partial exploded view of the metering-dispensing tank according to the invention.
• - Figure 3 is a detail view from above of the flexible valve used in this metering-dispensing tank.
• FIG. 9 shows a variant of the cap comprising the metering tube.
• FIG. 10 shows a variant where the valve and the tube are brought.
• FIG. 10 shows a variant of the fitted valve holder having separation and flow bars.
• FIG. 19 and 20 show a variant of the device according to Figures 15 to 18.. . - Figure 21 shows in detail the mechan is me of Figures 19 and 20.
• FIG. 22 shows plugs each carrying a pick-up tube.
• FIG. 23 shows a label covering the bottom of the cap.
• - Figure 24 shows a label covering the cap adjustment device.
• - Figure 25 shows an additional sealing and protection cap.
• FIG. 26 shows a variant of the axial adjustment rod having breakthrough grooves.
• -Ge manual dispenser-dispenser manual for grain products for example for homeopathic granules
• the body (l) has a mouth, a tunnel (3), the inner part of which has the shape of a bottleneck (4).
• the angle of this neck is, for example, about 20o.
• this mouth is closed by a flexible split valve (5), which is shown in more detail in Figure 3, and which comprises in this example two orthogonal slots (6 and 7).
• the valve (5) can Stre reported as here, but it can also be designed in the mass of the tank (l), as well as being of different materials.
• the axial cap (2) is extremely special, and it has, inside, an axial longitudinal tube (8) with an inner diameter greater than that of the granules (12) to allow their easy flow, this tube being open at its end. free (9) near the free end (10) of the cap (2) and closed at its other end by the piston (11), - here-near the bottom (42) of the cap.
• the tube (8) can be designed in the mass of the cap (2) as here, but it can also be attached to the cap in any way.-The mouth (9) of this inner tube (8) is located below that of the cap (2), and its depth (p) is adjusted so that it can receive a stack of a determined number of granules (12) corresponding to the orderly dosage dose. (d) between the mouths of this tube (8) and of the cap (2) is less than the maximum distance (D) of fitting of the cap on the main body, necessary for the total closure of the metering-distributing reservoir.
• FIG. 4 shows the metering-dispensing tank as it is delivered, filled with homeopathic granules (12), - but, of course, the rod (15) can be retracted into the cap to its position number 2.
• This metering-dispensing tank may include, at this stage, a self-adhesive label (13) which surrounds the tank (l). This label limits the insertion at this stage of the cap (2) on the body (l), so this cap remains at a distance (d) from its maximum penetration. (D) cited above.
• This Figure (4) also shows that, in this storage position, the mouth (9) of the tube ( 8) comes just flush with the valve (5) and therefore exerts no pressure on this valve.
• this piston (it) can be adjusted and moved by means of a rod (15) which has self-breaking grooves (16). es also allow the wedging of this rod in the central hole (16-b) of the bottom (32) of the cap, the shape of which is provided complementary for this purpose.
• FIG. 9 shows a variant of the device in which the dosage is adjusted by a part (17) placed in the tube (8).
• this piece sets the dose to 3 granules, the amount most often prescribed in homeopathy.
• FIG. 10 shows how we can adapt the device of the invention on all existing tubes, such as that of Figure 1. This adaptation simply requires the addition of additional parts, the valve holder and the tube holder (19) in particular, which are produced separately and then brought back inside the already existing tubes.
• Figure 10-a presents a valve holder (18) complementary which fixes its valve (5) by a threaded plug (43) ⁇ lassique.
• Figure 10-b presents a tube holder (il) in detail.
• Figure 10-c presents a valve holder (18) having bars (18-a) to separate the granules and facilitate their flow.
• - Figure 11 shows a variant in which the piston (it) is smooth sliding in the tube (8).
• - Figure 12 shows another variant for which the stroke of the piston (11), which is also smooth sliding, -is limited downwards by an auxiliary blocking piece (20).
• FIG. 13 shows the possibility of combining a setting by notches (16) and a soft setting, - this soft setting being achieved by an auxiliary piston (22).
• - Figure 14 shows another variant which includes a flexible bulb (23), of the dropper type.
• This flexible pear being able to facilitate the introduction of the granules into the tube (8) by suction and their extraction by blowing.
• - Figures 15 to 21 In all the previous examples, the metering adjustment in the take-off tube (8) was carried out by axial displacement of a rod itself axial. -It is understood that the invention is not limited to this type of adjustment, and Figures 15 to 21, for example, show two other types of adjustment devices in which the adjustment action is performed by pressing a button, on a head or the like, which is placed laterally with respect to the cap.
• an axial pusher (24) which can slide in the split tube (8) (33) for this purpose.
• This pusher (24) has a lateral head (25), the free part of which, with its indicator (26), is accessible from the outside via an opening (27), formed in the cap (2).
• the opening is normally covered by a self-adhesive label (28).
• This opening is equipped with notches (29), which cooperate in a complementary manner with a stud (30) provided on the head (25), - Figures 17 and l ⁇ .
• the head and the pusher (24) are connected by a tongue flexible (it) which is shaped to be able, as seen in FIG. 18, to tilt laterally in the transverse plane.
• the label (28) is then folded down so as to hermetically cover the adjustment orifice, this label also participating in the blocking of the head (25).
• Figures 19, 20 and 21 represent a variant embodiment of the previous device. - In this case, a pusher (24) is still provided, but its blocking device is somewhat different: the tongue (31) which was mentioned previously is replaced by a short section which forms a neck (32), - and which is able to slide in a groove (33) provided with pairs of regularly notched side notches (34).
• This device also comprises a head (25) accessible as previously from the outside. It also has a self-adhesive label (28).
• FIG. 22 shows two plugs (41) carrying, - one a tube (8) with its linked slot (33), - Figures 15 and 16, - and the other.
• These complementary plugs are to be installed in their respective caps (20).
• Figure 23-a shows a variant of cap (2) whose protective rim (35) is closed by the adhesive label (36).
• the Figure 23-b shows this label detached from the rim and one sees the rod (15) broken after its adjustment. The label is then glued to the rim, - Figure 23-a, - to ensure the tightness of the cap and to consolidate the adjustment.
• FIG. 24-a presents the self-adhesive label (28) which hermetically covers the opening (27) of the cap (2).
• the label is raised and unrolled, - so that one sees the head (25) positioned on the number three.
• Figure 27-a, - we also block by this label the adjustment head (25) .
• the numbers 2,3 , 4 and 5 are indicated on the edge of the opening (27) of the cap (2).
• FIG. 25 presents another variant, in which it is an additional cap (37) which achieves both the sealing of the original cap (2) and the protection of the adjusting rod (15), - all of which displacement lengths are thus possible, without this rod being able to be broken unintentionally.
• FIG. 26 shows a variant of the adjusting rod (15), - whose adjustment notches (16) are only used for positioning by the central hole (16-a) of the bottom (42) of the cap (2) and it is at the circular "grooves" (46) that the break of the rod (15) takes place.
• the enlargement of the design is intended to better distinguish the details of the rod (15) as well as the location of the signals (45) on the cylinder and on the flats.

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  • 1987-09-23 FR FR8713396A patent/FR2620686B1/fr not_active Expired - Lifetime
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