EP0459146A1 - Dispositif d'application d'un liquide pour écrire, dessiner, imprimer ou pour peindre sur une surface - Google Patents

Dispositif d'application d'un liquide pour écrire, dessiner, imprimer ou pour peindre sur une surface Download PDF

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EP0459146A1
EP0459146A1 EP91106645A EP91106645A EP0459146A1 EP 0459146 A1 EP0459146 A1 EP 0459146A1 EP 91106645 A EP91106645 A EP 91106645A EP 91106645 A EP91106645 A EP 91106645A EP 0459146 A1 EP0459146 A1 EP 0459146A1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B43—WRITING OR DRAWING IMPLEMENTS; BUREAU ACCESSORIES
    • B43K—IMPLEMENTS FOR WRITING OR DRAWING
    • B43K7/00—Ball-point pens
    • B43K7/10—Arrangements for feeding ink to the ball points
    • B43K7/105—Feed bars
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B43—WRITING OR DRAWING IMPLEMENTS; BUREAU ACCESSORIES
    • B43K—IMPLEMENTS FOR WRITING OR DRAWING
    • B43K5/00—Pens with ink reservoirs in holders, e.g. fountain-pens
    • B43K5/18—Arrangements for feeding the ink to the nibs
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B43—WRITING OR DRAWING IMPLEMENTS; BUREAU ACCESSORIES
    • B43K—IMPLEMENTS FOR WRITING OR DRAWING
    • B43K8/00—Pens with writing-points other than nibs or balls
    • B43K8/02—Pens with writing-points other than nibs or balls with writing-points comprising fibres, felt, or similar porous or capillary material
    • B43K8/04—Arrangements for feeding ink to writing-points
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B43—WRITING OR DRAWING IMPLEMENTS; BUREAU ACCESSORIES
    • B43K—IMPLEMENTS FOR WRITING OR DRAWING
    • B43K8/00—Pens with writing-points other than nibs or balls
    • B43K8/16—Pens with writing-points other than nibs or balls with tubular writing-points comprising a movable cleaning element
    • B43K8/18—Arrangements for feeding the ink to the writing-points

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  • the invention relates to a device for applying writing, drawing, printing or painting liquid and the like.
  • a device for applying writing, drawing, printing or painting liquid and the like On a surface, comprising a liquid container, a writing, drawing, printing or brush tip and the like., An air supply pipe with which the Container interior communicates with the outside atmosphere, as well as a capillary liquid storage.
  • Devices of this type are known in many variations and are used in almost all private and commercial areas, for example as marker pens, crayons or the like.
  • a common disadvantage of all these devices is that they only exist in the liquid container can hold a limited amount of writing fluid. If one tried to increase the absorption capacity for the writing liquid in the liquid container by designing the liquid container itself larger in the case of these known devices in a construction as described at the beginning, this would have the consequence that due to the dead weight in normal writing , Pressure or painting position of the device, ie if the device is oriented essentially vertically with the tip pointing downwards, the writing liquid would leak out of the container via the tip, so that this path is unacceptable.
  • the capillary liquid reservoir is arranged in a liquid delivery connection between the liquid located in the liquid container and the tip, the liquid delivery connection being interrupted when the tip is essentially directed downward.
  • the advantage of the device according to the invention consists essentially in the fact that, as desired, the delivery of the liquid to the tip is in principle decoupled from the volume of the liquid container and thus from the current liquid volume. If the device is used for writing, drawing, printing or painting, i.e. if the tip is pointing down towards a surface, the filling process of the capillary liquid reservoir is interrupted. The liquid reservoir is always filled when the device is horizontal or essentially with the tip up, i.e. is held in a vertical or upward position, which can be caused by a short movement of the device in such an orientation.
  • the capillary liquid reservoir is dimensioned such that, depending on the design of the device, writing, drawing, printing or painting processes can be carried out continuously for such a long time and sufficient liquid is available until it is terminated as intended.
  • the liquid delivery connection is formed by the capillary liquid storage device, whereby the writing tip and the capillary liquid storage device can advantageously form a one-piece and thus cost-saving unit that is relatively easy to produce.
  • a flow damping device is arranged between the capillary liquid reservoir and the tip, which has the task of ensuring a predetermined ink flow per time in the manner of a throttle valve, which is particularly important when the capillary liquid reservoir is filled after the filling process Liquid is filled in the maximum possible way.
  • the capillary liquid reservoir is advantageously surrounded by a tube, which on the one hand serves for the mechanical stability of the liquid reservoir and on the other hand excludes an interaction of the liquid accommodated in the capillary liquid reservoir with the air-filled interior of the liquid container.
  • the liquid delivery connection advantageously extends to near the bottom of the liquid container, possibly with a capillary connection to the outer wall of the device.
  • the device is not bound to any fixed external or internal geometry, ie it can in principle be based on can be configured in any suitable manner, for example in the form of a bottle, a ballpoint pen, a fountain pen and the like.
  • the cross-sectional shape of the device can also be selected in any suitable manner.
  • the capillary liquid reservoir has a tubular cross section, the tube wall forming the liquid reservoir.
  • the above-mentioned tube can surround the liquid reservoir of this shape inside or outside, and in particular such a shape is also conceivable that the capillary liquid reservoir with a tubular cross section lies directly against the liquid container and is delimited in its interior by the tube.
  • the liquid container is designed in the form of a variable-volume, fillable container, specifically in the manner of a conventional fountain pen designed with a suction piston.
  • the device can also be filled, for example, by providing a simple filling opening into which the liquid is filled in a conventional manner either by means of conventional cartridges or from a liquid supply.
  • the end of the capillary liquid reservoir facing the bottom of the liquid container has a valve device which is open when the device is in a substantially vertical position, this configuration generally being of great advantage when the liquid container is at a another advantageous embodiment of the device in the form of a collapsible hose is formed.
  • the device 10 consists essentially of a liquid container 11, which is bottle-shaped in the embodiment shown in FIG. 1.
  • a writing tip 12 protruding from the bottle neck is provided and is held in the bottle neck in any suitable manner.
  • the end of the tip 12 pointing into the interior of the container is connected to a capillary liquid reservoir 15, in such a way that a liquid delivery connection 16, as indicated schematically by the arrow, out of the container interior 25 of the liquid container 11 for conveying in the capillary Liquid storage 15 liquid 16 is used.
  • the capillary liquid reservoir 15 extends in an essentially linear form from the bottom 18 to the tip 12.
  • the capillary liquid storage 15 is surrounded by a tube 22 which on the one hand has a mechanically acting stabilizing function on the capillary liquid storage 15 and on the other hand prevents an interaction between the air in the Container interior 25 and the liquid 17 taken up in the capillary liquid store 15 take place and that liquid 17 enters the capillary liquid store 15 when the device 10 is shown with the tip 12 downward.
  • Fig. 1 the position of the device 10 is shown, in which the tip 12 is at an essentially vertical orientation of the device 10 or the liquid container 11 upwards and the capillary liquid reservoir 15 can be filled with liquid 17 located in the liquid container 11 until it fills with liquid 17 to the maximum possible extent.
  • the device can also be parked on a surface (not shown), wherein in this writing-inactive position it is always ensured that the capillary liquid reservoir 15 can fill up.
  • the active writing position of the device 10 is shown schematically, wherein it can be seen that in this position writing fluid 17 can not enter the capillary fluid reservoir 15. In this position, the device 10 can be used until all of the liquid 17 contained in the capillary liquid store 15 has been consumed, which, with a suitably selected volume of the capillary liquid store 15, allows quasi-uninterrupted writing.
  • This writing process to be carried out with the device 10 also conceptually includes a drawing, printing or painting process and the like.
  • the tip 12 can be selected appropriately for this purpose.
  • the relatively simple design of the device 10, on the one hand, while maintaining the high efficiency of the device 10, on the other hand opens the possibility that the device 10 can be manufactured in a simple and therefore inexpensive manner and can be made available to the broadest groups of buyers or user groups as mass-produced articles.
  • the liquid 17 is taken up in a collapsible hose 24 accommodated in the interior 25 of the liquid container 11, which creates the possibility that the entire container interior 25 can be filled with liquid 17 as it were.
  • a valve device 20 is arranged, which ensures that liquid 17 can only get from the liquid container 11 or the inside of the hose 24 into the capillary liquid reservoir 15 when the filling position according to FIGS. 1 and 3 is taken, but not when the working position 10 of the device according to FIG. 2 is taken.
  • the valve device 20 can either be operated by gravity or by an actuator 28 protruding from the liquid container 11, which has to be actuated manually or by placing it on a surface against the force of an internal return spring. It is pointed out that in principle it is also possible to design the liquid container 11 itself in the form of a collapsible hose 24 in a manner not shown here. In Fig. 1a, the inner bottom of the liquid container is shown. The capillaries 29 formed there enable the capillary liquid reservoir 15 to be filled with the liquid container 11 lying down and with little filling with liquid 17.
  • a hand-held writing device is shown, as is normally used for writing or drawing.
  • the diameter of the liquid container 11 is matched to the dimensions that are normally found in handwriting or drawing devices.
  • the capillary liquid reservoir 15 is not designed in the form of a liquid reservoir with a full cross section, but in the form of a tube. The distance between the tube 15 or the tube wall 23 and the inner surface of the liquid container 11 is dimensioned such that the capillary liquid reservoir is formed in the space between the tube 15 and the liquid container 11.
  • a flow-damping device 21 is arranged between the capillary liquid reservoir 15 and the tip 12, whereby in the manner of a reducing valve, regardless of the fill level of the capillary liquid reservoir 15 with liquid 17, only a certain amount of liquid 17 passes through and so external influences such as heating the Environment, change in pressure, etc. largely ineffective, so that it is ensured that a predetermined flow of liquid 17 is continuously ensured.
  • the design of the device 10 according to FIG. 5 differs from that according to FIG. 4 in that the capillary liquid reservoir 15, which also has a tubular cross section, bears directly against the inside of the liquid container 11, while the inside of the tubular capillary liquid reservoir 15 from a separate tube 22 is limited.
  • the device 10 shown in FIG. 6 is designed in the form of an ordinary fountain pen, the liquid container 11 being in the form of a volume-variable container which can be filled by means of a manually operated filling piston.
  • the tip 12 in the device 10 according to FIG. 6 is not designed here as a tube tip but as a spring, as is usually used in fountain pens.
  • a space 27 filled with a capillary means 26 is inserted into the air supply pipe, liquid 17 being collected in this space 27 or in the capillary means 26 arranged there, small amounts of liquid 17 as a whole can penetrate into the end of the air supply pipe 13 projecting into the container interior 25 by a shaking process or by a rapid movement or by heating the device 10.
  • the space 27 or the means 26 arranged therein prevents the liquid 17 from escaping from the opening of the air supply pipe 13 pointing towards the atmosphere 14.

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