EP0626321B1 - Flüssigkeitsabgabevorrichtung ohne Saugrohr - Google Patents

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EP0626321B1
EP0626321B1 EP94401151A EP94401151A EP0626321B1 EP 0626321 B1 EP0626321 B1 EP 0626321B1 EP 94401151 A EP94401151 A EP 94401151A EP 94401151 A EP94401151 A EP 94401151A EP 0626321 B1 EP0626321 B1 EP 0626321B1
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Claude Jouillat
Olivier De Pous
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A45—HAND OR TRAVELLING ARTICLES
    • A45D—HAIRDRESSING OR SHAVING EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT FOR COSMETICS OR COSMETIC TREATMENTS, e.g. FOR MANICURING OR PEDICURING
    • A45D34/00—Containers or accessories specially adapted for handling liquid toiletry or cosmetic substances, e.g. perfumes
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05B—SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
    • B05B11/00—Single-unit hand-held apparatus in which flow of contents is produced by the muscular force of the operator at the moment of use
    • B05B11/0005—Components or details
    • B05B11/0059—Components or details allowing operation in any orientation, e.g. for discharge in inverted position
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05B—SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
    • B05B11/00—Single-unit hand-held apparatus in which flow of contents is produced by the muscular force of the operator at the moment of use
    • B05B11/01—Single-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
    • B05B11/04—Deformable containers producing the flow, e.g. squeeze bottles
    • B05B11/042—Deformable containers producing the flow, e.g. squeeze bottles the spray being effected by a gas or vapour flow in the nozzle, spray head, outlet or dip tube
    • B05B11/043—Deformable containers producing the flow, e.g. squeeze bottles the spray being effected by a gas or vapour flow in the nozzle, spray head, outlet or dip tube designed for spraying a liquid

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  • the present invention relates to a liquid distribution device usable in upright position, and not including a dip tube.
  • the invention relates to a distribution device, adapted to be hand-held, and which includes a pump mounted on a liquid reservoir, the pump being above the free surface of the liquid in the tank during use of the device.
  • Such devices In the prior art, such devices always included a dip tube which extended from the dispenser to the bottom of the tank.
  • a dip tube has several disadvantages. First, it prohibits certain forms of original bottles, especially in the field of perfumery.
  • a dip tube in a container transparent has an aesthetic disadvantage, and the great diversity of forms of container implies the obligation to manufacture tubes adapted practically to each specific form.
  • the variation in length of the tube linked to the bottom of the glassware prevents an industrial definition of said dip tube.
  • the volume of liquid retained by the retention member constitutes a reserve liquid intermediate which allows one or more actuations of the device.
  • said retention member has the shape of a cup which is arranged around and below the inlet port of the pump when the device is in its upright position.
  • said retention member is fixed to the body of pump, preferably by nesting.
  • the upper ends of said flexible tabs form a fictitious circle whose diameter is greater than said inside diameter of the neck of the container, said flexible tabs which can be folded down during the positioning of said retention inside the container neck, then return to their flared shape, when the pump is mounted on the container.
  • said retention member is fixed to the neck of the container.
  • the pump body has, on its part located in the tank, ribs or grooves to retain a certain amount of liquid by capillarity when the tilt or agitation of the device, this amount of liquid then flowing along of the pump body in the receiving member under the effect of gravitation when the device is returned to its upright position.
  • said retention member has a cavity adapted to retain said pure capillarity liquid.
  • Said cavity is arranged under the pump inlet, and said cavity is open downward when the device is in an upright position.
  • Said cavity may have internal ribs to increase the contact surface between the wall of said cavity and the volume of liquid retained in the cavity.
  • the device To recharge the liquid retention member, it is necessary to turn the device in inverted position or shake it. A user may not think systematically return or shake the device before actuating it, in which case actuation does not produce any outflow of liquid or deactivates the dispenser. For avoid this drawback, the device may have an external shape such that it cannot be stably laid only in an inverted or tilted position.
  • a first application of the invention relates to the pumps mounted on the tanks made of transparent material and, for example, perfume bottles made of glass or crystal.
  • the device can be particularly advantageous, because that it does away with the usual unsightly dip tube in a bottle transparent.
  • the device of FIG. 1 comprises a pump 1 mounted on a container 2.
  • the container 2 is filled with a liquid 3 which has a free surface 4.
  • the volume located above of the free surface 4 can be empty or be filled with air or another gas, atmospheric pressure or at another pressure (for example in overpressure).
  • the pump 1 comprises a pump body 7 having one end, inlet 7a, provided an inlet 5 which communicates with the container 2.
  • the pump 1 comprises in addition to a hollow actuating rod 8, slidably mounted in the pump body 7, and which controls a piston (not shown).
  • the pump 1 can also include a pusher 10 (FIG. 6) which is mounted on the actuating rod 8.
  • the pusher comprises an outlet, which communicates with the actuating rod 8, to allow the expulsion of a dose of liquid.
  • a retention 6, which is here a cup, arranged around and under the orifice 5 in the position shown in Figure 1, and which is open at the top.
  • This cup can be by example in plastic or glass.
  • the cup 6 includes ribs 12, for example four, which make it possible to fix the cup 6 on the body of pump 7, for example by fitting on the inlet end 7a (generally called tube holder) of the pump body.
  • the present invention is shown in Figures 2 and 3 which show a variant of the cup of Figure 1.
  • the cup 6 has a bottom 16 and a substantially cylindrical side wall 17 whose outside diameter is preferably slightly smaller than the inside diameter of the neck 2a of the container 2.
  • flexible tabs 18 can be arranged around the upper end of said side wall 17 so as to flare from said cup towards the neck 2 of the tank at an angle with said wall. So the upper ends of said flexible tabs 18 form a fictitious circle of diameter greater than the inside diameter of the container neck.
  • the flexible tabs 18 fold down to slide along said neck then move away to possibly abut with their upper ends on the wall of the container located under said neck 2a. Besides the increases the capillarity effect above the cup 6 and thus ensures a total filling of this cup when the device is actuated, the flexible tabs 18 guarantee the inviolability of the device.
  • FIGs 4 and 5 show another embodiment of the cup, which does not is not part of the invention.
  • the cup 6 is here fixed on the neck 2a of the container.
  • She has a bottom 16 and a cylindrical side wall 17 extending over the entire height of the neck 2a of the container and comprising at least one opening 19 to let the product pass of the container 2 in the cup 6.
  • a annular surface 20 extends outwardly from the cup 6 substantially horizontal. This annular surface 20 comes to rest on the upper end of the neck 2a of the container when the device is placed in said container.
  • the cup 6 and the pump body 7, part of which also extends above said end top of the container neck 2a, are then fixed to the container neck by means conventional fixing 40 such as, for example a snap ring, as shown in figure 4.
  • the assembly cup / fixing means is made in one piece, the cup 6 comprising around the outer end of said horizontal annular surface 20, a flange 21 substantially cylindrical extending vertically on either side of said annular surface 20.
  • This cylindrical flange 21 has in its lower part 22 means for fixing the device on the container neck.
  • These fixing means may include tabs latching 23 snapping onto the container neck, as shown in the FIG. 5.
  • the cylindrical flange 21 is similar to a so-called snap ring, well known in the state of the art.
  • said fixing means may also include an internal thread cooperating with an external thread of the neck of the container, said cylindrical flange 21 being in this case of the screwable ring type.
  • the retention member that is to say the cup 6 in the modes described above, is made of a sufficiently flexible material to seal in the container neck.
  • a material can for example be a elastomer or a thermoplastic-elastomer (TPE), and the seal can be ensured either vertically on the inside of the glass neck via the wall lateral 17, or horizontally on the upper end of the container neck, by through the horizontal annular surface 20.
  • cup 6 could also be of frustoconical shape with a bottom 16 reduced to a minimum, or of semi-spherical shape, like the one shown in figure 1.
  • the device operates as follows.
  • the device Before actuating the device, it is shaken, tilted or returned to position reversed, with the pump 1 placed under the container 2. The liquid 3 is then at the near the inlet port 5 of the pump. Then replace the device in position right, with the pump 1 placed above the container 2. During this movement of inversion, a certain volume 15 of liquid remains inside the cup 6. The retention of liquid inside the cup 6 is partially due to the fact that the flipping movement is quite fast. But this fluid retention is also due to capillarity, due to the contact surface of the liquid inside 6a of the cup 6.
  • the interior 6a of the cup 6 can be provided with ribs for increase the contact surface between the liquid and the interior 6a of the cup, so as to increase fluid retention.
  • the body of pump 7 can be provided on its part located inside the container 2 with grooves or ribs 50 for retaining a certain amount of liquid during tilting or agitation of the device, this quantity of liquid then flowing along the body of pump 7 in the receiving member 6 under the effect of gravity when the device is returned to its upright position.
  • This implementation ensures a transfer of a maximum of product in the cup, especially when there is little product left in the container.
  • the volume 15 may possibly correspond to several actuations of the pump: it can for example correspond to a daily dose of the liquid product.
  • the device of the invention can limit the uncontrolled use by children, since it must be returned before use.
  • the device can have a shape such that it can only be placed in stable equilibrium in an inclined position, for example its inverted position.
  • the retention member of the device retains necessarily liquid when the user takes it in an upright position to activate it.
  • the container has a conical shape
  • the device comprises furthermore a cylindrical cover 13 having a flat bottom 14, which makes it possible to place the device in reverse position.
  • the container has a shape ovoid allowing it to be placed in the supine position.

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  1. Abgabevorrichtung für eine Flüssigkeit, die ohne Treibgas arbeitet und einen Spender (1) umfaßt, der auf einem Behälter (2) montiert ist, der die Flüssigkeit (3) enthält,
    wobei die Flüssigkeit in dem Behälter eine freie Oberfläche (4) bildet und der Spender eine Eintrittsöffnung (5) aufweist, die in der aufrechten Position der Vorrichtung, in der sich der Spender (1) teilweise oberhalb des Behälters (2) befindet, oberhalb der freien Oberfläche (4) angeordnet ist, wobei diese aufrechte Position die Betätigungsposition der Vorrichtung ist,
    und wobei die Vorrichtung ein Rückhalteorgan (6) für die Flüssigkeit aufweist, die mit der Eintrittsöffnung (5) und dem Behälter (2) in Verbindung steht, wobei das Rückhalteorgan für die Flüssigkeit so ausgebildet ist, daß es ein bestimmtes Volumen (15) der Flüssigkeit aufnimmt, wenn die Vorrichtung hin und her bewegt oder bezüglich der aufrechten Position geneigt wird, und wobei das Rückhalteorgan für die Flüssigkeit so ausgebildet ist, daß es dieses Flüssigkeitsvolumen (15) so zurückhält, daß es mit mit der Eintrittsöffnung (5) in Verbindung steht, wenn sich die Vorrichtung in ihrer aufrechten Position befindet,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der Spender eine Pumpe (1) ist, die einen Pumpenkörper (7) umfaßt, und daß das Rückhalteorgan (6) einen Boden (16) und eine Seitenwand (17) umfaßt, deren Außendurchmesser kleiner ist als der Innendurchmesser des Halses (2a) des Behälters, und daß das Rückhalteorgan (6) weiterhin um das obere Ende seiner Seitenwand (17) herum nachgiebige Finger (18) umfaßt, die sich zum Hals des Behälters auseinanderlaufend in einer Richtung erstrecken, die mit der Senkrechten einen Winkel bildet, um ein vollständiges Füllen des Rückhalteorgans sicherzustellen.
  2. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 1, bei der das Rückhalteorgan die Form einer Kupelle (6) aufweist, die um die Pumpe (1) herum angeordnet ist und sich unter dieser befindet, wenn sich die Vorrichtung in ihrer aufrechten Stellung befindet.
  3. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 1 oder 2, bei der das Rückhalteorgan (6) am Pumpenkörper (7) befestigt ist.
  4. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 3, bei der das Rückhalteorgan (6) in das untere Ende (7a) des Pumpenkörpers (7) mit Hilfe von Rippen (12) eingefügt ist.
  5. Vorrichtung nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, bei der die oberen Enden der nachgiebigen Finger (18) einen fiktiven Kreis bilden, dessen Durchmesser größer ist als der Innendurchmesser des Halses des Behälters, so daß sich die elastischen Finger (18) beim Einsetzen des Rückhalteorgans (6) in das Innere des Halses des Behälters nach innen bewegen und dann wieder ihre ausgeweitete Form annehmen können, wenn die Pumpe (1) am Behälter (2) montiert ist.
  6. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 1 oder 2, bei der das Rückhalteorgan (6) am Hals (2a) des Behälters befestigt ist.
  7. Vorrichtung nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, bei der der Pumpenkörper (7) an seinem im Behälter befindlichen Teil Rippen oder Rillen (50) aufweist, um beim Neigen oder hin- und herbewegen der Vorrichtung eine bestimmte Menge an Flüssigkeit zurückzuhalten, wobei diese Flüssigkeitsmenge danach unter der Wirkung der Schwerkraft längs des Pumpenkörpers in das Rückhalteorgan (6) fließt, wenn die Vorrichtung in ihre aufrechte Position zurückgebracht wird.
  8. Vorrichtung nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, die eine derartige äußere Form besitzt, daß sie nur in der geneigten oder umgedrehten Form in stabiler Weise abgestellt werden kann.
  9. Vorrichtung nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, bei der der Behälter (2) aus einem transparenten Material besteht.
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FR9306310A FR2705590B1 (fr) 1993-05-26 1993-05-26 Dispositif de distribution de liquide utilisable en position droite et ne comportant pas de tube-plongeur.
FR9306310 1993-05-26

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