EP0630597B1 - Ensemble pour la distribution et l'application d'un produit fluide - Google Patents

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EP0630597B1
EP0630597B1 EP94401376A EP94401376A EP0630597B1 EP 0630597 B1 EP0630597 B1 EP 0630597B1 EP 94401376 A EP94401376 A EP 94401376A EP 94401376 A EP94401376 A EP 94401376A EP 0630597 B1 EP0630597 B1 EP 0630597B1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A46—BRUSHWARE
    • A46B—BRUSHES
    • A46B11/00—Brushes with reservoir or other means for applying substances, e.g. paints, pastes, water
    • A46B11/0072—Details
    • A46B11/0079—Arrangements for preventing undesired leakage or dispensing
    • 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
    • A45D34/04—Appliances specially adapted for applying liquid, e.g. using roller or ball
    • A45D34/042—Appliances specially adapted for applying liquid, e.g. using roller or ball using a brush or the like
    • A45D34/043—Appliances specially adapted for applying liquid, e.g. using roller or ball using a brush or the like movable within the container
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A46—BRUSHWARE
    • A46B—BRUSHES
    • A46B11/00—Brushes with reservoir or other means for applying substances, e.g. paints, pastes, water
    • A46B11/001—Brushes with reservoir or other means for applying substances, e.g. paints, pastes, water with integral reservoirs
    • A46B11/002—Brushes with reservoir or other means for applying substances, e.g. paints, pastes, water with integral reservoirs pressurised at moment of use manually or by powered means
    • A46B11/0041—Flexible or deformable reservoirs, e.g. resilient bulbs, compressible tubes
    • 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
    • B65D47/00—Closures with filling and discharging, or with discharging, devices
    • B65D47/04—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps
    • B65D47/20—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps comprising hand-operated members for controlling discharge
    • B65D47/24—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps comprising hand-operated members for controlling discharge with poppet valves or lift valves, i.e. valves opening or closing a passageway by a relative motion substantially perpendicular to the plane of the seat
    • B65D47/241—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps comprising hand-operated members for controlling discharge with poppet valves or lift valves, i.e. valves opening or closing a passageway by a relative motion substantially perpendicular to the plane of the seat the valve being opened or closed by actuating a cap-like element
    • B65D47/244—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps comprising hand-operated members for controlling discharge with poppet valves or lift valves, i.e. valves opening or closing a passageway by a relative motion substantially perpendicular to the plane of the seat the valve being opened or closed by actuating a cap-like element being rotated without axial translation, whilst transmitting axial motion to an internal valve stem or valve seat

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  • the present invention relates to an assembly for the distribution and application of a fluid product.
  • the present invention therefore relates to an assembly for the distribution and application of a fluid product
  • a fluid product comprising a bottle containing said product, an applicator holder provided with an applicator and an impregnation channel for impregnating the applicator with said product, the applicator holder being movable in translation relative to an operating sleeve carried by the bottle between a position where the impregnation channel is closed and a position where said channel is open, said operating sleeve being able to be actuated manually in rotation relative to the bottle and having a length such that in the closed position of the impregnation channel, the applicator is entirely contained in said maneuvering sleeve, said maneuvering sleeve carrying an internal thread, which cooperates with an external thread of the applicator holder, said applicator holder being locked in rotation relative to the operating sleeve, characterized in that, part, the obturator of the impregnation channel is produced by means of a needle secured
  • the applicator holder is driven in a translational movement both relative to the operating sleeve and relative to the needle holder between two positions, a position where the channel d 'impregnation is closed and where the applicator is fully contained in the operating sleeve and a position where the impregnation channel is open and where the applicator is removed from the operating sleeve so as to allow the application of the product.
  • the operating sleeve carries an internal thread cooperating with an external thread of the applicator holder, the applicator holder being locked in rotation.
  • the external thread of the applicator holder has only one to two turns moving between the turns of the internal thread of the operating sleeve closest to the bottle and the furthest turns from the bottle.
  • the applicator holder is advantageously locked in rotation by a fin secured to said applicator holder, disposed in a slot made in the needle holder which is fixed because it is secured to the bottle.
  • the assembly of the invention comprises a cap capable of covering the end of the operating sleeve when the applicator is in the closed position of the impregnation channel.
  • This cap advantageously comprises a sealing skirt extending towards the inside of the cap and capable of pressing on the end of the operating sleeve containing the applicator in the closed position of the impregnation channel.
  • the assembly shown in Figure 1, designated by the reference 1, is a set of distribution and application of nail polish. It consists of a semi-rigid bottle 2 cylindrical of revolution capable of containing the nail varnish.
  • a ball 3 intended for stirring the varnish and for suspending the pigments contained in this varnish.
  • the bottle 2 is provided with a bottom 4, with a cylindrical side wall 5 and, on the side opposite the bottom 4, with a neck 6 providing an opening 7.
  • the neck 6 consists, on the one hand, of a tapered skirt 8 connected to the cylindrical wall 5 of the bottle 2 by a shoulder 9 perpendicular to the axis of the bottle and carrying a flange 10 and, on the other hand, a cylindrical skirt 11 having the same diameter as the part of smaller diameter of the frustoconical skirt 8 (see Figures 2 and 3).
  • the needle holder 12 On the neck 6 of the bottle 2, is fixed a needle holder 12 carrying a metal needle 13.
  • the needle holder can therefore neither move in translation nor in rotation relative to the bottle 2.
  • the needle holder 12 has a external cylindrical portion 14 of which a free edge rests on the shoulder 9 of the neck and which has an external diameter equal to the external diameter of the cylindrical wall 5 of the bottle 2.
  • the internal face of the portion 14 is provided with an annular groove 15 capable of cooperating, by breakdown, with the bead 10 of the neck 6 of the bottle 2.
  • the external portion 14 is connected, by an annular flange 16 perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the bottle, to a sealing skirt 17 comprising a cylindrical part 18 having an external diameter equal, to the clearance necessary for mounting, to the internal diameter of the cylindrical skirt 11 of the neck 6 of the bottle 2.
  • the cylindrical part 18 of the sealing skirt 17 is extended by a frustoconical part 19 towards the bottom 4 of the bottle 2.
  • the frustoconical part 19 of the sealing skirt 17 is connected by means of a transverse flange 20 to a sleeve 21, extending towards the outside of the bottle 2, providing a passage 22 for the varnish to be distributed. In the sleeve 21, a longitudinal slot 23 is formed.
  • the end of the sleeve 21, outside the bottle, carries a hub 24 which is connected to said sleeve 21 by three arms 25; three openings 54 (see Figure 4) are thus formed between the arms 25, the hub 24 and the sleeve 21.
  • On the hub 24 is fixed a tube 26 in which the needle 13 is forced.
  • the needle holder 12 also comprises, on the collar 16, a fixing skirt 27 of the operating sleeve 40 having a diameter close to the opening diameter of the neck 6 and carrying on its external face an external annular bead 28 and on its face internal an internal annular groove 29.
  • the brush holder 30 is formed of a first cylindrical element 31 having, apart from the necessary clearance, an internal diameter equal to the external diameter of the sleeve 21, this first cylindrical element 31 carrying, at its end turned towards the inside of the bottle, a sealing lip 34 cooperating, sealingly, with the external surface of the sleeve 21.
  • the first cylindrical element 31 is connected to a frustoconical element 32 of decreasing diameter towards the outside connected to a second cylindrical element 33 having a smaller diameter than the first element 31.
  • a radial fin 35 On the element frustoconical 32 and on a part of the first cylindrical element 31 is disposed a radial fin 35 whose internal edge is parallel to the longitudinal axis of the assembly. This fin 35 is capable of cooperating with the slot 23 of the sleeve 21 of the needle holder 12.
  • the external wall of the first cylindrical element 31 of the brush holder 30 is provided with a helical thread 37 with a pitch and a half.
  • the outwardly facing end of the brush holder 30 carries a sealing bead 36.
  • the brush 38 consists of an annular clip 39 in which a crown of bristles is pinched, the clip providing a channel 53.
  • the clip 39 is forcibly engaged in the outwardly facing end of the element 33, of smaller diameter, of the brush holder 30.
  • the brush holder 30 is surrounded by an operating sleeve 40 fixed on the fixing skirt 27 of the needle holder 12.
  • This sleeve 40 comprises a first thin cylindrical element 41 provided with an annular bead 42 of snap cooperating with the annular groove 29 of the fixing skirt 27 so that the operating sleeve 40 can rotate relative to the needle holder 12 and, consequently, relative to the bottle 2.
  • the second cylindrical element 43 is thicker than the first cylindrical element 41; the internal surfaces of the cylindrical element 41 and the second cylindrical element 43 are in line with one another, and the external surface of the second cylindrical element 43 is in line with the external surface of the fixing skirt 27 .
  • the internal surface of the cylindrical elements 41 and 43 carries a net 44 intended to cooperate with the net 37 of the cylindrical element 31 of the brush holder 30.
  • a third element 45 of the operating sleeve 40 is a frustoconical element with the same angle at the top than that of the frustoconical element 32 of the brush holder 30 and a fourth element 46 is a cylindrical element having an internal diameter equal, apart from the necessary clearance, to the external diameter of the cylindrical element 33 of the brush holder 30.
  • the cylindrical element 46 is extended outwards according to a frustoconical flange 47.
  • a cap 48 (FIG. 3) protects the operating sleeve 40 and the brush 38 contained in said sleeve 40.
  • the cap 48 comprises a cylindrical fixing skirt 49 whose outside diameter is the same as that of the bottle 2 and of the external skirt 14 of the needle holder 12 and carrying on its internal face a snap bead 50 capable of cooperating with the external bead 28 of the fixing skirt 27 of the needle holder 12.
  • a sealing skirt 52 is carried by the bottom 51 of the cap 48 and comes to bear, when the cap 48 is in place, on the cylindrical element 46 of the operating sleeve 40.
  • the distribution and application assembly 1 operates in the manner described below.
  • the cap 48 is fixed on the needle holder 12 and the brush holder 30 is arranged so that the fin 35 is in abutment at the bottom of the slot 23 of the needle holder 12 and that the thread 37 of the brush holder 30 cooperates with the turns of the thread 44 of the operating cap 40 closest to the bottle.
  • the brush is then entirely contained in the cylindrical element 46 of the operating sleeve 40.
  • the needle 13 closes the channel 53 of the brush 38.
  • the product contained in the bottle 2 can then pass through the passage 22, formed by the sleeve 21 of the needle holder 12, through the openings 54 between the hub 24 and its arms 25 for attachment to the sleeve 21, through the internal space 55 of the brush holder 30 around the needle 13, and, finally, through the channel 53 of the brush 38 (see FIG. 2).
  • the brush holder 30 abuts against the flange 47 of the maneuvering sleeve 40, the frustoconical elements 32 of the brush holder 30 and 45 of the maneuvering sleeve 40 are arranged one against the other and the thread 37 of the brush holder cooperates with the outermost turns of the thread 44 of the operating sleeve 40.
  • the user turns the maneuvering sleeve 40 relative to the bottle 2 so as to give the brush holder 30 a movement of translation opposite to the previous movement until the brush holder 30 returns to its storage position.
  • the varnish contained in the bottle 2 cannot be accidentally dispensed: the needle 13 closes the channel 53 of the brush 38, and the brush 38 , protected by the operating sleeve 40, cannot come into contact with environmental objects and soil them.

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FR2706747B1 (enrdf_load_stackoverflow) 1996-02-09
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FR2706747A1 (enrdf_load_stackoverflow) 1994-12-30

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