EP0641604B1 - Dispositif de pulvérisation pour réservoir de liquide - Google Patents

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EP0641604B1
EP0641604B1 EP94113554A EP94113554A EP0641604B1 EP 0641604 B1 EP0641604 B1 EP 0641604B1 EP 94113554 A EP94113554 A EP 94113554A EP 94113554 A EP94113554 A EP 94113554A EP 0641604 B1 EP0641604 B1 EP 0641604B1
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Karl-Heinz Rosenthal
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    • 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
    • B05B11/0035—Pen-like sprayers
    • 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
    • B05B11/02—Membranes or pistons acting on the contents inside the container, e.g. follower pistons

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  • the present invention relates to an atomizing attachment for a liquid container, in particular for application of perfume samples, the opening area at least in the is essentially cylindrical, with a cap-like outer part, the top wall of which Inside with a projection and its opposite End with a container receiving opening for the Opening area is provided, the outer part and the Liquid containers are mutually displaceable, and an inner part with a riser pipe that acts as a piston rod is formed on its in the cylindrical Opening area of the liquid container insertable end is provided with a piston.
  • US-A-4,175,704 relates to a spray device which is not for Production of aerosols is suitable and a container for the liquid to be sprayed and a plunger, which is slidable as a piston in the container.
  • a yourself longitudinally extending tubular part contains a through-channel, one end of the tubular part extending through the plunger extends to connect to the inside of the Manufacture container.
  • a spray nozzle is with a bore at the other end of the tubular part for dispensing the liquid connected depending on the reduction in the Volume of liquid between the plunger and the bottom of the Container through the bore of the tubular part and the Spray nozzle can be dispensed.
  • By pressing one Finger grip can be a limited relative movement of plunger and containers against each other in the sense of reducing the Volume of liquid between the plunger and the bottom of the Container are caused.
  • the known atomizing devices as they are in particular are known for perfume bottles and perfume bottles due to their from the atomizing attachment according to the invention deviating functional principle a complex structure on and are connected to the liquid container. Except that the complex structure of the known Atomizing devices making their assembly difficult, stands the firm connection of the atomizing device with the Liquid container also an efficient recycling of the in usually liquid containers made of glass opposite.
  • the present invention has for its object a Atomizer to create, due to a simple Structure easy to assemble and disassemble as well is reusable and a delicate spray of Container liquid, especially from fragrance samples Perfume sample containers, allows.
  • This task is accomplished by an atomizing attachment according to the Invention solved in that the riser on the opposite End is provided with a head plate, the one Pressure relief valve is assigned, the top plate of the Inner part on the underside of the head wall of the outer part is held and a between the pressure relief valve of the Inner part and the head wall of the outer part trained Valve space via a swirl channel with one in the outer part arranged outlet opening is in fluid communication.
  • the atomizing attachment according to the invention consists of only two assembly parts, namely the inner part and the outer part, which are easy to connect and to the Opening area of the liquid container can be placed, the outer part through its cap-like design for provides a closure of the liquid container.
  • the Inner part has a riser tube designed as a piston rod on that at an insertable end into the container opening with a piston and at the opposite end with a Head plate and a pressure relief valve is provided.
  • a valve space between the one with the Pressure relief valve provided end of the inner part and Head wall of the outer part is the inner part in the outer part applicable.
  • an interference fit between the head wall ensures of the outer part and the valve head plate of the inner part for a coherent, firm connection both parts of the atomizing attachment.
  • a spinal canal is provided, which ensures that if the outer part is moved relative to the liquid container and thus the inner part with its piston against the Liquid level one in the liquid container liquid is pressed, this in the riser reaches the valve chamber via the pressure relief valve and in which Spinal canal swirls outwards through the outlet opening is sprayed.
  • the atomizing attachment can be used removed from this and onto a new one containers filled with liquid must be placed.
  • the emptied liquid containers can of course also be new filled and then again with the atomizing attachment sealed or recycled.
  • the one in the transition from the valve chamber to the outlet opening provided vertebral canal can be in different ways and Formed way and either the outer part or the inner part be assigned.
  • the spinal canal can be used as a spinal canal be formed in the case of assignment of the spinal canal to the inner part in the valve's top plate Can be used inside.
  • the functional design of the spinal canal in particular the design of the flow cross section, can also be done in different ways.
  • a crescent-shaped flow cross-section has generally proven itself, as he also from the spinal canal training conventional atomizing devices is known.
  • the outer part on the inside of it Provide the head wall with a protrusion that connects to the inner part is firmly insertable into the valve chamber.
  • a particularly simple pressure relief valve can be opened by a Achieve slit valve.
  • This slit valve that preferably is provided at the upper end of the riser can with form a unit on the inside.
  • you make the Elasticity of the made from an elastic plastic Take advantage of atomizing attachment, which push apart Slit edges for opening the valve when there is a Overpressure in the riser pipe allows.
  • the valve can of course also in other ways, such as a flap valve, be trained.
  • the tilting of the inner part in the liquid container prevents above the at the end of the Riser provided piston preferably with the Standpipe serve as a one-piece support ring.
  • the atomizing attachment is suitable for miniaturization especially for use with a cylindrical container known per se for Perfume samples.
  • the atomizing attachment can be used instead a conventional cap closure for closing the Perfume sample container are used so that the unactuated atomizing attachment like a conventional cap works.
  • the atomizing attachment also serves however sprayed to deliver one or more samples Perfumes.
  • FIG. 1 shows, in one embodiment, an atomizing attachment 10 which is placed on a sample container 11 which contains a perfume sample (not shown).
  • the atomizing attachment 10 has an outer part 12 and an inner part 13.
  • the inner part 13 consists of a riser pipe 14, which on his has an inner end of a piston 15 over which in the axial distance, a support ring 31 is arranged.
  • the Inner part 13 is at its opposite end with a Provided head plate 17, which is assigned a pressure relief valve 16 is.
  • the pressure relief valve 16, the piston 15 and the support ring 31 are in one piece with the head plate 17 and the riser pipe 14 educated.
  • the pressure relief valve 16 is shown as a slit valve, whose slot edges 18 the upper end of a riser duct Seal 19 in the riser pipe 14 sealing.
  • the Pressure relief valve 16 is used to form a valve chamber 20 opposite a top stop surface 21 of the head plate 17 slightly axially set back in the axial direction of the riser pipe 14.
  • a vertebral channel 22 runs radially in the top plate 17 a fluid connection between the valve chamber 20 and one Outlet opening 23 in a cylinder jacket 24 here formed wall of the outer part 12 forms. This is the Outer part 12 with its outlet opening 23 coaxial with Spinal canal 22 aligned.
  • the spinal canal 22 is again a integral part of the head plate 17; but he can also from a pin with a helical groove exist in a radial outlet channel in the Head plate 17 is inserted.
  • Outer part 12 With a projection 25 on the inside of it Head wall 26 in an axial, upper opening 35 of the valve chamber 20 in the head plate 17 of the inner part 13 with a press fit used.
  • there is also an interference fit between the Outer periphery of the annular head plate 17 and the cylindrical inner wall 36 of the outer part 12 is preferred intended.
  • the fixed connection between Outer part 12 and inner part 13 also by gluing or Welding.
  • the end of the outer part 12 opposite the top wall 26 is provided with a container receiving opening 27 with which the outer part 12 onto a cylindrical opening area 28 of the inside and outside cylindrical sample container 11 can be placed is. 1 shows the container receiving opening 27 axially set back somewhat relative to the piston 15 in order to do that Place the atomizing attachment 10 on the sample container 11 to facilitate.
  • the outer part 12 is provided in the region of its container receiving opening 27 with a slide guide 29 which, in the exemplary embodiment shown in FIG. 1, is designed as a thickened cylinder jacket 24 at the lower end of the outer part 12.
  • the cylindrical inner wall of the cylinder jacket 24 is preferably provided with annular ribs, not shown, which slide against the cylindrical surface of the sample container 11 in order to reduce the sliding friction between the outer part 12 and the sample container 11.
  • the slide guide 29 with an inner, as Axial stop serving annular shoulder 30 provided with an outer sealing edge 31 of the sample container 11 cooperates. 1, this inner ring shoulder 30 arranged above the support ring 32 of the inner part 13, so that a secure, radial support of the lower end of the Atomizing attachment 10 on the sample container 11 and thus one perfect axial guidance of the same on the inner wall and Outer wall of the sample container 11 are guaranteed.
  • a particularly simple assembly of the two-part Atomizing attachment 10 is, first of all Inner part 13 in the outer part 12 so far with the head plate 17 to insert until the projection 25 in the opening 35 for fixed connection between inner part and outer part engages. First after this assembly of the atomizing attachment, this is on attached the sample container. As the piston 15 down protrudes, this is at the beginning in the opening of the Sample container 11 used, so that the atomizing attachment is centered with respect to the sample container. Subsequently the lower end of the slide guide 29 on the Opening area 28 pushed until the annular shoulder 30 below the closure edge 31 of the sample container 11 engages.
  • the Connection by means of a press fit or the like between the head wall 26 of the outer part 12 and the top plate 17 of the inner part 13 manufactured.
  • the protrusion 25 of the head wall 26 penetrates here into the axial opening 35 of the valve chamber 20 in the outer part 13 a so that a fluid connection between the vertebral canal 22nd of the inner part 13 and the outlet opening 23 of the outer part 12 is ensured.
  • the sample container 11 which, as shown in FIG. 1 , is closed by the atomizing attachment 10 in its starting position, the sample container 11 can be attached to a garment together with the atomizing attachment by means of a retaining clip 37 provided on the outer part 12 of the atomizing attachment 10.
  • the sample container 11 shown in FIG. 1 and sealed with the atomization attachment 10 can be taken between the thumb and index finger, a pressure being exerted on the head wall 26 by the index finger, which causes the atomization attachment 10 to be transferred into the one shown in FIG. 2 shown position relative to the sample container 11 causes.
  • This sliding movement in which the sliding guide 29 of the outer part 12 slides along the outer wall of the sample container 11, can be carried out continuously to dispense the entire sample container contents or, divided into movement sections, to dispense metered quantities of the sample container contents.
  • the pressure applied to the top wall 26 of the outer part 12 is transferred by the piston 15 to the surface of the liquid received in the sample container 11 and causes the liquid in the riser duct 19 to rise up to the pressure relief valve 16.
  • a threshold pressure value given depending on the elasticity of the slot edges 18 is reached the slot edges 18 are pressed apart to release a valve slot 38 and the liquid penetrates into the valve chamber 20, which already causes a swirling of the liquid due to the arrangement and shape of the slot valve and the valve chamber.
  • the liquid then flows into the swirl channel 22, in which the liquid is swirled before it emerges from the outlet opening 23.
  • the support ring 32 ensures that the piston 15 remains in its essentially horizontal position in FIGS. 1 and 2 and that the piston edges rest in an elastically sealing manner on the inner wall of the container.
  • FIG. 3 shows the area of the atomizing attachment 10 encircled in FIG. 1 in an enlarged representation, through which the sections shown in FIGS. 4 and 5 are placed.
  • Fig. 4 shows the pressure relief valve 16 in a plan view, wherein one can look into the valve chamber 20 and clearly see the slit edges 18 of the slit valve 16 which, when the valve slit 38 is closed, lie sealingly against one another with their contact surfaces 39 arranged approximately perpendicular to the plane of the drawing.
  • FIG. 5 shows a crescent-shaped configuration of the flow cross section from the swirl channel 22 which is known per se and which is provided in the top plate 17 of the inner part 13.

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  1. Dispositif de pulvérisation (10) pour un réservoir de liquide (11), en particulier pour la distribution de doses de parfum, dont la zone d'ouverture (28) est réalisée au moins de manière sensiblement cylindrique avec
    une partie extérieure (12) en forme de capuchon de fermeture, dont la paroi de tête (26) sur la face interne est pourvue d'une projection (25) et dont l'extrémité opposée est pourvue d'une ouverture de réception de réservoir (27) pour la zone d'ouverture (28), la partie extérieure (12) et le réservoir de liquide (11) étant coulissants l'un par rapport à l'autre, et
    une partie intérieure ayant un tube de montée (14) qui est réalisé sous la forme d'une tige de piston, qui est pourvue d'un piston (15) à son extrémité qui peut être introduite dans la zone d'ouverture cylindrique (28) du réservoir de liquide (11),
    caractérisé en ce que le tube de montée (14) est pourvu à son extrémité opposée d'une plaque de tête (17), à laquelle est associé un clapet de surpression (16), la plaque de tête (17) de la partie intérieure (13) étant maintenue fixement à la face inférieure de la paroi de tête (26) de la partie extérieure (12) et une chambre de clapet (20) formée entre la clapet de surpression (16) de la partie intérieure (13) et la paroi de tête (26) de la partie extérieure (12) étant en communication de fluide avec une ouverture de sortie (23) arrangée dans la partie extérieure (12) par l'intermédiaire d'un canal de tourbillonnement (22).
  2. Dispositif de pulvérisation selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que la fixation de la partie intérieure (13) dans la partie extérieure (12) consiste en une projection (25) au niveau de la face intérieure de la paroi de tête (26) de la partie extérieure (12) et e une ouverture axiale (35) dans la plaque de tête (17) de la partie intérieure (13), dans laquelle la projection (25) est insérable sous précontrainte.
  3. Dispositif de pulvérisation selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que le clapet de surpression est réalisé sous la forme d'un clapet à fente (16).
  4. Dispositif de pulvérisation selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que la tige de piston (14) de la partie intérieure (13) est pourvue à son extrémité en écartement au-dessus du piston (15) d'une bague d'appui (32).
  5. Dispositif de pulvérisation selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que la partie extérieure (12) est pourvue d'un guide de coulissement (29) au niveau de son extrémité pourvue de l'ouverture de réception de réservoir (27).
  6. Utilisation d'un dispositif de pulvérisation selon la revendication 5, pour la fermeture d'un réservoir de liquide (11) pour des doses de parfum, le guide de coulissement (29) étant pourvu d'un épaulement annulaire (30) pour le maintien de la partie extérieure (12) derrière un bord de fermeture (31) du réservoir de liquide (11).
  7. Dispositif de pulvérisation selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que la partie extérieure (12) est pourvue d'un dispositif pour la fixation à un habit, de préférence une agrafe de fixation (37).
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ATE179098T1 (de) 1999-05-15
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