Classifications

• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
  • A47K—SANITARY EQUIPMENT NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TOILET ACCESSORIES
  • A47K7/00—Body washing or cleaning implements
  • A47K7/02—Bathing sponges, brushes, gloves, or similar cleaning or rubbing implements
  • A47K7/03—Bathing sponges, brushes, gloves, or similar cleaning or rubbing implements containing soap or other cleaning ingredients, e.g. impregnated

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• the present invention relates to devices for holding and applying fluid products.
• the invention refers to a device for holding and applying fluid products mainly fit for human body applications.
• the main drawback of these known devices consists in the difficulty of dosing the detergent: in fact the users, after opening the envelope, must draw sequentially several detergent doses for washing the different body portions or for making more washings.
• the operation is hard because of the envelope shape which, once opened, can be difficulty positioned in such a way to avoid the residual product leakage, furthermore the dosing depends on the tear dimensions which are difficult to be calibrated mostly when the envelope opening is made with wet hands.
• impermeable envelopes and watertight containers that can be closed again and contain one or more napkins, generally in nonwoven fabric, soaked with liquid products for instance for the hygiene without water, repellent for insects, refreshing, disinfectants and similar.
• the main object of the present invention is to propose a device for holding and applying fluid products to the body, fit for containing suitable volumes of these products.
• a further object is to propose a device including means for applying fluid products to skin and/or hair. Further object is to propose a device suitable for making single-dose products and reusable products.
• Another object of the present invention is to propose a device having a comfortable, easy and safe use, with an easy and inexpensive production.
• numeral 1 indicates a container, numeral 2 a sponge and numeral 3 a fluid product for instance liquid detergent, a solution for the body hygiene, a disinfectant liquid, a solar oil or other cosmetics or a repellent liquid against the insects or other. It is provided that the fluid can be also a product fit for the animal care or the object maintenance.
• a fluid product for instance liquid detergent, a solution for the body hygiene, a disinfectant liquid, a solar oil or other cosmetics or a repellent liquid against the insects or other. It is provided that the fluid can be also a product fit for the animal care or the object maintenance.
• the container 1 is constituted by an envelope 4 substantially rectangular, made of flexible and waterproof material, for instance film sheets of the so-called "joined” type, inside which the sponge 2 and the fluid 3, soaking the sponge 2, are sealed.
• the envelope 4 can be made by a tubular, for instance carried out by welding the longitudinal edges of a band refolded into tubular shape, cut in portions of suitable length and closed by welding each end 5.
• an opening mean 6 for instance a notch positioned in a welding area.
• the sponge 2 made of material fit for absorbing fluid, because the relaxation following a compression and/or the capillarity, and fit for releasing the fluid soaked thereto because of a compression, is carried out in synthetic material, such as for instance flexible solid foam with open cells or hydrophile fibers, or in natural materials such as, for instance, natural sponge, cotton fabric sponge and the like.
• the sponge 2, impregnated with the fluid 3 is sealed in the envelope 4 in which it can be positioned a further amount of fluid 3, by providing the absorption by the sponge 2, in consequence of the relaxation and the expansion of this latter, when removed from the envelope 4.
• the amount of fluid 3 in the envelope 4 corresponds to a single use dose.
• the device of the present invention is made for the personal hygiene and the fluid 3 is a bath foam
• the user opens the envelope 4, removes the sponge 2, and for instance leans this latter on a soap holder and uses several times the bubblebath, during bath or shower, exploiting the progressive release of the bubblebath from the sponge 2. After use the sponge can be disposed.
• the second device embodiment shown in figure 4, provides that the container 1 consists of a vessel 7, for instance made of semi-rigid plastic, having an opening 9 removably associated to a watertight cap 8.
• the cap 8 can be a simple detachable closing film of the type used in the food packaging.
• the cap 8 is provided closable for instance of screw or joint type.
• the cap 8 of closable type allows preserving in the container 7 besides the sponge 2, a reserve of fluid 3 that allows the repeated use of the device.
• the opening 9 of the vessel 7 has a truncated conical portion 12 whose smallest base 13 is fixed to the vessel 7 and has an area slightly smaller than the areas of the transversal sections of the sponge 2.
• the extraction of the sponge 2 cause a light compression of this latter in the portion of the opening 9 corresponding to the smallest base 13 in such a way to eliminate the excess of fluid 3 from the sponge 2.
• the shape of the truncated conical portion 12 of the opening 9 makes easier inserting the sponge into the vessel 7.
• the sponge 2 when it is positioned inside the container 7, partially fill the opening 9 in such a way to guarantee an easy grip and removal of said sponge 2.
• the opening 9 can be without the truncated conical portion 12.
• a variant of the second embodiment, shown in figure 5, provides fixing an end of the sponge 2 to the inner side of the cap 8. This solution facilitates the removal of the sponge 2 from the container 7 and allows also a comfortable "tampon application", particularly useful in some cases, for instance when the fluid 2 is a skin disinfectant.
• the sponge 2 may assume different shapes: particularly it may have substantially a parallelepipedal or cylindrical shape or a shape reproducing the profile of figurative graphical elements, such as for instance the bell of figure 6.
• the main advantage of the present invention is to provide a single-dose or reusable device for ready availability and application of sufficient amount for one or more uses.
• a further advantage is to provide a device, including means for applying fluid products to the skin and/or the hair, comfortable, safe, effective and inexpensive.

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  • 2000-07-21 IT IT2000BO000451A patent/ITBO20000451A1/it unknown
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