EP1379336B1 - Spenderpumpe - Google Patents

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EP1379336B1
EP1379336B1 EP02722545A EP02722545A EP1379336B1 EP 1379336 B1 EP1379336 B1 EP 1379336B1 EP 02722545 A EP02722545 A EP 02722545A EP 02722545 A EP02722545 A EP 02722545A EP 1379336 B1 EP1379336 B1 EP 1379336B1
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Stefano Santagiuliana
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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
    • B05B11/01—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
    • B05B11/10—Pump arrangements for transferring the contents from the container to a pump chamber by a sucking effect and forcing the contents out through the dispensing nozzle
    • B05B11/1001—Piston pumps
    • B05B11/1023—Piston pumps having an outlet valve opened by deformation or displacement of the piston relative to its actuating stem
    • 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
    • B05B11/10—Pump arrangements for transferring the contents from the container to a pump chamber by a sucking effect and forcing the contents out through the dispensing nozzle
    • B05B11/1042—Components or details
    • B05B11/1073—Springs
    • B05B11/1077—Springs characterised by a particular shape or material

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  • the present invention relates to a delivery pump to be coupled to the neck of a container, particularly adapted to deliver fluids of food products, liquid detergents, creams or perfumes.
  • the delivery pumps of the prior art generally comprise a hollow body defining a suction/compression chamber for the fluid to be delivered, communicating with the container interior through a suction duct.
  • a first tight piston is slidingly coupled to the hollow body. Said tight piston in . its turn is slidingly and coaxially coupled to one end of a second piston internally provided with a tubular chamber.
  • the tubular chamber of the second piston communicates with outside through a delivery duct and with the suction/compression chamber through one or more holes made on a bottom member of the second piston.
  • Said holes are shut through two annular edges belonging to the first piston and coupled to corresponding grooves made on the bottom member of the second piston.
  • Valve means generally consisting of metal balls, interposed between the suction/compression chamber and the container interior, regulate inflow and outflow of fluid to and from the chamber.
  • elastic means generally consisting of helical springs, interposed between the hollow body and the pistons warrant return of said pistons to the rest position when delivery is over.
  • the user acting on the piston loads the elastic means and compresses the liquid contained in the suction/compression chamber at the same time bringing the first piston to its top dead centre so as to move away the annular edges of the bottom member. This action allows outflow of the liquid contained in the suction/compression chamber to the delivery duct.
  • the efficiency of suction and also the good operation of the pump in the subsequent delivery stage is caused by the seal obtained by the couple of annular edges of the first piston and the characteristics of the material used for the their manufacture.
  • a first limitation of the above mentioned designs consists in that said pumps have a limited efficiency of liquid suction from the container.
  • the object of the present invention is to overcome the above mentioned limitations and drawbacks.
  • a first object of the invention is to provide a pump insensitive to mechanical and thermal stresses underwent during the transport and stockage phases so as to warrant always a perfect sealing condition.
  • Another object is to provide a pump keeping the suction efficiency substantially constant with time.
  • a further object is to provide a delivery pump having a suction efficiency higher than the prior art pumps.
  • Still a further object is to provide a pump that after its use can be completely and immediately recycled without requiring any previous dismantling operation to separate different incompatible materials.
  • An additional object is to provide a pump which is particularly easy to be used and reliable.
  • a last but not least object is to provide, a very cheap pump of easy construction and assembly, suitable for the mass production.
  • a delivery pump for containers of fluids to be delivered that according to the main claim comprises:
  • the seal required to prevent leakage of liquid when the pump is at rest is obtained by providing three sealing zones acting at the same time, with the provision that each sealing device has at least two active surfaces, that is two annular sealing zones. According to a preferred embodiment of the invention this is obtained by the particular frustum conical configuration of the edges of the first piston.
  • the invention surprisingly allows to obtain delivery pumps having a higher suction efficiency relative to the traditional pumps, substantially constant with time.
  • the pump of the invention resulted to be insensitive to long inoperative periods.
  • the delivery pump of the present invention is shown in Fig. 1 where it is generally indicated with numeral 1.
  • the pump is provided with means 2 for the removable coupling to the neck O of a container C containing the fluid F to be delivered.
  • the pump comprises a hollow body 3 defining a first suction/compression chamber 4 for the fluid F to be delivered, communicating with the interior of container C through a suction duct 4a.
  • a first tight piston 5 is slidingly coupled to the hollow body 3, said piston being slidingly and coaxially coupled also to a bottom member 6 connected to a second piston 7, internally provided with a tubular chamber 8.
  • first piston 5 has a first annular wall 51 slidingly engaged on the cylindrical surface 31 of the first suction/compression chamber 4.
  • Said piston 5 is provided with a second generally cylindrical wall 52 of a smaller diameter that the first wall 51.
  • An annular lip 53 protrudes from the cylindrical wall 52 and extends to the first cylindrical chamber 4 of the pump body 3 starting from a generally flat annular surface 54 that as it will be explained hereinafter, acts as a striker for drawing said first piston 5 during pump operation.
  • a second piston 7 Inside said first piston 5 there is a second piston 7 with a tubular cavity 8 connected at its first end to the delivery duct 12 of the pump and at the other end to a bottom member 6 rigidly connected to said second piston.
  • annular bottom member 6 is rigidly connected to the second piston 7 through a snap connection of two annular cavities made on said bottom member conjugated with corresponding protrusions made on the tubular bottom portion of the piston 7.
  • the bottom member 6 has a set of holes 61 putting the tubular chamber 8 of the second piston 7 in communication with the first cylindrical chamber 4 when the pump is in the working position, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, that is when the bottom member 6 is spaced from the lower lip 521 of the cylindrical wall 52 of the first piston 5.
  • the bottom member 6 has also two lower and upper annular grooves 62 and 63 respectively, co-operating with corresponding annular edges belonging to the second cylindrical wall 52 and the annular lip 53 of the first piston when the pump is at rest and is returned by elastic means generally indicated with numeral 16.
  • Said elastic means 16 consist of a bellows spring 40 fully made of plastic material and having a perimetral spiral ridge 41.
  • Said bellows spring is connected at one side to the delivery cap 13 and at the other side to the pump connection means 2.
  • the delivery cap 13 is rigidly connected also to the last part of the second piston 7 so that when the pump is manually actuated, exerting with fingers a pressure on the delivery cap and therefore on the bellows 40, the piston 7 is drawn downwards and consequently the annular flat surface 71 of such a piston goes into contact with the annular surface 54 of the first piston drawing it downwards.
  • an annular opening 14 is created through which the previously pumped fluid present in the first chamber 4 is transferred through the holes 61, inside the tubular chamber 8 of piston 7 and to the outside through said chamber and the duct 12.
  • the second piston 7 is guided in its stroke by the cylindrical part 91 of an intermediate body 9, which is arranged inside the pump body 3.
  • the intermediate body 9 may be structurally separated from the pump body 3 or moulded as a single piece with the pump body 3.
  • Said intermediate body 9 has also a groove 92 that as explained hereinafter, co-operates with the annular edge of the second cylindrical wall 52 of the first piston 51.
  • a double sealing surface can offer a greater sealing warranty in comparison with a single surface.
  • the edges have a frustum conical profile while the grooves belong to surfaces that in view of their shape define together with the surface of the annular edges at least a double sealing ring.
  • the surfaces 521a and 521b of the edge 521 create two sealing rings with corresponding surfaces 63a and 63b of the groove 63. In this way, any possible pouring from chamber 4 to chamber 8 and therefore leakage of liquid is clearly prevented.
  • FIG. 4 A first constructional version of the sealing zones is shown in detail in Figs. 4 and 6. Such a version is different from the preceding embodiment because the sealing edges of the cylindrical wall 52 have each the curved profile instead of a frustum conical one.
  • each surface 21b, 20b belonging to the edge 521 of the cylindrical wall 52 and 21a, 20a belonging to a corresponding groove 62 is constituted by a parabola stretch.
  • Fig. 6 provides that surfaces 22a, 23a and 22b, 23b of each edge and each groove belong to an arc of circle.
  • the two surfaces may have one a curved profile and the other a rectilinear profile or vice-versa as shown in Figs. 7 and 8.
  • FIG. 9 Another constructional version shown in detail in Fig. 9 is different from the preceding one because the sealing surfaces of the edges of the cylindrical wall 52 and of each conjugated groove define four discrete annular sealing zones instead of only two as in the preceding embodiments. Indeed, a first couple of seals is obtained conjugating the surfaces 26a with 26b and surfaces 27a with 27b while another couple is obtained conjugating surfaces 24a with 24b and 25a with 25b.
  • the delivery pump 1 is fully made of plastic material making it immediately and totally recyclable.
  • the plastic material used for making the first piston 5 has special mechanical features allowing to obtain an optimal seal.

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Claims (11)

  1. Eine Förderpumpe für Flüssigkeiten, Folgendes umfassend:
    - einen Pumpenkörper (3), der durch Verbindungsmittel (2) mit dem Hals eines Behälters (C) verbunden ist, welcher eine auszugebende Flüssigkeit enthält, wobei der Pumpenkörper eine erste, im Wesentlichen zylindrische Kammer (4) bildet, die geeignet ist, die aus dem Behälterinneren stammende Flüssigkeit aufzunehmen, und diese erste Kammer Ventile (17) aufweist, über welcher sie mit dem Flüssigkeitsbehälter in Verbindung gesetzt wird;
    - einen ersten Kolben (5) mit einer ersten, ringförmigen Wand (51), der an der zylindrischen Fläche (31) der ersten Kammer entlang gleitet, wobei dieser erste Kolben eine zweite, im Wesentlichen zylindrische Wand (52) aufweist, die sich bezüglich der ersten, ringförmigen Wand innen befindet, sowie eine ringförmige Lippe (53), die aus der zweiten Wand herausragt und der zylindrischen Kammer (4) gegenüber liegt;
    - einen zweiten, hohlen Kolben (7), der koaxial zum ersten Kolben (5) steht und eine zweite, röhrenförmige Kammer (8) definiert, wobei dieser zweite Kolben an einem Ende mit einer Flüssigkeits-Auslassleitung (12) verbunden ist und am anderen Ende ein starr mit dem zweiten Kolben (7) befestigtes Bodenglied (6) aufweist, das ein oder mehrere Löcher (61) hat, welche die röhrenförmige Kammer (8) mit der ersten Kammer (4) des Pumpenkörpers in Verbindung bringen, und das ringförmige Rillen (62, 63) aufweist, die mit dem ersten Kolben (5) zusammenwirken, um Dichtungsbereiche zu erzeugen;
    - elastische Mittel (16), die geeignet sind, den ersten und den zweiten Kolben nach der Flüssigkeitsausgabe in die Ruheposition zurückzubringen;
    - einen Zwischenkörper (9) innerhalb des Pumpenkörpers, der einen zylindrischen Hohlraum (91) definiert, in dem der zweite Kolben gleitet, und der eine ringförmige Rille (92) hat, die dem ersten Kolben gegenüber liegt,
    die Kanten (521, 522) der zweiten zylindrischen Wand (52) und die Kante (531) der ringförmigen Lippe (53) des ersten Kolbens definieren drei Dichtungsbereiche, wobei jeder dieser Bereiche ein Dichtprofil aufweist, das aus wenigstens zwei Oberflächen besteht, die mit entsprechenden Oberflächen jeder ringförmigen Rille (62, 63, 92) in dem Bodenglied und im Zwischenkörper zusammenwirken.
  2. Die Pumpe gemäß Patentanspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Kanten (521, 522) der zweiten zylindrischen Wand und die Kante der ringförmigen Lippe (531) des ersten Kolbens (5) sowie die entsprechenden, mit den Kanten zusammenwirkenden Rillen (62, 63, 92) ein im Wesentlichen kegelstumpfförmiges Profil haben.
  3. Die Pumpe gemäß Patentanspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Kanten der zweiten zylindrischen Wand und die Kante der ringförmigen Lippe des ersten Kolbens ein im Wesentlichen gekrümmtes Profil haben und mit entsprechenden Rillen (62) zusammenarbeiten, die mit den Profilen zusammenpassen und umgekehrt (Fig. 7, Fig. 8)..
  4. Die Pumpe gemäß Patentanspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Kanten der zweiten zylindrischen Wand (52) und die Kante der ringförmigen Lippe (53) des ersten Kolbens jeweils mit den entsprechenden Rillen vier ringförmige Dichtungsbereiche bilden (Fig. 9).
  5. Die Pumpe gemäß Patentanspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die obere Kante (522) der zweiten zylindrischen Wand (52) des ersten Kolbens (5) mit der ringförmigen Rille (92) im Zwischenkörper zusammenarbeitet und dass die untere Kante (521) der zweiten, zylindrischen Wand (52) des ersten Kolbens (5) mit der ersten ringförmigen Rille (62) im Bodenglied zusammenarbeitet.
  6. Die Pumpe gemäß Patentanspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Kante (531) der ringförmigen Lippe (53) mit einer zweiten ringförmigen Rille (63) im Bodenglied zusammenarbeitet.
  7. Die Pumpe gemäß Patentanspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die ringförmige Lippe (53) des ersten Kolbens eine im Wesentlichen flache, ringförmige Oberfläche (54) hat, die mit einer entsprechenden, ringförmigen Auskragung (71) an der Außenfläche des zweiten, hohlen Zylinders (7) kontrastiert, so dass dieser zweite Kolben den ersten Kolben während der Phase der Flüssigkeitsausgabe der Pumpe zieht.
  8. Die Pumpe gemäß Patentanspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass sie eine oder mehrere Öffnungen (65) für den Luftdurchfluss zwischen dem Flüssigkeitsbehälter und der Außenseite aufweist, wobei diese Öffnung sich am oberen Totpunkt des ersten Kolbens befindet.
  9. Die Pumpe gemäß Patentanspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das elastische Mittel (16) aus einer Faltenbalgfeder (40) aus Kunststoff besteht.
  10. Die Pumpe gemäß Patentanspruch 9, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Faltenbalgfeder (40) wenigstens eine Spiralrippe (41) aufweist.
  11. Die Pumpe gemäß Patentanspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Ventil (17) eine Kunststoffkugel (42) aufweist.
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