EP2092985A1 - Behälter mit Steigrohr - Google Patents

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EP2092985A1
EP2092985A1 EP09153432A EP09153432A EP2092985A1 EP 2092985 A1 EP2092985 A1 EP 2092985A1 EP 09153432 A EP09153432 A EP 09153432A EP 09153432 A EP09153432 A EP 09153432A EP 2092985 A1 EP2092985 A1 EP 2092985A1
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André Tartaglione
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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
    • B05B11/0037—Containers
    • B05B11/0054—Cartridges, i.e. containers specially designed for easy attachment to or easy removal from the rest of the sprayer
    • 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
    • B05B11/1043—Sealing or attachment arrangements between pump and container
    • B05B11/1046—Sealing or attachment arrangements between pump and container the pump chamber being arranged substantially coaxially to the neck of the container
    • B05B11/1047—Sealing or attachment arrangements between pump and container the pump chamber being arranged substantially coaxially to the neck of the container the pump being preassembled as an independent unit before being mounted on the container
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05B—SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
    • B05B15/00—Details of spraying plant or spraying apparatus not otherwise provided for; Accessories
    • B05B15/30—Dip tubes
    • 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

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  • the present invention relates to a bottle for containing a liquid or pasty product and comprising a dip tube, and a device for packaging and dispensing a liquid or pasty product comprising on the one hand such a bottle and on the other hand a pumping device, devoid of dip tube, removably mounted and sealed on such a bottle.
  • the invention also relates to a kit comprising a plurality of such bottles and a single pumping device without a dip tube.
  • These packaging and dispensing devices typically comprise a bottle, containing the product, and a pump mounted on the bottle and allowing the dispensing of the product.
  • the pump is provided with a dip tube which extends inside the bottle, substantially to the bottom of it.
  • the pump is mounted on the bottle irremovably. So we have a disposable device, which has the disadvantage of being expensive and generate a large amount of waste.
  • the pump is mounted on the bottle removably, typically by screwing on the neck of the bottle. It is therefore possible, when the bottle is empty, to unscrew the pump and screw it on a new bottle, full. As a result, the quantity of waste is less, and the overall cost for the user is reduced because the pump is the most expensive member of the packaging and dispensing device.
  • this second embodiment has the following disadvantage: when the pump is removed from the empty bottle to be placed on the full bottle, the plunger tube is found in the open air.
  • this tube is covered and at least partially filled with product. It follows that we can not guarantee the perfect asepsis of this type of packaging and dispensing devices, which can be unacceptable in some applications, pharmacy for example. Indeed, when the tube is immersed in the new bottle, the product contained therein may be contaminated. Moreover, it is generally unpleasant for the user to manipulate the covered tube of product, especially if this product is pasty, when transferring the pump from an empty bottle to a full bottle.
  • the present invention aims to overcome the disadvantages mentioned above.
  • upstream and downstream are defined with respect to the direction of flow of the liquid towards the outside of the vial.
  • Waterproof means a seal to the liquid contained in the bottle.
  • the invention proposes a bottle comprising an integrated dip tube, which can be associated with a pumping device without a dip tube.
  • integrated it should be understood that the dip tube belongs to the bottle (and not to the pumping device).
  • the dip tube is made in one piece with the intermediate piece; according to a second embodiment, this dip tube is attached to the intermediate piece.
  • the bottle is initially closed (by the closure element) and the product can therefore neither leak nor be contaminated by an external element.
  • the user separates the closure element from the bottle, thus releasing the downstream opening of the body, then position the pumping device.
  • This pumping device may not include a dip tube, since this tube is already provided in the bottle and that means for sealing connection between the bottle and the pumping device are provided. Therefore, when the pumping device is removed from an empty bottle to be placed on a full bottle, there is no long tube covered with product to move from one vial to another.
  • kits comprising a single pumping device for several bottles, and thus to reduce the price to pay for a user for the same amount of product.
  • the intermediate piece is fixed relative to the body, and therefore it can not be extracted from the body. This is advantageous because it can thus ensure product hygiene and user safety.
  • the intermediate piece does not protrude beyond the downstream end of the body, so that a user has no access to this room.
  • the body comprises a substantially cylindrical portion and a neck of smaller diameter which is connected to this substantially cylindrical portion by a generally transverse wall forming a shoulder.
  • the intermediate piece can then be mounted in abutment against this shoulder, upstream thereof.
  • the body is for example made from two separate parts, made by injection molding and assembled after mounting the intermediate piece in one of them.
  • the intermediate piece comprises an axial housing open at its two ends and connecting the downstream opening of the intermediate piece and the dip tube, said housing being intended to receive with sealing part of the pumping device.
  • the intermediate piece comprises a transverse wall in which is formed the downstream opening, a skirt projecting from the transverse wall upstream, a generally tubular portion projecting from the transverse wall upstream, around the downstream opening, and whose inner zone forms the receiving housing of a portion of the pumping device, the upstream opening of said generally tubular portion being directly connected to the downstream opening of the plunger tube.
  • the intermediate piece is snapped inside the body.
  • a good axial resistance is obtained in both directions, and during the installation of the pumping device, it is not possible to separate the intermediate piece from the body and push it towards the bottom.
  • the body comprises for example a substantially cylindrical main part, open at its downstream end, and a cap mounted on the main part of the opening side, with sealing, the cap being open at its two axial ends and the intermediate piece being mounted inside the cap.
  • the invention relates to a device for packaging and dispensing a liquid or pasty product comprising a bottle as defined above and a pumping device mounted on the bottle removably and with sealing, the pumping device. being devoid of dip tube.
  • the term "integrated" does not mean that the dip tube is formed in one piece with the bottle. Indeed, it can be provided, alternatively, that the dip tube is a separate piece, attached to the bottle. The essential point is that this dip tube belongs to the bottle and not to the pumping device.
  • the end portion of the tip has an outer face converging upstream, and has a radial projection intended to cooperate sealingly with a wall of the bottle.
  • the tip thus has a tapered upstream end portion that facilitates its introduction into the bottle and provides a certain flexibility. This gives a spring effect which, in combination with the presence of the radial projection, provides a very good sealing contact with the housing of the bottle.
  • the invention provides a kit comprising a plurality of bottles as previously described, each bottle being filled with a liquid or pasty product and closed by a closure element, and a single pumping device, disjointed vials (that is to say assembled to none of the bottles), the pumping device being devoid of dip tube.
  • the pumping device in question may have the aforementioned characteristics.
  • kit can be marketed at a very attractive price for the user, since it comprises only one pumping device for several bottles, which constitute refills.
  • the packaging and dispensing device 1 has an axis 2 and comprises a bottle 3 and a pumping device 4.
  • bottle 3 is described with reference to figures 1 and 2 .
  • the bottle 3 comprises a substantially cylindrical main part 5 provided with a bottom 6 at its upstream end, and an opening 7 at its downstream end.
  • the inner face 8 of the main part 5 is cylindrical over the entire height, while the outer face 9 has a downstream end part also cylindrical but smaller diameter.
  • the main part 5 thus comprises a thinned downstream edge 10 defining a crown shoulder 11 orthogonal to the axis 2.
  • the downstream edge 10 comprises an annular bead 12 projecting radially from the outer face 9.
  • the cap 13 is intended to be snapped, preferably irremovably, on the main part 5, thus forming the body of the bottle 3.
  • the downstream edge 10 of the main part 5 is sandwiched between the outer skirt 20 and the inner skirt 22, the bead 12 being housed in the groove 21 and the upstream end of the outer skirt 20 abuts against the shoulder in crown 11.
  • the outer face of the inner skirt 22 is in sealing contact with the inner face 8 of the main part 5, and the outer face of the outer skirt 20 is located in the extension of the outer face 9 of the main part. 5 (in his part of greater thickness), so that the body of the bottle 3 has a continuous outer face, without recess.
  • closure element The downstream opening of the body is closed, before the first use, by a closure element.
  • This closure element may be a screw cap (optionally provided with a tamper evidence such as a ring) or a peelable seal or a breakable appendage.
  • a breakable appendage 23 made in one piece with the cap 13 and connected thereto, at the downstream opening 19, by a junction zone 24 of lower resistance.
  • the bottle 3 comprises an intermediate piece 25.
  • This intermediate piece 25 has a transverse wall 26 provided with a central opening 27 and which project, upstream, on the one hand, at its periphery, a skirt 28 and secondly, around the central opening 27, a generally tubular portion 29 whose inner region forms a housing 30 open at its two axial ends.
  • the intermediate piece 25 is snapped into the cap 13, reciprocal latching means (not shown) being provided for this purpose.
  • the transverse wall 26 abuts against the transverse wall 14 of the cap 13, and the skirt 28 is in sealed contact with the inner skirt 22 of the cap 13.
  • the main part 5, the cap 13 and the intermediate part 25 are for example made by molding a plastic material such as polypropylene.
  • the pumping device 4 is now described with reference to FIG. figure 3 .
  • the pumping device 4 comprises first of all a base 38 having an internal thread 39 intended to cooperate with the external thread 17 of the neck 16 of the cap 13.
  • the pumping device 4 also comprises a head 40 comprising a first duct 41, oblique, opening at one end outside the head 40 and at another end in a second duct 42, axial, provided with radial orifices 43.
  • the head 40 is movably mounted in axial translation relative to the base 38 between a high position and a depressed position, under the action of a user, to deliver through the orifices 43 and the conduits 42, 41 a dose of product contained in the bottle 3.
  • the head 40 is further biased towards its upper position by a spring 44.
  • the pumping device 4 comprises a tip 45 fixed in the base 38 and projecting from it upstream, beyond the base 38.
  • the tip 45 comprises an axial channel 46 open at both ends , able to communicate with the second duct 42, via the radial orifices 43, when the head is in the depressed position.
  • the end portion of the tip 45, at the first substantially cylindrical portion 47, has an outwardly converging outer face forming a ramp 51, and has a radial projection 52.
  • the pumping device 4 does not include a dip tube, since it is intended to be assembled, removably and with sealing, to the bottle 3 which already comprises a tube diver 32.
  • Vial 3 is obtained as follows. In a first step, the intermediate piece 25 (provided with the single-piece or insert plunger tube 32) and the cap 13 (provided with its closure member) are assembled. Then we just snap this set on the main part 5 previously filled with the desired product. It is in this form that the bottle 3 is marketed. It is perfectly waterproof and is a refill (atmospheric).
  • the user releases the downstream opening 19 of the bottle 3 by removing the closure element (here by detaching the appendage 23, according to the zone of least resistance 24). Then, it can screw the pumping device 4 onto the bottle 3 ( figure 3 ).
  • the tip 45 passes through the opening 19 and then is positioned in the housing 30.
  • the generally frustoconical portion 37 of the intermediate piece 25 forms a facilitating and guiding the introduction area of the pumping device 4, as well as the ramps 51.
  • the latching means between the intermediate part 25 and the cap 13 are arranged to prevent the screwing of the pumping device 4 from pushing the separation of the intermediate part 25 and the cap 13.
  • the figure 4 shows the packaging and distribution device 1 ready to use, the pumping device 4 being screwed onto the bottle 3.
  • the tip 45 matches the shape of the housing 30, the end of the tip 45 being in abutment with the bottom of the intermediate piece 25, just downstream of the hollow rod 31, the radial projection 52 being in contact with the inner face of the first cylindrical portion 33 of the intermediate piece 25.
  • the shoulder 49 of the nozzle 45 is in contact with the shoulder 36 of the intermediate piece, sealingly.
  • the packaging and dispensing device 1 does not require a seal for this purpose.
  • the invention provides a decisive improvement to the prior art, providing a device for packaging and dispensing a product which, with a simple structure, can significantly reduce the costs for the user. Indeed, it is possible to market a kit comprising several refill bottles with integrated dip tube (for example 10) for a single pumping device. In addition, this cost reduction is accompanied by a significant improvement in terms of asepsis and ergonomics for the user, who is no longer at risk of depositing the product in various locations, and unintentionally, during unscrewing. and screwing the pumping device back onto a full flask.

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US11406996B2 (en) * 2011-03-15 2022-08-09 The Clorox Company Dip tube connectors and pump systems using the same
FR3120056A1 (fr) * 2021-02-23 2022-08-26 Aptar France Sas Réservoir et distributeur de produit fluide

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FR2593147A1 (fr) 1986-01-17 1987-07-24 Aerosol Inventions Dev Conditionnement sterile de substances fluides liquides et semi-liquides.
EP0240817A2 (de) 1986-04-08 1987-10-14 Ing. Erich Pfeiffer GmbH & Co. KG Austragvorrichtung für Mischmedien
LU88593A1 (fr) 1995-03-01 1995-09-01 Robert Mangers Dispositif de porte-lentilles doseur à fermeture de cupules et d'arrimage à une bouteille fermée à volume intérieur variable, méthode et procédé
EP1579924A1 (de) * 2004-03-24 2005-09-28 L'oreal Verpackungs- und Spendeeinheit für ein flüssiges Produkt

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FR2593147A1 (fr) 1986-01-17 1987-07-24 Aerosol Inventions Dev Conditionnement sterile de substances fluides liquides et semi-liquides.
EP0240817A2 (de) 1986-04-08 1987-10-14 Ing. Erich Pfeiffer GmbH & Co. KG Austragvorrichtung für Mischmedien
LU88593A1 (fr) 1995-03-01 1995-09-01 Robert Mangers Dispositif de porte-lentilles doseur à fermeture de cupules et d'arrimage à une bouteille fermée à volume intérieur variable, méthode et procédé
EP1579924A1 (de) * 2004-03-24 2005-09-28 L'oreal Verpackungs- und Spendeeinheit für ein flüssiges Produkt

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US11406996B2 (en) * 2011-03-15 2022-08-09 The Clorox Company Dip tube connectors and pump systems using the same
US11648575B2 (en) 2011-03-15 2023-05-16 The Clorox Company Dip tube connectors and pump systems using the same
FR3120056A1 (fr) * 2021-02-23 2022-08-26 Aptar France Sas Réservoir et distributeur de produit fluide
WO2022180335A1 (fr) * 2021-02-23 2022-09-01 Aptar France Sas Reservoir et distributeur de produit fluide

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