ES1065623U - Granulated product disposal device (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Dosing device for granulated products, which is specially designed for food granulated products, being of the type which are attached to the mouth of a container that supplies said product preferably by threading, of the type of those that incorporate a housing therein dispenser, of appropriate capacity, capable of alternately facing a lower communication hole with the interior of the container and another upper hole and located on the lid of the device, characterized in that said housing is placed in a shutter consisting of a rotating part the base body, provided with a gear operable by means of a rack belonging to a pushbutton accessible from the outside of the base body and radially displaceable by means of a manual pulsation with the hand holding the container. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

Description

Product dosing device granules

Object of the invention

The present invention relates to a dosing device, attachable as a plug to the mouth of a container, intended for dosing of any type of granules, preferably food.

The object of the invention is to ensure that said device, in addition to fulfilling its function as such a dispenser, allow easy handling, which can be done with a single hand, and also ensure a tight seal for the container that is associated

Background of the invention

There are several devices on the market dispensers for granulated products, including Utility Model U970440, US Patent 3129853, or Patent US 3249266.

They all present as common denominator the incorporation of a dosing compartment that receives the face, in two limit positions, a hole of communication with the dosing container in question, with a exit hole established in the lid, with an angular offset between these holes enough that you can't establish simultaneous communication with each other.

Also all these devices present as common denominator the fact that the aforementioned compartment dispenser is mounted on a rotating body, operated from the exterior by means of a control that moves by sliding on the device periphery.

This brings with it the need to use the doser with both two hands, one to hold the set constituted by the dispenser and the container and another to act on The aforementioned command.

Description of the invention

The dosing device that the invention proposes to solve the problem fully satisfactorily previously exposed, allowing easy handling thereof, during dosing, using only one hand, so that the other is free to perform simultaneously any other complementary activity.

To do this and more specifically said device is constituted from a base body, cylindrical, open at both ends, internally provided with a thread for conventional coupling to the container of which it is complementary, the container of the product to be dosed, and that closes by its other base, after housing inside the mechanisms operations described below, with the collaboration of a cover, preferably removably fixed by heat welding or by any other means.

The aforementioned base body has a partition intermediate disc, equipped with a radial hole, which remains angularly offset with respect to another identical hole established in the mentioned cover. In addition to said discoidal partition intermediate emerges centered and superiorly a cylindrical pivot in rotation axis functions for a shutter provided with a gear hollow, through which the aforementioned pivot is coupled, and a formal sectional and dimensionally matching housing of the holes of the discoid septum of the body of the lid, of so that said accommodation, open at its ends, is liable to face selectively one or the other hole, specifically to the hole of the diametral partition for loading in the housing of the corresponding dose, and to the hole of the lid to exit it.

It is also planned that the shutter incorporates wide lateral fins at its upper and lower ends, located on both sides of the housing, so that said fins seal the shutter tightly against the lower partition of the body and against the lid, except when its housing is face one of these holes.

The shutter is capable of rotating on the intermediate lower partition pivot with the collaboration of a fastener with a zipper, button that normally fits in a recess in the side wall of the base body, located immediately above the intermediate discoid septum, button that is guided by a straight septum emerging from the face upper part of the intermediate discoid septum, so that the zipper is fitted with removable character between the aforementioned straight septum and the teeth of the shutter.

The button is also provided with a lateral and elastic leg that supports through its free end on an elongated extension of said straight partition, so that from an initial, resting and oblique position for this pin, when acting radially an elastic deformation of the same occurs on the button, which tends for the fixative to recover its initial rest position, as soon as the manual action on the
same.

The front of the button, which in a situation of rest is coplanar with the side wall of the base body, it is guided in the manual operation thereof by a second straight partition, parallel to the aforementioned and contrasted with with respect to the cylindrical pivot on which the shutter tilts.

According to this structuring, and with the device properly fixed by thread to the container supplier of the product, simply place said container in inverted position, that is with the dosing device towards below, so that the confrontation situation between the hole of the intermediate discoid septum of the obturator housing face each other, causing the load of said accommodation, and with the same hand that is holding the set cited act radially over the push button, so that the displacement of your zipper causes a turn in the shutter, passing the housing of the latter to face the hole in the lid, with that the dose of product goes abroad.

Description of the drawings

To complement the description that is being performing and in order to help a better understanding of the characteristics of the invention, according to a preferred example of practical realization of it, is accompanied as part member of that description, a set of drawings where with illustrative and non-limiting nature, what has been represented next:

Figure 1.- Shows, according to a representation schematic in general perspective, a dosing device of granulated products made according to the purpose of the present invention

Figure 2.- Shows, also according to a view in perspective, the whole of the previous figure exploded.

Figure 3.- Shows a detail in perspective of the base body participating in the device, so isolated.

Figure 4.- Shows a plan view of the base body of the previous figure.

Figure 5.- Shows a detail in perspective of the shutter or rotating part, also in isolation.

Figure 6.- Shows a plan view of the shutter of the previous figure.

Figure 7.- Shows a detail in perspective of the button.

Figure 8.- Shows a profile of it button.

Figure 9.- Shows a detail in perspective of the complementary cover of said base body.

Figure 10.- Shows, finally, a detail in cross section of the device.

Preferred Embodiment of the Invention

In view of the figures outlined you can be observed as in the dosing device that the invention proposes to participate a base body (1) provided in the middle of a diametral partition and compartmentalizer (2), affected by a hole (3), in eccentric arrangement, than in the embodiment example practice shown in the figures adopts a configuration in triangle, but you can adopt any other configuration without that this affects the essence of the invention. In addition next to the aforementioned hole (3) and in centered arrangement, incorporates a pivot (4) in rotation axis functions for a shutter or part rotating (5), which will be discussed later.

The aforementioned pivot (4) is framed by two rectilinear and parallel partitions (6) and (7), of which the first of them, of smaller height, it is prolonged in an orthogonal bending external (8).

The shutter or rotating part (5) has a gear (9) surrounding a blind hole (10) through which said shutter (5) is attachable to the pivot (4), and said gear (9) emerges radially from a housing (11), of matching section with that of the hole (3) of the discoid septum (2), or very close, and coinciding with another hole (12) in the lid (13) that closes the base body superiorly.

A button is connected to the gear (9) (14), through a rack (15) of which said button has, this button (14) being guided in its movement radial by straight partitions (6) and (7) and by the gear itself (9) of the shutter, as seen especially in the section of the figure 10.

More specifically the zipper (15) supports by its opposite side to the teeth on said rectilinear partition (6), while the front (16) of the button (14), which in a situation of rest occupies a wide recess (17) of the base body (1), it is guided by the rectilinear septum (7).

The button (14) also has a pin lateral and external (18), divergent towards the free extremity of the zipper (15), with its rounded end and intended to support on the layered sector (8) of the straight partition (6), so that when a push occurs on the front (16) of the button (14), the rectilinear advance of the rack (15) is accompanied by an elastic deformation of the pin (18), so that when it stops said actuation the button recovers its initial position of rest in which its front (16) again occupies the recess (17).

Going back to the shutter (15), this one it is provided at the level of its upper and lower bases, that is to say level of the mouths of your housing (11), with wide fins lateral (19), which fit both the intermediate discoid septum (2) as to the inner face of the lid (13), ensure a closure watertight for holes (3) and (12) of these elements, except when said holes are facing the housing (11), which cannot occur simultaneously without displacement angular between said holes, and with which the maximum maintenance of the organoleptic characteristics of the granular product contained in the package.

It only remains to add finally that the cover (13) has inner stops (19), which ensure its correct operation with respect to the base body (1), and that once the shutter has been located and conveniently positioned in the base body (1) the button, the cover is finally fixed to ensure both its stability and the aforementioned
tightness

Claims (5)

1. Dosing device for granulated products, which being specially designed for food granulated products, being of the type of those that are coupled to the mouth of a container that supplies said product preferably by means of threading, of the type of those that incorporate a housing therein dispenser, of suitable capacity, capable of alternately facing a lower orifice of communication with the inside of the container and another upper hole and located on the lid of the device, is characterized in that said housing is located in a shutter consisting of a rotating part on the base body, equipped with a gear that can be operated by means of a zipper belonging to a button accessible from the outside of the base body and can be moved radially by manual pressing with the hand holding the container. 2. Dosing device for granulated products, according to claim 1, characterized in that the base body incorporates a diametral and intermediate partition, on which the communication hole with the inside of the container is established, a discoidal partition from which a cylindrical pivot emerges centered and superiorly intended to receive the gear belonging to the shutter, through an axial and blind hole existing in said gear. 3. Dosing device of granulated products, according to previous claims, characterized in that the shutter, which incorporates the classic dosing housing, presents said housing as a radial extension of its gear and in turn presents the planes corresponding to the mouths of such housing extended in wide fins that keep the holes of the intermediate discoid septum of the lid closed, except when they are facing the mouths of the dosing housing. 4. Dosing device for granulated products, according to previous claims, characterized in that the base body has a wide recess in its lateral wall and above the intermediate disk partition, in which the front of the button is fitted tightly, which is radially movable towards inside properly guided through the mesh-rack coupling and two rectilinear and parallel partition walls in solidarity with the upper face of the discoidal partition, the aforementioned button also incorporating a lateral, elastic and divergent leg towards its free end, which supports on an elongated extension of one of the rectilinear partitions mentioned above, and which undergoes an elastic deformation during the internal radial displacement of the push-button, which causes its positional recovery when the pulsation on it ceases. 5. Dosing device for granulated products, according to previous claims, characterized in that the lid that closes the upper extremity of the base body has positioner pivots that determine the relative positioning provided between the lid and the body, and after the assembly of the interior components is fixed to said base body by welding.