ES1072446U - Floating embudo (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Floating funnel, which being constituted by a frusto-conical body with a lower and narrow prolongation, is characterized in that, in correspondence with the lower and narrow section of the body of the funnel, one or several air chambers are established which establish a float to through which the upward thrust of the funnel occurs when, located in the neck or mouth of a container or bottle, the level of the liquid transferred therein reaches said chamber or air chambers located in the lower and narrow part of the funnel. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

Description

Floating funnel.

Object of the invention

The present invention relates to a funnel floating, planned so that at the time of filling a container or bottle by transfer of a liquid, and when reaches a certain filling level, the funnel floats and indicates to the user that the container or bottle to which it is being transferred the liquid is filling, in order to interrupt the transfer.

The object of the invention is to prevent spills of liquids when the transfer to a bottle or container occurs which is not translucent and the level of filling is not visible in every moment.

Background of the invention

As is known, in the transfer of liquids in bottles or in any type of container, and that is done by funnels, the user is pouring liquid into the funnel without know the level of the container or bottle that is being filled, especially if it is not a container or bottle of transparent material or translucent.

Obviously, in this situation the user from time to time stop transferring liquid, raise the funnel and appreciates without great accuracy the level of the container, since the funnel at no time indicates to what level the liquid reaches the inside of the bottle or container that is being filled.

Description of the invention

The floating funnel that has been recommended has been designed to solve the problem described above, in based on a simple but effective solution.

More specifically, the funnel of the invention, being constituted with any material and with any form and size, and being a conventional funnel, presents the particularity that in the lower section of the same, that is in the section that lodges inside the bottle or container that is being by transferring or the liquid will be transferred, it incorporates one or more air chambers, constituting a float that surrounds part or the whole of that lower section of the funnel, so that when this has been introduced in the neck of the bottle or container and it the liquid is being transferred, there comes a time when the filling is about to be completed, the liquid pushes up to the funnel as a result of the float that constitutes the chamber or cameras located in the lower section of the same and housed in the inside the container or bottle to fill, indicating that buoyancy or push up the funnel that the container or bottle is about to be completed in its filling, so that the user interrupt the transfer, thus avoiding the inconvenience of having to take out and introduce the funnel several times until you know or see from a zenith plane the filling status of the container or bottle, or in the worst case prevent the liquid from spilling when the filling of bottles or containers occurs without know or know until the filling level is being reached in the inside of that bottle or container.

Therefore, this way it ends with the eternal uncertainty of finding out where the level of filling of a container or bottle when on it It transfers a liquid through funnel, thus avoiding the inconvenient fill and subsequent spill of the liquid.

The camera or cameras can be cameras tightly closed, or open at the top, of so that in any case they determine a means that allows the buoyancy of the funnel when on the section where the chamber or chambers constituting the float impact the liquid in the filling phase of a container or bottle.

Of course, said air chamber may be constituted by a single body and occupy, for example, the entire section lower and narrow funnel, or be formed by several cameras superimposed on each other along that lower section of the funnel.

In any case the camera or cameras endow the funnel of the buoyancy character and therefore indicating the user at the appropriate time the level of filling of the container or bottle to which the liquid is being transferred.

Obviously, both the camera or cameras and the funnel will consist of materials that allow buoyancy of that, and if the weight of the set is reduced, the volume of the camera or cameras can also be reduced air.

Description of the drawings

To complement the description that then it will be done and in order to help a better understanding of the features of the invention, according to a preferred example of practical realization thereof, is accompanied as an integral part of that description, a set of drawings in where illustrative and not limiting, it has been represented the next:

Figure 1.- Shows an elevation view side of a conventional funnel equipped with the air chamber constitutive of a float to convert the funnel into one floating.

Figure 2.- Shows a plan view by the lower end of the funnel represented in the previous figure.

Preferred Embodiment of the Invention

As you can see in the referred figures, the floating funnel of the invention is constituted by a body (1) constitutive of the funnel proper as is conventional, with a lower and narrow section (2) which is the one that is introduced in, by example, the neck of a bottle or the mouth of a container for the transfer of a liquid.

Well, from these characteristics, regardless of the size, shape and material in which it is constituted the funnel as a whole, the novelty of the invention is that on the lower and narrow section (2) of the funnel, one or more air chambers (3) is provided, which can be a airtight chamber, as shown in figure 1, or be several cameras superimposed along that section (2) of the funnel (1), so that in any case the camera or cameras (3) determine or constitute a funnel float, since they are tightly closed or at least open top, so that at the moment that funnel introduced into the neck of a bottle or container is reached by the level of the liquid, the chambers (3) cause the funnel (1) to be pushed up floating, indicating to the user that it is arriving or has been reached to the optimal filling of the container or bottle.

Claims (1)

1. Floating funnel, which being constituted by a trunk-conical body with a lower and narrow extension, is characterized in that, in correspondence with the lower and narrow section of the funnel body, one or more air chambers are provided that establish a float to through which the upward thrust of the funnel occurs when, located in the neck or mouth of a container or bottle, the level of the liquid transferred in it reaches said chamber or air chambers located in the lower and narrow section of the funnel.