ES1229948U - ERGONOMIC DOSING PUMP (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Ergonomic dosing pump characterized by presenting means to allow the pump to be activated and the contents of the container to be poured without it being supported on any surface and with one hand, these means comprise a clamping collar (2) that has a cornice-like portion of material emerging from the body of the pump that retains the container, this cornice has a dimension measured in the horizontal plane sufficient to place at least two fingers one on each side of the body that retains the referred container, the Pulsation of the drive head (1) is allowed through the cooperation of both elements. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

Description

DESCRIPTION

ERGONOMIC DOSING PUMP

Background

Normally, a large number of containers intended to contain different fluids, such as liquid soaps, oils, perfumes or creams, are used in the home and in other environments, some of them present to facilitate dosing and use of opening and closing plugs with a plastic membrane that presents a perforation through which the content of the container leaves when inverting this, in the case of plastic containers the pouring of the content to the exterior is aided by pressing these. On the other hand, the dosing valves are widely known for containers intended to contain fluids in which a pump is used that extracts these to the outside by means of the pulsation of a driving head that is operated by the pressure of the fingers of the hand. In this type of containers equipped with a metering valve as described, it is necessary that the container containing the fluid is conveniently supported on a stable surface so that we can operate the pump, even so, some users with fine motor problems among others, You may need to hold the container with one hand to prevent it from overturning. It is also difficult when not impracticable to obtain a dosage without supporting the container on a surface.

Technical solutions such as the one advocated are therefore not known.

Object

Obtain a manual dosing pump that can be activated with the use of a single hand, providing safety in situations in which the design of the container, low level of the fluid with respect to the total or difficulty of the user, requires improving this condition. The new dosing pump should facilitate its use to people with reduced manual motor skills, as well as allowing its use without the need for the container to be supported on a surface.

Description

The use of manual dosing pumps in the domestic environment is a daily habit, examples of its use can be seen in different containers for the administration of liquid soaps, gels or perfumes in the domestic environment. Unfortunately sometimes it is necessary to use both hands for the correct use of the dosing pump, this situation occurs relatively frequently in children or people with some manual motor disability. On the other hand, it is sometimes essential to be able to dose the contents of the container with one hand, such as in medical or cosmetic treatments applied to a patient in which the professional needs to use the other hand, or to disperse the fluid directly on the subject. The proposed invention has means to grasp the container and press the pump drive head with one hand, these means are specified by forming a finger holding collar by a protruding portion of material emerging perpendicular and surrounding the body generally cylindrical, which is preferably fixed to the container by threading and which makes the seal on it, from which emerges in a higher plane and concentric the head of drive and dosage; so that the container can be taken by placing at least two fingers below this protruding portion of material one on each side of the cylindrical body and pressing the drive head with at least one other finger. Versions (not shown) are provided in which the threaded body and / or the projecting portion of said material has an external geometry anatomically adapted to the fingers, this geometry also makes it possible to properly orient the actuating head without having to look at the container which is useful in many applications; for the same purpose, versions (not shown) have been provided in which the drive head has a geometry in the area of contact with the finger that performs the pulsation that helps the user to know the direction of pouring of the fluid contained in the container .

Brief description of the drawings

To complement the description that is being made and in order to help a better understanding of the characteristics of the invention is accompanied as part member of said description, where with illustrative and non-limiting character, the following figures have been represented:

In figure 1 it can be seen the different parts of the ergonomic dosing pump, where 1 represents the actuating head or push button, 2 the clamping collar, 3 the reservoir of the pump and 4 the cannula.

Figure 2 illustrates how the clamping collar allows the dosing pump to be grasped with one hand and to act on the driving head.

Description of a preferred embodiment mode

A preferred embodiment of the ergonomic dosing pump is described by way of example, the materials used in the manufacture of the device being independent of the object of the invention, as well as the methods of application and all the accessory details that may be presented, provided that when they do not affect its essentiality.

The ergonomic dosing pump object of this embodiment allows to provide stability to the pump and fluid container assembly that we need to pour allowing even that it can be used with only one hand without the container being supported on any surface when presenting means to grip in a comfortable way and secure the container and press the driving head, these means are formed by a clamping collar (2) starting from a preferably cylindrical body and threaded on the container has a portion of material emerging from this preferably in its upper portion conforms a cornice-like projection which allows the container to be grasped by placing at least two fingers below this cornice one on each side of the described threaded body, by pressing the actuating head (1) figure 1, with another finger, figure 2, without need that the container is supported and with one hand as described; the dosing pump presents for its conventional operation a tank (3) and a cannula (4) in communication with the fluid, figural.

Claims (3)

Claims 1. Ergonomic dosing pump characterized by having means to allow the pump to be actuated and the content of the container to be poured without it being supported on any surface and with only one hand, these means comprise a fastening collar (2) that presents a portion of cornice-like material that emerges from the body of the pump that holds the container, this cornice has a dimension measured in the horizontal plane sufficient to place at least two fingers one on each side of the body that retains the referred container, the Pressing the drive head (1) is allowed by the cooperation of both elements. 2. Ergonomic dosing pump according to claim 1, characterized by presenting the clamping collar in the area of contact with the fingers when the container is grasped, of a geometry that determines the position of the fingers allowing knowing the direction of pouring. 3. Ergonomic dosing pump according to claim 1, characterized in that the drive head has a geometry in the area of contact with the finger that determines a preferred position of the finger or reference that allows to know the pouring direction.