JP3510676B2 - Liquid air freshener container - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a liquid fragrance container capable of discharging liquid fragrance stored in a container body and allowing it to spontaneously evaporate.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there has been known a liquid fragrance container capable of discharging the liquid fragrance stored in the container body and allowing it to spontaneously evaporate. The container body has a flat shape, is partially press-deformable and elastically recoverable, and has an opening formed in its upper portion. An inner plug member for detaching the liquid fragrance (or liquid activator) stored therein is detachably attached to this opening.

The inner plug member is provided with a liquid discharge pipe which extends downward from the upper part and is immersed in the liquid fragrance to guide and discharge the liquid fragrance to the outside air, and the liquid fragrance. A liquid-absorbent material guide tube is provided for guiding a liquid-absorbent material, such as a filter paper, which extends downward from the upper part and is immersed in a liquid fragrance in order to lead to the outside air by the permeation phenomenon so as to be naturally evaporated. The upper part of the liquid absorbing material is a transpiration promoting part which is in wide contact with the outside air. The inner plug member, the liquid discharge pipe, and the liquid absorbing material guide pipe are integrally formed. A ball valve is provided below the liquid absorbent guide tube to prevent the liquid aromatic from flowing into the liquid absorbent guide tube when the liquid aromatic is discharged.

According to this conventional liquid fragrance container, the liquid fragrance can be discharged toward the outside air through the liquid discharge pipe by pressing the container body. In addition, the liquid fragrance can be naturally evaporated by the permeation phenomenon through the liquid sorbent immersed in the liquid fragrance through the liquid absorbent guide tube.

[0005]

However, in this conventional liquid fragrance container, the liquid discharge pipe for guiding and discharging the liquid fragrance toward the outside air and the liquid fragrance lead to the outside air by the permeation phenomenon. Since two pipes, a liquid-absorbent-material guiding pipe for guiding the liquid-absorbent material for spontaneous evaporation, are required, the size of the inner plug member is increased, and the conventional liquid fragrance container is
Generally, there is a problem that the structure is complicated and large. Further, depending on the shape of the container body, the lower end of the liquid-absorbent material guide tube abuts the bottom of the container body, so that it is necessary to pay attention to the attachment of the inner plug member to the opening.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and a first object thereof is to provide a liquid fragrance container having a small size and a simple structure. A second object of the invention is to provide a liquid fragrance container capable of facilitating attachment to the opening of the inner plug member.

[0007]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the liquid fragrance container according to claim 1 of the present invention stores the liquid fragrance inside the container body which can be deformed by pressing and which can be elastically restored. , A liquid discharge pipe which extends downward from the upper part to guide and disperse the liquid fragrance toward the outside air and is immersed in the liquid fragrance, and guides the liquid fragrance into the outside air by a penetration phenomenon. And a liquid-absorbing rod-shaped core member that extends downward from the upper part to be naturally evaporated and is immersed in the liquid fragrance, an inner plug member that holds the liquid discharge pipe and the liquid-absorbent rod-shaped core member, In order to hold the liquid-absorbing rod-shaped core material, a holding cylinder that is above the inner plug member and is not immersed in the liquid fragrance, and a small hole is opened upright along the axis of the holding cylinder and opened at the top end. And a plurality of liquid absorbing rod-shaped core materials. Characterized in that it is formed by aligning solidifying plastics filament.

[0008]

According to the liquid fragrance container according to any one of claims 1 to 3, when the container main body having a compact structure is pressed, the liquid fragrance is discharged toward the outside air through the liquid discharge pipe and sucked. The liquid fragrance is smoothly evaporated by the permeation phenomenon through the liquid rod-shaped core material.

[0009]

Embodiments of the liquid fragrance container according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. (Example 1) FIG. 1 is a vertical cross-sectional view of a liquid fragrance container according to the present invention. In FIG. 1, 1 is a flat container body and 2 is a cover member. The side part 3 of the container body 1 is formed so as to be partially deformable and elastically recoverable. A liquid fragrance 4 is stored in the container body 1. Cover member 2
Is attachable to and detachable from the container body 1, and a circular hole 5 is formed in the center of the upper portion of the cover member 2, and elongated groove-shaped openings 6 are formed on both sides of the circular hole 5.

A circular opening 7 is formed in the upper part of the container body 1, and a screw portion 8 is formed on the outer periphery of the circular opening 7. A detachable cap 9 is screwed onto the screw portion 8. There is. The cap 9 serves to seal the opening of the circular opening 7, and the cap 9 is removed from the circular opening 7 in use.

An inner plug member 10 is detachably attached to the circular opening 7. An annular groove 12 ′ that fits into the opening end 11 of the circular opening 7 is formed on the outer peripheral portion of the inner plug member 10. As shown in FIG. 2, the inner plug member 10 has a circular recess 12 for installing the evaporation promoting member. A cylindrical body 13 extending in the vertical direction is formed at the center of the circular recess 12. In order to hold the liquid discharge pipe 14 which extends downward from the upper part and is immersed in the liquid fragrance 4 in order to guide and discharge the liquid fragrance 4 toward the outside air, the upper part of the cylinder 13 is held. A holding hole 15 is formed, and a holding cylinder 21 is formed along the axis of the cylindrical body 13. A small hole 16 is opened at the end of the holding hole 15 and communicates with the outside air through the small hole 16.

The circular recess 12 is formed with a pressing wall portion 18 for pressing and holding the evaporation promoting member 17 such as the filter paper and felt material shown in FIG. The evaporation promoting member 17 is a cylindrical body 13.
Has a fitting hole 19a and a notch 19b which are fitted to the top of the. The evaporation promoting member 17 is attached to the circular recess 12 so as to surround the cylindrical body 13. The shape of the evaporation promoting member 17 is not limited to that shown in FIG. 3, and any shape that allows a large contact area with the outside air is sufficient.

A holding cylinder 21 for holding the holding liquid absorbent member 20 is formed in the circular recess 12 adjacent to the cylindrical body 13. The holding liquid absorbent member 20 has a cylindrical shape, and is made of felt material, acrylic resin, polyester resin, or Duracon. The holding liquid absorbing member 20 is shown in FIG.
As shown in, a liquid absorbing rod-shaped core material 22 is attached. The liquid-absorbent rod-shaped core material 22 has flexibility,
It is formed by arranging and solidifying a large number of plastic filaments, and the liquid fragrance 4 is immersed in the liquid fragrance 4 extending downward from the upper part in order to guide the liquid fragrance 4 to the outside air by the permeation phenomenon and spontaneously evaporate. In the first embodiment, the liquid absorbing rod-shaped core member 22 is provided adjacent to the liquid discharge pipe 14 and outside thereof.

The holding liquid absorbing member 20 is the transpiration promoting member 1.
The liquid fragrance 4 which is brought into contact with 7 and sucked up through the liquid absorbing rod-shaped core material 22 due to the permeation phenomenon
It is guided to the transpiration promoting member 17 via and is spontaneously evacuated to the outside air. When the container body 1 is pressed, the liquid fragrance 4
Is guided to the small hole 16 through the liquid discharge pipe 14, and the small hole 16
Is exhaled to the outside air. At that time, the liquid discharge pipe 1
The excess liquid fragrance 4 introduced to the small holes 16 through 4 is
It is returned downward through the pipe line of the cylindrical body 13. Further, when the container body 1 elastically returns, outside air is sucked into the container body 1 through the conduit of the cylindrical body 13.

Although the holding liquid absorbent member 20 is formed separately from the liquid absorbing rod-shaped core member 22 in the first embodiment, the holding liquid absorbing member 20 and the liquid absorbing rod-shaped core member 22 are integrated. You may form in. (Example 2) In Example 2, as shown in FIG. 5, the liquid-absorbent rod-shaped core member 22 is provided inside the liquid discharge pipe 14. The upper end 22a and the lower end 22b of the liquid-absorbing rod-shaped core material 22 are projected from the upper end and the lower end of the liquid discharge pipe 14, and the liquid-absorbent rod-shaped core material 22 is formed.
The upper end 22a of the is guided to the circular recess 12 through the small hole 16, and when the evaporation promoting member 17 is attached to the circular recess 12, it contacts the evaporation promoting member 17 and is held by the evaporation promoting member 17. .

[0016]

Since the liquid fragrance container according to the first to third aspects of the present invention is constructed as described above, it has an effect that it is small and the structure can be simplified. That is, at the time of exhaling the liquid fragrance, there is no need to use a conventional liquid absorbent guide tube having a ball valve for preventing the liquid fragrance from flowing into the liquid absorbent guide tube. Play.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a sectional view of an essential part for explaining a first embodiment of a liquid fragrance container according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of the inside plug member shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a view showing the connection between the liquid-absorbent rod-shaped core material shown in FIG. 1 and the retained liquid-absorbing member.

FIG. 4 is a plan view of the evaporation promoting member shown in FIG.

FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view of essential parts for explaining a second embodiment of the liquid fragrance container according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Container body 4 ... Liquid fragrance 7 ... Circular opening (opening) 10 ... Medium plug member 13 ... Cylinder 14 ... Liquid discharge pipe 15 ... Small hole 17 ... evaporation promoting member 21 ... Holding tube 22 ... Liquid-absorbent rod-shaped core material

Continuation of the front page (56) Reference JP-A-5-277172 (JP, A) JP-A-4-150864 (JP, A) Actually opened 58-17816 (JP, U) Actually opened 56-152647 (JP , U) Actually open 55-59638 (JP, U) Actually open 5-81079 (JP, U) Actually open 3-742 (JP, U) Actually open 2-11451 (JP, U) Actually open 62-685 (JP, Y1) J. Kohei 1-5537 (JP, Y2) (58) Fields surveyed (Int.Cl. ⁷ , DB name) B65D 85/00 A61L 9/12 B05B 11/04

Claims (3)

(57) [Claims] 1. A liquid fragrance agent is stored inside a container body that is press-deformable and elastically recoverable. The liquid fragrance agent extends downward from the upper part to guide the liquid fragrance agent to the outside air and expel it. a liquid discharge pipe immersed in the liquid fragrance liquid absorbing rod-immersed in the liquid fragrance extends from the top downward in order to naturally evaporate leading to the outside air to the liquid fragrance by osmosis Core material and the liquid discharge
A tube and an inner plug member that holds the liquid-absorbing rod-shaped core material;
Located above the inner plug member to hold the liquid rod-shaped core material.
Holding cylinder not immersed in the liquid fragrance, and the holding cylinder
A cylindrical body that is erected along the axis of and has a small hole at the top end.
When, wherein the absorbent rod-shaped core is a liquid fragrance container you characterized in that it is formed in alignment solidified plastics striatum large number. 2. The liquid fragrance container according to claim 1, wherein the liquid-absorbent rod-shaped core material is provided inside the liquid discharge pipe. 3. The liquid absorbing rod-shaped core material is provided outside the liquid discharge pipe and adjacent to the liquid discharge pipe.
The liquid fragrance container according to.