JPH1099739A - Actuating device for disinfectant spray vessel - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To hygienically and conveniently spray a disinfectant without without touching a spray vessel with hands. SOLUTION: This actuating device for spraying a disinfectant by depressing a trigger type spray operating handle 22 of a sprayer 12 provided on a container containing a disinfectant 11 is provided with a stand 41, a holder 42 provided on the stand 41 so that the container 11 may be held at a desired height from the base part of the stand 41, a pedal 43 installed in the base part of the stand 41, and a transmission mechanism for transmitting stepping action of the pedal 43 to the handle 22 of the container 11 held by the holder 42 so that it may be depressed.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an operating device for spraying a disinfectant spray container, for example, a container containing a disinfectant such as alcohol used for disinfecting fingers.

[0002]

The spraying of the disinfectant from this type of container is performed manually, and there is a problem in terms of hygiene because it is inevitable to touch the container. The problem of cross-contamination is particularly acute.

An object of the present invention is to provide a sanitary and convenient disinfectant spray container operating device that can spray a disinfectant without touching the container.

[0004]

An actuating device for a disinfectant spray container according to the present invention is an actuating device for spraying a disinfectant by pushing a trigger type spray operation handle of an atomizer provided in a container containing a disinfectant. A stand, a holder provided on the stand to hold the container at a required height from the base of the stand, a foot pedal provided on the base of the stand, and a step-down operation of the pedal held by the holder. And a transmission mechanism for transmitting the pushing force to the handle of the container.

In the operating device for a disinfectant spray container according to the present invention, when the container is held by the holder and the pedal is depressed, the handle of the sprayer is pushed and the disinfectant is sprayed from the container. Therefore, the disinfectant can be sprayed without touching the container.

The sprayer has a substantially T-shaped body having a horizontal portion and a vertical portion. An injection hole is formed at a front end surface of the horizontal portion on the front side, and the handle is moved from the horizontal portion to the vertical portion. It is hung down at a position closer to the front end face,
The stand includes a base plate and a tubular post standing on the base plate, a closing wall is provided at an upper end opening of the post, a guide hole is formed in the closing wall, and a holder projects forward from the post. And a support for receiving the bottom of the container with the handle positioned above the closing wall, and near the closing wall, mounted vertically swingably on a post and having the injection hole facing forward. Preferably, an engagement arm is provided which engages with the rear end of the horizontal portion while being received by the support.

When the container is received by the support and the engaging arm is engaged with the rear end of the horizontal portion of the sprayer body, the container is held on the stand. Therefore, the container can be easily attached to and detached from the support.

A petal is mounted on the base plate in front of the post so as to be swingable up and down at the front end, and a transmission mechanism is mounted on the base plate and positioned inside the post so as to be swingable up and down. And the front end protrudes forward from the post, and the lever is inserted below the front end of the pedal, the lower end is connected to the rear end of the lever, and the upper end is inserted through the guide hole to move it upward. A push rod protruding, a rocker arm mounted vertically swingably on a closed wall so that an upper end of the push rod can be brought into contact with the push rod, and a container provided integrally with the rocker arm and received by the support. It is preferable to include a finger that can push the handle in the state.

When the pedal is depressed, the lever is swung so as to push up its rear end, the push rod is lifted, and the finger swings with the rocker arm to push the handle. Therefore, the handle can be reliably pushed.

A plurality of types of containers having different sizes or shapes are provided, and a plurality of types of engagement arms, rocker arms and fingers are provided corresponding to the types of containers, and the engagement arms, rocker arms and fingers are provided. , For each type,
It is detachably mounted on a common mounting pin, and the mounting pin is
It may be detachable from the post.

According to the type of the container, the engagement arm, the rocker arm and the finger can be exchanged, and a plurality of types of containers can be operated.

[0012]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In the following description, the front and rear refer to the left side of FIG. 1 as the front and the opposite side to the rear with reference to FIG.

Referring to FIG. 1, there is shown a container 11 and its operating device.

The container 11 is a commercially available container generally called a spray container. The container 11 is filled with a disinfectant containing alcohol as a main component.

FIG. 5 shows the details of the container 11. The container 11 is a cylindrical shape made of plastic. A sprayer 12 is attached so as to close a mouth (not shown) opened in a substantially dome-shaped top wall of the container 11.

The sprayer 12 is of a pistol type and has a body
21 and a spray actuation handle 22. Body 21
Is substantially T-shaped and comprises a horizontal portion 31 and a vertical portion 32. The body 21 has a built-in pump (not shown) for pumping up and spraying the disinfectant in the container 11.
An injection hole 33 is formed in the front end face of the horizontal portion 31. The handle 22 is of a trigger type, and is suspended from near the front end face of the horizontal portion 31 to the front of the vertical portion 32. In addition, a push-return elastic body 34 is provided at the base of the handle 22.

The operating device includes a stand 41 and a stand 41 for holding the container 11 at a required height from the base of the stand 41.
, And a foot pedal 43 provided at the base of the stand 41.

The stand 41 includes a flat base plate 51 having a square shape, and a cylindrical post 52 having an oval cross section that is long before and after standing on the base plate 51. As shown in detail in FIG. 4, a closing wall 53 is provided at an upper end opening of the post 52.
A guide hole 54 is formed in the closing wall 53. A front opening cover 55 is integrally provided on the outer periphery of the closing wall 53 except for the front. A pair of inner pin holes 56 are formed in the opposed side wall of the cover 55 so as to be concentric with each other.

The holder 42 includes a support 61 and an engagement arm.
Consists of 62. The support 61 extends from the top of the post 52 to the container 11
A circular positioning ring 71 fixed in a cantilever shape protruding forward at a distance substantially equivalent to the height of the container 11 and having an inner diameter slightly larger than the outer diameter of the container 11, and a positioning ring 71 when viewed from a plane. It is composed of a substantially U-shaped receiving bar 72 which is fixed to the positioning ring 71 so as to be divided into two. The engagement arm 62 is substantially U-shaped, and has a pair of arm portions 81 extending in parallel with each other at an interval slightly larger than the width of the post 52, and the engagement arm 62 extending over the distal ends of both arm portions 81. Part 82
And A pair of outer pin holes 83 are formed at the bases of the both arm portions 81 so as to be aligned with the inner pin holes 56, respectively. The engaging portion 82 is formed in a substantially V-shaped cross section. The pedal 43 has a shallow gutter-like shape that is long in the front-back direction when viewed from above, and is supported at the front end by a horizontal pin 91 so as to be vertically swingable (see FIG. 3).

Referring mainly to FIG. 3, a lever 101 is provided on the base plate 51 so as to be vertically swingable, located inside the post 52. The front end of the lever 101 protrudes from the post 52 and enters below the rear end of the pedal 43. At the rear end of the lever 101, the lower end of a push rod 102 extending vertically inside the post 52 is pivotally mounted. The upper end of the push rod 102 is inserted into the guide hole 54 and protrudes upward. A flat rocker arm 103 is in contact with the upper protruding end of the push rod 102. Referring to FIG. 4, the rocker arm 10
A boss portion 104 is integrally provided at the base of No. 3. A flat finger 105 is provided integrally with the boss 104 so as to be substantially orthogonal to the rocker arm 103.

The rocker arm 103 is fitted between the side walls of the cover 55 so that the inner pin hole 56 and the shaft hole of the boss 104 are aligned with each other. The outer pin holes 83 are aligned, and in this state, the mounting pin 111 with the head is inserted into both the pin holes 56 and 83 and the shaft hole. The engaging arm 62, the rocker arm 103, and the finger 104 are attached to the post 52 by inserting a retaining ring 114 through an washer 113 into an annular groove 112 provided at one end protruding portion of the mounting pin 111. When spraying the container 11, the container 11 is set in the device as follows. As shown in FIG. 5, the container 11 is placed on the support 61 with the injection hole 33 of the sprayer 12 facing backward, and the finger 105 is pressed against the handle 22. In this state, the engaging arm 62 is rotated so as to be placed on the body 21 of the sprayer 12, and the handle 22 is slightly pushed against the elastic body 34 to incline the container 11 backward, and the horizontal Engagement arm at rear end of part 31
The engaging portions 82 of 62 are engaged. Thereafter, the inclination of the container 11 is returned to its original state, and the handle 22 is pushed back to return. Thus, the preparation for spraying is completed.

When the rear end of the pedal 43 is depressed by depressing the pedal 43 with a foot, the lever 101 is rotated counterclockwise in FIG. 3 and the push rod 102 is pushed up. Then, the rocker arm 103 is pushed up by the push rod 102, whereby the rocker arm 103 is
105 together with 105 is rotated counterclockwise. As a result, the handle 22 is pushed forward by the finger 105, and the disinfectant is sprayed from the injection hole 33.

When the foot is released from the pedal 43, the push rod
The lever 101 is rotated clockwise in FIG. 3 by its own weight, and the pedal 43 is returned to the original position. On the other hand, the handle 22 is returned to the original position by the elastic body 34.

FIG. 6 shows a container 121 smaller than the large container 11 described above. That is, the small container 121
Has a smaller diameter and a lower height than the large container 11. Further, the body 123 of the atomizer 122 is also small, and the length of the horizontal portion 124 of the body 123 is reduced. Therefore, the length of the arm portion 126 of the engagement arm 125 is shorter than the length of the arm portion 81 of the engagement arm 62 described above. In addition, a dedicated rocker arm 128 and finger 129 for a small container are prepared.

Further, an attachment 127 is used to cope with a difference in height between the two containers 11, 121. That is, the attachment 127 includes a support 131 corresponding to the large container support 61, a support ring 132 fitted and supported in the large container support 61, and a spacer 133 interposed between the support 131 and the support ring 132. Consisting of

When replacing the large container 11 with the small container 121, remove the retaining ring 114 from the mounting pin 111 and remove the mounting pin 111.
And the large container engaging arm 62, rocker arm 103 and finger 105 are removed from the post 52. Instead, the small container engaging arm 125, rocker arm 128 and finger 129 (and possibly the 103 and fingers 104)
What is necessary is just to attach to the post 52 with the attachment pin 111. Then, the attachment 127 is supported by the support 61. With this, the preparation for setting the small container 121 is completed. After that, the setting may be performed in the same manner as the large container 11.

[0027]

According to the present invention, the disinfectant can be sprayed without touching the container, and a sanitary and convenient disinfectant spray container operating device is provided.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side view showing a use state of an operating device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the same device.

FIG. 3 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view of the same device.

FIG. 4 is an exploded perspective view showing a main part of the device.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory view showing how to set a container to the apparatus.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory view corresponding to FIG. 5, showing how to set different types of containers to the apparatus.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 Container 12 Sprayer 22 Handle 41 Stand 42 Holder 43 Pedal

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A sprayer 12 provided in a container 11 containing a disinfectant.
An actuating device for spraying the disinfectant by pushing the trigger-type spray actuating handle 22 is provided on the stand 41 so as to hold the container 11 at a required height from the base of the stand 41. A holder 42, a foot pedal 43 provided at a base of the stand 41, and a container held by the holder 42 to move down the pedal 43.
And a transmission mechanism for transmitting the pushing force to the handle 22 of the disinfectant container. 2. The sprayer 12 has a substantially T-shaped body 21 having a horizontal portion 31 and a vertical portion 32. An injection hole 33 is formed at a front end surface of the horizontal portion 31. handle
22 is hung from the horizontal portion 31 to a position closer to the front end face than the vertical portion 32, and the stand 41 includes a base plate 51 and a cylindrical post 52 erected on the base plate 51. A closing wall 53 is provided at an upper end opening of the housing, a guide hole 54 is formed in the closing wall 53, and a holder 42 is provided on the post 52 so as to protrude forward and the handle 22 is positioned above the closing wall 53. In the state where the support 61 receives the bottom of the container 11 in the state, and near the closing wall 53,
An engaging arm 62 is attached to the post 52 so as to be vertically swingable and engages with the rear end of the horizontal portion 31 in a state where the container 11 is received by the support 61 with the injection hole 33 facing forward. The actuation device for a disinfectant spray container according to claim 1, comprising: 3. A petal 43 is mounted on the base plate 51 in front of the post 52 so as to be vertically swingable at a front end thereof. A transmission mechanism is mounted on the base plate 51 and positioned in the post 52. A lever 101, which is attached to be able to swing up and down and has a front end protruding forward from the post 52 to enter below the rear end of the pedal 43, and a lower end connected to the rear end of the lever 101; A push rod 102 having an upper end portion inserted through the guide hole 54 and projecting upward, and a push rod 10
The rocker arm 103 is mounted on the closed wall 53 so as to be able to swing up and down so that the upper end of the container 2 can be brought into contact with the locker arm 103. The actuation device of the disinfectant spray container according to claim 2, further comprising a finger (105) capable of pushing the disinfectant spray container. 4. A plurality of types of containers 11, 121 having different sizes or different shapes are provided, and a plurality of types of engagement arms are provided corresponding to the types of the containers 11, 121.
62,125, rocker arms 103,128 and fingers 105,
129, the engagement arms 62 and 125, the rocker arm
103, 128 and fingers 105, 129 are detachably mounted on a common mounting pin 111 for each type.
The actuation device for a disinfectant spray container according to claim 3, wherein the device is detachable from the post 52.