US20120199611A1 - Arrangement for a dropper - Google Patents

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US20120199611A1
US20120199611A1 US13/501,649 US201013501649A US2012199611A1 US 20120199611 A1 US20120199611 A1 US 20120199611A1 US 201013501649 A US201013501649 A US 201013501649A US 2012199611 A1 US2012199611 A1 US 2012199611A1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D47/00—Closures with filling and discharging, or with discharging, devices
    • B65D47/04—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps
    • B65D47/06—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps with pouring spouts or tubes; with discharge nozzles or passages
    • B65D47/18—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps with pouring spouts or tubes; with discharge nozzles or passages for discharging drops; Droppers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D83/00—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents
    • B65D83/0094—Containers having an external wall formed as, or with, a diaphragm or the like which is deformed to expel the contents
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01F—MEASURING VOLUME, VOLUME FLOW, MASS FLOW OR LIQUID LEVEL; METERING BY VOLUME
    • G01F11/00—Apparatus requiring external operation adapted at each repeated and identical operation to measure and separate a predetermined volume of fluid or fluent solid material from a supply or container, without regard to weight, and to deliver it
    • G01F11/02—Apparatus requiring external operation adapted at each repeated and identical operation to measure and separate a predetermined volume of fluid or fluent solid material from a supply or container, without regard to weight, and to deliver it with measuring chambers which expand or contract during measurement
    • G01F11/08—Apparatus requiring external operation adapted at each repeated and identical operation to measure and separate a predetermined volume of fluid or fluent solid material from a supply or container, without regard to weight, and to deliver it with measuring chambers which expand or contract during measurement of the diaphragm or bellows type
    • G01F11/086—Apparatus requiring external operation adapted at each repeated and identical operation to measure and separate a predetermined volume of fluid or fluent solid material from a supply or container, without regard to weight, and to deliver it with measuring chambers which expand or contract during measurement of the diaphragm or bellows type using an auxiliary pressure to cooperate with the diaphragm or bellows
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01F—MEASURING VOLUME, VOLUME FLOW, MASS FLOW OR LIQUID LEVEL; METERING BY VOLUME
    • G01F11/00—Apparatus requiring external operation adapted at each repeated and identical operation to measure and separate a predetermined volume of fluid or fluent solid material from a supply or container, without regard to weight, and to deliver it
    • G01F11/10—Apparatus requiring external operation adapted at each repeated and identical operation to measure and separate a predetermined volume of fluid or fluent solid material from a supply or container, without regard to weight, and to deliver it with measuring chambers moved during operation
    • G01F11/26—Apparatus requiring external operation adapted at each repeated and identical operation to measure and separate a predetermined volume of fluid or fluent solid material from a supply or container, without regard to weight, and to deliver it with measuring chambers moved during operation wherein the measuring chamber is filled and emptied by tilting or inverting the supply vessel, e.g. bottle-emptying apparatus

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  • This Utility Model request refers to a new arrangement for a dropper, notably of a improved container (bottle) for mechanical application of products by drops in the most varied segments, among them the medical and/or pharmaceutical, wherein the container (bottle) presents a basal membrane with ergonomic and mechanic features, with the main scope to show a precise and user-friendly product.
  • the pharmaceutical branch has been showing a significant development over the past few years, bringing great competitiveness to the sector.
  • dropper consisting of a glass tube (boron silicate) in the shape of cannula with an elastomeric membrane, in bulbous, at one end, which was responsible for suction/dose of the product.
  • boron silicate boron silicate
  • Brazilian MU 8202018-3 refers to a cover carrier seal pin, that combined with the reduction of the dropper bung extension, allows that, regardless of the diameter of the orifice for the outflow of the product, determined by the dosage of the same, the cover of the container can keep the same ratio and external format, thus eliminating completely the need to readjust the machinery and variations of models of caps and bungs in the laboratory stock.
  • the quantity of liquid is performed by pressing the body of the bottle, when it is plastic, in order to dispense the drug.
  • a dropper of this invention which presents a plastic container (bottle), produced by the injection process, provided with a membrane of differentiated thickness, providing flexibility to the system, with corrugated area on its internal face, which gives an valve effect (spring), said membrane is sufficient to improve and/or ease the effort required for dripping the liquid in the container (bottle).
  • FIG. 1 View in cut of the arrangement for a dropper
  • FIG. 2 Partial exploded perspective view of the arrangement for a dropper
  • FIG. 3 Inverted perspective view of the arrangement for a dropper
  • FIG. 4 Perspective view of the arrangement for a dropper, showing its use.
  • the arrangement for a dropper, object of this Utility Model request presents a container (bottle) ( 1 ) made of injection-molded plastics, with a base ( 2 ) having a membrane (M), with different thickness than the container, allowing the mechanical flexibility, with a corrugated perimeter ( 3 ) that causes the membrane (M) to act like a spring, making it considerably easier to actuate and move the liquid mechanically towards the dose dispensing device ( 4 ).
  • This innovation is composed by a container (bottle) ( 1 ), an dropper bung ( 4 ) and a cover ( 5 ) with seal ( 6 ) which shows the first opening of the package.
  • the cover ( 5 ) can be of any kind, as, for example, screwable, completely removed from the neck, or of Twist Off kind, where there is no need for its total removal from the container (bottle) neck, whose opening is determined by the spin part of the same, typically around 90°, in counterclockwise, and the closing in reverse.
  • the dripping system is greatly simplified; there is no need for vents (air entrances).
  • the shaping the product exit orifice of the dropper has to be adapted to the physical-chemical characteristics of the product being dispensed, a factor which sets the drop size.
  • the dispensing of fluid occurs by pressing a flexible membrane (M), which has a corrugated perimeter ( 3 ) used as flexing spring of said membrane (M), of thickness different from the rest of the container (bottle) ( 1 ) body
  • a flexible membrane (M) which has a corrugated perimeter ( 3 ) used as flexing spring of said membrane (M), of thickness different from the rest of the container (bottle) ( 1 ) body
  • the nip region is fully protected, since it is in the base ( 2 ) of the container (bottle) ( 1 ) and set back from the contact surface of the packaging, thus avoiding any accidental starting, either in storage or transportation.
  • the dropping control is made by pressing the membrane (M) with the finger, usually the thumb or index finger; for this, it should keep the container (bottle) ( 1 ) upside down. Therefore, the operation principle is based on compression to the region of the membrane (M), generating an internal pressure differential (pressure increase) which forces the liquid out through the dripper opening ( 7 ). So, compression acts directly on the liquid, forcing it against the dripper opening ( 7 ), thus keeping the efficiency, even with different internal contents.

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BRMU8902988-7U BRMU8902988U2 (pt) 2009-10-14 2009-10-14 disposiÇço aplicada em aplicador conta-gotas
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US29699A (en) * 1860-08-21 Adolph Isaacsen Construction of apparatus for destroying insects
US2732736A (en) * 1956-01-31 bonnie
US2899110A (en) * 1959-08-11 Parker
US2208744A (en) * 1936-09-30 1940-07-23 Georges Bardin Container provided with a flexible diaphragm for dispensing materials
US2281738A (en) * 1938-12-13 1942-05-05 Frank E Wolcott Dispenser
US2213404A (en) * 1939-02-10 1940-09-03 Nast Leo Portable oil can
US2738107A (en) * 1953-05-18 1956-03-13 Elizabeth N Graham Receptacle for atomizer or the like
US2911972A (en) * 1954-09-14 1959-11-10 Elinger Adolfo Scholcoff Hypodermic syringe-ampulla
US2768623A (en) * 1954-12-29 1956-10-30 John F Marchand Container for liquids, and more particularly to a container which incorporates therein the function of a syringe
US3145879A (en) * 1961-04-03 1964-08-25 Lumelite Corp Container with self contained dispensing means
US3143429A (en) * 1961-10-09 1964-08-04 Pillsbury Co Collapsible disposable container and nursing unit
US3409167A (en) * 1967-03-24 1968-11-05 American Can Co Container with flexible bottom
US3483908A (en) * 1968-01-08 1969-12-16 Monsanto Co Container having discharging means
US4067499A (en) * 1976-02-17 1978-01-10 Cohen Milton J Non-aerosol continuous spray dispenser
US4634023A (en) * 1984-01-25 1987-01-06 Kabushiki Kaisha Alpha Giken Container
US5439128A (en) * 1992-05-12 1995-08-08 Fishman; Avraham Container
US5673822A (en) * 1993-01-08 1997-10-07 Laboratoires Merck Sharp & Dohme-Chibret Device for dropwise delivery of a fluid contained in a flexible vial
US5584413A (en) * 1994-06-09 1996-12-17 Jung; Myung G. Pleated plastic container
US5979710A (en) * 1996-02-12 1999-11-09 Willemsen; Michael G. Collapsible container for fluids
US20120279995A1 (en) * 2011-05-06 2012-11-08 Specialty Lubricants Corporation Accordion bottle

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