WO2000038564A1 - Liquid applicator with slide ring activator tool - Google Patents
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- WO2000038564A1 WO2000038564A1 PCT/US1998/027599 US9827599W WO0038564A1 WO 2000038564 A1 WO2000038564 A1 WO 2000038564A1 US 9827599 W US9827599 W US 9827599W WO 0038564 A1 WO0038564 A1 WO 0038564A1
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
- B05C—APPARATUS FOR APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
- B05C17/00—Hand tools or apparatus using hand held tools, for applying liquids or other fluent materials to, for spreading applied liquids or other fluent materials on, or for partially removing applied liquids or other fluent materials from, surfaces
- B05C17/002—Hand tools or apparatus using hand held tools, for applying liquids or other fluent materials to, for spreading applied liquids or other fluent materials on, or for partially removing applied liquids or other fluent materials from, surfaces with feed system for supplying material from an external source; Supply controls therefor
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61M—DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR
- A61M35/00—Devices for applying media, e.g. remedies, on the human body
- A61M35/003—Portable hand-held applicators having means for dispensing or spreading integral media
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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
- B65D47/42—Closures with filling and discharging, or with discharging, devices with pads or like contents-applying means
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- This invention relates to an applicator of the tubular type, which has a multi-layered cardboard tube, a crushable liquid filled ampoule, a uniquely designed foam tip, and which is activated by an L-shaped slide ring activator tool carried on the outside of the applicator.
- Applicators for dispensing liquids which are of the single use throwaway type are in widespread use.
- the applicators contain a glass or plastic liquid filled crushable ampoule, which is encased in a plastic tube that has a porous tip glued to the open end.
- This inner assembly may also have to be further enclosed in an external cardboard tube to prevent the glass shards from penetrating the inner assembly and cutting the end user when the total package is manually crushed.
- the seal on the porous tip is critical and must be continuous around the circumference of the tube to prevent the liquid from bypassing the porous tip, and thus creating excessive dripping or excessive flow around the tip.
- Conventional type applicators therefore require both an inner plastic tube with a sealed applicator tip and an outer cardboard tube for shard protection. While the applicators are of many different types and configurations, they must be inexpensive, easy and safe to use, retain the liquid in the container until use, protect the user from contact with the liquid and contact with the broken glass shards generated upon breaking the glass ampoules.
- These devices may utilize a lever carried on the container which is rotated to cause the ampoule to break and the liquid to be released for dispensing.
- these single lever activators can cause the glass shards to penetrate the tube through the opposite side of the tube.
- some of these package devices must rely on an inner and an outer tube to prevent the glass shards from coming through the outer container, which adds to the costs, and are necessary to provide an inner
- slide ring activator type dispenser is disclosed in my prior U.S. Patent No. 5,509,744, which, while satisfactory, requires a molded two piece plastic outer container which is more expensive to construct, and assemble than the device of the current invention.
- the slide ring applicator of my prior patent is limited to one function, i.e., to easily crush the inner ampoule, and it does not have a built in edge guide for guiding its travel while dispensing the liquid.
- the liquid applicator of the invention has an outer cardboard tube with an impervious inner layer that is made as part of the tube construction (thus providing a more cost effective solution to the need to provide a separate inner plastic tube to "contain the liquid" within the device after activation) .
- the invention also has a glass ampule therein, which is easily crushed by the L-shaped level type slide activator tool, which tool also acts as an edge guide for the applicator, and which provides many additional advantages. For example, the tool can be removed from the expended applicator after use and reused on a new applicator, thus saving costs.
- the applicator of the invention also has a uniquely configured porous foam tip.
- the tip is designed with a partially cut internal ridge that presents a very torturous path for the dispensed liquid to pass, thus preventing the liquid from "short circuiting" the controlled flow of liquid through the porous tip and not going straight down the inside of the tube, which the prior art straight porous tips would allow, causing non uniform liquid application or even drips.
- This uniquely designed tip could even be used without gluing the tip to the tube, and still provide uniform liquid application if so desired.
- the design of the porous tip can easily be increased in diameter to provide for wider liquid application than can conventional "straight plug type tips" without altering the tube diameter or adding an expansion collar to allow for wider tip reconfigurations.
- this invention is more easily and less costly to modify to lay down liquid widths.
- This invention relates to a liquid applicator device, which has an outer multilayered cardboard tube with a liquid filled glass ampoule therein.
- the package device is "sealed” with a specially cut and configured foam tip at the open end of the tube.
- the crushing action is inwardly directed on two sides of the tube, preventing shards from penetrating the single cardboard tube.
- the inner wall of the cardboard tube has an impervious layer of thin plastic film or other well known material to prevent the liquid from leaking out of the applicator through the walls of the tube, and directed down toward the porous tip.
- the tip is constructed with an inner circular ring cut partially through the tip to allow the open end of the tube to properly mate, thereby creating a torturous path for the liquid to follow and to not flow around the tip.
- the activator tool has edge guide forks adjacent the tip to guide the applicator in use.
- the principal object of the invention is to provide a liquid applicator which has an L-shaped slide ring activator tool for one hand operation to crush a liquid filled glass ampoule for liquid dispensing, which tool includes guide forks which act as edge guides for the device .
- a further object of the invention is to provide a liquid applicator which is simple and more inexpensive to construct, which is recyclable, and which can be easily modified with wider tips for various width liquid applications, and eliminates the need for a separate inner plastic tube.
- a further object of the invention is to provide a liquid applicator which is safe to use.
- a further object of the invention is to provide a liquid applicator which is useful to dispense a wide variety of liquid materials.
- Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the liquid applicator device of the invention
- Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the liquid applicator device of Fig. 1 partially broken away to show the interior of the device;
- Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view of the device of Fig 2;
- Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view taken approximately on the line 4-4 of Fig. 2;
- Fig. 5 is a vertical sectional view, enlarged, taken approximately on the line 5-5 of Fig. 2;
- Fig. 6 is a front end view of the device of Fig. 1;
- Fig. 7 is a side view of the porous tip of the device, and
- Fig. 8 is a top view of the tip illustrated in Fig. 7.
- Figs. 1-6 of the drawings the liquid applicator device 10 of the invention is therein illustrated, and in Fig. 1 is shown adjacent to a surface 13 to which liquid is to be applied.
- the applicator device 10 includes an outer hollow tube 11, preferably constructed of cardboard, with an inner layer 39 laminated thereto which layer is preferably of polyethylene, which tube is closed at one end 12 and open at end 14.
- An applicator tip 15 is provided on end 14, which is of a cylindrical shape, with a circular slot 16 into which the tube 11 extends, with a portion 17 of the tip extending into the tube 11.
- the applicator tip 15 is preferably constructed of plastic foam of well known type, and compatible with the liquid to be dispensed.
- the tip 15 is secured to tube 11 by adhesive of well known type .
- a crushable ampoule 20 is provided within the tube 11, which contains liquid 21 to be dispensed, and which is preferably constructed of glass.
- the ampoule 20 can be constructed of other suitable material, such as crushable plastic, the selected material being determined by the characteristics of the liquid to be dispensed.
- a slide ring activator tool 25 is provided on the outer surface 26 of tube 11, which tool is of 90° L-shape with an interior opening 27, with a pair of side projections 28 in contact with surface 26, and a pair of upper and lower projections 29 and 30 also in contact with surface 26.
- the interior opening 27 in tool 25 is greater than the outer diameter of tube 11, and the side projections 28 act as pivots, to be described.
- the tool 25 may be formed of any rigid material, nylon being the preferred material .
- the upper and lower projections 29 and 30 are intended to be used to crush the ampoule 20, to be described.
- the tool 25 has an upper arm 35, which includes the interior opening 27 described above, and has a pair of forks 36 extending forwardly from the bottom end of arm 35 toward the applicator tip 15.
- the applicator 10 as shown in Figs. 1 and 4 is held in the users hand, the tool 25 rotated by the users fingers about tube 11.
- the projections 28 act as pivots, and the upper and lower projections 29 and 30 deflect the tube 11 and crush the inner ampoule 20, causing liquid 21 to be released and flow to applicator tip 15.
- the forces exerted by the tool are always inwardly directed thereby avoiding glass shards from pushing outwardly through the tube 11.
- the porous tip 15 has a circular cut slot 16
- the liquid is forced down and around the entire tip, evenly saturating the total porous tip, and preventing short circuiting of the liquid directly down between the tube and the tip 15, which can happen when the surface tension of the liquid to the inner wall of the tube is such to cause the liquid to travel preferentially straight down the edge of the tube.
- the glass shards (not shown) are retained in the tube
- the liquid 21 does not penetrate the tube 11 because of the non porous layer 39.
- the tool 25 is preferably rotated with the forks 36 behind tip 15, and after rotation the tool 25 may be slide forwardly until forks 36 are in contact with tip 15.
- the forks 36 can then be used to position and guide the applicator 10 along the edge of the surface 13 to be treated with the liquid through tip 15, with the result that a continuous border of liquid is applied along the edge of the surface 13.
- the tool 25 can be saved and reused on other applicators. Upon finishing the job the applicator device 10 can be recycled and the components reclaimed for use as desired.
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Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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CA002354009A CA2354009C (en) | 1998-12-23 | 1998-12-23 | Liquid applicator with slide ring activator tool |
US09/857,983 US6755586B1 (en) | 1998-12-23 | 1998-12-23 | Liquid applicator with slide ring activator tool |
PCT/US1998/027599 WO2000038564A1 (en) | 1998-12-23 | 1998-12-23 | Liquid applicator with slide ring activator tool |
EP98965497A EP1152683A4 (en) | 1998-12-23 | 1998-12-23 | Liquid applicator with slide ring activator tool |
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PCT/US1998/027599 WO2000038564A1 (en) | 1998-12-23 | 1998-12-23 | Liquid applicator with slide ring activator tool |
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EP2564940A1 (en) | 2011-08-31 | 2013-03-06 | Sika Technology AG | Applicator stick |
DE102014218574A1 (en) | 2014-09-16 | 2016-03-17 | Henkel Ag & Co. Kgaa | Device for applying a liquid |
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US3774609A (en) * | 1972-01-31 | 1973-11-27 | G Schwartzman | Surgical preparatory applicator |
US4432749A (en) * | 1980-03-31 | 1984-02-21 | Hillwood Corporation | Self-contained swab unit |
US4498796A (en) * | 1981-03-09 | 1985-02-12 | Whitman Medical Corporation | Surgical scrub |
US4784506A (en) * | 1985-07-17 | 1988-11-15 | Kores Holding Zug Ab | Breakable ampule with swab |
US5425915A (en) * | 1991-12-11 | 1995-06-20 | Becton Dickinson And Company | Culturette safety sleeve |
US5509744A (en) * | 1995-06-23 | 1996-04-23 | Frazier; Thomas G. | Liquid applicator with slide ring activator |
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- 1998-12-23 CA CA002354009A patent/CA2354009C/en not_active Expired - Fee Related
- 1998-12-23 WO PCT/US1998/027599 patent/WO2000038564A1/en not_active Application Discontinuation
- 1998-12-23 EP EP98965497A patent/EP1152683A4/en not_active Withdrawn
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US3774609A (en) * | 1972-01-31 | 1973-11-27 | G Schwartzman | Surgical preparatory applicator |
US4432749A (en) * | 1980-03-31 | 1984-02-21 | Hillwood Corporation | Self-contained swab unit |
US4498796A (en) * | 1981-03-09 | 1985-02-12 | Whitman Medical Corporation | Surgical scrub |
US4784506A (en) * | 1985-07-17 | 1988-11-15 | Kores Holding Zug Ab | Breakable ampule with swab |
US5425915A (en) * | 1991-12-11 | 1995-06-20 | Becton Dickinson And Company | Culturette safety sleeve |
US5509744A (en) * | 1995-06-23 | 1996-04-23 | Frazier; Thomas G. | Liquid applicator with slide ring activator |
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Cited By (5)
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CN107261310A (en) * | 2010-06-30 | 2017-10-20 | 开尔弗森2200有限公司 | Antiseptic applicator component |
EP2564940A1 (en) | 2011-08-31 | 2013-03-06 | Sika Technology AG | Applicator stick |
WO2013030270A1 (en) | 2011-08-31 | 2013-03-07 | Sika Technology Ag | Stick applicator |
US9827585B2 (en) | 2011-08-31 | 2017-11-28 | Sika Technology Ag | Stick applicator |
DE102014218574A1 (en) | 2014-09-16 | 2016-03-17 | Henkel Ag & Co. Kgaa | Device for applying a liquid |
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CA2354009A1 (en) | 2000-07-06 |
EP1152683A1 (en) | 2001-11-14 |
EP1152683A4 (en) | 2002-04-03 |
CA2354009C (en) | 2005-10-04 |
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