Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fluid supply apparatus and personal care implement containing the same
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Application No.: US15840705Application Date: 2017-12-13
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Publication No.: US10376040B2Publication Date: 2019-08-13
- Inventor: Leighton Davies-Smith , Al Aquanza Sprosta , Shyamala Pillai
- Applicant: Colgate-Palmolive Company
- Applicant Address: US NY New York
- Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
- Current Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
- Current Assignee Address: US NY New York
- Main IPC: A46B11/04
- IPC: A46B11/04 ; A46B11/00 ; A46B9/04 ; A46B15/00

Abstract:
A fluid supply apparatus with leakage protection. The apparatus includes a housing defining a storage cavity having a total volume including a fluid portion and a gas portion. The storage cavity extends along a cavity axis from a first end to a second end. A capillary member is fluidly coupled with the fluid. A plurality of vent apertures are formed into the housing, each forming a passageway between the storage cavity and an external atmosphere and each configured such that the fluid cannot flow through the vent apertures at ambient temperature and pressure equilibrium between the storage cavity and the external atmosphere. The vent apertures may be located and arranged on the housing such that irrespective of vertical and angular orientation of the housing relative to a gravitational vector at least one of the vent apertures is in spatial communication with the gas.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180168328A1 Fluid Supply Apparatus and Personal Care Implement Containing the Same Public/Granted day:2018-06-21
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