Abstract:
A dispensing pump (10) for liquids, viscous materials, foams, gels, etc. includes a resilient plastic skirt spring (18) so that the entire pump can be more easily recycled. The dispensing pump (10) includes a base portion (12), an inlet valve (14), a piston valve (16), a polymer skirt spring (18), a spring guide structure (20) and a pump actuator (22). The skirt spring (18) comprises a plurality of concentric nesting rings (38) sequentially decreasing in diameter from a base ring (38A) to a top ring (38F) wherein adjacent rings are interconnected by spaced bridge segments (40) and the bridge segments are staggered at each sequential ring. The skirt spring (18) includes structures which interact with the piston valve (16) to open the outlet valve.
Abstract:
A direct-foam cleaning product comprising a foam having a compression force of about 2.4 gf*mm to about 4.3 gf*mm. Such direct-foam cleaning product provides good foaming properties and surface coverage when the composition is sprayed directly onto soiled dishware. This leads to efficient cleaning of soiled dishes via a direct-foam and rinse action, which avoids traditional methods of soaking soiled dishes in detergent baths and/or scrubbing soiled dishware with a sponge or cleaning implement.
Abstract:
To provide an accumulation valve which is stable and moves sensitively, where the number of parts has been reduced, and an accumulator trigger sprayer assembled with the same.The present invention is an accumulation valve S used in an accumulator trigger sprayer 100 which imparts pressure to liquid in a cylinder by a piston portion 11 to spray liquid from a nozzle portion 5a to the outside, the accumulation valve S including a piston valve portion 21, a spring portion 22 for pressing the piston valve portion 21 to a piston valve seat, and a mounting portion 23 for mounting the spring portion 22 to the piston portion 11, wherein the piston valve portion 21, the spring portion 22 and the mounting portion 23 are formed integrally.
Abstract:
A fluid dispenser pump including a first piston, a second piston, and a dispenser head with a dispenser orifice, for actuating the pump, a shutter arranged upstream from the dispenser orifice, the shutter movable between closed and open positions. The second piston is formed outside a hollow part and is slidable inside the dispenser head. The first piston is slidable inside the hollow part, the hollow part including an axial opening defined by a radial edge through which passes a stem portion of the shutter. The stem portion is between a proximal radial shoulder and a distal radial shoulder of the shutter, the shutter being moved from its closed position to its open position by the radial edge of the hollow part co-operating with the distal radial shoulder, and being moved from its open position to its closed position by the radial edge co-operating with the proximal radial shoulder.
Abstract:
A “Flair® Sprayer” can be provided with no dip tube, and can be capable of being used in any orientation, including upside down. Using a unique valving system, where the product delivery circuit is a closed system, a Flair Sprayer can pump out any gas in a bottle's headspace and the product/liquid always reaches the pump intake, even with no dip tube. A dispensing device can have separate product and re-venting/propellant circuits, isolated one from the other, allowing for longer life and freshness of the product. Air or other displacement media can be used for various ancillary functions, all the while remaining isolated from the product, and the dispensing of the product can be adeptly controlled by pressure differentials (under-pressures and overpressures).
Abstract:
A fluid dispenser device comprising: a reservoir (100); a pump (50) that defines a pump chamber (56); a first piston (51) that slides in leaktight manner between a non-dispensing position and a dispensing position; a spray head (10) including a body (11) that defines an expulsion channel (12) and that is provided with a dispenser orifice (1); a closure member (40) that is disposed in said expulsion channel (12) upstream from the dispenser orifice (1), said closure member (40) being movable between a closed position and a non-closing position; and a second piston (57) that co-operates with said closure member (40) in order to move it towards its non-closing position; wherein, in the dispensing position of the first piston (51), said pump chamber (56) is connected to the reservoir (100) in order to equalize the pressures after each actuation.
Abstract:
A valve (338) has a body (312, 314) a fluid inlet (378), a fluid outlet (399) and a bore (362) defined in the body and which forms at least part of a fluid passage from the inlet to the outlet. The valve also has a movable valve member (366) with a resiliency flexible diaphragm portion (370) and a valve bore closure portion (374) mounted to the diaphragm for movement therewith. The flexible diaphragm portion (370) is movable in a valve opening direction from an initial resiliently biased configuration (as shown), in which the valve bore closure portion (374) closes the bore (362), to a valve open configuration in which the valve bore closure portion (374) does not close the bore and a fluid flow path through the bore from the inlet to the outlet is established. The valve is configured such that the diaphragm (370) is able to move in the valve opening direction from its initial resiliently biased configuration towards its valve open configuration by a limited amount during which range of movement the valve bore (362) is closed by the valve bore closure portion (374). The valve is particular suited for use as a pre-compression outlet valve for a pump-action dispenser (310).
Abstract:
A liquid dispenser device for being associated with a liquid reservoir (R), said device comprising:a chamber (10) provided with an inlet valve (5, 15), an outlet valve (32, 232), and a piston (3) that is suitable for varying the volume of the chamber;a liquid dispenser orifice (25); anda pusher (2) that is axially displaceable down and up between a rest position and a depressed position;the dispenser device being characterized in that the pusher (2) includes an elastically-deformable wall (212) that is thus displaceable relative to the remainder of the pusher, the piston (3) being in contact, at least momentarily, with the deformable wall (212), so as to be urged in displacement relative to the remainder of the pusher while the wall is being deformed, in such a manner as to open the outlet valve.
Abstract:
A fluid-dispenser pump having a pump body (10) containing a measuring chamber (20) defined between an upper piston (30) sliding in an upper portion (11) of the pump body (10), and a lower piston (40) sliding in a lower portion (12) of the pump body (10). The lower piston (40) co-operates with a spring (50) disposed in the lower portion (12) of the pump body (10). The spring (50) is isolated from any contact with the fluid, and the lower portion (12) of the pump body includes an air-intake (15) enabling air to be admitted and/or expelled during actuation of the pump. Isolation is provided to prevent fluid from penetrating into the air-intake (15).
Abstract:
A fluid pump (100; 200; 300) comprising: a pusher (120; 220; 320) comprising: a push wall (121; 221; 321) defining a push outside surface (1211; 2211; 3211) and an inside surface (1212; 2212; 3212); and a peripheral skirt (122; 22; 322) which extends from the inside surface of the push wall; a pump chamber (1) provided with an inlet valve and with an outlet valve; a dispensing orifice (125; 225; 325) via which the fluid is dispensed; a main piston (136; 236; 336) for causing the volume of the pump chamber to vary; and a differential piston (131, 132, 133; 231, 232, 233; 331, 332, 333) that is mounted to move in the pump chamber in response to variation in the pressure in the pump chamber, the differential piston being mounted to move away from the push wall when the pressure increases in the pump chamber; the pusher and the differential piston being mounted to move along an actuating axis (X) which extends substantially perpendicularly to the push wall; characterized in that the differential piston is formed integrally with an inlet valve moving member (138; 238; 338) which co-operates with an inlet valve seat (1161; 2161; 3161).