Abstract:
A fluid dispenser comprising a fluid reservoir (111) of variable volume, and a dispensing orifice (130), said reservoir being provided with at least one deformable actuating wall (112) urged by resilient means (15) into a rest position corresponding to the reservoir having its maximum volume, said dispenser being characterized in that the resilient means (15) are situated outside the reservoir (111), not in contact with the fluid.
Abstract:
A composite container for low viscosity liquids, capable of discharging the contents completely, without producing dripping of liquids after discharging adhesives, medicines, foods, ink and other low viscosity liquids. The container includes an inner container which contains the contents and includes an opening for discharging the contents, and an outer casing container covering the inner container body. A pressure medium is interposed between the inner container body and the outer casing container.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a deformable container (10) for delivering a liquid from a dispensing opening (12) on the sealing part (14), there being assigned to the ventilating opening (90) of the container (10) a ventilating valve (18) which is open in the event of underpressure in the container (10). The sealing part (14) is disposed on a metering element (20), which is inserted sealingly in the opening in the container (10) and is provided with two outlet ducts (24, 26). The outlet ducts (24, 26) serve to dispense the liquid in jet or drop form and can optionally be connected, by twisting the sealing part (14), to the dispensing opening (12) of the sealing part (14). The liquid is located in an inner bag (50), which is connected, in each case via a shut-off valve (64, 66), to the outlet ducts (24, 26). In an overhead position of the container (10), the liquid can be dispensed by compression of the container walls, depending upon the setting of the sealing part (14), in drop or jet form, by the corresponding nonreturn valve (64, 66) being opened whilst the ventilating valve (18) remains simultaneously closed. The nonreturn valve in question closes automatically, whilst the ventilating valve opens whenever the pressure exerted upon the container walls is lifted.
Abstract:
A liquid dispensing nozzle assembly is provided for mounting on a liquid container and dispenser having a flexible wall and liquid storage cavity for manually squeezed dispensing of a liquid from the cavity through the nozzle assembly. The nozzle assembly maintains the liquid, such as contact lens saline solution, in sterile condition during storage and repeated dispensing of the liquid from the container cavity. The nozzle assembly includes a liquid conduit for communication from the container cavity to a liquid discharge port from the nozzle assembly to enable dispensing of the liquid displaced by manually squeezing the flexible wall of the container. The nozzle assembly also includes an air aspiration conduit separate from the liquid conduit for aspirating air into the container cavity to replace the dispensed liquid. The nozzle assembly includes a partitioned diaphragm including separate portions respectively included in the liquid conduit and the air aspiration conduit. The air conduit portion of the diaphragm can include a filter which is hydrophobic and air permeable but impermeable to bacteria to prevent entrainment of bacteria with the aspirating flow of air into the liquid storage cavity of the container.
Abstract:
Liquid to be dispensed is supplied to a dispensing nozzle (88) from a compressible container (30) such as a sachet with a valve-controlled outlet (66) by compressing the sachet through the agency of a pad (46) of resiliently deformable material. The dispensing device is embodied in a hand held unit having a trigger (102) and electrical circuitry (91, 96, 106, 98, 106) for applying high voltage to the liquid in order to effect dispensing of the liquid in the form of an electrostatically charged, atomised spray.
Abstract:
A bag in squeeze bottle fluid dispenser capable of dispensing substantially all of the fluid product contained therein. A suitable bag support element is inserted inside the flexible bag to prevent substantial axial movement of the bag in the direction of its discharge orifice and to encourage radial collapse of the bag instead. The internal bag support means, which in a preferred embodiment comprises an extruded plastic helix, has an internal fluid passage formed within the coils of the helix and fluid communication to allow fluid contained within the bag to access the internal fluid passage along substantially the entire length of the internal bag support element. Thus, radial collapse of the flexible bag does not block the passage of fluid remaining in the bag through the discharge orifice in the bag until substantially all of the fluid contained within the bag has been dispensed. In a particularly preferred embodiment, the internal bag support element is inserted into the dispenser through the discharge orifice of the bag to a point substantially coinciding with the opposite end of the flexible bag after the bag has been filled with the fluid to be dispensed.
Abstract:
An automatic dispensing cap for dispensing product contained in a squeeze-type container. A two-way valve-head comprising an upper disc closure is constructed so that it seats on the top edge of the inverted conical spout of the cap. In a preferred embodiment, the disc closure has a centrally-located air bore and depending tubular stem. Upon application of manual squeeze pressure, the valve-head unseats from the cap spout allowing product to flow through. When the squeeze pressure is released, a lower cruciform portion of the two-way valve-head acts as a spring to seat the upper disc closure, cutting off the flow of product, and allowing air to reenter the container through the central disc air bore and the tubular stem. An inverted cup-shaped check-valve closes the central air bore of the tubular stem during the dispensing phase, to prevent product from exiting therethrough. In another embodiment, primarily useful with a squeeze tube, the central disc and central stem are solid; and the check-valve is eliminated. An alternatively shaped container is disclosed which is designed to be hung in inverted position.
Abstract:
Dispensing apparatus for a flexible container, including a closure for the container and an expansible bladder associated with the closure and adapted to fit within the container to expand and displace the dispensed contents. The closure has two openings, one at which it is attached to the container and the other forming an outlet for dispensing. A conduit extends from the bladder into the closure and communicates to the exterior of the closure and container through one of the two openings. The outlet opening is constructed to allow the contents to flow only in a direction from the container during use and a check valve allows flow through the conduit only into the bladder.
Abstract:
A bottle and cap of relatively very simple design for spraying an atomized liquid; the bottle being made of squeezable material so that air and liquid within its interior can be together forcibly pushed outwardly therefrom through a common port leading from an air-liquid mixing chamber in the cap, the air being originally admitted into the bottle through a one-way valve which automatically closes when the bottle is squeezed.