Container-mounted Fluid Pressure Generating Pump Or Pulsator Patents (Class 222/401)
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Patent number: 5115945Abstract: A viscous material dispenser (for liquid soap and the like) comprises a piston in fluid communication with an air chamber. Depressing the piston increases the pressure in the air chamber and this pressurized air is conducted through a duct to a reservoir. Depressing the piston also opens a nozzle leading from the bottom of the reservoir. In one embodiment the duct terminates in a portion which turns back on the remainder of the duct which portion incorporates a one-way non-return valve so that the pressure in the reservoir may be built up with consecutive strokes of the piston due to the non-return valve. When air is pumped through the duct, a bubble of air is trapped between the valve and the mouth of the duct which prevents fouling of the valve by the viscous material.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 1990Date of Patent: May 26, 1992Inventor: Wolf E. Ruck
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Patent number: 5094388Abstract: A portable drinking fountain with a pressurized container for providing a liquid and a second container for receiving unconsumed liquid, both housed in a shell with a lid which carries a spout from the pressurized container and a drain leading to the second container. The shell is keyed for orienting the two containers within and allows easy portability of the fountain and its containers. The lid is removable for cleaning and filling of the containers with water or other drinkable beverage.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 1991Date of Patent: March 10, 1992Inventor: Luther Chapman, Jr.
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Patent number: 5082148Abstract: A powder dispenser basically characterized by a powder reservoir (14) positioned above a mixing chamber (18). The mixing chamber (18) is separated from the powder reservoir by a first wall (16). The first wall (16) includes a powder outlet (22) bordered by a downwardly directed upper valve seat (24). The mixing chamber (18) includes a second wall (20) spaced axially below the first wall (16). The second wall (20) includes an air inlet (32) bordered by an upwardly directed lower valve seat (28). An axially movable valve plug (32) is located within the mixing chamber (18). The valve plug (32) has upper and lower surfaces (34 and 36), with the lower surface normally resting on the lower valve seat (28), and its upper surface (34) normally spaced axially from the upper valve seat (24).Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 1990Date of Patent: January 21, 1992Inventor: Walter B. Dunning
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Patent number: 5074437Abstract: The present invention is directed toward a toy water gun which is operated by selectively releasing water from a water reservoir that is pressurized with air. The present invention is a one piece device formed in the general shape of a gun that has a manually operated air pump incorporated into the design. The air pump pressurized a water reservoir and consequently pressurizes any water found therein. The pressurized water has an avenue of release that is regulated by the trigger mechanism of the invention. When no force is applied to the trigger, the pressurized water is held at bay with no means of release. When force is applied to the trigger, water is released from the pressurized container and is channeled through a narrow nozzle. The escape of the pressurized water through the narrow nozzle creates a stream of propelled water that lasts as long as the trigger is engaged or until the pressure of the water equals the ambient air.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 1990Date of Patent: December 24, 1991Inventors: Bruce M. D'Andrade, Lonnie G. Johnson
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Patent number: 5072884Abstract: A tank for use with a portable sprayer. The tank is made of plastic and is elliptical in shape to provide increased strength for the tank when pressurized. The elliptical configuration also makes less visible the harmless distortions which tend to occur in plastic tanks when pressurized.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 1990Date of Patent: December 17, 1991Assignee: Root-Lowell CorporationInventors: Garry L. Ellison, Kim W. Sears
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Patent number: 5069390Abstract: A spray applicator to discharge plaster or another texturizing material in a spray pattern against a wall surface or the like. There is a manually operated air cylinder and piston assembly which discharges pressurized air through a first nozzle, with an air jet traveling through an area where the plaster or the material descends from a container, with the air jet carrying some of the plaster through a forward discharge nozzle to cause a spray pattern. There is a rotatable adjusting sleeve which moves the two nozzles further apart or closer together to control the spray pattern and also to close the discharge nozzle.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 1990Date of Patent: December 3, 1991Assignee: DJ S & T Limited PartnershipInventors: Donald J. Stern, Jeff S. Heaton, James A. Tryon, Brett A. Bartholmey
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Patent number: 4986452Abstract: A pumping device for a liquid container comprises a bellows body with upper and lower plates. The upper plate has a suction port adapted to be communicated with the atmosphere, , and the lower plate has an exhaust port adapted to be communicated with an interior of the liquid container a suction valve is adapted to open and close the suction port; and a bellows return spring is adapted to expand the bellows body. A stop valve assembly is arranged in the bellows body and forms a bypath for communicating the interior of the bellows body with the interior of the container.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 1989Date of Patent: January 22, 1991Assignee: Zojirushi CorporationInventors: Toyohiko Takatsuki, Masahiro Yoshida, Konomu Sugimoto, Ryoichi Sakaguchi
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Patent number: 4984742Abstract: A manual pump for pressurizing a closed tank. The pump has a unitary handle, piston rod, valve seat, and split disc air release. An "O" ring is positioned between the valve seat and the split disc air release. A pump cylinder is disposed in the top of the tank and the unitary member is in the cylinder with the handle extending above the top. A piston rod sleeve closes the top of the pump cylinder and provides a stabilizing guide surface for the piston rod as it is moved in and out in the pump cylinder. On the compression stroke of the piston rod, the resilient "O" ring contacts the valve seat sealing the pump cylinder. On the return stroke, the "O" ring contacts the split disc and allows air to enter the pump cylinder through the split disc. An improved garden-type or utility sprayer is also disclosed incorporating the pump into a portable tank adapted to contain a liquid to be dispensed.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 1989Date of Patent: January 15, 1991Assignee: Root-LowellInventors: Garry L. Ellison, Kim W. Sears
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Patent number: 4982874Abstract: A shampoo dispensing container is in the shape of an action figure, such as an army figure, and has a fluid pumping system that operates to dispense shampoo from the container in an exploding type pattern as one of the arms of the action figure is operated in a combat type movement.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 1990Date of Patent: January 8, 1991Inventor: William Pringle
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Patent number: 4972972Abstract: A portable fuel dispensing container is defined by an elongate enclosed housing formed with a first forward wall spaced from a second forward wall defining a hose chamber forwardly of a fuel chamber. The container includes a pressured discharge cap positioning rearwardly through a top wall of the container with a pressurizing jump positioned through the top wall of the container adjacent the second chamber. A rigid hose includes a horizontal leg positioned within the fuel chamber, and a verical leg directed through the forward wall of the container and extending upwardly therealong terminating in a coupling for securement to a flexible hose. The flexible hose includes a discharge nozzle at a free end thereof to enable remote filling and discharge of fuel contained within the fuel chamber when pressurized.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 1989Date of Patent: November 27, 1990Inventor: Daniel J. Goguen
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Patent number: 4972975Abstract: An automatic spray can for spraying liquids is described, comprising a hong (1), in which an energy store (2), an electric motor (3) and a pump (6) for producing compressed air with a suction joint (7) and a pressure joint (8) are located, a product container (9) in engagement with the housing (1), with a spray head (14) including a spray nozzle (15) arranged at its top aperture (18), and an air feed pipe (13) between the pressure joint (8) of the pump (6) and the interior of the product container (9).To make such a spray can smaller and lighter, and to enable a constant flow of spray jet with a uniform particle size to be produced with convenient operation, it is proposed according to the invention that the product container (9) be arranged as an extension of the housing (1), and the pump (6) be in the form of a vane type rotary pump, arranged at the upper end of the housing (1), with the air feed pipe (13) preferably extending over the whole length of the container.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 1989Date of Patent: November 27, 1990Assignee: OECO-Tech Entwicklung & Vertrieb von Verpackungssystemen GmbHInventor: Wolfgang Fuhrig
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Patent number: 4957218Abstract: A foamer, and related method, wherein the foamer comprises a container in which a large supply of foamable liquid is disposed. A predetermined amount of foamable liquid is displaced from time to time from the large container to a relatively small capacity pump chamber, under force of manually-created negative pressure. Manually-created positive air pressure displaces a fixed quantity of foamable liquid from the pump chamber as a stream to a foam-creating mixing chamber where a controlled amount of the air under positive pressure is introduced into the stream of foamable liquid to produce effluent foam.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 1986Date of Patent: September 18, 1990Assignee: Ballard Medical ProductsInventor: George W. Ford, Jr.
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Patent number: 4955545Abstract: A spray applicator to discharge plaster or another texturizing material in a spray pattern against a wall surface or the like. There is a manually operated air cylinder and piston assembly which discharges pressurized air through a first nozzle, with an air jet traveling through an area where the plaster or the material descends from a container, with the air jet carrying some of the plaster through a forward discharge nozzle to cause a spray pattern. There is a rotatable adjusting sleeve which moves the two nozzles further apart or closer together to control the spray pattern and also to close the discharge nozzle.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 1989Date of Patent: September 11, 1990Assignee: DJS&T Limited PartnershipInventors: Donald J. Stern, Jeff S. Heaton, James A. Tryon, Brett A. Bartholmey
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Patent number: 4941599Abstract: The invention is directed to an apparatus and a method for thoroughly mixing a suspension containing a fluid and solid matter constituents and spraying the thoroughly mixed suspension onto a surface. The apparatus includes a pressure and seal tight container enclosed on all sides for accommodating the suspension therein. The container has a top region and has a base region whereat the solid matter constituents tend to collect to form a sediment. A cylinder and a piston generate a charge of air under pressure which is conducted through a passage into the base region of the container to break up the sediment and thoroughly mix the solid matter constituents in the fluid as the air under pressure rises through the suspension to collect at the top region of the container where it imparts pressure to the suspension. A nozzle unit mounted on the container vents the container to permit the air under pressure to entrain the thoroughly mixed suspension to form a spray.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 1988Date of Patent: July 17, 1990Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbHInventors: Ulrich Reinertz, Wolfgang Troger, Jurgen Wockel
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Patent number: 4930664Abstract: A portable sprayer which has a resealable closure, a dispensing valve and a quick disconnect one-way valve attached to a receptacle. As the receptacle is filled with fluid through the one-way valve, air which is entrapped in the receptacle pressurizes the container to facilitate dispensing the fluid. By locking the dispensing valve open or by opening the top closure of the sprayer, and securing a hose to the quick disconnect one-way valve, one can flush the sprayer out by allowing fresh water to flow continually through the system.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 1988Date of Patent: June 5, 1990Assignee: Root-Lowell Manufacturing CompanyInventor: Garry L. Ellison
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Patent number: 4919311Abstract: An all plastic one piece blow molded pressure vessel and sprayer combination shows a bottom closure with upwardly inclined feet. Internal pressure causes the upward and inward portion of the feet to descend such that the feet remain in good contact with a planar surface on which the vessel is resting, such that the bottom does not become bulged outwardly and rock.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 1984Date of Patent: April 24, 1990Assignee: Quality Products, Inc.Inventor: Gerald W. Born
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Patent number: 4911339Abstract: A liquid dispensing apparatus, suitable for mounting on a bicycle safely provides the rider of the bicycle a way to refresh himself without having to stop and dismount the bicycle. In a preferred embodiment, the apparatus generally includes a cylindrical housing containing a supply of liquid. The liquid is dispensed through an unrestricted length of flexible tubing, leading from the housing to a nozzle which is disposed on the handle bars of the bicycle. A pleated bellows is disposed at the bottom of the housing and forms a chamber for holding compressed air. Each inward stroke of the bellows forces air into the chamber so as to hold the contents under pressure. Adjacent the nozzle, and integrally connected thereto is a hand operated valve which, in its normal state is closed. Depressing the valve forces the liquid out of the container, through the tubing and nozzle, to the rider.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 1988Date of Patent: March 27, 1990Inventor: John J. Cushing
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Patent number: 4878604Abstract: A dispensing package comprising a pressure pumping source provided by the container, and a three-piece fluid delivery system which includes closure, dip tube fitted on the closure and a delivery spout for handling light-duty liquid. The closure functions as a push-pull closure providing an "on"/"off" position for dispensing without a need to remove or replace the closure on the container. Dispensing is accomplished without the need to lift or tip the container. The closure seals in a liquid-tight condition when placed in the "off" position. The side dispensing spout can be rotated horizontally to any desired position for ease of dispensing or for shipping in an out-of-the-way position.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 1988Date of Patent: November 7, 1989Assignee: Owens-Illinois Closure Inc.Inventor: Jacques J. Barriac
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Patent number: 4875604Abstract: The invention relates to a dispenser for paste-like products which is characterized by a particular simple construction of its dispensing mechanism requiring a reduced number of components. Integrally connected to a supply container of the dispenser is a cylinder body slidably supporting a dispensing piston connected to an actuator cap guided on the cylinder body. The dispensing piston cooperates with the cylinder body to define a pump chamber communicating with the interior of the supply container through a non-return valve. On the other side the bottom portion of the dispensing piston is provided with a non-return valve for establishing communication of the pump chamber with a tubular section carrying the dispensing piston and at the same time acting as an outlet passage for the paste-like product. The tubular section is integrally connected to the actuator cap, the latter being biased towards a rest position by a return spring supported on a fixed counterstop, particularly on the cylinder body.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 1988Date of Patent: October 24, 1989Inventor: Joachim Czech
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Patent number: 4863075Abstract: A beach caddy used for transporting and storing items for recreational use at the beach. The caddy is provided with runners for drawing across sandy surfaces and detachable wheels for rolling over paved surfaces. A refillable water tank within the caddy dispenses fluids for washing, drinking or any other use. An adjustable support is provided for retaining a beach umbrella and permitting it to be tilted in any desired direction. Detachable tables mounted on the sides of the caddy can be set up to support items transported by the caddy.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 1987Date of Patent: September 5, 1989Assignee: Winchester Software Services, Inc.Inventor: Robert Romer
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Patent number: 4782982Abstract: A portable sprayer which has a resealable lid and a one-way valve attached to a receptacle. As the receptacle is filled with fluid through the one-way valve, air which is entrapped in the receptacle pressurizes the container to facilitate dispensing the fluid.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 1987Date of Patent: November 8, 1988Assignee: Root-Lowell Manufacturing CompanyInventor: Garry L. Ellison
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Patent number: 4767032Abstract: A dispenser includes a hollow dispensing tube which reciprocates within a container and which incrementally moves a piston downwardly for forcing paste upwardly through a lower inlet end of the tube and outwardly through a nozzle located at the opposite end of the tube. To facilitate the operation of the dispensing tube, an actuator is employed which is pivotally mounted at one end to a head mounted to the body of the dispenser with the pivot connection located on one side of and adjacent to the dispensing tube. A cam and cam follower extend between the actuator and the dispensing tube for initially providing an increased downwardly applied force to the dispensing tube and subsequently decreasing the force during a dispensing stroke of the actuating lever.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 1986Date of Patent: August 30, 1988Assignee: L. Perrigo CompanyInventor: Eugene W. Smith
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Patent number: 4763818Abstract: A removable hygienic hand pump adapter or adapter mechanism for dispensing liquids or semi-liquids from a container comprises a body having a bore and of a shape to fit around a container with a neck. A hand pump on the body includes a manually flexible outer wall defining an air chamber. A cover assembly upon the body has a cap portion snugly positioned over the neck and has an outlet. An extension tube which is integral with the cap portion extends into the container. A flexible collapsed bladder is mounted at its neck around the tube, extends along the tube and is adapted to expand along the interior of the container upon application of pressurized air from the pump to progressively dispense all the contents of the container.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 1987Date of Patent: August 16, 1988Inventors: Alfonso D. Stefano, Gerald A. Farber
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Patent number: 4722459Abstract: The dispenser device in accordance with the invention comprises a tubular barrel filled with the product, a nose having a dispenser orifice, possibly closed by a detachable cap, a plunger and a pump assembly for pressurizing the product to be dispensed. This assembly comprises an obturator valve applied against a seat by a stem of the plunger which is biased by a spring. A skirt of the plunger slides in a socket of the barrel in a leakproof manner only over a portion of its stroke. The depression of the plunger actuates the opening of the valve and the pressurization of a quantity of air under the skirt. Air pressure is exerted on the product to cause it to emerge from the orifice.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 1986Date of Patent: February 2, 1988Assignee: "L'Oreal"Inventor: Antonin L. Goncalves
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Patent number: 4711377Abstract: A coupler and air pump for pressurizing a sealed beverage container having a valve, such as a beer keg, and for dispensing a beverage from such a container. The Handpowered air pump housing is joined to a metallic coupler by a threaded collar. Cams on the lower end of the coupler lock into the container valve and a handle actuates a probe in the coupler to open the valve of the container.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 1986Date of Patent: December 8, 1987Assignee: Grundy Dispense Systems, Inc.Inventor: Anthony D. Brown
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Patent number: 4700872Abstract: A pump for dispensing liquid via a syringe has a chamber in which a hollow cylinder is mounted. The cylinder is connected to the chamber via a first normally closed check valve. A hollow plunger reciprocates in the cylinder is connected thereto via a second normally closed check valve. A charge of liquid is placed in the hollow plunger. On the out-stroke of the piston, the liquid in the piston is sucked through the second normally closed check valve into the cylinder and on the in-stroke of the plunger the liquid is forced through the first normally closed check valve into the chamber wherein it is maintained under pressure created by the pumping action of the plunger. An outlet tube leads from the lower part of the chamber to a syringe and an normally closed pinch valve in the syringe is manually operable to permit liquid under pressure to be squirted from the syringe.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 1986Date of Patent: October 20, 1987Inventors: Paul H. Keyes, Marvin J. Taves
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Patent number: 4684043Abstract: The actuating lever of the dispenser has an integral valve flap which covers the discharge outlet of the dispenser when the lever is in its standby position, and in order to augment the sealing capabilities of such flap during shipment or storage prior to customer acquisition and use of the dispenser, a disposable sealing tape is provided which is factory-installed so as to overlie the outlet between the latter and the covering valve flap. The tape is provided with a layer of adhesive to promote retention of the tape in sealing relationship with the outlet, and a tab portion of the tape extends from the outlet and is adhered to adjacent portions of the dispenser in such a manner as to facilitate grasping and removal by the user.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 1984Date of Patent: August 4, 1987Assignee: Realex CorporationInventors: Donald D. Foster, Robert N. Hills
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Patent number: 4643164Abstract: A portable stove assembly comprising a support member having a side wall which has at least one opening, a stove for burning liquid fuel which is located within the support member and which includes a fuel reservoir, and an air pressure assembly for pressurizing the fuel reservoir of the stove. The stove includes an inlet fixture for a closure cap and an air pressure assembly includes and elongated connecting tube with a cap at one end for engaging the inlet fixture on the stove and a gas fixture at the opposite end for receiving a portable air pump. The connecting tube is configured to extend through the opening of the support member when the cap is applied to the inlet fixture so that the gas fixture is located outside of the support member.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 1986Date of Patent: February 17, 1987Assignee: Environments, LimitedInventor: Laurence E. LaForge
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Patent number: 4591071Abstract: A toy squirt gun which shoots a continuous high velocity stream of water. The squirt gun is configured as a structure facilitating partial filling with water leaving a void for compressed air. The squirt gun includes a nozzle for ejecting water at high velocity, a pressurization pump for compressing air into the gun to pressurize water contained therein, and a trigger actuated flow control valve for shooting the gun by controlling flow of pressurized water through the nozzle. A battery-powered oscillator circuit and a water flow powered sound generator produce futuristic space ray gun sound effects when the gun is shooting.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 1983Date of Patent: May 27, 1986Inventor: Lonnie G. Johnson
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Patent number: 4565306Abstract: A cream-state fluid container having a body capable of being reduced in interior volume by evacuating the interior thereof in negative pressure, a head mounted at the top of the body and having a pushbutton and a filling port, a pump unit internally mounted in the head and operated by the pushbutton of the head for discharging the content of the body to the filling port of the head, the pump unit having a valve mechanism including a suction valve and a discharge valve in such a manner that a valve body is seated on a cylindrical valve seat formed in the head, a pressure chamber formed in a space from the valve mechanism at the position above the valve mechanism, and an elastic cap capable of being elastically deformed by depressing the cap by the pushbutton. Thus, the wasteful loss of cream-state liquid can be eliminated in discharging the liquid from the container.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 1984Date of Patent: January 21, 1986Assignee: Yoshino Kogyosho Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenichi Nakanishi, Hideo Ogita, Tadao Saito, Riichi Ogawa
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Patent number: 4550864Abstract: An insulated dispensing container that includes an air pump for generating pressure above the liquid in the container for selective discharge through the discharge nozzle. A valve arrangement is incorporated for preventing the accidental discharge or leakage of the container contents when the pump is not being operated. The discharge valve is provided with a venting arrangement to vent any built up pressure over the liquid in the container upon opening of the valve so as to prevent drippage.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 1980Date of Patent: November 5, 1985Assignee: King-Seeley Thermos Co.Inventors: R. A. Tarozzi, C. Formhals
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Patent number: 4546903Abstract: A portable car wash unit comprises a first pressurized liquid reservoir and a second detergent reservoir removably secured to the pressurized liquid reservoir. The unit includes a motor compressor unit which communicates with the interior of the first liquid reservoir so as to pressurize the fluid content therein.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 1983Date of Patent: October 15, 1985Inventor: David J. Burch
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Patent number: 4537334Abstract: The disclosure concerns a reinforced plastic bottle or vessel with a relatively large neck with buttressed threads and a bevelled rim on its neck onto which threads is screwed a cap assembly. This cap assembly comprises a plastic cap base member having an integral handle and a nozzle connection, a plastic manual air pump, a plastic siphon, a valve and spray nozzle assembly, and a lever to operate the valve. The air pump is supported by an integral flange and depends vertically from the cap base member into the bottle with a disc-type checkvalve at its bottom. This air pump is attached to the cap base by a piston-guiding cap having a pair of diametrically opposite resilient hooks that snap into slots in parallel walls of the cap base member on each side of the piston-guiding cap. Also depending from the cap base member is a plastic siphon tube with a plastic screen at its lower end, and the upper end of this siphon tube is connected to a fluid duct in the nozzle connection.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 1983Date of Patent: August 27, 1985Assignee: Tolco CorporationInventors: William E. Spengler, William C. Ramsey
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Patent number: 4535918Abstract: Dispenser for dispensing thick liquids such as catsup, mustard, salad dressing or the like, and including a configured housing with a base for supporting a bottle with the mouth screwed into the base in upsidedown configuration, an air squeeze bulb connected through a channel in the base to an air tube extending up through the neck of the bottle and into an upper portion of the bottle, a thick liquid channel from the top of the housing to a spout in the configured housing for flow of the thick consistency of the contents, and a spring lever actuated by the air squeeze bulb so that the lever opens the spout on squeezing of the air squeeze bulb and introducing air into the bottle thereby forcing the thick consistency liquid down through the channel in the configured housing through the spout in a desired measured quantity.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 1983Date of Patent: August 20, 1985Inventors: Randy B. Heiligman, Paul Keller
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Patent number: 4531660Abstract: This foam dispensing device includes an outer container for holding foamable liquid, and a foam producing unit mounted in the discharge port of the outer container. The foam producing unit includes an inner container of substantial smaller cross section than the outer container, and a closure cap having a pressurized air inlet and foam outlet. A one-way valve is provided between the inner and outer containers which opens to replenish the foamable liquid supply in the inner container but remains closed during the foam forming process.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 1984Date of Patent: July 30, 1985Assignee: Hershel Earl WrightInventor: George W. Ford, Jr.
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Patent number: 4511065Abstract: A dispensing pump of the pressure accumulating type includes an assembly of a pump body and a separate piston member, the body including a closure cap for securing the assembly in fluid tight communication with the opening of a container of flowable product to be dispensed, a plunger/accumulator forming a variable volume pump chamber together with the piston and being reciprocable relative thereto, and a plunger head surrounding the plunger. The plunger has a vent seal for opening and closing a vent chamber defined around the piston. The closure cap is of a hard and durable material, while the separate piston is softer and more compliant which gives its lip seal good definition which avoids pump chamber leakage as it precisely conforms to the inner diameter of the plunger and to any irregularities thereof.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 1983Date of Patent: April 16, 1985Inventor: Douglas F. Corsette
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Patent number: 4508240Abstract: This invention relates to the field of dispensing systems for the extraction of paste from squeezable tubes. Its features include puncturing the tube and forcing air pressure into same and apparatus for removal of predetermined amounts of paste. It is intended primarily as a dispenser for toothpaste to limit communicable disease transmission.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 1983Date of Patent: April 2, 1985Assignee: Miguel Angel ArangoInventor: Aurelio Arango
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Patent number: 4506812Abstract: An isothermal container having two embodiments; one of them has an assymetric mouth piece, which allows the projection of the pouring spout outwards in the "serve" position and its protection and sealing in the closed position. In the other embodiment, which is cylindrical, the locking and sealing of the spout are made in the coupling ring, where there is a hump located.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 1982Date of Patent: March 26, 1985Assignee: Termolar S/AInventor: Elias M. DeFreitas
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Patent number: 4492320Abstract: A cylinder extends into a container containing fluid to be dispensed and includes a pressure accumulating valve at the internal end. A piston sliding in the cylinder includes an air suction valve at the internal end and a pressure chamber is formed between the piston and the cylinder. An elastic piece is axially flexible and is attached to the bottom of the piston. The air suction valve has an axially flexible valve body. A stem fixed at one end to the bottom of the elastic piece is extended into the piston at the other end, and has a pushing part at the other end to release the air suction valve from the valve seat by contacting the valve body when the elastic piece is moved toward the air suction valve.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 1982Date of Patent: January 8, 1985Assignee: Canyon CorporationInventor: Tetsuya Tada
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Patent number: 4492284Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for arranging an oil pressure pump in a motor-cycle equipped with an engine consisting of front and rear engine blocks that project to the right and left from a car frame and are deviated from each other in the longitudinal direction of the car frame. The oil pressure pump is disposed at the rear of the front engine block which is curved forward with respect to the frame.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 1982Date of Patent: January 8, 1985Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Tsutomu Hayashi
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Patent number: 4462767Abstract: An air pump comprising a piston located inside a piston housing having a crown and an open end. The piston is provided with a pressure generating member in the form of a resilient membrane-like annular disc which is held centrally on one end of the piston, which is fitted in the piston housing with the annular disc and the piston plate pointed towards the crown of the piston housing whereby the rim of the membrane-like annular disc bears against the inner wall of the piston housing and the piston housing is guided on the piston in a manner enabling it to be moved axially.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 1982Date of Patent: July 31, 1984Assignee: Gunter GrittmanInventor: Dieter Dorsch
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Patent number: 4420098Abstract: A vertical container has first and second spaced apart horizontal openings and is otherwise sealed. The container has a hollow chamber communicating with the first and second openings. The chamber is adapted to be partially filled with liquid. The maximum level of fill is disposed below both openings. The region between the liquid level and the openings is air filled. A first device is secured and sealed to the first opening and includes a manually operable bellows disposed above the first opening. The bellows has compressed and released positions. A second device is secured and sealed to the second opening and includes a discharge orifice. A vertical dip tube open at both ends is disposed in the container. The top end of the tube is disposed adjacent the second opening. The bottom end of the tube is adjacent but spaced above the botton of the container. An air-liquid mixer disposed in the second opening in the region is coupled between the second means the top end of the tube.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 1981Date of Patent: December 13, 1983Inventor: Robert A. Bennett
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Patent number: 4402432Abstract: A dispensing pump having a unitary plunger defining a main pump chamber and functioning as a discharge valve upon accumulation of pressure causing the plunger to shift open, includes a container vent which is positively sealed against leakage therethrough even upon nudging the plunger during storage, shipment and handling of the pump.The pump includes a fixed position and a reciprocable plunger head having a discharge passage, the inside of the head and the top of the piston being complementarily contoured for expelling accumulated air from the pump chamber directly out of the discharge during priming. Otherwise, the pump chamber may be placed in communication with a vent chamber which opens into the container through the vent so that any accumulated air in the pump chamber may be vented into the container as an aid in priming.The volume beneath the plunger head may be enclosed as an air chamber so that the air therein may be vented into the container upon opening the container vent to assist in pump priming.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 1980Date of Patent: September 6, 1983Inventor: Douglas F. Corsette
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Patent number: 4392578Abstract: An improved stopper apparatus for bottles, such as wine bottles, which prevents contamination of the contents therein. The improved stopper apparatus comprises a stopper plug, a bladder attached thereto, a venting valve for venting gas within the bottle, a pump for inflating the bladder and a reservoir valve and inert gas reservoir. The bladder is inserted into the bottle and the stopper plug secured within the neck thereof. The bladder is filled within the bottle forcing the gas therein to escape through the venting valve. The stopper apparatus is adapted to enable a small quantity of heavy inert gas to be deposited into the bottle from the inner gas reservoir prior to filling the bladder, whereby to form a protective layer of inert gas over the surface of the bottle's contents.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 1981Date of Patent: July 12, 1983Inventors: Beverly A. Fipp, Bernard E. Fipp, John L. Haller
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Patent number: 4383622Abstract: An improved sanitary washbottle kit assembly comprising a specially shaped molded two piece dispensing and sealing stopper equipped with a dispensing tube and resilient bulb adjacent the neck of the flask of the washbottle. The molded two piece dispensing and sealing stopper is formed of resilient compressible material, one piece being an outer piece which covers the open top of the flask extending downwardly over the neck and is shaped with a projecting ledge at a height a short distance below the top of the flask to form a horizontal channel extending between the outside of the flask and the inside of the flask while the second piece is a molded inner stopper formed with a flange fitting into a counterbore of the outer stopper, this flange counterbore interfitting providing a single compressible resilient closure unit. The inner stopper piece may be adhered by adhesive to the inner stopper piece.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 1981Date of Patent: May 17, 1983Inventor: Durward O. Guth
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Patent number: 4359174Abstract: This invention provides a table air pot for keeping hot or cold liquid comprising a wide mouth vacuum-insulated bottle housed in an outer casing and supported by upper and lower supporting means respectively fixed on the top and bottom ends of the outer casing. The lid of the table air pot includes in combination a bellow-type pump device for pumping up the liquid contained in the bottle into a drink cup while the air pot stands upright on a table, and a plug fixed to the bottom of the pump device for closing the bottle when the lid in its closed position. The tube for discharging the liquid from the bottle in response to the operation of the pump device is fixed on the upper supporting means for the bottle and is physically separated from the plug of the lid. Thus, the table air pot according to this invention can become ready to be filled with liquid by a single operation of opening the lid without need of removing the liquid tube.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 1980Date of Patent: November 16, 1982Inventors: Fukuda Ikunosuke, Jen-Csung Pan, Shiang-Fu Wang
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Patent number: 4344548Abstract: Pump dispensers dispense liquids from the interior of a container without the need for removing the top. The pump dispenser employs a manually operated disk to which a diaphragm is attached to force air from an air chamber into the container interior where it displaces the liquid contents forcing them up a fluid tube and out a spout. A valve seals the air chamber except during pumping to prevent the entry of liquids into the air chamber.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 1980Date of Patent: August 17, 1982Assignee: Aladdin Industries, IncorporatedInventor: Albert A. Frazier
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Patent number: 4341330Abstract: An aerosol container in the form of a conventional type of aerosol can wherein the lower part of the body is provided with external threads with which internal threads of a cup-shaped pump member are engaged so as to define, in conjunction with the lower closure unit, a pump chamber. Suitable inlet check valves are carried by the lower closure unit and a bottom wall of the pump chamber so that air under pressure may be forced into the can internally to pressurize the can. A dispening valve unit is also provided which includes a shutoff valve for preventing dispensing of the product when the pressure within the can goes below a predetermined level.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 1978Date of Patent: July 27, 1982Assignee: The Continental Group, Inc.Inventors: Carmen T. Mascia, Gary K. Hasegawa
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Patent number: 4320859Abstract: The present invention relates to an air compressed thermal bucket and, more particularly, to an air compressed thermal bucket, in which the drain pipe may be laid on the bucket body at users' will and the outlet may be automatically locked by way of a locked mechanism to prevent boiling water within the bucket from spilling over and to prevent loss of heat.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 1980Date of Patent: March 23, 1982Inventor: Min C. Shy
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Patent number: RE33564Abstract: This foam dispensing device includes an outer container for holding foamable liquid, and a foam producing unit mounted in the discharge port of the outer container. The foam producing unit includes an inner container of substantial smaller cross section than the outer container, and a closure cap having a pressurized an inlet and foam outlet. A one-way valve is provided between the inner and outer containers which opens to replenish the foamable liquid supply in the inner container but remains closed during the foam forming process.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 1985Date of Patent: April 2, 1991Assignee: Ballard Medical ProductsInventor: George W. Ford, Jr.