Unhinged Tilting Type Patents (Class 239/577)
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Patent number: 8905330Abstract: A device, system and method relating to dispensing fluid from a device. The system relates generally to a hand-held fluid dispensing module, a control module coupled to the hand-held fluid dispensing module, a fluid container located in close proximity to the hand-held fluid dispensing module and the control module, and a cooling module coupled to the control module. The hand-held device being configured to control and determine the amount of fluid dispensed from the device. The method relates to using the system and dispensing fluid from the hand-held fluid dispensing module by either applying pressure to an exterior portion of the hand-held dispensing module or providing a vacuum to the hand-held fluid dispensing module.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2011Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: ATP, Inc.Inventors: Edward J. Paukovits, Joseph Bowling, J. Michael Henderson, Daniel Todd Adlon
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Patent number: 8746593Abstract: A liquid chemical dispenser for an irrigation system comprises a removable supply container for the chemical which, in a first embodiment, comprises a valve for preventing spillage of the chemical during attachment of the container to the dispenser. This feature allows the container to be mounted in an inverted position on the dispenser without loss of its contents. In a second embodiment, the chemical container comprises a membrane which is pierced by a dip tube when the container is attached to the dispenser. A section of the dip tube produces an annular vent passage in the membrane around the dip tube to provide vacuum relief. The configuration of the containers substantially reduces the chance of inadvertent contact with the contents and the simple design permits the containers to be disposable.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2006Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Inventor: Robert E. Smith, III
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Publication number: 20140102730Abstract: A dry sprinkler assembly includes a housing, a sprinkler head assembly with a sprinkler head and a trigger assembly, and an actuator assembly. The actuator assembly has a sealing subassembly for sealing the inlet port of the housing and is operatively coupled to the trigger assembly such that the sealing subassembly releases the sealing of the inlet port in response to the trigger assembly releasing its closure at the outlet opening. The sealing subassembly moves in a linear path substantially parallel with the central longitudinal axis of the housing when releasing the sealing of the inlet port wherein the flow of fire suppressant through the inlet port and into the fluid flow passage is substantially unimpeded.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2013Publication date: April 17, 2014Applicant: The Viking CorporationInventors: Scott T. FRANSON, Andrew T. THOMPSON
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Patent number: 8123151Abstract: A sprinkling gun structure including a main body having two ends respectively formed with a water inlet and an adaptation hole. An assembling tunnel is transversely formed through the main body between the water inlet and the adaptation hole to communicate therewith. The sprinkling gun further includes an adjustment member, a controlling member having a water-checking section and a water intake, and a water-guiding member having a watertight sleeve fitted on bottom end of the water-guiding member. The controlling member is fitted in the assembling tunnel and rotationally drivable by the adjustment member. When driven, the water-checking section of the controlling member is rotated to cooperate with the watertight sleeve so as to shut off/turn on and micro-adjust the water flow.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2008Date of Patent: February 28, 2012Assignee: Yuan Mei Corp.Inventor: Chi Han Cheng
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Patent number: 7854356Abstract: A spray cap, also known as an actuator overcap for an aerosol container, has an acoustic seal between the actuator button and the overcap. This acoustic seal is formed by a set of matching sealing lips on the actuator button and also on the overcap, such that they are both oriented horizontally. At rest, the sealing lip of the actuator button rests above the sealing lip of the overcap, but during actuation, the sealing lip of the actuator button deforms the sealing lip of the overcap, which both forms an acoustic seal during actuation and creates the force to return the sealing lip of the actuator button back to its original position after actuation is complete.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2005Date of Patent: December 21, 2010Assignee: Wella AGInventor: Heiko Eberhardt
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Patent number: 7607592Abstract: An apparatus for accessorizing water and beverage bottles, including a water mister, a portable humidifier, a vitamin or nutritional supplement dispenser, and other useful accessories, which are quickly, easily, and removably attached to any commercially available consumer water or beverage bottle or container.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2005Date of Patent: October 27, 2009Inventor: Sang B. Kim
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Patent number: 7219850Abstract: A water spray nozzle assembly includes an internal channel that is sealable by an internal valve having a seat and a disc. A tilting member is operable to tilt the disc at least partially off of the seat, allowing water to flow through the internal channel. The disc may be further tilted completely off of the seat to provide additional water flow through the water spray nozzle.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2004Date of Patent: May 22, 2007Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Douglas Burnworth, Douglas Shaulis, Timothy DeVore, Thomas C. Oyler
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Patent number: 6073863Abstract: A hose nozzle is formed of a main body, a control member and an actuating member. The main body is provided therein with a water duct, a channel and a water discharging tube. The flow of water moving through the water discharging tube is regulated by the control member which is actuated by the actuating member to rotate to various extends to regulate the amount of water that is allowed to pass through the control member.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 1999Date of Patent: June 13, 2000Inventor: Hsing-Fah Wang
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Patent number: 5967382Abstract: A dispensing valve includes a body with an axis defining an internal chamber communicating with a pressurized liquid. The body has an intake duct and an outlet duct. The valve also includes an actuating stem traversed by a dispensing duct open at its two ends, the stem being mounted in a leakproof manner in the outlet duct, one of its ends having at least one feeder passage and the other end opening outside the body. The feeder passage is selectively communicated with the internal chamber by lateral pivoting of the stem so as to allow the liquid to be dispensed via the dispensing duct. The valve body is made of an elastomeric material, and the stem has, inside the outlet duct, a profile capable of cooperating with a complementary profile of the outlet duct to define an articulation substantially around a point so that, irrespective of the angular position of the stem relative to the axis, the stem is in a leakproof annular contact with the outlet duct.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 1997Date of Patent: October 19, 1999Assignee: L'orealInventors: Pierre-Andre Lasserre, Jean-Marc Aumegeas
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Patent number: 4784325Abstract: A rotating stream sprinkler is provided with an improved spray head for sweeping one or more outwardly projected water streams through a prescribed arcuate spray path, wherein the spray head is adapted for enhanced self-flushing operation to prevent accumulation of grit and the like which could otherwise impair sprinkler performance. In the preferred form, the spray head is mounted at the upper end of a pop-up stem for movement to an elevated spraying position upon supply of water under pressure to the sprinkler. The water flows to the spray head and normally pressure-loads a plurality of valve balls onto a respective plurality of seats to prevent water flow through the seats to associated nozzle passages. A drive assembly rotates the spray head relative to a nonrotating cam positioned to lift one or more of the valve balls from their respective seats to permit outward discharge of one or more water streams through the nozzle passages, within the limits of the prescribed arcuate path.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 1987Date of Patent: November 15, 1988Assignee: Rain Bird Consumer Products Mfg. Corp.Inventors: Samuel C. Walker, George H. Lockwood, Kenneth V. McCarthy, Raymond P. Feith
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Patent number: 4550865Abstract: The invention relates to a nozzle connected to an aerosol vessel 1 which has an obliquely-handling valve 3. When a finger piece 18 protruding sideways from the nozzle body 14 is pressed toward the aerosol vessel 1, the obliquely-handling valve 3 can be opened easily by lever action without requiring a strong force, and the aerosol contents can be discharged continuously from a discharge portion 17 onto a target area 27 through a discharge path 16 for a relatively long period of time, without tiring the finger of the user.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 1983Date of Patent: November 5, 1985Assignees: Toyo Aerosol Industry Co., Ltd., Kanpe Katei Toryoo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Katsumi Hirao, Akira Sasaki
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Patent number: 4294410Abstract: A device for closing a pressurized container but for allowing controlled dispensing of liquid contents of the container, in finely divided form or as a foam, has a cap 4 consisting of a fixed part 8, 10, 13 to be mounted on the neck 2 of a container 1 and a movable part comprising a dispensing nozzle 11 connected to the fixed part by way of a waisted deformable wall portion 15. An obturator member 7 inside the cap and nozzle has a mounting plug 7a at its inner end and a ribbed obturator part 7c at its outer end. The seal between the obturator member and the dispensing nozzle is formed by an externally concave zone 7b of the obturator member, conforming to the waisted portion 15 of the cap, such that lateral swinging of the dispensing nozzle 11 breaks the seal and forms a gap 19 into which the liquid product can flow by way of a longitudinal groove 16 of the mounting plug 7 a.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 1980Date of Patent: October 13, 1981Assignee: L'OrealInventor: Jean-Louis Gueret
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Patent number: 4294409Abstract: The present invention includes a novel and unique combination poncho or rain garment with means adapted for suspending the poncho from an overhead object in a manner whereby a portion of the waterproof fabric of the poncho forms a baglike configuration for containing a quantity of water and a water dispensing means in the form of a shower head mounted in the poncho for allowing the water to be drawn from the reservoir in the bag configuration for use in washing and showering. The shower head is uniquely adapted for this purpose having an integral valve assembly which can be opened and allowed to close with the use of only one hand, as well as maintained in the full open position without the necessity of maintaining manual force on the valve operating mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 1979Date of Patent: October 13, 1981Inventor: Charles H. Larsen
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Patent number: 4273292Abstract: This shower head is designed to allow hot and cold water to shut off completely, when persons are soaping themselves, or when not in use, and it consists primarily of a main body, in which water flows into a channel, and proceeds into a minimum metering channel, that is designed to allow the minimum flow needed to operate the device. It further includes a plunger, which is compressed by water pressure in an upper chamber, so as to move it down to the closed position, and a manually operated release mechanism will tilt a valve, which will release the water pressure in the upper chamber, and cause it to flow out of the sprayer plate of the device.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 1980Date of Patent: June 16, 1981Inventor: Allen Neula
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Patent number: 4203534Abstract: A tilting nozzle closure for a bottle includes a cap of plastics material having a side wall which has a low elastic deformability carrying an internal annular bead adjacent its open end for engagement with the neck of the bottle at least part of the end wall of the cap being more resilient than the side wall and carrying a tubular nozzle and a closure member for sealing the neck of the bottle which, in use, engages with the end of the neck of the bottle and which includes a reduced portion which in use projects into the neck of the bottle.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 1978Date of Patent: May 20, 1980Assignee: Robert Finke Kunststoff-Spritzguss-WerkInventor: Klaus W. Finke
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Patent number: 4047879Abstract: A blue flame oil burner is provided wherein an oil atomizing nozzle produces sprayed oil droplets as a symetrical hollow cone having an included angle for the outside edge of the oil spray, when the oil is sprayed in still air, in the range 60.degree. to 80.degree., an air swirler with an air pre-swirler both have blades with a helix angle in the range 50.degree. to 65.degree., with the blades of the air swirler adjacent the spraying end of the atomizing nozzle inclined in the direction of the hollow cone at an angle in the range 20.degree. to 55.degree., and a supply tube for delivering air through the air pre-swirler to the air swirler. The air flows along the supply tube and is preswirled in the pre-swirler and then finally swirled in the air swirler so that sprayed oil droplets in the hollow cone are carried by the swirling air, which diffuses with them in such a manner that the oil droplets are evaporated prior to combustion and:I.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 1976Date of Patent: September 13, 1977Assignee: Canadian Patents and Development LimitedInventors: Earl R. Mitchell, Thomas D. Brown, Beverley C. Post