Patents by Inventor Bernard Clerget

Bernard Clerget has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9381532
    Abstract: A dispensing head for a system for dispensing a pressurized product, the head including a body having a mounting shaft for the head on a tube for supplying the pressurized product and a channel for dispensing the product between the shaft and an orifice for dispensing the product, the dispensing orifice being formed between two longitudinal walls, upper and lower, respectively, which are connected on either side, respectively, by a lateral wall of which the transverse dimension is smaller than the longitudinal dimension of the longitudinal walls, and each of the lateral walls has a projection that extends between the longitudinal walls, at least the walls of the dispensing orifice including an antimicrobial agent for the product to be dispensed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Albea Le Treport S.A.S.
    Inventors: Richard Bloc, Bernard Clerget
  • Publication number: 20140299679
    Abstract: The invention relates to a dispensing head (2) for a system for dispensing a pressurised product, said head comprising a body (8) presenting a shaft (9) for mounting said head on a tube (7) supplying the pressurised product and a housing that communicates with said shaft, said housing having an insert (11) enveloped by a sleeve (12) thereby forming a path (13) for dispensing the product between said shaft and a dispensing orifice (14) formed in a wall (15) of said sleeve, which is arranged facing a wall (16) of said insert, where at least one of the walls (15, 16) of the sleeve (12) and the insert (11) present a surface suitable for entering into contact with g the product, said surface comprising metallic copper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2012
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Inventors: Richard Bloc, Bernard Clerget
  • Patent number: 8783523
    Abstract: A bottle for dispensing a fluid product including a body wherein a reservoir is formed, the bottle including a device for sampling having a push-button with a dispensing orifice for the product, the push-button able to be displaced reversibly on an actuating stroke of the device between a position at rest and a depressed position wherein the dispensing orifice is in communication with the reservoir by the intermediary of the device, the body including a filling valve, the reservoir having an air depression arranged to carry out filling of the reservoir through suction of the product contained in a source, the bottle further including a cap which is associated to the body by forming a sealed internal space wherein the push-button is arranged, the internal space having an air depression and being arranged to maintain the push-button in depressed position to be in communication with the reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Rexam Dispensing Systems S.A.S.
    Inventors: Pierre Dumont, Jacky Lasnier, Jean-Luc Marcel Octau, Mohamed Elmeguenni, Bernard Clerget, Emmanuel Mauduit, Thomas Roosel
  • Publication number: 20140061251
    Abstract: A dispensing head for a system for dispensing a pressurized product, the head including a body having a mounting shaft for the head on a tube for supplying the pressurized product and a channel for dispensing the product between the shaft and an orifice for dispensing the product, the dispensing orifice being formed between two longitudinal walls, upper and lower, respectively, which are connected on either side, respectively, by a lateral wall of which the transverse dimension is smaller than the longitudinal dimension of the longitudinal walls, and each of the lateral walls has a projection that extends between the longitudinal walls, at least the walls of the dispensing orifice including an antimicrobial agent for the product to be dispensed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Inventors: Richard Bloc, Bernard Clerget
  • Patent number: 8430277
    Abstract: A system for dispensing a fluid product, including a device for taking the product off under pressure that is equipped with an outlet tube, the system also including a push button actuating the device in which a chamber is formed for dispensing the product that is in communication with a well for mounting the push button, the well being arranged to be associated sealingly around an area for mounting the outlet tube so as to allow supply to the chamber dispensing product under pressure emerging from the tube, the outlet tube including a vent recess having at least one opening that is formed in the mounting area and that emerges inside the tube, the opening being located on the mounting area so as to be covered sealingly by the mounting well and to open the inside of the outlet tube to open air when it is not covered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Rexam Dispensing Systems S.A.S.
    Inventors: Pierre Dumont, Jean-Luc Marcel Octau, Thomas Roosel, Bernard Clerget
  • Patent number: 8418940
    Abstract: Spray nozzle comprising a front wall, an outlet channel delimited by a lateral surface substantially of revolution about an axis perpendicular to the front wall, an intake conduit supplying fluid product to the outlet channel, said intake conduit extending in a plane perpendicular to the axis, substantially tangentially to the lateral surface of the outlet channel, between an upstream and a downstream end opening out into the lateral surface of the outlet channel, the lateral surface of the outlet channel comprising a relief arranged radially relative to the axis and suitable for forming a static surface layer of fluid product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Rexam Dispensing Systems S.A.S.
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Songbe, Bernard Clerget
  • Publication number: 20120312842
    Abstract: A bottle for dispensing a fluid product including a body wherein a reservoir is formed, the bottle including a device for sampling having a push-button with a dispensing orifice for the product, the push-button able to be displaced reversibly on an actuating stroke of the device between a position at rest and a depressed position wherein the dispensing orifice is in communication with the reservoir by the intermediary of the device, the body including a filling valve, the reservoir having an air depression arranged to carry out filling of the reservoir through suction of the product contained in a source, the bottle further including a cap which is associated to the body by forming a sealed internal space wherein the push-button is arranged, the internal space having an air depression and being arranged to maintain the push-button in depressed position to be in communication with the reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2012
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Inventors: Pierre Dumont, Jacky Lasnier, Jean-Luc Marcel Octau, Mohamed Elmeguenni, Bernard Clerget, Emmanuel Mauduit, Thomas Roosel
  • Patent number: 8083823
    Abstract: An air filtration device for the vent of a body of a pump used to fit a liquid or semi-liquid product distributor, the device including a filter membrane through which the product may be discharged from opening. The free edge of the membrane is connected to a support element which is tightly fixed on the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Rexam Dispensing Systems S.A.S.
    Inventor: Bernard Clerget
  • Publication number: 20110309110
    Abstract: A system for dispensing a fluid product, including a device for taking the product off under pressure that is equipped with an outlet tube, the system also including a push button actuating the device in which a chamber is formed for dispensing the product that is in communication with a well for mounting the push button, the well being arranged to be associated sealingly around an area for mounting the outlet tube so as to allow supply to the chamber dispensing product under pressure emerging from the tube, the outlet tube including a vent recess having at least one opening that is formed in the mounting area and that emerges inside the tube, the opening being located on the mounting area so as to be covered sealingly by the mounting well and to open the inside of the outlet tube to open air when it is not covered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Inventors: Pierre Dumont, Jean-Luc Marcel Octau, Thomas Roosel, Bernard Clerget
  • Patent number: 7748648
    Abstract: Dispensing member for a fluid product comprising a post and a spray nozzle, said post having an abutment surface and said spray nozzle comprising a transverse wall, an outlet orifice extending across said transverse wall, said outlet orifice being delimited by a lateral surface, at least one duct for supplying the fluid product to the outlet orifice, the said supply duct being delimited by the transverse wall and the abutment surface, being supplied with fluid product via a supply channel, emerging substantially tangentially relative to the lateral surface of the outlet orifice, and forming the only fluidic communication between the supply channel and the outlet orifice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Rexam Dispensing Systems S.A.S.
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Songbe, Bernard Clerget
  • Patent number: 7748647
    Abstract: Manual spraying device including a push-button that can be actuated manually, the push-button including a spray nozzle, the spray nozzle having an inner chamber adapted to receive a non-gaseous fluid product under pressure and delimited towards the outside by a perforated front wall, a reservoir for the fluid product to be sprayed, and a dispensing device that can be mechanically actuated by the push-button and adapted to transfer the fluid product from the reservoir to the inner chamber of the nozzle, the front wall having a plurality of calibrated holes, each having a diameter of between 1 and 100 ?m, the diameter of each hole not differing from a mean of the diameters of the various holes by more than 20%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Rexam Dispensing Systems S.A.S.
    Inventors: Bernard Clerget, Jean-Pierre Songbe, Pierre Dumont
  • Publication number: 20090145984
    Abstract: An actuating push button of a dispensing system of a liquid, that includes a body and a dispensing chamber in communication with a shaft which is formed in said body to pump the liquid, said chamber being provided with at least one orifice for the dispensing of the pumped liquid, said push button including an added cover which is associated to the body with the upper wall of said body arranged across from the lower wall of said cover, a cavity being formed on at least one of these walls in such a way as to form the dispensing chamber between said walls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2008
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Inventors: Bernard Clerget, Jean-Pierre Songbe, Herve Imenez
  • Publication number: 20080164346
    Abstract: Spray nozzle comprising a front wall, an outlet channel delimited by a lateral surface substantially of revolution about an axis perpendicular to the front wall, an intake conduit supplying fluid product to the outlet channel, said intake conduit extending in a plane perpendicular to the axis, substantially tangentially to the lateral surface of the outlet channel, between an upstream and a downstream end opening out into the lateral surface of the outlet channel, the lateral surface of the outlet channel comprising a relief arranged radially relative to the axis and suitable for forming a static surface layer of fluid product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2007
    Publication date: July 10, 2008
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Songbe, Bernard Clerget
  • Publication number: 20080141635
    Abstract: The invention relates to an air filtration device for the vent of a body of a pump used to fit a liquid or semi-liquid product distributor, said device being characterized in that it comprises a filter membrane through which the product may be discharged from opening. The free edge of the membrane is connected to a support element which is tightly fixed on the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2007
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Inventor: Bernard Clerget
  • Publication number: 20080099513
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system for dispensing a fluid contained in a flask, said system includes a body intended to be associated with said flask and a plunger tube mounted in an association portion formed on said body, wherein said tube is intended to be submerged in the fluid so as to enable said system to be supplied with fluid to be dispensed, with the association portion including a bore in which a portion of the plunger tube fits, and said bore has an annular projection with a diameter restricted with respect to the diameter of the portion of the tube that is fit, with said projection being formed at the junction between a lower converging portion and an upper diverging portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2007
    Publication date: May 1, 2008
    Inventors: Jacques Beun, Michel Plouffe, Pierre Dumont, Herve Lompech, Bernard Clerget
  • Publication number: 20080061165
    Abstract: Dispensing member for a fluid product comprising a post and a spray nozzle, said post having an abutment surface and said spray nozzle comprising a transverse wall, an outlet orifice extending across said transverse wall, said outlet orifice being delimited by a lateral surface, at least one duct for supplying the fluid product to the outlet orifice, the said supply duct being delimited by the transverse wall and the abutment surface, being supplied with fluid product via a supply channel, emerging substantially tangentially relative to the lateral surface of the outlet orifice, and forming the only fluidic communication between the supply channel and the outlet orifice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2007
    Publication date: March 13, 2008
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Songbe, Bernard Clerget
  • Publication number: 20080006719
    Abstract: Manual spraying device including a push-button that can be actuated manually, the push-button including a spray nozzle, the spray nozzle having an inner chamber adapted to receive a non-gaseous fluid product under pressure and delimited towards the outside by a perforated front wall, a reservoir for the fluid product to be sprayed, and a dispensing device that can be mechanically actuated by the push-button and adapted to transfer the fluid product from the reservoir to the inner chamber of the nozzle, the front wall having a plurality of calibrated holes, each having a diameter of between 1 and 100 ?m, the diameter of each hole not differing from a mean of the diameters of the various holes by more than 20%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2007
    Publication date: January 10, 2008
    Inventors: Bernard Clerget, Jean-Pierre Songbe, Pierre Dumont
  • Patent number: 6932247
    Abstract: A handle device for manually grasping an airless dispenser of the type including a drawing-off member provided with a dispensing head and fitted to a flexible pouch by means of a cylindrical fitting, wherein, at the top of the fitting, under the head, the fitting is provided with a set of fins whose bottom faces serve to receive and to be pressed by the fingers of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: Rexam Dispensing Systems
    Inventor: Bernard Clerget
  • Publication number: 20040026459
    Abstract: A handle device for taking hold of an airless dispenser of the type comprising a drawing-off member (P) provided with a dispensing head (T) and fitted to a flexible pouch (R) by means of a cylindrical fitting (1), said device being characterized in that, at the top of said fitting (1), under the head (T), said fitting is provided with a set of fins (12) whose bottom faces serve to receive and to be pressed by the fingers of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2003
    Publication date: February 12, 2004
    Inventor: Bernard Clerget
  • Patent number: 6666357
    Abstract: The invention relates to an air-intake device for drawing air into a liquid dispenser equipped with a rigid reservoir (R) and with an atmospheric pump (P) provided, in particular, with a cylindrical and conical body (C) and with a support flange (S) fixed to the neck of the reservoir (R) while bearing against a sealing gasket surrounding the pump body, said device being characterized in that it comprises a flat annular gasket-forming washer (1) whose free edge (10) is in leaktight abutment towards the outside under a frustoconical shoulder (20) carried by a collar (2) engaged over said pump body, and is capable of being deformed elastically under the effect of internal suction to enable air to be drawn in.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2003
    Assignee: Rexam-Dispensing Systems
    Inventors: Jean-Louis Bougamont, Bernard Clerget, Pierre Dumont