Patents by Inventor Jean-Louis Bougamont

Jean-Louis Bougamont 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: 6095376
    Abstract: An antibacterial spray device is provided for spraying a liquid contained in a receptacle (R). The device comprises an endpiece designed to cover an outlet tube (G) of a pump (P) which is mounted on the receptacle (R) by a collar (C). The endpiece (1) includes an internal duct (11) which extends from the outlet tube (G) to an end cavity (10) and is surrounded coaxially by a tapering cylindrical outside wall (12), which is attached at its bottom portion to a bearing shoulder (13) for operating the pump (P). The end cavity (10) is provided with an ejection orifice (100) and houses a valve (2) therein. All component parts that come into contact with the liquid, including the endpiece, are made, at least in part, of a plastics material containing between 0.2% and 2% by weight of a bactericidal agent which acts solely by coming into contact with the liquid but without being released into the liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2000
    Assignee: SOFAB
    Inventors: Pascal Hennemann, Frederic Prost, Jean-Louis Bougamont
  • Patent number: 6010036
    Abstract: The invention provides a dispenser of substance in liquid or paste form, the dispenser being of the type comprising, in particular, a cylinder (1) of substance surmounted firstly by an endpiece (2) provided with an internal evacuation duct (2a) and fitted, secondly with a substance-taking system provided with an exhaust valve, the dispenser being characterized in that the substance-taking system comprises a piston (3) received in the cylinder (1) and having an axial duct (30) passing therethrough and connected to an outlet tube (4) whose bottom end (4a) cooperates with the axial duct (30) to define an admission orifice (40) and whose top end (4b) is secured to the endpiece (2) forming a pushbutton which bears directly or indirectly on the outside face (3a) of the piston (3) to put the cylinder (1) under pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2000
    Assignee: SOFAB
    Inventors: Jean-Louis Bougamont, Pierre Dumont, Pierre Amiel
  • Patent number: 6010039
    Abstract: An assembly system for providing sealed assembly between a miniature pump whose body is supported by a sleeve, and a reservoir of small capacity, by forced internal or external engagement,wherein the side wall of the sleeve or of the reservoir includes a grooved zone forming a vent which is longitudinally terminated by an adjacent smooth zone; the zones being designed to slide with radial clamping over the entire length relative to a smooth portion of the facing wall of the reservoir or of the sleeve for the purpose of progressively closing the grooved zone and coming into sealing contact with the smooth zone at the completion of the engagement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2000
    Assignee: Sofab
    Inventor: Jean-Louis Bougamont
  • Patent number: 5992764
    Abstract: A nozzle for dispensing a liquid or semi-liquid substance (P) and designed to be mounted on a tank (R) suitable for being put under pressure. The nozzle is of the type comprising a thimble (1) and moving shutter (2) housed inside the thimble. The thimble (1) is provided with a coupling end (11) for coupling to the tank (R) and an ejection orifice (10). The shutter (21) is constituted by a rod (21) carrying a plug (20) at an outer end thereof. The plug (20) cooperates with the ejection orifice (10) to form a delivery valve. The rod (21) also carries a transverse wall (22) at an inner end thereof. The wall (22) leaves a passage for the substance (P) and cooperates with a resilient return means (3) for returning the moving shutter (2) towards a closed position in which the plug (20) is engaged in sealed manner in the ejection orifice (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1999
    Assignee: Sofab
    Inventors: Jean-Louis Bougamont, Pascal Hennemann
  • Patent number: 5992701
    Abstract: A device for packaging and dispensing a sterile liquid product. The device comprises a reservoir on which a nozzle is mounted. The nozzle is provided with an inner conduit which has an upstream end communicating with the reservoir and a downstream end opening to the outside via an evacuation orifice. The inner conduit is at last partially obturated by an insert of selective porosity which allows both a metered flow of the product to the outside and a filtration of air sucked towards the inside, stopping biological polluting and/or contaminating agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1999
    Assignee: Sofab
    Inventors: Jean-Louis Bougamont, Pascal Hennemann
  • Patent number: 5788124
    Abstract: A device for packaging and dispensing a liquid or semi-liquid substance (P) in which a substance (P) in a receptacle (1), which is closed in a sealed manner firstly at a top by a cap (2) and secondly at a bottom by an internally movable punt (5), is compressed. The device includes an elastically deformable membrane (4) received in the top of the receptacle (1). The membrane (4) is formed by a substantially frustoconical axial valve (40) having a top portion provided with a central ejection orifice (41), a middle portion running into a channel section ring (42) and a bottom portion provided with a stretchable thin skirt (43) connected to a flange (44). The skirt (43) extends upwards along an internal wall of the receptacle (1). The flange (44) fixes the membrane (4) to the receptacle (1). A nozzle-forming tube (3) passes axially through the cap (2) of the receptacle (1). The tube (3) has a top end (31) projecting outside the receptacle (1) and an internal bottom end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1998
    Assignee: SOFAB
    Inventors: Jean-Louis Bougamont, Pierre Dumont, Herve Lompech, Pierre Amiel
  • Patent number: 5651359
    Abstract: A device for inhaling powder packaged in capsules, the device being of the type comprising a housing closed by a cover and containing means for supporting and transferring capsules, opening means for opening the capsules, a dispensing endpiece, and an air intake orifice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 29, 1997
    Assignee: Sofab
    Inventors: Jean-Louis Bougamont, David Leuliet, Herve Lompech
  • Patent number: 5622318
    Abstract: A spray device for mounting on a fluid dispenser connected to a tank; the device being of the type comprising a head provided with an expansion chamber into which the outlet orifice of said dispenser opens out; the expansion chamber communicating with a nozzle via at least one outlet duct. The nozzle is constituted by a hinged inner element which is at least partially received in the outlet duct, and by an outer element fixed to bear in sealed manner against the inner element so as to define between their respective contacting surfaces a network of swirl-inducing channels communicating with the outlet duct and opening to the outside via a spray orifice formed through the outer element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 22, 1997
    Assignee: Sofab
    Inventors: Jean-Louis Bougamont, Pierre DuMont, Herve Lompech
  • Patent number: 5595326
    Abstract: A system for packaging and dispensing liquid includes a glass vial, a metering pump and an assembly element. The vial, which defines a volume for receiving and containing the liquid, has a body, neck and tip. The neck and tip are joined at a line of weakness, and the vial is opened by snap-off removal of the tip at the weakness. The metering pump has a tubular body with a dip tube projecting downward, and a push-button dispensing head with a piston disposed for movement within the pump body, with a hollow rod defining an ejection duct projecting upwards. The pump body defines a vent closed by the piston at rest, and, in a mid-region, defines a shoulder for supporting engagement upon a lip of the vial neck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 21, 1997
    Assignee: Sofab
    Inventors: Jean-Louis Bougamont, Stanislas Peronnet
  • Patent number: 5548943
    Abstract: This invention has as its subject a dispensing device for fluid-like products, composed of a container having a cylindrical drum, of which one end is provided with a movable base and the other end includes a neck which is capped by a distributor assembly including a pump with axial intake which is fitted onto a plunger sleeve. The lower face of the sleeve penetrates into the neck of the container during the fixing of the distributor assembly in the neck of the container, coming into position in sliding sealing engagement with a bearing surface of the neck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1996
    Assignee: SOFAB
    Inventors: Alain Behar, Pierre Amiel, Jean-Louis Bougamont
  • Patent number: 5518377
    Abstract: A miniature metering pump of the type possessing a body provided with an inlet opening out into a metering chamber, associated with an inlet valve having a valve member, and with a piston having a plunger provided with an axial nozzle and flared at its bottom end to form a hood receiving a sealing gasket, its internal channel being associated with an outlet valve having a valve member, wherein said outlet valve member forms a portion of a single elastically deformable part that constitutes said gasket, shaped to have a bottom U-shaped ring assembled round the hood of the plunger, and connected at the top on the outside to a substantially cylindrical skirt for sealing and for returning the piston to its rest position, which skirt runs on from an annular flange for providing sealed connection with the body; and on the inside by a folded valve member that is generally conical or mitral-valve shaped, with a narrow top end carrying a cutout surrounded by a lip that opens to provide an outlet orifice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1996
    Assignee: Sofab
    Inventors: Jean-Louis Bougamont, Pierre Dumont, Herve Lompech
  • Patent number: 5449094
    Abstract: This invention has as its subject a dispensing device for fluid-like products, composed of a container having a cylindrical drum, of which one end is provided with a movable base and the other end includes a neck which is capped by a distributor assembly including a pump with axial intake which is fitted onto a plunger sleeve. The lower face of the sleeve penetrates into the neck of the container during the fixing of the distributor assembly in the neck of the container, coming into position in sliding sealing engagement with a bearing surface of the neck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1995
    Assignee: Sofab
    Inventors: Alain Behar, Pierre Amiel, Jean-Louis Bougamont
  • Patent number: 5239992
    Abstract: An inhaler for powder products comprising a housing having an oral suction mouthpiece, a piston contained within the housing for movement in opposite directions, and an elastic member for urging the piston in one direction. The mouthpiece connects with a chamber in which the piston is located so that inhaling through the mouthpiece draws the piston toward the user's mouth. The piston includes a charging cavity for holding a charge of powder product. The cavity communicates with the internal volume of the mouthpiece as the piston is drawn toward the user's mouth whereby the charge is dispensed and inhaled by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1993
    Assignee: Societe Francaise d'Aerosols et de Bouchage
    Inventors: Jean-Louis Bougamont, Alain Behar
  • Patent number: 5199167
    Abstract: A liquid dispensing device having a pump carrying the internal mechanism disposed in a container part of the device. The pump has a flange which rests on the upper edge of the container and which is connected to an outer bush member. The bush member is fitted on an outer bearing surface of the wall of the container in radial sealing engagement therewith. The pump includes a venting passageway for connecting the interior of the container to the atmosphere during dispensing of the liquid. In assembling the device, the pump and bush member are first connected together and then connected to the container with the pump in a position to maintain the passageway open to the interior of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1993
    Assignee: Societe Francaise d/Aerosols et de Bouchage
    Inventors: William Desazars de Montgailharo, Jean-Louis Bougamont
  • Patent number: 5102018
    Abstract: A liquid dispensing device having a pump carrying the internal mechanism disposed in a container part of the device. The pump has a flange which rests on the upper edge of the container and which is connected to an outer bush member. The bush member is fitted on an outer bearing surface of the wall of the container in radial sealing engagement therewith. The pump includes a venting passageway for connecting the interior of the container to the atmosphere during dispensing of the liquid. In assembling the device, the pump and bush member are first connected together and then connected to the container with the pump in a position to maintain the passageway open to the interior of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1992
    Assignee: Societe Francaise d'Aerosols et de Bouchage
    Inventors: Desazars de Montgailhard, William, Jean-Louis Bougamont
  • Patent number: 4936492
    Abstract: A pump comprises an open-ended hollow body defining a pump chamber and an inlet orifice which communicates with a reservoir. The pump body has four side walls. A piston is mounted for reciprocal movement through a portion of the body and it extends through the upper end of the body. A ferrule is disposed above the body and defines an aperture through which the piston extends. A seal is disposed is disposed between the ferrule and the body, and the seal surround a portion of the piston. A spring is mounted in the body, and the spring actively biases the piston toward the top of the body. The body has a deformable zone which has at least a portion of one side wall which is a noncircular cross-section and is radially elastically deformable. The piston has a portion which blocks the inlet orifice when the piston is depressed a first predetermined distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 26, 1990
    Assignee: Societe Francais d'Aerosols et de Bouchage
    Inventors: Pierre Amiel, Jean-Louis Bougamont, Alain Behar
  • Patent number: 4842168
    Abstract: The invention relates to a dispensing valve comprising a body formed of a cylindrical casing of rigid material closed by a cover, in which two seals having fluid-tight joints create a lock chamber inside which moves an atomizer provided with a sliding distributor, guided at its ends, which a return spring placed upstream urges towards the cover. The valve has a sleeve allowing alteration of the volume of the chamber and a front seal formed as a separate member, both formed of semi-rigid plastic material. The seal is disposed immediately adjacent an abutment surface formed in the casing. The design is such that entry of liquid during filling takes place through an auxiliary duct and the front seal and sleeve may be formed as a single member if desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1989
    Assignee: Societe Francaise d'Aerosol et de Bouchage
    Inventors: Jean-Louis Bougamont, Alain Behar
  • Patent number: RE33552
    Abstract: The invention relates to a dispensing valve comprising a body formed of a cylindrical casing of rigid material closed by a cover, in which two seals having fluid-tight joints create a lock chamber inside which moves an atomizer provided with a sliding distributor, guided at its ends, which a return spring placed upstream urges towards the cover. The valve has a sleeve allowing alteration of the volume of the chamber and a front seal formed as a separate member, both formed of semi-rigid plastic material. The seal is disposed immediately adjacent an abutment surface formed in the casing. The design is such that entry of liquid during filling takes place through an auxiilary duct and the front seal and sleeve may be formed as a single member if desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 12, 1991
    Assignee: Societe Francaise d'Aerosol et de Bouchage
    Inventors: Jean-Louis Bougamont, Alain Behar
  • Patent number: D427899
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2000
    Assignee: SOFAB
    Inventors: Jean-Louis Bougamont, Pierre Dumont, Christophe Roy