Patents by Inventor Vincent de Laforcade

Vincent de Laforcade 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: 5152432
    Abstract: A dispensing device includes at least one bottle provided at its end remote from its bottom with a dispensing opening closed by a frangible end fitting and it also includes a cap fitted on the bottle on the side of adjacent said dispensing opening. The cap includes at least one shoulder intended to entrain said frangible end fitting as the cap is displaced, so as to release the dispensing opening. The cap also includes a discharge passageway issuing outside the device and communicating with the dispensing opening of the bottle in a position of the cap where the frangible end fitting is released from the dispensing opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1992
    Assignee: L'Oreal
    Inventor: Vincent De Laforcade
  • Patent number: 5139201
    Abstract: The push-button (1) is intended for an aerosol can (B) containing a mousse, in particular a hair styling mousse, this can (B) being provided with a delivery valve (2) capable of being actuated by the push-button (1). This push-button comprises a duct (4) leading towards the exterior for the delivery of the product and adapted to be connected to the valve (2), a deflector (6) being provided across the extension of the delivery duct (4) in order to start the expansion of the mousse before it emerges from the push-button (1). The deflector (6) is in the form of a cap (7), the concave part of which is directed towards the outlet of the duct (4), the end part of the duct being surrounded by a wall (9) defining a chamber (10), the base (11) of which is recessed relative to the opening of the duct (4) and the open end (12) of which is situated above the cap (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1992
    Assignee: L'Oreal
    Inventor: Vincent De Laforcade
  • Patent number: 5007563
    Abstract: A dispensing head for container having an outlet nozzle includes a coupling member for fitting on the nozzle and is provided with a central conduit, a chamber for an additive product surrounding the central conduit with the chamber having at its base an annular opening to the central conduit; a tube is slidably disposed in the central conduit and has at one end adjacent the coupling member openings so that when the head is mounted on the nozzle the tube will be moved from a storage position, where the opening of the chamber to the central conduit is closed, to another position where the openings of the tube establish communication between the chamber's opening and the central conduit; the end of the chamber remote from the nozzle has a plurality of openings to permit dispensing of the additive with the main product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1991
    Assignee: L'Oreal
    Inventor: Vincent de Laforcade
  • Patent number: 4860933
    Abstract: Products having a viscous or pasty consistency, or those dispensed as foams from a container (1) provided with a pushbutton (13) the actuation of which causes the ejection of a dose of product, are never, in practice, completely evacuated from the ejection conduit (14) made in a movable portion (9) bearing the pushbutton (13) and adapted to the outlet of the container (1). Hence they often threaten to escape from this conduit (14) and soil the container (1). To overcome this disadvantage, the invention proposes that the conduit (14) discharge into a chamber (40) defined by a fixed portion (10) attached to the container (1) and with the movable portion (9) comprising a dispensing cap (8); the chamber (40) opens to the outside via an opening (38), and the movable portion (9) includes a needle (27) capable of closing this opening (38) in the position of repose of the pushbutton (13) and of freeing it upon actuation of the pushbutton.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1989
    Assignee: L'Oreal
    Inventors: Bruno Morane, Vincent de Laforcade
  • Patent number: 4858792
    Abstract: A storage and dispensing unit includes a container for the product to be dispensed and a discharge conduit, a separate dispensing head has a part which is mountable on the container and includes a pivotally mounted part including a push button and discharge applicator which has one end in communication with conduits formed internally of the push button so that when the push button is pivoted from a stored position to a dispensing position, the internal conduits of the push button will be in communication with the discharge conduit of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1989
    Assignee: L'Oreal
    Inventor: Vincent de Laforcade