Abstract: A method for the selection of the most favorable elevator of a elevator installation having at least two elevator groups, wherein a route with changeovers is available for reaching a destination floor from a start floor, the route being broken down into several stretches. An elevator of one of the elevator groups is allocated to each of the stretches solving the multi-route problem in a destination call multi-group control with journeys involving changeovers.

Abstract: A method for monitoring the thickness of at least one friction partner of a vehicle friction brake, especially the brake linings of a vehicle braking system; for each braking action, the actuating time, the applied braking pressure, the relative speed between the brake lining and the moving brake element, as well as the prevailing temperature in this region, being taken into account in a wear model in such a manner, that the wear determined by the wear model is subtracted from a starting thickness of the friction partners, in particular, the brake linings, and each wheel of the vehicle being monitored individually. A preferred polynomial formulation is specified for the wear model. In the brake lining, at least one wear stamp can also be provided, upon reaching which the current, existing brake lining thickness and/or the polynomial formulation may be appropriately corrected.

Abstract: A safety brake for use on a wheelchair, specifically for the purpose of preventing the wheelchair from rolling rearward when the occupant attempts to exit or enter the wheelchair. The safety brake allows forward movement but prevents rearward movement unless the occupant pulls back on the spring loaded brake handles. Upon release of the brake handles the rearward movement is prevented. The assembly replaces existing brake assemblies on wheelchairs and is designed specifically for the cognitively impaired and invalids to enable safe disembarkation from the wheelchair.

Abstract: A braking unit is provided. In one embodiment, the braking unit comprises a base member, a guide member, a flexible rod, an actuator adapted to induce deformation of the rod, and a brake pad. One end of the flexible rod is fixedly attached to the base member while another end is slideably disposed within a passageway defined by the guide member. The brake pad is positioned adjacent the flexible rod such that deformation of the rod causes lateral movement of the brake pad. The braking unit can be incorporated into disc and drum-type braking assemblies and systems.

Abstract: A parking brake actuating device includes a rotary lever arrangement in operative connection with a compensation device providing an idle path and a restoring element for controlling the rotary lever arrangement. The rotary lever arrangement controls the engagement of a blocking member with a counter-blocking member of the parking brake arrangement. The rotary lever arrangement has a rotary lever input part and a rotary lever output part and the idle path of the compensation device can be constructed so as to be in an operative connection between the rotary lever input part and the rotary lever output part.

Abstract: An assembly for actuating a parking brake comprises a screw, a nut mounted for translation on the screw, and a cable connected between the brake and the nut. A compliant element is mounted on the screw, and is adapted to expand axially with a change in tension in the cable.

Abstract: An electrically operated parking brake apparatus that includes an electric motor and a screw mechanism The screw mechanism includes a screw-threaded shaft adapted to be rotationally driven by the electric motor, and a nut member meshing with the screw-threaded shaft, the nut member being movable along the screw-threaded shaft by the rotation of the screw-threaded shaft. The parking brake apparatus also includes a transmission member connected to the nut member for transmitting a brake operating force to a wheel brake, and a rotation preventing unit for preventing the rotation of the screw-threaded shaft so as to hold the brake operating force by fixing the position of the nut member relative to the screw-threaded shaft. The rotation preventing unit in one embodiment is an electromagnetic brake for confining the screw-threaded shaft to a stationary portion of a vehicle body.

Abstract: A disc brake including a pair of friction plates arranged coaxially in a parallel, spaced-apart relationship and a plurality of vanes extending between the pair of friction plates, each of said vanes having a proximal end, a distal end and a mid-portion extending between the proximal end and the distal end, the proximal ends of a plurality of the vanes having a first width, the mid-portion having a second width, the first width being substantially greater than the second width. The vanes can include a T-shaped portion adjacent the proximal end.

Abstract: An impact damper as a connecting member between a bumper and a chassis of a motor vehicle for the purpose of damping the shock loading during a collision between this motor vehicle and an obstacle through hydraulic damping forces and gas-spring forces. This impact damper includes an inner tube which can be displaced telescopically inside an outer tube, thereby changing the volume of a pressurized gas space, which interact by means of a separating piston with a first liquid space, which communicates hydraulically via a restriction orifice with a second liquid space, which is bounded by a deformation element. The separating piston is arranged in a floating manner in the inner tube and thereby brings about a static equilibrium by pressure compensation in the liquid spaces and in the gas space.

Abstract: An inner tube (2) connected to a vehicle body is inserted such that it is free to extend and contract in an outer tube (1) joined to a vehicle shaft. A partitioning member (3) divides an internal oil chamber at the end of the inner tube. A damping valve (4) and a bypass passage (3d) parallel to this damping valve (4) are disposed in this partitioning member (3). A control rod (5) opens and closes the bypass passage (3d). An actuator (20) in the inner tube (2) controls the control rod (5). By operating the control rod (5) via the actuator (20) to open/close the bypass passage (3d), the damping force generated is varied.

Abstract: A magnetorheological piston includes a magnetorheological-piston coil and a magnetorheological-piston core. The magnetorheological-piston coil has a longitudinal axis. In one expression, the magnetorheological-piston core includes at least two separate core pieces, wherein each of the core pieces is a powder-metal core piece, and wherein the coil is positioned to circumferentially surround at least a portion of at least one of the core pieces. In another expression, the magnetorheological-piston core includes separate upper core, center core, and lower core pieces. The center core piece is located longitudinally between the upper core and lower core pieces and has a circumferential surface positioned radially inward from the inner-diameter portion of the coil. The coil is longitudinally positioned between the upper core and lower core pieces. In one example, each of the upper core, center core, and lower core pieces is a powder-metal core piece.

Abstract: A vehicle damper includes a valve having of an imperforate, deflectable variable orifice disk with an outer periphery that is only partially clamped against a valve seat, during low velocity operation of the damper, by a variable orifice support disk having an outer periphery that is not coextensive with the outer periphery of the variable orifice disk. The portion of the outer periphery of the variable orifice disk that is not clamped against the valve seat deflects away from the valve seat during low velocity operation of the damper, in response to force on the variable orifice plate generated by pressure of fluid in flow apertures closed off by the variable orifice plate, to provide a variable orifice for fluid flow through the valve and digressive performance of the damper. The valve may take the form of a compression or rebound valve on the piston of the vehicle damper, or a base valve in a dual tube damper.

Abstract: A hydraulic brake device for a vehicle includes an auxiliary piston having an effective cross-sectional area larger than that of a master piston, and a pressure transmitting chamber provided between the large diameter portion and the master piston. The auxiliary piston is operatively associated with the assisting operation of an assisting device. A valve mechanism hydraulically closes the pressure transmitting chamber when the actuation of the master piston is assisted by the assisting device through the auxiliary piston and establishes hydraulic communication between the pressure transmitting chamber and a reservoir of the master cylinder when the master piston is not actuated by the assisting device.

Abstract: The invention relates to a scraper chain for scraper chain conveyors, particularly for use in mining, with vertical chain links flattened in their longitudinal legs, which are integrally joined by nose-parts of circular cross-section, while the horizontal chain links have a constant circular cross-section all round. The scraper chain has a strength which is at least equal to that of a size 48 standard round link chain. The horizontal links serving as scraper connection have a pitch which is at least 10%, and preferably about 15%, greater than the pitch of the vertical links. The outer width of the horizontal links is at least 30% greater than the outer width of the vertical links. For the scraper chain according to the invention, sprockets whose dimensions are the same as those for scraper chains of considerably lower strength may be used.

Abstract: A modular, self-contained, bi-directional wheel clutch unit selectively attachable and detachable as a unit to and from an axle, the unit including a rotatable wheel-driving hub including a casing portion, a clutch cage disposed in the casing portion and surrounded thereby and which has a plurality of circumferentially-distributed openings, a rotatably driven cam element disposed in the casing portion and surrounded by the clutch cage and which has a plurality of discrete surfaces thereon, and a plurality of rollers rotatably disposed within the casing portion and within the clutch cage openings. The rollers are located between the casing portion and the cam element discrete surfaces and have an engaged position wherein the cam element and the hub are in binding engagement through the rollers and the hub is rotatably driven by the cam element, and a disengaged position wherein the hub is freely rotatable relative to the cam element.

Abstract: Providing a pulley unit with a reduced diameter, stable operating characteristics, and that is simple and readily removable from an engine is accomplished by a one-way clutch disposed between a pulley and a shaft body that are concentrically arranged. A shaft defines a shaft attachment space at a position which is not overlapped by rollers contained in the one-way clutch in an axial direction. The shaft body is attached to the shaft at the shaft attachment space. The shaft body, disposed inside the rollers in a radial direction, does not have a through hole, but rather, has a non-through structure.

Abstract: A clutch fork and clutch housing assembly for use with a motor vehicle clutch includes a clutch housing, a shaft, a fork, a first index mark, and a first washer. The shaft is mounted to the clutch housing and defines an axis of rotation. The fork has a sleeve portion which is disposed over the shaft and is coaxial therewith. The fork has a pair of tines and a lever arm extending from the sleeve portion. The fork is pivotable relative to the clutch housing about the axis of rotation. The first index mark is disposed on the sleeve portion at a first end of the sleeve portion. The first washer is disposed over the shaft and is axially disposed between the first end of the sleeve portion and a corresponding first part of the clutch housing. The first washer is rotatably fixed relative to the clutch housing. An alignment of the first index mark and the second index mark in a clutch-engaged condition indicates one of a worn condition and an unworn condition.

Abstract: On a housing for a pressure plate assembly of a friction clutch, at least one mass part is provided, especially a motion stop for a clearance-producing arrangement of the pressure plate assembly provided for detecting wear. An imbalance-compensating formation is provided on the housing, which compensates essentially completely for at least the one imbalance introduced by the at least one motion stop.

Abstract: There is provided a method for producing a friction plate, capable of improving the throughput of friction material and reducing the time and work required for adhering friction material segments to a core plate. The method produces a friction plate having oil grooves communicating between the internal periphery and the external periphery, by fixing friction material segments formed from a friction material to a core plate, and is featured by forming the oil grooves by plastic working of the friction material and fixation of the friction material segments with predetermined gaps therebetween to the core plate.

Abstract: A braking drive for a control cable or shaft has a drive shaft with a radial journal. A contractible brake ring has opposing ends defining a gap, with the journal in the gap The ring has an exterior surface biased outwards and two interior detents. A stationary interior housing circumscribes the ring, with an interior surface in frictional contact with the ring. An exterior portion of the housing has bosses being disposed within the detents of the ring. Friction between the ring and the housing interior arrests rotation of the journal and drive shaft until a force on the exterior portion of the housing moves the bosses, transferring the force to the ring via the detents, whereby the ring is contracted, releasing the frictional brake between the housing and the ring, thereby allowing rotation of the drive shaft.

Abstract: An escalator or moving walkway includes, divided roller bearings to improve the efficiency of replacement thereof. The roller bearings may be located in the region of the drive axle or deflecting axle of the step chain. The divided roller bearing components can be mounted on the roller bearing axle, and removed therefrom, in radial direction.

Abstract: An apparatus loads and unloads workpieces. The apparatus includes at least one essentially horizontally movable element, at least one essentially vertically movable element and at least one element for receiving workpieces. The horizontally movable element has at least one drive unit and has at least two belts communicating with the one or more drive units and the one or more elements for receiving the workpieces.

Abstract: An excited frame conveyor is described with a conveyor bed movably supported on a frame having a structural frequency and a vibratory drive on the frame operable to vibrate the frame at an operational frequency that is greater than the structural frequency of the frame.

Abstract: An assembly for separately packaging two products for extemporaneous mixing comprises a first container and a second container. The first container contains a first product and delimits a first opening. A removable stopper is associated with the first opening. The second container contains a second product and delimits a second opening. The second container comprises a first coupling member. The first container and the second container are configured to be connected to one another. The first coupling member and the removable stopper are configured such that the first coupling member engages the removable stopper during establishment of a connection between the first container and the second container and the removable stopper passes into the second container so as to expose the first opening and allow the first product and the second product to be brought into contact with one another.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a container capable of separately storing two substances as well as mixing them together. The container includes a liquid storing chamber, a powder storing cup, a cover unit, and a rotary cap. The liquid storing chamber is provided with an outlet port and a lower opening. A locking ring is formed around the outer surface of a sidewall defining the opening. The powder storing cup is provided at a lower position on its outer surface with at least one projection. The cover unit consists of a cover plate provided on its top portion, an annular sidewall fitted into the lower opening of the storing chamber, and a leg downwardly extending from the lower end of the annular sidewall and provided with a slit engaging with the projection of the storing cup.

Abstract: A packaging system consisting of a sealable thermoplastic bag with an exterior pocket and integral handle fastened across the top side and an open-domed, rigid plastic, stackable container that allows for the horizontal storage and transport of food products and other goods.

Abstract: The kit for removing mildew includes a premeasured amount of sodium perborate and a premeasured amount of non-ionic detergent. The premeasured amount of sodium perborate, the premeasured amount of non-ionic detergent and water combine to form an aqueous solution that can be applied to a mildew infected area. The aqueous solution removes mildew from a mildew infected area.

Abstract: Of the various carrying cases especially designed to isolate the contained laptop computer from impact forces, all are deficient in isolating the laptop computer from impacts from all directions, for example if the case containing the laptop computer were dropped on any side, edge or corner. The disclosed case provides a lightweight framed shock-absorbing insert to resist the impact and to channel much of the impact energy away from the laptop computer. This insert has two flat panels sandwiching the laptop computer. These panels flex in response to impact from any direction, while isolating the laptop computer from direct impact with the floor or the like during impact of the case with the floor. The panels are constrained from collapsing by bending out of the plane of the panel during most impacts. Constraining structures include a surounding frame between the outer edges flat panels, and surrounding textile constructions that cooperate to keep the flat panels parallel and generally flat during impacts.

Abstract: A structure of a portable hand-tool bag is disclosed. The hand-tool bag comprises a hand-held body, and two tool boxes, wherein the hand-held body includes an external layer, two inner board, two positioning board and an inner layer, characterized in that at least two adjacent ends of the positioning board are mounted with a corner member having mounted with an elastic top plate thereon and the top edge of the elastic top plate being a protrusion; and the two tool boxes are substantially rectangular with a plurality of slots within the center of the box to accommodate tools, one lateral edge of the tool box is provided with a notch corresponding to the protrusion on the top edge of the elastic top plate so that the protrusion is engaged with the notch; thereby the tool boxes containing tools within the slots of the tool boxes are engaged to the corner member and the two tool boxes are mounted to the hand-held body, facilitate the carrying of tool.

Abstract: The household waste treatment requires neither incineration nor disposal in landfills. Two processing sub-systems, first one for combustibles and the other or second one for incombustibles, cooperate with each other as a single system for recycling the waste. The first sub-system deals with combustible waste to yields products for fertilizing and/or conditioning soil. In the process, what are inappropriate to the production of the soil fertilizing and/or conditioning products are sent to the second sub-system, which deals with incombustible waste. This sub-system sorts the incombustible waste materials into various kinds of recyclable products. Combustibles among the incombustible waste materials are sent to the first sub-system.

Abstract: An assembly for separating solid phase material from a slurry that comprises a pressurized filtration unit including a vessel and filter media. A slurry is fed to the filtration unit where it is separated into a solid phase material and a liquid phase material. The filtration unit has a solid outlet for discharging the solid phase material to a material transport. The material transport moves the solid phase material to a depressurizing chamber that has a lower pressure than the filtration unit. As the solid phase material enters the depressurizing chamber it is exposed to the lower pressure of that chamber. The material transport maintains the pressure difference between the filtration unit and the chamber. Subsequently, the depressurized solid phase material can be conveyed to other equipment for drying or other processing.

Abstract: A vertical installation structure includes a plurality of placing stages on each of which information processing apparatuses are to be installed, and supporting members for supporting the plurality of placing stages so that the plurality of placing stages are vertically arranged. A vertical installation system includes the above vertical installation structure, and moving structure capable of moving along the vertical installation structure, the moving structure having a plurality of stages on each of which at least one information processing apparatus is to be placed and supporting members for supporting the plurality of stages so that each of the plurality of stages is level with a corresponding one of the plurality of placing stages of the vertical installation structure. The information processing apparatus set on each of the stages is transferred to the corresponding one of the plurality of placing stages of the vertical installation structure.

Abstract: A four-column rack including a first rack having a pair of upright columns connected by a first cross-member, a second rack having a pair of upright columns connected by a second cross-member. The first and second racks are connected by an adjustment member. The adjustment member has a first end attached to the first cross-member of the first rack and a second end attached to the second cross-member of the second rack.

Abstract: A rail system for an equipment rack includes a removable bracket on each rail of the system which can be exchanged between the rails to enable the rail system to be coupled between the posts of an equipment rack in multiple configurations. Each rail additionally includes a front bracket, a fixed center bracket, and a rear bracket. In one mounting configuration, the front bracket and the removable center bracket are coupled to a post of the equipment rack. In a second configuration, the removable center brackets of the rails are exchanged with one another so that the rail system can be mounted in a center mount configuration in which the removable center bracket and the fixed center bracket are mounted on opposite sides of the post. The rail system includes a rear bracket with cable management features.

Abstract: A circuit board carrier and method of using the same. The carrier allows circuit boards to be processed on lead frame-based semiconductor processing equipment. The circuit board carrier contains a structure to secure a circuit board thereto and the carrier is sized and shaped and provided with standardized indexing holes to allow processing of circuit boards on processing equipment configured for lead frame-based processing.

Abstract: A device for displaying merchandise on a store shelf provides for arranging articles in rows with a pusher device for pushing the remaining articles forward on the shelf as each article is removed. A coiled spring operates to drive the pusher device for each row, the spring extending along a side rail having a hollow center in which the spring rides, the rail thus acting as a shield for the spring and preventing hand contact therewith which might cause injury.

Abstract: A support rack for a plastic container having a content in excess of 1.5 gallons of liquid. Two or more support members extend from a wire body section, for engagement with apertures in the plastic container. A connecting section extends between the support members of first sides thereof, and supporting sections extend from second sides thereof for connection to a suspending support member. In one embodiment the support members are U-shaped and in another embodiment they are finger members. The support rack can be connected to the suspending support member in a stationary or swivel manner or can be part of a rolling cart.

Abstract: An adjustable-length shelf system attached to a telescoping rod assembly formed by two hollow tubes, allowing this rod to house a chosen tension mechanism, so that the shelf can then be secured between two supports. The shelf system consists of the main shelf piece attached to the first hollow tube, a telescoping section of shelf not attached but slidably overlaying and fitting within the main shelf piece, and a shelf bracket attached to the end of the second hollow tube. In the closed position, with the telescoping section positioned into the main shelf piece, the rod is extended to fit in a given space between two supports. Once the rod is installed, the telescoping section is extended and secured to the bracket.

Abstract: A tower crane with composite structure, self-assembling, with sections which are hinged together with the use of horizontal hinges, the whole comprising a load-bearing arm (50) made up of several sections (23), (24), (25), (26) hinged together, and a tower composed of at least one pair of sections (20, 21) hinged together (at 12) and at least one section (22) which can be inserted into or telescoped from one of the other sections, and with tie rods (31, 32, 33) which work with the aforesaid arm (50), which arm comprises a first primary section (23), vertically higher at a front part thereof for connecting to a secondary section (24); a secondary section (24) interposed before a second primary section (25), of uniform height; a third primary section (26), hinged at one end (at 16) of its upper surface to the free end of the second primary section (25); actuating means (60, 62) for unfolding and re-folding of the joints between the primary sections (23, 25, 26); and means (68, 70; 32, 33) for re-establishing st

Abstract: A strap mounting space is formed around a boss formed on an upper cover and a lower cover which, when assembled together, form a case for an apparatus. One, or each, of the upper cover and the lower cover is/are formed integrally with a respective boss, preferably at each corner, so that the respective bosses at corresponding, common corners of the upper and lower covers, when assembled, are in an aligned and abutting relationship. A slits is formed in one of the corners of the upper and lower covers, extending around the respective boss(es) thereof, making up a strap mounting space. A screw 9 is inserted into a corresponding axial hole extending through each boss, affording a sufficient strength of the abutting bosses for supporting the case, with the apparatus therein, by a strap received through the strap mounting space.

Abstract: A sectioned storage container for liquids has an inner plastic container to be filled with a liquid and a plastic receptacle that surrounds the inner container so that an intermediate space is formed between the inner container and the receptacle. The inner container is made of at least two blow-molded monolithic parts connected with one another by a groove-shaped vertical recess extending in the sidewalls, the container bottom, and the top of the inner container. The receptacle has an insertion opening for the inner container so that the inner container projects with top portions thereof upwardly from the receptacle through the insertion opening. The sidewalls and the receptacle bottom of the receptacle have a groove-shaped vertical recess which is matched to the recess of the sidewalls and the container bottom of the inner container. A peripheral vertical reinforcement strap engages the vertical recesses and reinforces the storage container.

Abstract: An ink tank producing a stable negative pressure regardless of material used is provided. In the ink tank, inner and outer walls include a bonding region having a bonding force distribution. With this arrangement, since the inner wall separates from the outer wall as ink in the ink tank is being guided out, the area of a non-bonding region increases.

Abstract: A highly adaptable beverage container insulator is designed for a significant size range of beverage containers. The insulator is tubular with open ends that are formed from two elastic panels. Each panel has straight top and bottom edges with elastic hems. The side edges of each panel are slightly curved to maintain the properties and proper appearance of the insulator. To form the insulator, two of the panels are joined along their side edges to form a tube. The insulator is placed around a beverage container to better insulate the container and maintain the temperature of the beverage located therein. The insulator accommodates significant variation in the size and shape of beverage containers. For example, a smaller version of the insulator is readily adaptable to conform to both a standard twelve ounce soda can and to a ten ounce juice bottle.

Abstract: A container with a lid (10) comprises a container body (11), a lid (23) supported for turning on the container body (11) and a rubber plate (950) provided between the container body (11) and the lid (23). The lid (23) is provided with a stopping projection (32)that engages a catching projection 33 formed in an operating member (55) provided on the container body (11). A slider (60) is supported so as to be slidable on the container body (11). A recess (51) is formed at the lower end of the operating member (55) and a protrusion (61) is formed on the slider (60). In a state where the protrusion (61) of the slider (60) and the recess (51) of the operating member (55) are dislocated from each other, the operating member (55)is restrained from downward movement. Thus the mischievous opening of the lid (23) by children can be prevented.

Abstract: An improved emergency code cart (100) is provided. The cart contains a number of drawers (130), each containing medications (305, 310) and instruments (315) required for a particular code algorithm. The contents of each drawer are organized according to ACLS (American Cardiac Life Support) or other guidelines. The cart also contains a computer (175) which is programmed with ACLS algorithms or other guidelines which are the current standard of emergency patient care. The cart's computer monitors the patient's EKG, blood pressure, pulse oximetry, and other indicators, providing diagnostic information to the medical personnel in the code team. Upon select of a code algorithm, the computer provides prompts according to the algorithm, issues alarms when the algorithm is not followed, provides automatic synchronized cardioversion, prints an EKG rhythm strip, and documents all activities occurring in a code, including withdrawal, replacement, and use of medication and instruments.

Abstract: A pre-formed bags dispenser comprises a container (1) having an access aperture (8), a stack (9) of pre-formed bags (10) located in the container and having a first portion (12) deviated, preferably folded, at a transverse bend (11) from a second portion (13) containing mouth ends (18) of the bags, and attachment means (20) in the container separably attached to the mouth ends (18) at lines of weakening (22), e.g. perforations. Front walls (15) of the bags at the second portion (13), tensioned by the bending of the stack, are presented towards the access aperture (8). The bag nearest to the access aperture can be drawn out through the aperture by pulling its front wall, with one hand, relative to the attachment means. As the bag is so pulled its mouth is opened and the separable attachment to the attachment means is released. The attachment means, in one form, comprises a bar block separably joined to the mouths and/or handles of the bags.

Abstract: A chip component take-in apparatus takes in and guides downward prismatic chip components stored in a bulk state in a storage chamber one by one in a predetermined direction. When a first take-in member and a second take-in member are relatively moved up and down in each flat face contact state, the chip components in face contact with the flat faces of the take-in members are gradually guided to a center along guide ways. The guided chip components in the longitudinal direction thereof are taken into a passage constituted by grooves and are moved downward along the passage by self-weight.

Abstract: A remote access and control system having two pc's, a first of which receives information concerning a condition to be controlled, a controller for controlling the condition, information concerning the condition being supplied to the second pc, said second pc develops further information for controlling the condition, such further information is supplied to the first pc and this information is applied to the controller to have the controller maintain the desired conditions.

Abstract: A fluid dispenser assembly having, a fluid dispenser (1) defining a substantially flat body (10) provided with a dispensing orifice (12) and with a removable closure member (15) masking the dispensing orifice, packaging (2) encasing the body (10) of the dispenser while leaving the removable closure member (15) accessible so that it can be removed from the body. The dispenser assembly being characterized in that the packaging (2) comprises a casing portion (3) containing the body (10) of the dispenser; and a substantially plane portion (4) connected to the casing portion (3) by zones of least resistance (43), so that the casing portion (3) can be separated from the plane portion (4).

Abstract: A fluid product dispenser having a distribution orifice and a variable volume reservoir that varies by displacement of a mobile wall in order to reduce the volume of the reservoir. The dispenser is provided with an actuation device to move the mobile wall of the reservoir. Advantageously, the actuation device is rotary and has a thread that is engaged with the reservoir.