Inhibiting Actuation Of Discharge Assistant Patents (Class 222/153.13)
  • Patent number: 9211559
    Abstract: Pump dispenser, particularly a movable-nozzle pump dispenser, is intended especially for use in dispensing oral medicines e.g. to children. One feature disclosed is a tooth or ratchet structure engageable between the plunger head and the pump cylinder body. This enables optional holding of the plunger at an intermediate position during a dispensing stroke, so that a dose can be given bit by bit. Other proposals are formations around the top of the cylinder body which interact with the inside of the plunger to control or limit movement of the plunger according to their relative rotational orientation. For example the plunger may be locked up unless turned forcibly past a rotational stop. A related feature is a spring lock tab preventing rotation of the plunger unless the tab is pressed to release it. The product container may contain balls to cause agitation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: RIEKE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brian Robert Law, David John Pritchett, Roy Cox
  • Patent number: 9156047
    Abstract: A container includes a container body for receiving a liquid, a locking connector, a pump unit and a depressible head assembly. The locking connector includes a locking ring threadedly disposed on a top portion of the container body, a dosage guide ring protruding upwardly from the locking ring, and at least one dosage guide unit. The pump unit extends downwardly into the container body and is drivenable to move in a top-bottom direction so as to draw the liquid in the container body. The depressible head assembly includes a depressible head for driving the pump unit to move in the top-bottom direction, and a biasing member abutting against the depressible head and the locking connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Well Max Beauty Lab Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Teng-Huei Wang
  • Patent number: 9107987
    Abstract: A tube coupling of a phlegm suction tube, which is capable of connecting two injectors having different mating structures, includes a tube body and a tube connector. The tube body is hollow and has a coupling end and a check valve. The tube connector is coaxially connected to the coupling end of the tube body and has a joint portion. The joint portion has a passage communicating with the tube body. The check valve flexibly closes the passage from the tube body. A diameter of the passage fits a first injector with a first mating structure, and an outer diameter of the joint portion fits a second injector with a second mating structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: PACIFIC HOSPITAL SUPPLY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Donny Chung
  • Patent number: 9091016
    Abstract: A garment steamer has a housing with a reservoir and a boiler for converting water to steam. The housing includes a normally closed valve in a flow path between the reservoir and the boiler. A removable fill plug in a fill opening or inlet of the reservoir is configured to engage the valve to permit water to be communicated from the reservoir via an outlet to the boiler for conversion into steam. The plug-actuated valve isolates the boiler from the reservoir when the plug is removed, providing safer refilling when the boiler is hot. The garment steamer also includes a steam discharge head coupled by a hose to the housing and configured to direct steam onto a garment or similar item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Euro-Pro Operating LLC
    Inventors: Peggy Lam, Eric Wall, Kim Chun Chiu
  • Patent number: 9044771
    Abstract: An improved pump is provided that is capable of achieving excellent back suction function by using a depression head, without compromising the ease of depression operations of the head due to the additional function. The pump includes a depression head and an annular piston. The depression head is urged upward and is relatively displaceable with respect to the stem. When depressed, a lever member of the depression head operates to open a discharge opening. An annular piston opens a discharge valve, in an uppermost displacement position and closes the discharge valve in a lowermost displacement position. Back suction is caused due to a negative pressure state occurring in the stem until the discharge valve seat is closed by the annular piston during upward displacement of the stem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: Yoshino Kogyosho Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuhito Kuwahara, Hiroyuki Nakamura, Toru Toma
  • Publication number: 20150108168
    Abstract: A dispenser (2) for a pumpable fluid (3), such as dishwashing detergent, soap or cooking oil, arranged at a sink unit, a work top, a cupboard, a wall, a sink, a bathtub or another similar surface (4), and that includes a movable discharge mechanism (5) for the fluid (3). The discharge mechanism (5) is receivable in an inserted concealed storage position (I) inside the surface (4) and in a projected, from the outside (6) of the dispenser (2), freely accessible discharge position (II), respectively, the discharge mechanism (5) including a pump (7) that is arranged to take a locked pump position and an unlocked pump position, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: STH DEVELOPMENT & DESIGN AB
    Inventor: Santosh Truedsson
  • Patent number: 9010581
    Abstract: A dispenser for dispensing liquid to pasty compositions, has a dispensing head, which has a dispensing mouth, and with a reservoir and a dispenser head part. The dispensing head is movable relative to the dispenser head part from a dispensing stand-by position to a lowered position and vice versa. In order to design and develop a dispenser in such a way that the dispensing mouth is oriented without relative rotation or without at least substantial relative rotation with respect to the dispenser sleeve part when the dispensing head is extended, the dispenser head part moves the dispensing head in and out only axially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: RPC Bramlage GmbH
    Inventor: Martin Presche
  • Publication number: 20150076174
    Abstract: Dispensing device and method for dispensing fluids from a fluid container. The dispensing device includes an attachment section, a first blocking section, a second blocking section, and an actuating section. A dispensing of the fluid results from actuation of the actuating section and the actuation of the actuating section is blockable by a rotation of at least one of the first blocking section and the second blocking section with respect to the attachment section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: AERO PUMP GMBH
    Inventor: Andreas MERSMANN
  • Patent number: 8978933
    Abstract: A fluid dispenser comprising: a fluid reservoir (1) defining a neck (11) and a bottom wall (12) provided with a filling valve (13, 15); a dispenser member (5), such as a pump, that is mounted on the reservoir (1) so as to take the fluid, the dispenser member (5) including a body (51) and an actuator rod (56) that is movable downwards and upwards along an axis X; a pusher (6, 7) that is mounted on the actuator rod (56) of the dispenser member (5) in such a manner as to turn about the axis X of the rod (56); a vent passage that puts the reservoir (1) into communication with the outside; closure means (3) for selectively closing the vent passage; and control means (4) for urging the closure means (3) into a closed condition, in which they close the vent passage, from an open condition, in which they do not close the vent passage; the dispenser being characterized in that the control means (4) are secured to the pusher (6, 7) or moved by the pusher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Aptar France SAS
    Inventors: Patrick Muller, Bruno Stuart
  • Publication number: 20150041496
    Abstract: A locking device structured to maintain an activating plunger of a dispenser assembly in an inoperative position, subsequent to dispensing, so as to facilitate a single-use operation thereof and thereby preclude the potential confusion between a used and an unused single-use dispensing device. The locking device includes a body disposed in receiving relation to the plunger as it moves from an operative position to an inoperative position. A locking structure connected to the body is disposed to frictionally engage the plunger in movement restricting relation during its passage from the operative position to the inoperative position. Such frictional engagement is sufficient to restrict movement of the plunger back into the operative position once the material has been dispensed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventors: Sungmoon Kim, Bonggeun Kim
  • Patent number: 8939323
    Abstract: The invention relates to dispensers for fluid products, particularly oral dosing of medicines. The dispenser is a pump dispenser and has a separate nozzle attachment. The nozzle and dispenser may be uncoupled in a holding position or coupled position. A child resistance feature is disclosed which prevents unauthorized coupling of the dispenser and nozzle, thereby preventing unauthorized dispensing of product. The child resistance feature only allows coupling of the dispenser and nozzle when a coupling control element is triggered and then maintains this coupling with additional features. A protective cover for the dispenser is also disclosed, which covers the nozzle attachment and pump plunger button.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Rieke Corporation
    Inventors: Simon Christopher Knight, Joseph Stanley Brunton, David John Pritchett
  • Publication number: 20140374445
    Abstract: A discharging device for discharging liquids includes an outer housing encompassing an inner chamber, a liquid storage receptacle, a discharge orifice, a delivery device for delivering liquid from the storage receptacle to the discharge orifice, a cap that covers the discharge orifice when present on the outer housing in a safety position, and a manual actuator adapted to actuate the delivery device and which is movable relative to the outer housing between a neutral relative position and an actuated relative position. The cap and the manual actuator cooperate so that displacement of the manual actuator is mechanically blocked when the cap is in its safety position. A locking element that is movable in relation to the outer housing is constrainedly coupled with the movement of the manual actuator and extends in the actuated position through a hole in the outer housing to a region that the cap blocks when mounted in its safety position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Judith AUERBACH, Thomas EBERHARD, Wilfried GRAF
  • Patent number: 8905272
    Abstract: A device for dispensing a metered amount of powdered, granular liquid or related fluent materials and a method of dispensing a fluent material such that a release of excess material beyond the metered amount is inhibited. The dispenser includes a sealing arrangement to effect such inhibiting, as well as to reduce moisture-based contamination of the material stored within the dispenser. Optional features may include various seal configurations and numbers, removable top and bottom caps that both may have a locking mechanism. The dispenser may be configured as a disposable hand-held device such that, after depletion of the fluent material contents arising out of a multiplicity of uses, it can be thrown away.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Birost LLC
    Inventors: Edwin Chan, Blaine R. Bruner, William M. Sherk, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8899448
    Abstract: A dispensing head which can be mounted on a receptacle. The dispensing head includes a pump, for surmounting the receptacle, with an actuating rod having a longitudinal axis X. A diffuser is mounted on the pump, and includes a tube opening at a dispensing orifice, with the tube being elongated along an axis Y distinct from the axis X. A lever arm controls the actuation of the pump, with the lever arm including a portion capable of coming to bear on the diffuser in order to actuate the pump. In addition, a locking member is configured such that, in a first position, the locking member allows actuation of the pump and, in a second position, the locking member prevents actuation of the pump. In a disclosed example, in the second position the tube abuts against a portion of the locking member to prevent actuation of the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: L'Oreal
    Inventors: Pierre-Andre Lasserre, Marcel Sanchez, Pedro Pares Montaner
  • Patent number: 8881954
    Abstract: The invention relates to an actuator for dispensing fluid from a cartridge, the actuator being configured to be moveable within the cartridge along the longitudinal axis of the cartridge and comprising a first radial element configured to face the dispensing opening of the cartridge, a second radial element configured to face in the opposite direction than the first radial element and a connecting element connecting the first and the second radial element and configured to extend along the longitudinal axis of the cartridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Maurice Toporek
  • Patent number: 8875951
    Abstract: An aerosol cap adapted to mate with a canister includes an outer hollow shell and an inner hollow shell that is partially enclosed by the outer shell and centrally disposed therein. The outer hollow shell includes at least one rib element. The inner and outer shells are physically interconnected together by the at least one rib element. The inner hollow shell includes a base ring member hingedly connected to a pod member. The pod member includes a button support for receiving a button actuator of the canister. The pod member further includes a cam profile for cooperating with the at least one rib element to transition the aerosol cap between an operative position and a non-operative position upon rotating the outer hollow shell relative to the inner hollow shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Inventor: Kent A. Houser
  • Publication number: 20140312072
    Abstract: The invention relates to dispensers for fluid products, particularly oral dosing of medicines. The dispenser is a pump dispenser and has a separate nozzle attachment. The nozzle and dispenser may be uncoupled in a holding position or coupled position. A child resistance feature is disclosed which prevents unauthorised coupling of the dispenser and nozzle, thereby preventing unauthorised dispensing of product. The child resistance feature only allows coupling of the dispenser and nozzle when a coupling control element is triggered and then maintains this coupling with additional features. A protective cover for the dispenser is also disclosed, which covers the nozzle attachment and pump plunger button.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Inventors: Simon Christopher Knight, Joseph Stanley Brunton, David John Pritchett
  • Patent number: 8863988
    Abstract: The cosmetic container having a release prevention device in which a vertical bar type stopper is applied to a release-prevention and locking device and a vertical panel type protrusion having teeth is installed to implement a stopper function, a release-prevention function, and a remaining liquid absorbing function. The cosmetic container includes a connector tube stuck to the inner wall of the cylinder, a hollow piston coupled with the lower end of the connector tube to support the connector tube, a release-preventing and locking device having a lower end to be inserted into the cylinder and allowing a screw-coupling of an upper outer side of the cosmetic container, and a push button coupled with the top of the release-preventing and locking device and pumping the hollow piston while up-and-down movements to pump the content in the cosmetic container out through an ejection hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Inventor: Sungil Kang
  • Patent number: 8857668
    Abstract: A discharging device for discharging liquids includes an outer housing encompassing an inner chamber, a liquid storage receptacle, a discharge orifice, a delivery device for delivering liquid from the storage receptacle to the discharge orifice, a cap that covers the discharge port orifice when present on the outer housing in a safety position, and a manual actuator adapted to actuate the delivery device and which is movable relative to the outer housing between a neutral relative position and an actuated relative position. The cap and the manual actuator cooperate so that displacement of the manual actuator is mechanically blocked when the cap is in its safety position. A locking element that is movable in relation to the outer housing is constrainedly coupled with the movement of the manual actuator and extends in the actuated position through a hole in the outer housing to a region that the cap blocks when mounted in its safety position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Aptar Radolfzell GmbH
    Inventors: Judith Auerbach, Thomas Eberhard, Wilfried Graf
  • Publication number: 20140299148
    Abstract: An actuator cap (1) for dispensing a liquid product, comprising: •a rotatable outer body (2) and an associated actuator button (3), the outer body (2) comprising an inward projecting retaining clip (39) and •a non-rotatable chassis (5) and an associated spray channel assembly (6), the non-rotatable chassis (5) comprising a circumferentially extending slot (40) into which the inward projecting retaining clip 39) of the rotatable outer body fits; •the outer body (2) and actuator button (3) being rotatable between: a first position in which the actuator button (3) is incapable of depression and the inward projecting retaining clip (39) of the rotatable outer body (2) is held firmly in the circumferentially extending slot (40) of the non-rotatable chassis (5) and a second position in which actuator button (3) is capable of depression and the inward projecting retaining clip (39) of the rotatable outer body (2) is held less firmly in the circumferentially extending slot (40) of the non-rotatable chassis (5)
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2012
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: CONOPCO, INC., D/B/A UNILEVER
    Inventors: Kassie Terra-Lynn Betts, Simon Lewis Bilton, Adrian Barclay Caroen, Christopher John Jones, Garen Kouyoumjian
  • Publication number: 20140291355
    Abstract: A handle assembly (100) for a hand-actuated fluid delivery device (10) is disclosed. The handle assembly (100) includes a first handle member (110) that is mounted on a pivot (126) fixed to a second handle member (120). A locking spring (130) is mounted on this pivot (126). This locking spring (130), together with a corresponding actuator (140), cooperate to selectively provide resistance to movement of a plunger (30) in an aspiration direction in at least certain conditions. Disposing the actuator (140) in a locking position disposes the locking spring (130) in a locking configuration. Sliding friction or sliding friction forces between the locking spring (130) and the pivot (126), with the locking spring (130) being in its locking configuration, provides resistance to movement of the first handle member (110) relative to the second handle member (120) in a manner that would move the plunger (30) in an aspiration direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventor: Frank M. Fago
  • Publication number: 20140291354
    Abstract: An electrical tool includes a trigger lock assembly having a trigger lock member, a detent assembly, and a return spring. The trigger lock member is movable relative to a trigger between a neutral position, in which the trigger is movable between an off position and an on position, a lock-off position, in which the trigger is prevented from moving from the off position, and a lock-on position, in which the trigger is maintained in the on position. The detent assembly is operable to releaseably retain the trigger lock member in each position and includes a recess associated with each position. The detent assembly also includes a projection selectively engageable in one of the recesses to releasably retain the trigger lock member in the associated position, and a biasing member biasing the projection into engagement. The return spring is operable to bias the trigger lock member toward the neutral position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventors: Troy C. Thorson, Scott D. Eisenhardt, Terry L. Timmons
  • Publication number: 20140284356
    Abstract: A reservoir fluid automatic dispenser includes a reservoir delimiting a space for receiving a fluid, including a top edge delimiting an opening, and including a fluid exit. A dispensing mechanism includes a fixing end to fix with the reservoir, a pushing end to force the liquid out of the reservoir through the fluid exit, and a biasing member to automatically move the pushing end. The biasing member is restrained between the fixing end and the pushing end. The pushing end is disposed and moving inside the space under a tension of the biasing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: Hong Ann Tool Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Cheng-Wei Su
  • Publication number: 20140263456
    Abstract: A child-resistant closure system for a pump sprayer, in one example, includes a cap having a rim at its lower end and including a pair of legs, a dispensing tip configured to receive the cap thereon, the dispensing tip including a pair of finger-depressing shoulders, each shoulder including a slot therein to receive a corresponding leg of the cap therethrough for locking the cap to the dispensing tip, with a cylindrical collar provided beneath the shoulders and including a pair of buttons thereon configured to be simultaneously actuated to release the legs from interior structure within the dispensing tip, and a cylindrical base having its upper end secured to the collar and its lower end secured to a dispenser bottle which contains fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Launce R. Barber, Thomas J. A. Zuber, Corey R. Vaughan
  • Publication number: 20140263457
    Abstract: A child-resistant closure system for a pump sprayer includes a protective cap, a dispensing tip having a pair of finger-depressing shoulders, and a cylindrical portion beneath the shoulders, the cylindrical portion including a pair of buttons spaced 180° apart thereon, each button having an undercut formed on a back face thereof. A cylindrical base has its upper end secured to the dispensing tip and its lower end configured to be secured to a dispenser bottle, the dispensing tip and base housing a sprayer pump unit within that is actuated via the shoulders, the base top end including a circular thread formed there around on an external surface thereof. In a locked condition of the dispensing tip, the undercuts engage an underside of the circular thread on the base. Pressing the buttons simultaneously disengages the undercuts from the thread to unlock the dispensing tip and permit sprayer pump unit actuation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Launce R. Barber, Thomas J. A. Zuber, Corey R. Vaughan
  • Publication number: 20140263455
    Abstract: A safety device for a nasal spray applicator may include a two or three-point safety engagement feature to retain a protective cap or cover over the nasal spray applicator and to prevent or restrict actuation thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventor: Joseph Francis KEENAN
  • Patent number: 8827121
    Abstract: A dispenser pump is disclosed of the moveable-nozzle type, arranged for sealing a vent path in the extended position of the pump plunger. A pump body includes an internal collar formed at the lower end of a tubular insert, through which the vent path passes. This collar has a seal portion. The plunger has a complementary seal portion which makes a guided and fitting engagement with the collar seal portion. One or both of the plunger seal portion and the collar seal portion is formed as an annular taper, so that the seal portions are guided into close engagement with one another. Plunger lock-down formations are constructed to engage at the bottom of the body insert and remain below the top opening of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Rieke Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Robert Law, David John Pritchett
  • Publication number: 20140246460
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for locking a pump by sliding a locking member to both sides, wherein the locking member is slid to the left and the right within a ring-shaped protruding base that is formed on the upper surface of a container lid, and sliding protrusions on both sides of the locking member are arranged so as to be visible on the exterior of a cover member, thereby effectively locking to prevent pumping or unlocking the pump, by simply and conveniently sliding the locking member to the left and the right as needed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Inventors: Young Joo Lee, Jae Kwang Hwang
  • Publication number: 20140231457
    Abstract: A fluid delivery device (1) for discharging a fluid comprises a housing (2, 3), piston pump (4), biasing mechanism (5, 101), and trigger mechanism (6); the housing (2, 3) comprising a basal end (3) and discharge end (2) having an outlet (10) for discharging the fluid; the piston pump (4) comprising a casing (20) defining a pump chamber (35) for fluid storage, piston (21) slidably movable relative to the pump chamber (35), piston plunger (22), and delivery channel (59) for delivering fluid discharged from pump chamber (35) to outlet (10); the trigger mechanism (6) being movable from cocked configuration, preventing transfer of biasing mechanism (5, 101) force to the casing (20) to prevent casing (20) movement towards the outlet (10), to triggered configuration, enabling transfer of biasing mechanism (5, 101) force to the casing (20) to cause casing (20) movement towards the outlet (10) to discharge fluid from the pump chamber (35).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: Consort Medical, PLC
    Inventor: Paul Allsop
  • Publication number: 20140231456
    Abstract: A dispenser for dispensing a unit measure of a product includes a twist-locking mechanism. The twist-locking mechanism included on the dispenser engages a twist-locking mechanism on a dispensing accessory device, locking the accessory device to the dispenser. The disposable dispenser may include a cap frangibly coupled to the housing of the dispenser, the cap to be removed when dispensing the product. The disposable dispenser may be formed of a single material that is suitable for a blow-fill-seal process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: Unicep Packaging, Inc.
    Inventors: Clinton J. Marshall, Les Greer, JR.
  • Patent number: 8807396
    Abstract: A trigger diffuser to be secured to the neck of a vial provided with an outlet valve (31) provides for securing it on the vial, actuating the valve (31), a trigger (200) movable between a neutral position, in which the valve is not actuated, and a diffusion position, in which an actuation element is moved in the direction of the valve so as to actuate it, and an outlet channel for the transport out of the diffuser of the product coming out of the valve. In order to store the diffuser without the risk of accidentally actuating the trigger even after the first withdrawal, the diffuser includes a blocking element (304) movable between a blocking position, in which the trigger (200) is prevented from reaching the diffusion position, and a release position, in which the trigger can be moved from the neutral position to the diffusion position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Lindal France SAS
    Inventors: Hervé Bodet, Dominique Fournet
  • Patent number: 8800818
    Abstract: A multi-chamber dispenser may be provided and may include one or more chambers that may be removably fastened to a rigid frame and/or one or more chambers that may be permanently fastened to the rigid frame. A chamber may be actuated by rotating a cap, or an actuator, or both, to an application position and then pressing the cap or actuator in order to dispense the substance of one or more chambers. The substance may be dispensed via an independent dispensing conduit or a shared dispensing conduit. The multi-chamber dispenser may operate in any orientation and may operate when less than all of the chambers are fastened to the dispenser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Inventor: Evan Greenberg
  • Patent number: 8800819
    Abstract: A discharging device for dispensing liquids having a housing, control electronics, a liquid storage receptacle, a discharge orifice, a conveying device actuable manually by a first actuator which transports the liquid to the discharge orifice from the storage receptacle and a blocking device, which in a blocked state blocks the actuation of the conveying device and in a released state allows actuation of the conveying device. The blocking device includes an interlock device movable relative to the housing between first and second positions and a movement of the interlock device from the first to the second position causes the blocking device to assume the released state. The interlock device is biased by a spring device in the direction of the second position and a first retaining device is provided which retains the interlock device in the first position and which is releasable by a signal from the control electronics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Aptar Radolfzell GmbH
    Inventors: Silvio Carriço, Michael Helmlinger, Joerg Kohnle
  • Publication number: 20140209636
    Abstract: A container includes a container body for receiving a liquid, a locking connector, a pump unit and a depressible head assembly. The locking connector includes a locking ring threadedly disposed on a top portion of the container body, a dosage guide ring protruding upwardly from the locking ring, and at least one dosage guide unit. The pump unit extends downwardly into the container body and is drivenable to move in a top-bottom direction so as to draw the liquid in the container body. The depressible head assembly includes a depressible head for driving the pump unit to move in the top-bottom direction, and a biasing member abutting against the depressible head and the locking connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: Well max Beauty Lab Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Teng-Huei Wang
  • Patent number: 8783525
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a drive mechanism of a drug delivery device for dispensing of a dose of a medicament, comprising: a housing of substantially cylindrical geometry having a long axis extending in an axial direction, an at least axially displaceable piston rod adapted to become operably engaged with a piston of a cartridge containing the medicament for displacing the piston in a distal direction, at least one actuation means radially displaceable with respect to the housing by an externally applied depressing force for transferring a respective driving force to the piston rod, and a coupling means operably engaged with the actuation means and with the piston rod adapted to transfer the radially inwardly directed displacement of the at least one actuation means into a distally directed axial displacement of the piston rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Faiza Mariami
  • Publication number: 20140197205
    Abstract: A pump-type cosmetics container is not subject to the risk of a foreign substance entering into a nozzle, due to a moving path through which content is discharged during use that is selectively open by means of an opening/closing bracket, and to the risk of change in quality of the content inside the moving path, by means of a counteraction of a control protrusion pressing a locking protrusion thereby re-aspirating the content remaining inside the moving path, after pumping using a double spring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2012
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: YONWOO CO., LTD
    Inventor: Sung-Hwan Kim
  • Patent number: 8777061
    Abstract: A security cap includes a cap body having a base portion and an upstanding wall extending longitudinally upward from a top edge thereof. An actuator is assembled within an interior of the upstanding wall, the actuator being longitudinally movably and axially rotatable enabling cycling between a locked state and an unlocked state. The actuator is rotationally governed by a rotation locking member comprising a push button and an arched biasing member. The push button extends through an aperture provided in the actuator and engages with a vertical edge integrated along a recess formed within the upstanding wall. Vertical motion is governed by a projecting locking feature extending from the actuator. The locking feature engages with a actuation governing edge in a locked state and rotates free of the governing edge into an unlocked, dispensing state, enabling vertical motion of the actuator for dispensing contents from with the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Inventor: Emil Meshberg
  • Patent number: 8757446
    Abstract: A fluid supplying device of the present invention includes a reservoir, an outer tube, an inner tube disposed in the outer tube, a pressing rod, and a positioning handle. The outer tube disposed in the reservoir and is partially exposed outside the reservoir. The pressing rod is slidably disposed in the inner tube. The positioning handle is pivotably disposed to the reservoir and is able to altervatively abut against the pressing rod to prevent the pressing rod from moving. The reservoir forms a relief hole, and the positioning handle forms a through hole. When the pressing rod is restricted by the positioning handle, the relief hole is deviated from the through hole, and vice versa. Thereby, the present invention can prevent gas-leakage and prevent the pressing rod from bouncing up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Cosda Manu Facturing Company
    Inventor: Lai-Cheng Liu
  • Patent number: 8757447
    Abstract: A fluid container spray device having a trigger lock mechanism with trigger tabs extending outwardly from the trigger and cleats extending inwardly from a moveable shroud. The cleats obstruct the tabs when the shroud is in a trigger lock position. A lever extending from beneath the shroud can be depressed, thereby moving the shroud from the trigger lock position to a trigger release position. The movement of the shroud to the trigger release position moves the connected cleats from their obstructive position to a position out of the trigger tabs' path of movement, thereby permitting use of the trigger to pump fluid from the container. The shroud is biased toward the trigger lock position. Thus, release of the container by the user restores the locked configuration, thereby preventing use by children.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignees: Nationwide Children's Hospital, Inc., The Ohio State University
    Inventors: Carolina Gill, Blain Lilly, Thornton K. Lothrop, Scott Shim, Lara B. McKenzie, Kristin J. Roberts, Nicolas G. Nelson
  • Patent number: 8757451
    Abstract: A powder dispensing apparatus for storing and dispensing a measured predetermined amount of powder substance having a bottom housing chamber, a middle chamber, a removable, rotatable measuring device, a tapered top chamber, and a cap. The top end of the bottom housing chamber is engageable with the bottom end of the middle chamber, the top end of the middle chamber is engageable with the bottom end of the tapered top chamber, and the top end of the tapered top chamber is engageable with the cap or a liquid receptacle. The measuring device is slidably engageable with the internal chamber of the middle chamber and has an open cavity for measuring and dispensing a powder substance. The open cavity receives a measured predetermined amount of powder substance from the bottom housing chamber and upon rotation of the measuring device; the powder substance is dispensed from the open cavity through the tapered top chamber to a liquid receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Easy Go Dispenser, LLC
    Inventor: Blake Schroedter
  • Patent number: 8746496
    Abstract: A beverage container closure or lid that is adapted for closing an open end of a beverage container. The lid is selectively couplable to the beverage container and includes a selectively openable stopper that when closed, creates a fluid-tight seal between the beverage container and the environment. The stopper may be selectively opened by a user by the user pressing a button disposed on a side of the beverage container closure. The stopper is subsequently automatically closed when the user releases the button. Thus, a user may open and close the beverage container closure using a single hand without the need to remove the beverage container closure from the beverage container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Pacific Market International, LLC
    Inventors: Tyler Sean Gilbert, Randy Sims
  • Publication number: 20140144943
    Abstract: A pump-type cosmetics container is not subject to the risk of a foreign substance entering into a nozzle, due to a moving path through which content is discharged during use that is selectively open by means of an opening/closing bracket, and to the risk of change in quality of the content inside the moving path, by means of a counteraction of a control protrusion pressing a locking protrusion thereby re-aspirating the content remaining inside the moving path, after pumping using a double spring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2012
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: YONWOO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sung-Hwan Kim
  • Patent number: 8714412
    Abstract: A fluid product dispenser includes: a tubular body extending along a main axis; a male element, able to slide inside the tubular body; a volume for receiving the product, located inside the male element; a plate molding an external side surface of the tubular body, the plate being provided with at least one projection able to slide in a slit in the tubular body, substantially parallel to the main axis, the projection being able to move the male element in the tubular body, the dispenser including an element for locking the plate on the tubular body in at least two locking positions along the main axis. Thus, a dispensing head, firmly fixed to the male element, can be extracted or retracted by making the plate slide along the tubular body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Qualipac
    Inventors: Christophe Benigni, Vincent Druesne
  • Publication number: 20140117052
    Abstract: The disclosure depicts a dispensing system for a viscous fluid. The system has a reservoir for containment of a fluid a pump removably insertable into an aperture in the recessed portion of the top of the reservoir, and the pump has an elongate handle having a spout adjacent a terminal end of the elongate handle. The pump handle may be selectively rotated from a stowed position to a dispensing position. In the dispensing position, a piston mechanism enables the handle to be selectively positionable between an initial position and a depressed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Inventor: Jerry Garrison
  • Patent number: 8708198
    Abstract: A dispenser housing that receives a refill unit including a container and pump associated with the container to pump contents from the container. The dispenser housing includes an actuator carriage moveable between a rest position and an actuated position. The dispenser housing also includes a lockout device moveable between an open position and a closed position. When the lockout device is in the open position, the actuator carriage is movable, and, when the lockout device is in the closed position, movement of the actuator carriage is blocked by the lockout device such that the actuator carriage cannot be moved from the rest position to the actuated position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Inventors: Scott T Proper, Kenneth Corby
  • Patent number: 8695852
    Abstract: A fluid dispenser head including a fluid dispenser member; a dispenser endpiece that is connected to a nozzle via a duct; a pusher that is manually and axially movable down and up so as to move the dispenser endpiece in such a manner as to dispense fluid; and a rotary control hoop for moving the pusher axially between a storage position and an actuatable position. The head further includes axial guide for guiding the pusher axially without turning about its own axis; and rotary cam that is turned by the control hoop, the pusher being in engagement with the cam so as to urge the pusher in axial movement, without any turning component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Aptar France SAS
    Inventors: Romain Bertin, Sébastien Michaux
  • Publication number: 20140097207
    Abstract: A dispenser including a medium reservoir, a discharge opening, and a feeding device for feeding medium from the medium reservoir to the discharge opening, wherein an actuating handle is displaceable relative to the medium reservoir in an actuation direction to discharge medium. The dispenser includes a protective device with two partial shells interconnected in a protective condition by a coupling device for repeated decoupling and coupling wherein the protective device is attachable to the feeding device in a protective position such that in the protective condition the accessibility and/or maneuverability of the actuating handle is prevented, and upon releasing the coupling device an enable condition of the protective device is achievable in which the partial shells are displaceable relative to another so that the protective device is removable from the feeding device, and thus accessibility or maneuverability of the actuating handle is obtainable thereby.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Inventors: Christoph SZYMICZEK, Juergen GREINER-PERTH
  • Patent number: 8690020
    Abstract: A self-defense device is disclosed. The self-defense device includes an alert unit which alerts others to danger when activated. The self-defense device also includes a defense unit which can be used to disable or repel an attacker when activated. In a particular embodiment the alert unit is an air horn. In a particular embodiment the defense unit is a canister of self-defense aerosol spray. The self-defense device can include a coupling device which couples the defense unit to the alert unit. The self-defense device also includes a trigger which activates both the alert unit and the defense unit. The trigger has an ON state and an OFF state. The trigger can include a first trigger portion, a second trigger portion, and a trigger portion coupler. The trigger is coupled to the coupling device in some embodiments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Inventor: Lance T. Murray
  • Patent number: 8684235
    Abstract: A trigger-type liquid sprayer of the present invention is provided with a liquid sprayer body 2 having a nozzle 21 and a trigger lever 22 and a shroud 3 covering the liquid sprayer body 2 and sprays a liquid from a spray hole 211 in the nozzle 21 by a pulling operation of the trigger lever 22. The nozzle 21 is rotatable with respect to the liquid sprayer body 2 and provided so as to open/close a flow passage for the liquid according to a rotational position of the nozzle 21 when an operation lever 24 mounted on the nozzle 21 is rotationally moved, and an abutment portion 31 for positioning the nozzle 21 at a position where the flow passage is opened through abutment of the operation lever 24 is provided at the shroud 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignees: Kao Corporation, Yoshino Kogyosho Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichi Inaba, Takeshi Omi, Tetsuya Kobayashi, Takayuki Abe, Masayuki Nakamura, Hidesato Kizaki
  • Publication number: 20140084027
    Abstract: A spray head assembly includes a press head, a seal member, a push tube, a piston unit, a resilient member, a cylinder unit, a valve and a mount. The press head has an annular face and a first locking portion. The seal member has an inner tube portion and a water-proof portion. The push tube is connected to the press head and has a second locking portion. The cylinder unit has a piston and a main rod respectively connected to the push tube. The main rod has a seal part and the cylinder unit has a narrowed portion. When the press head is pressed, the first locking portion and the second locking portion are positioned and the press head is easily assembled. The narrowed portion and the seal part, and the top of the inner tube portion and the annular face are engaged with each other to prevent from leakage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Inventor: Ya-Tsan Wang