With Cutter And/or Punch Patents (Class 222/80)
  • Patent number: 4811863
    Abstract: An apparatus for liquefying a thermoplastic plastic, in particular an adhesive on the basis of polyurethane, comprises a heatable sealed supply container having an upper portion for receiving a downwardly open transport container for the thermoplastic plastic and a lower portion serving as buffer volume, a heating means for heating the thermoplastic plastic disposed in the transport container, a base portion arranged beneath the supply container and thus beneath the transport container and accommodating a collecting trough for the liquefied thermoplastic plastic and a cover at the upper end of the supply container. In addition, a heating device, either a heat radiator or a contact heating means, is integrated into the cover to heat the bottom of the transport container and thus increase the discharge rate.Expediently, a resiliently mounted heating plate which comes to bear on the bottom of the transport container is provided in the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1989
    Inventor: Henning J. Claassen
  • Patent number: 4796784
    Abstract: An ice cream dispenser having a container for receiving and containing ice cream is disclosed. The container has a piston therein which is mounted on a threaded rod to move the piston upwardly in the container through a shearing device. The ice cream is softened by the shearing device and is dispensed from a spout at the top of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1989
    Assignee: G & S Metal Product Company, Inc.
    Inventors: John W. Spirk, John R. Nottingham, Jeffrey M. Kalman
  • Patent number: 4796783
    Abstract: There is described a Dental Floss Dispenser located in a unique holder capable of acting as a cap for a conventional tube of tooth paste. The cap contains an internal cylindrical member preferably having threads capable of mating with the threads on a tube of tooth paste. The lower end of the internal cylindrical wall has a shoulder and a disc is slipped over the internal wall and over the shoulder in order to hold the disc in a rotatable relationship. Conventional dental floss is located on the disc and is caused to exit through a small hole in the face portion of the cap. The user of the tube of tooth paste thus has a new cap capable of holding a supply of dental floss. The dispenser not only acts as a cap for a tube of tooth paste but also is capable of being inserted in the bottom end of a conventional pump type tooth paste dispenser thereby allowing the user to have a supply of dental floss contained as part of the pump type tooth paste dispenser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1989
    Inventor: Ralph E. Paulson
  • Patent number: 4785931
    Abstract: A closure for use with a beverage container, the closure having a plurality of compartments formed therein to store quantities of a flavoring agent separately from a mixing fluid (such as water) contained in the container. The compartments are operable by simple finger pressure to release their contents into the container one at a time for the purpose of making a flavored beverage. Support ribs are formed on the closure to allow the stacking of a number of closures or closure/container combinations without inadvertently releasing the flavoring agent from the compartments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 22, 1988
    Assignee: Letica Corporation
    Inventors: Dixie L. Weir, Don F. Yeager
  • Patent number: 4779763
    Abstract: A two-chamber container for two gas-pressurized components kept separately, for example liquids which are miscible. An outer chamber contains a first component and is provided with a dispensing valve whose interposed connecting member leads from the interior of the outer chamber to the outside and is adapted to be closed by a plug. The second component is contained in an inner chamber mounted in the interior of the outer chamber. The inner chamber is an entirely separate, self-contained vessel supported in the interior of the outer chamber. The interior end of the interposed connecting member terminates in a cup-shaped receptor member which is disposed above and around the distal end portion of the inner chamber such that a radial and axial clearance of 1-2 mm between the receptor member and the distal end is provided. The inner chamber has a desired rupture site which can be broken by force from outside, for example by pivoting or pushing-in the dispensing valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 25, 1988
    Assignee: F.P.D. Future Patents Development Company, S.A.
    Inventor: Hans-Jorg Klawitter
  • Patent number: 4765173
    Abstract: A well casing penetrator includes an elongated housing enclosing an outwardly movable hydraulic driven punch for cutting an opening in a casing. A high pressure liquid jet nozzle is mounted on the end of a hose which moves outwardly through an axial bore in the punch when extended through the casing to cut a radially extending opening in the surrounding earth. The punch includes longitudinal slots along opposite sides which cause tabs to be bent back along opposite sides of the opening cut in the casing to prevent dislodging of any portion of the casing from the casing as a consequence of the operation of the punch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1988
    Inventor: Herman J. Schellstede
  • Patent number: 4749105
    Abstract: A dispenser for paste-like substances is disclosed having a piston which is slidably disposed in a dispenser housing. The piston moves as the dispenser is being emptied toward a dispensing opening while being restrained from movement in the opposite direction. A press button is connected with a rod that extends through the piston and is coupled nonpositively with the piston through the intermediary of a locking device permitting the rod to move freely in one direction, but to carry the piston in the opposite direction. A membrane seals the end of the housing opposite the discharge opening. The piston rod is designed as a piercing tool for piercing the membrane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1988
    Assignee: Bramlage Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung
    Inventor: Klaus Derksen
  • Patent number: 4706849
    Abstract: The dispensing device has an open ended cylinder member for receiving a can container having an open end supported on an annular shoulder at one end of the cylinder member. A cup shaped piston, extendible and retractible relative to the other end of the cylinder member carries a piercing member to pierce a hole in the closed end of the can on an initial retraction of the cup shaped piston within the cylinder member. A second retraction of the piston applies a pressure on the material in the can for discharge from its open end into a material receiving chamber from where it is ejected into a feeding dish. An air bleed hole in the piston is open during the piercing operation and manually closed when material is to be discharged from the can.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1987
    Inventor: Michael C. Ryan
  • Patent number: 4705191
    Abstract: A re-usable mixing and spraying device in which the fill opening and the hand pump used to discharge the spray solution are arranged at different heights, and a concentrate and a diluent may be mixed together in the device which is tightly sealed off from the outside, the concentrate being enclosed in a sealing cap which can be ruptured by the device, so that the reservoir enclosing the concentrate is closed when the sealing cap and fill opening are loosely connected and opened toward the diluent when the sealing cap and fill opening are tightly connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1987
    Assignee: Celamerck GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Hanshelmut Itzel, Volker Barth
  • Patent number: 4699188
    Abstract: A hygienic liquid dispensing system is disclosed comprised of the combination of a container for the liquid to be dispensed, said container having a neck portion terminating in an aperture for discharging the liquid therethrough; a hygienic cap extending over said aperture and at least a portion of the neck to seal the liquid in the container; and a liquid dispenser, including a sleeve adapted to receive the capped container neck and a sharpened feed tube located within said sleeve for piercing said cap. The container with its capped neck is inverted and lowered into said sleeve and is guided thereby to position the cap over the feed tube. The hygienic cap has a recessed central portion and a relatively thin bottom portion (in said recess) which is pierced by the feed tube as the container is lowered into the sleeve. This piercing allows liquid to flow from the container to the dispenser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 1986
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1987
    Inventors: Henry E. Baker, John B. Baker, David H. Baker, Peter K. Baker
  • Patent number: 4693366
    Abstract: A packaging means is formed in two parts which can be assembled. The first part is constituted by two compartments comprising a first compartment or container, and a second compartment or cap surmounting the first, these two compartments being separated from each other by two diaphgrams. An intermediate part of the first part joins the two compartments. The two diaphragms are fixed to the cap which is closed at its upper portion by a stopper. The second part of this packaging means is constituted by a perforator cap capable of perforating the diaphragms when it is placed in position on the second compartment.The packaging means of this type is particularly convenient for the preservation of two products independently of each other before they are mixed for use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1987
    Assignee: The French Joint Stock Company "L'Oreal"
    Inventor: Antonin Goncalves
  • Patent number: 4692151
    Abstract: A parenteral fluid medication pump comprises a reservoir filled with a fluid medication, and a needle insertable into a patient. The medication is continuously discharged in small doses over an extended time period through the needle into the patient. The continuous discharge is obtained by elastic walls for the reservoir which seek to return toward an original unexpanded position, or by the expansion of a compressible gas within a rigid-walled reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1987
    Inventor: Seymour N. Blackman
  • Patent number: 4690306
    Abstract: A dispensing device comprises a cartridge unit with at least two chambers containing liquid or pasty substances and pistons therein being connected with each other by at least one blade adapted for cutting through a dividing wall, between two chambers and separating their contents, only one piston assembly being required which can be operated with a propellant under excess pressure preferably not exceeding 6 bars. As no piston rod is required the construction of the device is very compact. In a first step for actuating the pistons, the cartridge unit is moved forward toward an exit end of the device bearing a discharge nozzle whereby valves in the device are opened and contents from the cartridge unit are conveyed to the discharge nozzle. After each discharge a restoring element returns the cartridge unit to a rearward end position whereby the valves are closed and no contents can leak from the cartridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1987
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventor: Theodor Staheli
  • Patent number: 4673106
    Abstract: A dispenser comprising, a container having a chamber for retaining a flowable material, and a nozzle defining an outlet orifice. The dispenser has a device for pumping the material through the orifice. The dispenser has a cap having an outwardly directed tab having an opening to receive a toothbrush. The dispenser has a spool rotatably received in a hollow lower base of the container, and an elongated strand of floss wound upon the spool and extending through an opening in the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1987
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventor: Steven Fishman
  • Patent number: 4667853
    Abstract: A system for the metered delivery of liquids from a storage vessel having a metering valve releasably attached to an outlet of the storage vessel which, upon being mounted on the outlet, renders unfit for further use a part which is integrated into this outlet and is necessary for the proper operation of the metering valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1987
    Assignees: Bosch Siemens Hausergerate GmbH, The Coca Cola Company
    Inventor: Manfred Kr/u/ ger
  • Patent number: 4664299
    Abstract: A dispenser comprises a container having a movable wall in the form of a plunger and an opposite fixed wall opening into a dispensing nozzle. Dispensing is actuated by a fixed dispenser mechanism having an operating rod with a pusher plate. The pusher plate is biased in the retraction direction by a spring, and a bayonet coupling is provided for holding a base portion of the container in relation to a socket of the dispenser mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1987
    Assignee: L'Oreal
    Inventor: Antonin L. Goncalves
  • Patent number: 4638927
    Abstract: A container comprises a bottle for a liquid product and having at the end of its neck a leakproof envelope enclosing an additional product to be stored separately from the liquid in the bottle. A cap on the neck includes a slidable push button carrying a perforator to open the envelope in a central region of the envelope to allow the additional product to mix with the liquid and then to be discharged through an eccentric duct in the cap rather than having to pass through the center of the cap where the perforator is positioned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1985
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1987
    Assignee: L'Oreal
    Inventor: Bruno P. Morane
  • Patent number: 4635821
    Abstract: A container and dispensing apparatus for discharging selected amounts of a paste, cream or other viscous material or products such as toothpastes which includes a generally cylindrical container having a dispensing nozzle at one end and a generally circular base portion at the other end thereof. The base portion of the container is received within a dispenser and collector assembly which includes a plurality of cutter blades which surround a central fixed piston whereby, as the container is urged downwardly against the cutting blades the container is cut into a plurality of separate strips which are received and stored within the dispenser while the product in the container is urged outwardly of the dispensing nozzle by the fixed piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1985
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1987
    Inventor: Richard F. Shaffner
  • Patent number: 4632276
    Abstract: A device for dispensing a liquid comprising a tubular fitting member fitted to a mouth of a vessel storing the liquid, a dispensing pipe mounted to the fitting member, a bomb attachment communicating with the fitting member through a communication passage and holding therein a bomb filled with the liquid, a bomb unstoppering needle fitted with a terminal sealing member therearound and mounted within the bomb attachment so as to be intruded into and receded out of a sealing plate of the bomb held within the bomb attachment, a supporting member for linearly movably supporting the unstoppering needle within the bomb attachment, and a device mounted rotatably in the bomb attachment and adapted for shifting the bomb attachment needle, is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 30, 1986
    Inventor: Yukio Makino
  • Patent number: 4599625
    Abstract: An ink tank comprises a deformable ink bag for storing ink provided in a case, wherein a low strength portion is formed in a member constituting said case, and a lever for pressing said ink bag is formed by breaking said low strength portion. An ink-jet recording apparatus comprises a recording head unit having a discharging port for forming a flying droplet by discharging ink, and an ink tank for storing ink supplied to said recording head unit, wherein means for breaking a low strength portion of a case for said ink tank is provided to fixing means for fixing said ink tank in which a deformable ink bag for storing ink is provided in said case, said low strength portion is formed in a member constituting said case, and a lever for pressing said ink bag is formed by breaking said low strength portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1986
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koji Terasawa, Akira Miyakawa, Takehiko Kiyohara
  • Patent number: 4596572
    Abstract: A device for transferring a liquid from a bottle at substantially atmospheric pressure to a bottle at a low pressure comprises a hollow needle of steel or the like mounted in a grip or handle member having a configuration to facilitate the pushing of the needle through a bottle stopper at either end of the device. The needle is sharply pointed at both ends and the handle consists of a strip of steel or other suitable metal bent at its ends to provide stops having holes to accommodate the needle which extends beyond the stop at each end. The strip is bent or bowed toward the center portion of the needle and is soldered or otherwise secured to the needle. The sloping portions of the strip provide thumb rests for pushing the needle in either direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 24, 1986
    Inventor: Joseph M. Magrath
  • Patent number: 4570339
    Abstract: A kitchen utensil for facilitating the removal of the contents from boil-in-the-foil type food pouches (retort pouches). Such retort pouches are usually made from a laminate of three materials, i.e. polyester, which forms the outer layer, aluminum foil, which forms a barrier in the middle, and an inner layer of polypropylene to retain the food taste. The utensil has an elongated handle and a pair of elongated prongs extending in parallel from the handle at one end. The length of the prongs is at least as great as the width of the pouch. The prongs define a gap between them dimensioned to snugly receive two layers of the pouch material. The pouch can thus be inserted into the gap and the prongs moved over the pouch to cause the contents to be squeezed towards one end of the pouch. The utensil preferably also has a pouch opening device located at the free end of one of the prongs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1986
    Assignee: Magic Pantry Foods Inc.
    Inventor: Larry W. Taylor
  • Patent number: 4523698
    Abstract: Beer cock for the dual purpose of mounting in a bung hole and draining beer therefrom and for use in supporting the beer keg on a planar surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1984
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1985
    Assignee: W. Duncan Porter
    Inventors: Kurt Kienlein, Ralph D. Reese
  • Patent number: 4493436
    Abstract: A cartridge for simultaneously dispensing at least two different materials includes an elongated hollow housing having at least one partition extending laterally and longitudinally thereof to provide at least two chambers for holding the respective materials. A plunger sliding within the housing severs or slits the partition so that it can be stored during operation outside of the respective chambers. The partition may be coiled up or it may be directed laterally around the plunger so that it is stored adjacent an internal wall of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1983
    Date of Patent: January 15, 1985
    Assignee: Loctite Corporation
    Inventor: Paul Brokaw
  • Patent number: 4473174
    Abstract: There is described apparatus for protecting and dispensing wine from a bottle in which a stopper assembly inserted in the neck of the bottle receives a removable cap assembly. The cap includes a chamber receiving gas under pressure from a cartridge stored in the cap. A valve in the stopper has three positions, an off position, a bottle venting position, and a bottle pressurizing position. In the latter position, gas under pressure stored in the cap is directed into the bottle so as to insert an inert gas into the bottle. In the vent position, excess pressure in the top of the bottle can be relieved. A second valve in the stopper controls an output spigot from which wine is dispensed from the bottle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1982
    Date of Patent: September 25, 1984
    Assignee: Howard John Cream
    Inventor: Rudolph L. Heuser
  • Patent number: 4441629
    Abstract: Pressure reducing and safety discharge valve device adapted for use with compressed gas-containing capsules. The valve has a bore therein in which a spool-shaped valve element is disposed for axial reciprocation. In a first terminal position of the valve element the valve element connects a conduit means leading from a gas-containing capsule discharging gas under moderate pressure to a gas-discharge port of the valve. When the pressure of the gas discharged from the capsule increases to a predetermined value, the valve element moves against the opposition of a spring to cut off further discharge of gas from the capsule; when the pressure of the gas discharged from the capsule increases substantially beyond such predetermined value, the valve element moves still further against the opposition of the spring to discharge such gas through a relief port to the atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 10, 1984
    Inventor: Glenn H. Mackal
  • Patent number: 4434809
    Abstract: A pipe coupling, which renders it possible to connect branch pipes (24) to a feed-pipe (1) without requiring the flow in the feed-pipe to be shut off. In a cylindrical guide passageway (5) of one of two coupling parts (2a,2b) embracing the feed-pipe a piston (4) is located, which is provided with a passageway (10) for fluid connection between the feed-pipe and the branch pipe. The piston is provided with an internal knife (9) which upon rotation of the piston cuts up material out of the feed pipe to form the opening to the passageway and projects the cut-up material into the guide passageway (5) to assist in anchoring the coupling in place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1981
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1984
    Inventor: John I. F. Rogstadius
  • Patent number: 4434822
    Abstract: A fluid transfer assembly includes first and second connector members, each associated with a fluid conduit and having a meltable wall which normally seals the connector member, and thus the associated conduit. The connector members can be coupled together, with the meltable walls positioned in facing contact. One of the meltable walls includes a radiant energy absorbing material. The other meltable wall is relatively non-absorbant of radiant energy, but does conduct heat energy. By exposing the coupled assembly to a source of radiant energy, the one wall melts in response to thermal radiation, while the other wall conducts heat energy from the melting wall to also melt. By melting, the walls open a fluid path between the fluid conduits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1981
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1984
    Assignee: Baxter Travenol Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: David Bellamy, Dale A. Smith
  • Patent number: 4428506
    Abstract: Persons can be protected against rape or other bodily assault by wearing this device which includes a frangible capsule of repellant material such as ammonia or fluids of noxious smell. The capsule of material is quickly opened by slashing it with a manually operable knife which for example, may be operated by a pull cord. Passages leading from the container area for the capsule lead to the body of the wearer, so that the body of the wearer will be wetted or otherwise covered with the foul smelling or repellant material. The pull cord may be attached to the clothing of the wearer so that removal of the clothing by an attacker will automatically cut the capsule to release the fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 31, 1984
    Inventor: Edward L. Withey
  • Patent number: 4421253
    Abstract: A disposable container assembly which is especially useful for containing, shipping and dispensing liquids or semi-liquids in bulk. It comprises a knocked-down fiberboard container body and end structure which can be set up on a pallet into a substantially rigid multi-sided polygonal drum-like container for receiving a flexible plastic bag that is to be filled with the substance to be dispensed. The bag is provided with a dispensing spout that is locked in dispensing position in one side of the fiberboard container to hold the bag in position in the container during filling, with its outer end exposed and which has a diaphragm type seal at its inner end. For dispensing, normally this seal is ruptured by a special cooperating probe which is inserted through the exposed outer end of the spout to withdraw the contents of the bag but in other cases the bottom of the bag can be ruptured directly through an opening in the pallet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1983
    Assignee: Willamette Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas E. Croley
  • Patent number: 4420508
    Abstract: Method and apparatus by which the interior of a pipe is coated with a uniform thickness of plastic. A source of heat-meltable plastic material in particular form is connected at a location upstream of the inlet end of the pipe, while the opposed end of the pipe is made attachable to a reduced pressure. A source of compressible fluid is also connected at a location upstream of the inlet end of the pipe. The pipe is preheated and then rotated axially while a charge of powdered plastic is forced through the pipe by the compressible fluid. The powdered plastic which flows through the pipe is a finite pocket of the finely divided plastic, which is smaller in volume respective to the volume of the pipe being coated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 13, 1983
    Inventor: Jack E. Gibson
  • Patent number: 4415000
    Abstract: A T-joint fitting of the type having a two-part housing adapted to be clamped to a transport pipe is provided with a piston, which is axially displaceable within the housing for piercing a hole in the wall of the transport pipe. When the pipe is made of copper or similar soft material the axial movement is caused by a nut used for closing the passage in which the piston operates, the nut further being provided with an internally threaded bore, mating with a rearwardly extending, threaded bar on the piston. The threads on the bar and on the externally threaded portion of the housing, with which the nut cooperates, have the same pitch, but are oppositely handed, so that screwing on of the nut will simultaneously force the piston inwards. The two parts of the housing are clamped together by four bolts, and a packing of elastomeric material covers the part of the transport pipe to be pierced by the piston and has a waffle-textured face to turn towards the pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1982
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1983
    Assignee: Gotaverken Motor U.S. Inc.
    Inventor: Gert O. Odmann
  • Patent number: 4401238
    Abstract: A device for filling a container comprises an endpiece provided with an inner conduit equipped at its end with a ball-valve having a through passage and pivotable in the endpiece about a diametral axis transverse to the passage. An annular member having an external face coplanar with the frontal surface of the endpiece, has an inner spherical surface held in permanent contact with the external face of the ball-valve. The annular member is mounted for rotation with respect to the endpiece about the longitudinal axis of the conduit. At least part of the intersection line between the passage and the external surface of the ball-valve cooperates in cutting relationship with an edge of the external face of the annular member while the latter is rotating and the valve is pivoting to close the conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1983
    Inventor: Jean-Charles Marchadour
  • Patent number: 4401241
    Abstract: A thermoplastic bottle container has tubular inflow and outflow sections projecting from its top wall and a coupling enlargement of a tubular passage formation on the side wall to accommodate its use with other components of a nebulizing system, for inhalation therapy purposes. The coupling enlargement has frangible portions through which the puncturing end of a flexible tube is inserted for withdrawal of liquid from the bottom of the container. A latch and retainer molded integral with the container releasably holds the outflow section in a bent operative position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1983
    Assignee: Respiratory Care, Inc.
    Inventor: Exequiel D. Cruz
  • Patent number: 4385714
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for and a method of spreading gaseous, liquid and powdered materials, that are applicable to pressing out creamy or foamy materials, too. According to the method a material to be spread is placed in a tank into the pressure vessel, overpressure is developed in the pressure vessel for spreading, whereby the tank moves towards the spreading nozzle and the spreading nozzle is communicated with the interior of the tank. The apparatus comprises a pressure vessel with its interior space divided into two sections, one of them contains the fuel tank ensuring the overpressure, the other one contains the material tank sealing airtightly the first section. The invention provides reliable spreading, not polluting the environment, the pressure vessel of the apparatus is not to be thrown away, and the tanks inside the vessel are replaceable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1980
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1983
    Inventors: Miklos Szabo, Vilmos Weiperth
  • Patent number: 4356929
    Abstract: A pop-top lid with a pre-formed opening which serves for dispensing the contents, is located in the lid plane, and is provided with essentially parallel side edges. The lid also includes a closure part which is provided with a tab and is slidably guided along the side edges of the pre-formed opening. The closure part is provided with an uninterrupted peripheral groove which corresponds to the shape of the pre-formed opening; to limit the slide path of the closure part, an abutment or stop is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1982
    Assignee: Fried. Krupp Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung
    Inventors: Helmut Muller-Kuhn, Gunter Scharren, Wilfried Kohlmeier, Michael Grillo, Jurgen Rost
  • Patent number: 4355736
    Abstract: A device for dispensing a liquid or a paste in a finely divided manner as an aerosol comprises a tubular rigid container with valve means allowing the ejection of the liquid or the paste in the container through an outlet. The container has two inner chambers, one of which contains a gas under pressure, whereas the other contains the liquid or paste to be dispensed, the chambers being separated from each other by a sliding element which is tightly in contact with the inner wall of the container. The sliding element consists of a deep cup, the open part of which is directed towards the chamber containing the compressed gas and which is provided at its free edge, with a guiding element and, on its periphery, with at least one sealing peripheral projection and with a peripheral boss or flange acting as a scraper for removing the bruises or dents in the inner wall of the tubular container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1982
    Inventors: Henri J. J. Schumacker, Terese F. Schumacker
  • Patent number: 4355735
    Abstract: A beverage dispensing device for dispensing carbonated drinks that are mixed from a solution of carbonated water and syrup. The device includes a syrup package, a source of carbonated water, and a mixing head connected to the source of carbonated water and to said syrup package for mixing a measured amount of the carbonated water with the syrup for producing carbonated drinks. The syrup package is carried in a receptacle and is coupled to a source of pressurized gas. A valve having a valve actuator positioned thereon is interposed between the source of pressurized gas and the coupling device with the valve actuator obstructing the removal of the package when in a first position and when in a second position venting the syrup package prior to permitting removal thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1982
    Assignee: Tannetics, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert B. Whorton, III, Samuel C. Crosby, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4349054
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for safely destroying aerosol containers are disclosed. The movement of the container is restrained. Inert media is disposed about a point of puncture, and the container is punctured at the point of puncture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1982
    Assignee: Plough, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald M. Chipman, Ray D. Bales
  • Patent number: 4319697
    Abstract: A lever is permanently attached to an aerosol can so it cannot be lost and the lever has a projecting pin which can be forced to penetrate the can to make a small hole for the complete release of the internal gas pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1980
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1982
    Inventor: Robert E. De Barth
  • Patent number: 4299336
    Abstract: An improved caulking gun has a usual semicylindrical frame with a disc-shaped rear wall and a split front wall. A handle and trigger mechanism is mounted on the rear of the frame for advancing a plunger forwardly within the tube to discharge caulking material from the tube through the spout. A guide channel is mounted on and extends along the bottom of the frame and curves upwardly along and is spaced from the split front end. A flat strip of flexible metal is slidably mounted in the channel and has a front cutting edge which cuts partially through the plastic spout when a new tube is placed in the frame. The outer end of the metal strip blocks the flow of caulking material from the spout. A lever is pivotally mounted on the guide channel and is engaged with the metal strip for moving the strip between a flow-blocking position and an open material-discharge position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1980
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1981
    Assignee: Melern Development
    Inventor: Lewis O. Studer
  • Patent number: 4245660
    Abstract: A dual valve actuator mechanism for a fire extinguisher bottle in a milit vehicle. The mechanism includes an electrical trigger system for operating the valve automatically in response to energization of an electronic optical fire sensor; alternately the electrical trigger system can be operated by closure of a manual switch from within the vehicle interior. A second cable system is provided to operate the valve manually from a point external to the vehicle, as when the vehicle is unoccupied at onset of the flame or when the soldiers are forced to exit the vehicle to avoid inhalation of fumes or vapors. Unfortunately the valve actuation stroke is very small, on the order of two-tenth inch or less. The present invention relates to a lost-motion connection in the cable for lengthening the stroke necessary to operate the valve; this prevents inadvertant valve actuation due to vehicle vibrations or installation tolerances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1979
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1981
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventor: Edward J. Rozniecki
  • Patent number: 4244467
    Abstract: A device for extemporaneously preparing under sterile conditions a solution and dispensing carefully dosed amounts of the solution, is disclosed, wherein the container for the solvent is sealingly closed by an upwardly recessed capsule provided with an axially-extending, substantially cylindrical body the outwardly projecting end whereof is shaped as a piercing tip and having therein two parallel, adjacent passages. The opposite outlets of one passage are offset to the corresponding outlets of the adjacent passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1979
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1981
    Assignee: Sigma-Tau Industrie Farmaceutiche Riunite S.p.A.
    Inventor: Claudio Cavazza
  • Patent number: 4220285
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a hand operated sprayer for liquids, in which the spraying unit is provided with a small bore which is factory sealed at the assembly by a special fitting properly located, to be eliminated by the pumping lever when first operated, said bore communicating with the inner space of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 2, 1980
    Assignee: Spray Plast S.r.1
    Inventor: Piero Gualdi
  • Patent number: 4201316
    Abstract: A capsule containing concentrated detergent liquid or like material has a frangible bottom wall. The capsule which has stiff side walls and a considerably more frangible bottom wall may be mounted in a cradle in the upper or neck portion of a special dispensing container having a removably top closure and the body of which contains a diluent or like liquid such as water and is provided with one or more devices for puncturing the bottom wall of an inserted capsule. In a preferred form the capsule has an annular storage compartment. A formation of the upper end of the capsule coacts with the container closure so that, after insertion of a fresh capsule, mounting of the closure upon the container body displaces the inserted capsule relative to the puncturing devices on the cradle to destroy the frangible bottom wall and empty the capsule contents into the body of the container. In one form the capsule may serve as the container closure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 6, 1980
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventor: Richard J. Klingaman
  • Patent number: 4177938
    Abstract: A container for liquids includes a mixing cartridge extending from a gasket into the neck of the container. The mixing cartridge is asymmetrically disposed with respect to the container to allow a piercing member extending into the container from the cap of the container to be disposed in the container without piercing the cartridge in a storage position. The cartridge is pierced and the contents of the cartridge are mixed with liquid in the container by relative movement of the cartridge and the piercing member of the container so that the piercing member will extend through the cartridge both to pierce the upper and lower surfaces of the cartridge and to provide a flow-path for the contents of the cartridge into the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1977
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1979
    Inventor: Guido J. Brina
  • Patent number: 4174868
    Abstract: The present invention provides apparatus which is adapted to be connected to a source of compressed air for pneumatically applying material to an object. The apparatus includes a main conduit having one end connected to the source of compressed air, and having an opposite discharge end; a tubular wall having open ends and adapted to contain a quantity of material therewithin; and a piston slidably mounted within the tubular wall. A supply conduit communicates one end of the tubular wall with the main conduit. A pressurizing conduit is arranged to cause pneumatic pressure to be selectively applied to the piston to extrude material through the supply conduit into the main conduit. Such extruded material is propelled along the main conduit by a continuous flow of compressed air therethrough, and is ultimately discharged on to the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1977
    Date of Patent: November 20, 1979
    Inventor: John M. De Nardo
  • Patent number: 4150673
    Abstract: A bag for storing blood components consisting of a sterilizable, flexible closed container including a coded inlet-outlet fitment at the top thereof forming part of said closed container, said fitment including at least one inlet consisting of a hollow outward protrusion having on its outer diameter a coded configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1977
    Date of Patent: April 24, 1979
    Assignee: Pharmachem Corporation
    Inventor: William E. R. Watt
  • Patent number: 4047641
    Abstract: A bottle or like container of relatively hard material such as glass is provided with a readily destructible neck extension portion of relatively soft plastics material. A dispensing optic for screwing into the neck extension has a cutter or cutters arranged to be projected from their retracted state, by the first operation of the optic after insertion into the neck extension, into cutting engagement with the wall of such extension. Rotation of the optic with a view of removing it from the bottle automatically causes the cutter or cutters to sever the neck extension to render the bottle unsuitable further with a dispensing optic and thus prevents re-filling of the bottle with an inferior product and the dispensing of such product through a dispensing optic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1975
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1977
    Assignee: Sinanan Enterprises Limited
    Inventor: Francis Alfred Delaney
  • Patent number: 4019654
    Abstract: A dispenser of the type using a threaded rod with a turning knob is applied to a disposable cartridge and plunger. The cartridge plunger has a threaded central sleeve that is sealed closed, and the threaded rod, knob, and an anchorage adapter are separate from the cartridge until dispensing is to begin. Then the rod is threaded through the sleeve to puncture the seal and advance through the material to bring the anchorage adapter adjacent the rear end of the cartridge. The anchorage adapter is then releasably secured to the rear end of the cartridge, and the rod turned in the opposite direction to advance the plunger for dispensing material. The plunger can be backed up to stop drool if dispensing is interrupted, and the rod, knob, and adapter can be removed and reused after dispensing is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1977
    Assignee: Voplex Corporation
    Inventor: Dick T. van Manen