Abstract: A device for controlling the quantity of a medium, such as paint, lacquer or adhesive emerging from a discharge nozzle of an equipment, such as a spray gun, which device includes a delivery chamber extending between the discharge nozzle and a pump housing which has a pump chamber connected at one end by an outlet valve to the delivery chamber and receives a reciprocating pump piston, with the delivery chamber including a control arrangement that will adjust the quantity of the medium flowing through the discharge nozzle and also prevent a dribble from the end of the nozzle during a return stroke of the pump piston.

Abstract: In this invention a water pistol is eliminated the necessity of the application of strong power at the time the water is shot by utilizing the restoring power of a bowstring which is strung to a bow-shaped structure and used to push the rod. Moreover, this invention provides a means to increase the pressure on the water in a pressure compartment stably so that it is possible to stabilized the trajectory of the water forced from a nozzle of the water pistol.

Abstract: This relates to a container and pump unit where the container is formed with an integral liquid product supply tube in lieu of the usual dip tube carried by the pump unit and wherein there is a special connector arrangement for connecting a conventional type of pump unit, but modified, to such container. The container is provided with a smooth sealable end surface and the connector assembly includes a gasket which closes off the dual passages at the container mouth with there being a seal plate which engages the gasket and provides a liquid product delivery passage and a vent passage. These two passages are separately connected to the pump unit.

Abstract: A hand-held apparatus for spraying foam comprises (a) a manually-operated dispensing pump capable of receiving a foamable liquid from a suitable container and ejecting it into the atmosphere through an atomizing nozzle, thereby forming a spray from such liquid and projecting it outwardly from the nozzle in a predetermined spray pattern, and (b) foam-forming device including an air inlet and a screen retained in the path of the spray. The screen can be retained in a foam-forming position by suitable means such as a housing operatively associated with the dispensing pump. Substantially all the spray passes through the foam-forming device without contact except by the screen, thereby generating foam with little modification of the predetermined spray pattern.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for spray application of a burn treating agent is disclosed. The apparatus delivers substantially all of the treating agent from a flexible source thereof through a spray nozzle, preferably without bringing the agent into contact with ambient air or contaminants. In a preferred embodiment, silver sulfadiazine cream is sprayed on a burn wound by urging the cream toward an outlet in a collapsible bag in which the cream is disposed by means of pressure applied to the exterior surface of the bag and conveying the cream from the outlet to a sanitary spray nozzle by means of a compressed air operated sanitary pump.

Abstract: A hand-held apparatus for spraying foam comprises (a) a manually-operated dispensing pump capable of receiving a foamable liquid from a suitable container and ejecting it into the atmosphere through an atomizing nozzle, thereby forming a spray from such liquid and projecting it outwardly from the nozzle in a predetermined spray pattern, and (b) foam-forming device including an air inlet and a screen retained in the path of the spray. The screen can be retained in a foam-forming position by suitable means such as a housing operatively associated with the dispensing pump. Substantially all the spray passes through the foam-forming device without contact except by the screen, thereby generating foam with little modification of the predetermined spray pattern.

Abstract: An air freshener device mountable inside an automotive vehicle for the purpose of refreshing the vehicle air breathed by the vehicle occupants, the device including a hand-shaped container oscilated on a flexible rod attached to a suction cup mountable on the vehichel dashboard, and small dispensing openings at a top of the container so to allow a fine vapor of an air refreshing liquid being dispensed from the container.

Abstract: A nozzle for providing a high discharge velocity of a fluid fed to the nozzle comprises a pipe having an orifice at one end, at least the portion of the pipe adjacent the said one end being internally tapered towards the orifice. An insert member having an externally tapered portion substantially conforming to the internal taper of the end portion of the pipe is located in the said end portion. At least one of the tapered portions of the pipe or insert member has a groove establishing a fluid connection between the interior and exterior of the pipe. The nozzle may form part of a fluid injection device having a manually operable plunger slidably mounted in the pipe for ejection of fluid from the nozzle.

Abstract: A metering device for providing fine control of the movement of a capillary tube and hence the rate of aspiration of a fluid flowing through the tube is disclosed. A reduction gear is threadedly mounted in a housing and has an internal threaded bore. An elongated member which holds the capillary tube with the aid of a vice or collet is threaded into the internal bore of the reduction gear. The number of threads per unit axial length on the outside threaded surface of the reduction gear, which surface is threaded into the housing, is different from the number of threads per unit axial length on the internal bore. This provides the reduction gear effect to thereby provide longitudinal displacement of the elongated member as well as the capillary tube in linear proportion to the rotational displacement of the reduction gear. The housing has a pin which is adapted to be inserted in a groove in a nuthead of the elongated member to maintain the elongated member rotationally stationary with respect to the housing.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for spraying fluid and paste-like materials having a generator of pulsating flow and having an exhaust pipe arranged coaxially with one another. A perforated nozzle for retaining the material is arranged therebetween, and a pipe for feeding the material is also provided. The nozzle for retaining the material is movable along an axis extending in parallel with the axis of a passageway along which the gaseous fluid is fed, and the part of the nozzle filled with the material being sprayed is brought into the cross-section of the passageway during the pause between successive pulsations of the gaseous fluid, and the pipe for feeding the material is arranged outside the passage.

Abstract: A manually-actuated spray head for a liquid container includes a housing within which an insert is provided to establish a liquid flow path through the housing. One end of the insert is compressed by the housing to form a nozzle through which liquid is dispensed from the spray head. The other end of the insert is provided with a flange for sealing engagement with the container. A rotor rotatably driven by a user-actuated trigger compresses the center portion of the insert to force liquids through the nozzle under pressure. Since the entire liquid flow path of the spray head is defined by a replaceable insert construction of the housing is simplified and contamination of subsequently sprayed liquids can be avoided by changing the insert.

Abstract: Spray dispensing of a metered quantity of a preferably semi-liquid product from a filled container having a fixed wall provided with at least one and preferably a plurality of generally open and unobstructed discharge passageways. A moveable wall spaced apart from the fixed wall is impacted with a moving mass to induce a pressure pulse in the product sufficient to surge a metered quantity of product less than the entire content of the container through the generally open and unobstructed discharge passageways with sufficient velocity as to break away from the passageways and the remaining product within the container for ballistic travel generally normal the fixed wall outwardly of the container. A plurality of uniform discharge passageways and a proper match of product formulation and energy input produces a generally uniformly moving cluster of generally uniformly defined and moving particles.

Abstract: A hand-operated liquid spray apparatus operates on the air-lift pump principle wherein the air-forcing member and the spray-forming member are one and the same. Such an apparatus requires no nozzles or valves and no permanent pressurization of the sprayed liquid. A plurality of deflectable vanes are movably disposed in an open-ended chamber which communicates with the interior of a liquid container via separate air and liquid passages. The vanes, when at rest, seal both passages from the open chamber end. Operator-initiated motion of the vanes toward the air passage forces air trapped in the chamber through the air passage and into the container, thereby forcing liquid up through the liquid passage to wet the vanes in the chamber. A lip at the open end of the chamber is arranged to deflect the wetted vanes as they move past the lip. After passing the lip the deflected vanes spring back to their undeflected positions and, in so doing, throw off a spray pattern of liquid droplets.

Abstract: This relates to a container and pump unit where the container is formed with an integral liquid product supply tube in lieu of the usual dip tube carried by the pump unit and wherein there is a special connector arrangement for connecting a conventional type of pump unit, but modified, to such container. The container is provided with a smooth sealable end surface and the connector assembly includes a gasket which closes off the dual passages at the container mouth with there being a seal plate which engages the gasket and provides a liquid product delivery passage and a vent passage. These two passages are separately connected to the pump unit.