Separable Pump With Holder Mount Or Securing Means Patents (Class 239/333)
  • Patent number: 4350298
    Abstract: A foam dispenser comprises a nozzle cap which in turn includes a bottom with which collides the spray liquid discharged from an orifice formed in a foam dispenser body. At the bottom of this nozzle cap is a plurality of arms constituting an obstacle wall with which the spray liquid from the orifice collides, and a plurality of foam outlet ports defined by adjacent arms. Therefore, scattered spray streams and freely flowing liquid streams are alternately formed adjacent to one another. Locking devices are provided to lock the nozzle cap onto the foam dispenser body to prevent it from falling off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1982
    Assignee: Canyon Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsuya Tada
  • Patent number: 4345718
    Abstract: Sprayer for fluid product in which a hand-actuated trigger forces a hollow piston mounted to move in vertical reciprocating fashion in a stationary tubular accumulator, against the compression of a spring. The product is forced upward and out through a swirl chamber adjacent the spray nozzle. Additional product is siphoned up into the accumulator by the partial vacuum created by the return of the piston to its rest position. Alternative embodiments, including both a vertically and horizontally directed sprayer, feature an annular flexible flange seating against an annular skirt below a swirl chamber, which keeps air out of the product chamber and deflects inwardly to release product under pressure. Additionally, a horizontally-directed spray-head may be attached to the vertical trigger sprayer for the purpose of converting the latter to a horizontal sprayer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 1979
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1982
    Inventor: William Horvath
  • Patent number: 4325501
    Abstract: A continuous, extended spray pump which has two opposing and coaxial chambers. The upper chamber is fitted with an upper and middle piston urged upwardly by a spring, and the lower chamber is fitted with an opposing piston urged upwardly by a spring. A port connects the space between the two upper pistons with the external atmosphere, and a one-way check valve controls the liquid flow between the upper and lower chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1980
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1982
    Assignee: Ethyl Products Company
    Inventor: Joseph J. Shay
  • Patent number: 4325499
    Abstract: A continuous, extended spray pump which has two opposing and coaxial chambers. The upper chamber is fitted with an upper and middle piston urged upwardly by a spring, the lower chamber is fitted with an opposing piston urged upwardly by a spring. When the upper and middle pistons are depressed, pressure is built up and the lower piston moves downward. Discharge occurs when the lower end of the lower piston is deflected by nibs on the inside of the upper chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1980
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1982
    Assignee: Ethyl Products Company
    Inventor: Joseph J. Shay
  • Patent number: 4313568
    Abstract: A nozzle for fitment to hand actuated liquid pumps having a barrel portion with a bore therethrough for passage of a liquid is disclosed. The nozzle features an integrally formed nozzle cap which is mounted to the barrel and which encloses an integrally formed sealing structure. The sealing structure provides a peripheral seal to provide a liquid-tight seal around the barrel between the nozzle cap and the barrel. The sealing structure also provides a check valve portion which is movably positioned at the mouth of the bore. The check valve is biased to form a liquid-tight bore seal. This bore seal is overcome by liquid pressure which builds in the bore upon actuation of the pump. Also provided is a spray member which is fittable within the nozzle cap and which is in abutment with the end wall of the nozzle cap. The spray member, along with the wall of the nozzle cap which it abuts, form a path for the liquid as it is dispensed, which path will cause the liquid to break up and form a spray pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1980
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1982
    Assignee: Ethyl Products Company
    Inventor: Joseph J. Shay
  • Patent number: 4313569
    Abstract: A three-piece nozzle is disclosed, for fitment to a hand actuated liquid pump having a barrel portion with a bore therethrough for passage of liquid. The nozzle features an integrally formed nozzle cap which fits around the end portion of the barrel. Enclosed within the nozzle cap is an integrally formed nozzle seal which forms a peripheral liquid-tight seal around the barrel between the nozzle cap and the barrel. Also provided is an integrally formed check valve which is movably positioned at the mouth of the bore and which is biased towards the mouth of the bore to form a liquid-tight bore seal. The bias is overcome, to open the liquid-tight bore seal, upon actuation of the pump which provides liquid pressure in the bore to act against the check valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1980
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1982
    Assignee: Ethyl Products Company
    Inventor: James E. Burke
  • Patent number: 4305530
    Abstract: A cylinder in which a liquid pressurizing chamber is formed is inserted into a liquid container. The cylinder has an unitary large-diameter portion and a small-diameter portion. A first piston is slidably received by the large-diameter portion of the cylinder. The cylinder also slidably receives an operation body including a second piston slidably in the large-diameter portion and a third piston slidably in the small-diameter portion. The liquid in the pressurizing chamber defined by the cylinder and the pistons is pressurized as the operation body is depressed overcoming a force of a spring. A stop valve mounted on the second piston is opened in response to the pressure generated in the pressurizing chamber, so that the liquid is allowed to reach, through a passage formed in the first piston, a nozzle for atomizing the liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1981
    Assignee: Yoshino Kogyosho Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takamitsu Nozawa
  • Patent number: 4301948
    Abstract: This invention relates to a dispenser for paste-like products of the type having a container containing a product and closed at one end by a slidable piston in sealing engagement with the inner wall surface thereof, the other end being provided with a head member carrying on applicator and forming a pump chamber the volume of which is variable by the exertion of exterior pressure, the pump chamber being closed towards said container by a first check valve adapted to open only towards the pump chamber, and towards the outlet of the applicator by a second check valve adapted to open only towards said outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1979
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1981
    Assignee: Joachim Czech
    Inventors: Joachim Czech, Hans D. Sieghart
  • Patent number: 4286736
    Abstract: A fluid dispensing pump includes a pump plunger mounted for reciprocation in a pump cylinder, the plunger having a discharge passage extending therethrough and communicating with a discharge opening in a discharge head connected with the plunger which sealingly engages a retaining collar on a container closure during a lock-down position of the discharge head. A check valve in the discharge passage includes a cage surrounding a valve opening, and a lower end of the plunger sealingly engages a portion of the cage when in the lock-down position. The piston is arranged on the plunger to form an air space so as to prevent any hydraulic lock which would interfere with a full depression of the head into its lock-down position. The sealed locking engagement between the head and the retaining collar is capable of being unlocked by the provision of axially oriented unlocking cam faces for effecting disengagement upon relative rotation between the head and the collar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1981
    Assignee: Diamond International Corporation
    Inventor: Douglas F. Corsette
  • Patent number: 4277001
    Abstract: A miniature type, invertible atomizing spray mechanism includes a receptacle for liquid to be atomized, and further includes at least one pressure chamber, which depends within the receptacle and is arranged to have received therein a piston with which a reciprocable spray head is arranged to cooperate. Beneath the pressure chamber is disposed a valve member which is adapted to control the suction of the liquid into the pressure chamber. The valve member opens an inlet of the pressure chamber by the reciprocal movement of the spray head. The inlet of the pressure chamber is in fluid communication with a passage leading to a three-way valve. The three-way valve includes upper and lower valving assembly which communicate with a passage extending to the cylinder of the atomizer, each of the valving assembly being in communication with the bottom of the receptacle as well as an area adjacent to the neck portion of the atomizer through elongated tubular elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1981
    Assignee: Yoshino Kogyosho Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takamitsu Nozawa
  • Patent number: 4273290
    Abstract: A spring-loaded double-ended check valve assembly is provided for use in the outlet chamber of a dispenser for spraying liquids. The entire assembly, including both ends and the spring, is made in one-piece and is easily moldable from plastic material thus effecting ease of manufacture and assembly into the sprayer, reduced labor and material costs and affording the reliability of a unitary member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Assignee: The AFA Corporation
    Inventor: David R. Quinn
  • Patent number: 4271990
    Abstract: This pumping system provides a continuous discharge of flowable product withdrawn from a container into a pressurizing chamber and pumped by a pressurizing piston there into a storage chamber just ahead of a stationary discharge nozzle. A spring acts on an accumulator piston in the storage chamber to maintain a more uniform pressure on the product there at different times in each operating cycle so as to obtain a substantially non-pulsating discharge of the product. The accumulator piston tends to move in the same direction as the pressurizing piston due to a frictional coupling acting on the accumulator piston. Air is more easily purged from this pumping system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1981
    Assignee: Security Plastics, Inc.
    Inventors: Louis F. Kutik, Howard E. Cecil
  • Patent number: 4264037
    Abstract: A manually operative atomizer in which a liquid is sucked and pressurized by an atomizer means and is then atomized through a nozzle port. A chamber for pressurizing the liquid is constituted by a cylinder, while an atomizer head is connected to a communication pipe which plays also the role of a piston, and is biased in the direction reverse of the pressurizing direction, by means of a spring. The atomizer head is provided with a guiding member adapted to be pressed and moved by an inclined surface of the operation member, so that the atomizer head and the piston or the jetting pipe are moved in the pressurizing direction. As the operation member is released from the depressing force, the spring moves the member back to its original position. Portions of the periphery of the atomizer head other than the nozzle port and the operating portion of the operating member are covered by a cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1979
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1981
    Assignee: Yoshino Kogyosho Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takamitsu Nozawa
  • Patent number: 4264038
    Abstract: A manually operative atomizer in which a liquid is sucked and pressurized by an atomizer means and is then atomized through a nozzle port. A chamber for pressurizing the liquid is constituted by a cylinder, while an atomizer head is connected to communication pipe which plays also the role of a piston, and is biased in the direction reverse to the pressurizing direction, by means of a spring. The atomizer head is provided with a guiding member adapted to be pressed and moved by an inclined surface of the operation member, so that the atomizer head and the piston or the jetting pipe are moved in the pressurizing direction. As the operation member is released from the depressing force, the spring moves the member back to its original position. Portions of the periphery of the atomizer head other than the nozzle port and the operating portion of the operating member are covered by a cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1979
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1981
    Assignee: Yoshino Kogyosho Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takamitsu Nozawa
  • Patent number: 4247048
    Abstract: A two-piece nozzle for use on hand actuated pump dispensers is disclosed. The nozzle features a tubular member, which may be a part of the main body of the pump, having a circular, planar face at its terminal end. A hollow bore extending through the tubular member and the hollow face is in liquid passage communication with a recess in the planar face. A cap is rotatably mounted to the tubular member and has an end wall with a planar inside surface which will form an interface with the circular planar face of the tubular member. Radially displaced from the center axis of the circular skirt is a dispensing orifice which is registerable with the recess present in the planar face of the tubular member. A sealing boss surrounds the dispensing orifice and bore to provide a liquid-tight seal with the planar face when the orifice is not in registration with the recess. Mounting structure is provided on the cap and tubular member for achieving a rotating mount of the cap to the tubular member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1979
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1981
    Assignee: Ethyl Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas H. Hayes
  • Patent number: 4244525
    Abstract: An instrument for holding a writing implement includes an elongated housing having a recess for retaining the writing implement and a closed bottom annular chamber surrounding the recess. The annular chamber serves to hold a liquid such as a perfume or cologne. A pump including a plunger and an associated spray nozzle is mounted in the open top of the annular chamber. Reciprocating motion of the plunger varies the pressure within a pump chamber to draw liquid into the pump chamber and to expel it through the nozzle. The instrument may be used for writing or for dispensing the liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1979
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1981
    Inventor: Ronald A. Manna
  • Patent number: 4234127
    Abstract: A manually operated sprayer which comprises a pump mechanism including a secondary valve having a valve body normally pressed against a valve seat by a compression spring and valve-sealing means designed temporarily to obstruct the flow of a liquid even after the valve body slides in liquidtightness along the inner wall of a tubular piston and is released from the valve seat, and wherein the valve-sealing means of the secondary valve is integrally formed with the valve body, and slides in liquidtightness along the inner wall the tubular piston for a prescribed distance to be brought into an annular groove formed in the inner wall of the tubular piston, thereby taking the form of a skirt-like strip to be released from the liquidtight condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 1978
    Date of Patent: November 18, 1980
    Assignee: Canyon Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Tada, Masaharu Amari
  • Patent number: 4230277
    Abstract: A trigger type sprayer comprises a nozzle cover integrally formed with the nozzle and connected to the nozzle through an integral hinge. The nozzle cover includes a seal section for sealing the ejection hole of the nozzle. An engagement section is provided on the nozzle which snap-fits with a first lock section on the nozzle cover. A second lock section is provided in the nozzle cover which is snap-fittingly engageable with a hole in the upper surface of the sprayer body, whereby the nozzle cover is pivotable about the integral hinge and is lockable in either a nozzle-sealing position or a nozzle-opening position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1978
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1980
    Inventor: Tetsuya Tada
  • Patent number: 4228931
    Abstract: Pump that can be applied on a container and manually operable to deliver or dispense a liquid in an atomized form. The pump comprises a hollow stem for liquid delivery or dispensing, on which a sealing gasket is mounted and downward urged by a spring. A groove communicating through holes with the cavity of the stem is provided on the lower end of the latter. The gasket, normally sealing on the stem below said groove, when upward moved upon operation of the pump, has its lower edge suddenly bent inwardly of the groove, when arriving thereat, thus suddenly and completely communicating the passage of the pressure liquid to said holes of the stem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1979
    Date of Patent: October 21, 1980
    Assignee: ADM S.p.A.
    Inventors: Tommaso Ruscitti, Giovanni Albini, Roberto Torretta
  • Patent number: 4227650
    Abstract: A fluid pump dispenser includes a nozzle structure having a flexible member which functions as an outlet check valve and O-ring seal, and which cooperates with a threaded nozzle cap to vary the discharge pattern of the dispenser responsive to twisting adjustment of the cap. Fluid is discharged through the nozzle structure by actuating a trigger to reduce the volume of a pump chamber in communication with the outlet check valve. The volume of the pump chamber may be reduced by operating a piston within the chamber or by flexing a wall of a tubular member having an open end in communication with the outlet valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1978
    Date of Patent: October 14, 1980
    Assignee: Ethyl Products Company
    Inventor: James C. McKinney
  • Patent number: 4227628
    Abstract: In the illustrative embodiments of the invention disclosed, a non-aerosol pump includes a housing, a barrel within the housing forming a valve chamber, a pumping chamber within the barrel, a valve gland within the valve chamber for controlling intake and discharge flow to and from the pumping chamber, and a hand or finger-operated plunger for operating the pump. The valve gland has a circular seal lip on its axially outer surface for establishing a circular seal around the opening from the valve chamber to the pumping chamber. As pressure within the pumping chamber exceeds and falls below predetermined limits, the valve gland snaps open and closed, respectively, to provide a sharp on-off spray discharge. The check valve for controlling flow from the container to the pumping chamber may be formed integrally with the valve gland and of the same material or, alternatively, may comprise a ball check valve located within the gland.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1979
    Date of Patent: October 14, 1980
    Inventor: Frederick L. Parsons
  • 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: 4216883
    Abstract: In a manually operable atomizer wherein a piston is operated through an atomizing head, so as to cause a pumping action to suck up the liquid from a liquid container and then pressurize the liquid to atomize the same through a nozzle, a flange is provided to extend outwardly from the wall of a cylinder of an atomizer. The flange is provided with a circumferential upright protrusion and an annular recess formed at the radially inner side of the circumferential upright protrusion. A supporting member for supporting the atomizer is adapted to be attached to the neck opening of the liquid container, and is provided with an annular inner wall adapted to be fittingly received by the annular recess of the flange, an intermediate wall adapted to hold the circumferential upright protrusion of the flange and an annular outer wall for stabilizing the attaching of the supporting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1978
    Date of Patent: August 12, 1980
    Assignee: Yoshino Kogyosho Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takaharu Tasaki, Shigeo Iizuka, Tadao Saito
  • Patent number: 4214677
    Abstract: A dispenser having a reciprocating pump to feed a liquid product to a mixing chamber and an air pump with a piston to simultaneously compress and feed compressed air to the mixing chamber. The body containing the mixing chamber is mounted on the product pump and the air piston is mounted on the body. Manual pressure on the air piston is transmitted to the body which moves down to cause the product pump to reciprocate. The product pump includes a chamber with a valve which opens only after the pressure in the chamber exceeds a certain value. The air pump includes a valve which opens only after the air pressure exceeds a certain value. The air pressure valve is selected to open at the same time as the pump valve opens so that the product is dispensed as a spray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 29, 1980
    Assignee: L'Oreal
    Inventors: Daniel Bauer, Gerard Braque
  • Patent number: 4193551
    Abstract: A manually operable atomizer of a type adapted to pressurizing the liquid to be atomized by a pumping action of a piston, upon depression of the latter through an atomizing head, the liquid has been sucked up from a container, and atomizing the pressurized liquid from a nozzle. The atomizer has a flange annexed to a cylinder which is adapted to cooperate with the piston in performing the pumping action, a connecting member secured to a neck opening portion of the container and adapted to hold the flange and a holding member opposing to the connecting member and adapted to hold the flange, so that the atomizing mechanism including the piston and the cylinder are stably held on the container. The holding member is so shaped as to surround the connecting member, thereby to prevent any external force from acting on the flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1978
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1980
    Assignee: Yoshino Kogyosho Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadao Saito, Takamitsu Nozawa, Haruo Tsuchida, Shigeo Iizuka, Takayuki Goto
  • Patent number: 4191313
    Abstract: A trigger operated dispenser includes a plurality of chambers with movable members therein, and operable to draw material from a container, pressurize it, accumulate a quantity of material under pressure, and discharge the material to a point of use. An adjustable member communicates with the chambers for selectively obtaining either continuous or intermittent discharge of the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1978
    Date of Patent: March 4, 1980
    Assignee: James D. Pauls and J. Claybrook Lewis and Associates, Limited
    Inventors: William S. Blake, Roy Hammett
  • Patent number: 4185776
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a manually operative atomizer in which a liquid is sucked and pressurized by an atomizer means and is then atomized through a nozzle port. A chamber for pressurizing the liquid is constituted by a cylinder, while an atomizer head is connected to a communication pipe which plays also the role of a piston, and is biased in the direction reverse to the pressurizing direction, by means of a spring. The atomizer head is provided with a guiding member adapted to be pressed and moved by an inclined surface of the operation member, so that the atomizer head and the piston or the jetting pipe are moved in the pressurizing direction. As the operation member is released from the depressing force, the spring moves the member back to its original position. Portions of the periphery of the atomizer head other than the nozzle port and the operating portion of the operating member are covered by a cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1978
    Date of Patent: January 29, 1980
    Assignee: Yoshino Kogyosho Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takamitsu Nozawa
  • Patent number: 4183449
    Abstract: A spray dispenser is presented which atomizes cosmetics, perfumes, and similar products to a state of fine spray throughout its entire spraying period. The pressure of the fluid product being sprayed is maintained by a spring loaded piston and a related valve which opens a passage to the spray outlet only after a predetermined spray pressure is reached and closes it when the pressure approaches a pressure insufficient to produce the fine spray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1978
    Date of Patent: January 15, 1980
    Assignee: The AFA Corporation
    Inventor: William S. Blake
  • Patent number: 4179070
    Abstract: A sprayer wherein there is formed in a sprayer body a pressurizing cylinder defining a pressurizing chamber communicating with a pressure accumulating chamber defined by a pressurizing cylinder in which a valve rod is slidably received. The pressurizing cylinder has a smaller diameter than the pressure accumulating cylinder. A piston is slidably inserted into the pressurizing cylinder. When liquid received in the pressurizing chamber is pressurized by bringing down the piston in the smaller diameter pressurizing cylinder, then a higher pressure than the pressing force of the piston is applied by Pascal's principle to the valve rod against the urging force of a pressure accumulating spring disposed behind the valve rod, because the valve rod has a larger diameter than the piston. When the high pressure is applied to the pressure accumulating spring, then a highly pressurized liquid can be sprayed, though the piston itself applies a relatively low pressing force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1977
    Date of Patent: December 18, 1979
    Inventor: Tetsuya Tada
  • Patent number: 4175704
    Abstract: A non-aerosol type spray device comprising a container for housing a liquid content material to be dispensed and a plunger slidable as a piston within the container and an elongate tubular member for actuating the plunger with a bore extending continuously therethrough for communication with the interior of the container at one end and communnication with a spray nozzle at the other for passage of the liquid content material from the container through the bore to the spray nozzle in response to displacement of the plunger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1977
    Date of Patent: November 27, 1979
    Inventor: Milton J. Cohen
  • Patent number: 4174069
    Abstract: A fluid dispenser has a discharge path outletting at a discharge orifice provided in a nozzle cap in engagement with a nipple surrounding a dispenser needle valve, the cap being adjustable axially of the needle valve so as to move an open ended swirl chamber, which surrounds the discharge orifice, relative to the needle valve into and out of engagement therewith. The fluid is emitted from the discharge orifice in a concentrated and linear pattern upon disengagement between the swirl chamber and the needle valve. Otherwise, upon movement of the cap until the needle valve plugs the open end of the swirl chamber, a shaped spray pattern is created through the discharge orifice. The orifice is defined by a circular wall and by a pair of opposed projections thereon, the projections extending inwardly of the orifice and having spaced apart ends so as to effect a substantially flat spray pattern through the orifice when movement of the cap toward the needle valve causes the valve to plug the swirl chamber end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1977
    Date of Patent: November 13, 1979
    Assignee: Diamond International Corporation
    Inventor: Richard P. Grogan
  • Patent number: 4174056
    Abstract: A pump type dispenser for dispensing a spray of liquid has a container for containing the liquid to be dispensed, a piston-cylinder device for drawing liquid out of the container and pressurizing it, a dispensing head into which the pressurized liquid is pumped, with a free piston chamber therein in which is a free piston spring loaded toward the direction from which the pressurized liquid comes, and a nozzle opening out of the free piston chamber through the dispensing head. A check valve between the piston-cylinder device and the free piston chamber blocks return of the fluid once it has been forced into the free piston chamber, so that the free piston acts on the liquid in the free piston chamber to dispense it in a spray through the nozzle while the piston-cylinder device recovers from its actuated to its unactuated position and the next actuation thereof is started.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1977
    Date of Patent: November 13, 1979
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventor: Herbert H. Loeffler
  • Patent number: 4168788
    Abstract: A dispenser body and a closure cap assembly for a container is presented which provides not only a closure for the container, except for communication with the dispenser, but also provides an air inlet operable upon the withdrawal or expulsion of the contents of the container so that air will be replenished therein to restore normal air pressure. The air inlet closes automatically when this has been accomplished to prevent leakage of the contents of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 25, 1979
    Assignee: The AFA Corporation
    Inventor: David R. Quinn
  • Patent number: 4161288
    Abstract: A fluid pump dispenser includes a dispenser trigger which may be located in pivotable engagement with the dispenser housing and pump piston after shipment. The initial actuation of the trigger moves the pump piston and a container conduit, engaged thereto, to open a container vent shipping seal provided by mating surfaces on the conduit and the container cap. Fluid carried from the container by the conduit enters the pump chamber through a central orifice in the piston. A flexible member located on the piston functions as an inlet check valve for the conduit and as a piston ring. The fluid dispenser also includes a nozzle structure having a flexible member which functions as an outlet check valve and O-ring seal, and which cooperates with a threaded nozzle cap to vary the discharge pattern of the dispenser responsive to twisting adjustment of the cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1976
    Date of Patent: July 17, 1979
    Assignee: Creative Dispensing Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: James C. McKinney
  • Patent number: 4154374
    Abstract: A finger-operated spray pump assembly including a tank, a primary piston slidably fitted inside the tank, a secondary piston slidably fitted inside the primary piston, and a spring fitted inside the primary piston and on the outside of the secondary piston for biasing the primary piston away from the secondary piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 15, 1979
    Assignee: Ethyl Products Company
    Inventor: Donald C. Kirk, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4153203
    Abstract: A trigger type sprayer which comprises a sprayer body whose inner lateral walls are provided with a pair of mutually facing engagement grooves, and wherein a trigger of the sprayer has a notch cut out in the upper end portion of the front wall and a pair of lugs formed on the outside of the upper end portions of the lateral walls. A nozzle fixed to the sprayer body extends outward through the notched portion of the trigger, and has a pair of axially extending stoppers integrally formed on the outer surface of the nozzle. The trigger can be rotatably connected to the sprayer body with ease due to the paired lugs being snap-fitted to the engagement grooves of the sprayer body and the upper end portions of the lateral walls of the trigger are prevented from being thrown inward by the stoppers of the nozzle and in consequence coming off the sprayer body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 8, 1979
    Inventor: Tetsuya Tada
  • Patent number: 4144987
    Abstract: A liquid sprayer having a cylinder with a pressure chamber and a suction chamber, a hollow piston with a liquid passage therethrough and slidably fitted in said cylinder, an actuator mounted on the piston, a suction tube suspended from the bottom of the suction chamber into a liquid container, a movable valve rod vertically movable provided in the piston and cylinder and having a valve portion at the top end thereof for opening and closing the liquid passage of the piston, a compression spring for at all times urging the movable valve rod towards the direction of lifting up the piston with the liquid passage thereof being closed, and an elastic valve closely and slidably fitted onto the valve rod and adapted to establish communication between the pressure chamber and the suction chamber at its uppermost position and cut off communication therebetween at its lowermost position; whereby the passage of the piston communicating with a spray nozzle is opened when the internal pressure of the pressure chamber excee
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 20, 1979
    Assignee: Yoshino Kogyosho Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takao Kishi
  • Patent number: 4141472
    Abstract: An aerosol container is provided, especially intended for use with compositions containing liquefied flammable propellants, and having a gas-permeable membrane that is impermeable or at best only slowly permeable by liquefied propellants, and impeding liquid flow via a gas tap orifice through an open manually-operated delivery valve, at least when the container is tipped from the upright position beyond the horizontal towards the fully inverted position, the container comprising, in combination, a pressurizable container having at least one storage compartment for an aerosol composition and a liquefied propellant in which compartment liquefied propellant can assume an orientation according to orientation of the container between a horizontal and an upright position, and a horizontal and an inverted position; a delivery valve movable manually between open and closed positions, and including a valve stem and a delivery port; an aerosol-conveying passage in flow connection at one end with the storage compartment
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 27, 1979
    Inventors: Joseph G. Spitzer, Marvin Small, Lloyd I. Osipow, Dorothea C. Marra
  • Patent number: 4140249
    Abstract: A manual spray pump comprises a cylinder consisting of different diameter portions integral with one another and extending from one another and large and small pistons having respective collars of different diameters and fitted in respective cylinder portions in elastic contact with the inner wall thereof for reciprocal movement in the axial direction. The small piston is coupled to the large piston such as to receive liquid pressure therefrom, and a valve body provided at the top of the small piston co-operates with a valve seat of the large piston to constitute an opening valve. Further, in order to control or suppress too sensitive action of the small piston under low liquid pressure when actuating the opening valve with the liquid pressure exerted from the large piston to the small piston, the small piston is provided with an integral additional piston member of a still smaller diameter or is adapted to produce a frictional force in part of its portion coupled to the large piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 20, 1979
    Assignee: Mitani Valve Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshimichi Majima
  • Patent number: 4132359
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a manually operative atomizer in which a liquid is sucked and pressurized by an atomizer means and is then atomized through a nozzle port. A chamber for pressurizing the liquid is constituted by a cylinder, while an atomizer head is connected to a communication pipe which plays also the role of a piston, and is biased in the direction reverse to the pressurizing direction, by means of a spring. The atomizer head is provided with a guiding member adapted to be pressed and moved by an inclined surface of the operation member, so that the atomizer head and the piston or the jetting pipe are moved in the pressurizing direction. As the operation member is released from the depressing force, the spring moves the member back to its original position. Portions of the periphery of the atomizer head other than the nozzle port and the operating portion of the operating member are covered by a cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 2, 1979
    Assignee: Yoshino Kogyosho Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takamitsu Nozawa
  • Patent number: 4111367
    Abstract: A finger-operated spray pump assembly including a tank, a primary piston slidably fitted inside the tank, having a liquid passageway, a secondary piston slidably fitted inside the primary piston, and a spring fitted inside the primary piston and the secondary piston for biasing the primary piston away from the secondary piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1978
    Assignee: Ethyl Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas H. Hayes
  • Patent number: 4109869
    Abstract: An improved oiler includes a manually operated pump mechanism retained within the oiler container for pumping low viscosity oil and similar low viscosity fluids through a spout of the oiler for discharge by an adjustable spray nozzle. The nozzle is comprised of four separate interengaging parts including a compression fitting which contains a nozzle disc and a channel member. By rotating the compression fitting, physical separation of the disc and channel member is controlled and the pattern of spray through the nozzle is adjusted between a fine spray and a fine stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1977
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1978
    Assignee: Dutton-Lainson Company
    Inventors: Norman D. Brockelsby, Reinhold A. Haase
  • Patent number: 4083476
    Abstract: An improved manually actuated liquid-atomizing pump assembly for non-pressurized pharmaceutical atomizers comprising a pump actuator unit and a pump unit, which causes a spray of substantially the same particle size spectrum to be discharged from the atomizer nozzle with each actuation of the pump; the improvement resides in a resilient mechanical resistance interposed between the manual pump actuator and the pump, where the resilient resistance requires a very definite amount of force to be overcome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 11, 1978
    Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH
    Inventors: Hans Schwartz, Helmut Franz
  • Patent number: 4082223
    Abstract: A fluid is sprayed from a nozzle aperture of a trigger type spraying device under pump pressure generated by the pumping action of an injection pipe member lifted and lowered vertically by an operating mechanism. Said injection pipe member includes a vertical pipe portion, corresponding to a piston, and an oblique pipe portion inclined to said vertical pipe portion. At the tip of said oblique pipe portion, there is provided a discharge valve having an elastically deformable ring member in such a manner that pulling of the trigger portion of a crank lever forces the lower half of said vertical pipe portion, corresponding to the piston, into the cylinder, thereby producing a pumping action. The fluid pressurized in the pump chamber exerts pressure, through means of a fluid passage in the injection pipe member, onto the ring member of the discharge valve in a direction whereby the ring member is flexed so as to open the valve, thereby causing the fluid to be sprayed conically from the nozzle aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1978
    Assignee: Yoshino Kogyosho Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takamitsu Nozawa
  • Patent number: 4079865
    Abstract: A non-pulsating, non-throttling, vented pumping system is disclosed for continuously dispensing product from a container in a relatively non-pulsating stream or spray. The pumping system includes a pump for withdrawing product from a container and for pressurizing the product, a storage compartment for storing the product under pressure, an accumulator piston in the storage compartment acting under bias to maintain the pressure on the product, an outlet passage opened and closed by the accumulator piston, and a restricted orifice at the outlet passage through which the product is dispensed as a stream or spray. The restricted orifice allows only a portion of the product pressurized by the pump to escape during the pressure stroke of the pump, and the remainder of the product is stored in the product storage compartment to be released for maintaining the spray or stream when the pressurizing pump is acting on its intake stroke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1976
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1978
    Assignee: John H. Oltman
    Inventor: Louis F. Kutik
  • Patent number: 4061250
    Abstract: A depress button type sprayer comprises a piston slidably inserted into a cylinder and provided with a liquid jetting nozzle, a lever for moving the piston into the cylinder against the force of a spring and a depress button for operating the lever.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1976
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1977
    Inventor: Tetsuya Tada
  • Patent number: 4057176
    Abstract: A reciprocating type of finger pump for use on top of a product container. This combines a tubular housing, including a laterally directed spray nozzle, mounted coaxially in the sleeve of an accumulator cap including a central valve. The valve opening leads to a dip tube which passes into a liquid reservoir in the container. The tubular housing, including the spray nozzle, is depressed manually so that it moves telescopically in the accumulator sleeve, driving a hollow piston against the tension of a spring. The first compression stroke serves to prime the pump, forcing a piston to close the valve to the dip tube. Simultaneously, air in an annular chamber of the housing surrounding the hollow piston is compressed. On the reverse or suction stroke, the valve to the dip tube is opened, creating a vacuum which causes the liquid to be sucked up from the reservoir and into the hollow piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1976
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1977
    Assignee: Plastic Research Products, Inc.
    Inventor: William Horvath
  • Patent number: 4056228
    Abstract: The present invention provides an aroma system including a spray deodorant apparatus for use with toilets and the like. The spray deodorant apparatus is simply attached to a toilet and releases a deodorant liquid spray or mist when an aroma flush handle is actuated. The spray deodorant apparatus is positioned on the toilet housing, allowing the aroma flush handle to be positioned under a toilet handle, thereby enabling the deodorant liquid spray or mist to be released as the toilet is flushed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1976
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1977
    Inventors: Evelyn S. Rosenkrantz, Edward Rosenkrantz
  • Patent number: 4051983
    Abstract: A dispensing pump having upper and lower pistons defining opposite ends of a two diameter pump chamber, the volume of which is varied by movement together of the pistons, while a small amount of relative movement of the pistons, resulting from pressure changes within the pump chamber, effects opening and closing of the discharge valve. For facilitating the priming of such a pump, the lower piston and cylinder are arranged to define a normally closed priming valve operable at a predetermined point in the lower piston stroke to permit reverse flow of entrapped air from the pump chamber into a liquid supply container with which the pump is associated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1975
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1977
    Assignee: Diamond International Corporation
    Inventor: Walter F. Anderson
  • Patent number: RE30566
    Abstract: A manually operated, hand-held liquid spraying device which includes a non-pressurized, refillable or non-refillable container, is disclosed. The sprayer is a completely contained device wherein an internal cam in one part of the device which is rotated, causes a displacement of a piston, a part of which is a cam follower. Piston displacement vacates a chamber which is simultaneously charged with liquid. The piston is moved as a result of the cammed motion against a responsor biasing it. The biased responsor generates a hydraulic pressure on the liquid now in the chamber vacated by the piston, since a check valve traps the liquid in the chamber. The liquid is released from the chamber by depressing a push button device, which action uncovers a port in an outlet conduit permitting liquid to flow from the chamber through the conduit and out through a flow connected nozzle in response to the responsor-urged piston moving down through the liquid in the chamber. .Iadd.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1975
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1981
    Assignee: Thiokol Chemical Corporation
    Inventor: William Horvath