Fluid Pressure Discharge Means Patents (Class 239/337)
Material atomized in holder (e.g., nebulizer) (Class 239/338)
Liquid inlet port to submerged gas tube (Class 239/339)
Pressure reducer at holder outlet (Class 239/340)
Gas passage from gas space in holder through fluid outlet means (Class 239/372)
Means to pressurize contents of holder (Class 239/373)
  • Cap for an aerosol container or a spray container
    Patent number: 7854356
    Abstract: A spray cap, also known as an actuator overcap for an aerosol container, has an acoustic seal between the actuator button and the overcap. This acoustic seal is formed by a set of matching sealing lips on the actuator button and also on the overcap, such that they are both oriented horizontally. At rest, the sealing lip of the actuator button rests above the sealing lip of the overcap, but during actuation, the sealing lip of the actuator button deforms the sealing lip of the overcap, which both forms an acoustic seal during actuation and creates the force to return the sealing lip of the actuator button back to its original position after actuation is complete.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: Wella AG
    Inventor: Heiko Eberhardt
  • System, method and apparatus for agitated and pressurized reservoir mounted directly to automated spray dispenser
    Patent number: 7850093
    Abstract: An agitated and pressurized paint pot that is mounted directly to a paint spray dispenser uses a small volume pressurized pot with constant agitation. This design prevents the settling of material and ensures that the materials are applied through the system at a consistent feed rate to meet the specific needs of applying radar absorbing materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Larry T. Burton, James R. Reed, Jacob A. Johnson, Kelly B. Choban
  • Systems and methods for applying texture material to ceiling surfaces
    Patent number: 7845523
    Abstract: An aerosol system for dispensing sprayable material in a desired spray pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Homax Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Lester R. Greer, Jr., Donald J. Stern, James A. Tryon
  • Spray gun reservoir with oversize, fast-fill opening
    Patent number: 7845582
    Abstract: A spray gun reservoir has an oversize central opening 130 at one end allowing liquid to be added to the reservoir for fast filling with reduced risk of spillage. A cap member 132 is connectable to the reservoir and has a spout 115 providing a fluid outlet of reduced size relative to the opening 130 for connection to the spray gun. The reservoir can be disconnected from the cap member 132 when it is desired to add liquid to the reservoir. In this way, the reservoir can be re-filled in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Stephen C. P. Joseph, Daniel E. Siltberg
  • Generation of therapeutic microfoam
    Patent number: 7842282
    Abstract: A method for producing a microfoam suitable for use in scleropathy of blood vessels comprises introducing a physiologically acceptable blood-dispersible gas into a container (1) holding an aqueous sclerosant liquid and releasing the mixture of blood-dispersible gas and sclerosant liquid, whereby upon release of the mixture the components of the mixture interact to form a microfoam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: BTG International Limited
    Inventors: Anthony David Harman, Paul Harper, Neil Pollock, Gary Stewart Sinclair
  • Generation of therapeutic microfoam
    Patent number: 7842283
    Abstract: A method for producing a microfoam suitable for use in scleropathy of blood vessels comprises introducing a physiologically acceptable blood-dispersible gas into a container (1) holding an aqueous sclerosant liquid and releasing the mixture of blood-dispersible gas and sclerosant liquid, whereby upon release of the mixture the components of the mixture interact to form a microfoam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: BTG International Limited
    Inventors: Anthony David Harman, Paul Harper, Neil Pollock, Gary Stewart Sinclair
  • Compact spray device
    Patent number: 7837065
    Abstract: An automatic discharge device comprises a housing adapted to receive a container therein. An actuator arm is attached to the housing and movable between first and second positions. The actuator arm includes a dispensing bore therein. A drive unit is provided for automatically moving the actuator arm into one of the first and second positions in response to a signal from at least one of a timer, a sensor, and a manual switch. The actuator arm is adapted to engage and actuate a nozzle of the container in the first position and allow a fluid disposed in an interior of the container to be dispensed through the nozzle and the dispensing bore of the actuator arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul E. Furner, Thomas P. Gasper, Chris A. Kubicek, Leon M. Lemon, Brent D. Madsen, Nathan R. Westphal, Kenneth W. Michaels, Cory J. Nelson, M. Scott Carpenter, Michael E. Short
  • Spraying Device
    Publication number: 20100288853
    Abstract: A spraying device that includes a handle having a hollow inner cavity and a body that has an interior void for receiving a container containing liquid. A pump is disposed within the interior void of the body, and a motor is disposed within the interior void of the body for operating the pump. A spray nozzle for dispensing the liquid contained within the container is disposed on the exterior of the body. The spraying device optionally includes a hood over the spray nozzle for limiting over spray.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Inventor: Bennett Kennedy
  • Filtering apparatus for inlet fluid into a pressure chamber of a sprayer
    Publication number: 20100288712
    Abstract: A backpack sprayer having a tank with a filling opening at the top thereof and a pressure chamber therein is provided with filtering apparatus for preventing particles in the fluid in the tank from entering an inlet port of the pressure chamber located near the bottom of the tank when suction generated by a pump that depends from the bottom of the pressure chamber causes fluid in the tank to flow through the inlet port into the pressure chamber. The fluid pressurized by the pump flows through an outlet port from the pressure chamber for spraying when a valve in the nozzle at the end of a hose communicating with the outlet port is actuated by an operator. The filtering apparatus is provided by a filter in a frame removably captured in a fixture projecting outwardly from the outside of the pressure chamber on opposite sides of the inlet port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2010
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Inventor: Gregory Allen Klein
  • Dual-flow valve and internal processing vessel isolation system
    Patent number: 7811532
    Abstract: Fluid flow valve assembly comprising a valve body having an external port and an inlet end having at least a first port, a second port, and a third port; a first valve disposed within the valve body and adapted to control fluid flow between the first and second ports; and a second valve disposed within the valve body and adapted to control fluid flow between the third port and the external port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Stuart Alexander Kerr, Benjamin James Arthur, Athanasios Georgios Tsirukis, James Robert Leenhouts, Jeffrey Ronald Phillips
  • Automatic air freshener spraying device
    Patent number: 7798424
    Abstract: An automatic air freshener spraying device includes a front cover, a base, two air freshener bottles and a press driving device, and a motor of the press driving device is pivotally coupled to the driving gear, such that when the driving gear rotates clockwise or anti-clockwise at the motor, the driving gear with the transmission of the gear set pushes a protruding member at the bottom of one of the left and right sides of a large fan-shaped gear to obtain a larger instant pressing force, and a set of press driving devices are used for controlling the motor to rotate clockwise or anti-clockwise, and either the left or right air freshener bottles is pressed to spray an air freshener from an air freshener nozzle of the left air freshener bottle or the right air freshener bottle, so as to provide a uniform misty spray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Inventor: Po-Hui Lin
  • VALVED MISTING SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20100230514
    Abstract: A misting system has a reservoir located above the passenger compartment of a vehicle. The reservoir, which is capable of containing water and compressed gas, has a horizontally sloped bottom wall and a trough located at the bottom of the bottom wall. The trough has a trough wall that is vertically sloped so as to form a console that depends from the bottom of the reservoir. One or more misting nozzles are located in the trough wall and direct mist across the upper portions of the passenger compartment. By providing a trough, the possibility of water sloshing away from the misting nozzles and compressed gas leaking through the misting nozzles is reduced during vehicle movement. A valve is associated with each misting nozzle. The valve allows the regulation of the flow of mist from off, to partially open, to full open.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Inventor: Leland T. Meadors, JR.
  • Metering valve
    Patent number: 7793806
    Abstract: A metering valve for a pressurized fluid reservoir with an immobile fixed chamber body sealed off by a plug with at least one opening that serves as an inlet into the metering chamber that also serves as the outlet of any temporarily stored pressurized gas, with a valve stem that surrounds the metering chamber that it is co-axially aligned and slidable with respect to the metering chamber such that the valve stem's attached seals and its dispensing opening expose the metering chamber's opening to the dispensing opening of the valve stem as the valve stem is actuated to overcome the biasing forces of a spring, and subsequently close the metering chamber's opening when not actuated from the valve stem's dispensing opening and expose the metering chamber's opening to the pressurized fluid reservoir so that a metered dose of pressurized fluid is dispensed during each cycle of actuation of the valve stem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Consort Medical plc
    Inventor: Paul Allsop
  • Filtering apparatus for inlet fluid into a pressure chamber of a sprayer
    Patent number: 7789329
    Abstract: A backpack sprayer having a tank with a filling opening at the top thereof and a pressure chamber therein is provided with filtering apparatus for preventing particles in the fluid in the tank from entering an inlet port of the pressure chamber located near the bottom of the tank when suction generated by a pump that depends from the bottom of the pressure chamber causes fluid in the tank to flow through the inlet port into the pressure chamber. The fluid pressurized by the pump flows through an outlet port from the pressure chamber for spraying when a valve in the nozzle at the end of a hose communicating with the outlet port is actuated by an operator. The filtering apparatus is provided by a filter in a frame removably captured in a fixture projecting outwardly from the outside of the pressure chamber on opposite sides of the inlet port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Chapin Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventor: Gregory Allen Klein
  • Aerosol systems and methods for dispensing texture material
    Patent number: 7784649
    Abstract: An aerosol texturing system for applying a layer of texture material on an uncoated portion of a substrate substantially to match a coated portion of the substrate, comprises an aerosol assembly, texture material, and propellant material. The aerosol assembly defines a product chamber and is selectively operable in a first mode in which the product chamber is sealed and in a second mode in which fluid is allowed to flow out of the product chamber along a dispensing passageway. The texture material and propellant material are disposed within the product chamber. The texture material has a base portion and a particulate portion containing at least one particulate material. When the aerosol assembly is in the second mode, the propellant material is adapted to force the texture material out of the aerosol assembly along the dispensing passageway and onto the uncoated portion of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Homax Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Lester R. Greer, Jr.
  • Agricultural machine, arrangement and method for delivering a fluid to a dispensing system
    Patent number: 7780096
    Abstract: An agricultural machine includes a dispensing system configured to dispense an agricultural fluid; a pump fluidly coupled to the dispensing system; and an arrangement configured to provide the agricultural fluid to the dispensing system. The arrangement includes at least one first reservoir configured to store the agricultural fluid, the at least one first reservoir being fluidly coupled to the pump; a second reservoir configured to store the agricultural fluid, the second reservoir being fluidly coupled to the pump; and a throttling device in fluid communication with the second reservoir and the pump. The throttling device is configured to throttle a flow of the agricultural fluid from the second reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventor: Robert L. Caruso
  • Non-vented liquid product dispenser
    Patent number: 7780045
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device which is used for the non-vented dispensing of liquid products from a container including a mobile base, an exhaust conduit and a push element which co-operates with a piston and a return spring. The invention is characterized in that the device includes a sealing and dosing bush bearing a sealing needle valve which can move in translation in a discharge channel in the bush, the needle valve being connected by means of a drive link to an axial guide rod which can slide in the exhaust conduit of the container that is connected to the channel by pressing on the bush and compressing the spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Rexam Dispensing SMT
    Inventor: Eric Rossignol
  • Insect repellent formulations
    Publication number: 20100196520
    Abstract: An insect repellent aqueous formulation comprising a combination of at least two essential oils, citrus peel tincture, and vinegar. A method of preparing an insect repellent aqueous formulation comprising: Mixing a combination of essential oils with an emulsifier and citrus tincture; Adding to the mixture obtained in (a) distilled water at a temperature of about 40° C. and vinegar, wherein the final volume/volume concentration of water is 90% and the final volume/volume concentration of vinegar is about 5%; Mixing the solution obtained in (b) for about 2 hours at ambient temperatures using a mechanical stirrer; and Allowing the mixed solution to rest prior to administration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2008
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Inventor: Hanan Elraz
  • Spraying device and use of this device
    Patent number: 7748647
    Abstract: Manual spraying device including a push-button that can be actuated manually, the push-button including a spray nozzle, the spray nozzle having an inner chamber adapted to receive a non-gaseous fluid product under pressure and delimited towards the outside by a perforated front wall, a reservoir for the fluid product to be sprayed, and a dispensing device that can be mechanically actuated by the push-button and adapted to transfer the fluid product from the reservoir to the inner chamber of the nozzle, the front wall having a plurality of calibrated holes, each having a diameter of between 1 and 100 ?m, the diameter of each hole not differing from a mean of the diameters of the various holes by more than 20%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Rexam Dispensing Systems S.A.S.
    Inventors: Bernard Clerget, Jean-Pierre Songbe, Pierre Dumont
  • Spraying device
    Publication number: 20100133358
    Abstract: A high volume-low pressure spraying device for viscous media, such as paint. The device is adapted to spray highly viscous media with relatively low air pressure and low flow resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2009
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Inventor: Alfred Göhring
  • Dispenser
    Patent number: 7721731
    Abstract: An inhalant dispenser has a cover 3 pivotally carried on a body 6. The cover has a cam arrangement for lifting a junction member 41 against the action of the spring in an inhalant can C. Lifting of the junction member cocks a breath actuated dose release mechanism. The latter includes a flap 61 in the breath path. The flap is carried on the junction member and is arranged to release a hinged member 48 by action of latches 70 on the flap and sears on the hinged member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Clinical Designs Ltd.
    Inventor: Raymond John Bacon
  • Fluid dispenser nozzle, a dispenser device including such a nozzle and a method of fabrication
    Patent number: 7721978
    Abstract: A fluid dispenser nozzle including a resilient sealing lip fitted on a substantially rigid support, the sealing lip being adapted to bear in leaktight manner against a shutter member belonging to the support that also includes a fastener member connected to the shutter member via a movable connection, the fastener member carrying the sealing lip. The movable connection is adapted to enable the shutter member to be moved from a first position in which the shutter member is spaced apart from the sealing lip to a second position in which the shutter member bears against the sealing lip and elastically deforms the sealing lip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: LVMH Recherche
    Inventor: Marc Chevalier
  • Clog-proof nozzle for spray cans
    Patent number: 7717355
    Abstract: A cap is provided for preventing clogging of a spray nozzle on a container. Structurally, the cap includes a hollow, truncated cone-shaped member with first and second ends. At its first end, the cap defines an orifice dimensioned to selectively receive the spray nozzle to create a fluid-tight seal with the container. At its second end, the cap defines a periphery. Further, the cap includes a panel that has a flat surface bounded by a perimeter that is interconnected to the periphery by an intermediate section. As a result, the cone-shaped member, intermediate section and panel form a fluid chamber. Fluid is positioned in the chamber for movement between a first location where the spray nozzle is submerged and a second location where the fluid is held at a distance from the spray nozzle for removal of the cap from the spray nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Inventor: John A. Benkovich, III
  • TEXTURE SPRAYER
    Publication number: 20100090019
    Abstract: A hand-held apparatus for spraying texture material includes a body having a handle, a texture material hopper mounted on the body, and a nozzle extending from the body for spraying texture material. The apparatus also includes an air source connection component operable to connect and disconnect a source of air to and from the body. The air source connection component comprises a first connection structure on the body that is configured to receive a corresponding second connection structure associated with the air source and secure the second connection structure to the body by rotating the second connection structure with respect to the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: WAGNER SPRAY TECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Craig L. Peterson, Anthony J. Torntore, Ross D. Rossner
  • Push-button sprayer equipped with a projecting side nozzle
    Patent number: 7694895
    Abstract: The invention concerns a pump sprayer equipped with a projecting side nozzle. The nozzle is defined at the end of a rectilinear element attached to the pushbutton and said element is force-mounted in a cavity of the push-button, which is of sufficient depth to enable a depression of selected length, determining the length of the projecting part of said element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Rexam Dispensing Systems S.A.S.
    Inventors: Jean-Louis Bougamont, Roger Didier Blondel
  • QUENCHED SOLIDS APPLICATOR
    Publication number: 20100084485
    Abstract: A quenched solids applicator includes a solids hopper for containing solids to be applied onto a foliage field or other field surface. A solids exhaust conduit terminates in an exhaust nozzle with a solids power source urging the solids from the hopper into the solids exhaust conduit and out through the exit nozzle. A liquid reservoir contains a liquid such as an aqueous based solution. The liquid exhaust conduit is also provided with a liquid pump metering liquid from the liquid reservoir to the liquid exhaust conduit having a liquid outlet in proximity to the exit nozzle to exhaust a confluent stream of quenched solids on an upward stream trajectory relative to the exit nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Applicant: The Andersons, Inc.
    Inventor: Timothy D. Birthisel
  • Aerosol spray texture apparatus for a particulate containing material
    Patent number: 7677420
    Abstract: A texturing system for applying texture material to a surface. The texturing system comprises a container, a valve assembly, texture material, and propellant material. The container assembly defines a product chamber. The valve assembly is mounted to the container assembly and is operable in closed and open configurations. The texture material comprises a coating portion and a particulate portion and is disposed within the product chamber. The particulate portion comprises urethane particles. The propellant material is disposed within the product chamber and is substantially inert to the urethane particles. Operation of the valve assembly in the open configuration allows the propellant material to force the texture material from the product chamber and onto the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Homax Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Lester R. Greer, Jr., Floyd R. French
  • VENTING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20100059606
    Abstract: A venting device for a trigger sprayer closure, comprising a venting ring (2) provided with apertures (14) for allowing the passage of fluid, a gasket (4) provided with an aperture (10) covered by a material (12) for allowing the passage of gas but which prevents liquid from passing therethrough, wherein the venting ring (2) is provided with a concentric channel (18) arranged to maintain fluid communication between the one or more apertures (14) of the venting ring (2) and the at least one aperture (10) of the gasket (4) if the relative positions of the respective apertures are changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2009
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Inventor: Clive Broadbent
  • Method and apparatus for spraying portions of an air-improving substance
    Patent number: 7665673
    Abstract: A method of spraying an air-improving substance in a room is provided. In particular, persons moving in the room are detected, and a spraying operation is performed while taking into account the detected movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: Hagleitner Hygiene International GmbH
    Inventor: Hans Georg Hagleitner
  • AIRBRUSH
    Publication number: 20100038453
    Abstract: An airbrush apparatus for use in generating a design on a desired object is disclosed. The apparatus and method of use are disclosed wherein the airbrush apparatus comprises a housing, boom, and sprayer head. A fluid to be applied is contained in individual cartridges and is drawn out by a vacuum effect caused by air that is being pumped from the housing across a feed tube which is in fluid communication with the cartridge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2009
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Applicant: BINNEY & SMITH INC.
    Inventors: Gary M. Barch, Paul J. Corsi, Douglas F. Melville, JR., Charles W. Dietterich, Luis Rodrigo Pineiro, Robert J. Henry, Wolfgang Witz
  • Small fixed quantity dispenser for aerosol container
    Patent number: 7658338
    Abstract: A subdivided fixed amount distributing apparatus for aerosol containers is provided in which aerosol contents exceeding a specified amount is prevented from being used in one cycle by keeping constant in total number of injection times at all times. A structure is simplified by making it possible to eject total amount to the outside every one time by means of a fixed amount injection valve, so that damage to the distributing apparatus due to outside air temperature is prevented and movement of the distributing apparatus is made smooth when it is pushed and released.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignees: Taisho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Toyo Aerosol Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiko Matsumoto, Ken Ogata
  • Spraying Device
    Publication number: 20100006672
    Abstract: A spraying device for spraying fragrance, pest control composition and/or a sanitising composition held within a pressurised container, the spraying device comprising a container receiving section (13) and a switching section (10) wherein the switching section (10) incorporates a solenoid switch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2006
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Applicant: RECKITT BENCKISER (UK) LIMITED
    Inventors: James ANDERSON, Wu Jin, Simon Woolley, Ivan Ye
  • Device for dispersing liquid active materials in particulate form comprising a sintered liquid conductor
    Publication number: 20090314854
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a device for generating particles comprising: a perforated plate comprising at least one orifice; an electromechanical transducer operably connected to said perforated plate or an optional base plate; a liquid source comprising: a liquid reservoir; and a liquid conductor in fluid communication with said perforated plate and in fluid communication with said liquid reservoir, said liquid conductor comprising at least one open cell composition and at least one stiff-wick composition, wherein said compositions are affixed to one another by sintering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2008
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Inventors: Fernando Ray Tollens, John Philip Hecht, Elizabeth Marianne Berg
  • Portable direct-current sprayer
    Patent number: 7631818
    Abstract: A portable direct-circuit sprayer includes a body, a platform, a pump and a control panel. The body includes a water chamber therein, a component chamber therein and two longitudinal shoulders on the interior of the component chamber. The platform is supported on the longitudinal shoulders in a cushioning manner. The pump is installed on the platform. The control panel is installed on the body in order to enclose the platform in the component chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Inventor: Scott Wu
  • APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR BLENDING FLUIDS
    Publication number: 20090294551
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for blending fluids and applying the blended fluid to a surface of an aircraft during deicing and anti-icing operations having a first tank, second tank, blend tank, pumps, conduits, heaters, controllers, and a delivery device. In operation, a controller compares the composition of the blended fluid in the blend tank to the composition of a target fluid that is determined by current ambient temperature of the environment, and advances first and second fluids from the first and second tanks, respectively, into the blend tank to achieve and maintain the target fluid composition in the blend tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2007
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Inventor: Richard L. Smith
  • Texture material for covering a repaired portion of a textured surface
    Patent number: 7624932
    Abstract: A texturing system for applying a desired texture pattern on a patched portion of a surface. The texturing system comprises a texture material, a selecting system, and a dispensing system. The texture material comprises a carrier, a binder, a filler, and a change material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Homax Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Lester R. Greer, Jr., John Kordosh, Ross Clawson
  • Enhancement of fragrance release from top of candles continuity
    Publication number: 20090289128
    Abstract: Combinations, assemblies and methods for releasing candles and like objects to promptly flamelessly release a fragrance are disclosed, which utilize a heater and a fan disposed above or at the top of the candle whereby heat and forced air are applied to the top of the material in the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2009
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Inventors: Ben Warren Borchert, Bart Kennington, Brian Beesley
  • System for pressurized delivery of fluids
    Patent number: 7621468
    Abstract: A pressurized spray system. The spray system has a flow path through which contents must pass to be dispensed from the system to the atmosphere. By maintaining the proper proportions of restrictions in the flow path to the spray nozzle exit orifice, a relatively constant mean particle size distribution may be obtained throughout the life of the spray system as the pressure decays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Scott Edward Smith, William Michael Cannon, Wim Wintmolders
  • AUTOMATIC ATOMAIZING SPRAY GUN
    Publication number: 20090283610
    Abstract: An automatic spray gun includes a nozzle (4) for ejecting the product that is to be sprayed, controlled by a needle valve (9), and means (14, 10) for controlling the movement of the needle (9). A tabular elastic sealing means (13) surrounds the needle valve (9) and is mounted trapped between the front (1a) and rear (1b) parts of the body. The interior surface of the tabular means (13) is tailored to the diameters of the needle valve (9) and of a control slide (14) mounted on the needle valve in order to move the needle thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Applicant: EXEL INDUSTRIES
    Inventor: Patrick Ballu
  • Device employing gas generating cell for facilitating controlled release of fluid into ambient environment
    Patent number: 7614568
    Abstract: A device for controllably releasing a fluid into an ambient environment. According to a particular embodiment of the present invention, the device comprises a housing having a fluid compartment and an orifice compartment disposed adjacent thereto and in fluid communication therewith via an orifice. The fluid compartment contains the fluid for release to the ambient environment. The orifice compartment includes a fluid exit opening covered by a removable sealing element and contains an initial quantity of fluid when the device is in an inactivated state. A fluid restrictor is disposed adjacent the orifice to restrict fluid flow from the fluid compartment into the orifice compartment in the inactivated state. A gas-generating cell is in selective communication with the fluid compartment such that gas generated by the cell is directed into the fluid compartment when the device is in an activated state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2009
    Assignee: Microlin, LLC
    Inventors: Ashok V. Joshi, Truman Wold, John J. McEvoy
  • Process for impregnating porous mineral substrates
    Patent number: 7611753
    Abstract: A process is provided for impregnating porous mineral substrates by a spray technique in which use is made of a gas-supported spraying assembly to apply liquid impregnating agent in a controlled manner to the substrate surface, the amount consumed being markedly less than the amount consumed in a conventional method of application by a flow-coating process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: Degussa AG
    Inventors: Bernd Bartkowiak, Kerstin Weissenbach, Nadja Kempkes, Burkhard Standke
  • Unified mounting cup and valve stem assembly
    Publication number: 20090266850
    Abstract: A unified assembly of a mounting cup and valve stem assembly for aerosol containers. The mounting cup contains a flat central portion having an inner section extending downward from its periphery. An outer section extends upward from the lower edge of the inner section and abuts the inner section. The inner and outer sections constitute the lower wall. The outer section extends above the flat central portion and ends in a channel which can fit onto the bead of an aerosol container. The flat central portion has at least one hole through it. The valve stem assembly contains a flat circular upper piece having holes corresponding to those in the mounting cup. The holes are the open top ends of chambers for springs and plungers. Valve stems are below the chamber. The lower wall of the mounting cup is crimped to hold the mounting cup to the valve stem assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2008
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Inventor: Ronald D. Green
  • Filtering apparatus for inlet fluid into a pressure chamber of a sprayer
    Publication number: 20090266917
    Abstract: A backpack sprayer having a tank with a filling opening at the top thereof and a pressure chamber therein is provided with filtering apparatus for preventing particles in the fluid in the tank from entering an inlet port of the pressure chamber located near the bottom of the tank when suction generated by a pump that depends from the bottom of the pressure chamber causes fluid in the tank to flow through the inlet port into the pressure chamber. The fluid pressurized by the pump flows through an outlet port from the pressure chamber for spraying when a valve in the nozzle at the end of a hose communicating with the outlet port is actuated by an operator. The filtering apparatus is provided by a filter in a frame removably captured in a fixture projecting outwardly from the outside of the pressure chamber on opposite sides of the inlet port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2008
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Inventor: Gregory Allen Klein
  • Generation of therapeutic microfoam
    Patent number: 7604185
    Abstract: Improved therapeutic sclerosing microfoams and methods and devices for making them are provided that have advantage in producing a consistent profile injectable foam with minimal input by the physician yet using high volume percentages of blood dispersible gases, thus avoiding use of potentially hazardous amounts of nitrogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: BTG International Ltd.
    Inventors: Tariq Osman, Sheila Bronwen Flynn, David Dakin Iorwerth Wright, Anthony David Harman, Timothy David Boorman
  • Systems and methods for applying texture material to ceiling surfaces
    Patent number: 7600659
    Abstract: An aerosol system for dispensing sprayable material in a desired spray pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Homax Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Lester R. Greer, Jr., Donald J. Stern, James A. Tryon
  • Spray head and device for delivery of a liquid
    Patent number: 7600701
    Abstract: A spray head and a device for delivery of a liquid which enables the liquid to be delivered from a container to which the spray is connected both as a spray mist and as a jet. A first feature is that the delivery tube is shorter than the container diameter or the inside diameter of a protective cap for the container. A second feature is that the spray head—especially with the delivery tube which is and/or is not connected to the nozzle—does not project laterally beyond the perimeter of the container and/or fits under the protective cap. A third feature is that the delivery tube can be pivoted up away from the nozzle. A fourth feature is that the spray head has a groove-shaped top recess for holding the delivery tube. These features are usable singly or in combination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Seaquist Perfect Dispensing GmbH
    Inventors: Bernhard Jasper, Ralf Jordan, Wilfred Otte
  • Deicing apparatus
    Patent number: 7588195
    Abstract: A deicing apparatus may include a reservoir containing a deicing agent, a distribution network, and at least a first nozzle, for deicing a surface, such as a sidewalk. In one embodiment, at least one or more of the reservoir or distribution network is located underground and at least one or more of the reservoir, distribution network, and nozzle is operatively fixed with respect to the associated surface. The apparatus may further be provided with pumping means for pumping the deicing agent through the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2009
    Assignee: Louis Berkman Winter Products
    Inventor: Robert A. Balogh
  • Power sprayer
    Patent number: 7588198
    Abstract: The present invention is a dispenser adapted to be coupled to a fluid container. The dispenser comprises a dispensing head, an energy source, and a fluid pathway. The dispensing head includes a fluid pump, a motor adapted to power the pump, a trigger adapted to control the motor, and a nozzle orifice in fluid communication with a discharge end of the pump. The fluid pathway has one portion in fluid communication with an intake end of the pump and another portion inside the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2009
    Assignee: S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
    Inventors: James Russell Hornsby, Marcellus Rambo Benson, James Augustus Keefe, III, Joseph Lee McGowan
  • Aerosol lubricant and dispensing method
    Patent number: 7578372
    Abstract: An aerosol container containing a propellant and a highly hydrogenated mineral oil lubricant for the lubrication of gaskets in pipe segments. Preferred propellants are normally gaseous hydrocarbons. The preferred lubricant is the compound identified by the Chemical Abstracts Registry No. 8042-47-5. Preferred gaskets are those made of SBR, BR, EPM. And EPDM. A preferred actuating valve is an omnidirectional valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Inventor: Ronald D. Green
  • SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AGITATED AND PRESSURIZED RESERVOIR MOUNTED DIRECTLY TO AUTOMATED SPRAY DISPENSER
    Publication number: 20090194609
    Abstract: An agitated and pressurized paint pot that is mounted directly to a paint spray dispenser uses a small volume pressurized pot with constant agitation. This design prevents the settling of material and ensures that the materials are applied through the system at a consistent feed rate to meet the specific needs of applying radar absorbing materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Applicant: LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: LARRY T. BURTON, JAMES R. REED, JACOB A. JOHNSON, KELLY B. CHOBAN