Abstract: A fluid applicator system includes a container member that has a bottom wall and a perimeter wall that extend upwardly from the bottom wall. The bottom wall and the perimeter wall define an interior space. The container member has top portion coupled to the perimeter wall. The top portion has an aperture that extends therethrough. The container member is for storing a fluid to be applied. An extension member is substantially hollow and elongate. The extension member has an interior in environmental communication with the interior space of the container member. An applicator assembly is operationally coupled to the extension member such that fluid stored in the container member is flowable through the extension member to an exterior surface of the applicator assembly, the applicator assembly is for applying the fluid to skin of a user.

Abstract: An applicator includes a reservoir charged with fluid. The reservoir has a discharge-controlling mechanism at one end for applying the fluid. The fluid contains at least one organic solvent, such as mythylcyclohexane, and is charged with a scarcely volatile liquid substance, such as an alkylene oxide adduct of diglycerin, having no compatibility with the applying fluid. The scarcely volatile liquid substance forms a movable plug for an end part of the applying fluid in a contact state and the rear of the plug in the reservoir is released to the atmosphere. The applicator can include writing instruments including a felt tip pen and a ballpoint pen, a corrector, an applicator for adhesive and a dressing instrument.

Abstract: A liquid marker system utilizes three primary components to permit marking of lines of various widths from a single nib. The three components are a porous nib, a transfer wick and a squeezable container. Operation relies on different squeeze pressures applied to the housing to produce different line widths from the single nib as the nib is moved across a marked surface. The porous wick provides a resistance to flow until the bottle is squeezed and then supplies a minimum of capillary flow to the nib. The user squeezes the container to overcome the resistance of the wick. No venting of the container interior is required because the wick and nib system allows the passage of air into the container when the container is returned to its unstressed (i.e., un-squeezed) condition.

Abstract: The present invention provides antimicrobial skin-preparation delivery systems useable to disinfect a surgical site for surgery. The delivery systems include an antimicrobial alcohol gel formulation contained within a sealed, flexible container and a gel formulation dispenser connected to the container. The gel formulation dispenser includes a container connector connected to the flexible container and a gel applicator having a sealed piercing member which is slidably engaged with the container connector. An applicator pad is porous and also has enlarged holes for passage of the gel formulation. The gel formulation dispenser pierces a seal in the container and delivers the antimicrobial alcohol gel formulation from the container to the surgical site. Flow rate of the gel formulation is largely controlled by the amount of external pressure of squeezing a user applied to the flexible container. The antimicrobial skin-preparation formula includes iodine, alcohol and gel.

Abstract: An applicator for footwear, including a receptacle for containing a cleaning product and/or a polishing product. A first cover is mounted to the receptacle with a cleaning device coupled to the cover. At least one valve for delivering the cleaning product or polishing product from the receptacle to the cleaning device is fitted into the first cover and extends to a base of the receptacle. A second cover is adapted to cover the cleaning device. The second cover includes a sponge coupled to an outer surface of the cover and a lid to cover the sponge.

Abstract: A writing instrument has an accurate operation and simple structure in a mechanism for controlling ink supply by air enclosed in an ink passage, and a method of producing the same. The ink is blocked by the air enclosed in a blocking chamber (11), the blocking chamber communicates with an ink holding passage (18) and has a porous relay body (15) inserted therein, an ink storing portion (17) is formed in a base portion of the relay body, the ink in the ink holding passage (18) descends and contacts the relay body (15) as the ink in the ink storing portion is consumed, and thereby is transferred to the ink storing portion, and the air is prevented from being absorbed into the porous relay body (15).

Abstract: An easily opened, elongated tubular container is disclosed. The container is composed of an inner tube having at least one open end and being adapted for filling with various liquid substances. An outer tube, relatively reciprocative with respect to the inner tube, and having at least one sealing element capable of sealing the open end of the inner tube is provided, and at least one attachment is installed at the exit open end of the outer tube. The sealing element, which is formed as one piece with the outer tube, closes the opening of the inner tube. The outer tube is displaceable, by the operator, from a position which closes the open end of the inner tube to the reverse position which releases the open end of the inner tube so that the liquid in the inner tube is released to flow out the open end and be absorbed by the attachment.

Abstract: A hand-held washing device comprises a scrubber and a fluid dispenser to contain a cleaning fluid such as liquid soap. The device is constructed of an mesh material bound together in a plurality of pleats. The fluid dispenser includes a fill opening and an outlet. A plug is sized to be removable mounted within the fill opening. When mounted, the plug prevents liquid within the fluid dispenser from escaping through the fill opening.

Abstract: A convertible surface contacting implement having a head member and a long handle. The head member has a base, and a surface contacting member carried by the base. The head member forms a short-handled implement with the base acting as a short handle. A first connector is provided on the base and a second connector is provided on one end of the long handle. The second connector cooperates with the first connector to detachably connect the long handle to the base to form a long-handled implement. The implement may be a brush or an applicator. Preferably, the base of the head member is hollow to carry a liquid dispersed to the surface contacting member.

Abstract: A hair dyeing tool including a fluid storage chamber defined within a container body and adapted to store a coating liquid therein and a coating member having a comb member disposed forwardly of the container body. The container body serves directly as the fluid storage chamber. A valve mechanism is disposed between the fluid storage chamber and the comb member, and a rear knock member is disposed backwardly of the container body so that it is actuated by the valve mechanism to eject the hair dye liquid forwardly.

Abstract: A liquid applicator apparatus for physically disadvantaged persons, but beneficial to all persons in showers, bathtubs and at the beach. The apparatus allows elderly and handicapped persons to apply health and beauty products to difficult and heretofore inaccessible body areas. It has a flexible reservoir for storing and dispersing liquid health or beauty products through an applicator. The applicator is attached to an end portion of a slender elongated tubular member with a single or plurality of ball and socket joints. In a first aspect of the invention, when the reservoir is squeezed, a portion of a stored liquid is dispersed through an open cell pad. In a second aspect, when the reservoir is squeezed, a portion of a stored liquid is dispersed through a plurality of small apertures. The elongated tubular member and ball and socket joints allow a user to apply the health and beauty products to difficult and heretofore inaccessible body areas.

Abstract: The applicator for an anti-microbial prep solution of this invention includes a generally hollow handle having a closed proximal end and an open distal end, a foam pad attached to the hollow handle over the open distal end, and a flow control valve disposed in the distal portion of the hollow handle proximal of the foam pad to control the flow of anti-microbial prep solution to the foam pad.

Abstract: In a pen having a constant ink supplying device, the inner wall of the front end of the filler is installed sequentially with a barrel, a plug, a valve, a nib holder and a nib. The plug has a channel for feeding ink through the control of a ball. The front end of the plug is installed with a valve. A cavity for storing ink is installed between the valve and the plug. The nib is inserted into the nib holder. The front end of the filler has a support and an ink inlet. When writing, the nib is pressed and moves so that the support at the front end of the nib holder will push the valve and supply ink to the nib.

Abstract: The present invention provides a cosmetic applicator for a fluid material which comprises a container and a dispenser. Generally, the dispenser works by an actuating mechanism. In particular, a user depresses an ergonomically shaped top portion, which then actuates a pump that pumps a fluid cosmetic material from the lower portion of the container by means of a conduit through an aperture. The fluid cosmetic material pumped through the conduit and the aperture from the lower portion of the container rises through the conduit and saturates the closed cell sponge tip. The user then glides the closed cell sponge tip across her skin to apply the fluid cosmetic material. The cosmetic applicator is hermetically sealed with a cap, which can be removed by the user.

Abstract: A dispenser for personal use products to be applied to the user's body, of the type comprising a container (10) provided with a closed bottom wall (11) and an upper edge (12) affixing a perforated upper wall (40) made of a liquid impermeable flexible material, said container (10) having an amount of product (P) in gel or cream form; and a piston (20) provided inside the container (10) and being selectively and axially displaceable, by means of an actuator (30) mounted in the container (10), in order to expel a corresponding amount of product (P) through the perforated upper wall (40).

Abstract: An applicator for footwear, including a receptacle for containing a cleaning product and/or a polishing product. A first cover is mounted to the receptacle with a cleaning device coupled to the cover. At least one valve for delivering the cleaning product or polishing product from the receptacle to the cleaning device is fitted into the first cover and extends to a base of the receptacle. A second cover is adapted to cover the cleaning device. The second cover includes a sponge coupled to an outer surface of the cover and a lid to cover the sponge.

Abstract: The applicator for an anti-microbial prep solution of this invention includes a generally hollow handle having a closed proximal end and an open distal end, a foam pad attached to the hollow handle over the open distal end, and a slit formed in the foam pad that acts as a flow control valve.

Abstract: Device for applying liquid media to the skin, composed of a vessel containing the fluid, the vessel being formed from a pressurized gas package with a spray valve and an application element which is attached to this vessel and to which the fluid from the vessel can be fed, wherein the application element 4 is composed of a mount 41 which is fitted onto the vessel 1 and of a moveably mounted carrier element 42, the carrier element 42 bearing on the spray valve 3, and holding a distributor head 43 which has the filling applied to it when the spray valve 3 is triggered, and being capable of being guided in the mount 41 essentially in parallel with the axis 31 of the spray valve, the spray valve 3 being activated by lightly pressing on or tilting the distributor head 43.

Abstract: The dispenser has a mesh fabric applicator surface which provides for a uniform flow of the semisolid substance to be dispensed, but does not have the problem of post-extrusion flow. That is, there is not required such an overpressure to start the flow of the substance, with this overpressure remaining after use of the applicator and causing the semisolid substance to extrude through the applicator surface after use. The mesh fabric surface can be a woven or nonwoven fabric, in one or more plies. Nonwoven fabrics include apertured extruded films. The mesh fabric is heat bonded to the upper frame of the applicator and can have an underlying support. The mesh fabric can yield to follow the contours of a skin surface, but will not be permanently distorted. There is provided a surface for a dispenser for a viscous semisolid substance where there is improved shear of the semisolid substance and a more uniform application.

Abstract: A free ink marking instrument for dispensing a fluid. The instrument includes a feeder, a passage of reduced capillarity surrounding the feeder for conveying at least one of fluid and air to the reservoir during an increasing pressure differential between air in the reservoir and the atmosphere, a porous buffer configured for storing ink during periods of a decreasing pressure differential between air in the reservoir and the atmosphere, and a divider tube separating the buffer and the passage along a majority of the length of the buffer. The fluid and air may enter the feeder through a minor surrounding portion of the buffer during the period of the increasing pressure differential. An ink and air conveyor for use in a free ink marking instrument is also disclosed. A method for compensating for changes in ambient temperature and pressure in a free ink marking instrument is also disclosed.

Abstract: A device for diffusing one or several fluid product doses, each dose being contained in a sealed reserve defined by an envelope made of a flexible and ductile material, such that a collapsing pressure applied on the reserve causes the envelope to burst open releasing the product contained in the reserve. The envelope is locally provided with at least a weakened zone forming a pre-opening, so as to cause the envelope to burst open at the pre-opening, thereby channelling the product through the pre-opening in a predetermined direction.

Abstract: A swab means (10) for applying fluids to a surface having a quick, easy opening dispenser package portion (12 and 14) and at least one sponge-like member (30). The dispenser package portion (12 and 14) includes a wall (12) made from a thermoplastic material and having an outlet creating formation (20). When a sufficient force is applied to the at least one outlet creating formation (20), an outlet opening (18) is formed allowing a release of the fluid contents (17) to flow from the dispenser package (12 and 14) and into the overlying at least one sponge-like member (30).

Abstract: A device for packaging and applying a substance, in particular a cosmetic or a care product, the device comprising a receptacle for containing the substance, said receptacle being provided at the top with an applicator that is permeable to the substance and that has an inside face fed with the substance coming from the receptacle. In the vicinity of the bottom face of the applicator, the device comprises an element that forms an intermediate reservoir that is in permanent communication with the receptacle and that is suitable for retaining a certain quantity of the substance when the device is turned upside-down from a head-up position and is then returned to the head-up position, said intermediate reservoir-forming element also being arranged to enable the substance retained in this way to feed the applicator, at least in certain conditions of use of the device.

Abstract: The invention relates to a system for the application of quick-drying coating compositions, where the system contains of [sic] a plastic container having a pressure release valve and containing the coating composition, of [sic] a sponge having a planar application surface and having a pore structure, connected by capillaries and open at the application surface, which sponge embeds the pressure release valve, and of [sic] a lid for airtight sealing of the sponge when the system is not being used.

Abstract: A liquid applicator has a vaned collector. The collector's rear end is abutted on a partition having a concave portion, creating a gap B therebetween. A cylindrical projection is formed inside the rear sleeve concentrically on its axis so that a replaceable cartridge holding ink is removably attached with its front end fitted to the cylindrical projection. A trunk core's rear end is inserted into a communication passage that is formed in the cylindrical projection with a gap A formed between the trunk core surface and the wall surface of the communication passage. This gap A is put in communication with an ink slit of the collector via gap B. Grooves are formed in the convex portion while a number of ribs are formed apart with respect to a barrel's circumference on inner peripheral surface of the communication passage of the cylindrical projection. These ribs stably support the rear end of the trunk core.

Abstract: A hand-held liquid/lotion dispensing device for applying lotion, medicinal rubs, oils, sunscreens to the user's back. The hand-held liquid/lotion dispensing device includes an elongate member having a handle portion, an elongate intermediate portion connected to the handle portion, and a dispensing head portion connected to the intermediate portion and having a compartment disposed therein with the compartment being adapted to store liquid/lotion therein; and also includes a pump assembly for urging the liquid/lotion from the dispensing head portion; and further includes an applicator assembly being removably attached to the dispensing head portion.

Abstract: A liquid dispenser arrangement includes a self-contained pump and a discharge head. The pump has a liquid reservoir, while the discharge head has an applicator construction and an aperture. The aperture will be in liquid flow communication with the liquid reservoir. The discharge head is constructed and arranged to selectively take in liquid from an external liquid source through the aperture and convey the liquid to the liquid reservoir, when a pressure differential is established between the liquid reservoir and the external liquid source by the pump. The discharge head is also constructed and arranged to selectively eject liquid from the liquid reservoir through the aperture for distribution by the applicator construction. The applicator construction preferably includes a molded, flexible member with the aperture being in a portion of the flexible member. Methods of assembly and use are also disclosed.

Abstract: An adhesive, paint and adhesive film removal tool provides different scraping edge configurations for different substrates. The removal tool has a gripping portion which acts also as a bottle cap and a blade portion having a gently curved portion, a straight edge portion and a sharp edge portion allowing one to remove adhesive, paint and adhesively bound film from a variety of substrates.

Abstract: An applicator for a product of viscous consistency includes a product reservoir on top of which there is a dispensing head equipped with a rigid application element provided with pores which communicate with one another in all directions. The product has a viscosity chosen so that passage of the product through the pores under gravity and/or capillary action is prevented. The applicator includes a device for compressing the product and producing a sufficient pressure on the product to push it through the pores when a dose of product is dispensed.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a composition comprising an antiperspirant salt suspended in a carrier vehicle thickened with a silicone latex. The composition typically comprises about 50 to 90% carrier vehicle, which is advantageously substantially comprised of a volatile silicone, about 3 to 30% antiperspirant salt, which is typically an aluminum chlorohydrate or aluminum-zirconium chlorohydrate, and about 3-25% silicone latex. Preferably the composition will contain an auxiliary thickening agent such as a fumed silica, typically in an amount of 0.01 to 0.1%. The composition will preferably have a viscosity of about 12,000 to 50,000 cP. The present invention also embraces an apparatus for delivering the above-described composition, said apparatus having a porous dome with a porosity of about 150&mgr; to 400&mgr; through which the composition is delivered.

Abstract: A marking instrument comprising a tubular holder having its lower end capped by an ink containing pad of a predetermined geometrical shape and disposed at an acute angle relative to the tubular axis. The pad may be removable from the tubular holder for replacement by another pad of the same or different geometrical configuration. The tubular holder may contain a quantity of marking ink which may be released to flow to the pad by the valve means.

Abstract: A multipurpose liquid applicator that combines bathing functions one comprehensive unit, having no powered components. The applicator has a long handle for cleaning hard to reach areas such as the back, and an upper hollow handle section that acts a reservoir for liquid soap, suntan lotion, moisturizing lotion, etc. Liquids may be either poured directly into the reservoir or, using the lower handle which fits within the upper section and acts as a suctioning and pumping device, the liquids may be extracted from their containers into the reservoir for temporary storage and thereafter, pumped into the applicator head and to the applicator for use in cleansing. Three interchangeable applicator heads fit into the applicator head subassembly: one, a sponge head for bathing; two, a hollow flexible rubber head for massaging the body and three, a soft bristle brush head for scrubbing, all of which allow for the continual application of lotion, soap or other liquids during bathing or massaging.

Abstract: An applicator for applying liquid media has an applicator head (10) attached to a stem (1). The applicator head (10) includes a spherical applicator freely rotatable on an axle (6) which extends at right angles to the stem (1) that is of a length that an operator can hold the stem (1), and rest the surface of the applicator (10) on the ground. The applicator (10) has a porous resilient envelope (11) which surrounds a sleeve (7) located on the axle (6), a reservoir in the stem (1) charges the porous envelope (11) with liquid media.

Abstract: A hand held cleaning apparatus for cleaning small jobs that includes a supply of cleaning fluid. The apparatus (10) includes a body (12) with a reservoir (13) for storing a supply of a cleaning fluid (15). The body includes an opening (17) that is sealed with a removable cap (16). The cap includes a loop portion (18) that can be used to hang the apparatus on a hook or other protrusion for storage. The body is in operative connection with a cleaning head (14). The cleaning head includes a scrubber (22) comprised of an absorbent material such as a sponge. The scrubber is secured to the cleaning head with a holder tube (26) that extends through a bore (24) in the interior of the scrubber. The cleaning head further includes a fluid pathway (28) between the reservoir and the holder tube that allows fluid to flow from the reservoir into the holder tube. The holder tube includes a plurality of apertures that allow fluid to flow out of the holder tube and into the scrubber.

Abstract: A ballpoint pen in which ink is freely received in the shaft of the ballpoint pen or is received in a cartridge includes a supply wick, a compensating body and a writing tip with a ball, wherein the ball is fastened and rotatably mounted in a tube, and wherein the tube has a continuous ink duct. The ink duct of the ballpoint pen is constructed as a free throughbore and does not have any additional core bodies or ink conductors, and the supply wick extends axially completely through the compensating body in the area of the compensating chambers formed in the compensating body.

Abstract: A device or fluid regulator controls the supply of fluid to a consumer element from a fluid reservoir. A fluid supply line leads from the fluid reservoir to the consumer element. A valve is disposed in the fluid supply line. The valve element of the valve automatically opens the valve opening whenever downstream of the valve the consumer element has consumed a predetermined quantity of fluid. The valve is embodied as a capillary valve and downstream of the valve opening contains a capillary space that is connected to the fluid supply line, the capillary space being partially delimited by the valve element, which closes off the valve opening by the capillary force imparted by the fluid in the capillary space when the capillary space is filled with a predetermined amount of fluid.

Abstract: A liquid dispenser arrangement includes a self-contained pump and a discharge head. The pump has a liquid reservoir, while the discharge head has an applicator construction and an aperture. The aperture will be in liquid flow communication with the liquid reservoir. The discharge head is constructed and arranged to selectively take in liquid from an external liquid source through the aperture and convey the liquid to the liquid reservoir, when a pressure differential is established between the liquid reservoir and the external liquid source by the pump. The discharge head is also constructed and arranged to selectively eject liquid from the liquid reservoir through the aperture for distribution by the applicator construction. The applicator construction preferably includes a molded, flexible member with the aperture being in a portion of the flexible member. Methods of assembly and use are also disclosed.

Abstract: In a method for disinfecting the brush head of a toothbrush, disinfecting bristles (20, 200) are mounted on a substrate and are wetted with a disinfectant (15). The wetted disinfecting bristles are inserted between toothbrush bristles (17) of a toothbrush head (11) and maintained between the toothbrush bristles for a time selected to disinfect the toothbrush bristles. The bristles can be inserted between the toothbrush bristles dry and subsequently wetted with the disinfectant. An apparatus for performing the method is disclosed.

Abstract: A cleaning device provided with a detergent control structure includes a tube, a connector, a control valve, and a handle. The tube is elongated and has a spray head and a cleaning element at a front end thereof. A rear end of the tube is connected to the handle provided with the control valve. The connector is internally divided into first and second channels and is coupled to a detergent box at a bottom end thereof. The control valve includes a securing block and a rotary block that are respectively provided with two round holes and a round hole. In use, the handle is connected to a water hose to allow input of water. By turning the handle to cause the round hole of the rotary block to align with the first round hole of the securing block and the first channel of the connector, clean water can be ejected from the spray head.

Abstract: An assembly for the application of a product includes a container (104) which contains a product to be dispensed and is provided with an outlet for the product, and a component (114) for applying the product, which has an application surface (118) and a peripheral edge (122). The component includes a region (126) in communication with the product outlet of the container. The application component comprises a part (127), separate from the application component, which limits the radial diffusion of the product in the application component, this part being located between the region and the peripheral edge of the application component.

Abstract: A herbicide applicator has a handle and a dispensing end which, in one embodiment may be detachable. Herbicide is introduced into the handle and flows through the handle to the dispensing end. The dispensing end has a plurality openings through which the herbicide flows. An absorbent sleeve is over the dispensing end to control the herbicide flow. The absorbent sleeve has concentric ridges between which the herbicide is dispensed.

Abstract: In order to supply a coating to a roller, a coating supplying groove is provided along only one side of a core which is connected to an end of a support so as to act as a shaft of a roller. A coating reservoir between the roller and the core is located to one side of the core. To permit engagement and disengagement between the support and the core, an elastic member is mounted within a coating flowing hole of the core, while an inserting groove and a stopping groove are provided in the inner peripheral surface of the coating flowing hole of the core. To automatically stop and start the supply of coating to the coating roller, and to adjust the flow rate, the number of revolutions of the roller are detected and used to actuate the coating feed mechanism to supply coating at a flow rate corresponding to the number of revolutions and or direction of rotation of the roller.

Abstract: A coating container comprises a flexible container body made of plastics and capable of being depressed, an intermediate plug having a through hole, an inner cap, a coating attachment made of a felt, having a through hole, and held over the inner cap, and an outer cap having a sealing cylinder. The intermediate plug is fitted in an opening of a neck portion of the container body. The outer cap is fitted over the inner cap. The inner cap has a top plate with a through hole at a center area. An outlet cylinder having a blocked upper surface and outlet hole at a side wall is provided over the through hole. A sealing cylinder is provided outside the outlet cylinder. A circumferential wall is provided along an outer edge of the top plate. The outer cap is comprised of a circumferential wall, a top plate, and a sealing cylinder inserted into the through hole in the coating attachment and having a sealing plate at a lower side.

Abstract: A hand-held container for predissolving a predetermined amount of detergent with a predetermined amount of solvent comprises a housing, a resilient side wall, and a dispensing passage. The dispensing passage has a flow restriction portion and an applicator at the distal end. The container is intended for use with fluids with a viscosity of less than about 500 cP. When so used, and aligned to a dispensing orientation, fluid flows out of the dispensing passage at a rate from about 0 ml/min to about 300 ml/min, unless manual pressure is exerted on the resilient side wall.

Abstract: A liquid applicator having a curved hollow handle and a sponge head assembly. Liquid is poured into the hollow handle or the hollow handle is threadably secured to a threaded neck of a bottle. The sponge head assembly removably mounts to a dispensing end of the hollow handle and includes a base and a sponge. A pair of aligned holes are formed in the dispensing end of the handle and the base of the sponge head assembly for allowing liquid contained within the handle to flow therethrough and be absorbed by the sponge. A valve assembly is provided to adjust the flow of the liquid from the handle to the sponge. The valve assembly may include a dial formed with a plurality of different-sized holes. The dial is rotatable between a fully open position, a closed position or several intermediate positions. Alternatively, the valve assembly may include a slide plate having a tapered opening.

Abstract: A device for applying lotion to the skin, and particularly to the back and the legs of a user, includes an elongate handle and head portion with an enlarged base having an annular rim surrounding a mouth and a neck extending from the base and terminating at an open end; the elongate handle being attachable to the open end of the neck and including a removable cap to facilitate filling of lotion within an interior reservoir thereof. A lotion dispensing assembly on the head portion includes a pair of overlying plate members covering the open mouth, the plate members being movable relative to one another to position corresponding apertures formed through each plate member in either an offset relation or an aligned relation, thereby defining closed and open positions to selectively control flow of lotion through the plate members and to an exterior application surface.

Abstract: A combined actuator and bottle for storing a fluid and applying the fluid, includes a container having an opening; an elongated tube having a longitudinal axis, the tube being located in the opening, and the tube being slidable along the longitudinal axis relative to the container and being sealed against the container so that an intake end of the tube is located within the container and an outlet end of the tube is located outside the container; the tube having a duct extending in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the tube, the duct forming a fluid connection between the outlet end of the tube and the intake end that is situated within the container; an applicator head mounted at the outlet end of the tube and having an applicator member receiving the fluid from the outlet end of the tube and supplying the fluid to a dispensing opening thereof having an axis which is substantially transverse to a sliding direction of the tube; and a valve assembly mounted in the applicator head, the valve assembly in

Abstract: The inventive fluid dispenser includes a container in which the fluid to be dispensed is stored and an attached brush-type applicator from which the stored fluid may be selectively applied to a work surface. The container has an open end to which an applicator housing is attached and which carries a bristled brush. An insert disposed within the applicator housing defines passageways through which stored fluid is deliverable from the container to the applicator housing. The fluid-delivery passageways are automatically closed when an associated cap is detachably positioned about the brush-carrying end of the dispenser through deformation or displacement of the applicator housing to prevent the unintended delivery of stored fluid into the applicator housing during periods of nonuse. The insert may also include a vapors-release passageway extending between the container and the applicator housing for venting vapors into the brush-enveloped cap and thereby prevent drying out of the brush during periods of nonuse.

Abstract: An assembly for the application of a product includes a container (104) which contains a product to be dispensed and is provided with an outlet for the product, and a component (114) for applying the product, which has an application surface (118) and a peripheral edge (122). The component includes a region (126) in communication with the product outlet of the container. The application component comprises a part (127), separate from the application component, which limits the radial diffusion of the product in the application component, this part being located between the region and the peripheral edge of the application component.

Abstract: An applicator with reservoir is comprised of a reservoir having an open top and a flow cap threadably secured thereto. A closure valve snap fits onto the flow cap and thereafter threadably rotates about the flow cap between a closed and an open position. An applicator cap, having an applicator tip, such as a brush, a roller, or the like, is threadably secured to the closure valve. In a normally open position, the closure valve permits a fluid flow path between the reservoir and the applicator tip. In a normally closed position, the closure valve interrupts the fluid flow path.