Patent EP-2781162-A1 (EP)
Inventor: BORIE THOMAS
IPC: A21C15/00
Filed: 2014-03-12
Abstract: The apparatus comprises a container (1) for a viscous product comprising a casing (10) made of a deformable flexible material, and a rotatable dispensing head (3) comprising a body on which a set of sockets is arranged. The casing comprises an upstream end (11) having a filling opening (12) and a downstream end (16) having a dispensing opening (17), which is adapted to a connection piece comprising an internal passage communicating with the dispensing opening and adapted to receive the socket having an outlet end provided with a cutting cord adapted to provide a predetermined shape. The apparatus comprises a container (1) for a viscous product comprising a casing (10) made of a deformable flexible material, and a rotatable dispensing head (3) comprising a body on which a set of sockets is arranged. The casing comprises an upstream end (11) having a filling opening (12) and a downstream end (16) having a dispensing opening (17), which is adapted to a connection piece comprising an internal passage communicating with the dispensing opening and adapted to receive the socket having an outlet end provided with a cutting cord adapted to provide a predetermined shape. The body is connected to the connection piece along a pivotal connection adapted to guide the rotatable dispensing head about an axis of a connection between the body and the connecting piece so as to selectively connect the internal passage of the connection piece to one of the sockets. The pivotal connection comprises an inner core housing of frustoconical shape provided in the body of the head and a cone assembly of the connecting piece, and a hollow body forming the internal passage. The cone assembly is complementary to the inner core housing and slidably inserted in the inner core housing. Each of the sockets is circumferentially distributed to the inner core housing, in which it opens through the inlet port of the socket adapted to be brought into contact with an aperture formed on a conical surface of the cone assembly when the dispensing head is guided in rotation about the cone assembly. Each of the sockets radially extends along the thickness of the body from its input port to its output port opposite to the input port. The device further comprises an indicating unit adapted to visually indicate the selectively connected socket to the internal passage. The indicating unit includes a first visual indicator disposed on the connection piece and second visual pins disposed on the dispensing head associated with the sockets. The first visual indicator and the second visual pins are placed at right angles to each other to allow the selective connection of the internal passage. The downstream end of the casing has an external thread. The connection piece comprises an annular shaped ferrule provided with an internal thread capable of cooperating with the external thread for mounting the connection piece on the downstream end of the casing. The casing comprises a removable base adapted to be joined to the upstream end of the casing so as to close the opening filling of the casing. The dispensing head is formed in one piece by injection molding of a thermoplastic material. The casing is made of an elastically deformable material of thermoplastic elastomer type.