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Patent US5964417 - Dispenser for discharging media - Google Patents
A dispenser for discharging media has a duct (14) including a medium outlet (12), and a dosage carrier (34, 35) mounted on a base body (2) and including receptacles (36, 37) for receiving doses of the medium entirely enclosed in respective reservoir spaces (17), a medium holder (21) disposed beneath...http://www.google.com/patents/US5964417?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5964417 - Dispenser for discharging media
Publication number US5964417 A
Application number US 08/966,377
Also published as DE19647947A1, EP0844007A2, EP0844007A3
Publication number 08966377, 966377, US 5964417 A, US 5964417A, US-A-5964417, US5964417 A, US5964417A
Inventors Esther Amann, Karl-Heinz Fuchs
Patent Citations (22), Non-Patent Citations (1), Referenced by (48), Classifications (15), Legal Events (6)
Dispenser for discharging media
US 5964417 A
a base body (2) which can be manually oriented into a discharge position;
a dosage carrier (34, 35) including at least one receptacle (36, 37) for receiving a dose of the medium entirely enclosed in a reservoir space (17) while providing a predosed amount of the medium, said base body (2) supporting said receptacle (36, 37) when said dispenser (1) is in said discharge position, said reservoir space (17) having a top portion and having a bottom portion, which when opened, communicates with a reservoir outlet (15);
duct means (14) including an outlet duct (28, 29) and a medium outlet (12) at which the medium leaves said dispenser (1), said duct means (14) guiding the medium from said reservoir outlet (15) to said medium outlet (12);
a discharge actuator operable for generating a transfer flow for conveying said predosed amount through said duct means (14) and out of said medium outlet (12);
an upwardly opening medium holder (21) located below said reservoir outlet (15) when said dispenser (1) is in said discharge position, said medium holder (21) including a bottom depression (24), a first side surface (22) and a second side surface (23) opposing said first side surface (22), said first side surface (22) and said second side surface (23) extending upwardly from said bottom depression (24) when said dispenser (1) is in said discharge position, said outlet duct (28, 29) being disposed downstream from said medium holder (21) and said second side surface (23); and
means for opening (44, 45) said reservoir space (17) to allow said predosed amount to flow through said reservoir outlet (15) and drop into said upwardly opening medium holder (21); and
wherein upon opening of the reservoir space (17), the transfer flow flows through said reservoir space (17), through said reservoir outlet (15) and into said medium holder (21) to lift up the predosed amount from said bottom depression (24) in said medium holder (21) and over said second side surface (23), such that the predosed amount flows through the duct means and out of said medium outlet (12).
2. The dispenser according to claim 1, wherein upstream of said medium outlet (12) means are provided for disintegrating the medium into fine medium particles and for spacedly expanding the disintegrated medium particles, said disintegrating means (20) directly connecting to said second side surface (23) located downstream of said first side surface (22).
3. The dispenser according to claim 2, wherein said disintegrating means (20) include at least one of
said duct means (14),
an accelerator for accelerating the transfer flow,
a swirl chamber for whirling the medium,
an impact face (27) for rebounding the medium, and
a sieve (48).
4. The dispenser according to claim 1, wherein a descent path is provided and directly connects said reservoir outlet (15) with said medium holder (21) for gravitationally descending and thereby transferring the medium from said reservoir outlet (15) into said medium holder (21), said descent path including a descent section for gravitationally dropping the medium into said medium holder (21) when said dispenser (1) is in said discharge position.
The device 1 comprises a base body 2 of but five housing parts 3 to 7 of which in the readiness or operative condition merely three parts 3, 4, 6 firmly connected in common with a crib unit 8 form the completely outer surface area of the device 1. The part 5 is arranged totally countersunk firmly seated in the part 3 and directly located axially by the part 4. The unit 8 comprises at least four and not more than eight reservoir locations 9 for the medium arranged evenly distributed and directly juxtaposed in a circle about an axis 10. The axis 10 is located parallel to the main axis 11 in which the location 9 operative in each case is located to be discharged directly from this position for discharge through an outlet 12. The axis 13 of the latter is oriented at an obtuse angle of minimally 110° and maximally 160°, more particularly 135°, to the axis 10 or 11. As viewed parallel to the axis 10, 11 the outlet 12 is located totally within the outer circumference of the base body 2.
The bowl 21 including the surface areas 22 to 24, 26 and a first longitudinal section of the passage part 28 is defined exclusively by part 5 which is inserted totally countersunk as far as it will go in part 3 opposite the direction of flow and is axially located by the part 4 likewise inserted in this direction. This part 4 forms a longitudinal section of the passage part 28 adjoining the part 3 therewithin as well as the section 29, the port 21 and the outlet 12. The part 4 does not protrude beyond the outer circumference of part 3, it sealing contacting the lower annular face surface area of the latter by a ring shoulder. The surface area 27 extending over an angle of an arc of less than 90° and more than 45° is formed only by the part 3 as well as being smoothly continued at both ends so that it forms an intermediate section of a semi-circular or hemi-spherical or U-shaped impact surface area of the part 3, the part 5 sealingly contacting the continuations of the latter adjoining the surface area 27 by convex surface areas and subsequently thereto the part 4 by its circumferential surface area.
The unit 8 comprises a crib body 34 movable about the axis 10 which is defined axially between the parts 3, 6 and carries replacably on its side facing the part 6 a crib insert 35 having the cited number of reservoir bodies 16. The body 34 comprises for each location 9 a sleeve-shaped mount 36 freely protruding in the direction of flow, this mount surrounding the one lower end of the body 16 in a tight seal and forming by a constriction a stop for the lower curved end surface area of the body 16. A mount 37 correspondingly protruding only in the direction of flow, but substantially smaller also comprises the insert 35 for each location 9. The crib body 34 and crib insert 35 provide a dosage carrier, and the mounting structures 36, 37 provide receptacles for receiving doses of the medium encapsulated within reservoir spaces 17. The mount 37 which protrudes only beyond the lower face side of the otherwise circular or disk-shaped flat insert 35 engages by a conical outer circumference a conical inner surface area at the rear end of the mount 36 so that it adjoins the outer circumference of the narrower part of the body 16 in a radially constricted seal, whereby the flared cap part of the body may adjoin by its face surface area the upper face surface area of the insert disk 35. As a result of this, this rear end or the cap part protrudes opposite to the direction of flow non-contactingly into the internal space of the part 6 whilst the lower longitudinal section is located totally in the mounts 36, 37 and passes through the bodies 34, 35. The body 34 which like each of the parts 3 to 7, 35 is configured integrally comprises at its outermost circumference a shell 38 at the inner circumference of which spaced away between its ends a face end wall 39 adjoins, beyond the undersides of which the mounts 36 protrude and adjoin the insert 35 at their upper face surface area. The outer circumference of the shell 38 forms a handle 40 and is located in an angle of an arc of minimally 90° or 160° and maximally 220°, more particularly only 180° about the axis 10 freely accessible at the outer circumference of the bodies 3, 6 for actuation. In the operative position the constricted end of the mount 36 surrounding the outlet 15 is located directly adjacent the transition opening 46 in the surface area 27 or adjacent to the outer side of the curved wall 47 which forms the surface area 27.
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U.S. Classification 239/338, 128/203.21
International Classification B05B11/06, A61M15/00, A61M11/00, A61M11/04
Cooperative Classification A61M2202/064, A61M2205/0233, A61M15/0035, A61M2205/073, A61M15/0016, A61M15/0028, A61M2202/066, A61M15/0048
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