Patent ID: 7341208

Claim:
An atomizer for manual actuation, with which a partial quantity is atomized from a fluid supply and which comprises within a housing: a storage container for the fluid that is to be atomized; a nozzle for the fluid that is to be atomized; a piston displaceable within a cylinder; a hollow chamber within the cylinder in front of the piston; an intake duct connecting the storage container with the hollow chamber; an ejection duct connecting the hollow chamber with the nozzle; an intake valve disposed in the intake duct; a drive device for the piston; and a device for manually providing mechanical energy into the drive device, wherein the drive device comprises a storage device for mechanical energy and is arranged outside the storage container, the drive device applying the mechanical energy to the piston, and wherein the nozzle comprises a swirl nozzle including a whirl chamber, nozzle ducts, and a whirl chamber nozzle duct, the nozzle ducts having a wall tangential to an inside wall of the whirl chamber to guide the fluid into the whirl chamber in a direction tangential to the inside wall, and the whirl chamber nozzle duct being located in a center of the whirl chamber and from which the fluid exits.