Patent ID: 7004657

Claim:
A single use applicator for dispensing and applying a continuously uniform band of viscous fluid to a surface, without using further manual operator pressure, or intervention, after initial activation, to dispense the fluid to the surface, which comprises; an outer chemically inert cylindrical deformable tube, closed at one end, and open at the other; said open end having a tapering rim section thereon, a hermetically sealed crushable glass ampoule carried in said tube, a viscous fluid in said ampoule to be dispensed, a multi section applicator element means in said tube open end, comprised of a plurality of synthetic fiber strands in side by side relationship, said applicator element means is compressed at its mid longitudinal point, providing a control valve section of predetermined porous density, and forming an hour glass configuration, said applicator element means having an internal fluid reservoir section of lower porous density than said control valve section, adjacent to said control valve section and to said ampoule, said applicator element means has an external fluid applicator tip of lower porous density than said control valve section , which is adjacent to said valve section, and said tube is compressed at its rim section and engaged with said applicator element control valve section, retaining it therein.