EP0223655A1 - Behälter für ein Toilettenreinigungsmittel mit eingebauter Luftdesodorisierungsvorrichtung - Google Patents

Behälter für ein Toilettenreinigungsmittel mit eingebauter Luftdesodorisierungsvorrichtung Download PDF

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EP0223655A1
EP0223655A1 EP86402274A EP86402274A EP0223655A1 EP 0223655 A1 EP0223655 A1 EP 0223655A1 EP 86402274 A EP86402274 A EP 86402274A EP 86402274 A EP86402274 A EP 86402274A EP 0223655 A1 EP0223655 A1 EP 0223655A1
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Tristan Bavavéas
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E03—WATER SUPPLY; SEWERAGE
    • E03D—WATER-CLOSETS OR URINALS WITH FLUSHING DEVICES; FLUSHING VALVES THEREFOR
    • E03D9/00—Sanitary or other accessories for lavatories ; Devices for cleaning or disinfecting the toilet room or the toilet bowl; Devices for eliminating smells
    • E03D9/02—Devices adding a disinfecting, deodorising, or cleaning agent to the water while flushing
    • E03D9/03—Devices adding a disinfecting, deodorising, or cleaning agent to the water while flushing consisting of a separate container with an outlet through which the agent is introduced into the flushing water, e.g. by suction ; Devices for agents in direct contact with flushing water
    • E03D9/033—Devices placed inside or dispensing into the cistern
    • E03D9/038—Passive dispensers, i.e. without moving parts
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E03—WATER SUPPLY; SEWERAGE
    • E03D—WATER-CLOSETS OR URINALS WITH FLUSHING DEVICES; FLUSHING VALVES THEREFOR
    • E03D9/00—Sanitary or other accessories for lavatories ; Devices for cleaning or disinfecting the toilet room or the toilet bowl; Devices for eliminating smells
    • E03D9/007—Devices for eliminating smells by diffusing deodorants in lavatories

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  • the invention relates to a container for toilet maintenance product comprising a built-in air deodorization device.
  • Containers of toilet maintenance product are already known which generally comprise a container for the maintenance product, a closure of the container before use and assembly, a member for hooking the container to the toilet.
  • a container intended to contain a colored, maintenance, scented liquid, this container having to be housed in the toilet flush and being arranged to deliver a dose of maintenance liquid during the flushing actuation.
  • the container is a bottle having a neck in which are mounted metering means of the valve type, float type, or the like.
  • the hooking member allows the bottle to be held with its neck down, in the flush, during its operation.
  • the closure is generally a plug screwed onto an external thread of the neck, protecting the metering means and preventing the maintenance liquid from being spilled before use.
  • Such containers are, for example, described in US Patents 3,908,209, 3,806,965, 3,895,739, 3,698,021, 3,841,524.
  • the scent of the maintenance liquid is essentially released upon actuation of hunting, but not between two successive hunts.
  • part of the dose of liquid delivered is lost in the toilet during the evacuation of the flushing water.
  • the scent given off by the liquid delivered is insufficient for complete deodorization.
  • such scented liquid dosing containers are insufficient for permanent deodorization of the room where the toilet is located.
  • the invention aims to remedy these drawbacks and to this effect, its primary objective is to make it possible to perfume or deodorize both the toilet or the water of the toilet and the room in which the toilet is located. Another object of the invention is to achieve this result in a simple manner from the constructive and implementation point of view.
  • the invention provides a container of toilet cleaning product of the type comprising a container - such as a bottle - of cleaning product - such as a scented liquid -, closing the container before use and mounting, such as a plug, a member for attaching the container to the toilet.
  • a container of toilet cleaning product of the type comprising a container - such as a bottle - of cleaning product - such as a scented liquid -, closing the container before use and mounting, such as a plug, a member for attaching the container to the toilet.
  • an air deodorization device physically separable from the container, but capable of operating in combination with it, so that, in the passive state of the container and of the deodorization device, the closure fills , in addition to its function of closing the container, the double function of closing and unitary maintenance of the deodorization device.
  • the closure comprises on its transverse end wall, reliefs, in particular in hollow, with which the free edge of a skirt of a plug of the deodorization device cooperates, so as to ensure the setting in correct relative position and a certain maintenance of the deodorization device on the closure of the container.
  • means are provided for rigid, hermetic, removable association of the deodorization device on the closure of the container. These association means are, for example, a plastic sheath.
  • the cleaning product and the deodorizing substance give off the same perfume and their quantities are such that for normal normal toilet operation, they are consumed for approximately the same duration, which allows their simultaneous replacements.
  • the invention relates to a container 1 delivering a cleaning product 2 for toilet 3 of the type comprising a container 4 for the cleaning product 2, a closure 5 of the container 4 before use and mounting and a hooking member 6 of the container 4 to the toilet 3.
  • the invention applies very especially to the case where the container 1 is intended for a cleaning product in the form of a liquid, scented - possibly fulfilling other functions such as detergent - delivered in successive and spaced doses during the actuation of the toilet flush 3a 3.
  • the container 4 is a bottle comprising a neck 7 in which are mounted metering means 8, in particular of the valve or float type or the like, but do not not per se directly part of the invention.
  • the attachment member 6 allows when the container 1 must be used to keep the bottle 4 with its neck 7 facing downwards, immersed in the flushing water 3a when it is filled.
  • the metering means 8 deliver a dose of maintenance liquid 2 to each actuation of the flush, due to the consequent lowering of the water level 9 in the flush 3a.
  • the closure 5 is then, most often, a screw cap, comprising a transverse end wall 10 and, adjoining and integral, a lateral skirt 11 on the internal face of which a thread 12 or a boss or the like is produced, cooperating with a thread, a boss or a complementary hollow of the neck 7.
  • the plug 5 may however be of a different type, in particular by engagement.
  • the closure 5 of the container 1 is incorporated, in the passive state, that is to say in particular for the presentation for sale, sale, storage and transport, therefore before use, a air deodorization device 13, physically separable from the container 1, in the active state, so that it can operate in combination with it.
  • the closure 5 fulfills, in addition to its function of closing the container 4, the double function of closing and unitary maintenance of the device 13 on the container 1.
  • the deodorizing device 13 essentially comprises a container 14 containing a deodorizing substance 15 and means 16 for removable fixing.
  • the deodorant substance 15 is in non-flowing form, in particular in the form of a gel or also in the form of a perfumed product, impregnating a porous or fiber-based support body or the like.
  • the deodorant substance 15 is essentially perfumed with a perfume identical or similar to that of the cleaning product 2.
  • the removable fixing means 16 are, for example, a double-sided sticky film, the outer face of which is protected, in the state unused, by a removable protective film.
  • the deodorization device 13 can be in two possible states: the passive state of rest where it is unused, for example, presented for sale or stored or transported, and an active state where it is used for the air deodorization function.
  • the deodorization device 13 is associated materially and fixedly - but removably - with the closure 5 so that, on the one hand, the container 1 and device 13 assembly form a whole unitary material and that , on the other hand, the substance 15 is sealed.
  • This passive state of the deodorization device 13 also corresponds to the passive state, that is to say unused state, of the container 1.
  • the deodorization device 13 In the active state, the deodorization device 13 is physically dissociated from the closure 5 so as, on the one hand, to be able to be placed in any desired location more or less removed from the container 1, and, on the other hand, d 'be open to allow the continuous release of the fragrance of the substance 15.
  • the container 1 In the active state of the deodorization device 13, the container 1 is preferably in the active state, that is to say used - or, optionally, remain temporarily in the passive state.
  • active state of the container 1 means the state in which the container 1 is able to operate, whether it actually works or not.
  • the closure 5 is removed from the container 4.
  • the bottle 4 is placed with the neck 7 down in the flush of water 3a.
  • the container 1 makes it possible to deliver doses of maintenance liquid 2, when the flushing device 3a is actuated.
  • passive state of the container 1 is meant the state in which the container 1 cannot operate, the closure 5 closing the container 4.
  • means 17 are also provided, in the passive state, for rigid and hermetic, but removable, material association of the deodorization device 13 on the closure 5.
  • these means of association 17 consist of a sheath of stretchable or heat-shrinkable plastic, surrounding the closure 5 and the deodorization device 13.
  • the amount of cleaning product 2 and the amount of deodorant substance 15 are such that for normal normal flushing operation 3a, as well as normal average conditions for installing the toilet 3a in the room for which the deodorizing device 13 is intended, the cleaning product 2 and the deodorizing substance 15 are consumed for approximately the same duration, which allows them to be replaced simultaneously.
  • FIG. 5 is a graph on which the time T is represented on the abscissa, while the quantities are represented on the ordinate.
  • the curve C1 corresponds to the cleaning product 2 and the curve C2, to the deodorant substance 15.
  • the curve C1 has a general staircase shape, in particular generally straight as a whole, the height of each staircase corresponding to a dose of product.
  • the curve C1 depends on the use which is made of the flush 3a.
  • the curve C2 is, for its part, of regular and continuous shape, and corresponds to the use of the deodorant substance 15. As we can see, the two curves meet for a zero quantity of product 2 or substance 15, substantially after the same time.
  • the durations may vary depending on the actual use of the flush 3a, the size of the room in which the toilet 3 is located, etc. Preferentially, this duration is order of two months.
  • the container 1 includes, as mentioned above, a bottle 4 comprising a neck 7, metering means 8, housed in the neck 7, as well as a stopper 5.
  • the deodorization device 13 comprises, first of all, a container 14 provided with perforations 18, in which the deodorant substance 15 is housed.
  • the perforations 18 allow the release of the fragrance from the deodorant substance 15.
  • the device deodorization 13 comprises, secondly, a plug 19 in which the container 14 is removably housed.
  • the plug 19 is intended to be placed on and in the extension of the plug 5, in particular on its transverse end wall 10.
  • the plastic sheath constituting the association means 17 can be applied to the plugs 5, 19, ensuring that they are rigid, reciprocal, hermetic, but removable.
  • the container 14 has a generally cylindrical or pseudo-cylindrical shape limited by a bottom 20, in particular essentially full, a side wall 21 and a front wall 22.
  • the perforations 18 are formed on the side wall 21 and front 22.
  • the patoi front 22 is set back so as to leave a free edge 23 of the side wall 21.
  • the container 14 can be made in two separate parts, joined together, in particular by gluing, welding, or other means, and thus allowing the accommodation inside the deodorant substance 15.
  • the side wall 21 has, near the bottom 20, an external annular projection 24 and the side wall 21 has, between the bottom 20 and the projection 24, a frustoconical shape.
  • the double-sided adhesive film 16 is then placed on the external face of the bottom 20.
  • the plug 19 comprises a transverse end wall 25 and, adjoining and integral, a side skirt 26.
  • One or more axial projections 27 are formed on the internal face of the side skirt 26 in the vicinity of the transverse end wall 25, and allow the container 14 to be held in place in the plug 19 by means of the annular projection 24 and the axial projections 27, achieving a certain relative tightening.
  • An annular groove 28 formed in the external face of the transverse end wall 10 of the plug 5, complementary to the edge free 23 of the container 14 allows the correct relative positioning and a certain maintenance of the deodorization device 13 on the plug 5.
  • the front wall 22 is placed against the wall transverse end 10 of the plug 5 and the skirts 11, 26 are an extension of one another.
  • the association sheath 17 can then be applied to the skirts 11, 26 and be held on the transverse end wall 25 of the plug 19 and the neck 7.
  • the device 13 comprises a container 14 in the form of a stopper, having a transverse end wall 29 and a side skirt 20. Inside the stopper thus formed, is housed the substance 15 whose free surface 31 is spaced from the free edge 32 of the skirt 30.
  • the plug 5 then comprises a peripheral annular rebate 33 between the transverse end wall 10 and the side skirt 11 with which the free edge 32 cooperates.
  • protrusions 34 of the lateral edge of the rabbet 33 cooperate with the lateral skirt 30 to allow the relative maintenance of the deodorization device 13 of the plug 5.
  • the sealing is then ensured by the contact of the transverse end wall 10 on the surface free 31 of deodorant substance 15 and / or by means of the sheath 16, as defined above.
  • the container 1 and the device 13 have a main axis of symmetry or of revolution XX.
  • the container 1 and the device 13 can also be asymmetrical, if necessary.
  • the closure 5 has reliefs 28, 33 on its transverse end wall 10, in particular in the hollow, with which the free edge 23, 32 of a side wall 21 or of cooperates. a side skirt 30 of a plug 19, 14 of the deodorization device 13 so as to ensure the correct relative positioning and a certain maintenance of the deodorization device 13 on the closure 5.
  • the container 1 and the deodorization device 13 are used simultaneously.
  • the association means 17 are removed.
  • the protective film is removed from the double-sided sticky film 16 and the deodorization device 13 is fixed at any desired location in the room where the toilet is located.
  • closure 5 is removed, container 4 is associated with toilet 3, in particular the bottle 4 placed with the neck 7 downwards, in the flush 3a.
  • product 2 and substance 15 are used for substantially the same period of time.

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EP86402274A 1985-10-16 1986-10-13 Behälter für ein Toilettenreinigungsmittel mit eingebauter Luftdesodorisierungsvorrichtung Expired EP0223655B1 (de)

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FR8515358A FR2588530B1 (fr) 1985-10-16 1985-10-16 Dispositif de fermeture d'un recipient delivrant des doses determinees de fluide.

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