EP0641604A2 - Dispositif de pulvérisation pour réservoir de liquide - Google Patents

Dispositif de pulvérisation pour réservoir de liquide Download PDF

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EP0641604A2
EP0641604A2 EP94113554A EP94113554A EP0641604A2 EP 0641604 A2 EP0641604 A2 EP 0641604A2 EP 94113554 A EP94113554 A EP 94113554A EP 94113554 A EP94113554 A EP 94113554A EP 0641604 A2 EP0641604 A2 EP 0641604A2
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Karl-Heinz Rosenthal
Tom Kitzing
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AptarGroup SAS
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Innocos Innovative Verpackungen fur die Kosmetische Industrie GmbH
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05B—SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
    • B05B11/00—Single-unit hand-held apparatus in which flow of contents is produced by the muscular force of the operator at the moment of use
    • B05B11/0005—Components or details
    • B05B11/0035—Pen-like sprayers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05B—SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
    • B05B11/00—Single-unit hand-held apparatus in which flow of contents is produced by the muscular force of the operator at the moment of use
    • B05B11/01—Single-unit hand-held apparatus in which flow of contents is produced by the muscular force of the operator at the moment of use characterised by the means producing the flow
    • B05B11/02—Membranes or pistons acting on the contents inside the container, e.g. follower pistons

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  • the present invention relates to an atomizing attachment for a liquid container, in particular for dispensing perfume samples, the opening area of which is at least essentially cylindrical, with an outer cap-like part, the top wall of which is provided on the inside with a projection and the opposite end of which is provided with a container receiving opening for the opening area , wherein the outer part and the liquid container are mutually displaceable, and an inner part with a riser tube, which is designed as a piston rod, which is provided at its insertable end in the cylindrical opening region of the liquid container with a piston and at the opposite end with a head plate, which a Pressure relief valve is assigned, wherein the head plate of the inner part is firmly held on the underside of the head wall of the outer part and a between the pressure relief valve of the inner part and the head wall of the Au enteils trained valve chamber via a channel with a vortex arranged in the outer part of the outlet opening in copessikeitsitati stands.
  • the known atomizing devices as are known in particular for perfume bottles and perfume bottles, have a complex structure due to their functional principle which differs from the atomizing attachment according to the invention and are connected to the liquid container. Apart from the fact that the complex structure of the known Atomizing devices making their assembly difficult, the fixed connection of the atomizing device with the liquid container also prevents efficient recycling of the liquid containers, which are generally made of glass.
  • the present invention has for its object to provide an atomizing device that is easy to assemble and disassemble and reusable due to a simple structure and allows a sensitive spraying of the container liquid, especially fragrance samples from perfume sample containers.
  • the atomizing attachment according to the invention consists of only two assembly parts, namely the inner part and the outer part, which can be easily connected to one another and placed on the opening area of the liquid container, the outer part providing for a closure of the liquid container due to its cap-like design.
  • the inner part has a riser tube designed as a piston rod, which is provided with a piston at one end that can be inserted into the container opening and with a head plate and a pressure relief valve at the opposite end. To form a valve space between the end of the inner part provided with the pressure relief valve and the top wall of the outer part, the inner part can be inserted into the outer part.
  • a press fit between the head wall of the outer part and the valve-provided head plate of the inner part ensures a coherent, firm connection of both parts of the atomizing attachment.
  • a swirl channel is provided between the valve chamber and an outlet opening arranged in the outer part, which ensures that when the outer part is displaced relative to the liquid container and thus the inner part is pressed with its piston against the liquid level of a liquid taken up in the liquid container, this reaches the valve chamber in the riser pipe via the pressure relief valve and is swirled in the swirl channel through the outlet opening and is sprayed outwards.
  • the atomizing attachment can be removed from it and placed on a new container filled with liquid.
  • the emptied liquid container can of course also be refilled and then closed again with the atomizing attachment or sent to a recycling process.
  • the swirl channel provided in the transition from the valve chamber to the outlet opening can be designed in different ways and can optionally be assigned to the outer part or the inner part.
  • the annular head plate of the inner part, which is provided with the valve, is preferably provided with a swirl channel guided radially outward from the valve chamber.
  • the vertebral canal can be designed as a vertebral canal insert, which can be used in the case of the assignment of the vertebral canal to the inner part in the head plate of the inner part provided with the valve.
  • the functional design of the swirl channel in particular the design of the flow cross section, can also be carried out in various ways.
  • a sickle-star-shaped flow cross-section as is also known from the formation of the swirl channel in conventional atomization devices, has proven itself in general.
  • the outer part is provided on the inside of its head wall with a projection which can be firmly inserted into the valve chamber for connection to the inner part.
  • a particularly simple pressure relief valve can be achieved with a slit valve.
  • This slit valve which is preferably provided at the upper end of the riser pipe, can form a unit with the inner part.
  • the elasticity of the atomizing attachment which is made of an elastic plastic, is used, which enables the slit edges to be pushed apart to open the valve when there is excess pressure in the riser pipe.
  • the valve can of course also be designed in a different way, for example as a flap valve.
  • a support ring preferably one-piece with the riser pipe, can serve above the piston provided at the end of the riser pipe.
  • the outer part can be provided with a sliding guide in its end provided with the container opening.
  • the slide guide of the atomizing attachment according to the invention is provided with an axial stop for securing the outer part behind a sealing edge of the opening of the liquid container
  • the atomizing attachment is suitable for miniaturization, in particular for use with a cylindrical container for perfume samples known per se.
  • the atomizing attachment can be used instead of a conventional cap closure to close the Perfume sample container can be used so that the unactuated atomizer attachment acts like a conventional cap.
  • the atomizing attachment serves to dispense one or more samples of sprayed perfume.
  • the outer part is provided with a fastening device for fastening to a piece of clothing, for example a holding clip. This makes it possible to carry a larger number of fragrance sample containers provided with the atomizing attachment on the garment, in order to increase the rapid availability of the individual perfume samples during a fragrance presentation.
  • FIG. 1 shows, in one embodiment, an atomizing attachment 10 which is placed on a sample container 11 which contains a perfume sample (not shown).
  • the atomizing attachment 10 has an outer part 12 and an inner part 13.
  • the inner part 13 consists of a riser pipe 14, which has at its one inner end a piston 15, above which a support ring 31 is arranged at an axial distance.
  • the inner part 13 is provided at its opposite end with a head plate 17, which is assigned a pressure relief valve 16.
  • the pressure relief valve 16, the piston 15 and the support ring 31 are formed in one piece with the head plate 17 and the riser pipe 14.
  • the pressure relief valve 16 is shown as a slit valve, the slit edges 18 of which seal the upper end of a riser duct 19 in the riser 14.
  • the pressure relief valve 16 is set back somewhat axially in the axial direction of the riser pipe 14 in relation to an upper stop surface 21 of the head plate 17 in order to form a valve chamber 20.
  • a swirl channel 22 runs radially in the top plate 17 and forms a fluid connection between the valve chamber 20 and an outlet opening 23 in a wall of the outer part 12, which is formed here as a cylinder jacket 24.
  • the outer part 12 is aligned with its outlet opening 23 coaxially to the swirl channel 22.
  • the vertebral canal 22 is in turn a uniform component of the head plate 17; but it can also consist of a pin with a helical groove, which is inserted into a radial outlet channel in the head plate 17.
  • the outer part 12 has a projection 25 on the inside of it Head wall 26 inserted into an axial, upper opening 35 of the valve chamber 20 in the head plate 17 of the inner part 13 with a press fit.
  • an interference fit between the outer circumference of the annular head plate 17 and the cylindrical inner wall 36 of the outer part 12 is preferably provided. If necessary, the fixed connection between outer part 12 and inner part 13 can also be produced by gluing or welding.
  • the end of the outer part 12 opposite the top wall 26 is provided with a container receiving opening 27, by means of which the outer part 12 can be placed on a cylindrical opening area 28 of the internally and externally cylindrical sample container 11.
  • the container receiving opening 27 is set back axially somewhat in relation to the piston 15 in order to facilitate the placement of the atomizing attachment 10 on the sample container 11.
  • the outer part 12 is provided in the region of its container receiving opening 27 with a slide guide 29 which, in the embodiment shown in FIG. 1, is designed as a thickened cylinder jacket 24 at the lower end of the outer part 12.
  • the cylindrical inner wall of the cylinder jacket 24 is preferably provided with ring-shaped ribs (not shown) which slide against the cylindrical surface of the sample container 11 in order to reduce the sliding friction between the outer part 12 and the sample container 11.
  • the slide guide 29 is provided with an inner annular shoulder 30 which serves as an axial stop and which cooperates with an outer sealing edge 31 of the sample container 11. 1 shows, this inner annular shoulder 30 is arranged above the support ring 32 of the inner part 13, so that a secure, radial support of the lower end of the atomizing attachment 10 on the sample container 11 and thus a perfect axial guidance of the same on the inner wall and outer wall of the sample container 11 are guaranteed.
  • a particularly simple assembly of the two-part atomizing attachment 10 is to first insert the inner part 13 into the outer part 12 with the head plate 17 until the projection 25 engages in the opening 35 for the firm connection of the inner part and the outer part. Only after this assembly of the atomizing attachment is this placed on the sample container. Since the piston 15 protrudes downward, it is initially inserted into the opening of the sample container 11 so that the atomizing attachment is centered with respect to the sample container. The lower end of the sliding guide 29 is then pushed onto the opening area 28 until the annular shoulder 30 engages under the sealing edge 31 of the sample container 11.
  • connection is established by means of a press fit or the like between the head wall 26 of the outer part 12 and the head plate 17 of the inner part 13.
  • the protrusion 25 of the head wall 26 penetrates into the axial opening 35 of the valve chamber 20 in the outer part 13, so that a fluid connection between the swirl channel 22 of the inner part 13 and the outlet opening 23 of the outer part 12 is ensured.
  • the sample container 11 which, as shown in FIG. 1 , is closed by the atomizing attachment 10 in its starting position, the sample container 11 can be attached to a garment together with the atomizing attachment by means of a retaining clip 37 provided on the outer part 12 of the atomizing attachment 10.
  • the pressure applied to the top wall 26 of the outer part 12 is transferred by the piston 15 to the surface of the liquid received in the sample container 11 and causes the liquid in the riser duct 19 to rise up to the pressure relief valve 16.
  • a threshold pressure value depending on the elasticity of the slot edges 18, is reached the slot edges 18 are pressed apart to release a valve slot 38 and the liquid penetrates into the valve chamber 20, which already causes a swirling of the liquid due to the arrangement and shape of the slot valve and the valve chamber.
  • the liquid then flows into the swirl channel 22, in which the liquid is swirled before it emerges from the outlet opening 23.
  • the support ring 32 ensures that the piston 15 remains in its essentially horizontal position in FIGS. 1 and 2 and the piston edges rest elastically sealingly on the inner wall of the container.
  • FIG. 3 shows the area of the atomizing attachment 10 encircled in FIG. 1 in an enlarged representation, through which the sections shown in FIGS. 4 and 5 are placed.
  • Fig. 4 shows the pressure relief valve 16 in a plan view, wherein one can look into the valve chamber 20 and clearly see the slit edges 18 of the slit valve 16 which, when the valve slit 38 is closed, lie sealingly against one another with their contact surfaces 39 arranged approximately perpendicular to the plane of the drawing.
  • FIG. 5 shows a crescent-shaped configuration of the flow cross section from the swirl channel 22 which is known per se and which is provided in the top plate 17 of the inner part 13.

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DE4329707A DE4329707C2 (de) 1993-09-02 1993-09-02 Zerstäubungsaufsatz für einen Flüssigkeitsbehälter
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DK0641604T3 (da) 1999-05-31
EP0641604B1 (fr) 1999-04-21
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EP0641604A3 (fr) 1995-08-16
ATE179098T1 (de) 1999-05-15

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