Dosing dispenser

• US 10,583,450 B2
• Filed: 04/23/2019
• Issued: 03/10/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Gerhard Brugger
• Original Assignee: Gerhard Brugger
• Inventors: Brugger, Gerhard
• Primary Examiner(s): Buechner, Patrick M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Melaragno, Michael J.
• Application Number:
  US16/392,365
• Publication Number:
  US 20190321842A1
• Time in Patent Office: 322 Days
• Field of Search: 222380
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 11/0037 Containers for several components B05B11/0078
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 11/028 Pistons separating the content remaining in the container from the atmospheric air to compensate underpressure inside the container
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 11/1015 actuated without substantial movement of the nozzle in the direction of the pressure stroke B05B11/1011 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 11/1016 the outlet valve having a valve seat located downstream a movable valve element controlled by a pressure actuated controlling element B05B11/1022, B05B11/1023 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 11/1069 the valve being made of a resiliently deformable material or being urged in a closed position by a spring
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 11/1073 Springs
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 11/1084 each liquid or other fluent material being pumped by a separate pump

Abstract

In a dispenser for dosing of at least one component received in a receiving compartment, a valve device, forming an inlet valve and an outlet valve associated with an outlet opening, is formed of at least two valve elements.

Claims

1. A dosing dispenser for the dosage of at least one material component received in a receiving compartment by means of a pumping unit connected therewith, comprising:

a cylinder that defines a pumping chamber having inlet and outlet openings;

a piston configured to selectively move within the pumping chamber;

a container configured to hold material interconnected to the pumping chamber, wherein material from the container is adapted to travel through the pumping chamber upon selective actuation of the piston; and

a valve device comprising;

a first valve element that selectively closes an access opening from the container, the first valve element having an opening that selectively allows material passage from the container to the pumping chamber,

second valve element defined by a collar having a cylindrical projection extending therefrom that defines a passage opening that communicates with the opening of the first valve element, the second valve element disposed on the first valve member, and

a third valve element disposed on the second valve element that sealingly engages the cylindrical projection of the second valve element.

2. The dosing dispenser according to claim 1, wherein the second and third valve element is one piece.

3. The dosing dispenser according to claim 1, wherein the material of the first valve element, the second valve element, and the third valve element are individually adjustable in terms of resilient flexibility or hardness.

4. The dosing dispenser according to claim 1, wherein the first valve element is a flat valve disc made of elastic material.

5. The dosing dispenser according to claim 4, wherein the first valve element is interconnected to the second valve element, wherein an outer portion of the collar engages an outer portion of the first valve element such that an outer edge of the first valve element and an outer edge of the collar engage the side wall of the pumping chamber to form the outlet valve of the valve device, wherein the interconnection of the second valve element to the first valve element allows an inner portion of the first valve element to move, while constraining the outer portion of the first valve element.

6. The dosing dispenser according to claim 5, wherein the outlet valve selectively opens a flow channel between an upper end face of the first valve element and the bottom of the pumping chamber when the plunger is pulled from the pumping chamber, and wherein the flow channel is in communication with an annular channel that is in communication with a discharge nozzle.

7. The dosing dispenser according to claim 1, wherein the collar possesses a trumpet-shaped cross-section, and further comprising a circumferential bead extending from the cylindrical projection configured to support a biasing spring associated with the piston of the pumping unit.

8. The dosing dispenser according to claim 1, wherein the outer diameter of the first and second valve elements is greater than the outer diameter of the third valve element, where the outer edge of the first and second valve elements abuts the inner wall of the pumping chamber.

9. The dosing dispenser according to claim 1, wherein the second valve element is formed at its upper or lower side with web-like radially encircling sealing rings.

10. The dosing dispenser according to claim 7, wherein the second valve element seals with the third valve element via a flange-like annular web provided at an internal peripheral edge of the collar that is adjacent to the cylindrical protrusion that engages a lower side of the third valve element, and wherein the collar has apertures for the material passage toward a lower side of the third valve element.

11. The dosing dispenser according to claim 1, wherein the third valve element is formed as a planar valve disc with a central opening which sealingly engages the cylindrical projection of the second valve element.

12. The dosing dispenser according to claim 1, wherein the first valve element is provided with a central sealing plug suspended with radial or circumferential webs associated with an outer marginal bead.

13. A dosing dispenser for the dosage of at least one material component received in a receiving compartment by means of a pumping unit connected therewith, comprising:

a cylinder that defines a pumping chamber having inlet and outlet openings;

a piston configured to selectively move within the pumping chamber;

a container configured to hold material interconnected to the pumping chamber, wherein material from the container is adapted to travel through the pumping chamber upon selective actuation of the piston; and

a valve device comprising;

a first valve element that selectively closes an access opening from the container, the first valve element formed as a gravity-actuated blocking ball,

second valve element defined by a collar having a cylindrical projection extending therefrom that defines a passage opening that receives the blocking ball when the plunger is moved from the pumping chamber, which also opens the first valve element, and

a third valve element disposed on the second valve element that sealingly engages the cylindrical projection of the second valve element, wherein the cylindrical projection extends through the second valve element.

14. The dosing dispenser according to claim 13, wherein the blocking ball is formed of metal, glass, or hard rubber.

15. The dosing dispenser according to claim 13, wherein the collar has bridging radial webs or a cage blocking access of the blocking ball in the upward direction.