Wall mountable personal care products using stretch release adhesives

• US 20040026455A1
• Filed: 08/06/2002
• Published: 02/12/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 08/06/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA (Unilever PLC)
• Original Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA (Unilever PLC)
• Inventors: Neuhalfen, Mark, Thompson, Guy, Rutherford, Keith Leslie
• Granted Patent: US 6,991,133 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 222/181.3
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 5/122 using squeeze bottles or the like A47K5/1201 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 23/003 Suspension means
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2313/08 Double sided adhesive tape, e.g. for suspension of the container B65D2313/10 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 25/22 for facilitating lifting or suspending of containers
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/28 Web or sheet containing structurally defined element or component and having an adhesive outermost layer

Abstract

A container which is adhered, in an inverted orientation, to a vertical surface (such as a wall or other vertical surface) of a kitchen, sink, or bath room by a stretch release adhesive, wherein said stretch release adhesive is resistant or substantially resistant to water and humidity,

which container comprises:

a) one or more side surfaces, an end surface and a surface comprising an orifice;

b) a self-sealing valve which covers said orifice;

c) a construction or coating that is resistant or substantially resistant to external corrosion;

and wherein said container is dispensed by hand through the application of a force whose principal component acts perpendicularly or approximately perpendicularly to the vertical surface; is described.

Claims

1. A container which is adhered in an inverted orientation to a vertical surface of a kitchen, sink, or bath room by a stretch release adhesive, wherein said stretch release adhesive is resistant or substantially resistant to water and humidity, which container comprises:

a. one or more side surfaces, an end surface and a surface comprising an orifice;

b. a self-sealing valve which covers said orifice;

c. a construction or coating that is resistant or substantially resistant to external corrosion;

and wherein said container is dispensed by the action of a human hand applying a force whose principal component acts perpendicularly or approximately perpendicularly to the vertical surface.

2. A container according to claim 1 in which the stretch release adhesive is able to support the container'"'"'s weight under the conditions of a constant water flow for between about 15 and about 10000 minutes.

3. A container according to claim 1 in which the stretch release adhesive is able to support the container'"'"'s weight under the conditions of a constant water flow for between about 60 and about 10000 minutes.

4. A container according to claim 1 in which the stretch release adhesive is able to support the container'"'"'s weight under the conditions of a constant water flow for between about 1000 and about 10000 minutes.

5. A container according to claim 1 in which the stretch release adhesive is a laminate.

6. A container according to claim 5 in which one portion of said laminate is permanently bonded to the wall of the container.

7. A container according to claim 1 in which the external surface of the side wall is convex and the stretch release adhesive tape has a thickness between 3 mm and 15 mm.

8. A container according to claim 1 in which the end surface is convex.

9. A container according to claim 1 in which the side walls of the said container are deformable.

10. A container according to claim 1 wherein said self-sealing valve is attached to an exit conduit, through which the contents of the container must pass, and wherein the orientation of said exit conduit is inclined to the said vertical surface.

11. A container according to claim 1 which comprises a self sealing valve that uses an elastomeric material to form the closure.

12. A container according to claim 1 wherein said self sealing valve is an aerosol tilt or vertically activated valve.

13. A container according to claim 1 in which the self sealing valve is closed by a stationary layer of the product being dispensed.

14. A container according to claim 13 in which the self sealing valve comprises a multiplicity of separate openings.

15. A container according to claim 1 which is a pressurized container containing a liquefied propellant or compressed gas.

16. A liquefied propellant composition according to claim 15 in which propellant is either fully or partly miscible in a concentrate.

17. A container according to claim 1 which contains a composition comprising greater than about 0.1% to about 40% of a surfactant.

18. A container according to claim 1 which contains a composition whose rheology is shear thinning.

19. A container according to claim 18 in which the composition has a shear thinning index between 10¹ and 10⁹.

20. A container according to claim 18 in which the composition has a shear thinning index between 10² and 10⁶.

21. A container according to claim 1 which can be operated to dispense product with a single hand.

22. A method for dispensing a product which comprises actuating a self-sealing valve of a container according to claim 1.

23. A container according to claim 1 wherein said stretch release adhesive is disposed upon a substrate, said substrate having a tab which is accessible to a human hand and may be pulled by said hand so as to release said stretch release adhesive.

24. A container according to claim 1 wherein said stretch release adhesive is disposed upon a substrate, said substrate having a tab, which is exposed on physical removal of the container from said vertical surface, whereupon said tab can be pulled so as to release said stretch release adhesive from said vertical surface.