Applicator for Self-Adhesive Products

• US 20110033224A1
• Filed: 03/12/2010
• Published: 02/10/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SC Johnson & Son Incorporated
• Original Assignee: SC Johnson & Son Incorporated
• Inventors: Charriez, Roland, Klinkhammer, Michael E., Kristiansen, Keith C., Van Dyk, Thomas, Duennes, Mark D., Butler, Jeffrey E. JR., Schultz, Jeffrey A., Anastasiadis, John, Jaichandra, Doraiswami, Kiely, John, Wortley, Russell B., Demar, David A., Rice, William J., Zach, Steven A.
• Granted Patent: US 8,851,339 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 401/137
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 83/0005 Containers or packages provided with a piston or with a movable bottom or partition having approximately the same section as the container B65D83/0072 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: C11D 17/003 Colloidal solutions, e.g. gels; Thixotropic solutions or pastes
• CPC Class Codes: C11D 17/0056 Lavatory cleansing blocks

Abstract

A device for application of a self-adhesive product, wherein the device operates with at least a first step and a second step. The first step and second step being temporally separate.

Claims

1. A device for application of a self-adhesive product, wherein the device operates with at least a first step and a second step;

and

wherein the first step and second step have a temporal separateness.

2. A device according to claim 1 wherein the self-adhesive product is a cleaning product.

3. A device according to claim 1 wherein the self-adhesive product has a viscosity of about 150,000 cps.

4. A device according to claim 1 wherein the first step comprises a priming step.

5. A device according to claim 4 wherein the priming step comprising twisting a first section of the device relative to a second section of the device.

6. A device according to claim 1 wherein the second step comprises an application step.

7. A device according to claim 6 wherein the application step comprises application of a force on a back end of the device.

8. A device for application of a self-adhesive product, wherein the device may be operated by a user, wherein:

the user has least one hand and one thumb on the hand; and

the device may be operated without the user using the at least one thumb on the hand.

9. A device according to claim 8 wherein the self-adhesive product is a cleaning product.

10. A device according to claim 8 wherein the self-adhesive product has a viscosity of at least about 150,000 cps.

11. A device for application of a flowable product, the device comprising:

a first section including a longitudinal axis, a bottom, a top, and an enclosed perimeter defining a first interior volume wherein a flowable product may be stored, the first section further comprising an outer surface and a protrusion that extends from the outer surface;

a second section including a bottom, a top, and a substantially enclosed perimeter defining a second interior volume, wherein the first section is sized such that at least part of the first section fits within the second interior volume, the second section further comprising a slot;

wherein the protrusion is provided on the first section to fit through at least a portion of the slot in the second section;

wherein the slot is continuous; and

wherein the first section is slideable relative to the second section.

12. A device according to claim 11 wherein the slot is non-linear.

13. A device according to claim 12 wherein the non-linear slot comprises sections, the sections being juxtaposed at a relative angle of from about 15°

to about 90°

.

14. A device according to claim 13, wherein the relative angle is from about 45°

to about 90°

.

15. A device according to claim 13, wherein the sections have the same length.

16. A device according to claim 13, wherein every other section has the same length.

17. A device according to claim 11 wherein the first section further comprises a lip that flares outwardly from the center of the first section.

18. A device according to claim 11 wherein the second section further comprises a pushing member that is attached to the inner facing surface of the enclosed perimeter of the second section and comprises an elongated member that extends through at least a portion of the second inner volume.

19. A device according to claim 18 wherein the first section further comprises a product guide, the product guide is movably positioned within the inner surface of the enclosed perimeter of the first section, and wherein the product guide and pushing member are provided such that the product guide may engage the pushing member.

20. A device according to claim 19 wherein product is stored in the inner volume of the first section, the product being stored on the opposite side of the product guide that engages the pushing member.