DISCHARGE DEVICE

• US 20130341366A1
• Filed: 06/21/2012
• Published: 12/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
• Original Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
• Inventors: Campbell, Jason Craig, Hague, Philip Edwin, Sauer, Michael Allen, Hart, Christopher Steven
• Application Number:
  US13/529,675
• Publication Number:
  US 20130341366A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 222/505
• CPC Class Codes: B67D 3/043 with a closing element having a linear movement, in a direction perpendicular to the seat
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 31/52 with crank, eccentric, or cam
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 31/602 Pivoting levers, e.g. single-sided F16K31/605 takes precedence

Abstract

A discharge device including: a conduit defining a closed channel for flow; a valve housing in fluid communication with the conduit wherein the valve housing contains a sealing member slideably engaged within the valve housing; an actuating lever connected about a fulcrum, the fulcrum connected to the conduit, the actuating lever operably engaged with the sealing member; and a resilient member operably engaged with the actuating lever and biasing the actuating lever to maintain the sealing member to be in a closed position.

Claims

1. A discharge device comprising:

a conduit defining a closed channel for flow;

a valve housing in fluid communication with said conduit wherein said valve housing contains a sealing member slideably engaged within said valve housing;

an actuating lever connected about a fulcrum, said fulcrum connected to said conduit, said actuating lever operably engaged with said sealing member; and

a resilient member operably engaged with said actuating lever and biasing said actuating lever to maintain said sealing member to be in a closed position;

wherein a finger support section is partially nested within a recess in said actuating lever when said sealing member is in an open position, wherein said finger support section extends from said valve housing.

2. The discharge device according to claim 1, wherein said resilient member is connected to said conduit or said valve housing.

3. The discharge device according to claim 1, wherein a finger support section extends from said valve housing.

4. The discharge device according to claim 3, wherein said resilient member is connected to said finger support section.

5. The discharge device according to claim 3, wherein said finger support section is sized and dimensioned to substantially conform with an adult human index finger lengthwise.

7. The discharge device according to claim 1, wherein a finger support section is partially nested within a recess in said actuating lever when said sealing member is in a closed position, wherein said finger support section extends from said valve housing.

8. The discharge device according to claim 7, wherein said finger support section is sized and dimensioned to substantially conform with an adult human index finger lengthwise.

9. The discharge device according to claim 1, wherein said resilient member is connected to said conduit.

10. The discharge device according to claim 1, wherein said actuating lever further comprises a finger indent sized and dimensioned to fit with an adult human finger, said finger indent being on a side of said actuating lever oriented away from said sealing member.

11. The discharge device according to claim 1, wherein said sealing member is connected to a stem and said resilient member is a flexible press bulb operably engaged with said stem.

12. The discharge device according to claim 1, wherein said lever provides a mechanical advantage factor greater than about 1.1.

13. The discharge device according to claim 1, wherein said conduit has a higher elevation head than said sealing member in use.

14. The discharge device according to claim 1, wherein said resilient member is a spring or an elastomeric material.

6. (canceled)

15. A discharge device comprising:

a conduit defining a closed channel for flow;

a valve housing in fluid communication with said conduit wherein said valve housing contains a sealing member slideably engaged within said valve housing;

an actuating lever connected about a fulcrum, said fulcrum connected to said conduit, said actuating lever operably engaged with said sealing member; and

a resilient member operably engaged with said actuating lever and biasing said actuating lever to maintain said sealing member to be in a closed position;

wherein a finger support section is partially nested within a recess in said actuating lever when said sealing member is in a closed position, wherein said finger support section extends from said valve housing.

16. The discharge device according to claim 15, wherein said resilient member is connected to said conduit or said valve housing.

17. The discharge device according to claim 15, wherein a finger support section is partially nested within a recess in said actuating lever when said sealing member is in an open position, wherein said finger support section extends from said valve housing.

18. The discharge device according to claim 15, wherein said sealing member is connected to a stem and said resilient member is a flexible press bulb operably engaged with said stem.

19. The discharge device according to claim 15, wherein said conduit has a higher elevation head than said sealing member in use

20. The discharge device according to claim 15, wherein said finger support section is sized and dimensioned to substantially conform with an adult human index finger lengthwise