ADAPTER FOR PRODUCT DISPENSER AND PRODUCT DISPENSER

• US 20190315561A1
• Filed: 04/08/2019
• Published: 10/17/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/13/2018
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: C. Ehrensperger AG
• Original Assignee: C. Ehrensperger AG
• Inventors: EHRENSPERGER, Christian, SIGG, Marco
• Application Number:
  US16/377,286
• Publication Number:
  US 20190315561A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2401/15 Tearable part of the closure B65D2401/60 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 47/046 Closures with swivelling dispensing devices containers with swivelling devices comprising a bottom wall and two side walls B65D25/525
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 47/127 Snap-on caps
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 83/206 comprising a cantilevered actuator element, e.g. a lever pivoting about a living hinge
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 83/22 with a mechanical means to disable actuation B65D50/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 83/228 consisting of a rupturable connection between actuator element and actuator cap or skirt, e.g. tear strips or bridges
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 83/30 for guiding the flow of spray , e.g. funnels, hoods
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 83/303 using extension tubes located in or at the outlet duct of the nozzle assembly
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 83/756 comprising connectors, e.g. for tyre valves, or actuators connected to the aerosol container by a flexible tube auto-repairing or self-sealing arrangement for repairing plastic articles B29C73/16

Abstract

The invention relates to an adapter for a product dispenser (11) with an adapter base body (19) for positioning the adapter (18) on a container opening (14) of a pressure container (12), with a swivel arrangement (23), which adjusts an actuating lever (21) with a handle (22) swivellably to the adapter base body (19), wherein the actuating lever (21) is transferable from an unlocked position (67), in which the handle (22) can be operated from a starting position (68) into an active position (69) for opening a valve (16) of the container (12), to a locked position (66), in which operation of the handle (22) is blocked.

Claims

1. An adapter for a product dispenser with an adapter base body for positioning the adapter on a container opening of a pressure container, with an output sleeve, which is movable relative to the adapter base body along a longitudinal axis of the adapter base body, wherein the output sleeve is arranged movably relative to the adapter base body by an elastic connection, which is provided as an annular or disc-shaped membrane between the adapter base body and the output sleeve.

2. The adapter according to claim 1, wherein the output sleeve is arranged in a self-retaining manner in a starting position relative to the adapter base body and the output sleeve is transferable by an impact force at least partly along the longitudinal axis of the adapter base body into an active position.

3. The adapter according to claim 2, wherein by the elastic connection by means of a reset force, which is built up on transfer of the output sleeve from the starting position to the active position, the output sleeve is autonomously transferable to the starting position to the adapter base body.

4. The adapter according to claim 1, wherein the adapter base body has a flange aligned coaxially with the longitudinal axis and between the flange and the output sleeve there extends an end face, which is inclined with respect to the longitudinal axis and the elastic connection is provided between the output sleeve and the end face.

5. The adapter according to claim 4, wherein in the starting position of the output sleeve relative to the adapter base body, the end face and the elastic connection are arranged in a common plane.

6. The adapter according to claim 1, wherein inside the flange is provided an attachment section, which extends along the flange, at least in sections, and is attachable to an edge of the pressure container by a latching or snap connection or both.

7. The adapter according to claim 6, wherein the attachment section has on the flange several webs arranged at a distance from one another, which with the flange form a U-shaped take-up area, by which the attachment section engages in a positive-locking manner on the edge of the pressure container.

8. The adapter according to claim 1, wherein there is provided on the output sleeve in the direction of application of the adapter base body to the pressure container a connection for the positioning relative to the valve of the pressure container.

9. The adapter according to claim 1, wherein the output sleeve of the adapter base body has a receptacle at one free end for a nozzle.

10. The adapter according to claim 1, wherein the adapter base body, the output sleeve and at least the elastic connection are formed in one piece.

11. The adapter according to claim 1, wherein the adapter base body, the output sleeve and at least the elastic connection are manufactured as a plastic injection-molded part.

12. The adapter according to claim 1, wherein the adapter base body, the output sleeve and at least the elastic connection are formed from a thermoplastic elastomer.

13. The adapter according to claim 12, wherein the adapter base body, the output sleeve and at least the elastic connection are formed of polypropylene or polyethylene.