DEVICE FOR RATIONALLY APPLYING VARIOUS FLUID PRODUCTS

• US 3,658,432 A
• Filed: 09/15/1970
• Issued: 04/25/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 01/23/1970
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Marie Marguerite Lanusse
• Original Assignee: Marie Marguerite Lanusse
• Inventors: Lanusse, Marie Marguerite
• Primary Examiner(s): Charles, Lawrence
• Application Number:
  US05/072,481
• Time in Patent Office: 588 Days
• Field of Search: 401/188,219,196,197,146 15/501,103,97,24,29
• US Class Current: 401/219
• CPC Class Codes: B05C 17/0341 attached to the hand tool
• CPC Class Codes: B05C 17/035 direct or indirectly to the outer surface of the coating roller

Abstract

A spreader for applying make-up, paint or like fluid product is comprised of a detachable container for said product secured to a body including a source of electrical energy for feeding an electrical motor driving a pump, a handle carrying a control means for said motor, and a working head enclosing partially a freely rotatable roller provided with an absorbent lining which receives said product from an internally disposed sprinkling ramp fed by said pump.

Claims

1. A spreader for uniformly applying a fluid product onto a surface, comprised of a container adapted to receive a controllable quantity of said product and of a body to which said container is detachably secured, said body carrying an adaptable working head and being provided with means operative for feeding to said working head a rated flow of said product positively drawn from said container, characterized in that said working head consists of a roller provided with an absorbent lining, removably mounted for free rotation within a partially open recess formed in one side face of said body and delimited by a part-cylindrical bottom wall provided with an axially extending sprinkling ramp having a plurality of orifices directed towards said lining of said roller ;

said sprinkling ramp being connected to the outlet of a pump located within an internal cavity of said body and the inlet of which is connected to a plunger tube sealingly extending outside of said cavity into the bottom portion of said container ;

said pump being driven by an electric motor located within said cavity and fed by a source of electrical energy incorporated to said body through the intermediary of switch means operative to control the actuation of said motor, and thus to condition the flow of said product delivered by said pump to said sprinkling ramp ; and

said roller being driven into rotation in alternate directions by moving said spreader back and forth on said surface.

2. A spreader according to claim 1, wherein said container is removably secured to said body by attachment means in the form of a threaded connection or the like implying relative rotation of said container with respect to said body, and wherein said plunger tube extends axially of said container.

3. A spreader according to claim 2, wherein said container comprises an upper wall formed with a centrally located frusto-conical hole, and wherein said plunger tube is provided with a resiliently deformable plug of frusto-conical configuration mating with said hole for providing a sealing fit.

4. A spreader according to claim 1, wherein the lateral wall of said recess of said body are formed with blind-ended linear indentations extending substantially diametrically of said part-cylindrical wall towards the opening of said recess, said indentations constituting respective bearings providing for removable rotatable mounting of said roller.

5. A spreader according to claim 4, wherein said roller is provided with axial shaft members which are retained in said indentations by resilient locking means.

6. A spreader according to claim 5, wherein said shaft members carry elongated plates mating with said indentations and adapted to centre said roller with respect to said part-cylindrical wall.

7. A spreader according to claim 6, wherein said body is provided with flaps operative for adapting the opening of said recess to the size of the roller mounted therein.

8. A spreader according to claim 1, wherein the rate of flow of said product is controlled by varying the speed of said electrical motor means of associated switch means.