Perfume dispenser

• US 4,006,841 A
• Filed: 07/14/1975
• Issued: 02/08/1977
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/1974
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Girair Hagop Alticosalian
• Original Assignee: Girair Hagop Alticosalian
• Inventors: Alticosalian, Girair Hagop
• Primary Examiner(s): Knowles, Allen N.
• Application Number:
  US05/595,799
• Time in Patent Office: 575 Days
• Field of Search: 222/132, 222/135, 222/144.5, 222/145, 222/42, 222/48
• US Class Current: 222/42
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 83/205 Actuator caps, or peripheral actuator skirts, attachable to the aerosol container
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 83/68 Dispensing two or more contents , e.g. sequential dispensing or simultaneous dispensing of two or more products without mixing them
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 83/682 the products being first separated, but finally mixed, e.g. in a dispensing head mixing in general B01F

Abstract

A perfume dispenser which enables any of a plurality of different liquid perfumes to be selected or to be selectively mixed prior to being dispensed, whereby a plurality of different perfume fragrances can be obtained from the dispenser, as desired. The perfume dispenser comprises a holder for holding a plurality of perfume containers, each containing a liquid perfume of a different fragrance, a selector device which enables liquid perfume from any one or from a combination or combinations of the containers to be selected for dispensing through an outlet of the dispenser and an actuating means operable to cause the release of a quantity of the selected liquid perfume or perfumes into a mixing chamber and from said chamber to said outlet.

Claims

1. A perfume dispenser comprising:

a holder for holding a plurality of perfume containers, each containing a liquid perfume of a different fragrance,

a selector device which, when the plurality of containers are located in the holder, enables liquid perfume from any one or from a combination or combinations of the containers to be selected for dispensing through an outlet of the dispenser, and

an actuating means operable to cause the release of a quantity of the selected liquid perfume or perfumes into a mixing chamber and from said chamber to said outlet, wherein said selector device is in the form of a push-button which is rotatable to predetermined angular positions relative to said holder to effect the desired selection and which is provided with a region carrying said actuating means in the form of a series of spaced projections, whereby when the push-button is depressed after the desired selection has been made, the projections are also depressed so that the projection or projections corresponding to the selection made can engage with the outlet valve or valves of the selected container or containers to cause the selected perfume or perfumes to be fed through said mixing chamber and dispensed at said outlet.

2. A perfume dispenser as claimed in claim 1, wherein the mixing chamber is located below the push-button and is connected by flexible passages to the outlet valve of each of the said containers and also to the outlet of the dispenser in the form of a nozzle carried by the holder and in which the connection between each passage and the outlet valve of the associated container is effected by means of a union member attached both to the adjacent end of the passage and fitted over the outlet valve and which can be engaged by a projection, depending upon the angular position of the push-button.

3. A perfume dispenser as claimed in claim 1, wherein the holder is provided with a plurality of cylindrical recesses each adapted to receive said container and wherein each recess is provided with means for locking the container in position in the recess.

4. A perfume dispenser as claimed in claim 3, wherein the locking means comprise peripheral projections on the wall of the recess which can engage with a cam surface provided on a sleeve fitted around the upper portion of the associated container whereby rotation of the container relative to its recess serves to lock it in position.

5. A perfume dispenser as claimed in claim 3, in which the recesses are located below a partition within the holder, provided with an aperture opposite each recess through which can project the valve member of a container.

6. A perfume dispenser comprising:

a holder releasably holding a plurality of perfume containers each containing a liquid perfume of a different fragrance,

a selector device in the form of a resiliently loaded push-button which is rotatable relative to said holder and which is associated with indicating means defining predetermined angular positions of rotation thereby to enable selection to be made of any one or of a combination of said perfume containers,

a peripheral region to said push-button, said region carrying actuating means in the form of a series of spaced projections,

a mixing chamber located in said holder below said push-button and connected by flexible passages, one for each container, to a union member fitted over the outlet valve of each container,

an outlet nozzle mounted on said holder and connected to said mixing chamber for ejecting perfume dispensed from the selected container or containers, whereby when said push-button is depressed after a desired selection has been made by rotation of said push-button to the appropriate angular position, the projection or projections corresponding to that selection engage the union member or members and depress the outlet valve or valves of the selected container or containers, to cause the selected perfume or perfumes to be fed through said mixing chamber and ejected from said outlet nozzle.