Multi-dimensional applicator

• US 4,701,167 A
• Filed: 09/16/1985
• Issued: 10/20/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 09/16/1985
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: The Kendall Company (Colgate-Palmolive Company)
• Original Assignee: The Kendall Company (Colgate-Palmolive Company)
• Inventors: Chekan, William J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Truluck, Dalton L.
• Application Number:
  US06/776,310
• Time in Patent Office: 764 Days
• Field of Search: 128/200.23, 604/294-310
• US Class Current: 604/310
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 35/003 Portable hand-held applicators having means for dispensing or spreading integral media hand-held massage devices with liquid delivery A61H7/003
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 83/30 for guiding the flow of spray , e.g. funnels, hoods

Abstract

The present invention comprises an applicator for the discharge of disinfectant from an aerosol can. The applicator provides an inner and an outer confinement means which permits the discharge of disinfectant from the aerosol can onto a relatively large area being treated.

The applicator also comprises an inner confinement adapter which is disposed within the outer confinement means so as to permit a smaller portion of a patient'"'"'s body to be disinfected. A finger may disposed against the inner confinement apparatus and disinfected appropriately due to the smaller size of the inner confinement means as opposed to the outer confinement means. The flow of disinfectant when the outer confinement means is utilized is not compromised because of the spaced relationship axially between the two confinement rims.

Claims

1. An applicator for facilitating discharge of disinfectant from an aerosol can, which applicator provides containment and delivery means for disinfectant against a finger of a patient or a larger area of a patient, comprising:

an outer confinement means; and

an inner confinement means disposed within said outer confinement means with an arrangement of orificii through the sides thereof for fluid communication therebetween, said inner confinement means having a distal peripheral surface which defines a plane disposed away from a plane defined by the outer confinement means.

2. An applicator as recited in claim 1, wherein said outer confinement means comprises a cup having a peripheral rim.

3. An applicator as recited in claim 2, wherein said inner confinement means comprises an inner cup having a peripheral rim.

4. An applicator as recited in claim 3, wherein a channel is disposed within said inner confinement means, which channel is fluidly communicable with a nozzle means on any aerosol can thereattached.

5. An applicator as recited in claim 3, wherein the space between said inner cup and said outer cup is solid.

6. An applicator as recited in claim 3, wherein said outer cup has an inner surface of generally hemispherical configuration.

7. An applicator as recited in claim 3, wherein said inner cup has an inner surface of generally hemispherical configuration.

8. An applicator as recited in claim 4, wherein said channel is in fluid communication with said inner cup and said outer cup.