Disposable dispenser pump for products in liquid or paste form

• US 4,776,495 A
• Filed: 04/01/1987
• Issued: 10/11/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/1986
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Zone Industrielle Mitry-Compans Alpha Systemes
• Original Assignee: Alpha Systemes
• Inventors: Vignot, Eric
• Primary Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Assistant Examiner(s): Waag, Lisa C.
• Application Number:
  US07/032,688
• Time in Patent Office: 559 Days
• Field of Search: 222/206, 222/207, 222/212, 222/213, 222/490, 222/494, 222/215, 222/491, 137/853
• US Class Current: 222/207
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 5/1209 with chamber in the form of a cylindrical tube

Abstract

A dispenser pump and cartridge forming a single unit which can be discarded after use includes a hollow pump body with an admission valve having flexible lips which separate at the time of use under the action of a pressure gradient established within the product to be dispensed. The pump body also has a delivery valve with a flexible tubular skirt which is inwardly deformable and capable of moving locally away from an annular sealing lip, thus permitting downward escape of a dose of product. Subsequent re-closing of the skirt prevents any upward admission of external air.

Claims

1. A dispenser pump adapted to be connected to the bottom discharge outlet (3) of a container (1) filled with a liquid product (2) to be dispensed, comprising:

a tubular hollow body of flexible material provided at its upper end with an inlet valve and at its lower end with an outlet valve,

said inlet valve (8) comprising a tubular neck of flexible material having a flattened downstream end to provide a transverse slit (21) formed between two lips (22) closing said slit by their inherent resiliency when said inlet valve (8) is inoperative,

said delivery valve comprising an external nozzle (9) having, intermediate its height, a radially inwardly extending inner annular rib (12) and an inner sealing skirt (17) of annular configuration disposed in said nozzle surrounded by and engaging in sealing position the inner rib (12) of said nozzle; and

a closure partition (18) disposed at the upper end of said skirt (17), a plurality of passages (19) being formed through said closure partition (18) to permit passage of a said product to be dispensed between said inner skirt (17) and said external nozzle (9).

2. The dispenser pump of claim 1, wherein said closure partition (18) comprises a radially outwardly extending collar (14) having said plurality of passages (19) formed therethrough for the passage of the product to be dispensed, said collar (14) being disposed in an inner annular recess (13) of said external nozzle (9).