Packaging container using a system of fermentation to produce a propulsive gas

• US 5,009,340 A
• Filed: 10/27/1988
• Issued: 04/23/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/1987
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: L'Oreal SA
• Original Assignee: L'Oreal SA
• Inventors: Morane, Bruno
• Primary Examiner(s): Huppert, Michael S.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Huson, Gregory L.
• Application Number:
  US07/263,358
• Time in Patent Office: 908 Days
• Field of Search: 222/94, 222/105, 222/130, 222/386.5, 222/396, 222/399, 222/389, 222/106, 435/171, 435/940, 435/287, 435/300
• US Class Current: 222/94
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 83/625 the propellant being generated by a chemical or electrochemical reaction for pressure gas in portable fire extinguishers A62C13/02
• CPC Class Codes: C09K 3/30 for aerosols aerosol containers B65D83/14
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 435/94 Saccharomyces

Abstract

In a packing container (1a) provided with a distribution valve (7), a chamber is provided enclosing the starting components of a system (9) for the anaerobic fermentation of sugars using yeasts, which produce the carbon gas forming said propulsive product. The chamber is composed either of a flexible, gas-tight, hermetically closed pocket (8) or of a small rigid reservoir, which is normally closed by a valve calibrated to open only when the pressure which is established in said reservoir exceeds by a given value the pressure reigning in the interior space of the packing container.

Claims

1. A container for packing under pressure a liquid or pasty fluid, provided with a distribution valve, with said fluid to be distributed being placed under pressure by means of propulsive gas composed of carbon gas obtained by anaerobic fermentation of a fermentation system containing sugars, using yeasts, with a components of said fermentations system being selected qualitatively and quantitatively so that the carbon gas produced creates a pressure inside the packing container which is capable of ensuring the distribution of the fluid by said valve, wherein the fermentation system is contained in a chamber provided inside said container, said chamber comprising a small rigid reservoir which is normally closed by a valve, said valve being calibrated to open only when the pressure in said reservoir exceeds by a given value the pressure prevailing in the interior space of the container, said reservoir being ballasted so that the liquid phase of the fermentation system is located vertically beneath said valve, whatever the position of said container.

2. The container in accordance with claim 1, wherein the relative pressure exerted on the fluid to be distributed is between approximately 2 and 8 bars.

3. The container as claimed in claim 1, wherein said small rigid reservoir is disposed in a hermetically closed, flexible envelope.