Dispenser for a viscous fluid product operated by manual pressure on a bottom end thereof, in particular for cosmetic or pharmaceutical use

• US 5,513,778 A
• Filed: 07/20/1994
• Issued: 05/07/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 07/22/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Anna Maria Ballarati, Ennio Cardia
• Original Assignee: Anna Maria Ballarati, Ennio Cardia
• Inventors: Cardia, Ennio, Ballarati, Anna Maria
• Primary Examiner(s): Kashnikow, Andres
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bomberg, Kenneth
• Application Number:
  US08/277,628
• Time in Patent Office: 657 Days
• Field of Search: 222/327, 222/386
• US Class Current: 222/327
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 40/0075 with dispensing means
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 11/02 of curved cross-section thermally insulated B65D81/3813
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 47/103 Membranes with a tearing element
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 83/0005 Containers or packages provided with a piston or with a movable bottom or partition having approximately the same section as the container B65D83/0072 takes precedence

Abstract

A dispenser of products such as creams and the like for cosmetic or pharmaceutical use having a lid which closes on to a first annular abutment of a tubular outer body. The outer body having an open bottom end with an aperture wherethrough a recipient containing the product is inserted and removed and a top end which is open. The recipient having an open bottom end housing a piston which when manually pressed in an axial direction, without rotation, presses the product in the recipient towards a dispensing aperture provided in a closed end of the recipient such as to dispense a continuous quantity and not a prefixed dose of product.

Claims

1. A dispenser of viscous fluid product having a dispensing action produced by a manual pressure on a bottom surface thereof, for cosmetic and pharmaceutical use, comprising,

a tubular outer body having an open top end and a partially closed bottom end with a centrally located wide aperture, said outer body externally exhibits a first annular shoulder dividing the outer body into a top portion and a bottom portion, the top portion being thinner in breadth than the bottom portion;

a tubular hollow recipient removably housed in the outer body, exhibiting an external wall and a tubular internal surface and being superiorly closed by a top wall affording a dispensing aperture for dispensing the product, and being open at a bottom end;

a tubular piston, housed internally in the bottom end of the tubular recipient and provided with a lateral seal;

said piston being mobile in a direction along the tubular internal surface when the manual pressure is applied thereupon in proximity of the aperture in the outer body at a central portion of the piston and coaxial to an axis of the aperture;

a lid;

first means for reciprocal and releasable engagement between the tubular recipient and the tubular outer body; and

second means for reciprocal gripping between the tubular outer body and the lid.

2. The dispenser of viscous fluid product as in claim 1, wherein the first means for engagement is a first thread made on the recipient coupling with a first counter thread exhibited by the outer body, and in that the second means for gripping is a second thread made on the top portion of the outer body and coupling with a second counter thread exhibited by the lid.

3. The dispenser of viscous fluid product, as in claim 1, wherein the lateral seal of the piston comprises at least two annular flanges coaxial to the axis of the aperture and perpendicularly incident on the internal wall;

at least one flange of the at least two annular flanges being made of a flexible material.

4. The dispenser of a viscous fluid product as in claim 1, wherein the dispensing aperture is connected to a tubular axial element having a closed upper end and being provided with a lateral spout on which a second dispensing aperture is fashioned.

5. The dispenser of a viscous fluid product as in claim 1, wherein the piston exhibits a cylindrical central aperture, coaxial to the axis of aperture of the outer body, removably closed by a hollow tubular cap, said tubular cap is fixable by elastic friction pressure along internal walls of the cylindrical central aperture.

6. The dispenser of viscous fluid product as in claim 1, wherein said dispensing aperture is provided with a sealing element comprising a pivot which at a top end thereof is provided with a thin transversal tongue and at a bottom end thereof is is solidly constrained to a breakable surface connected to the bottom end of said dispensing aperture;

said sealing element being removable by exerting a pressure on said pivot until said breakable surface breaks and said sealing element is removed by means of said thin transversal tongue.

7. The dispenser of viscous fluid product as in claim 1, wherein a slightly inclined pipe is made on a peripheral edge of the top wall of the tubular recipient, which pipe exhibits said dispensing aperture.

8. A dispenser of viscous fluid product having a dispensing action produced by a manual pressure on a bottom surface thereof, for cosmetic and pharmaceutical use, comprising,

a tubular outer body having an open top end and a partially closed bottom end with a centrally located wide aperture, said outer body externally exhibits a first annular shoulder dividing the outer body into a top portion and a bottom portion, the top portion being thinner in breadth than the bottom portion;

a tubular hollow recipient removably housed in the outer body, exhibiting a first external wall and a second external wall and being superiorly closed by a top wall affording a dispensing aperture for dispensing the product, and being open at a bottom end;

a tubular piston, housed internally in the bottom end of the tubular recipient and provided with a lateral seal;

said piston being mobile in a direction along the first external wall when the manual pressure is applied thereupon in proximity of the aperture in the outer body at a central portion of the piston and coaxial to the aperture;

a lid;

wherein the recipient housed in the outer body has a second abutment which divides the second external wall into two portions which are unitary with the first external wall;

said two portions being a lower wall and an upper wall;

said lower wall being internally provided with a first thread coupling with a first counter thread made on the outer body, said lower wall projecting externalwise of said outer body and being annularly concentric to and shorter than the first external wall;

said upper wall exhibiting a second thread coupling with a second counter thread exhibited by the lid.

9. A dispenser of viscous fluid product having a dispensing action produced by a manual pressure on a bottom surface thereof, for cosmetic and pharmaceutical use, comprising,

a tubular outer body having an open top end and a partially closed bottom end with a centrally located wide aperture, said outer body externally exhibits a first annular shoulder dividing the outer body into a top portion and a bottom portion, the top portion being thinner in breadth than the bottom portion;

a tubular hollow recipient removably housed in the outer body, exhibiting an external wall and a tubular internal surface and being superiorly closed by a top wall affording a dispensing aperture for dispensing the product, and being open at a bottom end;

a tubular piston, housed internally in the bottom end of the tubular recipient and provided with a lateral seal;

said piston being mobile in a direction along the internal tubular surface when the manual pressure is applied thereupon in proximity of the aperture in the outer body at a central portion of the piston and coaxial to the aperture;

a lid;

wherein a separator body is separately and removably engaged on the external wall of the recipient;

the separator body having a second annular shoulder which divides the separator body into two portions;

said two portions being a lower wall and an upper wall;

said lower wall being internally provided with a first thread coupling with a first counter thread on said outer body;

said upper wall exhibiting a second thread coupling with a second counter thread exhibited by the lid.