Dispenser for flowable products

• US 7,028,865 B2
• Filed: 01/29/2003
• Issued: 04/18/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 02/05/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: RPC WIKO GmbH (Berry Global Group Inc.)
• Original Assignee: RPC WIKO GmbH & Company KG
• Inventors: Heukamp, Wolfgang
• Primary Examiner(s): Nicolas, Frederick C.
• Application Number:
  US10/353,822
• Publication Number:
  US 20030168475A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,175 Days
• Field of Search: 222/207, 222/321.7, 222/383.1, 222/383.3, 222/386, 222/387, 222/321.9, 222/321.6, 222256-257
• US Class Current: 222/207
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 11/007 being opened by deformation of a sealing element made of resiliently deformable material, e.g. flaps, skirts, duck-bill valves
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 11/1028 Pumps having a pumping chamber with a deformable wall B05B11/1087 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 11/1069 the valve being made of a resiliently deformable material or being urged in a closed position by a spring

Abstract

A dispenser for dispensing metered amounts of liquid or paste-like products has a cylindrical reservoir having an open bottom and an upper end with an intake valve. A plunger is arranged axially movably in the cylindrical reservoir and closes off the open bottom of the cylindrical reservoir. A dispensing head is arranged on the upper end of the reservoir. The dispensing head has a bell-shaped dispensing pump having elastic sidewalls and a pump head with a through opening having an outlet valve. The dispensing pump together with the intake valve and the outlet valve delimits a closed pump chamber. The outlet valve is manufactured as a monolithic part of the pump neck such that with a simple working step the entire through opening of the pump neck is closable by a valve flap of the outlet valve.

Claims

1. A dispenser for dispensing metered amounts of liquid or pasty products, the dispenser comprising:

a cylindrical reservoir having an open bottom and an upper end, wherein the upper end of the reservoir has an intake valve;

a plunger arranged axially movable in the cylindrical reservoir and closing off the open bottom of the cylindrical reservoir;

a dispensing head arranged on the upper end of the reservoir;

wherein the dispensing head has a bell-shaped dispensing pump comprising elastic sidewalls and a pump neck with a through opening comprising an outlet valve;

wherein the dispensing head together with the intake valve and the outlet valve delimits a pump chamber;

wherein the bell-shaped dispensing pump has a lower open end and the reservoir has a cover, and wherein the lower open end of the bell-shaped dispensing pump sealingly rests on the cover of the reservoir, such that the pump chamber is enclosed by the dispensing pump and the cover, wherein the intake valve is an integral part of the cover and the outlet valve is an integral part of the dispensing pump, and the outlet valve is formed integrally with the pump neck of the dispensing pump, wherein a valve flap of the outlet valve rests on the pump neck and closes off completely the through opening of the pump neck from above, wherein the valve flap is a disk having a central hole and wherein the pump neck has an axially projecting pin, wherein the disk is pushed onto the axially projecting pin of the pump neck such that the axially projecting pin is received in the central hole.

2. The dispenser according to claim 1, wherein the disk is a rubber disk.

3. The dispenser according to claim 1, wherein the pin is a part of the pump neck and is manufactured as a unitary part of the pump neck, wherein the pin comprises connecting stays.

4. The dispenser according to claim 3, wherein the pin has a peripheral groove at a level of an upper edge of the pump neck, wherein a rim of the central hole of the valve flap is locked in the peripheral groove of the pin.

5. The dispenser according to claim 1, wherein the reservoir has a reservoir extension projecting past a cover provided at the upper end, wherein the cover has a lateral rim, wherein the reservoir extension and the lateral rim define an annular groove, wherein a sidewall of the dispensing pump has a lower end inserted and locked in the annular groove.

6. A dispenser for dispensing metered amounts of liquid or pasty products, the dispenser comprising:

a cylindrical reservoir having an open bottom and an upper end, wherein the upper end of the reservoir has an intake valve;

a plunger arranged axially movable in the cylindrical reservoir and closing off the open bottom of the cylindrical reservoir;

a dispensing head arranged on the upper end of the reservoir;

wherein the dispensing head has a bell-shaped dispensing pump comprising elastic sidewalls and a pump neck with a through opening comprising an outlet valve;

wherein the dispensing head together with the intake valve and the outlet valve delimits a pump chamber;

wherein the bell-shaped dispensing pump has a lower open end and the reservoir has a cover, and wherein the lower open end of the bell-shaped dispensing pump sealingly rests on the cover of the reservoir, such that the pump chamber is enclosed by the dispensing pump and the cover, wherein the intake valve is an integral part of the cover and the outlet valve is an integral part of the dispensing pump, and the outlet valve is formed integrally with the pump neck of the dispensing pump, wherein a valve flap of the outlet valve rests on the pump neck and closes off completely the through opening of the pump neck from above, wherein the valve flap of the outlet valve is an elastic disk having a central hole and wherein the upper end of the reservoir has a cover provided with a projecting pin, wherein the elastic disk is pushed onto the projecting pin of the cover.

7. The dispenser according to claim 6, wherein the elastic disk is a rubber disk.

8. The dispenser according to claim 6, wherein the pin is thermally deformed to a rivet shape after the elastic disk has been pushed onto the pin and secures the elastic disk in a non-detachable way.