IPC분류정보
국가/구분 |
United States(US) Patent
등록
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국제특허분류(IPC7판) |
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출원번호 |
US-0148668
(2000-12-01)
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우선권정보 |
IT-RM99A0739 (1999-12-03) |
국제출원번호 |
PCT/IT00/00499
(2002-06-03)
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§371/§102 date |
20020603
(20020603)
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국제공개번호 |
WO01/46065
(2001-06-28)
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발명자
/ 주소 |
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대리인 / 주소 |
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인용정보 |
피인용 횟수 :
13 인용 특허 :
8 |
초록
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A device (4) for the controlled delivery of a product (P), such as liquids and/or creamy substances and/or flowable substances within a container (1), in such a way that in the delivery position the product (P) column to be delivered is in a raised position with respect to the device (4), said conta
A device (4) for the controlled delivery of a product (P), such as liquids and/or creamy substances and/or flowable substances within a container (1), in such a way that in the delivery position the product (P) column to be delivered is in a raised position with respect to the device (4), said container (1) being comprised of a material, deformable by squeezing and able to energetically returning to its original shape, once the squeezing action is interrupted, and being provided with a neck (15), and optionally a cap element (2), coupled with the neck (15), and provided with an outlet opening (3) for the product to be delivered toward said device. The device (4) comprises elements for the controlled delivery of the product, which include a first inner conduct (5), communicating (3) inside the container, a second inversion conduct (7), communicating (6) with said first inner conduct (5), and a third outer conduct (9), communicating (8) with the inversion conduct (7) and provided with product (P) delivery opening (10).
대표청구항
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1. A device for the controlled delivery of a flowable product within a container, said container comprising a material that is deformable by squeezing and able to energetically return to an original shape once the squeezing action is interrupted, said container having a neck and an outlet opening fo
1. A device for the controlled delivery of a flowable product within a container, said container comprising a material that is deformable by squeezing and able to energetically return to an original shape once the squeezing action is interrupted, said container having a neck and an outlet opening for said product to be delivered toward said device, said controlled delivery device comprising:means for controlling delivery of the product, so that in a delivery position the product to be delivered is in a raised position with respect to said device, said means for controlling delivery comprising a first inner conduct communicating with said outlet opening; a second inversion conduct having a first end communicating with said first inner conduct, and within which the product is directed according to a direction substantially opposed to gravity force during delivery of the product, without passage of outer air inside of the container; and a third outer conduct having a first end communicating with a second end of said inversion conduct and having a delivery opening at a second end; wherein said first end of the inversion conduct is structured and arranged to prevent entrance of air within the container, when the product has reached the inversion conduct during an exit of the product from inside the container. 2. The device for the controlled delivery of a product according to claim 1, wherein said inversion conduct allows, during the lowering of a level within the container, a corresponding inner entrapped air volume and depression increase to be able to return by sucking the product with respect to the first end of the inversion conduct thus allowing the product to reach a dynamic equilibrium level within said inversion conduct, with a dynamic equilibrium between said first end of the inversion conduct and the second end of the inversion conduct to prevent dripping due to exit of the product through the delivery opening.3. The device for the controlled delivery of a product according to claim 1, wherein the material of said container is sufficiently tough and elastic suitable to determine an outlet control action of the product by squeezing the container, so that when the container is squeezed, a volume of the product contracts within the container to compress and to force said product to exit, such that a dynamic equilibrium level rises within the inversion conduct, so that the product passes the outlet opening to exit through the delivery opening.4. The device for the controlled delivery of a product according to claim 1, wherein the material of said container is a material sufficiently tough and elastic to have memory to energetically return to its original shape once the deformation action is interrupted, suitable to suck both the product remaining within each of the conducts, to prevent residual dripping, and to suck air once the product from the conducts is returned within the container, in order to compensate for an amount of product dispensed and to restore the initial situation wherein the dynamic equilibrium level of the product within the inversion conduct is in a lower position with respect to the product column to be delivered and automatically stops, stopped by the outer atmospheric pressure dynamically controlling the same.5. The device for the controlled delivery of a product according to claim 1, wherein said container is a bottle, a tube, or any other shape.6. The device for the controlled delivery of a product according to claim 1, wherein said outer conduct is oriented substantially parallel or perpendicular to the inversion conduct.7. The device for the controlled delivery of a product according to claim 1, wherein said inner conduct, said inversion conduct and said outer conduct are placed side by side to independent conducts; or the inner conduct is placed side by side to the inversion conduct, and the inversion conduct contains the outer conduct; or the outer conduct is placed side by side to the inversion conduct, and the inversion conduct contains the inner conduct.8. The device for the controlled delivery of a product according to claim 1, wherein said inner conduct, said inversion conduct and said outer conduct are within one another, so that said conducts have one of the following configurations: said inner conduct contains the inversion conduct and the inversion conduct containing the outer conduct; the inner conduct contains both the inversion conduct and the outer conduct; or the inversion conduct contains both the inner conduct and the outer conduct.9. The device for the controlled delivery of a product according to claim 1, further comprising a cap element fixedly or removably coupled to the neck of the container.10. The device for the controlled delivery of a product according to claim 1, further comprising a cap element, said cap element and the neck of the container being substantially positioned at 90° with respect to a longitudinal axis of the container axis, to realize a lateral delivery.11. The device for the controlled delivery of a product according to claim 1, wherein said inner conduct and outer conduct are on two different elements with edges of respective walls engaging each other by pressure, or by snapping coupling, or by ultrasound welding, so as to form the inversion conduct.12. The device for the controlled delivery of a product according to claim 1, further comprising a cap covering said container, said cap comprising said outer conduct, said outer conduct comprising a plurality of radially extending vertical walls,wherein said inversion conduct comprises a receptacle shaped element, said first end of said inversion conduct has an edge having an inlet opening adjacent to an inner wall of the cap, an inner wall of said receptacle shaped container being coupled by pressure, or by ultrasound gluing with edges of said plural radially extending vertical walls. 13. The device for the controlled delivery of a product according to claim 1, further comprising a cap having a first element laterally hinged between the inner conduct and a first edge of the outer conduct so that said inner and outer conduct are separable from each other, and a cover laterally hinged to a second edge of the outer conduct and having a snapping closure means engaging the delivery opening.14. The device for the controlled delivery of a product according to claim 1, further comprising a cap covering said container, said outer conduct being connect to the cap.15. The device for the controlled delivery of a product according to claim 1, further comprising a cap engaged with the neck of the container, wherein said inversion conduct comprises a bottom re-entrant forming an inner receptacle provided with a tubular wall adjacent to the neck and having a bottom surface provided with an inlet communicating with said inner conduct.16. The device for the controlled delivery of a product according to claim 1, wherein the first end of the outer conduct is substantially at half height of a receptacle of the inversion conduct, to allow the product level remaining within the inversion conduct, when the delivery is terminated and the container is inverted in the non-delivery position, to have a lower level with respect to said first end of the outer conduct, in such a way to make the inner air outflowing through a space obtained by a difference between the two levels, if subjected to a positive variation of volume and pressure.17. The device for the controlled delivery of a product according to claim 1, further comprising a cap having a bottom wall spaced apart from the first end of the outer conduct, to prevent any product remaining within the inversion conduct from flowing out through the delivery opening, when the container is moved from a non-delivery position to a delivery position.18. The device for the controlled delivery of a product according to claim 1, characterised in that the first end of the inversion conduct is provided with an upwardly directed recess formed by a concave or sloped wall, to allow the outer conduct to be extremely short, even if the first end of the outer conduct is substantially at half height of the inversion conduct, to limit a maximum level of the product that can remain within said outer conduct after delivery of the product, due to capillarity of the product.19. The device for the controlled delivery of a product according to claim 1, wherein said outer conduct is substantially angled at 90° with respect to a longitudinal axis of said container and is outside a receptacle of the inversion conduct, the inversion conduct being provided with an upwardly directed sloped recess, so that the second end of the inversion conduct is higher than the first end, in a delivery position.20. The device for the controlled delivery of a product according to claim 1, further comprising a means for opening and closing the first end of the outer conduct, said opening and closing means comprising a rotating cap containing said outer conduct, snapping coupled on the neck of the container and rotating within a tubular receptacle, said tubular receptacle having a bottom and an opposite end, said opposite end being engaged with an edge of the neck of the container and with a bottom of the rotating cap so that the first end of the outer conduct is closed by a bottom wall of a C-shaped tubular recess on the tubular receptacle, wherein said cap can rotate with respect to said bottom wall to open said first end of the outer conduct and to allow to the product to pass through the outer conduct to be delivered from the delivering opening.21. The device for the controlled delivery of a product according to claim 1, further comprising:a cap having a first inner receptacle inwardly extending from the cap; and axial push and pull means for opening and closing the first end of the outer conduct and that comprise a second slidable tubular receptacle having a bottom containing said outer conduct, a tubular wall and open opposite end, telescopically introduced, in slidable and hermetically sealing position, within a tubular wall of said first inner receptacle, said inversion conduct comprising a bottom of said first inner receptacle and said tubular wall of said second slidable tubular receptacle, said bottom of said first inner receptacle having said inner conduct there through and having a covering wall, wherein, in a closure position, the second slidable tubular receptacle is pushed within the first inner receptacle in such a way that the first end of said outer conduct can close on said covering wall, and wherein, in the delivery position, the second slidable tubular receptacle is pulled outward in such a way that the first end of said outer conduct is spaced apart from the covering wall, to allow the product to pass through the outer conduct and to be delivered from the delivery opening. 22. The device for the controlled delivery of a product according to claim 21, further comprising a projecting annular edge placed on the second slidable tubular receptacle, sliding within an annular groove on an end of an inner wall of the first inner receptacle.23. The device for the controlled delivery of a product according to claim 1, further comprising:a cap snapping coupled on the neck of the container and comprising an inwardly facing receptacle; and a screw roto-translation means for opening and closing the first end of the outer conduct and that comprise a movable opening and closure body, movably threadingly engaged on the cap, wherein the inversion conduct comprises a central part of a bottom of the movable opening and closure body and a wall of the inwardly facing receptacle, said central part of the bottom of the opening and closure movable body having an upwardly directed recess having a covering wall, so that when the delivery devise is in a closure position, effected by roto-translation caused by the screwing of the opening and closure movable body on the cap, the first end of said outer conduct can close on the covering wall, and so that when the delivery device is in the delivery position, the first end of said outer conduct is spaced apart, by roto-translation of the opening and closure movable body, from the covering wall, so as to allow the product to pass through the outer conduct and to be delivered from the delivery opening. 24. The device for the controlled delivery of a product according to claim 23, wherein said means for opening and closing further comprise an annular wall projecting from the bottom surface of the opening and closure movable body, said annular wall comprises a part of the inversion conduct and slidably and under pressure engages with an inner tubular wall of the inwardly facing receptacle.25. A device for the controlled delivery of a flowable product within a container, said container comprising a material that is deformable by squeezing and able to energetically return to an original shape once the squeezing action is interrupted, said container having a neck and an outlet opening for said product to be delivered toward said device, said controlled delivery device comprising:means for controlling delivery of the product, so that in a delivery position, the product to be delivered moves continuously from within said container to a first inner conduct communicating with said outlet opening, to a second inversion conduct having a first end communicating with said first inner conduct, and within which the product is directed according to a direction substantially opposed to gravity force during delivery of the product, and then to a third outer conduct having a first end communicating with a second end of said inversion conduct and having a delivery opening at a second end and then through said delivery opening, when said container is squeezed.
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