IP Library Granted Patent US 6,880,731
Granted Patent B2
US 6,880,731 · App. 10/376,463 · Granted Apr 19, 2005

Dispenser for flowable products with spherically encapsulated components

Assignee: RPC Wiko GmbH & Co. KG
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Patent No.
US 6,880,731
App. No.
10/376,463
Granted
Apr 19, 2005
Kind
B2
Abstract

A dispenser head of a dispenser for dispensing metered quantities of liquid and pasty products with spherically encapsulated components includes a dispenser pump and a dispenser duct with applicator opening following the dispenser pump for metered dispensing of products, wherein the dispenser pump includes an inlet duct and an outlet duct and a pump chamber closed at the inlet and outlet sides by check valves. At least one screen-like perforated mask is arranged in the product flow from the pump chamber during the dispensing procedure toward the outlet side, such that the entire product quantity must pass through the perforated mask during the dispensing procedure.

Claims (14)

1. A dispenser head of a dispenser for dispensing quantities of flowable products with spherically encapsulated ingredients, the dispenser head comprising

a dispenser pump,

a dispenser duct with applicator opening following the dispenser pump for dispensing the products, the dispenser pump having an inlet duct and an outlet duct and a pump chamber with check valves at the inlet and outlet sides, and

at least one screen-like perforated mask arranged in the pump chamber such that during a dispensing procedure the entire product flow passes through the perforated mask.

2. The dispenser head according to claim 1 , wherein the perforated mask has perforations, and wherein the diameters of the perforations are at least partially smaller than the diameters of the spherically encapsulated ingredients of the product.

3. The dispenser head according to claim 2 , wherein the diameters of the perforations have a defined predetermined size.

4. The dispenser head according to claim 1 , wherein the perforated mask is arranged in the outlet duct following the pump chamber.

5. The dispenser head according to claim 1 , wherein the perforated mask is arranged in flow direction immediately in front of the check valve of the pump chamber on the outlet side.

6. The dispenser head according to claim 1 , wherein the pump chamber has flexible pump chamber walls for producing a pressure to be introduced into the pump chamber for the flow of the product through the perforated mask.

7. The dispenser head according to claim 6 , wherein the check valve of the pump chamber on the outlet side is an outlet valve, and wherein the outlet valve and the perforated mask are components of a moveable part of the flexible pump chamber walls.

8. The dispenser head according to claim 6 , wherein the pump chamber has a cover and a bottom, and wherein the pump chamber cover is moveable by the flexible pump chamber walls to the pump chamber bottom, wherein the pump chamber bottom is stationary.

9. The dispenser head according to claim 8 , further comprising an axially displaceable pressure piston arranged within the pump chamber for applying pressure on the product.

10. The dispenser head according to claim 9 , wherein the outlet valve and the perforated mask are components of the pressure piston.

11. The dispenser head according to claim 9 , wherein the pressure piston is mounted in the pump chamber so as to be moveable with a bottom surface thereof immediately up to the pump chamber bottom.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Mar 23, 2010
From: RPC WIKO GMBH & CO. KG
To: RPC WIKO GMBH
Reel/Frame 024120/0732 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 28, 2003
From: HEUKAMP, WOLFGANG
To: RPC WIKO GMBH & CO. KG
Reel/Frame 013834/0483 →
Priority Claims (1)
DE 202 03 473 U · Mar 5, 2002 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20030168477A1 · Sep 11, 2003