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US 8,191,802 · App. 11/092,088 · Granted Jun 5, 2012

Aerosol

Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
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Patent No.
US 8,191,802
App. No.
11/092,088
Granted
Jun 5, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

A spray head for attachment to an aerosol container containing pressurized product is provided, the spray head comprising conduit means, more than one separate spray outlet and a splitting chamber for diverting the flow to the spray outlets, wherein the conduit means comprise inlet means for attachment to a valve stem of the aerosol spray unit and conduit outlet means which are in direct fluid communication with the splitting chamber, wherein the splitting chamber is in fluid communication with the spray outlets and wherein, for each spray outlet, the ratio, L 1 /L 2 , of the distance (L 1 ) between the conduit outlet means and the spray outlet to the distance (L 2 ) between the inlet means and the spray outlet is in the range 0.01 to 0.6.

Claims (11)

1. A spray head for attachment to an aerosol spray unit containing pressurised product, the spray head comprising conduit means, more than one separate spray outlet and a splitting chamber for diverting the flow to the spray outlets wherein the conduit means comprise inlet means for attachment to a valve stern of the aerosol spray unit and conduit outlet means which are in direct fluid communication with the splitting chamber wherein the splitting chamber is in fluid communication with the spray outlets and wherein, for each spray outlet, the ratio, L 1 /L 2 , of the distance (L 1 ) between the point at which the flow splits to travel to the separate spray outlets and the spray outlet to the distance (L 2 ) between the inlet means and the spray outlet is from 0.015 to 0.4.

2. The spray head of claim 1 wherein at least one of the spray outlets has a ratio L 1 /L 2 which is different from the other or others.

3. The spray head of claim 1 wherein all the spray outlets have the same ratio L 1 /L 2 .

4. The spray head of claim 1 wherein at least one of the spray outlets has a non-circular cross-section.

5. The spray head of claim 1 wherein all the spray outlets have a non-circular cross-sectional shape.

6. The spray head of claim 1 wherein one or more of the spray outlets have a cross-sectional shape selected from the group consisting of polygonal, semi-circular, crescent, stellate and mixtures thereof.

7. The spray head of claim 6 wherein each polygonal cross-sectional shape is selected from the group consisting of polygons having from three to ten sides.

8. The spray head of claim 7 wherein each polygonal cross-sectional shape is selected from the group consisting of triangular, rectangular, pentagonal, hexagonal and mixtures thereof.

9. The spray head of claim 1 having from 2 to 36 outlets.

10. The spray head of claim 1 wherein one or more of the spray outlets have a semi-circular cross-sectional shape.

11. The spray head of claim 1 having from 3 to 12 spray outlets.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 19, 2005
From: SMITH, SCOTT EDWARD; CHANG, SU-YON; KHAN, AYUB IBRAHIM; LEONARD, CHRISTOPHER LUKE
To: PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY, THE
Reel/Frame 016544/0519 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 60557355 · Mar 29, 2004
Related Publication 20050224524A1 · Oct 13, 2005