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Granted Patent B2
US 11,910,903 · App. 16/614,555 · Granted Feb 27, 2024

Containers for fragrances

Inventor: Michael Edwards (Stevenage, GB)
Assignee: Viviana London Limited
A45D34/02B05B11/1047A45D2034/002A45D2200/057B05B11/0037B05B11/0078B05B11/1084
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Patent No.
US 11,910,903
App. No.
16/614,555
Granted
Feb 27, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A container unit ( 2 ) including a plurality of sub-container portions ( 4 ) defining a plurality of chambers for containing a liquid substance, a mixing chamber ( 10 ) downstream of the sub-container portions, a selecting mechanism for selecting one or more liquid substances from the sub-container portions, and a spray actuator ( 6 ) for dispensing a single liquid substance product from one sub-container portion or a mixture of liquid substances from two or more of the plurality of sub-container portions ( 4 ), wherein the sub-container portions ( 4 ) are individually removable from the container unit.

Claims (16)

1. A container unit including a plurality of sub-container portions defining a plurality of chambers for containing a liquid substance, a mixing chamber downstream of the sub-container portions, a selecting mechanism for selecting, between an on or off position, one or more liquid substances from the sub-container portions, and a spray actuator unit for dispensing a single liquid substance product from one sub-container portion or a mixture of liquid substances from two or more of the plurality of sub-container portions according to the selecting mechanism, wherein the selecting mechanism includes respective switch devices for each sub-container portion and the spray actuator includes a spray button plate section, which when pressed downwardly causes the respective selecting mechanism to either act or not act upon respective actuator units for each sub-container portion and wherein the sub-container portions are individually removable from the container unit.

2. A container unit according to claim 1 , wherein said selecting mechanism is a manually operable selectable valve device.

3. A container according to claim 2 , wherein the manually selectable valve device includes a push button.

4. A container unit according to claim 1 , wherein said selecting mechanism is an automatically operable selectable valve device.

5. A container unit according to claim 4 , wherein the selecting mechanism is electronically controlled by way of a software application stored on an electronic computer device.

6. A container unit according to claim 1 , wherein each switch includes a pair of downwardly projecting fins which act upon the actuator unit when the switch device is in an on position.

7. A container unit according to claim 1 , wherein the sub-container portions are of differing internal volumes.

8. A container unit according to claim 1 , wherein the sub-container portions are different shapes.

9. A container unit according to claim 8 , wherein a first sub-container portion is a first shape and a pair of other sub-container portions are a second shape.

10. A container unit according to claim 8 , wherein the different shape containers have differing internal volumes.

11. A container unit according to claim 1 , and further comprising a pre-compression pump attached to each sub-container portion.

12. A container unit according to claim 11 , wherein the actuator unit serves to actuate the pre-compression pump when the switch device is in the on position.

13. A container unit according to claim 1 , and further comprising a manifold connected to each sub-container portion and serving to both link and blend the liquid substances.

14. A container unit according to claim 1 , and further comprising a framework to hold together the sub-container portions, a base portion in which a bottom end region of the sub-container portions are retained, wherein the base portion includes a locking device for securing the base portion to the framework, which when unlocked, enables removal of the base portion to gain access to each sub-container portion.

15. A container unit according to claim 1 , wherein the container sub-portions comprise means for connecting to an adjacent container sub-portion.

16. A container unit according to claim 1 , wherein different ones of the container unit define fragrance container units for males or females, and wherein, the sub-container portions of the fragrance container unit for a male are of a different size and/or shape and do not fit the container unit for the female fragrance container unit.

Priority Claims (1)
GB 1707924 · May 17, 2017 · national
Continuity (1)
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