Dow Corning Corporation

Henry J Fulks

Frank R Wilgus

Dale G Benedict

William Thomas Gagliardi

Ronald W Wieck

Timothy W Mitin

Ronald R Kubiak

Squeeze tube dispenser

A user friendly dispensing device for viscous materials has an applicator nozzle designed to dispense a bead of material from a squeeze-tube into cracks and corners by being dragged along a surface rather than being pushed. The device has a unique ergonomic shape allowing for ease of application and extrusion of viscous materials such as sealants and caulks squeezed out of the tube. The applicator nozzle is made of plastic; while plastic, a plastic laminate, or metal, is used to make the squeeze-tube.

Ergonomeric dispenser for viscous materials

An adapter for use in an extrusion device can use sausage skin packaged sealant-type extrudable materials. A sausage skin package is inserted into the adapter which is, in turn, inserted into an extrusion device, such as a caulking gun. The adapter has four pieces, a cylindrical tube, a plunger, a removable nozzle base, and a removable nozzle tip. The adapter can be designed to be reversible where a sausage is inserted between the plunger and the nozzle base, force is applied to the plunger by the extrusion device forcing the sealant-type material from the sausage package and after the material is expelled, a wad of package skin is removed, a new sausage package is inserted into the open end of the tube and the removable nozzle base is attached to the tube and the dispensing operation can be continued.

Adapter for dispensing material from a sausage type package

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Midland, MI, United States of America

Henry J Fulks