Precision Valve Corporation

Johnson and Johnson Vision Care, Inc.

John B Fore

Michael Paul Downey

Matthew L Brett

David Curtis Turner

Christopher Wildsmith

James M Peck

Michael G Tokarski

George E Himes, Jr

Mark Mandeville

Geoffrey Brace

Jr George E Himes

A one-piece actuator for a valve includes a ramp structure providing a linear sloping passageway communicating with the valve, a chamber that generates a vortex and communicates with the ramp structure, and a nozzle that communicates with the chamber to dispense and mechanically break apart product upon actuation of the valve from an aerosol container. The ramp structure is angled 20 to 60 degrees relative to the chamber.

Mechanical breakup actuator with disruptive vortex chamber

Actuator

Actuator button

An actuator for a valve is lockable with a tubular member to maintain the valve in either an actuated position or in an unactuated position. Locked in the actuated position, degassing can occur. Locked in the unactuated position, inadvertently dispensing of product is prevented.

Aerosol lockout mechanism

A spray delivery system with minimal pressure loss can is used with an aerosol container having a valve. The system includes a vertically extending conduit having an opening at a lowermost end conduit and two openings through a surface at an opposite end. The surface is disposed at an angle relative to a vertical. The system also has a first horizontally extending conduit communicating with the vertically extending conduit though one of the two openings and a second horizontally extending conduit fluidly communicating with the vertically extending conduit though the other one of the two openings. A manifold defines an inner annular volume and fluidly communicates with the first and second horizontally extending conduits. A spray nozzle insert is in fluid communication with the manifold. The spray nozzle insert has a plurality of blades that radiate inward and connect with a center round well having a sharp end.

Spray delivery system

Actuator orifice

A system and method to spray fluid from a container at different mass flow rates is provided. The system includes an actuator rotatable to select a mass flow rate and a valve having dual orifices that are selectively unsealed when the actuator is depressed according to the mass flow rate selection to effect dispensing of fluid.

System and method for dispensing different sprays

A system releases spray fluid in different mass flow rates. The system includes an actuator having a first area and a second area, a stem connected to the actuator and having a first orifice and a second orifice, a gasket covering the first orifice and the second orifice in a non-actuated position, and a biased member biasing the stem to the non-actuated position. When the first area of the actuator is pressed, the stem moves a first distance relative to the gasket to uncover the second orifice and compressing the biased member to spray fluid with a first mass flow rate. When the second area of the actuator is pressed, the stem moves a second distance relative to the gasket to uncover the first orifice and the second orifice to spray fluid with a second mass flow rate greater than the first mass flow rate.

System and method for a dispenser to generate different sprays

A package having a roughened surface that does not adhere to a medical device enclosed therein.

Growing community of inventors

Travelers Rest, SC, United States of America

John B Fore