Societe Technique De Pulverisation--step

Valois

Societe Technique De Pulverisation - Step Sa

Valois (societe Anonvme)

Michel Brunet

Claude Jouillat

Pascal Bruna

Jean-Pierre Lina

Herve Pennaneac'h

Patrick Di Giovanni

Pierre Lugez

Powder inhaler with suction actuated locking means

A device for containing a liquid or a paste for dispensing without ingress of air comprises a flexible container containing the substance to be dispensed and a carrier 20. The container is inserted inside the carrier, and the container is constituted by a peripheral side wall 4 extending between a bottom 3 and a top having a bottleneck 2 opening out therethrough. The carrier provided with at least two facing longitudinal ribs 21, the ribs constraining the side wall, the bottom, and the top of the container to fold concertina-like.

Flexible, inwardly foldable container for a liquid or a paste to be

A device for spraying or dispensing a fluid and adapted to be mounted on a fluid tank 30 includes a body 1, an actuator member 3 slidably mounted relative to the body, an inlet passage 14 communicating with the tank and enabling the fluid to enter into the body, and an elongate member 5, 25 slidably mounted in the inlet passage and penetrating into the tank. The elongate member is displaceable together with the actuator member towards the tank on the first occasion that the actuator member is actuated, and the elongate member exerts mechanical action on an element 33, 42 secured to the tank when it is displaced, and in such a manner as to puncture or dislodge the element.

Device for spraying or dispensing a fluid, the device including a member

A pushbutton for actuating a device for dispensing or spraying a fluid substance includes a hollow body 1 having an outlet end 2 in which an outlet orifice 3 is formed, the outlet end including an inside surface 2a which is not perpendicular to the axis 1a of the body. An adjustment member 10 is rotatably received in the body of the pushbutton, and includes a shutter 19 provided with a front surface 19a that is complementary in shape to the inside surface of the outlet end. The shutter is urged towards the outlet end by a resilient tongue 18. The rotation of the adjustment member and shutter varies the outlet flow rate from the pushbutton.

Closable and flow rate adjusting pushbutton for a hand-held fluid spray

A manual precompression pump for spraying or dispensing a fluid substance contained in a receptacle, said pump having a pump body (1) in which a hollow piston (2) slides the piston being extended by a hollow rod (3) including the seat (7a) for a closure valve member (6) urged towards said hollow rod by a spring (10), said spring pushing the valve member (6) and the piston (2) towards a rest position, said pump including a pump chamber (12) which is in communication with the receptacle when the valve member and the piston are in their rest positions, said pump chamber (12) being capable of being isolated from the receptacle by sealed interfitting of a first cylinder (8) integral with the valve member (6) and of a second cylinder (4) integral with the pump body, said pump being characterized in that a valve rod (7b) extends the valve member (6) through the hollow rod (3) to a distance H1 beyond the outside end of the hollow rod, and in that starting from the rest position of the valve member, the cylinder (8) integral with the valve member can be moved towards the cylinder (4) integral with the pump body through a distance H2 which is greater than H1 without the interfitting between the two cylinders becoming sealed.

Manual precompression pump

A device for administering a medicine in the form of a spray, the medicine being constituted by a mixture of at least two substances that must be stored separately prior to use, the device comprising a volume which is divided into two compartments by a membrane 2 suitable for puncturing or tearing. The volume is defined by a receptacle 1A, 1B which is generally tubular in shape, and which is open at both ends. A suction and spray pump 4 is crimped onto one end thereof while its opposite end has a free piston 6 slidably received in the tubular element 1B to reduce the inside volume thereof as the pump sucks the content out from the tubular element after the membrane has been punctured.

Medicinal spray device with two substance compartments separated by

A hollow elongate pushbutton receives a nozzle rod 2, and is mounted at a mid-portion on the valve rod of a liquid spray pump intended to operate under pressures on the order of more than 100 bars, and at a repetition rate of 50 Hz or more. The center of gravity of the pushbutton and nozzle rod assembly lies on the axis of the valve rod, to avoid vibrations during use.

Pushbutton having a laterally directed internal nozzle for a high

A prior art precompression metering pump which incorporates a differential piston forming part of the pump chamber inlet valve and its outlet valve is difficult to prime, especially in the case of metering paste products. In the improved pump there is disposed between the differential piston and the main piston of the pump a collar consisting of a ring from which project substantially axial tongues which are slightly inwardly inclined and each provided with a head. The collar moves inside the pump body so that normal operation proceeds as if it were not present. To prime the pump, however, the user depresses the collar until it contacts a step on the pump body. The tongues then bend so that their heads, interposed between the two pistons, move the latter apart (by a wedging effect or by a lever arm effect, or by a combination of the two). This is followed by mechanical opening of the pump chamber outlet valve whereby the air initially contained in the pump chamber escapes to the exterior.

Precompression metering pump with a tongued collar to aid priming

Tamperproof packaging for a spray device (1) of very small size constituted by a can (2) whose diameter and height are no more than a few centimeters and having a valve (3) actuatable by a hollow rod (4). The packaging has an open-topped case (13) having a bottom and a side wall, the bottom including an opening (15) which is wide enough to pass the finger of a user, but which is too narrow to pass the spray device (1). The packaging also has a pusher (5) constituted by a thrust cylinder (6) having an outside channel having one end which communicates with the outside and having its other end engaged by abutment over the rod (4) of the valve (3). The package has an outer envelope (8) which is fixed to the thrust cylinder (6) and which provides a surface suitable for receiving pressure from two other fingers of a user. The outer envelope (8) of the pusher (5) has a skirt (9) capable of engaging the open top of the case (13) and being nonreversibly fixed to the case; and the opening (15) in the bottom of the case (13) is initially closed by a cover which is easily torn off by hand.

Pusher and case assembly with a guarantee system

The present dispenser device is designed in particular for eye treatment and comprises a pump body including a pump chamber, a piston slidable within the chamber and extended beyond the chamber by a rod pierced by a channel capable of communicating with the chamber, and an endpiece fixed to the rod and having a dispensing orifice in line with the channel of the rod. In addition to the above conventional items, the dispenser has a chamber admission valve which is constituted by co-operation between the enclosure defining the pump chamber and the piston which engages therein or projects therefrom as the case may be. The co-operation is preferably via a sealing lip. This disposition makes it possible to dispense a drop whose volume as determined by the capacity of the chamber is very small. In addition, the piston is returned to its rest position with the admission valve closed by resilient means disposed between the pump body and the endpiece. This guarantees that only drop is dispensed at a time. Finally, an outlet valve is placed between the end of the channel in the rod and the dispensing orifice of the endpiece in order to ensure that a dispensed drop is slightly precompressed. The dispenser device is advantageously integrated in a dispenser assembly comprising a supply of substance to be dispensed together with a housing facilitating actuation of the assembly by a user. Some designs of assembly are particularly attractive, from the economic point of view, with respect to the process of being filled with the substance to be dispensed.

Device for dispensing a liquid or a cream in small-volume drops, and an

A pushbutton for use with a spray device for mixing a primary substance with a predetermined quantity of a secondary substance stored in such a manner as to be sheltered from the air. The pushbutton is constituted by a first piece (2) which is moveable relative to a second piece (1) containing the emission channel (11) of the pushbutton. The first piece (2) includes containers (22) advantageously disposed like rounds in the cylinder of a revolver. Each container (22) contains the desired quantity of the secondary substance and is hermetically closed by a membrane (23). When the user actuates the pushbutton, a suitable resilient piece (3) and suitable connection pieces (15, 25) ensure that the user automatically displaces the first piece (2) in such a manner that the membrane (23) of one of the containers (22) is pierced and the corresponding dose of secondary substance is delivered into the emission channel (11) so as to be sprayed out together with the main substance.

Pushbutton for a spray device arranged to mix a predetermined quantity

A precompression metering pump of the prior art which is otherwise particularly advantageous, is nevertheless difficult to prime because of the high degree of compressibility of the air it initially contains in its pump chamber. The present invention improves this aspect of metering pump operations. It consists in providing additional resilient means (20) and at least one cylindrical part (10) level with the conventional outlet non-return valve of the pump and constituting a second outlet non-return valve. In a particular embodiment, the resilient means and the cylindrical part are received one above the other in the outlet channel (33) of the pump actuator rod (31). To do this, they bear respectively against a choking step (32) in the form of a lug and a shoulder (34) presented by said channel. In normal operation, the differential piston (4) of the pump moves out of the way so that operation takes place as in a prior art precompression metering pump. However, when priming, by pushing the actuator rod (31) fully home, as is made possible by the invention, the part (10) is moved away from the choking step (32). This improvement thus enables the air which was initially contained in the pump chamber (23) to be expelled to the atmosphere.

Growing community of inventors

Sainte-Colombe-la-Commanderie, France

Michel Brunet