The Procter Gamble Company

Canyon Corporation

Canyon Co., Ltd.

Mitsuaki Shaduki

Tetsuya Tada

Michael Alan John Moss

James Samuel Richardson

Victor Klabbers

Robin Lefebvre

Elizabeth Jackson Glass

Atsushi Tada

Yoshiharu Hiraoka

[Object] To provide a pump dispenser which allows accurate determination of a direction of spraying of liquid without a nozzle part moving toward a higher or lower position and, furthermore, whose trigger is excellent in operability. [Solution] The present invention is directed to an F valve attachment structure for, in a pump dispenser that causes a piston part to slide to apply pressure to liquid inside a cylinder part including an F valve and causes the liquid to squirt out from a nozzle part via an S valve, attaching the F valve to the inside of the cylinder part with use of a valve stopper, the F valve including: a valve body part; and a rod-like part extending upward from the valve body part, wherein the valve body part has a plurality of guide pieces and check pieces therearound, the valve stopper has a hole and notches in a ceiling part of the valve stopper, the notches allowing the guide pieces to pass through the notches, the valve stopper is fixable inside the cylinder part, when the valve body part of the F valve is inserted through the hole of the valve stopper, the check pieces are allowed to elastically pass through the hole, and after insertion, the check pieces of the F valve come into contact with the ceiling part of the valve stopper to be retained.

Pump dispenser

A pump dispenser includes a housing, a piston structure, a spring, a trigger and a valve. The housing has a front cylinder part and a rear inverted-L-shaped grip part that are integrally formed, a nozzle base that is attached to the housing and that has a front nozzle part mounted thereon. The piston structure is configured of a hollow-shaped piston and a hollow-shaped piston shaft and that slides inside the cylinder part. The spring presses the piston structure upward. The trigger is positioned above the housing, has a front tip rotatably mounted on the housing, and has a mid part where a tip of the hollow-shaped piston shaft abuts. The valve rod is disposed at a center part of the cylinder part.

Trigger-type pump dispenser

A bayonet connection structure between a container mouth portion and a cap is disclosed. The cap includes multiple slip prevention claws spaced apart from each other. One of the slip prevention claws is elastically displaceable in a radial direction. A rotation prevention projection is provided between the elastically-displaceable slip prevention claw and the other slip prevention claws. The mouth portion has a hollow cylindrical portion with an outer circumferential surface provided with multiple slip prevention claw (SPC) engagement portions for the slip prevention claws. The SPC engagement portions are as many as the slip prevention claws. Each of the SPC engagement portions has an end in a clockwise direction provided with a rotation prevention stopper. The mouth portion includes a rotation prevention rib to be got over by the rotation prevention projection of the cap when the cap is rotated.

Bayonet connection structure between container mouth portion and cap

A trigger pump sprayer in combination with a liquid dispensed from the sprayer. The trigger sprayer provides for efficacious particle size distributions of the liquids, when sprayed under non-ideal conditions. Non-ideal conditions include only partial strokes of the trigger, rather than full strokes and relatively slow trigger strokes. A bimodal distribution of particle sizes is obtained under two different operating conditions. The sprayer/liquid combination according to the present invention compresses the difference between the two modes, without requiring undue work by the operator. The advantageous particle size distribution difference is accomplished by using a precompression piston which reciprocates in response to trigger strokes, and selecting a liquid having appropriate properties to correspond to the trigger pump operating characteristics.

Trigger pump sprayer

A trigger pump sprayer in combination with a liquid dispensed from the sprayer. The sprayer is suitable for dispensing liquid from a reservoir, through a nozzle into particles. The trigger sprayer provides for efficacious particle size distributions of the liquids, when sprayed under non-ideal conditions. Non-ideal conditions include only partial strokes of the trigger, rather than full strokes and relatively slow trigger strokes. The trigger sprayer advantageously delivers a particle size distribution suitable for liquids having particular rheological properties. The advantageous particle size distribution difference is accomplished by using a precompression piston which reciprocates in response to trigger strokes, and selecting a liquid having appropriate properties to correspond to the trigger pump operating characteristics.

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Yamaguchi, Japan

Mitsuaki Shaduki