Aptar Radolfzell Gmbh

Ing. Erich Pfeiffer Gmbh

Aptar France Sas

Thomas Bruder

Tobias Baumann

Karl-Heinz Fuchs

Frédéric Duquet

Hans Merk

Gerald Krampen

Michael Wolter

Andi Herz

Christiane Guenther

Francis Moreau

Klaus Lindenau

Volker Goebel

Michael Hoer

Christiane Günther

Volker Göbel

A discharge head for a liquid dispenser having a base and a push actuator. The discharge head has a pump device, which has a malleable pump chamber component open on both sides, fastened to the base and to the push actuator and encloses a pump chamber having a variable volume. The pump device has inlet and outlet valves. The discharge head has a ventilation opening and a ventilation valve. The ventilation valve on the base has a peripheral valve web raised via a surrounding cover wall of the base and the inside of which forms a peripheral valve surface. To ensure a reproducible behavior of the ventilation valve, a reinforcement structure is provided on the cover wall in the form of a peripheral reinforcement web, and/or the peripheral valve web is designed as part of a sleeve-like structure, which forms the peripheral valve web above the cover wall.

Discharge head and liquid dispenser comprising a discharge head

Cream dispenser for topically dispensing liquid onto the skin of a user including a liquid store, a discharge head that has a discharge opening and a hinged lid to protect the discharge opening. The dispenser has a multi-part design of the discharge head in order to limit, in a haptically satisfactory way, the movability of a release button of the discharge head and a special relative arrangement of the locking edges on the discharge head and on the hinged lid opposite a joint of the hinged lid in order to prevent the sharp-edged locking edges from coming into contact with the skin while cream is being discharged onto the skin.

Liquid dispenser having compressible liquid store

A liquid dispenser for cosmetic liquids having a liquid reservoir and an applicator. An outlet channel connects the reservoir to the applicator, the outlet channel being formed either valveless or with an outlet valve. The liquid dispenser has a pressure generating device which pressurizes liquid in the reservoir for conveyance through the outlet channel to the applicator. The pressure generating device has an air pumping device which feeds and an actuating pressure chamber. The actuating pressure chamber adjoins, and is separated from, the reservoir by a displaceable wall so that an overpressure in the actuating pressure chamber leads to an overpressure in the reservoir. The air pumping device has manual actuator, allowing air to be pumped into the actuating pressure chamber by the actuator, so that the overpressure in the actuating pressure chamber and in the reservoir rises sufficiently to convey liquid from the reservoir to the applicator.

Liquid dispenser

A discharge head for a liquid dispenser for discharging cosmetic products which has a base to be secured to a liquid storage. The base has a coupling device in the form of a thread or a latching coupling device, for coupling to the liquid storage. The discharge head has a sponge carrier with a sponge receptacle in which a sponge is arranged. The sponge carrier is movable in a translationally guided manner with respect to the base and has a hollow connector inside which a liquid channel is provided that connects the liquid storage to the sponge receptacle. This liquid channel is provided with an outlet valve, which is opened by moving the sponge carrier in the direction of the base, such that liquid can flow freely out of the liquid storage into the sponge receptacle.

Liquid dispenser with discharge sponge

Discharge head for a liquid dispenser including a housing, a coupling device for attachment to a liquid store, a discharge opening through which liquid is dispensed and an outlet channel extending from an inlet region, pointing in the direction of the liquid store, up to the discharge opening and via which the discharge opening is supplied with liquid. A throttle device is arranged in the outlet channel and includes a throttle channel for reducing liquid pressure and/or liquid flow through the throttle device. The throttle device is designed in the form of a dynamic throttle device, in which a free cross section of the throttle channel is reduced in size with increasing pressure prevailing at the throttle device, or with greater liquid flow flowing through the throttle device.

Discharge head, and liquid dispenser comprising such a discharge head

Dispensers having a liquid reservoir filled with a main liquid and having a dispensing head, with a dispensing opening and a dispensing channel, which connects the reservoir outlet to the dispensing opening. The dispensing head can be pressed down to actuate the switching valve or the conveying device. The liquid dispenser has a replaceable exchange unit, which, in a functional state, forms the dispensing channel at least in some sections. The exchange unit has a mixing chamber, with an addition medium and an inlet and an outlet separated from the inlet. The exchange unit is part of the dispensing channel such that the inlet is communicatively connected to the reservoir outlet and the outlet is communicatively connected to the dispensing opening. Furthermore, the exchange unit has closures at the inlet and at the outlet to close the mixing chamber.

Liquid dispenser for dispensing a liquid, having an additional reservoir for an additional medium

A discharge device having an actuating handle, a first pump system for conveying a first medium and a second pump system for conveying a second medium. The actuating handle can be moved between an initial position and an end position. The first pump system includes a first pump chamber and a first piston arranged in a displaceable manner in the first pump chamber. The second pump system includes a second pump chamber and a second piston arranged in a displaceable manner in the second pump chamber. The first piston and the second piston can be displaced via the actuating handle in the direction of actuation, and the actuating handle and the first piston are coupled to each other such that the actuating handle and the first piston can be displaced relative to each other in a direction of actuation via a free travel.

Discharge device with intermediate piece

An applicator head for a dispenser for cosmetic or pharmaceutical liquids and foodstuffs, having a pump device with a pump chamber, an inlet valve arranged between a suction intake and the pump chamber, an outlet valve arranged between the pump chamber and an applicator opening, and an actuating arrangement with the aid of which an inner volume of the pump chamber is changed. At least two of the three components from the group including the outlet valve, the inlet valve, and the actuating arrangement each include at least one elastic section formed from an elastically deformable material, the elastic sections of the at least two components are integral parts of an interlinked elastic component section of a uniform elastic material having a connection area between the at least two components, and the connection area, in the installed state of the application head, is in an elastically deformed state.

Applicator head for a dispenser, dispenser comprising an applicator head, and method for producing an applicator head

A metering dispenser for simultaneously or selectively discharging two media, including an outlet opening, a first reservoir for a first medium, a first metering-conveyor device for conveying the first medium from the first reservoir, a second reservoir for a second medium, a second metering-conveyor device for conveying the second medium from the second reservoir, a mixing chamber arranged upstream of the outlet opening and in which the first medium, conveyed by the first metering-conveyor device, and/or second medium, conveyed by the second metering-conveyor device, is stored temporarily, and an output-conveyor device for conveying the medium or media from the mixing chamber to the outlet opening. The first metering-conveyor device has the form of a metering-pump device with a variable-volume metering chamber, an inlet fluidically connected to the first reservoir and having an inlet valve, and an outlet fluidically connected to the mixing chamber and having an outlet valve.

Discharge head for a metering dispenser and a metering dispenser

A discharge head for a dispenser including a securing element coupling the discharge head to the dispenser, a housing having an outlet opening, and a valve body. The valve body closes the outlet opening when the pressure of a medium in the discharge head is below a threshold value, and in a ready-for-use state the valve body releases the outlet opening when the pressure of the medium in the discharge head is above the threshold value. The valve body is mounted over a travel path for releasing and closing the outlet opening, and a locking handle moves in relation to the securing element in order to transfer the discharge head into a locked state in which the travel path of the valve body is reduced to zero, and/or in order to transfer the discharge head from the locked state into the ready-for-use state.

Discharge head

Fluid dispenser for the discharge of pharmaceutical or cosmetic fluids including a fluid reservoir in which fluid is stored prior to discharge, an outlet channel through which the fluid is dispensed to an environment, and a pump chamber which, starting from an initial state with maximum pump chamber volume, is volumetrically reduced by a manual pump activation. An inlet valve arrangement is provided between the fluid reservoir and the pump chamber, which opens in a pressure regulated manner when a negative pressure exists in the pump chamber with respect to the fluid reservoir, and an outlet valve arrangement is provided between the pump chamber and the discharge opening. The outlet valve arrangement includes a switching valve mechanically compelled to open in reaction to a displacement of an activation handle and independent of the fluid pressure in the pump chamber.

Dispenser for fluids

A dispenser system including a first dispenser module having a medium chamber fillable with medium, a first discharge head actuable for discharging medium from the medium chamber, a refilling opening, and a second dispenser module coupleable to the first dispenser module for refilling the latter. The second dispenser module has a storage container for medium, and a second discharge head. In the decoupled state of the dispenser modules, the second discharge head is actuable for discharging the medium out of the storage container and has a discharge opening. The second discharge head has a ventilation system for equalizing the pressure in the storage container when the medium is discharged. The dispenser system has an air pump system. In the coupled state of the dispenser modules, the air pump system is fluidly coupled to the ventilation system and conveys air via the ventilation system into the storage container.

Dispenser system

A dispenser system including a storage container a medium, having an outlet valve, a dispenser module having a medium chamber, a pumping device that is actuated to discharge medium from the medium chamber and having an inlet valve, and an actuating device. The medium chamber is a sealed chamber having a variable volume, and the dispenser module is coupled to the storage container to fill the medium chamber. During filling, the inlet valve and the outlet valve are opened such that the medium chamber communicates with the storage container. The actuating device has a magnet and a magnetic or magnetizable element interacting therewith for a volume change of the medium chamber. The actuating device causes a volume of the medium chamber to be enlarged to produce a differential pressure between the medium chamber and the storage container to convey medium out of the storage container into the medium chamber.

A pen-type cosmetic dispenser for discharging a cosmetic medium, including an elongate housing extending in a main direction of extent, a discharge opening at an end face of the housing, a liquid reservoir arranged inside the housing, and a pumping device arranged inside the housing, which pumping device can be actuated by an actuating handle arranged on a lateral surface of the housing. The pumping device has a pump chamber, which is connected to the liquid reservoir on an inlet side and to the discharge opening on an outlet side. The pump chamber is delimited at least in sections by a wall which is flexible in shape, wherein the exterior surface of the wall forms the actuating handle.

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