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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 04, 2019
Op-hygiene Ip Gmbh, Niederbipp, CH;
Heiner Ophardt, Arisdorf, CH;
Padraig McDonagh, County Sligo, IE;
OP-Hygiene IP GmbH, Niederbipp, CH;
Abstract
A dip tube for a fluid pump which dip tube includes at least one frangible portion which, when intact, provides different characteristics to the dip tube than when broken, including, for example, providing for shortening of the length of the dip tube and/or providing for an inlet opening at a closed a lower end of the dip tube. The dip tube is to be inserted into a fluid containing bottle such that on insertion a distal end of the dip tube comes into engagement with a bottom wall of the reservoir with forces arising in such engagement resulting in a breaking of the frangible portion causing a change of characteristics of the dip tube.