EP0511894B1 - Dispositif pour la distribution de mousse - Google Patents

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EP0511894B1
EP0511894B1 EP92401087A EP92401087A EP0511894B1 EP 0511894 B1 EP0511894 B1 EP 0511894B1 EP 92401087 A EP92401087 A EP 92401087A EP 92401087 A EP92401087 A EP 92401087A EP 0511894 B1 EP0511894 B1 EP 0511894B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05B—SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
    • B05B7/00—Spraying apparatus for discharge of liquids or other fluent materials from two or more sources, e.g. of liquid and air, of powder and gas
    • B05B7/0018—Spraying apparatus for discharge of liquids or other fluent materials from two or more sources, e.g. of liquid and air, of powder and gas with devices for making foam
    • B05B7/0025—Spraying apparatus for discharge of liquids or other fluent materials from two or more sources, e.g. of liquid and air, of powder and gas with devices for making foam with a compressed gas supply
    • B05B7/0031—Spraying apparatus for discharge of liquids or other fluent materials from two or more sources, e.g. of liquid and air, of powder and gas with devices for making foam with a compressed gas supply with disturbing means promoting mixing, e.g. balls, crowns
    • B05B7/0037—Spraying apparatus for discharge of liquids or other fluent materials from two or more sources, e.g. of liquid and air, of powder and gas with devices for making foam with a compressed gas supply with disturbing means promoting mixing, e.g. balls, crowns including sieves, porous members or the like
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05B—SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
    • B05B11/00—Single-unit hand-held apparatus in which flow of contents is produced by the muscular force of the operator at the moment of use
    • B05B11/0005—Components or details
    • B05B11/0037—Containers
    • B05B11/0039—Containers associated with means for compensating the pressure difference between the ambient pressure and the pressure inside the container, e.g. pressure relief means
    • B05B11/0044—Containers associated with means for compensating the pressure difference between the ambient pressure and the pressure inside the container, e.g. pressure relief means compensating underpressure by ingress of atmospheric air into the container, i.e. with venting means
    • B05B11/00446—Containers associated with means for compensating the pressure difference between the ambient pressure and the pressure inside the container, e.g. pressure relief means compensating underpressure by ingress of atmospheric air into the container, i.e. with venting means the means being located at the bottom of the container or of an enclosure surrounding the container
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05B—SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
    • B05B11/00—Single-unit hand-held apparatus in which flow of contents is produced by the muscular force of the operator at the moment of use
    • B05B11/01—Single-unit hand-held apparatus in which flow of contents is produced by the muscular force of the operator at the moment of use characterised by the means producing the flow
    • B05B11/10—Pump arrangements for transferring the contents from the container to a pump chamber by a sucking effect and forcing the contents out through the dispensing nozzle
    • B05B11/1087—Combination of liquid and air pumps
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05B—SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
    • B05B11/00—Single-unit hand-held apparatus in which flow of contents is produced by the muscular force of the operator at the moment of use
    • B05B11/01—Single-unit hand-held apparatus in which flow of contents is produced by the muscular force of the operator at the moment of use characterised by the means producing the flow
    • B05B11/02—Membranes or pistons acting on the contents inside the container, e.g. follower pistons
    • B05B11/026—Membranes separating the content remaining in the container from the atmospheric air to compensate underpressure inside the container

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  • the invention relates to a device for dispensing foam from a container containing a liquid with a foaming agent, and capable of mixing the liquid leaving the container and the air.
  • EP-A-0 392 238 A device of this kind is shown by EP-A-0 392 238.
  • the device for dispensing this document is complicated because it involves a large number of parts and, moreover, is bulky, particularly along the axial direction of the container.
  • the object of the invention is, above all, to provide a dispensing device of the kind defined above which no longer has, or to a lesser degree, the drawbacks mentioned above.
  • the invention aims in particular to provide a compact distribution device, and simplified construction involving only a reduced number of parts.
  • the device for dispensing foam from a container containing a liquid with a foaming agent, and suitable for producing a mixture of the liquid leaving the container and air is characterized by the fact that the end of the container, where the pumping means is provided, is closed by a head having a bottom set back, in the direction of the axis of the container, relative to the end of a sleeve central bearing the pumping means and delimiting, in part, said annular chamber, while the push button comprises, at its base, a collar forming a plate suitable for closing said annular chamber and for compressing the air in this chamber when the button push-button is pressed, the central part of the push-button having a smaller diameter than that of the collar and comprising a cylindrical cavity, covering the pumping means and communicating with said chamber.
  • the push-button is in mechanical abutment against a rod controlling the pumping means, which is actuated mechanically by the push-button when the latter is pressed.
  • the push button is advantageously formed by a base and a cap fixed to each other.
  • the base is traversed by a passage for the liquid and at least one passage for the compressed air and comprises, on its upper face, grooves starting from the ends of said passages and going towards the porous part.
  • the groove for the liquid is arranged along the axis of the outlet channel while the groove or grooves reserved for the compressed air are located on either side, or on one side only, of the groove for the liquid.
  • the groove for the liquid is arranged perpendicular to the axis of the outlet channel.
  • the grooves for the compressed air can be parallel to the groove for the liquid, or converge towards the porous part.
  • the grooves for the liquid and for the compressed air can remain separated from each other and end up on the porous part where the liquid / air mixture takes place.
  • the arrival of the air grooves on the porous part can be carried out parallel, or orthogonally, to the direction of arrival of the liquid on this porous part.
  • the groove of the liquid opens into the air groove (s) upstream of the porous part.
  • a jet breaker can be provided at the end of the liquid groove facing the porous part.
  • a crown of elastic porous material in particular of elastomeric foam, may be provided in said annular chamber.
  • the cylindrical wall of this annular chamber can be entirely provided on the head closing the end of the container; in this case, the flange of the push button is capable of sliding inside this cylindrical wall, in the manner of a piston.
  • the cylindrical side wall of the annular chamber is only partially formed by the side wall of the head; in this case, the flange of the push button is provided, on its outer periphery, with a cylindrical skirt cooperating with said wall of the head to define the annular chamber.
  • the skirt of the push button sealingly surrounds the side wall of the head closing the end of the container.
  • the side wall of the annular chamber consists of a deformable bellows cooperating, on one side, with the flange of the push button, and connected on the other side to the container.
  • the container comprises a rigid wall. It can be fitted with a pump without return air, in which case a flexible pocket containing the liquid product can be provided inside the container, the aforementioned pump being mounted on this pocket.
  • the chamber of the container containing the foaming liquid product is delimited by the rigid cylindrical side wall of this container and by a piston, constituting the background of the chamber, and being able to slide in leaktight fashion as the product is dispensed.
  • the air intake valve provided in the push button, is advantageously formed by an elastic piece whose edge is clamped between the base and the cap of the push button, this elastic piece comprising at least one bump turning its convexity towards the container, suitable for closing the outlet of an air passage, the elastic piece extending to the end of an outlet spout for the push button.
  • the elastic piece can be arranged to also close the spout, downstream of the porous piece.
  • the elastic piece closes, upwards, the grooves provided in the base.
  • the push-button is in two complementary parts fitted one inside the other and trapping the flexible part between them, one of the parts being the cap which carries the outlet channel whose axis is parallel to that of the stem.
  • the flexible part extends around the base, forming the other part of the push button, to the right of the holes in the collar of the base to constitute the non-return means of the (or) air return valve (s).
  • a screen can be placed on the porous part in contact with the foam dispensing orifice, in order to obtain a more homogeneous foam in density.
  • a device D for dispensing foam from a container R comprising a flexible bag 1 without air, containing a liquid with a foaming agent.
  • the bag 1 is placed in a rigid cylindrical envelope 2 comprising a bottom 3 in which an opening 4 is provided for an air inlet.
  • the pocket 1 is closed by a head 5 in the form of a bowl turning its concavity from side opposite the bottom 3.
  • the upper edge of the flexible pocket 1 is tightly tightened against the cylindrical wall of the head 5 engaged in the pocket 1.
  • the head 5 is provided with an upper rim 6 projecting radially towards the outside, pressing against the upper end of the casing 2.
  • the head 5 has a bottom 7 provided, in its central part, with a sleeve 8 projecting from the side opposite to the pocket 1.
  • the body 9 of a manual pump 10, constituting a means of pumping the liquid contained in the pocket 1, is mounted tightly in this sleeve 8.
  • a hollow rod 11 projects axially from the pump body 9, on the side opposite to the pocket 1. This rod 11 is subjected to an elastic return; the depression of the rod 11 in the pump body 9 ensures pumping.
  • the pump 10 is a pump without air intake; it is crimped, snapped or screwed onto the sleeve 8.
  • An anti-prisoner device 12 for example constituted by a flexible openwork chimney, or by a sort of grid, extending from the head 5 towards the bottom of the pocket 1, is provided to prevent the walls of this pocket from sticking together. one against the other, under the action of atmospheric pressure, as the liquid is pumped.
  • An annular chamber 13 is formed in the head 5 between the exterior surface of the sleeve 8 and the interior surface of the wall of the head 5.
  • a rigid push button 14 is provided above the head 5.
  • This push button 14 is formed by a base 15 and a cap 16 fixed to one another, in particular by gluing, welding or snap-fastening.
  • the push button 14 has at its base a collar 17, forming a plate, capable of compressing the air in the annular chamber 13.
  • the collar 17 slides, in a substantially sealed manner, against the interior surface of the peripheral wall of the head 5, like a piston.
  • the central part 18 of the base 15 of the push button has a smaller outside diameter than that of the collar 17; this part 18 comprises a cylindrical cavity 19, coaxial with the sleeve 8, covering the rod 11 and the upper part of the pump body.
  • the internal cylindrical wall of the cavity 19 has a diameter greater than the maximum diameter of the pump body 9 so that a gap 20 remains to establish communication between the chamber 13 and the cavity 19.
  • the flange 17 is crossed by holes 21 provided, on the side of the chamber 13, with air return valves 22 allowing air to enter from the outside into the chamber 13 but opposing the outlet.
  • the upper wall of the base 15 has, in the center, an axial passage 23 opening through a tapered flared mouth 24 on the side of the pump 10. The upper end of the rod 11 comes to bear in a substantially sealed manner against this mouth 24.
  • At least one other passage 25, parallel to passage 23, crosses the upper wall of the base 15, parallel to the axis of the rod 11, but with a radial offset towards the outside relative to this axis.
  • two passages 25 are provided on either side of the vertical plane passing through the axis of the outlet channel 26 of the foam.
  • On the upper face of the base 15 are provided two grooves 27 starting from the upper end of the passages 25 and converging towards one another in the direction of a cavity containing a porous part 28.
  • Another groove 29 s' extending along the axis of the channel 26 and forming a bisector of the grooves 27, is provided between the upper end of the passage 23 and the cavity containing the porous part 28.
  • the downstream ends of the channels 27 and 29 are in contact with the porous part 28 where the air / liquid mixture takes place. Upstream of the part 28, the channels 27 and 29 are separated from each other.
  • the porous part 28 can be, for example, a sintered polyethylene, a metallic or ceramic sinter, an open-cell foam, a grid, fiberglass, a felt, a nesting of a multitude of obstacles, forming by example a kind of labyrinth, or any other porous material.
  • the base 15, seen in plan, is limited, on the side opposite to the outlet of the product, by a semicircular contour and, on the product outlet side, by a trapezoidal outline, the small base of which forms a spout B for the foam outlet.
  • the cover 16 comprises, in the region situated above each passage 25, a cavity 31, which forms a housing for receiving an air intake valve 32.
  • the valve 32 is advantageously formed, for each passage 25, by a rounded bump, turning its convexity towards the passage 25, provided in a flexible piece 33, preferably made of elastomer, of generally flattened shape and the edge of which is clamped between the base 15 and the cover 16.
  • the flexible part 33 passes over the porous part 28 and ends with a lip 34 inclined downward, suitable for closing the outlet of the expansion chamber 30.
  • the part 33 closes the grooves 27 and 29 upwards, and defines with these grooves the air and liquid inlet channels.
  • the valve 32 allows the movement of air from the passage 25 to the porous part 28 and opposes a movement in the opposite direction. Aspiration of the liquid towards the chamber 19 is thus prevented.
  • a cap 35 is provided for covering, during storage, the push button 14, this cap 35 fitting onto the upper end of the envelope 2.
  • the user After removing the cap 35, presses the push button 14.
  • the rod 11 of the pump 9 without air intake is depressed, which causes the product contained by the bag 1 to exit through the passage 23 and the groove 29 in the direction of the porous part 28.
  • the collar 17 pressed into the annular chamber 13 compresses the air trapped in this chamber.
  • the pressurized air is discharged through the passages 25 which causes the valves 32 to open and the air to flow, through the grooves 27, in the direction of the porous part 28.
  • An air / liquid mixture is produced on this piece porous and the expansion of the foaming liquid / air mixture can take place in the chamber 30.
  • the foam comes out of the spout B by lifting the lip 34.
  • the distributor of Figure 1 is a distributor without air intake, therefore aseptic.
  • the groove 27, starting from the passage 25, has a hairpin shape surrounding the groove 29 and ends against the porous part 28.
  • the groove 29 for the liquid ends on the porous part 28, as in the case of FIG. 2 a According to this variant, the air and liquid inlets on the porous part 28 take place in parallel directions.
  • FIG. 2 c illustrates an alternative embodiment of the base 15 with an arrangement of the passages 23 and 25 identical to that of FIG. 2 b ; however, the groove 29 of liquid does not end directly against the porous element 28 but opens in the branches of the air groove 27, upstream of this element 28, on a jet breaker 36 capable of bursting and to slow the flow of liquid. This flow is therefore separated into two parts which mix, respectively, with the air arriving in each branch of the hairpin groove 27, then enters the porous element 28.
  • FIG. 2 d illustrates a variant of the base in which the groove 29 for the liquid ends up on the porous part 28 while communicating, just before this part 28, by a lateral passage 37, with a single branch of the groove 27, parallel to groove 29.
  • Figure 2 e shows an alternative embodiment of the base 15 in which the groove 27 with two branches, hairpin, for air under pressure communicates, upstream of the porous part 28, by side openings 38 with the groove 29 for the liquid. The air thus arrives substantially perpendicularly in the liquid flow upstream of the porous part 28.
  • FIG. 2 f illustrates another alternative embodiment of the base 15 of the push button.
  • the two branches of the groove 27 starting from the end of the air passage 25 form a sort of clamp whose ends come into contact with the transverse faces of the porous part 28 so that the arrival of air on this porous part takes place in a direction perpendicular to the arrival of liquid, by the groove 29 whose axis coincides with the axis of the outlet channel 26.
  • the air / liquid mixture is carried out in the porous part 28 by the meeting of the two air and liquid flows oriented perpendicularly.
  • the liquid passage 23 can be located in front, behind or at the same level as the air passage 25, depending on the direction of the axis of the outlet channel 26.
  • FIG. 2 g illustrates an alternative embodiment of the flexible part 33 a made of elastomeric material.
  • the bump constituting the valve 32 a for the air intake is located upstream, in the direction of flow of the fluid, of a wall 39 delimiting, on the side opposite to the valve 32 a , the liquid outlet.
  • a tongue 40 is provided to constitute a non-return closure in each air groove such as 27.
  • the flexible part 33 a of FIG. 2 g is intended for a push-button in which the exit of the foam takes place in a direction directed upwards; the lip 34 a is arranged accordingly.
  • the elastic material of the part 33, 33 a is preferably a natural or synthetic elastomer.
  • elastomers which can be used, there may be mentioned, for example, styrene-butadiene copolymers, nitrile rubbers, polychloroprene or neoprene, EPDM rubber, polyurethanes, silicone rubber and ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymers.
  • the lip 34, 34 is optional, and is in sealing contact with the base 15 when there is no dispensing, and away from the base by bending under the thrust of the product to be dispensed.
  • the lip returns by elasticity in sealed contact with the base 15 when the dispensing ceases.
  • the elastic piece 33, 33 a is mounted on the base by snap-fastening, welding or gluing, or can be maintained using the rigid cover 16.
  • valve 32 or in combination with this valve, placing a flap valve in the air inlet passage 25 (or any other type of valve), as illustrated in FIGS. 4 to 7.
  • baffles or systems such as labyrinths
  • the pump 10 is of the type without air intake, and that the bag 1 containing the product is without air, it is possible to store the dispenser upside down, and to distribute the foam also upside down.
  • the rigid outer casing 102 constitutes the container itself and contains the product without air, the flexible bag 1 having been removed.
  • the head 105 is an integral part of this envelope 102, the bottom 107 always being set back, in the axial direction, relative to the upper end of the central sleeve 108.
  • the bottom of the envelope 102 is open and a piston 41 is provided to slide in a sealed manner inside said envelope, as the volume of the liquid contained in this envelope decreases following pumping. There is a pump 10 without air intake.
  • a ring 42 of elastic porous material, in particular of elastic foam, is provided in the annular chamber 13. This ring 42 is compressed when the push-button 14 is pressed.
  • the operation of this device is identical to that described with reference to FIG. 1.
  • the piston 41 gradually rises in the envelope 102, as and when the liquid contained in this envelope is used up.
  • the crown 42 made of elastic porous material makes it possible, by its own volume, to adjust by reduction the volume of compressed air sent by the passage 25, when the pusher 14 is pressed.
  • the volume of air sent each time the push button is pressed can be modified by adding elastic foam crowns of different densities.
  • Figure 4 of the drawings shows a device according to the invention combined with an air intake pump 210 mounted on a container 202 with rigid walls containing the liquid and air.
  • the bottom 203 of the container 202 is fixed and rigid.
  • the upper part forms a head 205 similar to that described with reference to FIG. 3 with a central sleeve 208 and a bottom 207 recessed.
  • the return air pump 210 is fitted with a dip tube 43.
  • the or each air passage 25 is provided with a non-return valve 2 32, so that the elastic piece 33 does not have a bump similar to the bump 32 in FIG. 1.
  • this device is similar to that described in connection with FIG. 1. However, since the pump 210 is of the return air type with dip tube 43, this device must be used push button 14 at the top.
  • FIG. 5 illustrates an alternative embodiment in which the push-button 14 is combined with a skirt 44, in which it can slide, which carries at the lower part of its internal surface, a snap-fit bead 45 suitable for cooperating with a groove 46 provided in the upper part of a container 302 equipped with a pump 310 with air intake and dip tube 43.
  • the air passage 25 is equipped with a non-return valve 332, while the elastic piece 33 does not include a bump.
  • the pump 310 is mounted in a central sleeve 308 projecting from the bottom wall 307 of the upper end or head 305 of the container.
  • the skirt 44 constitutes a kind of adapter suitable for creating the cylindrical wall of the annular chamber 13 in combination with the bottom 307 of the upper part of the container 302.
  • the push button 14 can thus be adapted, as illustrated in FIG. 5, to an existing container.
  • Operation is identical to that of the device in FIG. 4 and must be carried out at the top with the push button.
  • FIG 6 shows an alternative embodiment of the dispensing device.
  • the head 405 does not have a cylindrical peripheral wall at the edge of its bottom 407.
  • a deformable bellows 47 covers the edge from the bottom 407 of the head. The lower edge of this bellows 47 is, for example, sealingly engaged in a peripheral groove 48 provided on the edge of the bottom 407.
  • the upper edge of the bellows 47 is supported in a groove 49 provided at the lower part of the collar 17 of the push button 14.
  • the annular chamber 13 is thus delimited, laterally, by this bellows 47.
  • the flange 17 of the base 15 is equipped with air return valves 22 described above.
  • the bellows 47 can be in simple support in the groove 49 so that a seal is established between the wall of this groove and the bellows 47 when the push button 14 is pressed.
  • this push-button 14 rises elastically, there is no longer sealed contact between the upper edge of the bellows 47 and the wall of the groove 49; an air inlet is then possible between this groove wall and the bellows 47, in the chamber 13, during the raising of the push button 14.
  • the air passage 25 is equipped with a non-return valve 432.
  • FIG. 7 illustrates an alternative embodiment in which the head 505, attached to the upper end of the container 502, has a cylindrical side wall 50 whose length, in the axial direction of the central sleeve 508, is less than the length of this muff.
  • This cylindrical wall 50 only partially determines the annular chamber 13.
  • the base 17 of the push button is provided, at its periphery, with a cylindrical skirt 51 extending downward, surrounding the wall 50 and suitable for sliding in leaktight manner against this wall.
  • the skirt 51 has, at its lower part, an internal bead 52 while the wall 50 has, at its upper end, an external bead 53. The cooperation of the beads 52, 53 ensures the retention towards the top of the skirt 51 relative to the wall 50.
  • a return spring 54 is provided around the sleeve 508 between the bottom 507 of the head 505 and the base 15 of the push button.
  • the operation of the device in FIG. 7 is similar to that of the devices described above.
  • FIG 8 we can see an alternative embodiment of the dispensing device D adapted to a push button 14 whose axis of the outlet channel 26 is parallel to the axis of the container R, similar to that of the Figure 1.
  • the push button 14 is in two complementary parts, nested one inside the other, and trapping between them the flexible part 33 in which is formed the valve 32.
  • one of the two parts, constituting the push button is the cap 16 in which the outlet channel 26 is formed, the cap 16 covering the other part which is the base 15, the central part 18 of which comprises the cylindrical cavity 19, of the same axis as the sleeve 8, covering the rod 11 and the upper part of the pump body; as before, the flange 17 of the base is crossed by holes 21 provided with air intake valves 22; the holes 21 are opposite holes also provided in a complementary flange presented by the cap 16; the two said flanges also serve for the assembly, for example by gluing, of the two parts 15 and 16 constituting the push button.
  • FIG. 9 shows the arrangement of the grooves 27 and 29 dug in the upper part of the base 15, and of the porous part 28.
  • FIG. 10 illustrates a variant of flexible part applied to a container of the type of that shown in FIG. 3, but whose axis of the outlet channel is there again, as in FIG. 8, vertical.
  • the push button is analogous to the push button of the variant of FIG. 8 but, here, the flexible part 33 extends all around the base 15 and covers its central part 18 and its flange 17; thanks to this arrangement, the elastic part of the air intake valves 22 is constituted by a portion of the flexible part 33.
  • the device of the invention makes it possible to produce a liquid-air mixture in a liquid / air volume ratio of between 10/90 and 50/50.
  • This device is compact and flat at the push button.

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