Device for containing a fluid substance

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10065203-B2
Application number	US-201514887920-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 20, 2015
Priority date	Oct 21, 2014
Publication date	Sep 4, 2018
Grant date	Sep 4, 2018

Abstract

The connection body includes a substantially cylindrical wall and a guide element to guide at least a portion of the flange from a lower free edge of the connection body to the annular seat and prevent the flange (4) from slipping out of the annular seat.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A device for containing a fluid substance, to be dispensed by a manually operated pump, and suitable to be associated with the neck of a rigid container, comprising:
a bag presenting a body comprising a bottom wall and a lateral wall, both of the bottom wall and the lateral wall being flexible, and a neck from which a substantially rigid connection flange extends transversally,
and a ring cap element comprising first connection means of said bag presenting an annular connection body, presenting a longitudinal symmetry axis, wherein said annular connection body presents
a lower portion having a diameter smaller than the external diameter of said substantially rigid connection flange of the bag, and greater than or equal to the external diameter of said neck of the bag to be able to house at least a portion of said neck of the bag therein,
and an upper portion presenting an annular seat open at the top, presenting a rest surface lying horizontally for said substantially rigid connection flange,
wherein said annular connection body further comprises at least one portion of a substantially cylindrical wall, said portion presenting an equal distance with respect to said longitudinal symmetry axis, said substantially cylindrical wall extending beneath said annular seat, said substantially cylindrical wall comprising at least a guide element comprising at least a guide portion presenting a distance with respect to said longitudinal symmetry axis different with respect to said distance of the portion of the substantially cylindrical wall, said portion being suitable to guide at least a portion of said substantially rigid connection flange from a free lower edge of said annular connection body to said annular seat, and
wherein said guide element comprises means suitable to prevent said substantially rigid connection flange from slipping out of said annular seat once the substantially rigid connection flange has been guided therein, so said connection means fasten stably said bag to said ring cap element at least with respect to vertical movements or downwards rotatory movements of said bag with respect to the ring cap element.

2. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the guide element is inclined and extends from an inlet mouth for said substantially rigid connection flange, arranged at the free lower edge of the annular connection body, to an outlet mouth arranged in the annular seat, and wherein both mouths of the guide element are angularly distanced from each other by an angle smaller than half the circumference of the substantially cylindrical wall.

3. The device according to claim 1 , wherein said guide element is a hollow portion provided in the substantially cylindrical wall of the annular connection body.

4. The device according to claim 1 , wherein second connection means are provided, suitable to stably block the substantially rigid connection flange of the bag in the annular seat of the ring cap element by compression of the substantially rigid connection flange against the rest surface of said annular seat.

5. The device according to claim 4 , wherein the second connection means are associated with a sheath element connected to a manually operated pump member, wherein said sheath element is connected to said ring cap element, and wherein a portion of the pump member is positioned at least in the neck of said bag.

6. The device according to claim 2 , wherein the guide element presents a first lateral wall and a second lateral wall, said first and said second lateral walls of the guide element having inclinations different from each other in such a way that the outlet mouth results narrower with respect to the inlet mouth.

7. The device according to claim 2 , wherein the outlet mouth presents a width substantially equal to or slightly greater than the thickness of the substantially rigid connection flange, the second lateral wall being provided with a widening portion in proximity of the inlet mouth so said inlet mouth presents a width at least 30% greater with respect to said width of said outlet mouth.

8. A method for assembling a dispense system comprising:
a device according to claim 1 ,
and a rigid container with which said device is to be associated, wherein said rigid container presents a neck delimiting an access opening to a cavity of the same container,
wherein the method provides
forming a bag,
at least partially deforming the bag to reduce the transverse dimensions thereof,
connecting the deformed bag to the ring cap element, to fasten stably said deformed bag to said ring cap element at least with respect to vertical movements or downwards rotatory movements of said bag with respect to the ring cap element,
and, successive to connecting, associating the ring cap element to the neck of said rigid container and simultaneously inserting the deformed bag in said cavity of the rigid container.

9. The method according to claim 8 , wherein to associate said deformed bag with said ring cap element, the deformed bag and said ring cap element are inclined with respect to each other, to allow the insertion of the substantially rigid connection flange in a guide element of the ring cap element and then in an annular seat of the ring cap element.

10. The method according to claim 8 , wherein said bag, after insertion in said rigid container, is inflated.

11. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the guide element is inclined and extends from an inlet mouth for said substantially rigid connection flange, arranged at the free lower edge of the annular connection body, to an outlet mouth arranged in the annular seat, and both mouths of the guide element are angularly distanced from each other by an angle smaller than a quarter of the circumference of the substantially cylindrical wall.

12. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the guide element is inclined and extends from an inlet mouth for said substantially rigid connection flange, arranged at the free lower edge of the annular connection body, to an outlet mouth arranged in the annular seat, and both mouths of the guide element are angularly distanced from each other by an angle smaller than a third of the circumference of said substantially cylindrical wall.

13. The device according to claim 6 , wherein the outlet mouth presents a width substantially equal to or slightly greater than the thickness of the substantially rigid connection flange, the second lateral wall being provided with a widening portion in proximity of the inlet mouth so said inlet mouth presents a width at least 30% greater with respect to said width of said outlet mouth.

Assignees

• Lumson Spa

Inventors

• Moretti Matteo

Classifications

• B05B11/1047 Primary

  the pump being preassembled as an independent unit before being mounted on the container · CPC title

• B05B11/026

  Membranes separating the content remaining in the container from the atmospheric air to compensate underpressure inside the container · CPC title

• B05B11/1074

  located outside pump chambers · CPC title

• B05B11/1023

  having an outlet valve opened by deformation or displacement of the piston relative to its actuating stem · CPC title

• B05B11/0038 Primary

  Inner container disposed in an outer shell or outer casing · CPC title