Pump container

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11833533-B2
Application number	US-202017630035-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 18, 2020
Priority date	Aug 19, 2019
Publication date	Dec 5, 2023
Grant date	Dec 5, 2023

Abstract

A pump container includes: a container in which a liquid is contained; a shoulder member configured as a cylindrical member, the upper and lower portions of which are open, the shoulder member having a lower outer peripheral portion formed to have an inner diameter larger than that of an upper inner peripheral portion; a valve housing comprising a cylinder portion, a hose being inserted/connected into/to the lower portion of the cylinder portion, the upper portion of the cylinder portion being open, the valve housing comprising an outer-periphery cylinder portion configured on the outer peripheral edge of the cylinder portion in a flared shape, the upper portion of the outer-periphery cylinder portion being open, the valve housing comprising an upper-end insertion portion bent outwards, and the valve housing comprising a seating portion bent outwards from the upper end of the upper-end insertion portion and a discharge cap.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A pump container comprising:
a container in which liquid is kept and that has an upper opening and an inner wall;
a shoulder member that is a cylindrical member being open on the top and bottom and having a larger inner diameter at a lower outer circumferential portion of the shoulder member than an upper inner circumferential portion of the shoulder member and of which an inner surface of the lower outer circumferential portion of the shoulder member is thread-fastened to the upper opening of the container;
a valve housing that has a cylinder part connected with a hose for suctioning an inside substance in the container at a lower portion thereof and being open on the top, an outer cylindrical part extending outward from an outer circumference of the cylinder part of the valve housing and being open on the top, an upper end insertion part bending outward from an upper end of the outer cylindrical part of the valve housing, being in contact with the inner wall of the container, and inserted in the upper inner circumferential portion of the shoulder member, and a seating part bending outward from an upper end of the upper end insertion part and seated on the top of the upper opening of the container;
a discharge cap that is a cylindrical member coupled to a lower end of the upper inner circumferential portion of the shoulder member to move up and down and discharges the inside substance by operating a pump member installed at a center of the lower portion thereof when the discharge cap is pressed; and
a cylindrical corrugated-tube spring that is made of plastic and inserted between an inner top of the discharge cap and a bottom of the outer cylindrical part of the valve housing to elastically support the discharge cap,
wherein, after the discharge cap is fully lifted, when the discharge cap is turned and circular protrusions of locking members of the discharge cap are inserted into a groove at the lower end of the upper inner circumferential portion of the shoulder member, the discharge cap stops rotating, and
in this state, even though the discharge cap is pressed, the discharge cap is not moved down because a bottom of locking portions of the locking members are locked to a top of the outer circumferential part of the valve housing,
whereby elastic restoration force of the cylindrical corrugated-tube spring is not decreased because the discharge cap is locked by turning with the cylindrical corrugated-tube spring expanded.

2. The pump container of claim 1 , wherein the discharge cap has a discharge nozzle protruding at an end of the upper end thereof so that an inside substance is discharged through a space communicating with a cylindrical piston of a pump assembly, and has locking members on two sides of the lower end of the outer circumference.

3. The pump container of claim 2 , wherein each of the locking members has a slit vertically cut from a body of the discharge cap, a locking portion protruding outward from a lower end of the discharge cap to be locked to a bottom of the outer inner circumferential portion of the shoulder member, and a circular protrusion circumferentially protruding upward from a center of an upper portion of the locking portion and inserted in a groove formed on the bottom of the outer inner circumferential portion of the shoulder member.

4. The pump container of claim 2 , wherein vertical passages are formed at positions that are symmetric to each other that are two sides of an outer circumference of an outer cylindrical part of the valve housing, and an anti-rotation protruding wall preventing rotation of the discharge cap is formed on a wall forming the vertical passages that is an inner wall of the upper end insertion part.

5. A pump container comprising:
a container in which liquid is kept and that has an upper opening and an inner wall;
a shoulder member that is a cylindrical member being open on the top and bottom and having a larger inner diameter at a lower outer circumferential portion of the shoulder member than an upper inner circumferential portion of the shoulder member, that has a space formed between the upper inner circumferential portion of the shoulder member and the lower outer circumferential portion of the shoulder member, and of which an inner circumference of the lower outer circumferential portion of the shoulder member is thread-fastened to the upper opening of the container with the upper opening fitted in the space;
a valve housing that has a cylinder part connected with a hose for suctioning an inside substance in the container at a lower portion thereof and being open on the top, an outer cylindrical part extending outward from an outer circumference of the cylinder part of the valve housing and being open on the top, an upper end insertion part fitted in the space, bending outward from the upper end of the outer cylindrical part of the valve housing, being in close contact with the inner wall of the container, and inserted in the upper inner circumferential portion of the shoulder member, and a seating part fitted in the space, bending outward from an upper end of the upper end insertion part, and seated on the top of the upper opening of the container;
a discharge cap that is a cylindrical member coupled to a lower end of the upper inner circumferential portion of the shoulder member to move up and down and discharges the inside substance by operating a pump member installed at a center of the lower portion thereof when the discharge cap is pressed; and
a cylindrical corrugated-tube spring that is made of plastic and inserted between an inner top of the discharge cap and a bottom of the outer cylindrical part of the valve housing to elastically support the discharge cap,
wherein, after the discharge cap is fully lifted, when the discharge cap is turned and circular protrusions of locking members of the discharge cap are inserted into a groove at the lower end of the upper inner circumferential portion of the shoulder member, the discharge cap stops rotating, and
in this state, even though the discharge cap is pressed, the discharge cap is not moved down because a bottom of locking portions of the locking members are locked to a top of the outer circumferential part of the valve housing,
whereby elastic restoration force of the cylindrical corrugated-tube spring is not decreased because the discharge cap is locked by turning with the cylindrical corrugated-tube spring expanded.

Assignees

• Kim Kyeong Sook
• F S Korea Ind Inc

Inventors

• Lee Young Joo
• Lee Ji Hoon
• Seo Dae Sik

Classifications

• B05B11/1047

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

• B05B11/0037 Primary

  Containers (for several components B05B11/0078) · CPC title

• B05B11/1002 Primary

  the direction of the pressure stroke being substantially perpendicular to the major axis of the container (B05B11/1009, B05B11/1015 take precedence) · CPC title

• B05B11/1052

  Actuation means (locking means therefor B05B11/1059; the dispensing stroke being affected by the stored energy of a spring B05B11/109) · CPC title

• B05B11/1073

  Springs · CPC title