Spray head for a device for dispensing a fluid product

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9433952-B2
Application number	US-201113809039-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 7, 2011
Priority date	Jul 9, 2010
Publication date	Sep 6, 2016
Grant date	Sep 6, 2016

Abstract

A spray head for a fluid dispenser device, including a hollow body having a substantially cylindrical sleeve and extending along a longitudinal axis (A), a substantially radial end wall provided with a spray orifice; and a spray profile upstream from the spray orifice. The spray profile includes at least one channel that is non-radial and/or non-axial relative to the longitudinal axis (A). The head, the spray orifice, and the spray profile are made as a single piece, the spray profile including a central pin, the internal end of the central pin, arranged inside the hollow body, being of shape that is conical or frustoconical, so as to guide the fluid towards the at least one non-radial and/or non-axial channel, the internal end forming an outlet valve.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A fluid dispenser device, comprising:
a syringe having a longitudinal axis for containing a fluid and a piston that slides along the longitudinal axis within said syringe for dispensing the fluid; and
a spray head assembled directly on said syringe, said spray head comprising: a hollow body comprising a sleeve that is substantially cylindrical and that extends along the longitudinal axis, and an end wall that is substantially radial and that is provided with a spray orifice; and a spray profile upstream from said spray orifice, said spray profile comprising at least one channel that is non-radial and/or non-axial relative to the longitudinal axis; wherein said head, said spray orifice, and said spray profile are made as a single piece, said spray profile including a central pin located on the end wall and inside of the hollow body, an internal end of said central pin, arranged inside said hollow body, having a conical or frustoconical shape, so as to guide the fluid towards said at least one non-radial and/or non-axial channel, said internal end forming an outlet valve.

2. The device according to claim 1 , wherein said spray orifice is of annular shape around said longitudinal axis.

3. The device according to claim 1 , wherein said spray orifice is in the shape of a bowl that is symmetrical about said longitudinal axis.

4. The device according to claim 1 , wherein said at least one channel extends in sloping and peripheral manner relative to the longitudinal axis, connecting the inside of said hollow body to said spray orifice.

5. The device according to claim 1 , wherein said at least one channel is helical and slopes in the radial and axial directions, connecting the inside of said hollow body to said spray orifice.

6. The device according to claim 1 , wherein said central pin is connected to said sleeve via a deformable diaphragm made integrally therewith and enabling said central pin to move axially.

7. The device according to claim 1 , wherein said outlet valve co-operates with said syringe.

8. A fluid dispenser device, comprising:
a syringe having a longitudinal axis for containing a fluid and a piston that slides along the longitudinal axis within the syringe for dispensing the fluid through an outlet orifice of the syringe; and
a spray head assembled directly on the syringe, the spray head comprising a hollow body comprising a sleeve that is substantially cylindrical and that extends along the longitudinal axis, an end wall that is substantially radial and that is provided with a spray orifice; and a spray profile upstream from the spray orifice, the spray profile comprising a channel that is at least one of non-radial or non-axial relative to the longitudinal axis;
the spray profile comprises a central pin located on the end wall and inside of the hollow body, an internal end of the central pin is arranged inside said hollow body and has a conical or frustoconical shape so as to guide the fluid towards the channel, the internal end forming an outlet valve in cooperation with the outlet orifice of the syringe; and
the spray head, including the spray orifice and the spray profile with the central pin are made as a one-piece integral construction.

9. The device according to claim 8 , wherein the channel is non-radial relative to the longitudinal axis.

10. The device according to claim 8 , wherein the channel is non-axial relative to the longitudinal axis.

11. The device according to claim 8 , wherein the channel is non-radial and non-axial relative to the longitudinal axis.

12. The device according to claim 8 , wherein the spray head, including the spray orifice and the spray profile with the central pin are molded as a one-piece integral construction.

13. The device according to claim 8 , wherein the spray head, including the spray orifice and the spray profile with the central pin are molded as a one-piece integral construction from the same material.

14. The device according to claim 8 , wherein the spray head is assembled directly on the syringe by inserting a portion of the syringe into the hollow body.

Assignees

• Heldt Frédéric
• Pardonge Jean-Marc
• Petit Ludovic
• Aptar France Sas

Inventors

• Heldt Frédéric
• Pardonge Jean-Marc
• Petit Ludovic

Classifications

• B05B11/007

  being opened by deformation of a sealing element made of resiliently deformable material, e.g. flaps, skirts, duck-bill valves · CPC title

• B05B1/06 Primary

  in annular, tubular or hollow conical form · CPC title

• B05B1/3421

  with channels emerging substantially tangentially in the swirl chamber · CPC title

• B05B1/3426 Primary

  the channels emerging in the swirl chamber perpendicularly to the outlet axis (B05B1/3436 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B05B11/02

  Membranes or pistons acting on the contents inside the container, e.g. follower pistons · CPC title