Dispenser for supports to be impregnated with an odour
AssigneeGaudier Kuppel Group Sarl
InventorsMarc Hagiage, Laurence Leveque, Guillaume Serre
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Abstract
The invention relates to a machine for dispensing perfume-testing supports, comprising support storage means for storing a batch of supports, support-dispensing means for transporting the supports one by one to a delivery point, and support impregnation means for depositing a perfume sample on each dispensed support, before the dispensing thereof. The dispensing means comprise support-marking means for marking each dispensed support at the moment of the dispensing thereof, the marking means and the impregnation means being automatically actuated during the dispensing process.
Claims15
A dispensing machine for dispensing a support impregnated by an odour, comprising:
- a container for storing the support,
- a dispensing mechanism for retrieving the support from the container and dispensing the support to a person,
- a vial support configured to receive a perfume vial containing a perfume with an emanating odour, and
- an impregnation means for impregnating the support with the emanating odour to provide an odour-impregnated support,
- wherein the support is suitable to be impregnated by the odour, the support comprising a plurality of individual strips;
- wherein the dispensing mechanism comprises a marking unit adapted to mark the odour-impregnated support so the person can identify the odour impregnated on the support;
- wherein the dispensing mechanism comprises drive pulleys arranged to be driven by the support and which are connected to a drive mechanism arranged to bring the support up into the marking rollers,
- wherein the drive mechanism comprises:
- transportation bodies arranged to retrieve the support by friction and to transport the support to the marking unit,
- an alternative drive mechanism to drive the transportation bodies alternatively:
- in a first phase, by the drive pulleys when these are rotated by the retrieval of the support,
- in a second phase, by an energy storage arranged to store energy during the first phase;
- wherein the energy storage comprises a spring acting on a rack meshing with sprockets connected to the transportation bodies in a temporarily separable way;
- and
- wherein the impregnation means is adapted to be actuated automatically.
A dispensing machine for dispensing a support impregnated by an odour, comprising:
- a container for storing the support,
- a dispensing mechanism for retrieving the support from the container and dispensing the support to a person,
- a vial support configured to receive a perfume vial containing a perfume with an emanating odour, and
- an impregnation means for impregnating the support with the emanating odour to provide an odour-impregnated support,
- wherein the support is suitable to be impregnated by the odour, the support comprising a plurality of individual strips;
- wherein the dispensing mechanism comprises a marking unit adapted to mark the odour-impregnated support so the person can identify the odour impregnated on the support;
- wherein the marking unit comprises an embossing means for embossing an elevated mark on the odour-impregnated support;
- wherein the dispensing mechanism comprises drive pulleys arranged to be driven by the support and which are connected to a drive mechanism arranged to bring the support up into the marking rollers,
- wherein the drive mechanism comprises:
- transportation bodies arranged to retrieve the support by friction and to transport the support to the marking unit,
- an alternative drive mechanism to drive the transportation bodies alternatively:
- in a first phase, by the drive pulleys when these are rotated by the retrieval of the support,
- in a second phase, by an energy storage arranged to store energy during the first phase;
- wherein the energy storage comprises a spring acting on a rack meshing with sprockets connected to the transportation bodies in a temporarily separable way;
- and
- wherein the drive mechanism comprises an energy storage comprising a spring acting on a rack meshing with sprockets.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.