Metered-dose airless dispensing pouch with internal bulb pump
Assignee1Touch Holdings, Inc.
InventorCharles Curtiss
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is a dispensing assembly, comprising a flexible, collapsible pouch defining a reservoir configured to contain a liquid; a rigid canoe sealed to the pouch and extending into an interior of the pouch; a squeezable bulb disposed at least partially within the pouch and supported by the canoe structure, the bulb defining a dosing chamber; a first one-way valve fluidly connecting the reservoir to the dosing chamber; a second one-way valve fluidly connecting the dosing chamber to an outlet; and an outlet tip in fluid communication with the second one-way valve; wherein the pouch and the squeezable bulb are configured such that application of external pressure through the pouch collapses the squeezable bulb to expel a metered dose of liquid from the dosing chamber.
Claims20
A dispensing assembly, comprising:
- a flexible, collapsible pouch defining a reservoir configured to contain a liquid;
- a rigid canoe sealed to the pouch and extending into an interior of the pouch;
- a squeezable bulb disposed at least partially within the pouch and supported by the canoe structure, the bulb defining a dosing chamber;
- a first one-way valve fluidly connecting the reservoir to the dosing chamber;
- a second one-way valve fluidly connecting the dosing chamber to an outlet;
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- an outlet tip in fluid communication with the second one-way valve;
- wherein the pouch and the squeezable bulb are configured such that application of external pressure through the pouch collapses the squeezable bulb to expel a metered dose of liquid from the dosing chamber through the second one-way valve and the outlet tip, and release of the external pressure allows the bulb to expand and refill the dosing chamber from the reservoir through the first one-way valve while the second one-way valve remains closed, thereby maintaining an airless condition within the pouch.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.