Automatic sprayer
OwnerLeopoldo E. Freyreinventor
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Abstract
Disclosed is a device for emitting an aromatic substance into the surrounding environment which utilizes a pivoted arm carrying a mass as an actuator for an aerosol container containing the aromatic substance and an electronic circuit for maintaining the arm in a position to continue actuation of the aerosol container for a predetermined period of time. In a preferred form, the electronic circuit is such that the arm is controlled to lie in the position maintaining the aerosol container actuated as a function of the elapsed time between succeeding emissions of the aromatic substance.
Claims10
Apparatus for automatically and controllably emitting an aromatic substance into the surrounding environment from a container containing the substance and having an actuator for emitting the substance comprising:
- a support for attachment to a movable member,
- an arm pivotally carried by said support for movement about a generally horizontal axis,
- a stop carried by said arm on one side of its pivotal axis and located opposite the actuator of the container containing the substance,
- means for mounting said container on said support,
- a mass carried by said arm on the other side of said pivotal axis and responsive to movement of the member to which the support is attached to pivot said arm from a first, inoperative position to a second operative position that causes said stop to actuate the actuator and emit aromatic substance into the surrounding environment,
- means carried by said support including an electrical circuit for retaining said arm in said second position to enable continuous actuation of the actuator and emission of the aromatic substance into the surrounding environment over a predetermined period of time and for permitting said arm to return to said first position after said predetermined period of time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.