Liquid dispenser device without a dip-tube
AssigneeValois SAS
InventorsClaude Jouillat, Olivier de Pous
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Abstract
A dispenser pump 1 is mounted on a liquid receptacle 2, in which the liquid 3 forms a free surface 4. A liquid retention member 6 communicates with a pump inlet orifice 5 and with the receptacle, and is adapted to receive a certain volume of liquid 15 when the device is shaken or tilted relative to an upright position in which the pump is at the top of the receptacle, and to retain the liquid volume in communication with the inlet orifice of the pump when the device is back in the upright position.
Claims14
A liquid dispenser device including a dispenser mounted on a receptacle containing said liquid, in which the liquid forms a free surface inside the receptacle, the dispenser includes an inlet orifice which is disposed above said free surface during normal operation of the dispenser, and no suction tube is provided;
- wherein the dispenser is a liquid dispensing pump including a pump body, and wherein the device includes a liquid retention member disposed in said receptacle above said free surface during normal operation of the dispenser, said liquid retention member communicating with said inlet orifice of the pump and with the receptacle, said liquid retention member being adapted to receive a certain volume of liquid when the device is shaken or tilted relative to an upright position in which the pump is at the top of the receptacle, and being adapted to retain said volume of liquid in communication with said inlet orifice of the pump when the device is in said upright position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.