Dispenser for discharging media
AssigneeIng. Erich Pfeiffer GmbH
InventorsEsther Amann, Karl-Heinz Fuchs
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Abstract
A dispenser for discharging media has a duct (14) including a medium outlet (12), and a dosage carrier (34, 35) mounted on a base body (2) and including receptacles (36, 37) for receiving doses of the medium entirely enclosed in respective reservoir spaces (17), a medium holder (21) disposed beneath the reservoir spaces and adjacent the duct (14) for holding the medium when it is released from one of the reservoir spaces (17), and a device (44, 45) for opening one of the reservoir space (17) to allow the medium to be first deposited in the medium holder (21), and then picked up and conveyed out the medium outlet (12) by a transfer flow through the reservoir space (17).
Claims27
A dispenser for discharging media comprising:
- a base body (2) which can be manually oriented into a discharge position;
- a dosage carrier (34, 35) including at least one receptacle (36, 37) for receiving a dose of the medium entirely enclosed in a reservoir space (17) while providing a predosed amount of the medium, said base body (2) supporting said receptacle (36, 37) when said dispenser (1) is in said discharge position, said reservoir space (17) having a top portion and having a bottom portion, which when opened, communicates with a reservoir outlet (15);
- duct means (14) including an outlet duct (28, 29) and a medium outlet (12) at which the medium leaves said dispenser (1), said duct means (14) guiding the medium from said reservoir outlet (15) to said medium outlet (12);
- a discharge actuator operable for generating a transfer flow for conveying said predosed amount through said duct means (14) and out of said medium outlet (12);
- an upwardly opening medium holder (21) located below said reservoir outlet (15) when said dispenser (1) is in said discharge position, said medium holder (21) including a bottom depression (24), a first side surface (22) and a second side surface (23) opposing said first side surface (22), said first side surface (22) and said second side surface (23) extending upwardly from said bottom depression (24) when said dispenser (1) is in said discharge position, said outlet duct (28, 29) being disposed downstream from said medium holder (21) and said second side surface (23);
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- means for opening (44, 45) said reservoir space (17) to allow said predosed amount to flow through said reservoir outlet (15) and drop into said upwardly opening medium holder (21);
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- wherein upon opening of the reservoir space (17), the transfer flow flows through said reservoir space (17), through said reservoir outlet (15) and into said medium holder (21) to lift up the predosed amount from said bottom depression (24) in said medium holder (21) and over said second side surface (23), such that the predosed amount flows through the duct means and out of said medium outlet (12).
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