Cup-shaped nozzle assembly with integral filter structure

A filtering nozzle assembly or spray head including a lumen or duct for dispensing or spraying a pumped or pressurized liquid product or fluid from a valve, pump or actuator assembly drawing from a transportable container to generate a spray of fluid droplets, comprising;

• (a) an actuator body having a distally projecting sealing post having a post peripheral wall terminating at a distal or outer face, said actuator body including a fluid passage communicating with said lumen;
• (b) a cup-shaped filtered orifice defining member mounted in said actuator body having a peripheral wall extending proximally into a bore in said actuator body radially outwardly of said sealing post and having a distal radial wall comprising an inner face opposing said sealing post's distal or outer face to define a fluid channel including a chamber between said body's sealing post and said cup-shaped member's peripheral wall and distal wall;
• (c) said chamber being in fluid communication with said actuator body's fluid passage to define a fluid filter inlet so said pressurized fluid may enter said fluid channel's chamber and filtering region;
• (d) said cup-shaped member distal wall's inner face is configured to define within said chamber a plurality of proximally projecting filter posts with a first proximally projecting filter post and a second proximally projecting filter post, wherein said proximally projecting filter posts are radially arrayed and spaced apart to define inter-post filtering lumens therebetween for filtering passing pressurized fluid flowing through said chamber to provide a filtered fluid flow;
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• (e) wherein said chamber is in fluid communication with a discharge orifice defined in said cup-shaped member's distal wall, and said filtered fluid flow exhausts from said discharge orifice as spray of fluid droplets in a selected spray pattern.