Coating implements with material supply – Including ball – roller or endless-belt tool – With flow-regulator
Reexamination Certificate
1999-11-18
2001-05-01
Huson, Gregory L. (Department: 3751)
Coating implements with material supply
Including ball, roller or endless-belt tool
With flow-regulator
C401S281000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06224286
ABSTRACT:
This invention as its title indicates refers to a container with a liquid shoe cleaning product, cream or paste, and more specifically, a device fitted in the container mouth permitting the product to be dosed and applied, spreading it over the footwear leather surface or that of similar products.
Devices with these characteristics consist of a spongy component fitted in the lid, having a central hole through which the shoe polish or cream passes, and is spread by moving the sponge over the leather. These devices are well known in the market but defects in their use since a good lubrication of the footwear is not obtained until the sponge has been sufficiently impregnated with the product. Once the latter occurs, surpluses of product are formed preventing its correct application, in most cases even dripping, since the sponge is unable to absorb any more product.
Normally these devices have a closing cap with a protruding nipple matching the outlet, such that when the container is new and has not been used several times, it permits the outlet to be plugged when the doser is not in use.
The device of this invention has a double purpose: on the one hand, to obtain an applier which in a single sweep, uniformly impregnates the surface with the product, even when the latter is very fluid and, on the other, to give the applier a means of closing which controls the exit of the product independently from the container being inclined over the footwear.
For this purpose, starting from a container of any shape, preferably cylindrical, closed at one of its ends and having a closing cap at the other, equipped with an outlet for the product, over which a kind of hood is fitted which being pressed on the open end of the container may be rotated and defines an outlet conduit for the product located sideways, such that together with an also side arrangement of the outlet hole in the cap, on rotating this hood the product outlet opens or not, towards the spongy component fitted inside the hood.
With respect to the spongy component, in this invention it is a roller which rotates around a horizontal axis, fitted over two knobs opposite each other incorporated in the hood itself, having between theme an undercutting or cylindrical cavity, matching said spongy component, in which the product outlet opens. In this cylindrical cavity and with the purpose of preventing, in spite of the applier being equipped with a means of closing, the product leaving in excess flooding the applying sponge, two excess products channels have been incorporated in said cavity along both sides of the exit conduit, which in the case of excessive flooding, for example, as a result of having pressed the container too strongly, part of the product remains deposited on both channels and as a result the spongy component does not drip.
In the base of the container of this applier, there are some radial knobs which acts as a stop, defining the rotation angle of the hood together with its inside shape.
The purpose of this invention will be understood better, by means of the following description based on a simple practical execution. This description is made using the attached drawings, which:
REFERENCES:
patent: 4150904 (1979-04-01), Stewart
patent: 6010264 (2000-01-01), Scuderi et al.
deVore Peter
Fulwider Patton Lee & Utecht LLP
Huson Gregory L.
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