Gas and liquid contact apparatus – Fluid distribution – Pumping
Reexamination Certificate
1998-06-08
2001-05-22
Bushey, C. Scott (Department: 1724)
Gas and liquid contact apparatus
Fluid distribution
Pumping
C261SDIG006, C261SDIG008, C096S222000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06234455
ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates to a device and a method of supplying substances to be dispensed into air or air mixtures. These substances to be dispensed are different scents in particular. Such presentation of scents would preferably be done for visual and/or acoustic stimuli and other events. In addition to scents, with another presentation, this could also be micro quantities of other substances which must be in aerosol form. The substances may also be in gaseous form. When “air” is mentioned below, it may also refer to air mixtures.
The invention thus also relates in particular to a method and a device for increasing the sensorial perception of visual and/or acoustic presentations, especially for decentralized media, e.g., in presenting television movies, video movies, radio broadcasts or musical performances, etc., wherein suitable scents are supplied to the viewers or listeners in synchronization with the presentation of certain visual and/or acoustic events (e.g., motion picture scenes).
Such a method and the respective equipment are described in the present applicant's patent application PCT/EP92/02446, here in particular in the description of FIGS. 16 and 17.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,273,690 discloses an air freshener device which can be used together with an air conditioning system, for example, to improve the air in rooms. This air freshener device has a carrier with multiple scents which are arranged in separate cells or compartments in rows or columns. The carrier comprises walls that can be ruptured for each cell or each compartment and are designed so that scents released can be dispensed in an oncoming stream of air. The carrier can be attached to a supporting structure with fastening elements so that the scents released can be distributed in an entire room by means of a stream of air.
The object of the present invention is to specify a device and a method of supplying substances to be dispensed into air, where the device has small, handy dimensions and contains the substance to be dispensed in an easily activated form.
According to this invention, a device for supplying substances to be dispensed into air, especially scents with a flat disk-shaped or plate-shaped base body having multiple separate channels running essentially parallel to its top and/or bottom sides to accommodate substances to be dispensed into air, with each channel having one inlet port and one outlet port, and wherein a stream of gas supplied to the inlet port can flow through the channels, wherein the inlet and outlet ports of at least one channel are sealed gastight until the substance is released and/or the substance is accommodated in a gastight manner in a reservoir in at least one channel that does not release the substance until the time for release of it.
In addition, the invention relates to a device for supplying substances to be dispensed in air, especially scents
characterized by
at least one hollow body provided with at least one air exchange port, where a stream of gas can flow through the interior;
at least one reservoir which is arranged in the hollow body for the substance to be released to the ambient air and is enclosed by a carrier material so that the substance can be released by destruction of the carrier material.
Destruction of the carrier material is understood to refer to the fact that the integrity of the carrier material is altered so that the substances to be dispensed are exposed. This can be accomplished by tearing off a part of a laminate, breaking a device and other methods of division.
According to another feature, the present invention relates to a reservoir with scent capsules that is self-activated by automatic detachment of a separation film on influx of air.
Another feature of the invention relates to a micro scent reservoir that can be played in decentralized scent dispensers, with the micro scent reservoirs optionally being designed in the form of a disk.
The device according to this invention for supplying substances to be dispensed into air has the advantages of being very small, handy and easy to package and ship. Additional advantages include the fact that the device can accommodate multiple substances that do not evaporate and cannot become mixed. The substances released can also be activated easily and can be protected well in transport.
The present invention, among other things, provides methods and a device where the various scent supplies (scent sets) belonging to an individual motion picture are fabricated and stored in a manner which ensures both storage of these scents (preferably 20-50 different scents per motion picture) in an extremely small space (compact disk) as well as perfect preservation and rapid, trouble-free shippability at low manufacturing costs.
Another feature of the invention is that a hard material reservoir consisting of easily separated halves is provided for substances that can be dispensed into air, especially scents.
According to another feature of the invention, a flat hard material protection is claimed, that protects stored substances such as scents that are to be dispensed into air from external environmental influences, such as pressure, impact, heat and damage.
Another feature concerns a flat scent reservoir with sealed scents that can be played, where the seals are not removed until immediately before playing.
In general terms, the invention presents a flat preservation system for multiple scent sets, especially a flat or disk-shaped hard material to protect pressure-sensitive and/or light- or heat-sensitive scent sets.
Another feature is a flat, hard material transport reservoir with protective tubes arranged in it to protect pressure-sensitive aromas.
Another feature of the present invention relates to a disk-shaped scent reservoir that is suitable for transport of encapsulated scents in a manner that protects them from pressure, temperature, moisture and light.
Furthermore, a method of releasing substances, especially aromas, to be dispensed into air, where the substances are microencapsulated and embedded in a carrier material which is characterized in that the scent microcapsules embedded in the carrier material can be broken open by the kinetic energy of a gas.
The invention thus creates a micro scent reservoirs system (scent disks) for automatic playing of event-based scent sets in decentralized scent dispensers (scent players), thus permitting a decentralized and yet synchronized scent accompaniment with motion pictures, music and other events.
According to a preferred embodiment of the method according to this invention for minimized storage and decentralized synchronized presentation of scents with visual and/or acoustic stimuli, the micro scent reservoirs equipped with the required aromas are manufactured in the form of very flat compact disks
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, such as those known for music CDs, for example.
This very small and flat embodiment of the scent carrier has the fundamental advantage that despite the relatively large scent contact areas, it nevertheless takes up very little space and thus permits mass distribution of the scent sets belonging to a certain motion picture to a large public.
Thus it is possible with scent set carriers of this form and type to glue them as inserts into a daily newspaper or television schedule or a product such as a package of coffee, etc. In this way, all the scents (scent sets) belonging with a television movie can be available to all interested viewers at the time of the broadcast without each individual television viewer having to purchase a scent CD for a motion picture he would like to see in the scented version.
By means of rapid, decentralized distribution of scent sets formulated precisely for a given motion picture and perfectly protected, and then added as an insert to a daily newspaper or television schedule or a postal mailing in the form of a flat scent compact disk, it is feasible for the scents (scent sets) belonging to a television movie or other media event to be in a perfectly preserved form at the time when they are dispersed to all interested viewers, with
Burns Doane Swecker & Mathis L.L.P.
Bushey C. Scott
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