Bleaching and dyeing; fluid treatment and chemical modification – Fluid treatment – Manipulation of liquid
Patent
1993-05-10
1995-02-14
Coe, Philip R.
Bleaching and dyeing; fluid treatment and chemical modification
Fluid treatment
Manipulation of liquid
68 17R, D06F 3902
Patent
active
053882989
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to a measuring and dispensing device of the reusable type for the machine washing of clothes, and also to the method of utilizing said device.
More particularly, the invention relates to a measuring and dispensing device, of a type which is now standard and which enables the method of machine washing of clothes described in the Applicant's Patent FR 2563250 to be carried out and is intended to be filled with at least one liquid detergent, thereupon being placed in the drum of the machine together with the clothes and then being progressively emptied of its contents in the course of the washing cycle. Measuring and dispensing devices of this kind have been described, inter alia, in the Applicant's patent application published under No. FR 2570720. This application concerns measuring and dispensing devices each of which comprises a body, particularly one of mainly spherical shape, which is intended to contain a detergent liquid and which has a filling opening and is associated with an attached assembly which may form a lid, capping said opening. Said attached assembly and/or said body is or are provided with outlets intended to permit the progressive discharge of the liquid amongst the clothes in the course of the washing.
It is known that, in order to obtain a good degree of cleanness, it is often necessary for certain areas of clothes, for example particularly soiled areas, such as individual spots, or areas habitually more heavily soiled, such as shirt collars and cuffs, to be treated before the wash. This pretreatment generally consists of simple prewashing with soap, in particular with a solid soap and a brush, so that the user must first provide himself with objects, namely the soap and the brush, other than those needed for the machine wash.
In this respect it should be noted that measuring and dispensing devices known hitherto and also the bottles containing detergent liquids intended for machine washing are unsuitable for enabling a user to pour detergent liquid onto a particular area of a garment in a sufficiently controlled manner.
In particular, large capacity containers are difficult to manipulate. It is therefore usually necessary to make use of separately presented pretreatment products, and containers for such products have been developed and are available on the market: products applied by spraying are for example known. Apart from inconvenience to the user, since two different containers must be used--one for the detergent and the other for the pretreatment product-pretreatment with an additional product increases the total cost of the wash.
The present invention seeks to obviate these disadvantages and provides a measuring and dispensing device incorporating pretreatment means making it possible to achieve controlled application of a detergent liquid, with which it has been filled for the purpose of the machine wash, to selected areas of a garment for the purpose of effecting the pretreatment of these areas before the washing cycle. The user therefore no longer needs to provide an object or a container which would be used solely for this specific pretreatment stage. Such pretreatment means may for example comprise means making it possible to pour out a controlled amount of liquid detergent onto the areas to be treated, such as spouts or nozzles, optionally with additional means enabling a user to treat such areas by rubbing, such as irregularities formed on the measuring and dispensing device. The invention is obviously applicable to all types of measuring and dispensing devices, particularly to those of the multi-compartment type intended to contain a plurality of constituents which are not mutually compatible to a satisfactory extent.
The object of the present invention is therefore a measuring and dispensing device of the reusable type for the machine washing of clothes, which comprises a hollow body closed at one end by a base and intended to receive the amount prescribed for the washing of at least one useful product, such as a liquid detergent or a washi
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Bailey John
Bocquet Gerard
Bouraoui-Karoui Aude G. X.
Cornette Henri
Duquet Jacky P.
Andes William Scott
Coe Philip R.
Garner Dean L.
Linman E. Kelly
The Procter & Gamble & Company
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