Article dispensing – Plural sources – stacks or compartments – With fluent material dispenser
Patent
1987-01-23
1988-02-09
Skaggs, H. Grant
Article dispensing
Plural sources, stacks or compartments
With fluent material dispenser
221266, 221119, 221288, B65G 5906
Patent
active
047236906
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention pertains to a metering dispenser for compactates, such as tablets, pills, capsules and granulates, with a compactate store and a metering disk arranged pivotably around an axis with respect to the store and containing several compactate receiving chambers.
A metering dispenser for tableted products of the above-mentioned type is described in German Preliminary Published Application No. 3,143,953. The known device has a supply container serving as a refilling unit or store and a stop adapter assigned to the supply container as well as a slide bearing with a construction element including a dispensing slide to be movably inserted. The device thus consists of a tablet supply container in variable cross sectional shape, a so-called dispensing slide and a basic element integrated therewith, having a slide rail and arresting adapter. To be sure the known device is universal, and is also suitable for use in the household sector, but no provisions are made for a specifically proportioned multicomponent dispensing action.
There are multicomponent products, the components of which are incompatible with one another to some degree or lose effectiveness when stored together for some time. In addition certain active ingredients of such multicomponent products can be manufactured and stored more economically and more effectively in tablet, pill or capsule form, while other production components more advantageously exist in free flowing or liquid form.
The invention is based on the goal of creating a metering dispenser for two or more components of a multicomponent product which are to be stored separate from one another and have different three-dimensional forms and/or aggregation states, wherein adequate reliability during quantitative metering of the individual components and convenient applicability are guaranteed, especially in the household sector. The solution in accordance with the invention is characterized for the metering dispenser of the initially mentioned type with a compactate store and a metering disk assigned to the store, containing compactate receiving chambers--or simply compactate chambers for short--by essentially cylindrical construction as well as relative rotatability of the store and the metering disk around the cylinder axis.
The metering dispenser in accordance with the invention can be attached as a separate metering device or as a metering attachment in place of the usual closure on the supply container containing one of the components to be dispensed. The connection can be formed in the usual manner, e.g., by screw threading, a snap closure or the like. For dispensing the substance contained in the supply container a metering cup is advantageously provided. This can be formed on the metering dispenser in such a manner that when placed on the supply container it enters the opening thereof. Alternatively, however, it is also advantageous to design the metering cup as a cuffed cover, especially a screw cover, of the metering dispenser or its store. In the latter case the dispensing disk and the store of the metering dispenser should have a penetrating opening--for example, positioned coaxially to the cylinder axis--as an outlet channel for the components contained in the supply container. Through this channel the product to be dispensed can be transferred from the supply container to the metering cup.
Metering dispensers or metering attachments in accordance with the invention can be produced at relatively little expense, since they consist of only two to three individual parts, which after filling with the respective product are attached together and remain joined together, possibly inseparably. If the metering dispenser is designed as a closure for the supply container holding the components, a multicomponent packing is produced after coupling the closure and the supply container.
In contrast to the metering dispenser according to DE-OS No. 3,143,953* the axis of rotation of the metering disk in accordance with the invention coincides with the cylinder axis of the corresponding
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Grandmaison Real J.
Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien
Millson Jr. Henry E.
Skaggs H. Grant
Szoke Ernest G.
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