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Sterile system for dispensing a product contained in a container in particular a soft tube
   
Document Number
US Patent 6974053
Issued Date
December 13, 2005
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Hennemann; Pascal (Vaux les Saint Claude,FR)
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Abstract
The invention concerns a dispensing and closure system arranged at the top of a container, in particular a soft tube comprising a liquid or pasty product, which is delivered by pressing on the tube. The invention is characterized in that it consists of a valve comprising two concentric elements, one of which forms a mobile cylindrical delivery valve and the other forms a cylindrical body exiting from a plate linked to the tube. The two elements defined between them an annular gap through which the product passes. When a manual pressure is exerted on the tube, it causes the product to act directly on the delivery valve causing the latter to open, countering an elastic return member, so as to allow the product to escape from the tube, when the pressure is exerted thereon and to automatically close the delivery valve when the pressure is released, preventing the possible return of the product already dispensed from returning inside the tube.
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Published
December 13, 2005
Application Number
10/496,612
Filed
May 25, 2004
US Classification
222/92   222/212 222/493
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Attorney/Law Firm
Priority Data
Dec 13, 2001 [FR] 01 16333
USPTO Field of Search
222/92   222/107   222/212   222/492   222/493   222/495   222/496   222/521   222/525  
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