Pump Assembly and Container With Contents Discharge Function
20200398296 ยท 2020-12-24
Inventors
Cpc classification
B05B11/1043
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
International classification
Abstract
In a pump assembly, the outer wall of the first inner-housing sidewall, the inner wall of the second inner-housing sidewall and the inner-housing top wall define a first chamber with a first opening, and the gas chamber of the first chamber is a sealed chamber collectively defined by the piston portion, the inner-housing top wall, the outer wall of the first inner-housing sidewall and the inner wall of the second inner-housing sidewall, so that the formation of the sealed chamber does not require an additional sealing ring. This thereby reduces the risk of gas leakage due to aging of the sealing ring. A container with contents discharge function provided by this disclosure can include the above pump assembly.
Claims
1. A pump assembly, adapted to be mounted on a container body, comprising a pump main body and a press rod, wherein, the pump main body comprises an inner housing; the inner housing has an inner-housing top wall, a first inner-housing sidewall and a second inner-housing sidewall; the inner-housing top wall has a first through-hole, the first inner-housing sidewall and the second inner-housing sidewall being respectively connected at the inner-housing top wall, wherein an inner wall of the first inner-housing sidewall defines an access channel which communicates with the first through-hole; the second inner-housing sidewall encircles the first inner-housing sidewall; an outer wall of the first inner-housing sidewall, an inner wall of the second inner-housing sidewall and the inner-housing top wall define a first chamber with a first opening; the press rod has a rod body, a connecting portion and a piston portion, an inner wall of the rod body defines a discharge channel; the rod body is provided in the first through-hole and the access channel in a penetrating manner; the piston portion is provided in the first chamber and slidably contacts with an outer wall of the first inner-housing sidewall and an inner wall of the second inner-housing sidewall in a sealing manner respectively, such that a first gas chamber and a second gas chamber are separated in the first chamber , wherein the first gas chamber is a sealed chamber collectively defined by the piston portion, the inner-housing top wall, an outer wall of the first inner-housing sidewall and an inner wall of the second inner-housing sidewall, and the second gas chamber communicates with the first opening; one end of the connecting portion is connected with the rod body, and the other end extends into the second gas chamber via the first opening and is connected with the piston portion; the rod body is configured to be pressed, so as to drive the piston portion to expand the first gas chamber and compress the second gas chamber, so that contents in the container body is discharged via the discharge channel; the piston portion is configured to rebound under action of a resultant force of gas pressure in the first gas chamber and gas pressure in the second gas chamber, so as to drive the rod body to rebound, so that the rod body is adapted to be re-pressed.
2. The pump assembly according to claim 1, wherein the pump main body has a gas guide channel which communicates with the second gas chamber; and gas is discharged from or sucked into the second gas chamber through the gas guide channel.
3. The pump assembly according to claim 2, wherein the pump main body further comprises an outer housing which surrounds the second inner-housing sidewall; an outer wall of the second inner-housing sidewall is fitted to an inner wall of the outer housing in a surface-to-surface contact manner, wherein the inner wall of the outer housing is recessed to form the gas guide channel.
4. The pump assembly according to claim 3, wherein the connecting portion has a connecting-portion bottom wall and a connecting-portion sidewall; the connecting-portion bottom wall has a second through-hole; a lower end of the rod body is connected at the connecting-portion bottom wall, wherein the second through-hole communicates with the discharge channel; one end of the connecting-portion sidewall is connected with the connecting-portion bottom wall, and the other end extends into the second gas chamber via the first opening and is connected with the piston portion.
5. The pump assembly according to claim 4, wherein the connecting-portion sidewall encircles the rod body; an outer wall of the rod body, an inner wall of the connecting-portion sidewall and the connecting-portion bottom wall define a second chamber with a second opening; the first inner-housing sidewall extends into the second chamber via the second opening.
6. The pump assembly according to claim 4, wherein the pump main body further comprises a piston member which has a piston body and a liquid guide tube; the liquid guide tube has a liquid guide channel; the piston body is slidably fitted to an inner wall of the outer housing in a sealing manner, to define a contents chamber in the outer housing; one end of the liquid guide tube is connected with the piston body, wherein one end of the liquid guide channel communicates with the contents chamber; the other end of the liquid guide tube extends into the second through-hole and the discharge channel, and is fixedly connected with an inner wall of the rod body in a sealing manner, wherein, the other end of the liquid guide channel communicates with the discharge channel.
7. The pump assembly according to claim 3, wherein a protrusion is provided on an outer wall of the second inner-housing sidewall; an inner wall of the outer housing is recessed to form a hang slot; the gas guide channel extends along an axial direction of the outer housing, the hang slot extends along a circumferential direction of the outer housing, and the gas guide channel communicates with the hang slot; the protrusion is slidingly fitted to the gas guide channel in the axial direction of the outer housing, and is slidingly fitted to the hang slot in the circumferential direction of the outer housing.
8. The pump assembly according to claim 7, wherein a protruding line is provided on a bottom surface of the hang slot, and the protruding line is configured to be engaged with the protrusion in a clasping manner, to prevent the protrusion from exiting the hang slot.
9. The pump assembly according to claim 7, wherein an inner wall of the first through-hole and/or an inner wall of the first inner-housing sidewall are provided with teeth; an outer wall of the rod body has a slide slot, which extends along an axial direction of the rod body and is slidingly fitted to the teeth; the rod body is configured to be rotated in a radial direction, thereby driving the inner housing to rotate.
10. A container with contents discharge function, comprising a container body, wherein the container further comprises a pump assembly according to claim 1, the pump assembly being mounted on the container body and configured to discharge contents in the container body.
Description
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0034] The above and other features, characteristics and advantages of this disclosure will become more apparent from the following description in conjunction with the figures and implementations, wherein:
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT
[0064] This disclosure will be further described below in conjunction with specific embodiments and the accompanying drawings, and more details are set forth in the following description for the ease of fully understanding this disclosure. However, this disclosure can obviously be implemented in various different manners than that described herein, the skilled in the art can make a similar extension and deduction without departing from the connotation of this disclosure according to the practical applications, and therefore the protection scope of this disclosure should not be limited to the content of the specific embodiments herein.
[0065] Various embodiments or implementations implementing the subject technical solution are disclosed below. To simplify the disclosure, specific examples of elements and arrangements are described below. Of course, these are only examples, not to limit the protection scope of this disclosure. For example, that the first feature is formed on or above the second feature, subsequently recorded in the specification, may comprise embodiments in which the first and second features are formed by way of direct connection, and embodiments in which additional features are formed between the first and second features so that there may be no direct connection between the first and second features. In addition, reference numerals and/or letters may be repeated in different examples in these disclosed. The repetition is intended to be brief and clear, not representing in itself a relationship between the embodiments and/or structures to be discussed. Furthermore, when a first element is described in a way of connecting or combining with a second element, the description comprises embodiments in which the first and second elements are directly connected or combined with each other, and also comprises that one or more other intervening elements are added to indirectly connect or combine the first and second elements with each other.
[0066] It should be noted that
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[0068] The container body 91 has a liquid filling port for filling the contents 800. The pump assembly 90 comprises a pump main body 1, a press rod 2 and a cap 3. The pump main body 1 is detachably provided in the liquid filling port in a penetrating manner. The press rod 2 is pressably mounted on the pump main body 1 and the upper end thereof protrudes from the pump main body 1. The cap 3 is mounted to the upper end of the press rod 2. One end of the extension pipe 92 is connected at the pump main body 1, and the other end thereof extends to below the liquid level of the contents 800.
[0069] The cap 3 is configured to be pressed by the user, so as to press the press rod 2 down relative to the pump main body 1, so that the contents 800 remaining in the pump main body 1 can be discharged from the pump main body 1 via channels inside the press rod 2 and the cap 3. After the press rod 2 is pressed down in place, the press rod 2 needs to rebound such that the press rod 2 is adapted to be re-pressed, and during rebounding, the press rod 2 can also drive the pump main body 1 to suck in the contents 800 in the container body 91 through the extension pipe 92.
[0070] To have the press rod 2 rebound, as shown in
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[0072] Since the outer wall of the first inner-housing sidewall 121, the inner wall of the second inner-housing sidewall 122 and the inner-housing top wall 120 define the first chamber 1a with the first opening 1b, and the gas chamber 12a of the first chamber 1a is a sealed chamber collectively defined by the piston portion 21, the inner-housing top wall 120, the outer wall of the first inner-housing sidewall 121 and the inner wall of the second inner-housing sidewall 122, the formation of the sealed chamber does not require an additional sealing ring, thereby reducing the risk of gas leakage due to aging of the sealing ring.
[0073] Gas, such as air, is present both in the first gas chamber 12a and the second gas chamber 12b. During being pressed down, the rod body 20 drives the piston portion 21 to move inside the first chamber 1a, such that the volume of the first gas chamber 12a increases, that is, the first gas chamber 12a is expanded, and the volume of the second gas chamber 12b decreases, that is, the second gas chamber 12b is compressed.
[0074] That the first gas chamber 12a and/or the second gas chamber 12b are sealed cavities comprises three specific embodiments: the first gas chamber 12a and the second gas chamber 12b are both sealed cavities; the first gas chamber 12a is an unsealed chamber, e.g., communicating with the atmosphere, and the second gas chamber is a sealed chamber; and, the first gas chamber 12a is a sealed chamber, and the second gas chamber 12b is an unsealed chamber, e.g., communicating with the atmosphere.
[0075] In the first embodiment described above, as the rod body 20 is pressed down, the gas pressure in the first gas chamber 12a decreases, and the gas pressure in the second gas chamber 12b increases. As a result, the gas pressure in the first gas chamber 12a is smaller than the gas pressure in the second gas chamber 12b, so that the piston portion 21 can rebound under action of the resultant force of the gas pressure in the first gas chamber 12a and the gas pressure in the second gas chamber 12b, so as to drive the rod body 20 to rebound. In this embodiment, neither the first gas chamber 12a nor the second gas chamber 12b is in gas communication with the outside.
[0076] In the second embodiment described above, as the rod body 20 is pressed down, the gas pressure in the first gas chamber 12a can remain unchanged and can always be equal to the pressure of the atmosphere, and the gas pressure in the second gas chamber 12b increases. As a result, the gas pressure in the first gas chamber 12a is smaller than the gas pressure in the second gas chamber 12b, so that the piston portion 21 can rebound under action of the resultant force of the gas pressure in the first gas chamber 12a and the gas pressure in the second gas chamber 12b, so as to drive the rod body 20 to rebound. In this embodiment, the first gas chamber 12a is in gas communication with the outside, and the second gas chamber 12b is not in gas communication with the outside.
[0077] In the third embodiment described above, as the rod body 20 is pressed down, the gas pressure in the first gas chamber 12a decreases, and the gas pressure in the second gas chamber 12b can remain unchanged and can always be equal to the pressure of the atmosphere. As a result, the gas pressure in the first gas chamber 12a is smaller than the gas pressure in the second gas chamber 12b, so that the piston portion 21 can rebound under action of the resultant force of the gas pressure in the first gas chamber 12a and the gas pressure in the second gas chamber 12b, so as to drive the rod body 20 to rebound. In this embodiment, the rod body 20 is easily pressed down in place, which can improve the user's use experience. In this embodiment, the second gas chamber 12b is in gas communication with the outside, and the first gas chamber 12a is not in gas communication with the outside.
[0078] In a more specific embodiment, as shown in
[0079] In the embodiments described above, since the piston portion 21 can rebound under action of the resultant force of the gas pressure in the first gas chamber 12a and the gas pressure in the second gas chamber 12b, so as to drive the rod body 20 to rebound, the pump main body 1 does not need to be provided with a spring for rebounding the rod body 20. As a result, the pump assembly 90 can be entirely made of plastic material, and no metal material is mixed, so that the pump assembly 90 is easily recycled.
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[0082] In a more specific embodiment, the connecting-portion sidewall 221 encircles the rod body 20. The outer wall of the rod body 20, the inner wall of the connecting-portion sidewall 221, and the connecting-portion bottom wall 220 define a second chamber 2a with a second opening 2b. The first inner-housing sidewall 121 extends into the second chamber 2a via the second opening 2b. This solution helps to reduce the length of the pump main body 1.
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[0089] The cap 3 is connected with the upper end of the rod body 20, to prevent the second one-way valve body 15 from falling off the upper end of the rod body 20. The connection of the cap 3 and the rod body 20 can be a screwed connection. The cap 3 communicates with the discharge channel 20a, to lead out the contents 800 flowing out of the discharge channel 20a.
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[0093] The press cover 16 has a press-cover through-hole 16a, and the gasket 17 has a gasket through-hole 17a. The press-cover through-hole 16a and the gasket through-hole 17a allow the rod body 20 to pass therethrough.
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[0098] The press rod 2 can rebound to the press-down initial position shown in
[0099] When used for the first time, the cap 3 is pressed down, so as to drive the press rod 2 to move down, and the air in the contents chamber 11a is pushed by the piston member 13 and discharged out through the liquid guide channel 131a and the discharge channel 20a.
[0100] Once the cap 3 is released, the press rod 2 rebounds to the position before pressed by the external force since the first gas chamber 12a is at a negative pressure state. Since the piston portion 21 and the rod body 20 are connected by the connecting portion 22, and the liquid guide tube 131 of the piston member 13 is mounted and inserted into the bottom of the rod body 20 and is connected with the inner wall of the rod body 20 in a sealing manner, the rebounding of the press rod 2 causes the piston member 13 to move upward inside the outer housing 11, such that a negative pressure occurs in the contents chamber 11a, and the first one-way valve body 14 is sucked up by the negative pressure to open the contents inlet 11b of the outer housing 11, and at the same time, the negative pressure causes the contents 800 in the container body 91 to enter the contents chamber 11a through the extension pipe 92.
[0101] When the cap 3 is re-pressed down, the piston member 13 connected to the rod body 20 compresses the contents chamber 11a downward inside the outer housing 11, such that the contents 800 enters the cap 3 via the liquid guide channel 131a of the liquid guide tube 131 and the discharge channel 20a of the rod body 20, and is pumped out from the outlet of the cap 3.
[0102] This disclosure has been disclosed as above in the preferred embodiments, but it is not intended to limit this disclosure, and any possible changes and modifications may be made by the skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of this disclosure. Therefore, any modification, equivalent variations, and embellishments to the above embodiments, without departing from the content of the technical solution of this disclosure or in accordance with the technical essence of this disclosure, are all incorporated in the protection scope defined in the claims of this disclosure.