VALVE, CONTAINER FOR RECEIVING AND/OR MIXING FLUIDS, USE OF A CONTAINER AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING AND/OR MIXING FLUIDS

Abstract

It is provided a valve, particularly for a bowl and/or a bottle for receiving and/or mixing fluids, comprising a vent for injecting a fluid, wherein the vent comprises an inlet connected to a discharge opening via a discharge channel, a flexible diaphragm for covering the discharge opening of the vent, wherein the flexible diaphragm comprises a holding collar for receiving a measuring cylinder, particularly in a press-fitted manner, and a fastening means for loss-proof receiving the flexible diaphragm between the fastening means and the vent , wherein the fastening means is releasably connected to the vent, wherein the vent comprises a support collar supporting the holding collar, wherein the holding collar comprises a sealing rim protruding mainly radially outwards, wherein the sealing rim is arranged between the fastening means and the support collar and is in sealing contact to the fastening means.

Claims

1. Valve, particularly for a bowl and/or a bottle for receiving and/or mixing fluids, comprising a vent for injecting a fluid, wherein the vent comprises an inlet connected to a discharge opening via a discharge channel, a flexible diaphragm for covering the discharge opening, wherein the flexible diaphragm comprises a holding collar for receiving a measuring cylinder, in a press-fitted manner, and a fastening means for loss-proof receiving the flexible diaphragm between the fastening means and the vent, wherein the fastening means is releasably connected to the vent, wherein the vent comprises a support collar supporting the holding collar, wherein the holding collar comprises a sealing rim protruding mainly radially outwards, wherein the sealing rim is arranged between the fastening means and the support collar and is in sealing contact to the fastening means.

2. Valve according to claim 1 wherein the sealing rim provides a spring force for being pressed against the fastening means.

3. Valve according to claim 1 wherein the fastening means comprises a stop face abutting the vent at a relative position where the fastening means is arranged spaced to the support collar in axial direction of the support collar.

4. Valve according to claim 1 wherein the fastening means comprises a sealing surface pointing to an axial front face of the support collar, wherein the sealing rim of the flexible diaphragm contacts the sealing surface.

5. Valve according to claim 1 wherein the flexible diaphragm comprises an outer collar protruding from the sealing rim towards the vent, wherein the holding collar, the sealing rim and the outer collar constitutes a mainly ring shaped pocket into which the support collar of the vent is inserted.

6. Valve according to claim 1 wherein the vent comprises a fastening element releasably connected to the fastening means of a screw connection or a snap connection, wherein the fastening means is radially spaced to the flexible diaphragm at least over the height of the support collar.

7. Valve according to claim 1 wherein the holding collar of the flexible diaphragm is releasably press-fitted inserted into the support collar.

8. Valve according to claim 1 wherein the vent comprises a, particularly convex, bottom forming the discharge opening, wherein the flexible diaphragm is pressed between the fastening means and the bottom.

9. Container, particularly a bowl and/or a bottle, for receiving and/or mixing fluids, particularly a hair tinting means, comprising a vessel for receiving and/or mixing the fluids, the vessel comprising a rigid vessel body for bordering a use volume, a stand adapted to be placed below the vessel for placing the vessel onto a ground and a valve according to claim 1 for injecting a fluid into a measuring cylinder and/or into the use volume.

10. Container according to claim 9 wherein the fastening means is one-piece with the vessel body and/or the vent is one-piece with the stand.

11. Container according to claim 9, wherein the measuring cylinder is received by the holding collar (34), in a press-fitted manner.

12. (canceled)

13. Method for receiving and/or mixing fluids, particularly a hair tinting means, comprising the steps of providing a Container according to claim 9, wherein the vessel is connected with the stand, connecting the vent of the stand with a discharge stem of an aerosol can and/or a pump dispenser, subsequently injecting a fluid of the aerosol can and/or the pump dispenser into the vessel via the valve of the container, subsequently mixing and/or applying the at least one fluid located inside the vessel, subsequently detaching the vessel from the stand and detaching the flexible diaphragm from the vessel and the stand and subsequently cleaning the vessel, the flexible diaphragm and the stand separately from each other.

14. Method according to claim 13 wherein the vessel, the flexible diaphragm and the stand are cleaned at different times and/or different places.

Description

[0034] These and other aspects of the invention will be apparent from and elucidated with reference to the embodiments described hereinafter, wherein the described features can constitute each solely or in combination an independent aspect of the invention. In the drawings:

[0035] FIG. 1 is a sectional side view of a bowl in a disassembled state,

[0036] FIG. 2: is a sectional side view of the bowl of FIG. 1 in an assembled state and

[0037] FIG. 3: is a detailed view of the bowl of FIG. 2.

[0038] The container as illustrated in FIG. 1 designed as a bowl 10 comprises, particularly consists of, a vessel 12, a stand 14 and a flexible diaphragm 16 arranged between the vessel 12 and the stand 14. The vessel comprises a vessel body 18 which is one-piece with a fastening means 20 which can be screwed to a fastening element 22 of the stand 14. The stand is one-piece with a vent 24 comprising an inlet 26 connected to a discharge opening 28 via a discharge channel 30. The discharge opening 28 is located at the top of a convex part of a bottom 32 of the vent 24. The vent 24 and the flexible diaphragm 16 may be loss-proof connected with each other by means of the fastening means 20 to that a, particularly unidirectional, valve 33 is constituted.

[0039] The discharge opening 28 can be closed by the flexible diaphragm 16 as illustrated in FIG. 2. When a sufficient pressure is applied to the discharge channel 30 the flexible diaphragm 16 may be lifted from the discharge opening 28 so that a fluid may flow through the discharge opening 28 and windows located in the material of the flexible diaphragm 16 towards the vessel 18, particularly into a measuring cylinder received by a holding collar 34 of the flexible diaphragm 16. The holding collar 34 is releasably press-fitted received by a support collar 36 of the vent 24. A sealing rim 38 protrudes radially outwards from the upper end of the holding collar 34 contacting a sealing surface 40 of the fastening means 20 from below with a spring force. Since the fastening means 20 abuts the bottom 32 of the vent 24 via a stop 42 provided by an axial front face of the fastening means 20 the sealing surface 40 of the fastening means 20 is located such spaced to the support collar 36 that the sealing rim 38 is not clamped between the sealing surface 40 and the support collar 36 and can contact the sealing surface 40 with a defined spring force. An outer collar 44 protrudes downwards from the sealing rim 38 so that a ring-shaped pocket 46 is provided into which the support collar 36 may be inserted.

[0040] As illustrated in FIG. 3 a distance d between the sealing surface 40 of the fastening means 20 to the support collar 36 of the vent 24 is larger than an axial thickness t of sealing rim 38 of the flexible diaphragm 16.