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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7331944 | Ophthalmic dispenser and associated method An ophthalmic dispenser has a rigid housing defining a fluid-receiving chamber, a flexible bladder receivable within the fluid-receiving chamber, a pump coupled in fluid communication with the fluid-receiving chamber, and a nozzle having a valve defining an annular,... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7229966 | Compositions and methods for enhanced mucosal delivery of Y2 receptor-binding peptides and methods for treating and preventing obesity Pharmaceutical compositions and methods are described comprising at least one Y2 receptor-binding peptide, such as peptide YY(PYY), Neuropeptide Y (NPY) or Pancreatic Peptide (PP) and one or more mucosal delivery-enhancing agents for enhanced nasal mucosal delivery ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7191916 | Device for dispensing fluid medicine A dispensing device for fluid medicine includes a housing having an opening leading to an interior and a plastic dropper bottle at least partially disposed in the interior through the opening. The bottle has a container holding fluid medicine to be dispensed and a n... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7086616 | Broadcast spreader attachment for hand-held gas or electric leaf blowers A broadcast spreader attachment for a powered leaf blower for dispensing large dry particulates. The attachment typically includes an elongate main tube having opposite intake and discharge ends. A secondary smaller tube is affixed to and in fluid communication with... | 08/08/2006 |
| 6945438 | Pesticide spraying cart Provided is a pesticide spraying cart. In one embodiment, the comprises a pesticide tank, a retractable handle, two wheels, a recess provided between the wheels, a longitudinal hose compartment provided in a rear of the tank, a coil hose adapted to either extend out... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6814265 | Device for dispensing fluid medicine A device for dispensing fluid medicine includes a housing having an opening leading to an interior, a first aperture, and a second aperture. The device also includes a plastic dropper bottle at least partially disposed in the interior through the opening. The bottle... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6715697 | Device for dispensing a fluid product and method of dispensing a fluid product A device for dispensing a fluid product includes a reservoir configured to contain a fluid product and a spray orifice associated with the reservoir. The reservoir may include at least one actuating zone having a predetermined threshold resistance to deformation. Th... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6691892 | Granular pump A granular pump that includes a dispersion reservoir, a primary reservoir, a manual air pump, and a one-way valve. The user aims the granular pump in the direction of the area to be sprayed with the granular material contained in the granular pump and operates... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6663019 | Sampling-type spraying device A dispenser device is provided for dispensing a fluid substance in spray form. The dispenser device comprising a reservoir containing the fluid to be dispensed and a spray orifice. The reservoir includes at least one actuating wall that can be deformed by... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6569407 | Compositions containing a polycondensate comprising at least one polyurethane and/or polyurea unit and a silicone comprising at least one carboxylic function The invention relates to hair compositions comprising, in a cosmetically acceptable medium, a polycondensate comprising at least one polyurethane and/or polyurea unit and a silicone comprising at least one carboxylic function. The invention is also direct... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6460781 | Sampling-type spraying device A dispenser device is provided for dispensing a fluid substance in spray form. The dispenser device comprises a reservoir containing the fluid to be dispensed and a spray orifice. The reservoir includes at least one actuating wall that can be deformed by ... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6290145 | Spray unit that atomizes liquid at the start of the spray operation A spray unit that is attached to an opening at a neck portion of a container for spraying a liquid material in the container, including: a cylinder unit composed of a large-diameter air cylinder and a small-diameter liquid cylinder having a valve hole and... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6216966 | Dispensing devices An electrostatic spraying device comprising a nozzle, means for establishing a column of material to be sprayed within a passage leading to the nozzle outlet such that the leading surface of the column is spaced from the nozzle outlet, means for pneumatic... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6026992 | Media dispenser A dispenser (1,1a) provides for filling a dosing chamber (15,15a) by gravity and then emptying it by closing an inlet valve (39,39a), by opening an outlet valve (40,40a) and by shortening the dosing chamber (15,15a) with the assistance of air flow through... | 02/22/2000 |
| 6010478 | Trans-mucosal particle delivery A needleless syringe capable of accelerating particles comprising a therapeutic agent across skin or mucosal tissue of a vertebrate subject is provided. The syringe comprises an elongate tubular nozzle having a bend along its length and is connected to or... | 01/04/2000 |
| 5899880 | Needleless syringe using supersonic gas flow for particle delivery A needleless syringe having a membrane which is ruptured by gas pressure to generate a supersonic gas flow in which particles containing a therapeutic agent are injected.... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5894967 | Squeeze dispenser for powder A powder dispenser includes a resilient container for storing a powder and a volume of air therein. The powder has properties which enable a portion of the volume of air to fluidize a portion of the powder when the resilient container is sufficiently defo... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5770159 | Pipette for dispensing successive volumes of liquid The invention relates to a pipette for dispensing successive volumes of liquid by repeated action on a pusher (22). A drive lever (26) is provided to drive a pushrod (15) and a piston rod (5) downwards only. The lever (26) extends transversely to the long... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5752627 | Pump-type mixing and spraying device A pump-type device for distributing or spraying a product has first and second chambers which receive the product and a distribution fluid (gas), respectively. First and second pistons pressurize the product and the distribution fluid in the chambers as t... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5570686 | Powder dispenser A dispenser provides pulmonary delivery of a powder dose to a subject. The dispenser is adapted to be brought into connection with an actuator which introduces an amount of a gas for dispensing the powder dose. The dispenser includes a chamber for receivi... | 11/05/1996 |
| 5513630 | Powder dispenser A dispenser provides pulmonary delivery of a powder dose to a subject. The dispenser is adapted to be brought into connection with an actuator which introduces an amount of a gas for dispensing the powder dose. The dispenser includes a chamber for receivi... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5395032 | Dispenser for media A dispenser for dispensing a single dose of a powder medium is incorporated in an essentially hermetically sealed medium chamber with an essentially hermetically sealed compressed air pump. The pump chamber can be opened to the medium chamber through an i... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5366122 | Dispenser for flowable media In a discharge apparatus (1) on a basic body (8) is provided a pneumatic pump (19) and axially adjacent thereto a casing chamber (14) for receiving a magazine (15) for individual doses of a pulverulent or similar medium, whose magazine chamber (30) can be... | 11/22/1994 |
| 5350116 | Dispensing apparatus An actuator for a liquid spray pump is provided with a skirt which co-operates with a body of the pump to compress a volume of air during pump actuation. Air compressed by this action is ejected from an air injection channel in the vicinity of a liquid sp... | 09/27/1994 |
| 5341801 | Inhaler An inhaler for delivering metered doses of a particulate drug. The inhaler is formed of a housing, a drug reservoir attached to the housing to contain multiple doses of the particulate drug, a drug transporting slide in the housing that contains a meterin... | 08/30/1994 |
| 5328099 | Compressed gas device for spraying a single dose of a fluid substance in finely divided form A compressed gas device is disclosed for spraying a single dose of a fluid substance in finely divided form. The device comprises a tank containing the single dose having an inlet orifice for compressed gas, and an outlet orifice. The device further compr... | 07/12/1994 |
| 5323936 | Media dispenser for dispensing a dosed medium in a gas flow For the manual discharge of a pulverulent medium a discharge apparatus (1) has an air pump (9), whose compressed air flow receives the powder medium via an injector (37) and a turbulence chamber (38) from a dosing mechanism (25) automatically refillable f... | 06/28/1994 |
| 5289952 | Device for dispensing foam, and push-button for a device of this kind The device comprises a pump (10) for delivering a liquid with a foaming agent from a container (R). The displacement of a rigid push-button (14) causes a variation in the volume of an annular chamber (13), and a return air inlet valve (22) allows for the ... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5188295 | Manually adjustable spray applicator A spray applicator to discharge plaster or another texturizing material in a spray pattern against a wall surface or the like. There is a manually operable air cylinder and piston assembly which discharges pressurized air through a first nozzle, with an a... | 02/23/1993 |
| 5105995 | Gas assist unit dose dispenser Dispensing apparatus incorporates a pressurized liquid metering reservoir and associated manually operable dispensing valve and a pressurized gas metering reservoir and associated manually operable valve respectively connecting the reservoirs to a common ... | 04/21/1992 |
| 5102052 | Fluid spray device A manually operable spray pump with a double-action pump and a detachable fluid reservoir. A pump cylinder has valves at each end to admit air into one of two pump chambers formed by a piston and means to simultaneously force air from the other chamber do... | 04/07/1992 |
| 5100029 | Self-purging actuator An actuator for a dispensing pump is disclosed that pressurizes air and releases the air into an internal fluid passage to mix with, and aerate, fluid dispensed from the dispensing pump and expels residual fluid. The actuator has a body portion, an actuat... | 03/31/1992 |
| 5069390 | Manually adjustable spray applicator A spray applicator to discharge plaster or another texturizing material in a spray pattern against a wall surface or the like. There is a manually operated air cylinder and piston assembly which discharges pressurized air through a first nozzle, with an a... | 12/03/1991 |
| 4955545 | Manually adjustable spray applicator A spray applicator to discharge plaster or another texturizing material in a spray pattern against a wall surface or the like. There is a manually operated air cylinder and piston assembly which discharges pressurized air through a first nozzle, with an a... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4955412 | Apparatus for injecting confetti into a balloon The present invention relates to an apparatus for simultaneously injecting confetti and air into a balloon by utilizing an air pump in conjunction with a separate container for storing confetti and guiding the air flow provided by the air pump. As the pum... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4884600 | Oil nozzle apparatus and method An oil nozzle allows for oil to be poured into an engine without the spillage and waste commonly accompanying oil pouring from conventional threaded containers. By use of the tightening member a threaded oil container is attached to the oil nozzle in its ... | 12/05/1989 |
| 4722459 | Device for dispensing at least one viscous product in dosed quantities The dispenser device in accordance with the invention comprises a tubular barrel filled with the product, a nose having a dispenser orifice, possibly closed by a detachable cap, a plunger and a pump assembly for pressurizing the product to be dispensed. T... | 02/02/1988 |
| 4225065 | Powder sprayer A powder sprayer is described having a barrel or cylinder of synthetic plastic material with an interior baffle cup preferably adhesively secured in the cylinder and closed by a cup closure plate, a check valve being carried therein, the cup bounding a po... | 09/30/1980 |
| 4214677 | Spray dispensing container A dispenser having a reciprocating pump to feed a liquid product to a mixing chamber and an air pump with a piston to simultaneously compress and feed compressed air to the mixing chamber. The body containing the mixing chamber is mounted on the product p... | 07/29/1980 |
| 4204645 | General purpose compression-type sprayer A compression-type spray device employing a single nozzle can be used to spray materials varying widely in density, composition and particle size. The device incorporates an air-and-material mix control using variably exposed slots in the nozzle to regula... | 05/27/1980 |
