Dispensing device for dispensing scents

US6581915B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The Procter & Gamble Company · US

Inventors

• Eric Richard Bartsch · Cincinnati, US
• Stephan Gary Bush · Monroe, US
• Brice Daniel Westring · Loveland, US
• Grover Owens · Lancaster, US
• Frank Kvietok · Cincinnati, US
• Michael Sean Farrell · Terrace Park, US
• Christophe Laudemiel-Pellet · New York, US
• Pedro Antonio Rodriguez · Sanibel, US
• Toan Trinh · Maineville, US
• Kevin Goodall · Tervuren, BE
• Carl-Eric Kaiser · Cincinnati, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 5, 2000
• Grant date: Jun 24, 2003
• Expiry date: Dec 5, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S261/89
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A dispensing device for dispensing scents into the environment is disclosed. In one embodiment, the dispensing device is used in conjunction with an article of manufacture which contains one or more scents or aromatic materials. In such an embodiment, the dispensing device can include a housing and a removable, reusable/replayable, closed, multiple scent-containing article of manufacture which is removably inserted into or onto said housing.