Compact spray device

US7837065B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• S. C. JOHNSON & SON, INC. · US

Inventors

• Paul E. Furner · Racine, US
• Thomas P. Gasper · Germantown, US
• Chris A. Kubicek · East Troy, US
• Leon M. Lemon · Mendon, US
• Brent D. Madsen · Providence, US
• Nathan R. Westphal · Union Grove, US
• Kenneth W. Michaels · McHenry, US
• Cory J. Nelson · Racine, US
• M. Scott Carpenter · Racine, US
• Michael E. Short · Racine, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 11, 2005
• Grant date: Nov 23, 2010
• Expiry date: Jun 18, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B05B11/1053
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

An automatic discharge device comprises a housing adapted to receive a container therein. An actuator arm is attached to the housing and movable between first and second positions. The actuator arm includes a dispensing bore therein. A drive unit is provided for automatically moving the actuator arm into one of the first and second positions in response to a signal from at least one of a timer, a sensor, and a manual switch. The actuator arm is adapted to engage and actuate a nozzle of the container in the first position and allow a fluid disposed in an interior of the container to be dispensed through the nozzle and the dispensing bore of the actuator arm.