Media dispenser having parts with shear faces for facilitating assembly

Information

  • Patent Grant
  • 6257461
  • Patent Number
    6,257,461
  • Date Filed
    Tuesday, March 23, 1999
    25 years ago
  • Date Issued
    Tuesday, July 10, 2001
    23 years ago
Abstract
Two components (2, 3) of a medium dispenser are initially injection molded from a plastics material in one part so as to form a stamp die (6) and a punching ram (7) while being interconnected only by ultra-fine joints (4, 30). The component (3) forming the ram (7) is then linearly displaced in direction (12) into the other component (2) by pressure loading. Thus the joint (4, 30) is severed analogous to shear cutting. This results in very simple production with precisely the same material quality of both components (2, 3).
Description




TECHNICAL FIELD AND BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION




The invention relates to media dispensers and to methods for producing a dispenser unit or other workpiece. Such media may be pellets or fluid media, such as gaseous, liquid, pasty, creamy or powdery, i.e. trickling media. The dispenser is held single-handedly and actuated simultaneously by the same hand to discharge the medium. It may be provided merely for a single medium discharge or for any number of repeated discharges, e.g. by it automatically returning to its initial or rest position after each discharge. Most or all components of the dispenser are composed of plastics or as injection-molded parts insensitive to the medium.




Usually the cooperating and thus complicated components of the dispenser are produced separately and then assembled, involving corresponding expenditure. This often also applies when the components are produced in one part and then dismembered before being assembled. It is therefore advantageous to produce or cast the components integral as a module, to then avoid dismembering and to directly transfer the components from their mutual production posture or casting position into their mutual operating posture. In this positon the components are either mutually movable, i.e. able to assume numerous operating positions or they may be rigidly interconnected. When so produced, fragments or ridges of the severed joint or nominal severing point may interfere, e.g. by damaging the guiding faces or others with their division faces when transferring the two components. Also the division or fracture faces may have differing, for example, jagged shapes for which a corresponding accommodating space needs to be created in the operating posture.




OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION




An object of the invention is to provide a dispenser or a method for producing a module which obviates the disadvantages of prior art constructions or as described. Another object is to achieve the cited advantages. A further object is to achieve precisely definable parting faces when severing the joint. A still further object is to permit simple production. Another object is to make the dispenser functionally reliable.




SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION




According to the invention the severable joint between the two components is separated by shearing or any other equivalent disconnecting procedure. Thereby the cutting force flow in the joint while being severed leads to a crack-free or smooth parting face without release of particles because of slight plastification of the connecting material. This is particularly assured when the maximum transverse strain reaches only the yield point of the connecting material. Contrary thereto the parting face may be grainy and rough in a stress condition in which the higher shear breaking limit is reached. It is particularly simple to achieve this shear cutting when the two components are configured like the punch and die of a stamp.




The invention is suitable for numerous components of a dispenser or other workpieces. For example, the components may be two casing parts, such as a main casing and a cover of a pressure cylinder, pump, valve, piston unit, discharge head or the like or two valve elements. Furthermore, the components may be sections of a medium duct. The components may be divided or reciprocally transferable into the operating posture transverse respective parallel to their axis.




The invention is particularly useful for an outlet or nozzle unit, the nested components or nozzle bodies of which serve to transversely deflect the medium once or more times. Reference is made to U.S. Ser. No. 794,983 (filed: Feb. 5, 1997) for including the features and effects in the present invention.




The connecting member joining the two components in the first position, namely in production, is a projection directly connecting in one part to two smooth and mutually angular faces of the two components. The connecting member extends up to the common corner zone of these faces and connects these faces via an inclined surface which may be planar, concave or convex. Cross-sectionally this projection is thus triangular or isosceleous. The legs of the projection adjoin the cited flange facings of the two components.




The connecting member is spaced from one or both remote faces of the individual component, which transversely adjoin the associated flange or connecting face. Thus no ruptured faces occur when severed at these faces. The edges commonly formed by these faces and the connecting face may, however, in the casting state directly adjoin the associated edges of the other component similar to a microthin joint. This joint has, as compared to the connecting member, significantly less strength, such as shear strength, so that it may be parted by shearing or shear cutting practically without additional need of force and may be already parted when the connecting member is not yet entirely severed. Only a single connecting member is or opposing connecting members are provided on two mutually opposing sides. Such connecting members are absent on the sides oriented transverse thereto which may only have the microthin joints. The microthin joint may thus be arcuated or annularly closed. Thereby interconnected edges of the two components extend directly up to each other at a sharp angle. Thus in cross-section the associated internal surface of the one component transits linearly into the associated external surface of the other component at the butt joint of these two edges.




The largest cross-section of the connecting member measures less than two, one, half or two-tenths of a millimeter. The length of the cited joining legs may be e.g. a tenth of a millimeter. Over its length the connecting member has constant cross-sections. This length too amounts less than one of the values cited, particularly a third of a millimeter. Thus the latter length is greater than all cross-sectional edge dimensions of the connecting member. A suitable material is polyethene or a material having similar properties.




For operationally positionally securing the components catch or snap members are provided. When attaining the operating posture these members resiliently snap back into mutual positive engagement. Prior to attaining this working or operating posture these members mutually resiliently urge each other back. Thereby only one snap member may be resilient whilst the other remains rigidly positioned.




In the operating posture the individual component may also be positionally secured by abutting on the other component. This stop can act counter the locking action of the catch member. The stop of the one component comes into engaging contact with the other component only on a very last and small portion of the entire displacement path.




The adjoining corner edges of the two components or the associated microjoint may also not be annular, i.e., interrupted along an edge which is non-angled continuous. Correspondingly, the guide opening serving as the cutting socket or die may be cross-sectinally open on this side, i.e. in the casting state thus that the internally received component is not at all guided on this side over a first portion of the displacement path and then enters a guiding part which positively guides the component also on this side. In a transverse view this guiding side may be overlapped on the left and right by guide projections, whilst being freely exposed inbetween. Thus a medium passage is formed between the guide projections. This passage emanates from the opposite guiding face of the receiving component and traverses the received component, namely straight. The medium can flow along between these guiding faces of the two components.




In a preferred arrangement the connecting member is left only on a sole of the components, after severing, particularly on the received component. The division face of the other component then serves over the full displacement path firstly as a sliding face and then for positionally holding the counter component by permanently resting on this member in the operating posture. For this and the other effects cited the cold-flow properties of the material used are selected accordingly. The largest and smallest edge or width dimensions, as measured transverse to the shifting direction at the connecting zone of the received component, may be at the most thirty, twenty, ten or five millimeters, and at least five, three, two millimeters or one millimeter. This component may thus form a tab which is non-destructively flexibly or elastically bendable. In the operating posture this component is then stiffened by the other component to be non-bendable. The smallest width of a medium duct traversing each of the components may be less than three, two, one or half a millimeter or may be conical at an angle of less than 5° or 20°. Thus this duct is suitable as an atomizing nozzle which either forms the medium outlet directly porting to the environment or is spaced upstream therefrom.




A method according to the invention includes casting or molding the components in one part in an injection mold whereafter they remain continually mutually interconnected but are transferred from the first postion or casting state directly into a second position or operating posture. Instead of being produced in a continuously common mold cavity, the two components may also be produced in separate mold cavities or without direct interconnection, whereafter the components are transferred into the first position and from there into the second position.











BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS




Example embodiments of the invention are explained in more detail in the following and illustrated in the drawings in which:





FIG. 1

is a module according to the invention in an axial cross-section through a discharge or actuating head when in the casting state,





FIG. 2

is the module of

FIG. 1

in a partial cross-sectional view from below,





FIG. 3

is the module of

FIG. 1

in plan view,





FIG. 4

is an enlarged detail of

FIG. 1

with the operating posture indicated in dot-dashed lines,





FIG. 5

is the detail of

FIG. 4

in a view from the left,





FIG. 6

is a further enlarged detail of FIG.


5


.











DETAILED DESCRIPTION




All parts of the module shown in

FIG. 1

are made in one part, particularly the components


2


,


3


and namely the cup-shaped discharge or actuating head


2


of the piston unit of a pump of the aforementioned type and the second component


3


to be received by component


2


. What is said for each individual component


2


and


3


may also apply for the other component. In the first position or casting state part


3


protrudes in a way totally free beyond component


2


to which it is immovably connected only by a tacking, nominal severing point or joint


4


. Only after joint


4


has been severed or destroyed part


3


may be displaced relative to part


2


until its outermost faces adjoin the associated outermost faces of part


2


flush and without gaps to form an uninterrupted continuation of these faces.




An assembly or shear guide


5


on part


2


directly connects to and partly receives tacking


4


. Assembly reception


5


serves for displacing part


3


and has a first length section forming a die


6


corresponding to a stamp tool. The leading end of part


3


directly and solely adjoining die


6


is the associated slide or punching ram


7


. Thus tacking


4


is smoothly sheared off with the start of the mutual motion. Guide


5


is directly juxtaposed with the inside of outermost shell


8


of part


2


. An inner shell


9


freely and codirectionally protrudes within shell


8


while being radially spaced from shell


8


. Shell


9


is shorter or set back relative to shell


8


and serves to firmly seat the shaft of a piston unit which is traversed by an outlet duct porting into shell


9


. The center axis


10


of part


2


is then the center axis of the pump. The medium emerges out of part


2


to the open in an axis


11


oriented at right angles transverse to axis


10


.




For being transferred into the second position or operating posture part


3


is linearly shifted parallel to axis


10


in direction


12


, namely counter the flow direction in shell


9


, until the outlet axis attains second position


11


from first position


11


′. In the first position as well as in the second and all other positions located inbetween part


3


is guided on part


2


with zero transverse clearance as referred to direction


12


, though a transverse clearance of maximally two or one tenth of a millimeter may be included. Thus the mutual positions of parts


2


,


3


are precisely defined over the full travel or displacement path


15


. In the casting position parts


2


,


3


interconnect in a plane


16


oriented at right angles transverse to direction


12


. Joint


4


extends beyond plane


16


in direction


12


only by the cited edge dimension of connecting members. Middle plane


17


is oriented at right angles transverse to plane


16


or parallel to axis


11


,


11


′ which is parallel to plane


16


. Plane


16


is an axial plane of axes


10


,


11


or a plane of symmetry of part


2


or


3


. In

FIG. 4

a part of the tool


18


,


19


respective injection mold or of the tool pulls is shown in dash-dotted lines. In

FIG. 4

is likewise shown the second postion of part


3


in which parts


2


,


3


are mutually postionally secured by securing or locking means


20


.




Guide


5


is in cross-section flat and rectangular. Thus guide


5


is bounded by four guide faces


21


to


24


interconnecting at right angles and each located in a single plane. With each of these faces a corresponding slide or guide face


25


to


28


of flat plate


7


is associated to serve as a counter face. Each of faces


25


to


28


is likewise uninterruptedly located in a single plane. Two remote faces are entirely parallel edge faces


25


,


26


. The two other faces are the large plate surfaces


27


,


28


. All faces


25


to


28


connect to a leading front or breast face


29


facing in direction


12


. Face


29


is the frontmost edge face of the punch


7


.




The edges formed by faces


21


to


24


in plane


16


form a continuous and uninterrupted sharp edge. This shearing edge is connected in one part and in plane


16


to the sharp edges formed by faces


25


to


29


via a microjoint


30


belonging to the nominal severing point. Joint


30


has a thickness of less than one or half of a tenth of a millimeter. Additionally to tacking


30


the joint


4


has only two connections opposing each other. These connections or members


31


protrude maximally 1 ½ tenth of a millimeter beyond the inner face


21


,


22


or face


29


and connect to each of faces


21


,


22


,


29


in one part. From the cited edges of punch


7


the faces


25


to


28


form edges


32


to


35


commonly with face


29


. Each member


31


forms a continuation of one of edges


25


,


26


and in direction


12


decreasingly protrudes beyond the associated face


21


or


22


. Member


31


connects in one part to this face


21


or


22


continuously with a joining face


36


. Member


31


connects to face


29


with a likewise continuous face


37


. Thus joining legs of equal lengths


36


,


37


are formed. Member


31


is rectangularly triangular in cross-section and forms a planar base edge


38


directly connecting faces


21


,


29


respective


22


,


29


. Faces


32


to


34


,


36


provide connecting zones.




Face


24


faces axis


10


and is U-shaped when seen in direction


13


. For that face


24


is formed by a corresponding projection


39


of part


2


. Thus part


3


is guided with face


28


only along marginal strips which connect to faces


25


,


26


and


29


. These strips also hold face


28


in the operating posture. For translation into the operating posture part


2


has a pressure face


40


which faces away from face


29


. Face


40


is formed by the trailing end remotest from joint


4


. Except for penetrations and a thickening


41


the part


7


has continuously constant peripheral cross-sections. Thickening


41


is a protrusion


42


facing away from axis


10


toward the outer circumference of part


2


. Protrusion


42


forms the significantly shorter leg of angular plate


3


. Protrusion


42


juts only beyond face


28


and forms by its inside a stop


43


which faces joint


4


. Part


2


forms between faces


21


,


22


a recessed pocket


44


which connects to plane


16


in direction


12


. Pocket


44


completely receives projection


42


. For this purpose the side legs of protuberance


39


are spacedly set back from plane


16


in direction


12


so that their free ends form the pocket bottom or a counterstop


45


for stop


43


. In the operating posture face


40


is located in plane


16


. The sides


25


,


26


of the projection


42


then smoothly adjoin the side faces


21


,


22


of pocket


44


without gaps.




Locking means


20


include snap members


46


,


47


which while attaining the operating posture are countersunk within part


2


and resiliently snap back into interengagement to then positively backclasp each other. Locking member


46


of part


2


is located at the inside of shell


8


, at the end of guide


5


and in junction to face


24


which is farer spaced from axis


10


. Member


46


is formed by an internal or shoulder face oriented transverse to direction


12


. Locking member


47


of part


3


protrudes counter direction


12


increasingly beyond face


28


, adjoins face


29


or edge


35


but not joint


30


and forms by its thickest zone a securing edge for contacting catch shoulder


46


. A corresponding member


47


could also protrude beyond face


27


. The ends of member


31


are laterally spaced from the respective opposing face


23


or


24


by at least one tenth of a millimeter. The length of member


31


between faces


23


,


24


is at least twice as large as the length of legs


36


,


37


.




Plane


16


is defined by the outside of an end wall


48


from which shells


8


,


9


freely project in one part only in direction


12


. This outside is the pressure handle for actuating the dispenser. The outside of shell


9


, the inside of shell


8


and the inside of end wall


48


are interconnected via a projection


49


which is traversed by guide


5


closer to shell


8


than to shell


9


and entirely receives part


3


in the operating position. Then part


3


protrudes according

FIG. 4

with members


31


,


47


over the transverse web


46


,


49


in direction


12


. Projection


49


also forms member


46


. Member


49


forms the longer part of guide


5


in junction to opening


6


which traverses wall


48


. This longer part is then bounded only by faces


23


,


24


but not by faces


21


,


22


, since projection


49


has in this portion a width which is equal to the spacing between faces


25


,


26


. Thus faces


25


,


26


are freely exposed in this portion when in the operating posture. Member


47


is located between faces


25


,


26


and can pass without contact between the side legs of protrusion


39


. Projection


49


is T-shaped in axial view of FIG.


2


. The cross web of this T is traversed by guide


5


and the T-foot adjoins shell


9


.




Part


3


forms the dispenser's medium outlet


50


directly issuing into the environment. Outlet


50


is spaced from and located between the side legs of the protrusion


39


. The interior of shell


9


forms a medium duct


51


of circular cross-section. Duct


51


transits at the bottom or at the inside of wall


48


into a constricted transverse groove


52


and is to be connected to the outlet duct of the piston shaft. The radially acting guide groove


52


adjoins a transverse duct


53


oriented radially to axis


10


. Duct


53


traverses projection


49


up to face


23


. In the operating position duct


53


sealingly adjoins face


27


or opening


50


. Duct


53


is then eccentric to axis


11


in being closer to plane


16


.




Plate


7


is traversed by a duct


54


with a spacing from and at a location between faces


25


,


26


and faces


29


,


43


. Duct


54


is conically flared in or counter flow direction and has a diameter of less than one or half a micrometer. Duct


54


is bounded in one part by plate


7


and forms in plane


17


the nozzle duct of an atomizer nozzle by having sharp end edges. A shallow spherical cup recess


55


is provided in face


27


. In face


28


a corresponding spherical cup recess


56


is provided, which has the same depth but significantly greater width. Duct


54


is two to four times longer than this depth or twice thereof. The ends of duct


54


connect to the centers of dishes


55


,


56


.




Guide means for the medium are associated with outlet


50


and connect to the upstream end of duct


54


to provide a swirler which urges the medium into a rotational flow about axis


11


while guiding the medium with this rotation directly into duct


54


. For this purpose guide recesses


57


to


59


are provided only in face


23


or, where necessary, also only in face


27


or in both faces. The width or depth of recesses


57


to


59


are less than two, one or half a millimeter. In axis


11


a circularly annular recess


57


is included. Within chamber


57


a central circular cup recess


58


is provided. Plural, particularly at least three, transverse or tangential ducts


59


are uniformly distributed about axis


11


and connect recess


57


tangentially to swirl chamber


58


. All recesses


57


to


59


have a common planar bottom face. The width of ducts


59


is smaller than the width or breadth of recesses


57


,


58


. The breadth of recess


57


is smaller than the width of chamber


58


. Duct


53


issues directly only into duct


57


, namely circumferentially spaced from and between two ducts


59


. The width of chamber


58


is the same as the width of recess


50


so that they are operationally coincident. The medium thus flows out of duct


53


between faces


23


,


27


initially only in opposite circumferential directions into duct


57


before then flowing via ducts


59


radially inwards into chamber


58


.




In production the unit


1


is injection molded in die


18


,


19


. Then, a die segment


18


molding face


43


and an adjoining portion of face


28


is retracted whilst the remaining die segments which mold faces


25


to


28


remain in place or are lifted only briefly for loosening before then being returned to their casting position. Simultaneously the die segment which molds guide


5


, face


29


and members


31


is retracted to free guide


5


. With a tool punch, for example the die segment molding face


40


, the face


40


is then urged in direction


12


until joint


30


and legs


36


are sheared off in the plane of faces


21


,


22


analogous to shear-cutting. Thereby the cutting edges are formed by the U-shaped edge


32


to


34


and the corresponding U-shaped edge of opening


6


. This edge is located in plane


16


. The die segment molding member


47


, pocket


44


and the gap between the side legs of the protrusion


39


may thereby also be slightly retracted to allow member


47


to pass without damage. The sheared-off members


31


remain totally on face


29


whilst the associated parting or division faces


36


serve to guide faces


25


,


26


which do not form a free angle but define throughout a cutting clearance tending to zero.




With increasing displacement along path


15


also die segment


19


is retracted as a whole or progressively in portions to allow projection


42


to pass while segment


19


still maintains support and guidance on face


28


before immersing into guide


5


. When reaching the cross web of protrusion


39


the member


47


urges this cross web back against its inherent resiliency. Thus member


47


passes by and snaps behind face


46


at the end of path


15


. The convexly curved edge of projection


42


then forms, as viewed axially in

FIG. 3

, an uninterrupted continuation of the outer circumference of part


2


. Over path


15


the duct


54


runs past the port of duct


53


and past duct


57


until it has attained the position coincidental with chamber


58


. The workpiece


1


may then be totally demolded, i.e. released from the die.




Each of faces


23


,


27


may exclusively have a protuberance or bead for contacting the counter face with increased pressure. The bead may be annular about axis


11


. Thus ducts


53


and


57


to


59


or their openings in face


23


are located within this bead. If beads are provided on both faces


23


,


27


they should be radially juxtaposed and support on each other with their side flanks under pressure. Thus an even better seal is achieved between faces


23


,


27


.




Shell


8


has at its inner circumference protruding catch or snap members


61


of withdrawal preventing means, which positively prevent unit


1


from being pulled off after having been axially plug-connected with the pump. While being plug mounted the members


61


are urged outwardly by inclined faces which run against counter-members and move radially due to the inherent resiliency of unit


1


. Thereafter members


61


snap back with their stop faces behind corresponding counter faces of the pump's base body. Members


61


are provided only in an axial plane of axis


10


, which plane is perpendicular to plane


17


. The outside of wall


48


may be provided with a recess which does not reach up to guide


5


and provides the actuating handle.




It will be appreciated that the cited features and effects may be provided precisely as described, or merely substantially or approximately so and may also greatly deviate therefrom, depending on the particular requirements. On the basis of an outer diameter of part 2 of maximally 30 mm or 20 mm and a, as compared thereto, greater length of maximally 40 mm or 30 mm the dimensional relationships as shown are particularly favorable.



Claims
  • 1. A dispenser for expelling media, comprising:a module (1) having at least two interconnected components (2, 3) which are to be separated and then further assembled to form an operating assembly, said at least two components (2, 3) including first and second components (2, 3) which prior to separation are interconnected by a joint including a severing point (4, 30), and wherein said first and second components form connecting zones (32 to 34, 36) along said joint, and wherein at least one of said components (2, 3) provides a connecting zone including a shear zone (32 to 34) for sliding separation in a shear direction relative to the other connecting zones as said joint is severed at the severing point (4, 30) by a shearing motion, and wherein said joint has a thickness that has been limited so as to allow clean separation of said components (2,3) by a shearing motion; and wherein said first component is a casing part (2) for a medium dispenser and wherein said second component is a medium duct body (3) having a medium duct (54) with an inlet for receiving at least one medium and with an outlet for transmitting at least one medium, said medium duct body (3) being insertable in said casing cart (2) to form an operating assembly for dispensing media after severing of said joint.
  • 2. The dispenser according to claim 1, wherein said module (1) includes a duct unit for guiding the medium, said duct unit including a passage duct (54 to 58) bounded by at least one of said components (2, 3).
  • 3. The dispenser according to claim 1, wherein said shear zone and said first and second components (2, 3) include first and second shear faces (21 to 23 and 25 to 27) directly sliding on each other when separated and after entirely shearing said second component (3) off from said first component (2).
  • 4. The dispenser according to claim 3, wherein said severing point (4, 30) directly connects to said first shear faces (21 to 23) of said first component (2), said second component (3) including a breast face (29) oriented transverse to at least one of said first and second shear faces (21 to 23 and 25 to 27) and directly connecting to said severing point (4, 30), said first shear faces (21 to 23) and said breast face (29) together defining point faces.
  • 5. The dispenser according to claim 4, wherein at least one of said point faces is an edge face.
  • 6. The dispenser according to claim 1 and further defining a shear motion (12) and cross directions (13, 14) oriented transverse to said shear motion (12), wherein a shear guide (5) is included for positionally securing said second component (3) with respect to said first component (2) substantially without motion play with respect to at least one of said cross directions (13, 14), said shear guide (5) emanating from said shear zone (32 to 34) and mutually guiding said first and second components (2, 3) while performing said shear motion (12) away from said first position.
  • 7. The dispenser according to claim 6, wherein said shear guide (5) defines only one single degree of freedom (12) after having left said first position.
  • 8. The dispenser according to claim 1 and further including a shear guide (5) mutually guiding said first and second components (2, 3) when having left said first position toward a second position, wherein said shear guide (5) includes a guide duct (6) on said first component (2) and guide faces (25 to 27) on said second component (3), said guide faces (25 to 27) being complementary with respect to said guide duct (6).
  • 9. The dispenser according to claim 1 and further including a shear guide (5) mutually guiding said first and second components (2,3) in said operating assembly, wherein said shear guide (5) defines a motion track (15) for said operating assembly, said shear guide (5) defining guide faces (24) laterally interspaced and shorter than said motion track (15).
  • 10. The dispenser according to claim 1, wherein said second component (3) is assembled inside said first component (2) after separation, said second component (3) externally including remote faces (27, 28), said severing point (4) being spaced from at least one of said remote faces (27, 28), said at least one remote face (27, 28) extending inside said first component (2) after said second component (3) has been separated.
  • 11. The dispenser according to claim 1, and further defining an assembly motion (12) for assembling said second component (3) to said first component (2), wherein said second component (3) defines a leading end (29) with respect to said assembly motion (12), said connecting zones (32 to 34, 36) being exclusively located at said leading end (29) when said second component (3) is located deeper inside said first component (2) than prior to separation.
  • 12. The dispenser according to claim 1, and further defining an assembly guide (5) for mutually guiding said first and second components (2, 3) after separation, with said second component (3) moving along an assembly track (15) of said first component (2), wherein said first and second components (2, 3) define a cover side (24) where said assembly guide (5) and said first component (3) only partly cover said, second component (3) with respect to at least one ofsaid assembly track (15), and said assembly (2, 3), said second component (3) circumferentially guidingly contacting the medium downstream of and separate from said first component (2).
  • 13. The dispenser according to claim 12, wherein said cover side (24) defines two cover zones which are mutually laterally spaced, said assembly guide (5) covering said second component (3) at said cover zones but not covering said second component (3) between said cover zones.
  • 14. The dispenser according to claim 12, wherein said second component (3) defines a leading end section, when in said assembly, said assembly guide (5) transversely covering said leading end section at said covering side (24) said second component (3) being located downstream of said first component (2).
  • 15. The dispenser according to claim 1, wherein said second component (3) is traversed by said duct (54) including a narrowest section which is conical, said duct (54) directly guiding the medium downstream of said first component (2).
  • 16. The dispenser according to claim 15, wherein said duct (54) includes a downstream end, a shallow recess (56) being included and including a recess bottom, said downstream end connecting to said recess bottom.
  • 17. The dispenser according to claim 15 and further defining a cross-sectional thickness of said second component (3) in the vicinity of said duct (54), wherein said duct (54) extends over a duct length bigger than half of said cross-sectional thickness.
  • 18. The dispenser according to claim 1 and further defining a departing direction (12) while transferring said second component(3) from said first position to a second position, wherein said first component (2) comprises a duct recess (57 to 59) directly covered by said second component (3) when extending inside said first component (2), a flow direction of the medium and a flow plane oriented substantially parallel to said departing direction (12) being defined, within said duct recess (57 to 59) said flow direction being parallel to said flow plane.
  • 19. The dispenser according to claim 18, wherein said duct recess (57 to 59) is bounded by guide faces for turbulencing the medium.
  • 20. The dispenser according to claim 18, wherein said duct recess (57 to 59) includes a central chamber section (58) and said second component (3) includes a chamber recess (55) substantially coincidentially covering said chamber section (58).
  • 21. The dispenser according to claim 1, wherein said second component (3) is a plate including at least one thickening (41) which is not commonly both annular and peripheral.
  • 22. The dispenser according to claim 21 and further defining an individual plate face (28) of said plate (3), said thickening (41) projecting exclusively over said individual plate face (28).
  • 23. The dispenser according to claim 21 and further including a pressure face (40) for introducing a severing force while severing said severing point (4, 30), wherein said thickening includes said pressure face (40).
  • 24. The dispenser according to claim 1 and further including an assembly reception (5) mutually positionally orienting said first and second components (2, 3) when in said operating assembly, wherein locking means (20) are included for substantially positively interlocking said first and second components (2, 3), said locking means (20) including interengaged connecting members (42, 44, 46, 47) separate from said assembly reception (5).
  • 25. The dispenser according to claim 24, wherein said connecting members include complementary snap members (46, 47) resiliently interengaged prior to reaching said operating assembly.
  • 26. The dispenser according to claim 1 and further defining an assembly path (15) for assembling said first and second components (2, 3) into said operating assembly, wherein a stop (43) and a counter-stop (45) are included for mutually stop-limiting said first and second components (2, 3) when in said operating assembly, said counter-stop (45) including laterally interspaced individual counter-stops commonly abutting said stop (43).
  • 27. The dispenser according to claim 26 and further defining a trailing end of said second component (3), wherein said trailing end includes said stop (43), when in said operating assembly said second component (3) extending inside said first component (2).
  • 28. The dispenser according to claim 26 and further including a reception pocket (44) on said first component (2), wherein said reception pocket (44) is bounded by lateral pocket flanks, said stop (43) laterally directly connecting to at least one of said pocket flanks substantially only when having reached said operating assembly.
  • 29. The dispenser according to claim 1 and further including means for shaping said module (1) by injection molding in a molding die (18, 19), said shaping means being provided for molding said first and second components (2, 3) commonly and in one part, wherein said module (1) includes cutting means for shear cutting said severing point (4, 30) without any cutting tools separate from said module (1).
Priority Claims (1)
Number Date Country Kind
198 13 078 Mar 1998 DE
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