The invention relates to pre-compression pumps and more particularly to a pre-compression pump capable of reducing height and preventing seepage and a container with such pump.
A pre-compression pump is usually mounted on a container and used to spray various liquids stored in the container, such as perfumes, pharmaceutical products, cosmetics, cleaning products, and the like. Generally, the pre-compression pump is a device that sprays liquid outward only when liquid in a water storage sump is under a specific minimum pressure. This manner may ensure that the liquid is sprayed outward at a higher pressure, with a better spraying effect.
There are various pre-compression pumps with diverse structure in conventional art. For example, a conventional pre-compression pump has a water storage sump that is disposed between a piston and a main body. The piston squeezes the water storage sump while a main column moves down, and a pressure in the water storage sump increases. When the pressure increases and even exceeds a preset force of a spring on the piston, the piston is jacked upward. In this case, a sealing part leaves an amplification cap, a channel is opened, and the liquid enters the channel and moves upward until the liquid is sprayed outward from a nozzle. When the pressure cannot meet an atomization condition, the liquid is not seeped outward due to this structure. Because of a large area of a pressure surface, in contact with the liquid, of the piston is large. After the piston is stressed, a displacement of the piston is short, and the spraying effect is poor.
Therefore, how to design a pre-compression pump capable of effectively improving the spraying effect and a container is an urgent technical problem to be resolved in the art.
In order to resolve the above problems in the prior art, the invention provides a pre-compression pump capable of reducing a height and preventing seepage and a container with such pump. According to the invention, because components such as a second piston and a second spring are disposed in an inner part of a first piston assembly, a spraying effect of the pre-compression pump is better and an overall height is shorter.
The invention adopts the following technical solutions: A pre-compression pump capable of reducing a height and preventing seepage is designed. The pre-compression pump includes: a main body, a first piston assembly that is movably mounted in an inner part of the main body, a head assembly that is disposed on a top of the first piston assembly, a second piston that is disposed in an inner part of the first piston assembly, and a second spring that is supported between the second piston and the first piston assembly. A water storage sump is disposed between the main body and the first piston assembly, a water outlet channel is disposed in the inner part of the first piston assembly, the water outlet channel is connected to the water storage sump and a nozzle of the head assembly; and the second piston has an ejector pin portion that is used to seal the water outlet channel.
Preferably, the first piston assembly comprises: a first piston that is movably disposed in the inner part of the main body, a spring holder that is mounted in an inner part of the first piston, and a first spring that is supported between the main body and the spring holder. Space between the first piston and the main body is the water storage sump, and the water storage sump is designed in the inner part of the first piston, to reduce an overall height of the pre-compression pump to the greatest extent. The second piston is movably disposed in the spring holder, the second spring is supported between the spring holder and the second piston, space between an upper side of the second piston and the first piston is a variable pressure silo, and the variable pressure silo is connected to the water storage sump. When the first piston is displaced and the water storage sump is under a pressure, the second piston is greatly displaced in a variable pressure silo with a smaller diameter. Therefore, the pre-compression pump avoids a seepage process, and directly sprays liquid with better performance.
Preferably, space between an underside of the second piston and the spring holder is a compression silo, the second piston comprises an internal elastic extension portion that extends outward, an outer edge of the internal elastic extension portion is in contact with an inner wall of the spring holder, to seal the compression silo.
Preferably, a side wall of the main body is provided with an exhaust hole, an outer edge of a bottom of the first piston extends outward to form a lower elastic extension portion that is used to seal the water storage sump, an exhaust adjusting rib that is disposed beneath the lower elastic extension portion is disposed in the inner part of the main body, and when moving downward and touching the exhaust adjusting rib, the lower elastic extension portion is deformed, to discharge air in an inner part of the water storage sump to the outside.
Preferably, a top of the main body is provided with an open, a collar piece is fastened and mounted in the open, the collar piece is sleeved in a center hole on the first piston, the first piston has a tapered segment of which size increases from top to bottom, and the center hole is in contact with the tapered segment to form a line seal, to ensure that liquid in a container does not leak under vibration and a specific negative pressure.
Preferably, an outer edge of the top of the first piston expands outward to form an upper elastic extension portion, an outer edge of the upper elastic extension portion is in contact with an inner wall of the main body for sealing, an air intake slot is disposed at the top of the main body, and the upper elastic extension portion moves downward to the air intake slot with the first piston. Therefore, air in an external environment may flow, from a gap between the collar piece and the first piston, between the upper elastic extension portion and the lower elastic extension portion through the air intake slot, and then may enter the container through the exhaust hole of the main body, to maintain a pressure in the container the same as that of the external environment. This ensures that the pump is continuously used.
Preferably, the water outlet channel is disposed in the inner part of the first piston and above the second piston, the ejector pin portion is disposed at a top of the second piston, at least one step is disposed at one end, close to the second piston, of the water outlet channel, a size of the ejector pin portion increases from top to bottom, and an edge of each step is in contact with the ejector pin portion, to form a line seal, to prevent seepage when a pressure of the pump is insufficient.
Preferably, the main body has a water inlet channel that is connected to the water storage sump, a one-way ball valve is disposed at a top of the water inlet channel and a suction pipe is connected to a bottom of the water inlet channel, an outer periphery of the one-way ball valve is enclosed by at least three limiting ribs that are disposed at intervals, and the one-way ball valve moves up and down in space that is enclosed by the limiting ribs. Due to a gap between the limiting ribs, the liquid in the container can more smoothly enter the water storage sump.
The invention further provides a container. The container includes a bottle. The pre-compression pump is mounted on the bottle.
Preferably, the bottle has a bayonet, the main body is mounted in an inner part of the bayonet, and the collar piece is fixedly mounted on the top of the main body, and a fixing sleeve that clamps and fastens the collar piece in the bayonet is coated at an outer ring of the bayonet, to prevent the pre-compression pump from falling off from the bottle and loosening.
The invention has the following advantages and benefits in comparison with the conventional art: the second piston and the second spring are mounted in the inner part of the first piston assembly, and the variable pressure silo is designed between the first piston assembly and the second piston. When a pressure of the water storage sump does not reach a specific value, the water outlet channel is sealed by the ejector pin portion of the second piston. When a pressure on the second piston can overcome a pre-pressure of the second spring, the second piston moves downward to open a channel with a larger displacement. In this case, there is a large pressure of pumping the liquid outside, so that a spraying effect is effectively optimized. Further, because the variable pressure silo is disposed in the inner part of the first piston, a height can be reduced to a greatest extent.
The above and other objects, features and advantages of the invention will become apparent from the following detailed description taken with the accompanying drawings.
The pre-compression pump provided in the invention is appropriately mounted on a container for storing liquid. The liquid in the container can be sucked up and sprayed outward by pressing the pre-compression pump.
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To better understand the pre-compression pump in the invention, a structure of each part of the pre-compression pump is described in detail below with reference to embodiments.
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The spring holder 1 is provided with an accommodating cavity with an opening. The second piston 2 is movably disposed in the accommodating cavity of the spring holder 1. Space between the top of the second piston 2 and the first piston 7 is a variable pressure silo 14. A volume of the variable pressure silo 14 varies while the second piston 2 moves up and down. The variable pressure silo 14 is connected to the water storage sump 10, that is, the liquid in the water storage sump 10 may enter the variable pressure silo 14 above the second piston 2 through spacing between the spring holder 1 and the first piston 7.
An outer edge of the second piston 2 slightly extends outward to form an internal elastic extension portion 15. The internal elastic extension portion 15 is attached to the accommodating cavity of the spring holder 1. Space between an underside of the second piston 2 and the spring holder 1 is a compression silo. The compression silo and the variable pressure silo 14 are isolated through the internal elastic extension portion 15. The second spring 5 is located in the compression silo and supported between the second piston 2 and the spring holder 1. When a pressure of the variable pressure silo 14 increases, the second piston 2 overcomes the pre-pressure of the second spring 5 and moves downward, air in the compression silo and the second spring 5 are compressed, and the water outlet channel 16 is connected. When the pressure of the variable pressure silo 14 decreases, the second piston 2 is pushed upward under action of the compressed air and the second spring 5, and the water outlet channel 16 is closed. In comparison with a conventional pre-compression pump, space occupied by a new preloading piston assembly that is formed by designing the variable pressure silo 14, the second piston 2, and the second spring 5 in the inner part of the first piston assembly, the preloading piston assembly is reduced. This reduces an overall height of the pre-compression pump, so that a structure of the pre-compression pump is more compact.
The conventional pre-compression pump may achieve the spraying effect only when the liquid in the water storage sump reaches a specific minimum pressure and liquid begins to spray outward. However, in this case, because the pressure is small, the liquid is sprayed in a beeline or sprayed in a seepage manner. Only when the pressure is greater, a spraying effect of the liquid is better. The better spraying effect greatly depends on a pressing force of a user, and therefore, use experience is poor.
According to the pre-compression pump provided in the invention, seepage can be effectively avoided, and a working principle is as follows: To ensure the pressure on the second piston 2 in the variable pressure silo 14 reaches a specific minimum pressure, that is, the pre-pressure of the second spring 5, the head assembly needs to provide a larger pressure, and the second piston 2 moves a larger distance. When a transverse area that is of the first piston 7 and that is in contact with the liquid is S1, a transverse area that is of the second piston 2 and that is in contact with the liquid is S2, a movement distance of the first piston 7 is H1, a movement distance of the second piston 2 is H2, and the specific minimum pressure is Fpre, then a pressure Fpressure that needs to be provided by the head assembly is Fpressure=S1/S2×Fpre, and the movement distance H2 of the second piston is H2=S1/S2×H1. This ensures that the liquid is not sprayed when the pressure is small. When the pressure is larger, the second piston 2 quickly opens a larger channel. The pre-compression pump avoids a seepage process, and directly sprays the liquid with better performance. Therefore, the use experience of the pre-compression pump is greatly optimized.
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In some embodiments of the invention, there are two steps at the bottom of the water outlet channel 16. An inverted triangle is disposed at an edge of the water outlet channel 16 to form a first step, and a groove that is concaved upward is disposed at an edge of the first step to form a second step. Edges of the first step and the second step are in contact with the ejector pin portion 3 to form a line seal. Double line seals can effectively prevent the liquid in the water storage sump 10 from seeping outward and effectively prevent seepage when pressure of a pump body is small.
A water inlet channel 26 is disposed at a bottom of the main body 6, and a top of the water inlet channel 26 is located in and connected to the water storage sump 10. A one-way ball valve 9 is disposed at a top of the water inlet channel 26 and a suction pipe 21 is connected to a bottom of the water inlet channel 26. An outer periphery of the one-way ball valve 9 is enclosed by at least three limiting ribs that are disposed at intervals, and the one-way ball valve 9 moves up and down in space that is enclosed by the limiting ribs. Due to a gap between the limiting ribs, liquid in a container 100 can more smoothly enter the water storage sump 10.
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A top of the main body 6 is provided with an open, a collar piece 4 is fastened and mounted in the open, the collar piece 4 is sleeved in a center hole on the first piston 7, and the first piston 7 has a tapered segment of which size increases from top to bottom. When not being compressed under an external force, the first piston 7 is located at an upper limit position under a supporting force of the first spring 8, and the tapered segment is in contact with the center hole to form a line seal, and isolate the inner part of the main body 6 from an external environment.
An outer edge of the top of the first piston 7 expands outward to form an upper elastic extension portion 13, and an outer edge of the upper elastic extension portion 13 is in contact with an inner wall of the main body 6 for sealing, to prevent the liquid in the water storage sump 10 from seeping outward. An air intake slot 25 is disposed at the top of the main body, and the upper elastic extension portion 13 moves downward to the air intake slot 25 with the first piston 7. In this case, the tapered segment of the first piston 7 leaves the center hole downward, and the exhaust hole 18 is located between the upper elastic extension portion 13 and the lower elastic extension portion 12. Therefore, air in the external environment may enter the main body 6 through a gap between the collar piece 4 and the first piston 7 and the air intake slot 25, and then enter the container 100 through the exhaust hole 18 of the main body 6. To be specific, when the pre-compression pump is pressed to spray the liquid outward, for reduced liquid in the container 100, outside air may be replenished into the container 100 through the exhaust hole 18, to avoid deformation of the container 100 or loss of functions of the pump body because of vacuum generated in an inner part of the container 100.
It should be noted that, the air in the external environment is replenished into the container 100 at beginning of a pressing process, the upper elastic extension portion 13 of the first piston 7 supplies air when passing through the air intake slot 25 downward or upward. After the upper elastic extension portion 13 moves out of the air intake slot, an outer edge of the upper elastic extension portion 13 is in contact and sealed with the inner wall of the main body 6 again, to ensure that the liquid in the water storage sump 10 does not seep outward.
Because the top of the main body 6 is open, various components such as the first spring 8, the one-way ball valve 9, the first piston 2, the spring holder 1, the second piston 2, and the second spring 5 may be mounted from the open during installation, and then the collar piece 4 is mounted and fastened with the main body 6. Therefore, not only the pre-compression pump may be easily assembled, but also the components are not scattered, and a structural stability is improved.
The following describes a usage process of the pre-compression pump in detail. As shown in
After the head assembly is released, the head assembly and the preloading piston assembly start to move up under action of a rebound force of the first spring 8. In this case, the first piston 7 is separated from the exhaust adjusting rib 17 disposed in the main body 6, the lower elastic extension portion 12 is re-attached to the inner wall of the main body 6, and connection space between the water storage sump 10 and the variable pressure silo 14 are sealed again. As shown in
When the sealing space is fully filled with the liquid, the head assembly is pressed, and the sealing space gradually become smaller while the preloading piston assembly moves down. In this case, there is a pressure in the liquid, and all parts that are in contact with the liquid are under a pressure. When the pressure on the second piston 2 exceeds the pre-pressure of the second spring 5, the second piston 2 moves away from the water outlet channel 16 of the first piston 7, to open the water outlet channel 16. In this case, the liquid enters the head assembly through the water outlet channel 16 and is sprayed outward from the nozzle 22. In this case, as shown in
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A suction pipe of the pre-compression pump is disposed in the bottle 24, and the exhaust hole 18 on the main body 6 is connected to the inner cavity of the bottle 24, to replenish the air in the external environment into the bottle 24 when the liquid in the bottle 24 is reduced, and enable functions of the pre-compression pump. A bayonet with a reduced size is disposed at a top of the bottle 24, the main body 6 is mounted in the bayonet, and the collar piece 4 is fixedly mounted on an outer part of the bayonet. A fixing sleeve 11 that clamps and fastens the collar piece 4 in the bayonet is coated at an outer ring of the bayonet, to prevent the pre-compression pump from falling off from the bottle 24 and loosening.
While the invention has been described in terms of preferred embodiments, those skilled in the art will recognize that the invention can be practiced with modifications within the spirit and scope of the appended claims.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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202210977248.8 | Aug 2022 | CN | national |