Pump dispenser bottle for dispensing a fluid composition, after modification of its physical state, and application to a content comprising a continuous fluid phase and at least one discontinuous phase

Abstract

A pump dispenser bottle comprising a container (2) with a storage cavity (4) adapted to receive a content material, a dip tube (26), a material delivery channel (27) into the dip tube (26), a pump (3) comprising a control member (11), a pump body (16) and at least one physical state modification means, associated with the dip tube (26) and the delivery channel (27), adapted to act on the material in the flow passing through the delivery channel (27), in order to apply a contact force thereon in order to modify its physical state, located upstream of the pump body (16), associated with it by a fixed connection, while the dip tube (26) is associated with the container (2) towards its opening (7) by a fixed connection, comprising - or being associated by a fixed connection to - an internal part (39),the pump body (16) being mounted axially and securely within the dip tube (26) and a physical state modification means (34) and the internal part (39) being housed axially within the dip tube (26), the internal part (39) and the pump body (16) being moved axially relative to the dip tube (26). Figure for the abbreviation: Fig. 1,

Description

Title of the invention: Pump dispenser bottle for dispensing a fluid composition, after modification of its physical state, and application to a content comprising a continuous fluid phase and at least one discontinuous phase Technical field

[0001] The invention relates to the field of manually operated pump dispenser bottles for dispensing a fluid composition after modification of its physical state. It can be applied to a content comprising a continuous fluid phase and at least one discontinuous phase, such as in cosmetics, food, pharmaceutical, medical, utility or technical or similar.

[0002] GENERAL KNOWLEDGE OF THOSE PERSONS IN THE TRADE AND STATE OF THE ART

[0003] Pump dispenser bottles for personal use and manual actuation for dispensing a fluid composition are commonly known and find application typically, but not exclusively, in cosmetics, medicine or the like (with regard to the characteristics of holding in the bottle and dispensing). Such a dispenser bottle comprises in substance, assembled together (i) a container having a storage cavity and provided with an opening, (ii) a dip tube forming a passageway, provided with a lower upstream opening located in the container and a higher downstream opening, and (iii) a pump which, when not actuated, ensures the closure of the container and which, when actuated, ensures the pumping and dispensing of the contents of the container.The pump itself usually comprises a fixing arrangement on the container around its opening, an external manual control member which can be moved between two extreme positions (on the one hand rest, on the other hand pumping and dispensing), a dispensing path which can be associated upstream with the passage path of the dip tube and opening downstream through a dispensing orifice, a pump motor, comprising an elastic pump means, a dose cavity whose volume is caused to increase when it is filled and to decrease when it is emptied, in operation, and means for opening / closing the dispensing path. Such a dispensing bottle may comprise means equivalent to the container, the dip tube and the pump. It is also known that such a dispensing bottle, its constituent parts and their arrangements can be the subject of a number of embodiments (eg US 5351863, WO 9508400).

[0004] DE 202014003722U describes cosmetic preparations of the type comprising an external aqueous-based fluid phase of gel type and an internal solid particulate phase comprising spherical particles. A suitable container-dispenser comprises a dispensing head without air return, a cylindrical flexible hollow body with a bellows wall, open at each of its two ends. Means are provided such that the flow of contents is separated into partial streams. The shear forces at the outlet of the dispenser are sufficient to transform the originally separated gel phase and the internal particulate phase into a unit which is claimed to be optically homogeneous, but which is only very slightly so.

[0005] FR 3069423 describes a device for dispensing cosmetic or care content stored in heterogeneous form comprising suspended solid elements which can be mechanically broken to release a fluid which they contain, which aims to overcome the risk of blockage of a pump sucking up content having suspended solids.A mechanism with a fixed piston and a rotating body is proposed comprising: a product storage tank, a product dispensing nozzle, a guide conduit for transporting the product between the tank and the dispensing nozzle, and means for circulating the product from the tank to the nozzle, via the guide conduit comprising a device for breaking up solid elements, which comprises a first stage, at the outlet of the tank, forming a first portion of the guide conduit and comprising an evolving cross-section having projecting edges at the outlet inside said guide conduit, and a second stage, near the dispensing nozzle, forming a second portion of the guide conduit and having a progressive section restriction.

[0006] EP 2749502 describes dispensers whose reservoir, with variable volume, contains a content comprising a first substance (first fluid phase) and beads immersed in the first substance having a shell containing a second substance. Such a dispenser further comprises a dispensing conduit and a flow limiter disposed inside the dispensing conduit having a plurality of openings and a plurality of spikes extending into each of the openings, these spikes causing the shells of the beads to rupture when the composition flows through the openings. The presence of a dispensing pump is mentioned, but not described.

[0007] FR 2973356 describes a device for dispensing a mixture formed from a first product placed in contact with a second product, comprising a container delimiting an internal space for receiving the first product, a dispensing mechanism mounted on the container, and a module arranged in the internal space in contact with the first product, comprising a hollow body delimiting a main channel for circulation of the first product and having an upstream opening intended to be introduced into a volume of first product and a downstream opening intended to be connected to a mechanism for dispensing the first product, the body comprising a mixer arranged in the main channel, the body defining at least one reservoir containing the second product, and at least one auxiliary channel opening into the main channel at a tapping point, the main channel being clear over its entire length between the upstream opening for introducing the first product and the tapping point, the downstream opening of the main channel being connected to the distribution mechanism and the upstream opening opening into the internal space.

[0008] “Pump” and “pump motor” should be understood as designating a dispensing device and its operating means, as is well known to those skilled in the art to be used trivially for cosmetic compositions or the like (with regard to dispensing), such as pumps known under the expression "cosmetic pump". "Pump dispenser bottle" designates an article suitable and intended to contain a certain quantity of a content and to dispense a product by pumping and discharging, by means of appropriate manual action on an operating control member such as a pusher forming part of the pump. "For personal use" refers to the fact that the dispenser bottle is used by a person who is the user. Such a dispenser bottle for personal use is a solid, autonomous, self-supporting object, which can be handled by the user, forming an entity in itself and meeting its purpose, here containing and dispensing by pumping.

[0009] “Contents” means the material within the storage cavity of the container of the pump dispenser bottle. This material is referred to as the "content material." "Composition" means the material that is dispensed from the dispensing orifice of the pump of the pump dispenser bottle, and that comes from the contents. This material is referred to as the "dispensing material." "Fluid," qualifying the composition, must be understood in the common sense referring to a material having a liquid to pasty state and capable of being dispensed by a pump dispenser bottle pump and used by the user, for example, applied to the body. "Fluid phase," in relation to the contents, means a material having a liquid to pasty state. "Discontinuous phase," in relation to the contents, refers to a material in the form of elements in a dispersed state in the continuous fluid phase.Examples of discontinuous phase include, but are not limited to, elements in the form of dispersed droplets of liquids that are not naturally miscible with the continuous fluid phase, or elements in a state that has a certain consistency - in particular more or less firm, more or less deformable, more or less elastic - capable of being broken (the term "break" - and its derivatives such as "broken" - should be understood as reflecting an operation - or a situation - of the same general nature as fragmenting, breaking, separating, shearing, grinding, cutting, dividing, dislocating, etc.), and in the form of balls, particles, filaments, blocks, pieces, capsules, which may or may not be homogeneous, for example. comprise an envelope or membrane having a certain consistency enclosing a filling. Such elements may have a larger dimension of the order of a fraction of a millimeter to several millimeters. In all cases, and within the scope of the invention, the continuous fluid phase and the discontinuous phase must be at least intimately mixed before dispensing and use by the user, so that the dispensed composition is, as a whole, of fluid consistency. In addition to mixing, the elements of the discontinuous phase may have to be broken, in particular beforehand. The physical state of the material of the contents located in the storage cavity of the container must therefore be modified (such as in particular fragmented, mixed, agitated, rheologically modified) to form the dispensed composition.Between the physical state of the content matter and the physical state of the distribution matter, the physical state of the matter is said to be "intermediate" and the matter is called "intermediate state matter".

[0010] “Cosmetic” must be understood in the common sense as relating to care, to protection, maintaining good skin condition, beautification, etc. For example, this concerns hydration, relaxation, treatment against wrinkles and skin aging, and more broadly any other similar, related, or complementary skin treatment. It may also involve perfuming. In the context of the invention, a use other than a cosmetic use but involving the same type of characteristics or technical constraints with regard to storage in a container and distribution by means of a pump, such as in particular a food product, a pharmaceutical product, a medical product, a utility product (e.g., a cleaning product), a technical product (e.g., a covering product) is considered analogous to a cosmetic use. SUMMARY

[0011] The problem arises of having a pump dispenser bottle capable of dispensing a fluid composition after modification of its physical state and in particular capable of dispensing a fluid composition, from a content comprising a continuous fluid phase and at least one discontinuous phase, intimately mixed before dispensing and use by the user, by means of a single and continuous control movement.

[0012] To this end, according to one aspect, the invention relates to a pump-dispensing bottle capable of dispensing a fluid composition material through a downstream dispensing orifice, of the type comprising, with an axis: - a container with a peripheral wall, a bottom, an opening, and a storage cavity capable of receiving a content material comprising a continuous fluid phase OFC and possibly a discontinuous phase OD, - a dip tube, axially extended in the container, with a cylindrical wall having an internal face, a low inlet opening, an opening high output, - a material supply path, located inside the dip tube, capable of being crossed by a flow of material coming from that of the storage cavity and going towards the distribution orifice, - a pumping and distribution pump comprising a movable control member, a distribution channel fluidly associated with the supply channel, opening through the distribution orifice, a pump motor comprising an elastic pumping means, a pump body with which is associated a dose cavity with an increased and decreased volume during operation, and means for opening / closing the distribution channel, the pump motor being actuated in response to the movement of the control member, - an arrangement for fixing the pump to the container and an arrangement for fixing the container to the pump, capable of cooperating, - and at least one means of modifying the physical state of the matter with which it is in contact and adjacent.

[0013] Such a pump dispenser bottle is such that: - a means of modifying the physical state is a mechanical, deformable and / or movable means, associated with the dip tube and the supply line, and capable of acting on the material of the flow passing through the supply line, with a view to applying a contact force thereto with a view to modifying its physical state, such as in particular its fragmentation, its mixing, its agitation, its rheological modification, - a means of modifying the physical state is located upstream of the pump motor and the pump body which forms a unitary assembly with a tubular support and sealing portion, - a means of modifying the physical state is associated with the pump body with a fixed connection, while the dip tube is associated with the container towards its opening with a fixed connection, - a means for modifying the physical state comprises - or is associated by a fixed connection with - an internal part, axially extended, having a peripheral lateral face, associated with the tubular support and sealing portion by a fixed connection, - the pump body is mounted with sealed axial sliding inside the plunger tube, - a physical state modification means and the internal part are housed inside the axially sliding plunger tube, the lateral face of the internal part and the internal lateral face of the plunger tube being conjugated with cou- axial movement, with the supply path between them, - the internal part and the pump body are capable of being moved axially relative to the plunger tube, in response to the movement of the control member, - the pump is capable of sucking material from the storage cavity and of passing the supply line from upstream to downstream with material, the control member, once actuated, controlling the modification of the physical state of the material and the pumping of material having a modified physical state by a means of modifying the physical state.

[0014] According to one embodiment, the pump dispenser bottle further comprises an additional axially deformable elastic means for an axial operating movement over a stroke of the additional elastic means, arranged so as to urge the pump body towards its high position, the additional elastic means being distinct from the elastic pumping means, so that the operation of the control member from the rest position to the pumping and dispensing position causes the compression of the additional elastic means and the compression of the elastic pumping means, the pump having two stages corresponding to the stroke of the elastic pumping means and to the stroke of the additional elastic means.

[0015] According to one embodiment, the additional elastic means is, on the one hand, arranged between the dip tube and the pump body for their relative sliding movement, and, on the other hand, associated with a fixed connection to the dip tube and the pump body.

[0016] According to one embodiment, the additional elastic means is either located close to the pump motor itself or located axially spaced from the pump motor - in particular towards the lower inlet opening of the dip tube, more particularly towards the bottom of the container.

[0017] According to one embodiment, the additional elastic means comprises either at least one helical compression spring of the straight or tapered type, or a member providing the same function, or several helical compression springs or members providing the same function, arranged so as to be in axial extension and / or to be nested one inside the other.

[0018] According to one embodiment, a physical state modification means is functionally associated with the additional elastic means, so that the movement of the additional elastic means leads to the movement of the physical state modification means.

[0019] According to one embodiment, the dip tube: - either has an axial length corresponding to the internal depth of the container, its lower end and its lower opening being adjacent, without ob turation, on the inside of the bottom, - either has a smaller axial length, in particular significantly smaller, than the internal depth of the container, with its lower end and its lower opening spaced axially from the inner face of the bottom, the dip tube being provided with a downward tubular extension, having a lower end with a lower opening adjacent, without closure, to the inner face of the bottom, - either has an axial length almost corresponding to the internal depth of the container with its lower end and its lower opening just a little apart from the inner face of the bottom, the dip tube being extended downwards by a strainer part of essentially cylindrical, hollow shape, with, on the one hand, an upper end part associated with the lower end of the dip tube, said upper end part having an upper opening with axial passage associated with the axially directed lower opening of the dip tube and, on the other hand, a lower end part having a lower edge adjacent to, or in contact with, or applied to the bottom of the container, said lower end part having at least one notch on its lower edge forming, with the bottom of the container, at least one lateral opening for the passage of material of content C towards the downstream side,the upper end part of the strainer piece being associated with the lower end of the dip tube either by a fixed connection or by an axial sliding connection.

[0020] According to one embodiment, a means for modifying the physical state is arranged, on the one hand, inside the dip tube, so as either to be located adjacent, in the vicinity, or close to its lower upstream opening, or to extend downwards until it is adjacent, in the vicinity, or close to its lower upstream opening, on the other hand spaced below the pump body, towards the upstream, so that the pump body is crossed by the material of the fluid composition to be distributed, after the action of the means for modifying the physical state.

[0021] According to one embodiment, a means for modifying the physical state is arranged inside the plunger tube, so as to extend upwards until it is adjacent, in the vicinity, or close to, while being axially spaced below a transverse orifice for the passage of material, arranged on the tubular support and sealing portion sliding axially inside the plunger tube, said tubular support and sealing portion being arranged below the pump body.

[0022] According to one embodiment, a means for modifying the physical state is chosen from the family comprising jaw-type mechanical action devices capable of being opened and closed on each other, pestle-type mechanical action devices, mixer-type mechanical action devices, mechanical action devices of the calibrated or labyrinthine forced passage type, so as to be capable of ensuring an action of crushing, compression, rolling, shearing, cutting, breaking, grinding, pounding, friction, attrition, forcing through a calibrated or labyrinthine passage.

[0023] According to one embodiment, the pump dispenser bottle comprises a plurality of distinct mechanical action means: either of different specific functionalities, arranged in series, in particular with proximity or adjacency, along the supply route, with a view to ensuring several modifications of different natures of physical state, either of the same functionality, this being ensured in a plurality of stages and steps.

[0024] According to one embodiment, the pump dispenser bottle comprises: at least one means of upstream physical state modification, at least fragmentation, concerning the discontinuous phase <1> D, located before any means of modifying the physical state such as mixing, and / or at least one downstream means of modifying the physical state, at least mixing, located after any means of modifying the physical state such as fragmentation.

[0025] According to one embodiment, a means for modifying the physical state comprises all or part of the additional elastic means, placed in the supply path and located adjacent, in the vicinity, or close to its lower upstream opening, with forced passage of material relative to the additional elastic means.

[0026] According to one embodiment, the additional elastic means is a straight helical compression spring, and acts as a jaw-type mechanical action device, the jaws being the - or - coils or parts of coils, capable, in the compressed state of the spring, of being able to crush, compress, roll, shear, cut, break the material located between the jaws / coils, the material being forced to pass through the jaws / coils. According to one embodiment, the conjugate parts of coils or parts of coils forming jaws have conjugate faces of complementary shapes extended in surface manner, in particular have at least partly conjugate faces that are substantially transverse and / or have pointed reliefs.

[0027] According to one embodiment, a physical state modification means is structurally distinct from the additional elastic means.

[0028] According to one embodiment, a means for modifying the physical state is of the jaw type, one of the jaws being associated with the pump body with a fixed connection by the internal part and comprising a stud directed and projecting downwards provided at the lower end of the internal part, the other of the jaws being a hollow collar open from one side to the other, directed upwards, forming part of the plunger tube towards its lower end, the stud and the collar being able to cooperate by their respective mating portions, lateral or edge, relative to the material located between them, the material being forced to pass between the nipple and the collar. According to one embodiment, a means for modifying the physical state is of the calibrated forced passage type arranged between two sections of faces of two portions of two parts arranged with reciprocal axial sliding, associated respectively with the pump body and the plunger tube with a fixed connection, i.e. a section of the lateral face of the internal part and a section of the internal lateral face of the plunger tube, the faces of the two sections being mated with reliefs forming the calibrated forced passage, the material being forced to pass between the nipple and the collar.According to one embodiment, the calibrated passage narrows from upstream to downstream, the mating faces being provided with reliefs forming a calibrated forced passage narrowing from upstream to downstream which is a continuous circulation space for material between an upstream inlet and a downstream outlet whose cross-sectional area decreases from upstream to downstream, larger upstream and smaller downstream. According to one embodiment, the portion of the part associated with the pump body comprises a lower portion of the lower end of the internal part, while the portion of the part associated with the dip tube comprises a lower portion of the dip tube.

[0029] According to one embodiment, there is provided on the one hand, on the upstream side, a means of modifying the physical state with either an additional elastic means placed in the supply path, or a nipple and a collar, and on the other hand, on the downstream side and in the vicinity of the previous one, a means of modifying the physical state with a calibrated forced passage, in particular narrowing from upstream to downstream.

[0030] According to one embodiment, a means for modifying the physical state is of the labyrinthine material passage type, arranged between two sections of faces of two axially extended portions of two parts arranged for reciprocal axial sliding, associated respectively with the pump body and the plunger tube with a fixed connection, i.e. a section of the lateral face of the internal part and a section of the internal lateral face of the plunger tube, the faces of the two sections being conjugated and provided with reliefs forming the labyrinthine passage which is a continuous circulation space of material between an upstream inlet and a downstream outlet comprising with the reliefs a tangle of meanders and baffles causing changes of direction and turbulence of the flow of the material which passes therein, with the effect of mixing it as the material advances from upstream to downstream, the material being forced to pass through the labyrinthine passage.According to one embodiment, the section of the lateral face of the internal part and the section of the internal face of the dip tube extend downwards and upwards to respectively the upstream inlet and the downstream outlet of the labyrinthine passage, the upstream inlet of the passage being located on the side and in the vicinity of the lower opening of the dip tube and the downstream outlet being. located until adjacent, in the vicinity, or close, while being axially spaced below the transverse material passage orifice, arranged on the tubular support and sealing portion. According to one embodiment, the or some of the reliefs are arranged so as to cross the axis with an inclination capable, on the one hand, of simultaneously allowing changes of direction and turbulence ensuring mixing and, on the other hand, of not preventing the advancement of the material. According to one embodiment, the or some of the reliefs are helical projections and peripheral transverse projections.

[0031] According to one embodiment, the fixed connection for associating the additional elastic means with the plunger tube is an axial support contact between the additional elastic means and the plunger tube, which is either direct or indirect - by means of a rigid intermediate part.

[0032] According to one embodiment, the additional elastic means and the dip tube are associated by a fixed connection by means, on the one hand, in the case of the additional elastic means of a first lower end turn, and, on the other hand, in the case of the dip tube of a first transverse offset of the dip tube, towards its upstream lower opening or towards its upper opening.

[0033] According to one embodiment, the fixed connection for associating the additional elastic means with the pump body is an axial support contact between the additional elastic means and the pump body, by means of a rigid intermediate part being either the internal part or a ferrule associated with the pump body.

[0034] According to one embodiment, the additional elastic means and the pump body are associated by a fixed connection by means, on the one hand, in the case of the additional elastic means of a first upper end turn, and, on the other hand, in the case of the pump body of the lower end of the internal part or of the ferrule.

[0035] According to one embodiment, the tubular support and sealing portion is hollow, closed at its lower end and open at its upper end, comprises at least one transverse orifice for the passage of material from the supply path to the dose cavity, is provided with a sliding sealing means, with lips, cooperating in axial sliding with and in the plunger tube, the orifice being located lower down, and the lip sealing means being located higher up, and forms a unitary assembly with the pump body, comprising upwards the pump body and downwards said tubular support and sealing portion, being either a lower end portion of the pump body which with the upper portion of the pump body forms a single piece, or a piece separate from the pump body itself but associated with it downwards with a fixed connection, in particular by fixed cooperation of its upper end and a hollow and lower end piece of the pump body.

[0036] According to one embodiment: - towards its upper opening, in particular by means of a transverse collar protruding annular, the dip tube is associated, by a fixed and watertight connection, with a high edge of the container limiting its opening, - the dip tube comprises, on the one hand, a top section capable of slidingly receiving the pump body and part of the tubular support and sealing portion, and, on the other hand, a bottom section for the material supply path of the dip tube, - the dip tube being multifunctional, relative to the material supply path, to the sealed axial sliding of the pump body and the tubular support and sealing portion, and by means of modification of physical state.

[0037] According to one embodiment: - the dip tube has a transverse orifice, - the lip sealing means of the tubular support and sealing portion comprises two lips, one high and the other low, spaced apart from each other axially, - the transverse orifice is, on the one hand, closed to be located between the two lips in the high position of the pump body, on the other hand, not closed to be located higher than the high lip in any position of the pump body other than its high position, - the arrangement comprising the transverse orifice and the two-lip sealing means forms an air intake when the pump control member is actuated.

[0038] According to one embodiment, the pump is of the air intake type comprising vents and air passages associated with parts of the pump in relative movement during use, so as to allow communication between the storage cavity in which a content C is located and the external atmosphere, each time a dose of composition has been dispensed, so as to ensure a corresponding air intake into the storage cavity. According to one embodiment, the container is rigid, non-deformable, in particular in a single part.

[0039] According to another embodiment: - the container comprises two separate rigid parts - a lower main part for the storage cavity and an upper part forming a neck, these parts being capable of being assembled to each other by their corresponding openings by a rigid connection and allowing, before their assembly, the installation inside the lower main part of a compensation piston, - the compensation piston, essentially annular in shape with a central orifice for the passage of the dip tube, is mounted in the lower main part of the container with axial sliding downwards as it is used of the pump dispenser bottle, between a high position - close to the top - when the storage cavity is filled with material of content C and a low position - adjacent to the bottom of the container - when the storage cavity has been emptied of material of content C, - the compensation piston comprises external sealing means and internal sealing means, respectively capable of ensuring external sealing with the inner face of the side wall of the lower part of the container and internal sealing with the outer face of the dip tube, the clearance angles of the container and the dip tube being chosen to ensure sealed contact with the sealing means of the compensation piston, in any position between the high position and the low position, - the pump is either air-intake or non-air-intake with an air passage through the container capable of allowing air from the outside atmosphere to come above the compensation piston, as and when in use, said air passage being provided in particular between the lower part and the upper part.

[0040] According to one aspect, the invention provides a pump-dispensing bottle of a fluid composition, in the assembled state and filled with content material C, comprising a pump-dispensing bottle as described, the content material C filling the storage cavity of the container. According to one embodiment, the content material C comprises a continuous fluid phase <1> FC and at least one discontinuous phase <FD, apte à distribuer une composition fluide.

[0041] According to one aspect, the invention provides a method of implementing such a pump dispenser bottle, in which: - with the implementation of the pump and by means of the actuation of the control member, the material of content C is sucked from the storage cavity to direct it towards and force it to pass through the material supply path, - with the subsequent implementation of at least one deformable and / or displaceable physical state modification means, the material of the flow passing through the supply path is acted upon, with a view to applying a contact force thereto with a view to modifying its physical state, such as in particular its fragmentation, its mixing, its agitation, its rheological modification, - with the location of the physical state modification means upstream of the pump motor and the pump body comprising the dose cavity, a fluid composition material to be dispensed is sent into the dose cavity and dispensed through the downstream dispensing orifice, the composition material to be distributed being fluid and having a modified physical state compared to that of the content material C of the storage cavity.

[0042] According to one aspect, the invention provides a device for supplying material and modi Physical state of matter formulation specially intended for a pump dispenser bottle as previously described, comprising: - a dip tube, axially extended, with a cylindrical wall having an internal face, a lower inlet opening, an upper outlet opening, the upper end of which is capable of being associated with a container of the pump dispenser bottle by a fixed connection, - a material supply path, located inside the dip tube, - a means of modifying the physical state, deformable and / or movable, associated with the dip tube and the supply line, capable, on the one hand, of acting on the material of the flow passing through the supply line, with a view to applying a contact force thereto with a view to modifying its physical state, such as in particular its fragmentation, its mixing, its agitation, its rheological modification, and, on the other hand, of being associated with a pump body of a pump-dispensing bottle by a fixed connection, - a means for modifying a physical state comprising - or being associated by a fixed connection with - an internal part, axially extended, having a peripheral lateral face, - a means of modifying the physical state and the internal part being housed inside the axially sliding plunger tube, the lateral face of the internal part and the internal lateral face of the plunger tube being combined with axial sliding, with the supply path between them.

[0043] The invention relates both to the pump dispenser bottle in its assembled configuration and in the state in which it is empty of contents, to the pump dispenser bottle in its assembled configuration and in the state in which it is filled with contents, and to the pump dispenser bottle in its dissociated configuration - in particular its container dissociated from its pumping and dispensing pump, or in any partially dissociated and partially assembled configuration. Brief description of the drawings Fig.l

[0044] [Fig.l] is an axial sectional view of a first embodiment of a pump dispenser bottle according to the invention, in the rest position, the manual control member of the pump not having been activated. In this embodiment, a single-part container is provided, an air intake pump having an elastic pump means, an additional elastic means arranged here downwards, a means for modifying the physical state of the contents / discontinuous phase of the contents comprising in particular the additional elastic means. Fig.2

[0045] [Fig.2] is a view similar to [Fig.l], illustrating an intermediate position following the pressing of the manual control device for the pumping and distribution pump. Fig.3

[0046] [Fig.3] is a view similar to [Fig.l], illustrating the extreme depressed position of the manual control unit for the pumping and distribution pump. Fig.4

[0047] [Fig.4] is an enlarged partial view of the upper part of the dispenser bottle at pump according to [Fig.l]. Fig.5

[0048] [Fig.5] is an enlarged partial view of the lower part of the dispenser bottle at pump according to [Fig.l]. Fig.6

[0049] [Fig.6] is an enlarged partial view of the upper part of the dispenser bottle at pump according to [Fig.2]. Fig. 7

[0050] [Fig.7] is an enlarged partial view of the lower part of the dispenser bottle at pump according to [Fig.2]. Fig.8

[0051] [Fig.8] is an enlarged partial view of the upper part of the dispenser bottle at pump according to [Fig.3]. Fig. 9

[0052] [Fig.9] is an axial sectional view illustrating a ring for fixing the pump to the container. Fig. 10

[0053] [Fig. 10] is an axial sectional view illustrating the pump motor, in which are represented a pump body having a low end piece associated with a tubular support and sealing portion represented in [Fig.l 1], a dose cavity, an elastic pump means, a piston, means for closing and opening the distribution path of the composition to be distributed and this path. Fig. ll

[0054] [Fig. 11] is an axial sectional view illustrating the tubular support portion and axial sliding sliding seal. Fig. 12

[0055] [Fig.12] is an elevational view of the additional elastic means, in the com fully relaxed, in an embodiment in which it is a straight compression coil spring, and acts as a jaw-type mechanical action device, with flat conjugate faces. Fig. 13

[0056] [Fig.13] is a view similar to [Fig. 12], the additional elastic means being at slightly compressed state. Fig. 14

[0057] [Fig.14] is a view similar to [Fig. 12], the additional elastic means being at the fully compressed state, the coils being in contact by their flat mating faces, forming a jaw. Fig. 15

[0058] [Fig.15] is a perspective view of the additional elastic means of [Fig. 12]. Fig. 16

[0059] [Fig. 16] is a perspective view of the additional elastic means of [Fig. 13]. Fig. 17

[0060] [Fig. 17] is a perspective view of the additional elastic means of [Fig. 14]. Fig. 18

[0061] [Fig. 18] is an axial sectional view of the dip tube, showing in particular an annular collar projecting towards its upper opening, allowing its association by a fixed and sealed connection to the container, reliefs on its internal face participating in the constitution of calibrated and labyrinthine passages respectively, and, at the bottom, a hollow and open collar, these as part of a means of modifying the physical state of the contents / discontinuous phase of the contents, and a terminal part at the bottom for supporting a strainer part. Fig. 19

[0062] [Fig.19] is an axial sectional view of an axially extended, rigid internal part, of a shape fitting into a cylinder, and of mechanical action, towards its lower end, this internal part being associated towards its upper end with a fixed connection to the tubular support and sealing portion and being mounted in the dip tube, showing in particular reliefs on its external face participating in the constitution of calibrated and labyrinthine passages respectively, and, at the bottom, a nipple directed and projecting downwards, these as part of a means of modifying the physical state of content / discontinuous phase of content. Fig. 20

[0063] [Fig.20] is an elevational view of a strainer part intended to be mounted on the bottom of the dip tube. Fig.21

[0064] [Fig.21] is an axial sectional view of the strainer part of [Fig.20]. Fig. 22

[0065] [Fig.22] is a top view of the strainer part of [Fig.20]. Fig.23

[0066] [Fig.23] is a top perspective view of the strainer part of [Fig.20]. Fig.24

[0067] [Fig.24] is an axial sectional view of a second embodiment of a dispenser bottle pump according to the invention, in the rest position, the manual control member of the pump not having been activated. In this embodiment, a container in two parts is provided, a descending air compensation piston mounted in the container and here in the high position before any withdrawal of contents, an air intake pump having an elastic pump means, an additional elastic means arranged here upwards, a means for modifying the physical state of the contents / discontinuous phase of the contents. Fig.25

[0068] [Fig.25] is an axial sectional view similar to [Fig.24], the compensation piston descending mounted in the container being here in the low position, after the contents have been removed. Fig.26

[0069] [Fig.26] is an axial sectional view illustrating the lower part of the container in two parts. Fig.27

[0070] [Fig.27] is an axial sectional view illustrating the upper part of the container in two parts. Fig.28

[0071] [Fig.28] is an axial sectional view illustrating the descending compensating piston mounted in the container. Fig.29

[0072] [Fig.29] is an elevational view of the additional elastic means, in the com fully relaxed, in an embodiment in which it is a conical compression coil spring. Fig. 30

[0073] [Fig.30] is a view similar to [Fig.29], the additional elastic means being at slightly compressed state. Fig.31

[0074] [Fig.31] is a view similar to [Fig.29], the additional elastic means being at the fully compressed state. Fig. 32

[0075] [Fig.32] is a perspective view of the additional elastic means of [Fig.29]. Fig.33

[0076] [Fig.33] is a perspective view of the additional elastic means of [Fig.30]. Fig.34

[0077] [Fig.34] is a perspective view of the additional elastic means of [Fig.31]. Fig.35

[0078] [Fig.35] is an elevational view of the dip tube, showing in particular a annular collar projecting towards its upper opening, allowing its association by a fixed and watertight connection to the container, and a vent. Fig.36

[0079] [Fig.36] is an axial sectional view of the dip tube of [Fig.35], showing in particular the annular collar for sealing the container, reliefs on its internal face participating in the constitution of calibrated and labyrinthine passages respectively, and, at the bottom, a hollow and open collar, these as part of a means of modifying the physical state of the contents / discontinuous phase of the contents, and a terminal part at the bottom for supporting a strainer part. Fig.37

[0080] [Fig.37] is an elevational view of an axially extended, rigid, internal part of shape fitting into a cylinder, and of mechanical action, towards its lower end, this internal part being associated towards its upper end with a fixed connection to the tubular support and sealing portion and being mounted in the plunger tube, showing in particular reliefs on its external face participating in the constitution of calibrated and labyrinthine passages respectively. Fig.38

[0081] [Fig.38] is an axial sectional view of the internal part of [Fig.37].

[0082] In the figures, the different constituent parts of the pump dispenser bottle are not necessarily shown on the same scale, in order to be more easily readable. DESCRIPTION OF PARTICULAR EMBODIMENTS

[0083] Several particular embodiments of the pump dispenser bottle 1 according to the invention are described below. Several particular embodiments of the constituent parts of such a pump dispenser bottle 1 are also described, in particular a device with a dip tube and means for modifying the physical state of matter. These descriptions are made with reference to the drawings of the figures. The invention relates both to the pump dispenser bottle 1 in the particular embodiments described and shown, as well as to the pump dispenser bottle 1 comprising other combinations of the constituent parts in the different particular embodiments described and shown. The invention relates both to the pump dispenser bottle 1 in its assembled configuration, both in the state in which it is empty of contents C, and in the state in which it is filled with contents C. The invention also relates to the pump-dispensing bottle 1 in its dissociated configuration - in particular the container 2 which it comprises being dissociated from the pumping and dispensing pump 3 which it comprises (or, by ellipse, "pump") -, or in any partially dissociated and partially assembled configuration. The invention relates to a device with a dip tube and means for modifying the physical state of matter. The invention also relates to a method for implementing a pump-dispensing bottle 1. The contents C is the material which is in the storage cavity 4 of the container 2, while the composition is the material dispensed by the pump 3, and which comes from this content. The description is made more specifically with reference to a content C comprising a continuous fluid phase OFC and at least one discontinuous phase <1> D (matter found in the form of elements in a dispersed state in the continuous fluid phase OFC).Indeed, the pump dispenser bottle 1 is suitable for such a content C (having the OFC and OD phases), while dispensing a composition which is fluid. In this case, the physical state of the material of the content C must therefore be modified (such as in particular fragmented, mixed, agitated, rheologically modified) to form the dispensed composition. Between the physical state of the material of content C and the physical state of the dispensing material, the physical state of the material is said to be "intermediate" and the material referred to as "intermediate state material". However, the application to a content C comprising a continuous fluid phase OFC and at least one discontinuous phase <1> D is not exhaustive.

[0084] The terms used must be understood and interpreted in light of the field of the invention, the general knowledge of those skilled in the art and the state of the art, as presented above.

[0085] In the description and claims, the expression "suitable for", as applied to a means, is to be understood as meaning that this means has the qualities which are correct, necessary or suitable for something, in particular as would be understood by a person skilled in the art. The term "essentially" attached to a qualifier is to be understood as meaning as close or similar to what the qualifier in question means, or modified in a way which would be considered typical and reasonable by a person skilled in the art (e.g. manufacturing tolerances, etc.). The term "substantial" or "substantially" is to be understood as meaning principal, primordial, consequent, important.The terms "typical" and "typically", in relation to a certain realization of a means, are to be understood as meaning that this realization constitutes a particularly characteristic example of such a means, without, however, in general, being exclusive of other possibilities. The term "substantially" reflects the notion of much or strongly and is to be understood as meaning in an appreciable, significant, important, notable, clear, way. perceptible. The term "almost" should be understood to mean almost.

[0086] In the description and claims, "axial" refers to that which is essentially arranged in the axis A of the pump dispenser bottle 1 or its constituent parts, or parallel to it. "Transverse" refers to that which is essentially arranged perpendicular to the axis A, whether or not passing through it. "Peripheral" refers to that which is arranged on the periphery going around, relative to the axis A. "Lateral" refers to that which is next to the axis A. "Internal" refers to that which is closest to the axis A or facing towards it, while "external" refers to that which is furthest from the axis A or facing away from it. "Internal" refers to that which is placed inside the assembled pump dispenser bottle 1, while "external" refers to that which is placed outside, in the external atmosphere.

[0087] In the description and the claims, relative terms relating to a position, such as "top", (i.e. located at or towards the upper part) "bottom" (i.e. located at or towards the lower part), etc. as well as their derivatives or analogous terms such as "upper", "lower", "above", "above", "below", "below", as well as the term "bottom", must be interpreted as referring to the orientation of the pump dispenser bottle 1 or its constituent parts, as described with reference to the drawings of the figures. This orientation is that where the axis A is vertical, the pump 3 being above the container 2, which rests on its bottom 5. This orientation is typically that of a pump dispenser bottle 1 on a shelf (for storage, sale or between two uses).These relative terms are for convenience of description only and are not limiting, the pump dispenser bottle 1 being able to be in any orientation.

[0088] In the description and claims, relative terms relating to a position such as "upstream", "downstream", are to be understood with reference to the normal direction of movement of the content material, the intermediate state material and the distribution material. The terms "before" and "after" are to be interpreted in the same way.

[0089] In the description and the claims, the qualifier "associated" used in relation to several means must be understood in general, as meaning that these means are combined structurally and / or functionally with a view to a certain result. The expression "associated with a fixed connection" used in relation to two means, must be understood as meaning that these two means are united in such a way that the movement, or the stopping, of one is the cause, or the concomitant consequence, of the movement, or the stopping, of the other, the nature (e.g. translation, rotation) and the amplitude of the movements being identical, and this from the beginning to the end. Means associated with a fixed connection are rigidly secured to each other either directly, from a way or another (including for example the case of an end coil of a spring - this coil being considered either complete or incomplete, such as a section of coil - being one of the means, resting on a part being the other of the means, so that this end coil and this part are thus associated by a fixed connection, notwithstanding, moreover, the deformation of the spring) or indirectly by means of a rigid intermediate part secured to the two means. Consequently, the expression "rigid intermediate part" must be understood as designating a simple multiple or composite part, capable, on the one hand, of being secured to two distant means and, on the other hand, of transmitting an identical and concomitant movement from one to the other of the two means. For example, in the case of an axial translational movement, a "rigid intermediate part" may be, without limitation, a rod, a cylinder, a portion of material.

[0090] In the description and the claims, the qualifier "conjugated" used in relation to two wall faces, must be understood as meaning that, relative to each other, these faces are arranged - or capable of being arranged - opposite - or essentially opposite - each other, and in contact or almost in contact with each other, with a view to a given effect resulting from this relative arrangement. The faces in mutual sliding contact of two walls capable of moving relative to each other, can also be described as conjugated, and more precisely as sliding conjugated. In the description and the claims, the term "portion" must be understood as designating a particular piece of material constituting such or such part of the dispensing bottle 1, or a specific part of a part of the dispensing bottle 1, or a determined element of the dispensing bottle 1.

[0091] In the description and the claims, an elastic means is for example, and not limited to, a spring. The expression "elastic means" must therefore be understood as designating such a spring or a means of a different nature ensuring the same function with a view to an identical or similar result.

[0092] In the description and claims, the expression "aperture with axial passage" should be understood to mean that the orientation of this opening allows passage through it in the axial direction. Such an axial passage opening may, where appropriate, be further qualified as transverse to indicate that it extends transversely.

[0093] In the description and the claims, when it is indicated that a part, a portion, a face is arranged or mounted to slide axially, it must be understood that this sliding can be in one or the other of the directions bottom to top and top to bottom.

[0094] In the description and claims, the term "end" should be understood to mean, both and equally, extreme part, end edge, unless otherwise specified or understood.

[0095] The container 2, rigid, non-deformable and self-supporting, has a side wall peripheral 6, essentially cylindrical, with an inner lateral face 6a and an outer face, the bottom 5, lower and transverse, with an inner face 5a and an outer support face 5b, and an opening 7, upper and transverse, defining and limiting the upper edge 7a of the container 2. The spacing between the inner face 5a of the bottom 5 and the opening 7 defines the internal depth of the container 2. Typically, the container 2 and its side wall 6 comprise a lower main part 8a and an upper part 8b, which may be of smaller diameter and form a neck 8b at the upper end of which the opening 7 is provided. Depending on the designs and requirements, the lower main part 8a and the upper part 8b form either a single, single-piece part ([Fig.l]-3) or two parts assembled and fixedly associated with each other by their corresponding openings by a rigid connection.This embodiment allows - before the assembly of the two parts of the container 2 - the installation inside the lower main part 8a of a compensation piston 49 ([Fig.24]-27). The cavity 4, formed inside the container 2, in the lower part 8a, is capable of receiving the material of content C and thus of storing it before distribution. Depending on the embodiments, the container 2 is made of plastic or glass, subject to the required tolerances. For example, the container 2 can have an axial height of the order of 50 mm to 250 mm, an external diameter of the order of 40 mm to 120 mm. The container 2 can contain of the order of 10 ml (in the case of a sampler or a tester) to 1000 ml of content C.The container 2 may be the subject of other embodiments provided that they ensure the functions of supporting the constituent means of the pump dispenser bottle 1 and of containing the content material C, the dispensing material and the intermediate state material.

[0096] The pump 3 comprises an arrangement 9a for rigid attachment to the container 2, around its opening 7, cooperating with a complementary arrangement 9b of the container 2, the two arrangements 9a, 9b being able to cooperate. When it is desired that the attachment of the pump 3 to the container 2 be irremovable to prevent any possibility of opening, these arrangements 9a, 9b may be of the snap-fastening or locking type. When, on the contrary, it is desired that the attachment of the pump 3 to the container 2 be removable, these arrangements 9a, 9b may typically be threads, such as an external thread 9b for the container 2 and an internal thread 9a located on a lower part of a first internal jacket 10a of a fixing ring 10 of the pump 3 ([Fig.9]).This ring 10, hollow and open from one side to the other, further comprises a second outer peripheral lateral sleeve 10b, of larger diameter, and a median transverse wall 10c with a central mounting orifice 10d. With this embodiment, the ring 10 provides support for the other means and parts of the pump 3, and, by means of an upper part of the internal sleeve 10a, the axial sliding guide of its control member 11. On the other hand, the . middle transverse wall 10c is axially spaced from the upper edge 7a of the container 2.

[0097] The pump 3 itself may be typically of the known type called a “cosmetic pump”, even if the content C and the composition dispensed may be different from a cosmetic product. Also, typically, the pump 3, supported by the fixing ring 10, comprises a manual control member 11, external at least in part so as to be able to be actuated by the user, which can be moved between two extreme positions, on the one hand a rest position, high ([Fig.l], 4, 24), on the other hand a pumping and dispensing position ([Fig.3], 8). In the embodiments of the drawings, the control member 11 is a push-button, with, adjoining below, an essentially cylindrical push-button base 12 which extends it downwards and which is mounted to slide axially in the first internal jacket 10a, towards its upper portion, above the median transverse wall 10c. Thus, the control member 11 projects above the ring 10.The pump 3 then comprises a distribution channel 13 - that is to say a passage allowing the transfer of the composition material with a view to its distribution -, passing in particular through the control member 11 and its pusher base 12 forming a channel, and opening downstream into the atmosphere via a distribution orifice 13a. The pump 3 then comprises what is typically called a “pump motor” 14. Such a pump motor 14 typically comprises an elastic pumping means 15, axially deformable for an axial operating movement over a pump motor stroke, a pump body 16 which makes it possible to delimit a dose cavity 16a whose volume is increased and decreased, successively, during operation and suctions and discharges, and means 17 for opening / closing the distribution channel 13, such as valves 17.By way of example, the dispenser bottle 1 may have an overall axial height - including the container 2 and the pump 3 - of the order of 60 mm to 390 mm.

[0098] Such a pump 3, in itself, as well as the means, members and parts which are part of it, can be the subject, concerning this or that characteristic or this or that constituent means, of a number of embodiments known or within the reach of those skilled in the art. Thus, according to non-limiting examples, the control member 11 can be a push button, located in the upper part, actuated by axial downward pressure, then which releases upwards (as in the embodiments of the drawings), or a pivotally mounted trigger. The actuation of the control member 11 must be understood as a complete cycle of pressing and releasing. The elastic pumping means 15 can be a helical spring, such as a straight helical spring (as in the embodiments of the drawings), or a deformable envelope.In the embodiments of the drawings, the elastic pumping means 15 is spaced from the distribution path 13 of the pump and thus it is not in contact with the distribution material. (no more than material of content C or material of intermediate state) with the inherent advantages. The distribution orifice 13a can be lateral with a transverse axis (as in the embodiments of the drawings), or axial. It may or may not be provided with a nozzle for shaping the flow of distributed distribution material. The valves of the opening / closing means 17 can be, for example, of the nipple type cooperating with a pierced seat, or of the closable hole type, or of the pierced membrane type deformable between an open state and a closed state or of another type. These different embodiments are neither limiting nor exclusive of others.

[0099] In the embodiments of the drawings, neither limiting nor exclusive of others, the pump body 16 comprises a receptacle part 18 ([Fig. 10], 24, 25), with a peripheral side wall 18a, a low seat 18b, with a transverse opening 18ba, with axial passage, with which is associated an opening / closing valve 17, and a high transverse opening 18d, with axial passage. By construction, the receptacle part 28 is associated upwards, around its opening 18d, by a fixed connection, such as an axial fitting, with an annular space 19a, projecting upwards and open downwards, of a ferrule 19 ([Fig. 10]), hollow and open from one side to the other.The ferrule 19 comprises an internal peripheral side wall 19b extending axially downwards from the annular space 19a and internally limiting the annular space 19a, an external peripheral side wall 19e axially short and externally limiting the annular space 19a, an internal transverse portion 19c and an external transverse portion 19d, essentially coplanar. The internal transverse portion 19c is adjacent to the internal side wall 19b and formed by a radial offset thereof. The external transverse portion 19d is adjacent to the external side wall 19e and directed outwards. Referring more particularly to [Fig.4], 6, 8, 24, 25, the internal transverse portion 19c - by its upper face - acts as a lower seat for the lower end of the elastic pumping means 15, like its lower turn. The external transverse portion 19d acts as an axial sliding end-of-travel lock.For this purpose, on the one hand, the external transverse portion 19d can cooperate in an upward locking manner with the transverse wall 10c of the ring 10 - by its lower face. And, on the other hand, the external transverse portion 19d can cooperate in a downward locking manner with the upper edge 7a of the container 2, directly or indirectly. The free space between the transverse wall 10c of the ring 10 and the upper edge 7a of the container 2 allows the pump body 16, via the ferrule 19, to be moved in axial sliding upwards and downwards, relative to the container 2 and to the ring 10. The axial spacing between the transverse wall 10c of the ring 10 and the upper edge 7a of the container 2 makes it possible to define the stroke of this axial sliding. In the high position of the ferrule 19, its annular space 19d passes through the central orifice 10d of the ring 10.

[0100] A hollow tubular support and sealing portion 20 is provided ([Fig. 11]), forming a unitary assembly with the pump body 16, comprising the pump body 16 upwards and the tubular support and sealing portion 20 downwards. In the embodiments of the drawings, the tubular support and sealing portion 20 is a part separate from the pump body 16 itself but associated with it below, downwards with a fixed connection, in particular by fixed cooperation, such as an axial fitting, of the upper end 20a of the tubular support and sealing portion 20 and a hollow and lower end piece 18c of the receptacle part 18 of the pump body 16 ([Fig. 10]). This embodiment is not exclusive of another, in which the tubular support and sealing portion 20 is a lower end portion of the pump body 16 which with its upper portion comprising in particular the receptacle part 18 forms a single and same part.Portion 20 is referred to as "tubular" for the reason that, like a tube, its general shape is cylindrical and hollow, with an opening 20a at one end. The portion 20 is referred to as "supporting" and "sealing" because, on the one hand, it provides a support function for the internal part 39 (and what is associated with it by a fixed connection) and, on the other hand, it provides a sealing function with a dip tube 26. The tubular support and sealing portion 20 is also carried by the pump body 16 and, like the pump body 16, it is mounted to slide axially in a sealed manner inside the dip tube 26. The tubular support and sealing portion 20 ([Fig. 11]) has an open upper end 20a, on the one hand for mounting the end piece 18c of the receptacle part 18 - when such an assembly is provided - and, on the other hand, an opening for axial passage for the distribution material to be distributed.The tubular support and sealing portion 20 further comprises a hollow peripheral side wall 20b, with a lower end 20c and a transverse closing wall 20ca, located at the appropriate location to prevent the distribution material to be distributed from flowing downwards, for example located towards the lower end 20c ([Fig.l 1]), or else located a little further upwards from the lower end 20c ([Fig.24], 25). From this point of view, the tubular support and sealing portion 20 is blind, while comprising a transverse orifice 4L.

[0101] In the embodiments of the drawings, neither limiting nor exclusive of others, there is also provided a functional assembly comprising a piston rod 21 and a piston 23 ([Fig. 11]). The piston rod 21 comprises a lower part 22a, swollen and of larger diameter, and an upper part 22b, of smaller diameter and axially extended. The piston rod 21 is carried by a fixed connection to the tappet base 13. In the embodiments of the drawings, there is provided a rigid intermediate piece, such as a tube 22c, axially extended, which, on the one hand, is associated by a fixed connection, such as an axial fitting, over the upper part 22b, and, on the other hand, is associated by a fixed connection, such as an axial fitting, from below, in the channel of the distribution path 13 in the tappet base 12, at its lower part, so as to be slidably driven by the tappet base 12 and the control member 11, rigidly associated with each other. The piston 23 is mounted on - and around - the upper part 22b in the vicinity of the lower part 22a. The piston 23 has two pairs of sealing lips, namely two inner lips, respectively high and directed upwards and low and directed downwards, in sealing contact with the upper part 22b of the piston rod 21 and two outer lips, respectively high and directed upwards and low and directed downwards, in sealing contact with the inner face of the peripheral side wall 18a.The lower internal sealing lip can cooperate in axial locking downwards with the junction between the lower part 22a and the upper part 22b of the piston rod 21. The upper internal sealing lip can cooperate in axial locking upwards with the lower edge of the tube 22c, by means - in the rest position of the pump control member 11 - of an axial spacing which is compensated when the pump control member 11 is pressed in. The lower external sealing lip can cooperate in sliding contact downwards with the internal face of the peripheral side wall 18a. The upper external sealing lip can cooperate in axial locking upwards with the lower edge of the internal peripheral side wall 19b of the ferrule 19. The piston 23 - piston rod 21 assembly is furthermore arranged to slide axially in the pump body 16, namely its receptacle part 18.The dose cavity 16a is limited, at the top by the piston 23 and the piston rod 21, at the bottom by the low seat 18b of the receptacle part 18, and laterally peripherally by the internal face of the peripheral side wall portion 18a placed between them. A transverse orifice 24, with transverse passage, is provided in the piston rod 21 at the bottom of its upper part 22b, in the vicinity of the lower part 22a. It communicates with an axial channel forming part of the distribution path 13, provided in the piston rod 22, and it makes it possible to put the dose cavity 16a in communication, via the distribution path 13, with the distribution orifice 13a. This orifice 24 can be hidden or open depending on the relative position of the piston 22, and it participates in a high valve of the means 17 for opening / closing the distribution path 13.As a result of the axial sliding upwards or downwards, the volume of the dose cavity 16a is increased and decreased during operation, with the orifice 2' then being open during suction and discharge. A transverse collar 25 in the upper part of the piston rod 22 or of the rigid tubular intermediate part 22a, or else adjoining the pusher base 13 acts as an upper seat for the upper end of the elastic pumping means 15. The elastic pumping means 15 is therefore interposed between, downwards, the transverse wall 10c of the ring 10 and, upwards, the transverse collar 25, therefore the pusher base 12 and . the control member 11, urging the latter towards its rest position and being able to be compressed when the control member 11 is pressed in. The pump 3 can be the subject of other embodiments provided that they ensure the function of suction of the material of content C and delivery of the material for dispensing the composition.

[0102] Depending on the embodiments, the pump 3 itself is either of the air intake type in the embodiments of the drawings or of the non-air intake type (commonly known as "airless"), this embodiment not being shown in the drawings. With an air intake pump 3, as in the embodiments of the drawings, the principle, known per se, is the provision of vents or air passages from the external atmosphere, associated with parts of the pump 3 in relative movement during use, so as to allow communication between the storage cavity 4 of the container 2 in which the contents C are located and the external atmosphere, each time a dose of the dispensing material has been dispensed, so as to ensure a corresponding entry of air into the storage cavity 4 of the container 2 when the contents are sucked up. Such a vent or air passage 3a is shown between the two external lips of the piston 23, in [Fig. 11].With a pump 3 without air intake, the principle, known per se, is to provide that the container 2 is provided with a compensation piston mounted to slide axially, which, during use, moves so as to allow the storage cavity 4 of the container 2 where the contents C are located to see its volume reduced each time a dose of composition has been dispensed.

[0103] Referring to [Fig. 3], 8, 18, 24, 35, 36, the pump dispenser bottle 1 also comprises a plunger tube 26, straight and axially extended, suitable for guiding and sliding inside the pump body 16, the tubular support and sealing portion 20 and the internal part 39. The plunger tube 26 substantially comprises a cylindrical wall 26a having an external face 26aa and an internal face 26ab, which laterally and peripherally limits the interior of the plunger tube 26. The plunger tube 26 with the pump body 16, the tubular support and sealing portion 20 and the internal part 39 mounted therein forms a whole having a rigid hold. For example, the plunger tube 26 is rigid, at least not substantially deformable when the pump dispenser bottle 1 is implemented. In one embodiment, the dip tube 26 has an axial length corresponding to the internal depth of the container 2.In this case, neither limiting nor exclusive of others, the dip tube 26 sinks and penetrates entirely into the container 2, downwards to the vicinity of the inner face 5a of its bottom 5, with a lower end 28 and a lower opening 28a being adjacent, without obstruction, to the inner face 5a of the bottom 5. The dip tube 26 firstly acts as a material passageway 27 for the material coming from the material of content C (such as the intermediate state material), in the upstream-downstream direction, capable of allowing the passage of content C in the upstream- direction. downstream from the storage cavity 4 to the material passageway 27 of the dip tube 26. The lower opening 28a of the dip tube 26 should be close, and in particular closest, to the inner face 5a of the bottom 5 of the container 2, without risking being obscured by it, which would prevent the passage of the contents C. The dip tube 26 also comprises, towards the upper end 29 of its cylindrical wall 26a, a transverse upper opening 29a with axial passage. The distribution channel 13 of the pump 3 is fluidically associated upstream, that is to say downwards, with the material passage channel 27 of the plunger tube 26. The diameter inside the plunger tube 26, that is to say the diameter of its internal face 26ab is capable of allowing the internal part 39, which is axially extended, to be housed inside the plunger tube 26.For this purpose, the diameter inside the dip tube 26 is larger than the typical diameter of dip tubes of the state of the art which are not provided and intended for housing and sliding such an internal part. By way of example, the dip tubes of the state of the art have an inside diameter typically of the order of 1 mm to 4 mm, the inside diameter of the dip tube 26 of the pump dispenser bottle 1 may have an inside diameter of the order of 10 mm, that is to say of the order of 2.5 times to 10 times larger, except in its lower upstream part where there is a restriction of 1 mm to 4 mm.

[0104] Towards its upper opening 29a, the dip tube 26 is associated with a fixed and sealed connection 30 to the container 2 towards its opening 7, so that the container 2 carries the dip tube 26. For this purpose, a fixed and sealed connection is provided between a transverse, annular collar 30a, projecting radially outwards, which the dip tube 26 comprises around its upper opening 29a ([Fig.4], 6, 8, 18, 24, 25, 35, 36) and a transverse peripheral edge 30b (like an end edge - [Fig.4], 6, 8, 18 - or a transverse, annular collar, projecting radially inwards - [Fig.24], 25, 35, 36) which the container 2 comprises, if necessary by interposing a sealing joint. With this arrangement, the dip tube 26 is not integrally fixed to the pump body 16, and it is separate from the pump 3, without forming with it a unitary assembly presented as such, as is typically known from the state of the art.Furthermore, the dip tube 26 comprises not only a low section 26b for the passage of the material coming from the material of content C (such as the intermediate state material), extended downwards, but also a high section 26c, extended upwards for guiding and sliding inside the pump body 16 and the associated tubular support and sealing portion 20. The low section 26b and the high section 26c have axial lengths which may be in a ratio ranging from 2 / 1 to 1 / 2. The dip tube 26 may be the subject of other embodiments provided that they provide the various functions previously explained, the dip tube 26 being multifunctional. Thus, the dip tube 26 may be a single-piece unit or may comprise . several sections joined end to end.

[0105] In another embodiment, shown in the drawings, but which is neither limiting nor exclusive of others, the dip tube has an axial length almost corresponding to, but slightly smaller than, the internal depth of the container 2, with its lower end 28 and its lower opening 28a just a little spaced from the inner face 5a of the bottom 5. The dip tube 26 is then extended downwards at its lower end 28 by a strainer piece 31 - so named with regard to its shape - ([Fig. l]-3, 5, 7, 20-23, 24, 25). The strainer piece 31 is hollow and essentially cylindrical in shape. The strainer piece 31a has an upper end portion 31a for association with the lower end 28 of the dip tube 26, so that the dip tube 26 and the strainer piece 31 form a coherent unit which holds together. The upper terminal part 31a comprises an upper opening with axial passage fluidly associated with the lower opening 28b directed axially of the dip tube 26.The strainer part 31a, on the other hand, a lower end part 31b having a lower edge 31c adjacent to, or in contact with, or applied to the bottom 5 of the container 2. The lower end part 31b has at least one notch 32 on its lower edge 31c, forming, with the bottom 5 of the container 2, at least one lateral opening 32a, with transverse passage, for the passage of the content material C downstream. This arrangement makes it possible to ensure that the opening 32a is not blocked in particular by the bottom 5 of the container 2. According to one embodiment, for example in the case where the dimensions of the container 2 are precise, with typically a container 2 made of plastic, the upper end part 31a of the strainer part 31 is associated with the lower end 28 of the dip tube 26 by a fixed connection such as an axial fitting.According to another embodiment, for example in the case where the dimensions of the container 2 are not as precise, with typically a container 2 made of glass, the upper end part 31a of the strainer part 31 is associated with the lower end 28 of the dip tube 26 by a connection allowing a certain axial sliding, so that the lower edge 31c of the strainer part 31 is ensured to be in contact with the inner face 5a of the bottom 5 of the container 2 although the dimensions of the latter may vary somewhat. With the provision of a strainer part 31 having the characteristics previously described, it is ensured that all the contents C of the storage cavity 4 can be sucked up, including that on the bottom 5 of the almost empty container 2.The strainer part 31, when provided, can be the subject of other embodiments provided that they ensure the functions of suction of the contents C at the bottom 5 of the container 2 and of holding in position the lower end 28 of the dip tube 26.

[0106] In another embodiment, not shown, different from the two previously described, the dip tube 26 has a smaller axial length, in particular substantially smaller (for example ranging from % to ¾) than the internal depth of the container 2. The lower end 28 and the lower opening 28a are then spaced apart axially from the inner face 5a of the bottom 5. The dip tube 26 is then provided with a tubular extension downwards, having a lower end with a lower opening adjacent, without obstruction, to the inner face 5a of the bottom 5. The dip tube 26 comprises, on the one hand, an upper part, typically rigid, in which the entire internal part 39 is located, the axial length of which is adapted to that of the upper part and, on the other hand, a lower part empty of any part such as the internal part. This lower part can be comparable to a conventional dip tube, for example be deformable, so as to bend against the inner face 5a of the bottom 5. Its lower end with its lower opening are adjacent, without obstruction, to the inner face (5a) of the bottom (5),

[0107] The pump body 16, with the associated tubular support and sealing portion 20, is mounted to slide axially in a sealed manner inside the plunger tube 26, in response to the movement of the control member 11, which is made possible due to the existence of the free space between the transverse wall 10c of the ring 10 and the upper edge 7a of the container 2, the spacing of which makes it possible to define the stroke of the axial sliding. Thus, the pump body 16 with the tubular support and sealing portion 20 can be moved on the stroke in question between two positions, one high - when the external transverse portion 19c of the ferrule 19 associated with the pump body 16, cooperates in locking upwards, with the transverse wall 10c of the ring 10 -, and the other low - when the external transverse portion 19c of the ferrule 19 associated with the pump body 16, cooperates in locking downwards with the high edge 7a of the container 2, directly or indirectly.With the above arrangements, the plunger tube 26, namely its upper section 26c, acts as an axial sliding guide for the pump body 16 and the associated tubular support and sealing portion 20. And the lower section 26b acts as a passage for the material coming from the content material C, such as the intermediate state material. The assembly of the pump body 16, with the associated tubular support and sealing portion 20, with the plunger tube 26 can be the subject of other embodiments provided that they ensure the axial sliding function relative to the other constituent means of the pump 3.

[0108] The pump dispenser bottle 1 further comprises an additional elastic means 33 distinct from the elastic pumping means 15 and which is added to it, structurally and functionally, hence the term “additional”. This additional elastic means 33 is axially deformable for an axial operating movement over a stroke of the additional elastic means, and arranged so as to urge the pump body 16 towards its high position. With such an additional elastic means 33 distinct from the elastic pumping means 15, the operation of the control member 11 from the rest position to the pumping and dispensing position causes, on the one hand, the compression of the additional elastic means 33 thanks to the axial sliding mounting of the pump body 16 in the dip tube 26 between the two high and low positions and, on the other hand, the compression of the elastic pumping means 15. The pump can therefore be described as two-stage, corresponding to the stroke of the elastic pumping means 15 and the stroke of the additional elastic means 33.

[0109] In one embodiment ([Fig.l]-3, 5, 7) the additional elastic means 33 is located axially spaced from the pump motor 14 and, in this case, is located towards the lower inlet opening 28a of the dip tube, more particularly towards the bottom 5 of the container 2. In one embodiment ([Fig.24], 25), the additional elastic means 33 is located close to the pump motor 14 itself. In one embodiment ([Fig.l]-3, 5, 7), the additional elastic means 33 is located inside the dip tube 26 and therefore is in contact with the material coming from the content material C, such as the intermediate state material. In one embodiment ([Fig.24], 25), the additional elastic means 33 is not located inside the dip tube 26 and is spaced from the pump delivery path 13, so as not to be in contact with the content material C, such as the intermediate state material, or the delivery material, with the inherent advantages.In one embodiment ([Fig.l]-3, 5, 7), the additional elastic means 33 is located towards the bottom of the pump dispenser bottle 1 on the side of the bottom 5 of the container 2, and in another embodiment ([Fig.24], 25), the additional elastic means 33 is located rather towards the top of the pump dispenser bottle 1, on the side of the pump 3. In one embodiment ([Fig.l]-3, 5, 7, 12-17), the additional elastic means 33 is a straight-type compression helical spring. In one embodiment ([Fig.24], 25, 29-34), the additional elastic means 33 is a compression helical spring with taper, such as a conical or biconical spring. In other embodiments, the additional elastic means 33 is a member of a different nature from that of a helical spring, but ensuring the same function as a helical spring, and this in the context of the pump dispenser bottle 1 according to the invention.In the embodiments of the drawings, it is provided that the additional elastic means 33 is unique, that is to say alone. In other embodiments, the additional elastic means 33 is plural and comprises several helical compression springs or members ensuring the same function, arranged so as to be in axial extension and / or to be nested one inside the other with radial spacing. According to another embodiment (not shown), two additional elastic means 33 are provided, one located towards the bottom of the pump dispenser bottle 1 on the side of the bottom 5 of the container 2 and the other located rather towards the top of the pump dispenser bottle 1, on the side of the pump 3. It is possible to provide that these two additional elastic means 33 are both of the helical type with conicity, or both of the straight helical type, or one located (that . located downwards or the one located upwards) of helical type with taper and the other (the one located upwards or the one located downwards) of straight helical type As an example, with an additional elastic means 33 being a straight type compression helical spring, the axial height of the spring when empty can be approximately 13.5 mm, in pre-compressed state 9.6 mm and compressed 3.6 mm, which corresponds to a functional stroke of 6 mm. In general, the different embodiments envisaged above can, as far as possible, be more or less combined with each other. Furthermore, the additional elastic means 33 can be the subject of other embodiments as long as they ensure the same function.

[0110] The additional elastic means 33 is arranged between the plunger tube 26 and the pump body 16 for their relative axial movement and is associated with a fixed connection to the plunger tube 26 and the pump body 16, respectively. The additional elastic means 33 being deformable as a whole, its fixed connection to the plunger tube 26 and the pump body 16 must be understood as a fixed connection of each of its ends respectively to the plunger tube 26 and the pump body 16. In the case where the additional elastic means 33 is a spring, each of its ends is one of its end turns, or of a terminal section of one of its end turns.Thus, in the case of a spring, a fixed connection may consist - notwithstanding the overall deformation of the spring - of the bearing contact of an end coil of the spring (or of a section of an end coil) on the part with which there is a rigid connection, such as in this case the dip tube 26 or the pump body 16, by means of, where appropriate, a rigid intermediate part, such as - in particular and where appropriate - and in the case of the pump body 16, the internal part 39 or the ferrule 19. Such a bearing contact has the effect that the additional elastic means 33 is joined to the dip tube 26 or to the pump body 16, respectively, in the sense that the movement, or the stopping, of one is the cause, or the concomitant consequence, of the movement, or the stopping, of the other. This support contact can be, as indicated, either direct or indirect by means of a rigid intermediate part associated with the additional elastic means 33, and / or with the plunger tube 26 or with the pump body 16.Different embodiments, neither limiting nor exclusive of others, responding to what has just been explained can be envisaged. Embodiments are now described, in the case where the additional elastic means 33 is a spring. These embodiments can be transposed and adapted to cases where the additional elastic means 33 is not a spring, but an equivalent member.

[0111] In an embodiment ([Fig. 1 ]-3, 5, 7) in which the additional elastic means 33 - here a straight spring - is located towards the bottom of the pump dispenser bottle 1, on the side of the bottom 5, inside the dip tube 26, the additional spring 33 and the dip tube 26 are provided with respective first conjugate transverse portions 35a, 35b, such as the lower end coil 35a of the additional spring 33 and a first transverse step 35b of the plunger tube 26 located towards its lower opening 28, just below the additional spring 33. A rigid intermediate piece may be provided associated with one and / or the other of these first conjugate portions 35a, 35b. The first transverse step 35b of the plunger tube 26 may be formed and arranged between the cylindrical wall 26a of the plunger tube 26 and a collar 36 forming part of the plunger tube 26, being its lower end 28. This collar 36 is axial and of smaller diameter than the cylindrical wall 26a. Reference made to [Fig. 18], the collar 36 is hollow and open from one side to the other, forming the lower opening 28a of the dip tube 26. The collar 36 comprises an upper part 36a and a lower part 36b, respectively arranged above and below the first transverse recess 35b.The strainer part 31, when provided, is associated with the lower part 36b of the collar 36.

[0112] In an embodiment ([Fig.24], 25) in which the additional elastic means 33 - here a conical spring with a large lower turn and a small upper turn - is located rather towards the top of the pump dispenser bottle 1, on the side of the pump 3, outside the plunger tube 26, the additional spring 33 and the plunger tube 26 are provided with other respective first conjugate transverse portions 37a, 37b, such as the large lower end turn 37a of the additional spring 33 and another first transverse recess of the plunger tube 26 formed by the upper face of its collar 30a at the upper end 29 around the upper opening 29a, just below the additional spring 33. A rigid intermediate piece may also be provided associated with one and / or the other of the other first conjugate transverse portions 37a, 37b.

[0113] In an embodiment ([Fig.l]-3, 5, 7) in which the additional elastic means 33 - here a straight spring - is located towards the bottom of the pump dispenser bottle 1 on the side of the bottom 5, inside the dip tube 26, the additional spring 33 and the pump body 16 are provided with respective second mating portions 38a, 38b. This is, on the one hand, the upper end coil 38a of the additional spring 33. On the other hand, it is a second portion 38b of the pump body 16 formed by the bottom of the lower portion of the peripheral side wall 20b and the lower transverse wall 20c of the tubular support and sealing portion 20, by means of the interposition, as a rigid intermediate part, of the internal part 39.It is then the lower end 39a, and more specifically a peripheral transverse portion 39aa thereof which is in bearing contact with the conjugate portion 38a of the additional spring 33 (upper end coil), being placed just above the additional spring 33.

[0114] In an embodiment ([Fig.24], 25) in which the additional elastic means 33 - here a conical spring with a large lower turn and a small upper turn - is located rather towards the top of the pump dispenser bottle 1, on the side of the pump 3, outside the tube plunger 26, the additional spring 33 and the pump body 16 are provided with other respective second conjugate transverse portions 40a, 40b, such as the small upper end turn 40a of the additional spring 33 and another second portion of the pump body 16 formed by the lower face of the peripheral side wall 19b of the ferrule 19.

[0115] In the case of a straight helical spring 33 ([Fig. 1 ]-3, 5, 7, 12-17) in the compressed state, the turns of the spring are stacked, the spring thus having an axial height corresponding to the number of stacked turns. In the case of a helical spring with taper 33 ([Fig. 24], 25), in the compressed state, the turns of the spring can be placed one inside the other, the spring thus having an axial height corresponding approximately to a single turn. This arrangement is well suited to the case of a spring located rather towards the top of the pump dispenser bottle 1, on the side of the pump 3. However, as indicated, it is possible to provide such a spring also towards the bottom, with a single-spring or two-spring configuration.

[0116] The pump dispenser bottle 1 further comprises one (or at least one) means 34 of mechanical action for modifying the physical state of the material of content C or of the material of intermediate state (or of a discontinuous phase <FD de l’une ou l’autre), dénommé par ellipse « moyen de modification d’état physique », tout spécialement destiné à être mis en œuvre avec un contenu C comprenant une phase fluide continue <FFC et une (ou au moins une) phase discontinue <FD. Le moyen 34 de modification d’état est déformable et / ou déplaçable. Le cas échéant, il est prévu une pluralité de moyens 34 de modification d’état physique distincts. Dans un cas, les moyens 34 de la pluralité sont de fonctionnalités propres différentes, disposés en série, notamment avec proximité ou adjacence, le long de la voie d’amenée 27, en vue d’assurer plusieurs modifications de natures différentes d’état physique.In another case, the means 34 of the plurality have the same functionality, this being ensured in a plurality of stages and steps. The axial sliding mounting of the pump body 16 and the tubular support and sealing portion 20 between the two high and low positions, participates in the movement control concerning the means 34 for modifying the physical state. The means 34 for modifying the physical state is designed, arranged and disposed so as to be able to be in contact with the material of content C or the material of intermediate state - or a discontinuous phase <1> D of one or the other -, so as to act on the material which passes through it or along it and to which it is adjacent. The means 34 for modifying the physical state is capable of being set in motion relative to this material to which it is adjacent, so as to apply to it a contact force capable of modifying its physical state.By modifying the physical state, we mean causing fragmentation, mixing, agitation, rheological modification. The dip tube 26 is therefore multifunctional, to be a passageway for material, to be. sealed axial sliding guide of the pump body and the associated tubular support and sealing portion 20, and finally to participate directly and / or indirectly in the function of the means 34 for modifying the physical state.

[0117] A means 34 for modifying the physical state is arranged inside the plunger tube 26, in particular in its lower section 26b, so as either to be located adjacent, in the vicinity, or close to its upstream lower opening 28a, until it extends axially upwards until it is adjacent, in the vicinity, or close, while being axially spaced below, upstream of the transverse orifice 41 for the passage of intermediate state material, arranged on the peripheral lateral wall 20b of the tubular support and sealing portion 20, and therefore also axially spaced upstream of the pump body 16, below. Consequently, the material which enters the dose cavity 16a and passes through the pump body 16 is the dispensing material of the composition which will be dispensed through the dispensing orifice 13a, consequently after the action of the means or means 34 for modifying the physical state.On the other hand, the physical state modification means 34 is functionally associated with the additional elastic means 33, so that the sliding movement of the additional elastic means 33 causes the sliding movement of the physical state modification means 34.

[0118] The means 34 for modifying the physical state is chosen to be capable of ensuring an action of crushing, compression, rolling, shearing, cutting, breaking, grinding, pounding, rubbing, attrition, forcing through a calibrated or labyrinthine passage, or an action of the same type on material of content C or material of intermediate state (or a discontinuous phase <1> D of one or the other). Consequently, a means 34 for modifying the physical state is chosen from the family comprising mechanical action devices of the jaw type capable of being opened and closed on each other, mechanical action devices of the pestle type, mechanical action devices of the mixer type for pump, mechanical action devices of the calibrated or labyrinthine forced passage type, this list being exemplary and not limiting.With jaw-type devices, these are designed, arranged and disposed so that the material to be reduced - especially the discontinuous phase <1> D - can be located between the open jaws - the spacing of which is provided for this purpose in relation to the size of the elements of the discontinuous phase <1> D -, and more particularly is forced to be between the open jaws. In the case where a plurality of means 34 for modifying the physical state are provided, distinct and with different specific functionalities, it is appropriate to provide at least one means for modifying the upstream physical state, at least fragmentation, concerning the discontinuous phase <1> D, which is adjacent to it, said upstream physical state modification means being located before any physical state modification means such as mixing. In the same case, it is appropriate to provide at least one downstream physical state modification means 34, at least for mixing, located after any physical state modification means such as fragmentation. Generally, it is advisable to arrange the physical state modification means 34 of a plurality of such means 34, so as to maximize the desired physical state modification. It is also possible to arrange a plurality of physical state modification means 34 to constitute successive stages (and steps), including for the same function.In all embodiments of the physical state modification means 34, of the pump, and more generally of the pump dispenser bottle 1, the pump 3 ensures the suction of the material of the contents C located in the storage cavity 4, so that it is forced to pass and cross the passageway 27 of the dip tube 26, and consequently, is forced to be brought into contact and adjacent to the physical state modification means 34, which allows the physical state modification means 34, moreover controlled in movement by the actuation of the pump 3 - and therefore functionally combined with the pump 3 -, to fulfill its function of modifying the physical state of the material in contact and adjacent.

[0119] Two cases can be envisaged with regard to the design of the physical state modification means 34. In a first case, a physical state modification means 34 structurally comprises all or part of the additional elastic means 33, placed in the supply path 27 and located adjacent, in the vicinity, or close to its upstream lower opening 28a, with forced passage of material relative to the additional elastic means 33. In a second case, a physical state modification means 34 is structurally distinct from the additional elastic means 33.

[0120] An embodiment, neither limiting nor exclusive of others, of the first case of means 34 for modifying the physical state (comprising all or part of the additional elastic means 33) ([Fig.l]-3, 5, 7, 12-17) applies when the additional elastic means 33 is a straight helical compression spring which is in contact with the material of content C or the material of intermediate state (or a discontinuous phase 0>D of one or the other), for the reason that this material, being sucked by the pump 3, is obliged to pass through the turns of the spring. In this case, the additional spring 33 can act as a mechanical action device of the jaw type 42, the jaws 42 being coils capable, as the spring 33 is compressed and in its compressed state, of being able to crush, compress, laminate, shear, cut, break the material located between these jaws or coils 42, the material being forced to pass through the coils / jaws ([Fig.14], 17).In one embodiment, it is the entire spring 33 which acts as a jaw-type mechanical action device because all of the coils are capable, during compression of the spring or in its compressed state, of being able to crush, compress, roll, shear, cut, break the material located between them. jaws / turns 42. To maximize the desired effect, it may be provided that the mating parts of turns or parts of turns forming jaws 42 coming into mutual support, have mating faces of complementary shapes extended in surface manner, so as to have a high contact surface. In particular, it may be provided that, at least in part, these mating faces are flat and substantially transverse ( [Fig. 12]-17). Alternatively, in an embodiment not shown, it may be provided that the mating faces comprise pointed reliefs.

[0121] Several embodiments, neither limiting nor exclusive of others, of the second case of means 34 for modifying the physical state (means 34 for modifying the physical state structurally distinct from the additional elastic means 33) are now described.

[0122] An embodiment ([Fig.24], 25), well adapted to an additional elastic means 33 being a conical or biconical compression helical spring located rather towards the top of the pump dispenser bottle 1, on the side of the pump 3, outside the plunger tube 26, is such that the means 34 for modifying the physical state is a mechanical action device of the jaw type 43a, 43b where one 43a of the jaws is associated with the pump body 16 with a fixed connection, and the other 43b of the jaws is associated with the plunger tube 26 with a fixed connection towards the lower end 28 of the plunger tube 26. The jaw 43a associated with the pump body 16 is carried with a fixed connection by the internal part 39, in this case of mechanical action, towards its lower end 39a.

[0123] A means 34 for modifying the physical state comprises - or is associated by a fixed connection with - the internal part 39. The internal part 39 ([Fig. 19], 37, 38) is rigid, axially extended, with an external shape fitting into a cylinder. The internal part 39 does not, by itself, form a circulation and passage tube and consequently it is arranged for this purpose, in particular with closed ends. This does not exclude providing, as in the embodiments of the drawings, that the internal part 39 is hollow in order to limit its weight and the quantity of material necessary for its constitution. The internal part 39 has a peripheral lateral face 39c and is associated towards its upper end 39b with a fixed connection to the tubular support and sealing portion 20.For example, the internal part 39 has at its upper end 39b an axial hollow allowing a fixed connection, like an axial fitting, with the lower end 20c of the tubular support and sealing portion 20 ([Fig.l]-3, 4, 6, 8, 24, 25). The internal part 39 extends downwards (i.e. its lower end 39a) to the vicinity of the lower end 28 of the dip tube 26, in its lower section 26b. The internal part 39 is housed in and guided to slide axially upwards or downwards by the dip tube 26, the peripheral lateral face 39c of the internal part 39 and the internal face 26ab of the cylindrical wall 26a of the dip tube 26 being conjugated, with the supply path 27 between them. The internal part 39 is associated with . a fixed connection to the tubular support and sealing portion 20 (and therefore to the pump body 16). The internal part 39 is moved exactly like the tubular support and sealing portion 20 and the pump body 16, relatively to the plunger tube 26, between a high position and a low position corresponding to the high ([Fig.l], 5, 24, 25) and low ([Fig.2], 3, 7) positions of the tubular support and sealing portion 20 and the pump body 16. The internal part 39 has a smaller axial length but close to the axial length of the lower section 26b of the plunger tube 26. And, by way of example, the internal part 39 may have an overall diameter corresponding to the internal diameter of the plunger tube 26, of the order of 10 mm. The internal part 39 may be the subject of other functionally equivalent embodiments. Thus, the internal part 39 can be a single piece or comprise several sections end to end joined together.The internal part 39 may extend over a substantial part of the axial height of the container 2 as in the embodiments of the drawings, or else be shorter and with a lower end spaced from the bottom 5 of the container, in the case of one of the embodiments described above, without a part such as a strainer part 31, and with a dip tube 26 comprising an upper part in which the entire internal part 39 is located and a lower part empty of any part such as the internal part.

[0124] The jaw 43a associated with the pump body 16 with a fixed connection is a stud 43a directed and projecting downwards and extending the internal part 39 downwards. The jaw 43b associated with the plunger tube 26 comprises the upper part 36a of the collar 36 of the plunger tube 26, which can cooperate by their respective mating portions, lateral or edge, when they are brought together (low position of the internal part), so as to modify the physical state of the material in contact between them, the material being forced to pass between the stud 43a and the collar 36. Thus, as explained, the jaws 43a, 43b are respectively associated with the pump body 16 and the plunger tube 26 with a fixed connection, either directly or indirectly. The jaws 43a, 43b are capable, as the internal part 39 slides towards its lower position, of crushing, compressing, rolling, shearing, cutting, breaking the material located between these jaws 43a, 43b.In one embodiment, the jaws 43a and 43b are shaped to maximize the desired effect, for example by providing that their mating faces are of appropriate complementary shapes. The previously described embodiment of the physical state modification means 34 of the jaw type 43a, 43b can be applied not only in the case of a conical helical spring 33 located rather towards the top of the pump dispenser bottle 1 ([Fig. 24], 25), but also in the case of a straight helical spring 33 located towards the bottom of the pump dispenser bottle 1 on the side of the bottom 5, inside the dip tube 26 itself ([Fig. 1]-3, 5, 7), provided, in the latter case, that the turns of the spring 33 do not hinder the movement of the jaws 43a, 43b.

[0125] In another embodiment, adapted to an additional elastic means 33 being a straight helical spring located towards the bottom of the pump dispenser bottle 1 ([Fig. l]-3, 5, 7) or being a conical helical spring located rather towards the top of the pump dispenser bottle 1 ([Fig.24], 25), the means 34 for modifying the physical state (structurally distinct from the additional elastic means 33) is of the calibrated forced passage type, arranged between the mating faces of two portions of parts arranged to slide axially relative to each other, one of the parts being associated with the pump body 16 with a fixed connection, the other of the parts being associated with the dip tube 26 with a fixed connection, each fixed connection being either direct or indirect by means of a rigid intermediate part. In one embodiment, the passage 44 is calibrated solely according to the material which must pass through it, in particular the discontinuous phase.In another embodiment, the passage 44 narrows from upstream to downstream 44. This passage 44 is a continuous circulation space for material between an upstream inlet and a downstream outlet, the area of ​​its section of which narrows from upstream to downstream, larger upstream and smaller downstream. The passage 44 can be described as calibrated because the area of ​​the section of the passage 44 is determined according to the physical characteristics, in particular the dimensions of the material which passes through the passage 44. The passage 44 can be described as forced because the pump 3 requires that all the material coming from the contents C pass through it.In the embodiment of the drawings, the part portion associated with the pump body comprises a lower portion 45a of the peripheral lateral face 39c of the lower end 39a of the internal part 39, while the part portion associated with the plunger tube 26 comprises a lower portion 45b of the internally facing peripheral lateral face 26ab of the lower section 26b of the plunger tube 26. The two faces in question 45a and 45b are conjugated and provided, one or both, with reliefs, such as one or more helical grooves, so that the cooperation of the two faces 45a and 45b makes it possible to form the calibrated forced passage narrowing from upstream to downstream, the reliefs like the grooves being less hollowed upstream than downstream and more hollowed downstream than upstream ([Fig. 18], 19, 36, 37, 38). For example, the reliefs of the two faces in question 45a and 45b form a sort of helical channel of axis A, with tight turns, the opening of which decreases from upstream to downstream.The calibrated forced passage narrowing from upstream to downstream can be the subject of other embodiments provided that the grinding function (or a function of the same type) of the material passing through it is ensured. For example, it is possible for the reliefs of one or / and the other of the two faces 45a and 45b to be oriented axially rather than helically.

[0126] In the embodiments of the drawings, there is provided on the upstream side, a means 34 for modifying the physical state with either an additional elastic means 33 placed in the supply path 27, or a stud 43a and a collar 36, and on the other hand, on the downstream side and in the vicinity of the previous one, a means 34 of modifying the physical state with a calibrated forced passage 44, in particular narrowing from upstream to downstream.

[0127] In another embodiment, adapted to an additional elastic means 33 being a straight helical spring located towards the bottom of the pump dispenser bottle 1 ([Fig. l]-3, 5, 7) or being a compression helical spring located rather towards the top of the pump dispenser bottle 1 ([Fig. 24], 25), the means 34 for modifying the physical state (structurally distinct from the additional elastic means 33) is of the labyrinthine passage type 46, arranged between the mating faces of two portions of parts arranged to slide axially relative to each other, one of the parts being associated with the pump body 16 with a fixed connection, the other of the parts being associated with the dip tube 26 with a fixed connection, each fixed connection being either direct or indirect by means of a rigid intermediate part.In the embodiment of the drawings, the portion of part associated with the pump body 16 comprises a portion 46a, extended axially, like almost the entirety, of the peripheral lateral face 39c of the internal part 39. This portion 46a extends axially, on the one hand, upwards, to the vicinity of the tubular support and sealing portion 20, in particular at its lower end 20c, close to but spaced downwards from the transverse orifice 41 for the passage of material provided on the lateral wall 20b of the tubular support and sealing portion 20, on the other hand, downwards, towards the lower opening 28a of the plunger tube 26. The portion of part associated with the plunger tube 26 comprises the greater part of the portion 46b of the peripheral lateral face facing the inside 26ab of the lower section 26b of the plunger tube 26.The two faces in question 46a and 46b are conjugated and provided, one and / or the other respectively with reliefs 52a, 52b, located, hollow and projecting, which make it possible to form the labyrinthine passage 46. This labyrinthine passage 46 is a continuous circulation space for the material coming from the material of content C, like the intermediate state material, between an upstream inlet - on the side of the lower opening 28a of the dip tube 26 - and a downstream outlet - on the side of the tubular support and sealing portion 20 - comprising a tangle of meanders and baffles resulting from the presence and the relative arrangement of the reliefs 52a, 52b, causing changes of direction and turbulence of the flow of the material which passes therein, with the effect of mixing it as the material advances from upstream to downstream.Generally, the or some of the reliefs 52a, 52b are arranged so as to cross the axis A with an appropriate inclination in order at the same time to allow changes of direction and turbulence ensuring mixing and not to prevent the advancement of the material. This labyrinthine passage 46 is formed between the conjugate faces 46a and 46b of the peripheral lateral face facing the inside 26ab of the lower section 26b of the dip tube 26 and the peripheral lateral face 39c of the internal part 39. This labyrinthine passage 46 could be . described as dynamic because the conjugate faces 46a and 46b which limit it towards the inside and the outside are movable with relative axial sliding alternately in one direction and in the other (that is to say upwards and downwards), the internal part 39 being mounted with axial sliding in the plunger tube 26 alternately in one direction and in the other. This embodiment has the effect that the very shape of the labyrinthine passage 46 changes as it slides, which prevents the clogging of the labyrinthine passage 46. In the embodiment of [Fig. 19], 37 and 38, the reliefs 52a of the internal part 39 are peripheral transverse projections. In the embodiment of [Fig. 18] and 36, the reliefs 52b of the plunger tube 26 are helical projections with non-touching turns.A reverse embodiment can be envisaged: peripheral transverse projections for the dip tube 26 and helical projections for the internal part 39. The embodiment of the reliefs 52a and 52b and of the labyrinthine passage 46 described is neither limiting nor exclusive of other equivalents as regards the mixing function to be ensured. It can thus be envisaged that in the upstream-downstream path, the labyrinthine passage 46 is a circulation space narrowing from upstream to downstream.

[0128] All the embodiments which have just been described are neither limiting nor exclusive of other functionally equivalent ones which, by means of a mechanical action, act on the material of content C or the material of intermediate state (or the discontinuous phase <1> D of either), so as to modify its physical state.

[0129] The tubular support and sealing portion 20 ([Fig.l 1]) is provided with a sliding sealing means 47, with lips, namely with two lips, one high and the other low, spaced apart from each other axially, cooperating in axial sliding with and in the plunger tube 26. The transverse orifice 41 is located lower and the lip sealing means 47 is located higher, in particular towards the upper end 20a.

[0130] The upper section 26c of the plunger tube 26 is suitable and intended to slidably receive the pump body 16 and a part of the tubular support and sealing portion 20, while the lower section 26b is suitable for the passage of contents C or of the intermediate state material in contact, and for the composition to be dispensed to emerge therefrom. Furthermore, the plunger tube 26 comprises, towards its upper end 29, a transverse vent orifice 48 ([Fig. 18], 35). This transverse orifice 48 is, on the one hand, closed to be located between the two lips of the lip sealing means 47 in the upper position of the pump body 16, on the other hand, not closed to be located higher than the upper lip of the lip sealing means 47 in any position of the pump body 16 other than its upper position.This arrangement comprising the lip sealing means 47 and the transverse orifice 48 of the plunger tube 26 forms an air intake when the control member 11 of the pump 3 is actuated. This arrangement can be the subject of other equivalent embodiments.

[0131] The container 2 may comprise two parts 8a and 8b allowing before assembly the placed inside a compensation piston 49. This compensation piston 49 is essentially annular in shape with a central orifice 50 for the passage of the dip tube 26. It is mounted in the container 2 with downward axial sliding as the dispenser bottle 1 is used, between a high position ([Fig.24]) when the container is filled with contents C and a low position ([Fig.25]) when the container 2 has been emptied of its contents C. The compensation piston 49 comprises sealing means towards the outside 51a and towards the inside 51b, capable of ensuring sealing towards the outside with the inner face 6a of the lower part 8a of the container 2 and towards the inside with the outer face 26aa of the dip tube 26.In addition, the clearance angles of the container 2 and the dip tube 26 are chosen to ensure sealed contact with the sealing means 51a and 51b of the compensation piston, in any position between the high position and the low position. The compensation piston 49 is suitable and intended to provide several functions. The compensation piston 49 protects the content material C from contact with the external atmosphere and therefore from the negative effects of such contact which may affect this or that quality or function of the content material C.The compensating piston 49 helps to direct and push the content material C towards the inlet in the dip tube 26 and into contact with the physical state modification means 34, which can be advantageous for certain viscosities or consistencies of the content material. The compensating piston 49 finally allows the entire content material C, when it comprises several phases, to remain in its original configuration, in that shaking or turning the pump dispenser bottle 1 does not result in mixing or dispersing the phases. With the provision of a compensating piston, the pump 3 can be either air-return or airless, with an air passage through the container 2 adapted to allow the external atmosphere to come over the compensating piston 49, as and when in use.This passage is in particular provided between the lower main part 8a and the upper part 8b of the container 2, for example at their interface. The compensation piston may be the subject of other embodiments provided that they ensure the pressure compensation function required as the pump dispenser bottle 1 is used.

[0132] The storage cavity 8 is delimited laterally, towards the outside and towards the inside, respectively, by the inner lateral face 6a of the container 2 and the outer face 26aa of the dip tube 26. This storage cavity 8 of the contents is in communication, towards the downstream, with the inside of the dip tube 26, via the lateral openings 32a formed by the strainer part 31 when it is provided and the lower opening 28a of the dip tube 26. Once entered into the inside of the dip tube, the contents C are worked by the means 34 for modifying the physical state, when they are provided, so as to become the intermediate state material. In the embodiments of the drawings, the contents C or its discontinuous phase OD is first fragmented by the jaw-type mechanical action device 42, 43a and 43b. Then, the intermediate state material, already thus modified, is further modified by the calibrated forced passage type mechanical action device 44 narrowing from upstream to downstream. Then, the intermediate state material, already thus modified, is further modified by the labyrinthine passage type mechanical action device 46. Thus, on the material passage path 27 of the dip tube 26 are successively interposed the jaw-type mechanical action device 42, 43a and 43b, then the calibrated forced passage type device 44 narrowing, then the labyrinthine passage device 46. At the outlet of these devices, we have the composition as it will be distributed.This composition therefore leaves the material passageway 27 of the plunger tube 26 and enters the tubular support and sealing portion 20 via the orifice 41, then into the dose cavity 16a of the pump body 16 via one of the opening / closing means 17, then via the orifice 24 formed in the piston 21 in the distribution path 13 of the pump 3 until it reaches the distribution orifice 13a, through which the composition is distributed in the fluid state.

[0133] With the elastic pumping means 15 and the additional elastic means 33, the pump 3 and therefore the dispenser bottle is two-stage. The user actuates the control member 11 of the pump 3, by a single manipulation, as he would do for the pumps of the state of the art, without having to worry about these two stages. The respective stiffnesses of the elastic pumping means 15 and the additional elastic means 33 can be adapted, depending on the characteristics of the content and the composition to be dispensed.Thus, it is possible, in a non-limiting and exclusive embodiment of others, in which the stiffness of the additional elastic means 33 is less than the stiffness of the elastic pumping means 15, that, from the rest position, in which the control member 11 is not stressed, the stress on the control member 11 causes it to pass in a first step into an intermediate position between its two extreme positions where the elastic pumping means 15 is relaxed, being uncompressed and the additional elastic means 33 has been compressed. Then, in a second step, causes it to pass into the extreme low, depressed position, with compression of the elastic pumping means 15.

[0134] The method of implementing a pump dispenser bottle 1 in the assembled state and filled with material of content C comprising a continuous fluid phase <1> FC and at least one discontinuous phase <1> D, capable of dispensing a fluid composition is such that: - with the implementation of the pump 3 and by means of the actuation of the control member 11, the material of content C is sucked from the storage cavity 4 to direct it towards and force it to pass through the material supply path 27, - with the subsequent implementation of at least one means 34 of modification of deformable and / or displaceable physical state, action is taken on the material of the flow passing through the supply line 27, with a view to applying a contact force thereto in order to modify its physical state, such as in particular its fragmentation, its mixing, its agitation, its rheological modification, - with the location of the physical state modification means 34 upstream of the pump motor 4 and the pump body 16 comprising the dose cavity 16a, a fluid composition material to be dispensed is sent into the dose cavity 16a and it is dispensed through the downstream dispensing orifice (13a).

[0135] By actuation of the control member 11, a complete cycle of pressing and releasing is meant. In such a cycle, the change in physical state and the output through the dispensing orifice 13a occur when the control member 11 is pressed. Pumping, with the suction of material, occurs when the control member 11 is released, and it is then the elastic pumping means 15 which creates the depression and causes the suction.

[0136] The pump 3 is capable of sucking material from the storage cavity 4 and of passing the supply path 27 from upstream to downstream with material, the control member 11, once actuated, controlling the modification of the physical state of the material and the pumping of material having a physical state modified by the physical state modification means 34.

[0137] The composition material to be dispensed is fluid and has a modified physical state compared to that of the content material C of the storage cavity 4. This is how the pump dispenser bottle 1 makes it possible to dispense a fluid composition after modification of its physical state. Especially in the case of a content C which when it is in the storage cavity 4, before dispensing comprises a fluid phase <1> FC and a discontinuous phase <1> D, the discontinuous phase <1> D is reduced by the physical state modification means 34, so that the material (distribution material) passing through the pump 3 and distributed by it is fluid.

[0138] With the invention, there is provided a device for supplying material and modifying the physical state of material specially intended for a pump dispenser bottle 1 as described, which comprises: - the dip tube 26, capable of being associated with a container 2 by a fixed connection, - the material supply line 27, located inside the dip tube 26, - the at least one means 34 for modifying the physical state, associated with the dip tube 26 and the supply channel 27, capable, on the one hand, of acting on the material of the flow passing through the supply channel 27, in order to apply a contact force thereon in order to modify its physical state, and, on the other hand, of being associated with a pump body 16 of the pump-dispensing bottle 1 by a fixed connection, - a means 34 for modifying the physical state including - or being associated by a fixed connection to - the internal part 39, a means 34 for modifying the physical state and the internal part 39 being housed inside the plunger tube 26 with axial sliding, the lateral face 39c of the internal part 39 and the internal lateral face 26ab of the plunger tube 26 being combined with axial sliding, with the supply path 27 between them.

Claims

1. Claims Pump dispenser bottle (1) capable of dispensing via a downstream dispensing orifice (13a) a material of fluid composition, of the type comprising, with an axis (A): - a container (2) with a peripheral wall, a bottom (5), an opening (7), and a storage cavity (4) capable of receiving a content material comprising a continuous fluid phase OFC and a discontinuous phase <FD, - a dip tube (26), axially extended in the container (2), with a cylindrical wall (26a) having an internal face (26ab), a lower inlet opening (28a), a higher outlet opening, - a material supply path (27), located inside the dip tube (26), capable of being crossed by a flow of a material coming from the material of continuous fluid phase OFC and discontinuous phase content <FD de la cavité de stockage (4) et allant vers l’orifice de distribution (13a), - a pumping and dispensing pump (3) comprising a movable control member (11), a dispensing path (13) fluidly associated with the supply path (27), opening through the dispensing orifice (13a), a pump motor (14) comprising an elastic pumping means (15), a pump body (16) with which is associated a dose cavity (16a) with an increased and decreased volume during operation, and means (17) for opening / closing the dispensing path (13), the pump motor (14) being actuated in response to the movement of the control member (11), - an arrangement (9a) for fixing the pump to the container (2) and an arrangement (9b) for fixing the container to the pump, capable of cooperating, - and at least one means of modifying the physical state of the matter with which it is in contact and in adjacency, characterized by the fact that: - the at least one means (34) of modifying the physical state is a mechanical, deformable and / or movable means, associated with the dip tube (26) and to the supply path (27), and capable of acting on the material of the flow coming from the content material comprising a discontinuous phase OD in the form of elements dispersed in the continuous fluid phase OFC and having a larger dimension of the order of a fraction of a millimeter to several millimeters and to be broken, and passing through the supply path (27), in order to apply to this material of the flow or the discontinuous phase <bD, une force de contact en vue de modifier son état physique, au moins la fragmentation concernant la phase discontinue <6D, et comme notamment le mélange, l’agitation, la modification rhéologique, le au moins un moyen (34) de modification d’état physique est localisé en amont du moteur de pompe (4) et du corps de pompe (16) lequel forme un ensemble unitaire avec une portion tubulaire (20) de support et d’étanchéité, the at least one means (34) for modifying the physical state is associated with the pump body (16) with a fixed connection, while the dip tube (26) is associated with the container (2) towards its opening (7) with a fixed connection, the at least one means (34) for modifying the physical state comprises - or is associated by a fixed connection with - an internal part (39), axially extended, having a peripheral lateral face (39c), associated with the tubular support and sealing portion (20) by a fixed connection, the pump body (16) is mounted with sealed axial sliding inside the plunger tube (26), the at least one means (34) for modifying the physical state and the internal part (39) are housed inside the axially sliding plunger tube (26), the lateral face (39c) of the internal part (39) and the internal lateral face (26ab) of the plunger tube (26) being conjugated with axial sliding, with the supply path (27) between them, the plunger tube (26) being multifunctional to be a material passage path, to be a guide for axial sliding of the pump body (16) and of the tubular portion (20), and to participate in the function of the at least one means (34) for modifying the physical state, the internal part (39) and the pump body (16) are capable of being moved axially relative to the plunger tube (26), in response to the movement of the control member (11), - the pump (3) is capable of sucking material from the storage cavity (4) and of passing the supply path (27) from upstream to downstream with material, the control member (11) once actuated controlling the modification of the physical state of the material and the pumping of material having a physical state modified by the at least one means (34) for modifying the physical state.

2. A pump dispenser bottle (1) according to claim 1, which further comprises an additional axially deformable elastic means (33) for axial operating movement over a stroke of the additional elastic means, arranged to bias the pump body (16) towards its upper position, the additional elastic means (33) being separate from the elastic pumping means (15), so that the operation of the control member (11) from the rest position to the pumping and dispensing position causes the compression of the additional elastic means (33) and the compression of the elastic pumping means (15), the pump (3) being two-stage corresponding to the stroke of the elastic pumping means (15) and the stroke of the additional elastic means (33).

3. Pump dispenser bottle (1) according to claim 2, wherein the additional elastic means (33) is, on the one hand, arranged between the dip tube (26) and the pump body (16) for their relative sliding movement, and, on the other hand, associated with a fixed connection to the dip tube (26) and the pump body (16).

4. Pump dispenser bottle (1) according to one of claims 2 and 3, wherein the additional elastic means (33) is located close to the pump motor (14) itself.

5. Pump dispenser bottle (1) according to one of claims 2 and 3, in which the additional elastic means (33) is located axially spaced from the pump motor (14) - in particular towards the lower inlet opening (28a) of the dip tube (26), more particularly towards the bottom (5) of the container (2).

6. A pump dispenser bottle (1) according to any one of claims 2 to 5, wherein the additional elastic means (33) comprises either at

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8. at least one straight or tapered helical compression spring, or a member providing the same function, or several helical compression springs or members providing the same function, arranged so as to be in axial extension and / or to be nested within each other. Pump dispenser bottle (1) according to one of claims 2 to 6, wherein the at least one physical state modification means (34) is operatively associated with the additional elastic means (33), such that the movement of the additional elastic means (33) leads to the movement of the physical state modification means (34). Pump dispenser bottle (1) according to one of claims 1 to 7, in which the dip tube (26): - either has an axial length corresponding to the internal depth of the container (2), its lower end (28) and its lower opening (28a) being adjacent, without closure, to the inner face (5a) of the bottom (5), - either has an axial length substantially smaller than the internal depth of the container (2), with its lower end (28) and its lower opening (28a) axially spaced from the inner face (5a) of the bottom (5), the dip tube (26) being provided with a tubular extension downwards, having a lower end with a lower opening adjacent, without closure, to the inner face (5a) of the bottom (5), - either has an axial length almost corresponding to, slightly smaller than, the internal depth of the container (2), with its lower end (28) and its lower opening (28a) just a little apart from the inner face (5a) of the bottom (5), the dip tube (26) being extended downwards by a strainer piece (31) of essentially cylindrical, hollow shape, with, on the one hand, a high end part (31a) associated with the lower end (28) of the dip tube (26), said high end part (31a) having an upper axial passage opening associated with the axially directed lower opening (28b) of the dip tube (26) and, on the other hand, a low end part (31b) having a lower edge (31c) adjacent to, or in contact with, or applied to the bottom (5) of the container (2), said end part low (31b) having at least one notch (32) on its lower edge forming, with the bottom (5) of the container (2), at least one lateral opening (32a) for the passage of material of content C downstream, the upper end part (31a) of the strainer part (31) being associated with the lower end (28) of the dip tube (26) either by a fixed connection or by an axial sliding connection.

9. Pump dispenser bottle (1) according to one of claims 1 to 8, in which the at least one means (34) for modifying the physical state is arranged, on the one hand, inside the dip tube (26), so as either to be located adjacent, in the vicinity, or close to its lower upstream opening (28a), or to extend downwards until it is adjacent, in the vicinity, or close to its lower upstream opening (28a), on the other hand spaced below the pump body (16), towards the upstream, so that the pump body (16) is crossed by the material of the fluid composition to be dispensed, after the action of the means (34) for modifying the physical state.

10. Pump dispenser bottle (1) according to one of claims 1 to 9, wherein the at least one physical state modification means (34) is arranged inside the plunger tube (26), so as to extend upwards until it is adjacent, in the vicinity, or close to, while being axially spaced below a transverse material passage orifice (41), arranged on the tubular support and sealing portion (20) sliding axially inside the plunger tube (26), said tubular support and sealing portion (20) being arranged below the pump body (16).

11. Pump dispenser bottle (1) according to one of claims 1 to 10, in which the at least one means (34) for modifying the physical state is chosen from the family comprising mechanical action devices of the jaw type capable of being opened and closed on one another, mechanical action devices of the pestle type, mechanical action devices of the mixer type, mechanical action devices of the calibrated or labyrinthine forced passage type, so as to be capable of ensuring an action of crushing, compression, rolling, shearing, cutting, breaking, grinding, pounding, rubbing, attrition, forcing through a calibrated or labyrinthine passage.

12. Pump dispenser bottle (1) according to one of claims 1 to 11, which comprises a plurality of distinct physical state modification means (34): - either of different specific functionalities, arranged in series, in particular with proximity or adjacency, along the supply path (27), in order to ensure several modifications of different natures of physical state, - or of the same functionality, this being ensured in a plurality of stages and steps.

13. Pump dispenser bottle (1) according to one of claims 1 to 12, which comprises - at least one means (34) for modifying the upstream physical state, at least fragmentation, concerning the discontinuous phase <FD, situé avant d’éventuels moyens de modification d’état physique tels que mélange, et / ou - au moins un moyen (34) de modification d’état physique aval, au moins de mélange, situé après d’éventuels moyens de modification d’état physique tels que fragmentation.

14. Pump dispenser bottle (1) according to one of claims 2 to 13, in which a means (34) for modifying the physical state comprises all or part of the additional elastic means (33), placed in the supply path (27) and located adjacent, in the vicinity, or close to its lower upstream opening (28a), with forced passage of material relative to the additional elastic means (33).

15. Pump dispenser bottle (1) according to claim 14, wherein the additional elastic means (33) is a straight compression coil spring, and acts as a jaw-type mechanical action device, the jaws being the - or - coils or parts of coils, capable, in the compressed state of the spring (33), of being able to crush, compress, laminate, shear, cut, break the material located between the jaws / coils, the material being forced to pass through the jaws / coils.

16. A pump dispenser bottle (1) according to claim 15, wherein the mating coil portions or jaw-forming coil portions have mating faces of complementary shapes extended in a manner surface, in particular have at least partly flat conjugate faces which are substantially transverse, and / or have pointed reliefs.

17. Pump dispenser bottle (1) according to one of claims 2 to 13, wherein the at least one physical state modification means (34) is structurally distinct from the additional elastic means (33).

18. Pump dispenser bottle (1) according to claim 17, wherein the at least one physical state modification means (34) is of the jaw type, one of the jaws being associated with the pump body (16) with a fixed connection by the internal part (39) and comprising a stud (43a) directed and projecting downwards formed at the lower end (39a) of the internal part (39), the other of the jaws being a hollow and open flange (36), directed upwards, forming part of the dip tube (26) towards its lower end (28), the stud (43a) and the flange (36) being able to cooperate by their respective mating portions, lateral or edge, relative to the material located between them, the material being forced to pass between the stud (43a) and the flange (36).

19. Pump dispenser bottle (1) according to claim 17, wherein the at least one means (34) for modifying the physical state is of the calibrated forced passage type (44) arranged between two sections of faces of two portions of two parts arranged for reciprocal axial sliding, associated respectively with the pump body (16) and the plunger tube (26) with a fixed connection, i.e. a section of the lateral face (39c) of the internal part (39) and a section of the internal lateral face (26ab) of the plunger tube (26), the faces (39c) and (26ab) of the two sections being combined with reliefs forming the calibrated forced passage (44), the material being forced to pass between the nipple (43a) and the collar (36).

20. Pump dispenser bottle (1) according to claim 19, in which the calibrated passage (44) narrows from upstream to downstream, the mating faces (39c) and (26ab) being provided with reliefs forming a calibrated forced passage (44).

21. Pump dispenser bottle (1) according to one of claims 19 and 20, wherein the part portion associated with the pump body (16) comprises a lower portion (45a) of the lower end (39a) of the internal part (39), while the part portion associated with the dip tube (26) comprises a lower portion (45b) of the dip tube (26).

22. Pump dispenser bottle (1) according to one of claims 15 to 21, having on the one hand, on the upstream side, a state modification means (34) physical with either an additional elastic means (33) placed in the supply channel (27), or a nipple (43a) and a collar (36), and on the other hand, on the downstream side and in the vicinity of the previous one, a means (34) of modification of physical state with calibrated forced passage (44), in particular narrowing from upstream to downstream.

23. Pump dispenser bottle (1) according to claim 17, in which a means (34) for modifying the physical state is of the labyrinthine passage (46) type of material, arranged between two sections of faces of two axially extended portions of two parts arranged for reciprocal axial sliding, associated respectively with the pump body (16) and the plunger tube (26) with a fixed connection, i.e. a section of the lateral face (39c) of the internal part (39) and a section of the internal lateral face (26ab) of the plunger tube (26), the faces (39c) and (26ab) of the two sections being conjugated and provided with reliefs (52a, 52b) forming the labyrinthine passage (46) which is a continuous circulation space of material between an upstream inlet and a downstream outlet comprising with the reliefs (52a, 52b) a tangle of meanders and baffles causing changes in direction and turbulence in the flow of material passing through them,with the effect of mixing it as the material advances from upstream to downstream, the material being forced to pass through the labyrinthine passage (46).,

24. Pump dispenser bottle (1) according to claim 23, in which the section of the lateral face (39c) of the internal part (39) and the section of the internal face (26ab) of the dip tube (26) extend downwards and upwards to respectively the upstream inlet and the downstream outlet of the labyrinthine passage (46), the upstream inlet of the passage being located on the side and in the vicinity of the lower opening (28a) of the dip tube (26) and the downstream outlet being located so as to be adjacent, in the vicinity, or close, while being axially spaced below the transverse material passage orifice (41), provided on the tubular support and sealing portion (20).

25. A pump dispenser bottle (1) according to claim 23, wherein the one or more reliefs (52a, 52b) are helical projections and peripheral transverse projections.

26. Pump dispenser bottle (1) according to one of claims 3 to 25, in that they depend on claim 3, in which the fixed connection for associating the additional elastic means (33) to the tube plunger (26) is an axial support contact between the additional elastic means (33) and the plunger tube (26), which is either direct or indirect - by means of a rigid intermediate piece.

27. ​​Pump dispenser bottle (1) according to claim 26, in which the additional elastic means (33) and the dip tube (26) are associated by a fixed connection by means, on the one hand, in the case of the additional elastic means (33) of a first lower end turn (35a), and, on the other hand, in the case of the dip tube (26) of a first transverse step (35b) of the dip tube (26), towards its upstream lower opening or towards its upper opening.

28. Pump dispenser bottle (1) according to one of claims 3 to 27, in that they depend on claim 3, in which the fixed connection associating the additional elastic means (33) with the pump body (16) is an axial bearing contact between the additional elastic means (33) and the pump body (16), by means of a rigid intermediate part being either the internal part (39) or a ferrule (19) associated with the pump body (16).

29. Pump dispenser bottle (1) according to claim 28, wherein the additional elastic means (33) and the pump body (16) are associated by a fixed connection by means, on the one hand, in the case of the additional elastic means (33) of a first upper end turn, and, on the other hand, in the case of the pump body (16) of the lower end (39a) of the internal part (39) or the ferrule (39).

30. Pump dispenser bottle (1) according to one of claims 1 to 29 in which the tubular support and sealing portion (20) is hollow, closed at its lower end and open at its upper end, comprises at least one transverse orifice (41) for the passage of material from the supply path (27) to the dose cavity (16a), is provided with a sliding sealing means (47), with lips, cooperating in axial sliding with and in the plunger tube (26), the orifice (41) being located lower, and the lip sealing means (47) being located higher, and forms a unitary assembly with the pump body (16), comprising upwards the pump body (16) and downwards said tubular support and sealing portion (20), being either a lower end portion of the pump body (16) which with the upper portion of the pump body (16) forms one and the same piece,either a part separate from the pump body (16) itself but associated with it downwards with a fixed connection, in particular by fixed cooperation of its, upper end and a hollow, lower end of the pump body (16).

31. Pump dispenser bottle (1) according to one of claims 1 to 30, wherein: - towards its upper opening (29), in particular by means of a projecting annular transverse collar (30a), the plunger tube (26) is associated, by a fixed and sealed connection, with a high edge (7a) of the container (2) limiting its opening (7), - the plunger tube (26) comprises, on the one hand, a high section (26c) capable of slidingly receiving the pump body (16) and a part of the tubular support and sealing portion (20), and, on the other hand, a low section (26b) for the material supply path (27) of the plunger tube (26), - the plunger tube (26) being multifunctional, relative to the material supply path (27), to the sealed axial sliding of the pump body (16) and the tubular support portion and sealing (20), and by means (34) of modification of physical state.

32. Pump dispenser bottle (1) according to one of claims 30 and 31 in that it depends on claim 30, in which: - the dip tube (26) has a transverse orifice (48), - the lip sealing means (47) of the tubular support and sealing portion (20) comprises two lips, one high and the other low, spaced apart from each other axially, - the transverse orifice (48) is, on the one hand, closed to be located between the two lips in the high position of the pump body (16), on the other hand, not closed to be located higher than the high lip in any position of the pump body (16) other than its high position, - the arrangement comprising the transverse orifice (48) and the two-lip sealing means (47) forms an air intake when the member is actuated (11) pump control (3).

33. Pump dispenser bottle (1) according to one of claims 1 to 32, in which the pump (3) is of the air intake type comprising vents and air passages associated with parts of the pump (3) in relative movement during use, so as to allow communication between the storage cavity (4) in which a content C is located and the external atmosphere, each time a dose of composition has been dispensed, so as to ensure a corresponding entry of air into the storage cavity (4).

34. Pump dispenser bottle (1) according to claim 33, in which the container (2) is rigid, non-deformable, in particular in a single part.

35. Pump dispenser bottle (1) according to one of claims 1 to 33, wherein: - the container (2) comprises two separate rigid parts - a lower main part (8a) for the storage cavity (4) and an upper part (8b) forming a neck, these parts (8a, 8b) being capable of being assembled to each other by their corresponding openings by a rigid connection and of allowing, before their assembly, the installation inside the lower main part (8a) of a compensation piston (49), - the compensation piston (49), of essentially annular shape with a central orifice (50) for the passage of the dip tube (26), is mounted in the lower main part (8a) of the container (2) with downward axial sliding as the pump-dispensing bottle (1) is used, between a high position - close to the high part (8b) - when the storage cavity (4) is filled with material of content C and a low position - adjacent to the bottom (5) of the container (2) - when the storage cavity (4) has been emptied of material of content C, - the compensation piston (49) comprises external sealing means (51a) and internal sealing means (51b), respectively capable of ensuring external sealing with the inner face (6a) of the side wall (6) of the lower part (8a) of the container (2) and internal sealing with the external face (26aa) of the dip tube (26), the clearance angles of the container (2) and of the dip tube (26) being chosen to ensure sealed contact with the sealing means (51a, 51b) of the compensation piston (49), in any position between the high position and the position low, - the pump (3) is either air intake or without air intake with an air passage through the container (2) capable of allowing air from the external atmosphere to come above the compensation piston (49), as and when in use, said air passage being provided in particular between the lower part (8a) and the upper part (8b).

36. A pump dispenser bottle (1) of a fluid composition, in the assembled state and filled with material of content C, comprising a pump dispenser bottle (1) according to one of claims 1 to 35, and the material of content C filling the storage cavity (4) of the container (2).

37. A pump dispenser bottle (1) according to claim 36, wherein the content material C comprises a continuous fluid phase <FFC et au moins une phase discontinue <FD, apte à distribuer une composition fluide.

38. Method for implementing a pump dispenser bottle (1) according to claim 37, in which: - with the implementation of the pump (3) and by means of the actuation of the control member (11), the material of content C is sucked from the storage cavity (4) to direct it towards and force it to pass through the material supply path (27), - with the subsequent implementation of the at least one deformable and / or displaceable physical state modification means (34), the material of the flow passing through the supply path (27) is acted upon, with a view to applying thereto a contact force with a view to modifying its physical state, such as in particular its fragmentation, its mixing, its agitation, its rheological modification, - with the location of the physical state modification means (34) upstream of the pump motor (4) and of the pump body (16) comprising the dose cavity (16a),a fluid composition material to be dispensed is sent into the dose cavity (16a) and dispensed through the downstream dispensing orifice, the composition material to be distributed being fluid and having a modified physical state compared to that of the content material C of the storage cavity (4).

39. Device for supplying material and modifying the physical state of material, specially intended for a pump-dispensing bottle, comprising: - a dip tube (26), axially extended, with a cylindrical wall (26a) having an internal face (26ab), a lower inlet opening (28a), an upper outlet opening, the upper end (29) of which is capable of being associated with a container of the pump dispenser bottle by a fixed connection, - a material supply channel (27), located inside the dip tube (26), - a means (34) for modifying the physical state, deformable and / or movable, associated with the dip tube (26) and the supply path (27), capable, on the one hand, of acting on the material of the flow passing through the supply path (27), in order to apply thereto a contact force in order to modify its physical state, such as in particular its fragmentation, its mixing, its agitation, its rheological modification, and, on the other hand, of being associated with a pump body of the pump-dispensing bottle for which the supply device is intended, by a fixed connection, - the means (34) for modifying the physical state comprising - or being associated by a fixed connection with - an internal part (39), axially extended, having a peripheral lateral face (39c), - the means (34) for modifying the physical state and the internal part (39) being housed inside the dip tube (26) with axial sliding,the lateral face (39c) of the internal part (39) and the internal lateral face (26ab) of the plunger tube (26) being conjugated with axial sliding, with between them the supply path (27), the plunger tube (26) being multifunctional to be a material supply path, to be an axial sliding guide of the pump body of the pump-dispensing bottle for which the supply device is intended, and to participate in the function of the means (34) for modifying the physical state.,

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