US 11,998,710 B2
Applicator for delivery of a product therethrough
Sujata Sundara Rajan, Belle Mead, NJ (US); Ming Zeng, Princeton, NJ (US); Jonathan Andrew Wharton, Ewing, NJ (US); Timothy Snowden, Howell, NJ (US); Pamela Dozier, Doylestown, PA (US); Brian Orme, Phoenixville, PA (US); and Meredith Ingrassia, North Wales, PA (US)
Assigned to Church & Dwight Co., Inc., Princeton, NJ (US)
Filed by Church & Dwight Co., Inc., Princeton, NJ (US)
Filed on Mar. 31, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/218,464.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/003,586, filed on Apr. 1, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0308437 A1, Oct. 7, 2021
Int. Cl. A61M 31/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61M 31/00 (2013.01) [A61M 2202/04 (2013.01); A61M 2210/1475 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An applicator for delivery of a product therefrom, the applicator comprising:
a housing formed of a substantially continuous wall extending along a longitudinal housing axis between a base end having a first cross-wise dimension and an application end having a second cross-wise dimension that is less than the first cross-wise dimension, the substantially continuous wall defining:
a base segment extending from the base end toward the applicator end;
a delivery segment extending from the applicator end toward the base end; and
a compression segment interconnecting the base segment and the delivery segment;
wherein the housing defines a substantially hollow interior configured for retaining a product for delivery through the delivery segment,
wherein the substantially continuous wall has a thickness in the compression segment that is less than a thickness of the substantially continuous wall in at least the base segment.