Liquid dispensing container and housing assembly

A liquid dispensing assembly for housing an inverted container to facilitate substantially complete dispensing of a liquid substance from the inverted container, the liquid dispensing assembly comprising:

• a housing, comprising:
• a first housing portion and a second housing portion disconnectably mountable to one another to enclose an interior space of the housing, the interior space of the housing configured to receive the inverted container containing the liquid substance,
• a socket provided in the first housing portion and arranged within the interior space of the housing, for receiving a neck of the inverted container;
• and
• a pump assembly carried by the first housing portion of the housing, said pump assembly in fluid communication with the socket of the housing and operable from outside the housing to dispense fluid from the inverted container, through the neck of the inverted container and via a delivery aperture of the pump assembly located outside the housing;
• wherein
• the second housing portion comprises at least one spike configured to perforate the inverted container, to form at least one corresponding vent opening through the inverted container.

A liquid dispensing assembly for housing an inverted container to facilitate substantially complete dispensing of a liquid substance from the inverted container, the liquid dispensing assembly comprising:

• a housing, comprising:
• a first housing portion and a second housing portion disconnectably mountable to one another to enclose an interior space of the housing, the interior space of the housing configured to receive the inverted container containing the liquid substance,
• a socket provided in the first housing portion and arranged within the interior space of the housing, for receiving a neck of the inverted container, the socket extending downward from an internal wall formed in the first housing portion of the housing and in fluid communication with an opening formed through said internal wall;
• a pump assembly carried by the first housing portion of the housing, said pump assembly in fluid communication with the socket of the housing and operable from outside the housing to dispense fluid from the inverted container, through the neck of the inverted container and via a delivery aperture of the pump assembly located outside the housing;
• wherein
• the internal wall provides a partition that divides the interior space of the housing into a first subspace and a second subspace, wherein the first subspace is configured to receive the inverted container, and wherein fluid communication between the pump assembly and the socket is provided through the second subspace;
• and further wherein
• the second housing portion comprises at least one spike configured to perforate the inverted container, to form at least one corresponding vent opening through the inverted container.