US 2006/0213929 A1Published application

Fluid dispenser lock defeater

AssigneeHygiene-Technik Inc.

InventorsHeiner Ophardt, Srdjana Jankovic

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Abstract

An object of the invention is to provide a dispenser which permits its cover to be either locked when closed or unlocked a dispensing device including a lock mechanism for locking a cover to a housing and providing therewith a blocking member which is either coupled to the housing in an inoperative position or can be coupled to the housing in a position which prevents locking of the lock mechanism. The blocking member may preferably be integrally formed from plastic as the same material as another component of the dispenser, preferably from injection molded integrally with a back plate for the housing, at a location which is not visible when the dispenser is used and with the blocking member being removably connected to the housing back plate by a frangible connection which may readily be broken to separate the blocking member from the housing back plate such that the blocking member may be suitably positioned and coupled to the dispenser in a position which prevents locking of the lock mechanism.

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Dependent claims

A fluid dispenser having a back plate for mounting to a wall and a cover mounted to the back plate for relative movement (1) between a closed position and a raised intermediate position by relative vertical sliding, and (2) between the raised intermediate position and an open position by relative pivoting;

in the closed position, a first catch members on the cover engaging first catch members on the back plate to prevent relative pivoting of the cover and back plate,
in the closed position, a second catch members on the cover engaging a second catch members on the back plate to prevent relative vertical sliding of the cover and back plate,
one of the second catch members being resiliently deflectable to disengage the second catch member and permit vertical sliding of the cover and back plate between the closed and intermediate position,
in the intermediate position, the first catch members do not engage and the second catch members do not engage such that when in the intermediate position, the cover is free for pivoting to the open position,
a blocking member adapted to be engaged on one of the cover and the back plate to resiliently deflect the resiliently deflectable one of the second catch members and maintain the same in a position in which the second catch members do not engage,
the blocking member carried by and removably secured to the back plate in an inoperative position, the blocking member manually removable from the inoperative position for engagement on the resiliently deflectable one of the second catch members.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.