Locking aerosol dispenser

An aerosol actuator for actuating an aerosol valve on the top of an aerosol container, said actuator comprising in combination a top portion and a bottom portion, the bottom portion being mountable on an aerosol container, the top portion being mounted on the bottom portion, and the top portion being rotatable with respect to the bottom portion between a first position for actuating the aerosol valve and a second position wherein the aerosol valve cannot be actuated;

• said actuator top portion being a unitary member and in said first position being depressible as a whole in a vertical direction to actuate the aerosol valve;
• said bottom portion including an integral product channel connectable at one end to the aerosol valve stem and having a nozzle for expelling product at the other end;
• said top portion of the actuator when vertically depressed acting to depress the product channel to actuate the aerosol valve;
• said product channel having a plurality of flexible laterally extending spring members associated therewith, and said top portion of the actuator having a corresponding plurality of depending spring-biasing members that overlie, contact and slightly depress said plurality of spring members only when the actuator top portion is rotated to its first valve-actuating position;
• said spring members urging said spring-biasing members and accordingly said actuator top portion upwardly when said actuator top portion is in its first rotational position, including when said product channel member has returned to its non-depressed position following product dispensing.

An aerosol actuator for actuating an aerosol valve on the top of an aerosol container, said actuator comprising in combination a top portion and a bottom portion, the bottom portion being mountable on an aerosol container, the top portion being mounted on the bottom portion, and the top portion being rotatable with respect to the bottom portion between a first position for actuating the aerosol valve and a second position wherein the aerosol valve cannot be actuated;

• said bottom portion having an internal partial ring with an inside edge;
• said top portion having a plurality of a downwardly extending flexible connecting flanges with an outwardly and upwardly directed rib adjacent the lower end of each such connecting flange, said upwardly directed ribs extending under the partial ring inside edge of the bottom portion to connect the top and bottom actuator portions;
• said downwardly extending connecting flanges being attached to the actuator upper portion by a plurality of supporting flanges, one supporting flange of each connecting flange also serving as a stop member;
• said bottom actuator portion having a pair of upstanding vertical wing flanges that also serve as stop members;
• and certain of said stop members of the top actuator portion and bottom actuator portion acting to terminate the rotation of said top actuator portion at its first actuating position and its second non-actuating position.