US 2018/0279841 A1Published application

Dispenser assembly

AssigneeVi-Jon, Inc.

InventorsDonna M. Santoro, Andy Lee Kirkpatrick, Kacey James Kreuter, Stephen John Kocis, Lesley S. Corker, Stephen Joel Zwonitzer, Russell Kroll, Randal Porter

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Abstract

A dispenser assembly for dispensing a liquid product includes a bottle configured to store the product, a venting pump connected to the bottle and configured to control dispensing of the product from the bottle, a mounting component, and an enclosure connected to the mounting component and engaging the bottle, wherein the enclosure is movable relative to the mounting component between an open configuration and a closed configuration, and wherein the bottle is selectively removable from the enclosure when the enclosure is in the open configuration.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method of manufacturing a bottle for dispensing a liquid product, the method comprising:

forming a body portion of the bottle, wherein the body portion defines a liquid chamber for holding a quantity of the liquid product;
forming a neck portion of the bottle, wherein the neck portion is coupled to the body portion;
forming a bulge on the body portion of the bottle, wherein the bulge is sized and oriented to be positioned within an aperture of an enclosure that engages the bottle, and wherein the aperture is defined by a pair of ribs of the enclosure and a handle portion extending between the pair of ribs;
forming a first outwardly projecting rim on a first side of the bottle;
and
forming a second outwardly projecting rim on a second side opposite the first side, wherein the first and second outwardly projecting rims each include a generally elliptical edge defining a concave recess that forms a grip for the bottle.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/002,727Filed 7 Jun 2018
Priority: 7 Apr 2015
Published: 4 Oct 2018
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification12 codes

A47K 5/1211
For liquid or pasty soap: using pressure on soap, e.g. with piston
B05B 11/0044
Associated with means for compensating the pressure difference between the ambient pressure and the pressure inside the container, e.g. pressure…:…
B05B 11/0054
Containers: cartridges, i.e. containers specially designed for easy attachment to or easy removal from the rest of the sprayer
B05B 11/0059
Components or details: allowing operation in any orientation, e.g. for discharge in inverted position

Family

Application62/144,194Us provisional application · filed 7 Apr 2015
Application15/088,984Division · filed 1 Apr 2016
Application15/686,685Continuation · filed 25 Aug 2017
Application16/002,727Continuation
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