Fluid Dispensing System with Adapter for a Table Top Dispenser
AssigneeOP-Hygiene IP GmbH
InventorsHeiner Ophardt, Padraig McDonagh
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Abstract
A fluid dispensing system including a fluid dispenser that is operable in a stand-alone mode, and a housing that is configured to removably receive the fluid dispenser for operation of the fluid dispenser in a housed mode. When the fluid dispenser is placed on top of a horizontal support surface for operation of the fluid dispenser in the stand-alone mode, a pump mechanism of the fluid dispenser is manually activatable to dispense an allotment of fluid by manually depressing an activation member of the pump mechanism. When the fluid dispenser is received by the housing for operation of the fluid dispenser in the housed mode, the pump mechanism is activatable by activating an actuation mechanism of the housing
Claims20
A housing for dispensing fluid from a first fluid dispenser and a second fluid dispenser;
- wherein the housing is configured to removably receive the first fluid dispenser when the second fluid dispenser is absent from the housing;
- wherein the housing is configured to removably receive the second fluid dispenser when the first fluid dispenser is absent from the housing;
- the housing comprising an actuation mechanism with a first engagement element for engaging with the first fluid dispenser when the first fluid dispenser is received by the housing, and a second engagement element for engaging with the second fluid dispenser when the second fluid dispenser is received by the housing;
- wherein, when the first fluid dispenser is received by the housing and engaged with the first engagement element, activation of the actuation mechanism activates the first fluid dispenser to dispense fluid from the first fluid dispenser;
- wherein, when the second fluid dispenser is received by the housing and engaged with the second engagement element, activation of the actuation mechanism activates the second fluid dispenser to dispense fluid from the second fluid dispenser;
- wherein the housing is configured to receive the first fluid dispenser without removal of the second engagement element;
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- wherein the housing is configured to receive the second fluid dispenser without removal of the first engagement element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.