Household liquid dispenser

A liquid dispenser for household use, comprising in combination, an upright, semi-cylindrical container having an opening at its upper end, a removable cover placed upon said container closing said opening, said opening communicating with a hollow interior within said container, a liquid placed through said opening into said interior said container comprising a flat rear wall and a rounded front wall integral at their lower ends with a horizontal bottom wall, an opening through said bottom wall, said opening communicating with a valve and said valve communicating with a downwardly dispensing spout, said valve comprising a housing integral with an underside of said bottom wall, said housing containing three chambers aligned along a horizontal row and separated by vertical partitions therebetween, a straight, horizontal plunger extending through openings in said partitions and into all three said chambers, a forward end of said plunger protruding through a forward opening through said front wall and outwardly thereof for manual operation, a rear opposite end of said plunger bearing against one end of a compression coil spring contained within a rear of said chambers, an opposite end of said coil spring bearing against an inner side of said rear wall, a middle of said chambers communicating with said opening through said bottom wall, and a forward of said chambers communicating with said spout, said plunger having a generally Z-shaped passage extending transversely therethrough, both ends of said passage being contained within said forward compartment when said coil spring has freely pushed said plunger into a forwardly position;

• and when said plunger is in rearwardly manually pushed position against a force of said compression coil spring then a rear one of said passage ends communicates with said middle chamber while a forward one of said passage ends communicates with said forward chamber, a rear end of said plunger having a diametrically enlarged flange that abutts with a rear side of said partition located between said rear and said partition located between said rear and said middle chambers when said plunger is in said forwardly pushed position, said flange stopping a forward travel of said plunger, and a distance along a longitudinal axis of said plunger between said passage ends being equal to a distance between said bottom wall opening and said spout.