Dispensing assembly with nozzle storage
AssigneeMinnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
InventorsBruce E. Samuelson, Carl S. Ahlberg, Daryl E. Vosberg
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Abstract
A dispensing assembly including an internally pressurized container of viscous liquid which may be dispensed through a hollow stem by deflecting the directing tube and stem to open a valve and cause liquid to flow out through an outlet opening in the directing tube. An overcap having a cavity adapted to receive the stem and directing tube releasably engages the container and has at least one, and preferably two, sockets along its inner surface for storing elongate hollow tapered application nozzles. The application nozzles have inlet ends adapted for engagement around the outlet opening on the directing tube so that the nozzles can be used to apply the liquid as it is discharged from the container.
Claims7
A dispensing assembly comprising:
- an internally pressurized container of viscous liquid;
- valve means mounted on said container including a hollow projecting stem having an outlet opening, said valve means retaining said liquid within said container when said stem is in a central position, and allowing flow of the pressurized liquid from the container through said stem when the stem is pivoted relative to the container about the end of the stem adjacent the container;
- means engaged with said stem and having an outlet opening for directing liquid discharged from said stem;
- an elongate hollow application nozzle having a through opening, an inlet end adapted for engagement with said means for directing with said outlet opening communicating with said through opening, and an outlet end opposite said inlet end;
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- an overcap comprising a wall having an inner surface defining a cavity adapted to receive said means for directing and having a lip defining an inlet opening to said cavity, said lip being adapted to releasably engage said container with said means for directing received in said cavity, said wall of said overcap having a socket along said inner surface, and said nozzle being releasably retained within said socket.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.