Pressurized liquid dispenser with members for locking it in its lowered position
AssigneeTER S.r.l.
InventorsGiovanni Albini, Tommaso Ruscitti, Franco Carlappi
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Abstract
A pressurized fluid dispenser is adapted to be fitted unto the stem of a fluid delivery pump. A skirt portion is flexibly connected to the remaining portion of the dispenser. A tongue projects from the skirt portion. The tongue may be pressed to flex the skirt portion inwardly. A tooth on the outer surface of the free end of the skirt portion project outwardly. The tooth is snap-engageable with an annular rib which projects into the interior of an aperture in the top of a ring cap adapted to attach the fluid delivery pump to a container mouth.
Claims4
A pressurized fluid dispenser, comprising a manually operable head including a housing provided with a fluid discharge hole, said housing including a seat defining an opening for receiving a hollow stem of a pressurized fluid delivery pump;
- a duct communicating said opening defined by said seat with said discharge hole;
- a ring cap for attachment to the hollow stem and to a container, said ring cap including a top which defines a substantially circular aperture with an inwardly projecting rib;
- said housing further comprising a skirt which projects downwardly about said seat, said skirt being insertable into said circular aperture in said ring cap and translatable from a raised position where said skirt is completely above the top of said ring cap to a lowered position wherein said skirt is partially within said ring cap, said skirt being freely rotatable within said circular aperture in said ring cap, a pair of longitudinal cuts in said skirt delimiting a skirt portion having one end which is flexibly attached to the remainder of said housing, said skirt portion having a free end with an outwardly projecting tooth, said tooth being snap-engageable with said inwardly projecting rib on said ring cap for locking said skirt and associated housing in said lowered position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.