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US 6,206,246 B1Granted
Device for pre-positioning a covering collar on a pushbutton
AssigneeRexam Sofab
InventorsJean-Louis Bougamont, Hervé Lompech, Pierre Dumont
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Abstract
A dispensing device mountable on a tank having a sheathed pushbutton and movable collar. The collar having a first, temporary, high position on the pushbutton and being held in place frictionally by at least two projection members on the interior face of the collar in contact with the pushbutton. The collar having a second, low position and being held in place by catches cooperating with the neck of the tank.
Claims7
A device for dispensing a liquid from a tank (R), the device comprising:
- firstly a pump (1) provided in particular with a cylindroconical body (11) that is suitable for being fixed in a neck (C) of the tank (R), and a spray tube (10) that projects out from the body (11) and is capped by a pushbutton (2);
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- secondly a collar (4) for covering the pump (1) and fastened in a low position on the neck (C) of the tank (R),
- the device being characterized in that said collar (4) includes, on its inside face, projecting members (40) that enable said collar to be held temporarily in a high position by radial clamping on the outside face of the pushbutton (2).
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.