Method for propellant filling an aerosol container with a large aerosol actuator button on the valve during filling and actuator button therefor

A method of pressure filling a valved aerosol container having a bead defining its opening, said valve including a mounting cup having a pedestal portion and a valve stem extending through an aperture in the pedestal portion comprising:

• (a) crimping, in a sealing relation, an aerosol valve to the pedestal portion of the mounting cup;
• (b) subsequently, clinching in a sealing relation, said mounting cup to the bead of an aerosol container, thereby providing a hermetically sealed aerosol container when the aerosol valve is in the closed position;
• (c) disposing on the valve stem an enlarged aerosol actuator having a socket with an upper and lower terminus for receiving the valve stem, said actuator further having an annular rib disposed radially outward from the socket and extending beneath the lower terminus of the socket, an outer annular base wall having a diameter of at least fifteen millimeters radially outward from the rib and extending below the annular rib, the upper terminus of said base wall merging into an upwardly and inwardly sloped sealing surface, the lower terminus of the annular rib extending below the sloped sealing surface;
• the actuator further having propellant filling passages therethrough, a top actuating surface for receiving the finger of the user, a discharge orifice and a conduit communicating the discharge orifice and the socket;
• (d) subsequently advancing a propellant filling head toward the enlarged actuator thereby sealing the filling head on the sloped sealing surface of the enlarged actuator button and sealing the annular rib of the enlarged actuator against the top surface of the pedestal portion of the mounting cup;
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• (e) charging propellant through the filling head.