Aerosol package
AssigneeBISSELL Homecare, Inc.
InventorsEric J. Hansen, Lindsay M. Ulman, Jonathan L. Miner
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Abstract
An aerosol spray cleaner comprises two containers and a dispenser with a single dispensing spray outlet. One container has a cleaning composition and the other has an oxidizing composition. An integrally molded actuator includes a resiliently cantilevered lever connected to container valves to simultaneously open the valves to dispense the two fluids through the dispensing spray outlet. A handle extends laterally of the containers so grasp the handle and depress the actuator with a thumb.
Claims33
An aerosol package for simultaneously dispensing two different fluids from separate chambers comprising:
- a first container having a first fluid therein under pressure and having a first longitudinal axis and a first dispensing outlet controlled by a first valve;
- a second container, in fixed abutting relationship to the first container, having therein under pressure a second fluid, different from the first fluid, and having a second longitudinal axis lying in a plane common with the first longitudinal axis and a second dispensing outlet controlled by a second valve;
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- a dispenser mounted to the first and second containers and comprising:
- a dispensing tube fluidly connected to each of the first and second dispensing outlets and including a dispensing orifice lying within the common plane and adapted to dispense fluid in a direction along the common plane;
- an actuator connected to each of the first and second valves for simultaneously opening each of the first and second valves to simultaneously dispense fluids from the first and second containers through the dispensing orifice;
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- a handle extending laterally of the first and second containers.
An aerosol package for simultaneously dispensing two different fluids from separate chambers comprising:
- a first container having a first fluid therein under pressure and having a first dispensing outlet controlled by a first valve;
- a second container, in fixed abutting relationship to the first container, having a second fluid, different from the first fluid, therein under pressure and having a second dispensing outlet controlled by a second valve;
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- a dispenser mounted to the first and second containers and comprising:
- a wall that forms sockets that receive the first and second containers;
- a dispensing tube fluidly connected to each of the first and second dispensing outlets and including a dispensing orifice adapted to dispense fluid;
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- an actuator including an integrally molded actuator body mounted to an upper portion of the wall and including an actuator finger that is resiliently cantilevered from a portion of the actuator body and is adapted to depress each of the first and second valves for simultaneously opening each of the first and second valves to simultaneously dispense fluids from the first and second containers through the dispensing orifice.
An aerosol package for simultaneously dispensing two different fluids from separate chambers comprising:
- a first container having a first fluid therein under pressure and having a first longitudinal axis and a first dispensing outlet controlled by a first valve;
- a second container, in fixed abutting relationship to the first container, having therein under pressure a second fluid, different from the first fluid, and having a second longitudinal axis lying in a plane common with the first longitudinal axis and a second dispensing outlet controlled by a second valve;
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- a dispenser mounted to the first and second containers and comprising:
- a wall that forms sockets that receive the first and second containers;
- a dispensing tube mounted within the wall and fluidly connected to each of the first and second dispensing outlets, the dispensing tube including a dispensing orifice lying within the common plane of the first and second longitudinal axes and is adapted to dispense fluid in a direction along the common plane;
- an actuator mounted to the wall and connected to each of the first and second valves for simultaneously opening each of the first and second valves to simultaneously dispense fluids from the first and second containers through the dispensing orifice;
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- a handle mounted to the wall for user support of the first and second containers and for dispensing fluid from the first and second containers through the dispensing orifice.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.