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US 7,306,121 B2Granted
Gooseneck squeezable dispenser
AssigneeHygiene-Technik Inc.
InventorsHeiner Ophardt, Abdul Vali Syed
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Abstract
A plastic squeeze container for dispensing a fluid carrying a turret member rotatably mounted to the container for movement to a plurality of different rotational positions with the turret member carrying an outlet through which fluid may be dispensed generally along an outlet axis and with rotation of the turret member the outlet axis varying as to the angles it assumes relative to a vertical axis of the container.
Claims22
A container comprising:
- a resilient bottle to dispense fluid contained therein when manually squeezed,
- the bottle having a lower end and an upper end,
- the bottle having a base at its lower end adapted to support the bottle on a flat surface in the upright position with the bottle extending upwardly from the base,
- a filling neck at the upper end of the bottle extending vertically upwardly about a vertical axis to an upper open end when the bottle is in the upright position supported on its base,
- a support collar on the container about the filler neck,
- the support collar being coaxial about a pivot axis disposed at an acute angle to the vertical axis,
- a turret member extending from an open lower end to an upper end,
- the upper end of the turret member carrying a turret outlet disposed about an outlet axis,
- the lower end of the turret member being mounted on the collar with the turret member enclosing the filling neck,
- the lower end of the turret member being mounted on the collar coaxially relative to the pivot axis for rotation of the turret member relative the collar about the pivot axis,
- the outlet axis disposed at an acute angle to the pivot axis.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.