Floating dispensers
AssigneeKing Technology, Inc.
InventorsJoseph A. King, Donald Dalland, Lyle Enderson, Jeffrey D. Johnson, Paul Freeberg
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Abstract
A floating dispenser for floatingly delivering a dispersant or dispersants to a body of water with the floating dispenser floating in an upright condition when a dispersant is present in a dispenser cartridge of the floating dispenser with the dispenser self inverting 180 degrees in response to consumption of the dispersant in the dispenser cartridge to thereby provide a visual alert that one should replace the dispenser cartridge in the dispenser with a fresh dispenser cartridge.
Claims31
A generally spherical shaped floating dispenser having a central axis comprising:
- a first dispensing cartridge comprising a first generally hemi-spherical shaped cap having a pole region and a base, said first dispensing cartridge containing a float and a dispersant chamber with said base having a set of fluid openings therein for ingress and egress of water therethrough;
- a second dispensing cartridge comprising a second generally hemi-spherical shaped cap having a pole region and a further base, said second dispensing cartridge containing a halogen chamber therein, said further base having a set of fluid openings therein for ingress and egress of water therethrough whereby the first dispensing cartridge and the second dispensing cartridge are releasable and rotatable securable to each other to form a general spherical shaped floating dispenser that inverts in response to dissipation of a halogen therein.
A floating dispenser having a central axis comprising:
- a first dispensing cartridge having a base, a float, a dispersant chamber, and a set of fluid openings therein for ingress and egress of water into contact with a dispersant in the dispersant chamber;
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- a second dispensing cartridge containing a consumable dispersant therein having a specific gravity greater than one, said second dispensing cartridge having a base rotationally securable to the base of the first dispensing cartridge to control water access to the consumable dispersant therein with the second dispensing cartridge and the first dispensing cartridge floating as a unit with the first dispensing cartridge located above the second dispensing cartridge when the consumable dispersant is in an unconsumed state and the unit is weighted to float in a self-inverted state with the first dispensing cartridge floating below the second dispensing cartridge when the consumable dispersant has been consumed to thereby provide a visual indication that the consumable dispersant has been consumed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.