Lint roll/dispensable fluid container apparatus

• US 20040182886A1
• Filed: 03/31/2004
• Published: 09/23/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hartz Mountain Corporation (Unicharm Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Hartz Mountain Corporation (Unicharm Corporation)
• Inventors: McKay, William D.
• Granted Patent: US 7,225,950 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 222/192
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 25/005 using adhesive or tacky surfaces to remove dirt, e.g. lint removers
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 11/10 Pump arrangements for transferring the contents from the container to a pump chamber by a sucking effect and forcing the contents out through the dispensing nozzle
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 83/285 for applying the contents, e.g. brushes, rollers, pads, spoons, razors, scrapers closures with pads or like contents-applying means B65D47/42; brushes with integral pre-pressurised reservoirs A46B11/0017; domestic cleaning implements with liquid-feeding devices A47L13/00

Abstract

A lint roller dispensable fluid container apparatus includes a support for mounting a lint roll on a dispensable fluid container. The support may be a hollow tubular member rotatably carrying the lint roll and which is releasably mountable over one end of the container. The support may also be formed on the container cap which covers a discharge nozzle or outlet in the cap.

Claims

1. A lint roller/fluid dispenser apparatus comprising:

a container containing a cleaning media dispensable from the container;

a lint roll having an adhesive outer surface; and

means for mounting the lint roll on the container.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the mounting means comprises:

a hollow support, the support having an inner bore opened from one end, the bore having a diameter for slidably receiving one end portion of the container therein.

3. The apparatus of claim 2 wherein:

one end of the container projects outwardly from the support, after the container is mounted in the support, to act as a handle for use of the lint roll.

4. The apparatus of claim 2 further comprising:

means for rotatably mounting the lint roll on the support.

5. The apparatus of claim 4 wherein the rotatable mounting means comprises:

a pair of spaced bearing surfaces formed on the support, the lint roll rotatably mounted on the bearing surfaces.

6. The apparatus of claim 2 wherein the mounting means comprises:

a first collar mountable on the container at an intermediate position spaced from one end of the container;

at least one projection carried on the end of the container and spaced from the first collar; and

the lint roll mounted between the projection and the first collar over the container.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the mounting means comprises:

a spindle having opposed first and second end collars; and

at least one of the first and second end collars having a through aperture for mounting of the spindle over a portion of the container.

8. The apparatus of claim 2 wherein the mounting means comprises:

a tubular support;

means carried on the support for rotatably mounting the lint roll on the support; and

means, carried on the support, for releasibly mounting one end of the support to the container.

9. The apparatus of claim 2 wherein the mounting means comprises:

a cap mountable over a discharge end of the container; and

means, carried on the cap, for supporting the lint roll on the cap.

10. The apparatus of claim 9 wherein the rotatable mounting means comprises:

a pair of spaced arms carried on the cap, the lint roll rotatably disposed between the pair of arms.

11. The apparatus of claim 2 further comprising:

a discharge nozzle carried on one end of the container;

the mounting means including a support mounted on one end of the container;

a pair of arms projecting from the support and rotatably carrying the lint roll therebetween;

an aperture formed in the support adjacent to the discharge nozzle to allow dispensing of the contents of the container through the discharge nozzle and the support.