Dispenser with sound and motion

• US 20060249530A1
• Filed: 05/06/2005
• Published: 11/09/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/06/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Allure Home Creation Company Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Allure Home Creation Company Incorporated
• Inventors: Ho, Mark
• Application Number:
  US11/124,447
• Publication Number:
  US 20060249530A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 222/39
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 5/1217 Electrical control means for the dispensing mechanism
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 23/10 Other water toys, floating toys, or like buoyant toys
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 1/002 designed to reduce the generation or the transmission of noise or to produce a particular sound; associated with noise monitoring means
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 11/0038 Inner container disposed in an outer shell or outer casing
• 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

Abstract

A dispenser including a decorative housing, fluid storage internal to the decorative housing, and a fluid dispenser in fluid communication with the fluid storage. The dispenser also includes one or more movable decorative elements, an activator in communication with the fluid dispenser, and a sound emitter. Upon operation of the fluid dispenser fluid is dispensed from the fluid storage and the activator is triggered initiating the sound emitter to produce sound and further initiating movement of one or more moveable decorative elements.

Claims

1. A dispenser comprising:

a decorative housing;

a fluid storage means internal to said decorative housing;

a fluid dispensing means in fluid communication with said fluid storage means;

one or more movable decorative elements;

activation means in communication with said fluid dispensing means; and

a sound emitting means, wherein upon operation of the fluid dispensing means fluid is dispensed from said fluid storage means and said activation means is triggered initiating said sound emitting means to produce sound and further initiating movement of said one or more moveable decorative elements.

2. The dispenser of claim 1, further comprising an energy storage device operably connected to said activation means.

3. The dispenser of claim 2, further comprising a driving means in mechanical communication with said one or more movable decorative elements.

4. The dispenser of claim 3, further comprising interconnected driving means in electrical connection with each other for independently driving said one or more movable decorative elements.

5. The dispenser of claim 1, wherein said activation means comprises one or more microswitches, electrical contacts, magnetic switches, pressure switches, tilt sensors, sound-activated switches, motion-detecting switches, or light-sensitive switches

6. The dispenser of claim 1, further comprising one or more movable decorative elements, wherein movement of said one or more moveable decorative elements is initiated by said fluid dispensing means.

7. The dispenser of claim 1, further comprising a master switch capable of deactivating one or more of the sound emitting means and the one or more movable decorative elements.

8. The dispenser of claim 7 wherein said master switch comprises a light-sensitive switch that energizes when in the presence of ambient or directed light and de-energizes when in the absence of ambient or directed light.

9. The dispenser of claim 1, further comprising one or more light-emitting elements configured to produce light upon activation of the activation means

10. A tumbler comprising:

a decorative housing;

a fluid storage means internal to said decorative housing;

one or more movable decorative elements;

activation means in communication with said fluid storage means; and

a sound emitting means, wherein upon providing fluid to the fluid storage means said activation means is triggered initiating said sound emitting means to produce sound and further initiating movement of said one or more moveable decorative elements.