SOAP DISPENSING APPARATUS FOR COUNTER-MOUNTED AUTOMATIC SOAP DISPENSOR

• US 20090084813A1
• Filed: 10/02/2007
• Published: 04/02/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Jan Sun Chen
• Original Assignee: Jan Sun Chen
• Inventors: CHEN, Jan Sun
• Application Number:
  US11/866,237
• Publication Number:
  US 20090084813A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 222/52
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 2005/1218 Table mounted; Dispensers integrated with the mixing tap
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 5/1217 Electrical control means for the dispensing mechanism

Abstract

A soap dispensing apparatus for an automatic countertop soap dispenser, comprising a motor and a reduction gear set driven thereby, said reduction gear set with an output shaft coupled to the drive gear of a pair of soap displacing gears in mesh side by side, said soap displacing gears disposed, by precision fit, in a chamber that extends upward and downward to form an outlet passage and an inlet passage, wherein the outlet passage is connected to a countertop soap dispensing spout, and the inlet passage to a soap containing reservoir. Whereby an upward suction force induced by the rotation in mesh of the drive gear and the idler gear of said soap displacing gears is used to suck the liquid soap through the inlet passage and out of the outlet passage, thus to lift the liquid soap above countertop to achieve soap dispensing.

Claims

1. A soap dispensing apparatus, for use in soap dispensing by an automatic countertop soap dispenser, comprising:

a drive device, including a motor and a reduction gear set driven thereby;

a rear board, joining a frame that holds the motor in the drive device, having a recessed area, a main shaft groove is provided on the bottom thereof;

a first packer, having the same profile as that of the main shaft groove of the rear board, and tightly disposed therein;

an inlaid board, having the same profile as that of the recessed area of the rear board, and disposed therein, said inlaid board having two shaft bores and, on one side, a circumferential groove;

a second packer, having the same profile as that of the circumferential groove of said inlaid board, and disposed therein slightly protruding therefrom;

an end cover, having a chamber extending upward to form an outlet passage and downward to form an inlet passage;

a circumferential groove having the same profile as that of said second packer provided to the peripheral of said chamber, and used to contain said second packer slightly protruding from said circumferential groove of said inlaid board, enabling hermetic seal between the end cover and one side of the rear board; and

a pair of soap displacing gears, disposed in the chamber of said end cover, consisting of a drive gear and an idler gear in mesh side by side, wherein the drive gear is coupled to the output shaft of the gear set of said drive device.

2. The soap dispensing apparatus of claim 1 wherein in the First packer has in its center a shaft bore for the output shaft of the gear set to extend through;

said shaft bore tightly enclosing said output shaft yet allowing it to spin freely.

3. The soap dispensing apparatus of claim 2 wherein the peripheral of the shaft bore of the inlaid board, which allows the output shaft of the gear set to extend through, forms on one side of the inlaid board a telescopic portion, which fits into the annular groove around the shaft bore of the first packer.

4. The soap dispensing apparatus of claim 1 further comprising an adaptor to connect to the outlet passage of the end cover;

said adaptor has a fixing rod to embrace the outlet passage of the end cover, and a nut which rotatably fits on the outlet end of the fixing rod.

5. The soap dispensing apparatus of claim 4 further comprising a check ball, which is movably, between outlet passage of the end cover and a port of the fixing rod of the adaptor, pushed against said outlet passage of the end cover during soap dispensing.

6. The soap dispensing apparatus of claim 5 wherein the port of the fixing rod in the adaptor has a plurality of openings in order to keep the liquid soap passing through when the check ball is pushed against it.

7. The soap dispensing apparatus of claim 4 further comprising a socket, disposed at the outlet end of the port of the fixing rod in the adaptor.

8. The soap dispensing apparatus of claim 7 further comprising a countertop soap dispensing spout, with one end inserted in the socket in the adaptor.

9. The soap dispensing apparatus of claim 1 further comprising a soap priming tube fitting on the inlet passage of the end cover.

10. The soap dispensing apparatus of claim 1 further comprising a housing, which has a pair of covers to enclose the soap dispensing apparatus on both sides.

11. The soap dispensing apparatus of claim 10 wherein the lower end of the housing has a nut.

12. The soap dispensing apparatus of claim 4 further comprising a housing having a pair of covers to enclose, on both sides, the assembly of the soap dispensing apparatus and the adaptor.